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Kai Allen
KAI ALLEN, Silver Lake
A 138-pound senior, Allen won his fourth straight Mid-East League individual wrestling title to lead Silver Lake to the team championship last Friday at Wabaunsee. Allen, one of seven league champions for the Eagles, has posted three straight top-three finishes in the Class 3A-1A state tournament, including a state championship in 2019 and a runner-up finish last season.
Dylan Birkenbaugh
DYLAN BIRKENBAUGH, Seaman
Birkenbaugh bowled a 737 three-game series to earn his second individual title of the week, putting together games of 225, 265 and 247 as Seaman won the boys title in the Emporia quadrangular at Flint Hills Lanes by a 2,894-2,578 margin over Derby. Birkenbaugh also won the individual title in the Hayden quad at West Ridge Lanes with a 628 series as the Vikings won by a 2,445-2,185 margin over Topeka West.
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The only Kansas State men’s basketball coach to win a conference championship in four-plus decades now has a losing conference record during his Manhattan tenure.
That isn’t a surprise. That’s Bruce Weber.
Weber knows how to succeed. He just doesn’t know how to sustain. His track record is clear: He has rises and falls, dips and spikes that are as drastic and expected as temperature fluctuations in Kansas.
When he followed Bill Self at Illinois, Weber was wildly successful his first two seasons, winning back-to-back Big Ten championships in 2004 and 2005 and reaching the NCAA championship game in ’05. Three years later, his Illini had gradually slipped to 16-19 overall and 5-13 in the Big Ten.
Weber rebounded, of course, going 24-10 and finishing second in the conference in 2008-09 before starting another slide that culminated with his 2012 dismissal following a 17-15 season.
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Silver Lake and Rossville went one-two in the team standings in Friday's Mid-East League boys wrestling tournament at Wabaunsee while combining to win nine individual championships.
League-champion Silver Lake had seven wrestlers capture league championships, including Devin Dultmeier at 120 pounds, Justin Rakestraw at 132, Kai Allen at 138, Chase Root at 152, Daigan Kruger at 170, Triston VandeVelde at 182 and Preston Gillen at 195 pounds.
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The No. 13-ranked Washburn men's basketball team dropped a 74-72 heartbreaker to Central Oklahoma Saturday afternoon at Edmond, Okla.
Central Oklahoma led 39-34 at the half and held off the Ichabods for the win, improving to 5-5.
Former Hayden star Levi Braun, a redshirt freshman, hit a 3-pointer for Washburn with 39 seconds remaining to tie the game at 72, but Central Oklahoma scored with two seconds left to pull out the win.
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Washburn's try for a big road win came up just short Saturday, with Central Oklahoma escaping with a 74-73 MIAA victory at Edmond, Okla. when the Ichabods' halfcourt 3-point attempt bounced off the rim as time ran out.
Satuirday's game was tight throughout, including a 16-16 tie at the end of the first quarter, a 32-28 Washburn lead at the half and a 47-45 Bronchos advantage at the start of the fourth quarter.
Washburn and Central Oklahoma were tied at 65 and 67 before Hunter Bentley hit two free throws to put the Ichabods in front 69-67 with a minute remaining.
