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By RICK PETERSON
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Seaman dominated Tuesday's Class 5A-1A bowling regional at Emporia's Flint Hills Lanes, with the Vikings sweeping the team and individual championships.
Seaman's boys claimed the team championship a 3,610-3,554 margin over De Soto to punch their ticket to next week's 5A-1A state tournament at Northrock Lanes in Wichita while Shawnee Heights earned the third team berth for state by an eight-pin margin over Mill Valley.
Seaman ran away with the girls team championship by a 3,141-2,891 margin over Augusta whiile Topeka West took the third team berth for state by a 2,806-2,739 margin over city rival Shawnee Heights.
Seaman's boys bowling team poses for a team picture after winning the team title in Tuesday's Class 5A-1A regional tournament at Emporia. [Twitter]
Seaman's girls bowling team won the regional team title by a 250-pin margin in Tuesday's Class 5A-1A tournament at Emporia. [Twitter]
Seaman seniors Jack Easum and Makenzie Millard took top individual honors, recording 279 games on the way to 700-plus three-game series.
Easum took the boys title by a 747-717 margin over De Soto junior Antonio Miranda, with Easum rolling games of 235, 279 and 233.
Millard bowled her 279 in Game 1 and fell to a 165 in the second game before bouncing back with a 265 third game to finish with a 709 series. Augusta senior Kassidy Miller finished second with a 683 series.
Centennial League champion Ethan Burns, a junior, finished fourth individually for the Vikings with a 697 series while Seaman junior Zander White also cracked the top 10, finishing ninth with a 659 series.
Junior Josh Egly led third-place Shawnee Heights with a 649 series, finishing 12th individually, while senior Kaleb Rohrke was right behind Egly in 13th with a 647 and senior Aidan VanMetre took 16th with a 638.
Topeka West sophomore Cole Rodriguez finished 10th individually with a 655 series, earning an individual state berth for state.
Seaman junior Katie Price finished third in the girls individual standings with a 630 series while the Vikings also got a 10th-place finish from sophomore Cheyenne Turkin with a 540 series.
The third-place Topeka West girls put a pair of bowlers in the top 10, with sophomore Brenna Rutschman taking fourth with a 627 series and sophomore Megan Wood finishing sixth with a 601 series.
Shawnee Heights senior Karli Gilliland was the top individual girls qualifier, finishing fifth with a 603 series.
The 5A-1A state tournament will be held on Friday, March 4, at Northrock Lanes, with the boys bowling at 8:50 a.m. and the girls following at 1:40 p.m.
Seaman's boys finished third as a team in last year's state meet while the Viking girls were fourth and Millard finished fourth individually.
Washburn Rural and Topeka High will take part in a 6A regional at West Ridge Lanes on Friday, vying for state berths.
The 6A state tournament will be contested on Thursday, March 3, with the boys at 8:50 a.m. and the girls at 1:40 p.m.
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By RICK PETERSON
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Sophomore Taylin Stallbaumer and freshman Anna Becker combined for 36 points Tuesday night as Seaman's girls basketball team posted its fourth straight win, taking a 49-40 Centennial League decision at Manhattan.
Stallbaumer led the Vikings with 21 points while Becker added 15 as Seaman improved to 14-5 overall and 12-4 in the Centennial League.
Sophomore Taylin Stallbaumer scored 21 points as Seaman posted its fourth straight win Tuesday night, 49-40 over Manhattan. [File photo/TSN]
Manhattan (7-12, 6-9) led 10-8 at the end of the first quarter but the Vikings took control with a 20-5 second quarter, building a 28-15 halftime advantage.
Manhattan outscored Seaman 25-21 in the second half, but it wasn't enough for the Indians to overcome their halftime deficit.
Seaman, ranked No. 6 in Class 5A by the Kansas Basketball Coaches Association, will close out its regular season on Friday at home against No. 4-ranked (5A) Emporia.
Sophomore Zoe Canfield scored a game-high 19 points in Washburn's 61-14 Centennial League win at Junction City Tuesday night. [File photo/TSN]
WASHBURN RURAL GIRLS 61, JUNCTION CITY 14 -- Washburn Rural, ranked No. 3 in Class 6A, improved to 17-2 overall and 13-2 in the Centennial League with Tuesday's 61-14 league win at Junction City.
Sophomore Zoe Canfield powered Washburn Rural early and finished with 19 points, one of 10 players to crack the scoring column for the Junior Blues.
Canfield was the lone Rural player in double figures as the Junior Blue starters left the game midway through the third quarter. Senior Campbell Bagshaw and sophomore Jada Ingram added eight points each and senior Trenna Whitmore seven points for Rural.
Junction City fell to 2-17, 2-14.
Washburn Rural will finish its regular season at Highland Park on Friday.
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By RICK PETERSON
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Hayden's boys basketball team continued its late-season surge Tuesday night, taking a 52-40 Centennial League road win at Emporia.
The win was the second straight for the Wildcats and their third over the past four games.
Hayden senior Trent Duffey scored 16 points to tie for game-high honors in the Wildcats' 52-40 win over Emporia Tuesday night. [Photo by Rex Wolf/TSN]
Junior Joe Otting scored 16 points to tie for game-high scoring honors in Hayden's 52-40 win at Emporia Tuesday night. [Photo by Rex Wolf/TSN]
Hayden, now 6-13 overall and 4-11 in the league, got 16 points apiece from senior Trent Duffey and junior Joe Otting while junior Jake Muller added 14 points.
Hayden ended the game with a 22-10 run to pull away for the victory.
Emporia, which fell to 3-16, 2-13, got 12 points from River Peters and 11 from Parker Leeds.
Hayden will travel to Manhattan on Friday.
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After not losing a single game in 16 consecutive contests, the Topeka High Lady Trojans dropped their second game in their last three contests Tuesday night at High.
But Tuesday's non-league battle against perennial power Bishop Miege could prove to be a benefit for the Trojans heading into Class 6A postseason.
Tuesday night’s matchup between 4A No. 2-ranked Miege and 6A No. 2-ranked Topeka High was a physical contest marked by solid defense and timely offense.
The game wouldn’t favor either team until the last 35.5 seconds, when Miege would pull away for the 59-53 win.
“I loved the game tonight,” Topeka High coach Hannah Alexander said. “(Bishop Miege) challenged us. We will be able to watch the film and grow from this. Those are the kind of games that we learn from. We of course wanted to win, but seeing the fight in our girls, I was proud of them.
“We need to be ready to respond (on Friday).”
Topeka High senior Tae Thomas (15) passes the ball to teammate Adisyn Caryl during Tuesday's 59-53 loss to state power Bishop Miege. [Photo by Isaac Deer/TSN\
Miege would make a statement early in the first quarter with an 8-2 run over the Trojans. Topeka High would claw back from the early deficit with outstanding team basketball. Everyone on High’s starting five scored the basketball before the quarter ended.
Topeka High junior guard Kiki Smith didn’t see the floor for the first 5:15 of the second quarter due to being “overworked” and the Stags took advantage of Smith’s absence by going on a strong 12-2 run.
Smith’s return sparked the Trojans' offense with a converted 3-point shot just eight seconds after checking in and Topeka High went on a 13-4 run.
Senior Tae Thomas would lead Topeka High in points in the quarter with six and she would go on to lead the team in points with 17 on the night.
Coming out of the locker room at halftime, Alexander emphatically wanted the Lady Trojans to speed up the tempo.
“We were just trying to get the ball rolling,” Alexander said. “We wanted to get some fast points in transition. We wanted to push the tempo.”
Topeka High came out of the halftime break firey. The half-court press defense forced Miege to make some uncomfortable passes in the third quarter, turning the ball over a few times. Topeka High was able to hold powerhouse, Bishop Miege, to a slim nine points in the quarter.
The fourth quarter would be dictated by the performances of Miege freshman Kirston Verhulst and senior Allie Burns. The duo would combine for 13 out of the 18 points scored in the final quarter of regulation. Nine of the 13 points tallied were from the free throw line.
Burns was the epitome of a momentum-shifting player for the entire game. Burns hit two buzzer-beating, near the halfcourt Trojan logo 3-point shots to end the second and third quarters. The second-quarter shot gave Miege the lead, while the last-second shot in the third quarter tied the game.
Burns would make the key clutch shots for Miege down the final stretch of the game. Burns would hit a tough contested shot with 1:08 to go in the game to tie the highly-contested game. Burns would then be fouled two times after that. The most important foul was with 35.5 to go. Burns would knock down both of her free throws, giving Miege the six-point lead that would lead them to victory.
“(Allie Burns) is a leader for us and has played in a lot of big games in her four years with (Bishop Miege),” Bishop Miege coach Jeff English said. “We push our team to play against the best players, best teams in the state and the best teams in other states around us. She’s well-equipped to be put in that position and she showed that tonight.”
When these two teams last met, Bishop Miege won 70-52. Alexander wasn’t thrilled about Tuesday's loss but was proud of the performance tonight compared to last year’s romp.
“We need to bring it every possession,” Alexander said. “We need to work on our offense, defense and subbing in key situations. It’s something that we coaches, mainly me, need to work on. I probably should’ve called timeouts near the end.”
“I think there are a lot of things to take away from this game.”
Miege was thrilled with Tuesday night’s victory and was able to take away some lessons from the hard-fought, physically demanding match.
“We’re coming off of a huge and emotional win over our rival, St. Thomas Aquinas, and our kids carried it over into tonight by playing hard,” English said. “Topeka (High) is great. They presented a lot of matchup issues for us. Luckily the ball bounced our way a couple of times down the stretch.
“We are glad that we were able to come away with the win.”
Topeka High (17-2) will end the 2021-2022 regular season by hosting city rival Topeka West (2-18) on Friday night.
BISHOP MIEGE 59, TOPEKA HIGH 53
Bishop Miege 16 16 9 18 – 59
Topeka High 15 14 16 8 – 53
Topeka High (17-2) – Wiley 4 3-5 11, Caryl 3 3-4 9, Thomas 5 4-6 17, Shields 3 0-0 8, Smith 3 0-2 8.
Bishop Miege (17-2) – Burns 6 5-6 19, Verhulst 5 4-7 16, G. McCallop 4 1-1 9, An. Smith 1 0-0 2, Ad. Smith 5 3-5 13.
3-point goals – Topeka High 7 (Shields 2, Smith 2, Thomas), Bishop Miege 4 (Burns 2, Verhulst 2). Team fouls – Topeka High 15, Bishop Miege 13. Fouled out – none. Technical fouls – none.
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Heading into a busy final week of its regular season the Washburn women’s basketball had fallen below .500 after two straight losses as they played host to Northeastern State Tuesday evening.
The Ichabods got back to their bread and butter with a strong defensive effort that led to a 71-49 win over the RiverHawks at Lee Arena.
Twenty-two points is the largest win for Washburn this season with only two more regular-season games to play.
“Defensively we were pretty on que with the game plan,” Washburn coach Ron McHenry said. “Offensively, it was one of those games I look for a lot with a lot of kids in the scoring column and a lot of assists … offensively we played pretty clean.”
Washburn celebrates a play during Tuesday's 71-49 home MIAA win over Northeastern State. [Photo by Kyle Manthe/The Washburn Review]
The Ichabods moved to 13-13 with the win and 11-9 in MIAA play.
Washburn was locked in defensively from the start, holding Northeastern State to just 22 percent shooting and to nine points in the first quarter. Offensively seven Ichabods got in the scoring column in Washburn’s 17-point first quarter.
Two early second-quarter drives from senior Nuria Barrientos gave her eight early points and put the Ichabods up by 12. The lead would grow to as many as 16 in the half after five straight points from sophomore Hannah Willey who played a season high 16 minutes in the game.
“She has just always stood in there and waited for us. It’s my fault that I didn’t get her in earlier, last year she finished the year for us nicely,” McHenry said. “She is a real smart player, she can hit an open shot and knows our system well.”
Offensive rebounding was the only thing keeping Northeastern State in the game. Four straight points for the RiverHawks to end the half made it a 34-22 game after 20 minutes.
Washburn’s scoring was consistent throughout the third quarter, beginning with six early points on drives from freshman Aubree Dewey to help make it a 20-point game. Dewey had also entered the starting lineup for the second time in the season.
“I’ve talked to her about if you just get us into our stuff, guard somebody and get us organized … and then shoot it when you’re supposed to and that’s what she did tonight,” McHenry said.
Shae Sanchez led Washburn with 13 points in Tuesday's 71-49 MIAA victory over Northeastern State, her former team. [Photo by Kyle Manthe/The Washburn Review]
Two late 3-pointers from senior guard Shae Sanchez, playing against her former team, made it the game 58-35 after three quarters.
“Definitely feeling a little more energized, when I went to NSU and didn’t have a great game but to be here and … have coaches of all sports telling me, ‘Go have a great game,’” Sanchez said. “As hard as it is to play against some of my really great friends it was just a really great team win.”
The RiverHawks started the fourth quarter on a 7-0 run which was quickly put to rest by a 3-pointer from senior guard Hunter Bentley and a layup from freshman forward Lauren Cassaday making her the first player in double figures for the Ichabods.
That is all of the resistance that Northeastern State would mount and under the five-minute mark each side emptied the bench. Washburn led by as many as 26 points before ultimately claiming a 71-49 win.
Sanchez finished with 13 points to lead the Ichabods, including three 3-pointers. Cassaday had 12 points on 4-5 shooting. Bentley, Barrientos and sophomore Macy Doebele each added eight points in a balanced performance.
“Our offense was flowing, we had 18 assists so people were looking for the open shooter, it was just good for us,” Sanchez said.
“We needed some momentum, we got beat twice on the road, one we didn’t play real well and one we got beat in overtime. This is a grind right now,” McHenry said. “You need to catch some momentum and tonight was a big game for that.”
The Ichabods will stay at home to take on Missouri Southern for Senior Night Thursday.
WASHBURN WOMEN 71, NORTHEASTERN STATE 49
Washburn 17 17 24 13 -- 71
Northeastern State 9 13 13 14 -- 49
Northeastern State (6-21, 4-17)
Hackler 0-4 0-0 0, Collins 6-14 4-6 16, Langstaff 8-17 0-0 17, Mo. Lee 1-5 0-0 2, Me. Lee 1-3 2-2 5, Lay 1-5 0-0 2, Barrow 0-1 0-0 0, Co. Lee 0-2 1-2 1, Tomokino 1-1 0-0 2, Kindred 0-0 0-0 0-2 0, Brown 0-1 0-0 0, Wietelman 1-3 0-0 3. Totals 19-56 7-12 49.
Washburn (13-13, 11-9)
Dewey 3-7 0-0 6, Oliver 2-3 3-3 7, Bentley 3-9 2-5 8, Barrientos 4-10 0-0 8, Doebele 2-3 4-4 8, Sanchez 5-8 0-0 13, Willey 2-4 0-0 5, Cassaday 4-5 4-4 13, Chapman 2-2 0-0 4, Schieferecke 0-1 0-0 0, Fulks 0-1 0-0 0, Sanz 0-0 0-0 0, Broadie 0-0 0-0 0.
3-point shots – Northeastern State 4-18 (Hackler 0-3, Collins 0-1, Langstaff 1-3, Mo. Lee 0-2, Me. Lee 1-1, Lay 0-2, Barrow 0-1, C. Lee 0-1, Tomokino 1-1, Brown 0-1, Wietelman 1-2). Washburn 6-17 (Dewey 0-1, Bentley 2-5, Barrientos 0-1, Doebele 0-1, Sanchez 3-5, Willey 1-3, Fulks 0-1). Rebounds – Northeastern State 29 (Collins, Langstaff 6), Washburn 36 (Oliver 5). Assists – Northeastern State 9 (Collins 3), Washburn 18 (Bentley 5). Turnovers – Northeastern State 13, Washburn 13. Fouled out – None. Technical fouls – None.
