By RICK PETERSON 
TopSports.news
Topeka West senior boys basketball star Elijah Brooks and Washburn Rural senior wrestling standout Jaliah Johnson have been named the first Dan Key Farmers Insurance Agency Athletes of the Week honorees.
Brooks had a record-setting week for the 12-1 Chargers while Johnson won an individual title and helped lead the Junior Blues to the team championship in the state’s largest girls high school wrestling tournament.
Here’s a brief looks at the accomplishments of Brooks and Johnson last week:
ELIJAH BROOKS, Topeka West
A 6-foot-4 senior, Brooks scored a total of 76 points in two victories as the 12-1 Chargers pushed their winning streak to 11 games.
Topeka West senior Eljjah Brooks has been named the first Dan Key Farmers Insurance Agency Boys Athlete of the Week after scoring 76 points in two Charger wins last week, including a 43-point outing. [File photo/TSN]
Brooks scored 43 points in 67-66 overtime victory over Junction City last Tuesday and followed that up with a 33-point performance in Friday’s 74-58 win over Seaman, with the Chargers, ranked second in Class 5A by the Kansas Basketball Coaches Association, avenging their only loss of the season.
In Friday night's victory Brooks became Topeka West's career scoring leader, moving past 2000 graduate Luke Dwyer, who scored 1,235 points. Brooks, who has scored 30 or more points in five straight games, has now scored 1,250 points at West.
Washburn Rural senior 155-pound wrestler Jaliah Johnson has been named the first Dan Key Farmers Insurance Agency Girls Athlete of the Week after winning an individual title and helping lead the Junior Blues to the team title in last Saturday's Washburn Rural Invitational. [Photo by Rex Wolf/TSN]
JALIAH JOHNSON, Washburn Rural
A senior, Johnson is a two-time state medalist who has helped lead Washburn Rural to back-to-back state team championships.
On Saturday Johnson captured the 155-pound individual championship while leading the Junior Blues to the team title by a 293-175.5 margin over Burlington in a tournament that included 32 schools, approximately 280 competitors, seven state-ranked teams and 46 individually-ranked wrestlers.
Johnson, second-ranked in the Class 6A-5A state rankings by the Kansas Wrestling Coaches Association, won her title with a pin at the 4:13 mark over Olathe Northwest sophomore Chloe Harris in the championship match, improving to 31-1 on the season.
Johnson placed third at 191 pounds in the state tournament as a sophomore and was third at 170 pounds last season before moving down to 155 this winter.
