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Q Stovall took a somewhat circuitous route to Shawnee Heights, but the 6-foot senior is getting more and more used to his new home, playing a key for the T-Birds' boys basketball team in a 6-2 start to the season.
"I have lived in New York, Connecticut and South Carolina and now I recently moved here,'' Stovall said. "This is not fast-paced like New York and the other states I lived in, but I can focus more here and work on my game.
"At first I was like, 'It's too slow,' but then I started liking it. I was able to focus on school and work out more.''
Senior Q Stovall is coming off a season-high 21 points in last Friday's 65-51 Shawnee Heights UKC home win over Seaman. [Photo by Rex Wolf/TSN]
Shawnee Heights newcomer Q Stovall has helped the T-Birds post five straight wins to improve to 6-2 on the season. [Photo by Rex Wolf/TSN]
Stovall arrived in the Topeka area last May to live with his uncle and was able to get acquainted with his Shawnee Heights teammates and T-Bird coach Ken Darting in summer and offseason workouts.
"It was a big transition because I was out of shape at first,'' Stovall said. "But just working with coach Darting and the other coaches, they just pushed me through that whole process.''
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Seaman senior Katie Price and the Washburn Rural boys captured championships last Thursday and Friday in the 19-school Free State Invitational bowling tournament at Royal Crest Lanes in Lawrence.
Seaman senior Katie Price won the individual title in the Free State Invitational with a 750 series, leading the Vikings to a second-place team finish. [Submitted photo]
Price dominated the girls individual standings with a school-record 750 three-game series while Seaman finished as a team, leading after individual and Baker format competition before losing to Olathe East in the match play finals.
Washburn Rural's boys were in third place at the conclusion of the individual competition before riding an outstanding performance in the four Baker games and match play to rally for the team title..
Price posted a 134-win in the girls individual standings, bowling games of 223, 248 and 279 to give the Vikings a 96-pin advantage entering Baker competition and Seaman led East by a 74-pin margin after the Baker games. Seaman beat Mill Valley and Topeka West in match play before losing to East in the match play final.
City bowlers claimed five of the top seven spots in the girls individual standings, with Washburn Rural' Claire Ireland finishing second (616), Topeka West's Megan Wood fourth (594), Seaman's JaeLinn Thetford sixth (574) and Cheyenne Turkin seventh (571).
Topeka West's Brenna Rutschmann took 15th (524), West's Hannah Allen 17th (518), Washburn Rural's Ashley Billups 19th (513) and Rural's Gabby Martinez 20th (509).
Rural's boys were in third place, trailing by 38 pins, at the start of Baker competition but the Junior Blues rolled games of 212, 215, 241 and 195 in its Baker games and then claimed the team championship with match play wins over Lawrence, Topeka West and Shawnee Mission East.
Individually, senior Geo Peoples led Washburn Rural with a seventh-place individual finish (665) while Walker Thompson finished 13th (648), Josh Hammons 14th (640) and Reece Godby 18th (630).
Braxton Moore finished ninth individually with a 655 series to lead Seaman while Zander White placed 11th (653).
Topeka West was led by Dason Tidwell, who finished fourth individually (697), and 17th-place Cole Rodriguez (631).
Josh Egly posted a 19th-place individual finish for Shawnee Heights (626).
Rural girls win Newton TOC wrestling title
Washburn Rural's girls wrestling team rolled to the team championship in the 21-school Newton Tournament of Champions last Thursday by a 220-166 margin over Garden City as four Junior Blues won individual championships.
Washburn Rural's girls wrestling team won the championship in last Thursday's Newton Tournament of Champions by a 54-point margin, with four individual champs. [Photo by Natalie Tibbetts/Special to TSN]
Washburn Rural sophomore Madison Davison won the 145-pound title in Newton's Tournament of Champions last Thursday, entering the tournament as the No. 16 seed and going 4-0 with four first-period pins. [Photo by Natalie Tibbetts/Special to TSN]
Sophomore Molly Spader, 19-3 on the season, won the 100-pound championship while senior Addison Broxterman (24-3) won at 125 pounds, junior Laiken Clark (22-6) at 130 and sophomore Madison Davison (14-12) in the 145-pound division.
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Madison Davison
MADISON DAVISON, Washburn Rural
A sophomore wrestler, Davison entered the Newton Tournament of Champions with a sub.-500 record and was the No. 16 (bottom) seed in the 145-pound weight class. In the first round Davison pulled off a major upset, pinning the No. 1 seed from Garden City. Davison then went on to pin the No. 2 and No. 4- seeded wrestlers, going 4-0 on the day with four first-period pins to win the 145-pound title and help lead Washburn Rual to the team championship by a 220-166 margin over Garden City.
Brooklyn DeLeye
BROOKLYN DeLEYE, Washburn Rural
A 6-foot-2 senior, DeLeye led No. 5-ranked Washburn Rural to a pair of Centennial League victories on the week, scoring 17 points with three 3-pointers and grabbing 11 rebounds in a 47-46 win over No. 8 Topeka High and scoring 16 points while hitting five of nine field goal attempts and going four for four at the free throw line in a 48-32 win over Manhattan. In between her two games DeLeye was named the Gatorade Kansas Volleyball Player of the Year for the second straight season after leading Rural to a 45-1 record and the Class 6A state title.
Katie Price
KATIE PRICE, Seaman
Price, a senior bowler, bowled an oustanding 750 three-game series to win the invididual championship in the Free State Invitational at Royal Crest Lanes. Price bowled games of 223, 248 and 279 to win the title by 134 pins as Seaman won the team championship by a 3,100-3,026 margin over Olathe East. Earlier in the week Price finished second in the Hayden quadrangular with a 579 series as Seaman, the defending Class 5A-1A state champion, won the team title by a 2,882-2599 margin over Topeka West.
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After being held to a season-low 50 points in a Thursday night 20-point loss at Missouri Southern, the Washburn men's basketball team put up 46 points in the first half en route to a wire-to-wire 93-63 MIAA road win over Pittsburg State on Saturday in John Lance Arena.
Junior Tyler Nelson scored 23 points, 18 in the second half, as Washburn rolled to a 93-63 MIAA win at Pittsburg State on Saturday. [Photo courtesy of Washburn Athletics]
Freshman Jarmell Johnson scored a career-high 16 points, including 14 points and four 3-pointers in the first half, in WU's 93-83 at Pittsburg State. [Photo courtesy of Washburn Athletics]
The Ichabods, who improvex\d to 6-9 overall and 3-6 in the MIAA, took a season-high 21-point halftime lead as they shot a blistering 64 percent in the first 20 minutes, hitting nine of 14 attempts from 3-point range and making 16 of 32 field goal attempts overall.
"It was good to get off to a good start and that's important for any team, especially a team that's struggled a little bit and especially a team that's a little bit young,'' Washburn coach Brett Ballard told KTPK Radio after the game. "When you're young and you have struggled a little bit the start can really dictate your confidence level and your energy level. It shouldn't, but it does.
"I do think it is more important for this team so that was good to see us come out and really play well to start the game and throughout the first half our offense was as good as it's been all year.''
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Highland Park's girls and boys basketball teams continued their dominating start to Meadowlark Conference competition Friday night, with the Scots winning their two conference games against Kansas City-Harmon by a total of 140 points.
Senior Bo Aldridge (1) scored 27 points, grabbed 10 rebounds and had five assists in Friday's 91-29 win at KC-Harmon. [File photo/TSN]
Highland Park sophomore standout Amelia Ramsey scored 30 points and grabbed 13 rebounds in the Scots' 96-18 Meadowlark Conference win over KC-Harmon. [File photo/TSN]
The top-ranked (Class 5A) Highland Park boys rolled to a 91-29 Meadowlark Conference road win over Harmon while the Scot girls romped to a 96-18 home victory over Harmon.
Highland Park's boys improved to 6-0 overall and 4-0 in the conference as senior Bo Aldridge scored 27 points, grabbed 10 rebounds and had five assists for the Scots.
Sophomore Amelia Ramsey scored 30 points and grabbed 13 points to lead four Scots in double figures as Highland Park's girls improved to 5-1 overall and 4-0 in the conference.
Highland Park's boys will compete in the Topeka Invitational Tournament next week while the Scot girls will travel to Salina for the Salina Invvitational.
PIPER BOYS 71, TOPEKA WEST 56 -- No. 10-ranked (Class 5A) Piper topped No. 6 Topeka West 71-56 in Friday's United Kansas Conference game at West, with the Pirates snapping the Chargers' six-game winning streak.
Topeka West fell to 6-2 overall and 5-2 in the UKC while Piper improved to 6-3 overall and 6-2 in the conference.
West will be at home next week to host the Topeka Invitational Tournament.
