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Seaman's girls and Highland Park's boys climbed to No. 2 in the Kansas Basketball Coaches Association's Class 5A state rankings while Topeka HIgh's girls returned to the top 10 in 6A and Rossville's girls cracked the rankings in 3A.
Seaman and Highland Park both moved from No. 3 to the second spot in 5A while Silver Lake held on to the No. 2 spot in the latest 3A girls rankings, released Tuesday.
Topeka High returned to the 6A girls rankings at No. 10 after winning the Hardwood Classic in De Soto while Rossville made its debut at No. 10 in the 3A girls rankings after winning the Irish Classic in Chapman.
Matt Tinsley's Seaman girls basketball team jumped a spot to No. 2 in the latest KBCA Class 5A rankings, released Tuesday. [File photo/TSN]
Senior Bo Aldridge (1) and Highland Park's boys moved up to the No. 2 spot in the KBCA Class 5A boys state rankings. [File photo/TSN]
Hayden's boys remained No. 3 in 4A while Topeka West's boys dropped a spot to No. 8 in 5A despite two double-digit wins.
KANSAS BASKETBALL COACHES ASSOCIATION STATE RANKINGS
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Sure, Highland Park coach Michael Williams was happy to get a convincing 85-57 non-league win in Tuesday's home contest against Kansas City-Southeast, Mo.
But what made Williams the happiest was that after spending a lot more time practicing than playing, his No. 2-ranked (Class 5A) Scots finally got only their second chance to test themselves in a game.
Highland Park senior Tre Richardson skies high to block a KC-Southeast shot in Tuesday's 85-57 Scots win. [Photo by Rick Peterson/TSN]
Highland Park coach Michael Williams gives his team intructions in the Scots' 85-57 win over KC-Southeast Tuesday night. [Photo by Rick Peterson/TSN]
"I'm glad to be playing games,'' Williams said. "It's only our second game pre-Christmas and we only have one more on Friday night. Obviously, there's things that we're doing right now that's far from where we'll be at later, but it's good to have games.
"It's good to have another 80-point night, drop (the opponents') score down a little bit more. We were able to open up the bench and get our guys in there involved and the older guys are kind of setting the tone for us.''
Highland Park (2-0) was never seriously threatened after opening up a commanding 24-11 first-quarter advantage over the Knights behind senior Bo Aldridge's 18-point quarter.
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The only real highlight for Kansas City-Southeast Mo. in Tuesday night's non-league basketball game at Highland Park came when the Knights hit a free throw to trail by just a 2-1 margin two minutes into the game.
But things got progressively worse for the Scots from that point on, with Highland Park taking control with a 38-0 run on the way to a 68-9 win.
Highland Park sophomore Amelia Ramsey scored 27 points and grabbed 24 rebounds in the Scots' 68-9 non-league win over KC-Southeast Tuesday night. [File photo/TSN]
And although the game was a runaway after Highland Park opened up commanding leads of 19-1 at the end of the first quarter and 43-2 at the half, coach Robert Brown said his team took a lot of positives away from the game, including the 1-1 Scots' first win of the season.
"We'll take a win,'' Brown said. "We'll always take wins all day.''
Highland Park standout Amelia Ramsey, a 6-foot sophomore, had a monster night with 27 points and 24 rebounds while three other Scots reached double figures and 11 players saw action.
"We're trying to learn how to win the right way, focus on what we need to work on and stay disciplined,'' Brown said. "And even when we got a big lead we wanted to just keep working on what we need to work on.
"We wanted to give Amelia some touches, touches that she needs, and we're a young team so we're still learning how to play with each other.''
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Washburn Rural's girls wrestling team rolled to the team championship in the 32-school Council Bluffs Classic by more than 200 points on Saturday in Council Bluffs, Iowa.
Washburn Rural's girls wrestling team poses for a team picture after rolling to the team title in the 32-school Council Bluffs Classic on Saturday. [Twitter]
The Junior Blues finished the two-day event with a whopping 648 points, taking the title by 214.5 points over Lewis Central, Iowa.
Rural senior star Addison Broxterman notched the 100th pin of her career in Iowa on the way to a second-place finish in the 125-pound division.
Broxterman, 12-1 on the season, advanced to the championship match before dropping an 8-2 decision to Lewis Central senior Sophie Barnes.
Also posting runner-up finishes for the Junior Blues were junior 105-pounder Kristen Rezac and senior 130-pounder Alexis Fredrickson while Rural got third-place finishes from sophomore Molly Spader (100) and junior Fatima Escobar (190).
Sophomore Annie Gallegos (120), junior Raya Eilert (145), junior TaAni Rhoten (170) and junior Sophia Ross (235) all placed fourth.
Easton Broxterman paces Rural boys at Council Bluffs
Sophomore 113-pounder Easton Broxterman finished second in the 41-school Council Bluffs Classic boys division to pace the two-time defending Class 6A state-champion Washburn Rural boys.
Broxterman, 11-1 on the season, lost a tight 8-5 decision to Fort Dodge junior Dru Ayala in the 113-pound championhip match.
Washburn Rural got a third-place finish from freshman Landen Kocher-Munoz (120) while senior Henri McGivern (126) finished fourth.
Rural finished 12th as a team and was the top Kansas team in the standings.
Wunder, Carver lead T-Bird boys in Manhattan Duals
Shawnee Heights senior 215-pounder Sean Wunder and junior 285-pounder Rykan Carver posted 5-0 records in Saturday's Manhattan Dual Tournament.
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Wyatt Heiman's debut for the 2022-2023 indoor track season probably couldn't have gone any better, with the Washburn University standout sprinter setting a pair of school records in the recent Washburn Alumni Invitational.
Former Silver Lake multi-sport standout Wyatt Heiman set Washburn University school records in the 60 and 200-meter dashes in his 2022-2023 season debut. [Photo courtesy of Washburn Athletics]
Now, after some time off for the holidays, the Silver Lake product is chomping at the bit to see where he can go from here.
Heiman broke the Washburn record in the 60-meter dash in 6.88 seconds with a third-place finish and set the school record in the 200 by nearly three-10ths of a second in 21.70, also posting a third-place finish in that event.
"I was talking to coach (Cameron) Babb at the meet and I've never run a 21 this early in the year,'' Heiman said. "Usually I don't hit it until outdoor and it's harder to run a 21 indoor than outdoor just with the tight turns, so running that early on has defiitely got me really motivated to continue and see how much I can get that down to in the 21s and maybe a 20.
"That's crazy to even talk about that, but it could be a possibility.''
After his big opening meet, Heiman is now the WU record-holder for a combined three indoor and outdoor events, also holding the No. 1 spot outdoors in the 100-meter dash in 10.44 seconds while ranking second outdoors in the 200 at 21.49.
Heiman, a multiple state medalist at Silver Lake, has made his mark as one of Washburn's all-time best after participating in four different sports at Silver Lake, and credits his multi-sport background for helping him reach the level he has for the Ichabods.
"I wouldn't specialize in any sport because you never know,'' Heiman said. "I didn't know track was going to be my sport until I was a junior, a senior in high school, and I fully developed. I would suggest to anybody to play every sport. I defniitely enjoyed it.''
