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Highland Park and Washburn University graduate Billie Jean Moore, a women's basketball coaching legend and coach of the United States' women's Olympic team, passed away Thursday at her home in Fullerton, Calif. at the age of 79.
A member of Highland Park's Wall of Honor, the Washburn Athletic Hall of Fame and the Topeka Shawnee County Hall of Fame along with numerous other honors, Moore was the first coach in women's basketball history to coach two different colleges to national championships.
She coached at California State-Fullerton from 1969 to 1977 where she won the AIAW national title in 1970 in her first year with the team.
Moore went on to coach at UCLA from 1977 to 1993 and claimed the AIAW national title in 1978. Moore became the eighth coach in women’s basketball history to reach the 400-win mark and her overall college coaching record was 436-196.
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DE SOTO (3-1, 2-0) at SEAMAN (1-2, 1-2)
Senior Kaeden Bonner (right) and the Seaman boys basketball team will try to get back on track Friday night against De Soto, a rematch of last season's state championship game. [File photo/TSN]
Friday's game is a rematch of last season's Class 5A state championship game, which Seaman won, 66-47. De Soto is currently ranked No. 4 in the Kansas Basketball Coaches Association state rankings. Seaman is coming off a 61-48 United Kansas Conference loss to Piper Tuesday night. Freshman KaeVon Bonner led Seaman with 18 points against Piper. The Vikings have played their first three games without senior standout Aron Davis, who has been on the mend from a summer knee injury.
KC-BISHOP WARD (4-0) at HAYDEN (2-1)
Hayden, ranked No. 3 in Class 4A by the KBCA, went 2-1 in last week's Paul Terry Classic at Emporia, including a 59-45 win over Spring Hill on Saturday. KC-Ward went unbeaten in the Irish Classic, improving to 4-0 on the season with a 61-56 win over Salina Sacred Heart. The Cyclones are ranked No. 10 in 3A.
Topeka West senior Malachi Berg led the way with 20 points Thursday night as the Chargers improved to 4-1 with a 58-54 road win at Junction City. [File photo/TSN]
KC-TURNER (0-3, 0-2) at TOPEKA WEST (4-1, 3-1)
Topeka West, ranked No. 8 in Class 5A by the KWCA, will be looking for its third win of the week Friday night. The Chargers, who have won four straight games, rallied in the second half to take a 65-49 United Kansas Conference win at Lansing on Tuesday and posted a 58-54 non-league win at Junction City Thursday night. Senior Xavier Alexander scored a game-high 25 points for the Chargers in the win over Lansing while senior Malachi Berg led West with 20 points againt Junction City and senior Sincere Austin and junior Caleb Noonoo added 12 points apiece.
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DE SOTO (4-1, 2-0) at SEAMAN (4-0, 3-0)
Seaman junior Taylin Stallbaumer scored 11 points, with three 3-pointers, in the No. 2-ranked Vikings' 63-35 win over Piper Tuesday night. [File photo/TSN]
Seaman, ranked No. 2 in Class 5A by the Kansas Basketball Coaches Association, will square off with No. 6 De Soto in a key United Kansas Conference contest. Both teams are unbeaten in the UKC, with De Soto coming off a 66-28 win over Kansas City-Turner while Seaman rolled to a 63-35 win over Piper Tuesday night. Sophomore Anna Becker had 19 points, 6 assists, 3 steals and 3 3-pointers for Seaman in the win over Piper while junior Taylin Stallbaumer had 11 points, 6 rebounds, 4 assists and 3 3s and junor Brooklyn Gormley added 10 points.
KC-BISHOP WARD (1-3) at HAYDEN (2-1)
Hayden went 2-1 in last week's Paul Terry Classic at Emporia, including a 47-26 win over Wichita Trinity on Saturday. Junior Lauren Sandstrom and sophomore Brylee Meier combined for 31 points for the Wildcats, with Sandstrom scoring 18 points and Meier adding 13, including four 3-pointers. Ward is 1-3 after a 64-3 loss to Chapman in the Irish Classic. The Cyclones' lone with was a 46-37 decision over Kansas City-Turner.
Topeka West junior Zoe Clark (35) scored 16 points in the Chargers' 58-53 overtime loss to Lansing Tuesday night. [File photo/TSN]
KC-TURNER (0-3, 0-2) at TOPEKA WEST (0-4, 0-4 through Tuesday)
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Highland Park sophomore basketball standout Amelia Ramsey and Washburn Rural sophomore wrestling standout Easton Broxterman have been named the Dan Key Farmers Insurance Agency Rising Stars of the Week.
The Dan Key Agency will recognize top Shawnee County underclassmen throughout the 2022-2023 school year.
Here’s a brief look at the accomplishments of Ramsey and Broxterman last week:
Highland Park sophomore Amelia Ramsey is averaging 21.5 points through her first two basketball games and coming off a 27-point, 24-rebound perormance in the Scots' 68-9 win over KC-Southeast Tuesday night. [File photo/TSN]
AMELIA RAMSEY, Highland Park
Ramsey, a 6-foot sophomore, opened the 2022-2023 season with a team-high 16 points in last Tuesday's Highland Park loss to Bonner Springs and followed that up with a career night in Tuesday night's 68-9 non-league romp past Kansas City-Southeast, Mo., finishing with a double-double of 27 points and 24 rebounds.
Ramsey, who started for the Scots as a freshman, scored more points in the first seven minutes of the game than the Knights would score in the game.
Washburn Rural sophomore wrestler Easton Broxterman posted a second-place finish at 113 pounds in last weekend's 41-school Council Bluffs Classic. [File photo/TSN]
EASTON BROXTERMAN, Washburn Rural
Broxterman, a sophomore 113-pound wrestler, finished second in the 41-school Council Bluffs (Iowa) Classic boys division to pace the two-time defending Class 6A state-champion Washburn Rural boys.
A Class 6A finalist as a freshman, Broxterman, off to an 11-1 start this season, lost a tight 8-5 decision to Fort Dodge junior Dru Ayala in the 113-pound championhip match. Broxterman is currently ranked No. 2 in the All-Class and Class 6A rankings by the Kansas Wrestling Coaches Association.
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The Washburn Ichabod football team placed two players on the NCAA Division II Conference Commissioner's Association All-American team, with senior return specialist James Letcher Jr. and senior linebacker Grant Bruner earning first-team accolades.
Washburn senior James Letcher Jr. has received his seventh All-America honor as an Ichabod, earning first-team All-D2CCA recognition as a return specialist. [File photo]
Washburn senior linebacker Grant Bruner has received first-team All-America honors from the D2CCA, Bruner's first All-America honor as an Ichabod. [File photo]
The award is Bruner's first All-American award at Washburn and it is Letcher's seventh as an Ichabod, including being a repeat selection on the D2CCA All-American first-team as a return specialist.
The award is voted on by the division's athletic communication and sports information staffs across the country.
A repeat D2CCA first-team all-region selection at return specialist in 2022, Letcher is the two-time MIAA Special Teams Player of the Year as well as a two-time first-team All-MIAA return specialist.
Letcher averaged 26.0 yards per punt return on 11 attempts with two touchdowns, including an 89-yard return against Missouri Southern in the season finale.
Letcher was also a second-team D2CCA all-region pick at wide receiver in 2022.
