Tuesday/Wednesday HS roundup: Scots' Jones registers quadruple-double
By RICK PETERSON
TopSports.news
Highland Park senior girls basketball standout Koralee Jones registered a quadruple-double in Tuesday's 68-10 home Meadowlark Conference victory over Kansas City-Sumner.
Highland Park senior Koralee Jones registered a quadruple-double in Tuesday's 68-10 Meadowlark Conference win over Kansas City-Sumner. [File photo/TSN]
Jones scored 22 points with 13 rebounds, 10 steals and 10 assists as Highland Park improved to 3-5 overall and 3-1 in the conference.
Highland Park officials said that they have been told that based on available records and news reports there are no verified instances of a previous Kansas high school girls player officially recording a quadruple-double although there have been several near-misses.
The Scots will be back in action Thursday, playing a non-league game at Shawnee Heights before hosting KC-Harmon on Friday in a Meadowlark Conference contest.
Hayden star junior bowler Kelton Meier opened his 2026 season on Tuesday with a 785 series, including a 300 game. [Photo by Scott Paske/KSHSAA Covered]
Hayden's Meier bowls perfect 300 game
Hayden junior Kelton Meier, who helped the Wildcats win a Class 4A-1A state bowling championship to end the 2025 season, opened '26 with a spectacular performance on Tuesday in the Hayden quadrangular at Gage Bowl, rolling a 785 series, including a perfect 300 game in his final game of the day.
Meier opened his series with a 227 and rolled a 258 in the second game before achieving perfection in the third game.
Andrew Lee added a 611 series, Reece Renyer a 585, Ashton Litke a 562 and Jason Ahlstedt a 530 as Hayden claimed the team crown over Centennial League foe Manhattan.
Hayden's girls finished second to Manhattan, with Emily Peterson leading the Wildcats with a 457 series.
Manhattan's Cortlynn Millington won the girls individual title with a 720 series, including a 279 game.
Sabres top Highland Park boys
Kansas City-Sumner's boys improved to 5-5 overall and 3-2 in the Meadowlark Conference with a 73-52 Tuesday night road win at Highland Park.
The Scots fell to 2-6 overall and 2-2 in the conference.
Highland Park will play a non-league game at Shawnee Heights on Thursday before hosting KC-Harmon in a Meadowlark contest on Friday.
Seaman girls fall to De Soto in UKC tilt
Coming off a 23-point United Kansas Conference win at Topeka West a night earlier, the No. 10-ranked (Class 5A) Seaman girls dropped a 52-38 home UKC decision to De Soto on Wednesday.
The Vikings trailed the Wildcats 15-7 at the end of the opening quarter and 26-17 at the half.
Seaman got back in the hunt with a 17-13 third quarter but the Wildcats closed with a 13-3 fourth stanza, pulling away at the free throw line.
Senior Maddie Gragg led the Vikings (6-3 overall, 6-2 UKC) with nine points while sophomore Claire Puvogel added eight points and Cara Beaton, Lydia Dreher and Brynn Spencer seven points apiece.
Maddie Leis led De Soto with 20 points.
Seaman will be back at home Friday to host UKC foe Leavenworth.
Lion boys protect Flint Hills lead with win over Osage City
Cair Paravel boys basketball improved to 7-2 overall and a perfect 5-0 in the Flint Hills League with a 51-40 home win over Osage City Tuesday night.
The Lions jumped out to a 13-8 first-quarter lead and led 27-15 at the half.
Osage City used an 18-7 third quarter to get within a point before the Lions closed things out with a 17-7 fourth quarter.
"Huge league win against an extremely talented and well-coached Osage City team,'' CPLS coach Chip Kueffer said in a text.
Senior Lucas Marichal led Cair Paravel with 16 points while Chase Hastert added 13 points and Blaine Durbin 11.
No. 1-ranked Washburn men put 16-0 record on the line in ESU rematch
By RICK PETERSON
TopSports.news
No. 1 nationally-ranked Washburn University men's basketball will put its perfect 16-0 record on the line Thursday in a 7:30 p.m. MIAA road game against Emporia State in White Auditorium.
Sophomore Dillon Claussen leads 16-0 Washburn with 16.3 points and 6.9 rebounds per game entering Thursday's MIAA game at Emporia State. [Photo by Rex Wolf/TSN]
The Ichabods, 6-0 in the MIAA, will be facing the Hornets for the second time in 12 days after taking a 91-66 win over Emporia State on Jan. 3 in Lee Arena.
Washburn is one of four remaining undefeated teams in Division II after topping Northwest Missouri 76-53 last Saturday.
The Hornets are 5-10 this season and 1-5 in the MIAA after recording an 82-79 win over Nebraska-Kearney last Saturday.
The Hornets are 3-3 in home games this season.
Washburn leads NCAA Division II in scoring margin at plus 27.6 points per game and is third in field goal percentage at 51.8 percent and second in rebound margin at plus 12.6.
Washburn has not been out-rebounded in a game and has only been tied twice (Lubbock Christian and Emporia State).
WU junior Jeremiah Jones leads the nation in total steals and is third in steals per game at 3.31.
Sophomore Dillon Claussen is sixth in the nation in field goal percentage at 66.4 while junior Jack Bachelor is fourth in the nation in assist to turnover ratio at 3.39 to 1.
Claussen recorded his third double-double of the season with 10 points and 11 rebounds at Northwest Missouri while senior Bryson Smith led the Ichabods with 16 points against the Bearcats.
In the earlier game against Emporia State Jones paced Washburn with a career-high 20 points on 8 of 10 shooting, including 4-of-5 from beyond the arc, with four assists and four steals. Claussen finished with 16 points, four steals and three blocks and Bachelor scored 16 points with four 3-pointers, nine assists and one turnover. Senior Brady Christiansen led the ichabods with eight rebounds.
Washburn women snap two-game skid at Emporia State, 63-52
By RICK PETERSON
TopSports.news
EMPORIA -- When Washburn University women's basketball junior starter Madelyn Amekporfor was sidelined with an ankle injury five minutes into Thursday's MIAA road game against Emporia State, Ichabod senior Aniah Wayne knew it was up to her to help take up the slack.
Senior Aniah Wayne came off the bench to score a game-high 17 points in Thursday's 63-52 Washburn road win over Emporia State. [Photo by Rick Peterson/TSN]
Wayne filled that role in a big way, coming off the bench to score a game-high 17 points in 26 minutes, 21 seconds as Washburn snapped a two-game losing skid with a 63-52 win over the Hornets in White Auditorium.
"Going in I knew I just had to do it for the team and with Maddie out it was time to step up and help the team out,'' Wayne said. "I just knew I was doing it for Maddie and doing it for the rest of the team because she was out.''
Wayne hit 6 of 9 shots from the floor, including 3 of 5 3-pointers, to lead the way as Washburn improved to 11-5 overall and 4-3 in the MIAA in its third game of a four-game road stretch.
"I thought we did a nice job of bouncing back,'' Washburn coach Lora Westling said. "And after last week (losses at Missouri Western and a double overtime loss at Northwest Missouri), we were disappointed and we wanted to keep this week's focus about us.
"It's easy to get emotional about some of these rivalry games, or your head's down so you want to do a ton to get back, but I thought we were really solid.''
A pair of baskets early on by Amekporfor put Washburn in front early, but the Lady Hornets (8-8, 2-5) rallied to go in front 10-9 with 5:13 remaining in the opening quarter.
That would be the last points of the quarter for Emporia State as it was held to 33.3 percent shooting in the quarter while the Ichabods built a 14-10 lead.
The first points for either team in the second quarter came from WU sophomore Brooke Gomez with 6:44 to play in the half.
Wayne knocked down a 3-pointer shortly after that, pushing the Ichabod advantage to nine. Washburn shot over 50 percent in the quarter to take a 28-21 advantage into the halftime break.
Out of the half Wayne hit a layup at the 7:39 mark to give Washburn a double-figure lead for the first time in the game. The Lady Hornets reduced their deficit to eight before the Ichabods answered with a 8-0 run, started by a basket from senior Yibari Nwidadah.
The lead remained at 16 with a last-second layup from junior Britany Kogbara to end the third quarter.
Neither team scored for the first 3:36 of the fourth until Nwidadah hit another layup that began a 7-0 run to start the quarter and push the Washburn lead to more than 20.
The Lady Hornets never got within single-digits the rest of the way as Washburn completed the regular-season series sweep.
Washburn shooting 42.6 percent overall while going 3 of 10 from 3-point range. On the other end Emporia State was held to 32.3 percent shooting and just 3 of 6 at the free throw line while WU went 8 of 16 at the stripe.
"We know we've got to hang our hat on (defense),'' Westling said. "We know we can guard. We had a couple of lapses, but for the most part we've got to continue to be one of the top defensive teams in the league.''
The rebounding battle was won 45-34 by the Ichabods, leading to a 44-22 advantage in paint scoring.
Led by Wayne, Washburn's bench provided 36 points to 25 for the Lady Hornet reserves.
Washburn senior Yibari Nwidadah scored 13 points and grabbed seven rebounds in Thursday's 63-52 road win over Emporia State. [Photo by Rick Peterson/TSN]
Nwidadah backed Wayne with 13 points on 6 of 10 shooting with seven rebounds. Senior Gabi Giovannetti had a team-high 10 boards along with three steals and three assists.
