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Topeka High drops 54-51 Glacier's Edge decision to No. 4-ranked Raiders
By CHARLES SPURLOCK
Special to TopSports.news
EMPORIA -- The final first-round game in the Glacier’s Edge Tournament was a back-and-forth battle between the Topeka Lady Trojans and the Shawnee Mission South Raiders, with Topeka High dropping a 54-51 decision to the defending Class 6A state champions, currently ranked No. 4 in the state.
Sophomore Ahsieyrhuajh Rayton scored 19 points in Thursday's 54-51 Topeka High loss to SM South Thursday. [File photo/TSN]
The Lady Trojans fell to 6-4 on the season and will take on Wichita Northwest in the consolation semifinals at 3:15 p.m. on Friday afternoon.
The first quarter saw SM South jump out to a 7-point lead, 18-11, thanks to shooting 8-11 from the field -- a whopping 73 percent. Meanwhile, the Lady Trojans shot 36 percent from the field, but only one out of five from the free throw line.
The script was flipped in the second quarter as Topeka High responded by outscoring SM South 18-8 to take a 3-point lead into the half, 29-26. Topeka High shot 8-15 from the field while SM South cooled off, shooting just 3-11 from the field for the quarter.
SM South began the third quarter on a 6-0 run to take a 32-29 lead, causing Topeka High to burn a timeout. The Lady Trojans responded with a 3-pointer by sophomore Ahsieyrhuajh Rayton to tie the score at 32. The remainder of the quarter went back-and-forth and SM South took a 40-38 lead into the final quarter.
Mason Becker, Kailyn Hanni the Dan Key Farmers Insurance Agency Rising Stars of the Week
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By RICK PETERSON
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Hayden sophomore boys basketball standout Mason Becker and Silver Lake junior girls basketball standout Kailyn Hanni have been selected by the Dan Key Farmers Insurance Agency as the Rising Stars of the Week.
The Dan Key Agency will recognize top Shawnee County underclassmen throughout the bulk of the 2024-2025 school year.
Here’s a brief look at the accomplishments of Becker and Hanni over the past week:
Hayden sophomore Mason Becker has been named as the Dan Key Farmers Insurance Agency male Rising Star of the Week after helping lead the Wildcats to the Baldwin Invitational championship. [File photo/TSN]
MASON BECKER, Hayden
Becker scored 20 points with five 3-pointers last Saturday as the Wildcats won the tournament championship in the Baldwin Invitational with a 63-49 win over the host Bulldogs. Becker helped Hayden cap a 3-0 run in the tournament, also scoring 16 points in a 63-50 win over defending Class 3A state champion Wellsville.
Silver Lake junior Kailyn Hanni has been named the Dan Key Farmers Insurance Agency female Rising Star of the Week after leading the Eagles to the Burlington Invitational title. [File photo/TSN]
KAILYN HANNI, Silver Lake
A junior guard, was named the Most Outstanding Player in last week's Burlington Invitational after helping lead Silver Lake to the tournament championship. Hanni scored 22 points in the Eagles' 70-60 win over Labette County in the championship game and scored 64 points in the tournament for the Eagles. Hanni followed that up with 16 points in the Eagles' 50-49 win over Rock Creek on Tuesday.
Ichabod men set program record with 20th straight win to open season, 74-65 over Tigers
By RICK PETERSON
TopSports.news
No. 1-ranked Washburn University men's basketball set a school record for the most consecutive wins to start a season Thursday night, improving to 20-0 and 11-0 in the MIAA with a 74-65 win over Fort Hays State in Lee Arena.
Sophomore Jack Bachelor led the way with 20 points as Washburn won its program-record 20th straight game to open the season Thursday night. [File photo/TSN]
The Ichabods scored the first pair of points on a layup by Michael Keegan, but the Tigers (13-6, 6-4) took the lead back, scoring 7 of the next 9 of the game and would go on to build a lead of as many as 7 in the opening half with 11:26 to play, 17-10.
With the Ichabods down 20-15 with 7:47 to play in the half, Washburn ripped off a 21-4 run to close the half with Jack Bachelor scoring the final nine points of the frame for the Ichabods as Washburn took a 36-24 lead into the break. Washburn was 7 of 9 during the final 7:20 of the first half while the Ichabod defense held the Tigers to 1 of 8 shooting.
In the second half, the Ichabods were holding a 17-point lead at 53-36 with 11:50 to go, but the Tigers used a 10-0 run trimming the Washburn lead to seven with 10:04 left. The Tigers would go on to cut the lead to six with 5:55 to play and for the final time with 5:16 to play before Brayden Shorter hit a 3-pointer to help push Washburn's lead back to 10 at 64-54. The Tigers would not get any closer than eight the rest of the way as Washburn hit 8 of 9 free throws in the final 3:19, securing its 20th straight win in front of a crowd of more than 3,000 in Lee Arena.
Bachelor led the Ichabods with 20 points while adding five assists.
Jacob Hanna scored 15 points and added seven boards and Brady Christiansen recorded a double-double with 12 points and 10 rebounds. Andrew Orr finished with 10 points.
Kyle Grill led the Tigers with 25 points.
Washburn shot 47 percent from the field, hitting 22 of 47 overall, and held the Tigers to 44 percent shooting at 24 of 55. The Ichabods hit 25 of 33 free throws and held a 36 to 24 advantage on the glass.
Washburn committed 14 turnovers leading to 22 points for the Tigers and the Washburn bench outscored the Tiger bench 18 to 6.
WU women fall to No. 8-ranked Tigers
Washburn could not overcome a slow offensive start Thursday as the Ichabods fell 85-47 to No. 8 Fort Hays State in Lee Arena.
The Ichabods (11-10, 5-6) got the first bucket of the game from Yibari Nwidadah 28 seconds in. The next 10 points all went to the Tigers (17-2, 8-2) as they held Washburn to 3-12 shooting in the first quarter. All seven points for the Ichabods in the first frame came from Nwidadah as they trailed 18-7 after 10 minutes.
In the second quarter Washburn cut the lead back to single digits, scoring the first three points of the quarter, making it 18-10 after Payton Sterk got a layup to go at the 8:25 mark. Fort Hays State scored the next four points to push it back to double digits as the visitors offense began to heat up, shooting 8-14 (57.1 percent) in the quarter. The Ichabod offense wasn't able to keep pace in the final five minutes as the visitors went into the half leading 41-17.
