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Seaman senior bowler Ethan Burns finished 10th in the Class 5A-1A state tournament last season, helping the Vikings win the state team title. [File photo/TSN]
ETHAN BURNS, Seaman -- A first-team All-City selection the past two seasons, Burns finished off his junior season with a 10th-place finish in the Class 5A-1A state tournament, bowling a 668 series to help Seaman win the state team championship. Burns won the Centennial League meet with a 728 series and was fourth at regionals with a 697 series. Burns was a first-team All-Class 5A-1A pick.
JOSH EGLY, Shawnee Heights -- Egly, a senior, earned second-team All-City honors last season. Egly finished 12th in Class 5A-1A regional competition with a 649 series to help Shawnee Heights qualify for the 5A-1A state tournament as a team with a third-place finish. Egly helped the T-Birds finish 11th as a team at state. Egly finished eighth in the United Kansas Conference tournament with a 586 series as Heights finished second.
LOGAN GLINKA, Washburn Rural -- Glinka earned first-team All-City recognition as a freshman. Glinka posted a 10th-place finish in the Centennial League tournament with a 623 three-game series to help the Junior Blues win the league team championship by 3,503-3,499 margin over Seaman. Glinka bowled a 669 series to finish fifth in the Washburn Rural triangular and placed fifth with a 625 in Topeka High's quadangular.
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The Darting Basketball Academy will hold its second annual Community Give Back Shoe Drive Camp on Dec. 28 at Topeka Collegiate School to help provide new basketball shoes for children in need.
The Darting Basketball Academy will hold its 2nd annual Community Give Back Shoe Drive Camp on Dec. 28 at Topeka Collegiate School. [File photo/TSN]
The camp, which will run from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., will include 50 participants, with the price of admission a new pair of sneakers that will be distributed to local kids.
The camp for boys and girls 8-14 years old is sold out, but interested individuals are still welcome to donate shoes to the project.
The goal is to raise 200 pairs of shoes to distribute within the community.
Local basketball standouts as well as city coaches will serve as instructors at the Dec. 28 camp.
If interested in donating a pair of sneakers, email Kerry Darting at
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Allen Baughman
ALLEN BAUGHMAN, Shawnee Heights
Baughman, a junior wrestler, went 8-0 with eight pins to win the 175-pound championship in the Johnson County Classic at Blue Valley, helping Shawnee Heights finish fourth as a team in the 25-school tournament. Baughman, 16-4 on the season, pinned Elzie Slaughter of St. Thomas Aquinas at the 3:11 mark of the second period in the title match. Four of Baughman's pins came between 30 seconds and one minute into the first period.
Molly Busenitz
MOLLY BUSENITZ, Shawnee Heights
A senior wrestler, Busenitz went 5-0 to win the 120-pound championship in the 30-school Ladycat Classic at Basehor-Linwood, leading Shawnee Heights to a third-place team finish. Now 12-0 on the seasson, Busenitz recorded four straight pins, between 13 seconds and 1 minute, 19 seconds, to advance to the final before earning a 16-1 technical fall over Kadynce Alexton of Chanute.
Zoe Canfield
ZOE CANFIELD, Washburn Rural
Canfield, a 5-foot-11 junior, scored a total of 41 points in two Washburn Rural girls basketball victories over state-ranked Class 6A teams. Canfield, a Kansas commit, scored 26 points with five 3-pointers in Tuesday's 54-45 win over No. 6-ranked Shawnee Mission Northwest and followed that up with 15 points and four 3s in Saturday's 49-34 win over No. 4 Wichita Heights in the GWAC/Centennial/WAC.Challenge in Wichita.
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Washburn Rural's girls and boys basketball teams were up to the challenge in Saturday's GWAL/Centennial/WAC Challenge at Wichita, with the Junior Blues earning a sweep over Wichita Heights.
Rural's girls set the tone for the day when the Junior Blues rallied from a double-figure deficit to knock off the No. 4 Wichita Heights girls, 49-34, and the Junior Blue boys followed that up with a 39-38 win over the top-ranked Falcon boys, the defending Class 6A state champions.
Junior Zoe Canfield led Washburn Rural with 15 points and four 3-pointers as the Junior Blues rallied for a 49-34 win over No. 4-ranked Wichita Heights Saturday in Wichita. [File photo/TSN]
Senior Jack Bachelor and the Washburn Rural boys knocked off top-ranked and defending Class 6A state champion Wichita Heights, 39-38, Saturday in Wichita. [File photo/TSN]
Washburn Rural's girls, the defending 6A state champs, beat No. 4 Heights on Saturday after beating No. 6-ranked Shawnee Mission Northwest on Tuesday night at Rural.
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The Washburn Ichabods gave themselves an early Christmas present Saturday afternoon, with the WU men snapping a three-game MIAA losing streak with a 76-51 romp past Missouri Western at Lee Arena.
The Ichabods notched their first conference win and improved to 4-6 overall while leading by as many as 27 points and holding Missouri Western (5-2, 2-1) to a season-low 51 points.
Washburn junior Tyler Nelson scored 19 points with seven rebounds, six assists and six steals in the Ichabods' 76-51 MIAA romp past Missouri Western Saturday at Lee Arena. [Photo by Re
"We were good on both ends and for sure it was our most complete game,'' Washburn coach Brett Ballard said. "I thought our defense was tremendous and offensively we were really good.
"We mixed up paint touches with th 3-ball and getting to the rim in transition. Everything was kind of clicking tonight.''
Washburn used a 36-9 run over a 13-minute stretch to turn the game into a rout.
