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Created: 05 May 2024

By RICK PETERSON

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NOTE: Top.Sports.news will compile a weekly track and field honor roll for Shawnee County high schools throughout the 2024 season. Coaches are asked to email updated times and marks or any corrections to Rick Peterson at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. Coaches should designate whether times were fully automatic (FAT) or hand-timed. FAT times are considered .024 of a second faster than hand times. TopSports.news will rank the Top 5 in each event.

GIRLS

Keimara Marshall, Topeka High

100 METERS

Keimara Marshall, Topeka High      12.42

Kielyn McDonnell, Rossville             12.78

Alana Mitchell, Hayden                   12.87

Ally Steiner, Seaman                        12.91

Ava Rottinghaus, Silver Lake            13.02

200 METERS

Keimara Marshall, Topeka High      26.32

Ahsieyrhuajh Rayton, Topeka High 26.88

Ally Steiner, Seaman                        27.01

Miluv Cosey, Highland Park             27.04

Shayla Rezac, Rossville                    27.12

Natalie Hillebert, Hayden

400 METERS

Natalie Hillebert, Hayden                 59.59

Ella Bolan, Silver Lake                       61.69

Shayla Rezac, Rossville                     62.46

Ali Gerber, Silver Lake                      62.61

Ava Rottinghaus, Silver Lake            63.15

Ryan Miller, Seaman

800 METERS

Ryin Miller, Seaman                         2:10.25           

Payton Fink, Washburn Rural           2:25.13

Rylee Ismert, Washburn Rural          2:27.20

Emily Graf, Washburn Rural             2:28.40

Taylie Heston, Seaman                     2:28.82

1,600 METERS

Ryin Miller, Seaman                        4:46.90

Rylee Ismert, Washburn Rural         5:12.51

Payton Fink, Washburn Rural          5:14.08

Emily Graf, Washburn Rural             5:21.07

Sofia Harper, Hayden                      5:33.50

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Created: 05 May 2024

By RICK PETERSON

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Washburn University baseball scored two runs in the top of the ninth inning Saturday and held on to win 9-7 over No. 19 Central Oklahoma to advance to the MIAA Championships.

The Ichabods will face the top-seeded Central Missouri on Thursday in Pittsburg.  

Washburn's Connor Scott (11) had two homers and four RBI in Saturday's 9-7 MIAA tournament win at Central Oklahoma. [Photo courtesy of Washburn Athletics]

Washburn (31-19) got two on base in the top of the first but were unable to bring anyone around. The No. 4-seeded Bronchos (36-14) got on the board in the bottom of the first with a two-out solo homer to right. The next inning they hit another solo homer to lead off the inning and lead 2-0 after two.  

With two outs in the third inning two straight Central Oklahoma batters reached base after being hit by pitches. A wild pitch moved both over before a double scored the pair, doubling the lead.  

In the top of the fifth inning the Ichabods were able to get on the board after a one-out double from Cal Watkins started the offense and turned the lineup over.

First-team All-MIAA pick Payton McHarg cut the deficit in half, hitting a two-run shot to right center. With two outs in the inning All-MIAA honoree Cash Jay took a 1-1 pitch to the same part of the yard for another run.  

WU's Chase Torkelson settled into his start, throwing scoreless fourth and fifth innings to hold the Bronchos down.

In the top of the sixth Connor Scott led off the inning with a solo homer to center field, tying the game.  

A pair of one-out walks along with a wild pitch left two on in the home half of the sixth for UCO.

The home team took the lead after executing a double steal aided by an error in the field. A sacrifice fly scored another run as the Bronchos led by two after six.  

Washburn led off the seventh with a pair of outs before the offense got going.

For the second time in the game Jay went yard, blasting a solo homer to center. Priest followed with a single and he scored on Connor Scott's second long ball of the game to put the Ichabods in front.  

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Created: 04 May 2024

By RICK PETERSON

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A total of 18 players representing seven city high schools will compete in state tennis tournments next Friday and Saturday at three sites.

Washburn Rural senior Lawsen Lobatos (left) and sophomore Dylan Willingham won a Class 6A regional doubles championship Friday in Junction City. [Photo by Rick Peterson/TSN]

Leading the city contingent for state is Centennial League and city team champ Washburn Rural, which added a Class 6A regional championship on Friday at Junction City by a 23-14 margin over Maize while qualifying all six players for the 6A state tournament at Wichita's Riverside Tennis Complex.

Washburn Rural senior Dylan Dodge posted a second-place singles finish in the Junction City 6A regional, helping the Junior Blues claim the team title. [Photo by Rick Peterson/TSN]

Rural senior Lawsen Lobatos and sophomore Dylan Willingham captured the regional doubles title with a 6-0, 6-1 win over Manhattan's Michael Hwang and Jack Spiegel while senior Dylan Dodge also advanced to the final, finishing second after a 6-4, 6-1 loss to Hayden Herrera of Maize.

Sophomore Keegan Knudtson posted a third-place regional finish for the Junior Blues, taking a 6-2, 6-2 win over Maize's Anvith Natarajan in the third-place match at regionals while sophomores Cale Deutscher and Brayden Kohls finished third in doubles with a 7-6 (7-4), 6-0 win over Topeka High senior Tate Hodges and junior Alex Raymond in the third-place matches.

Hodges and Raymond also punched their ticket to state, giving the city eight state qualifiers.

CLASS 5A REGIONAL AT EMPORIA

Topeka West, Seaman and Shawnee Heights will send a total of six players to the 5A state tournament at the Andover District Tennis Complex.

Returning Class 5A state placers Caden McGee (left) and Caleb Weybrew finished second in doubles at regionals to earn a state berth. [File photo/TSN]

United Kansas Conference champion Topeka West, the 2023 5A state champion, will send three players to state, with seniors Caden McGee and Caleb Weybrew finishing second at regionals in doubles while Charger senior James Maag finished third in singles.

McGee and Weybrew dropped a tough three-set decision in the finals to Blue Valley Southwest's Saket Jogannath and Vidhu Reddy, with the Southwest duo taking a 3-6, 6-1, 7-6 win.

Maag finished third at regionals with a 6-4, 6-4 win over Patrick Lacy of St. Thomas Aquinas in the third-place match as Topeka West finished third as a team.

Seaman senior Gavin Dutton qualified for state with a sixth-place regional finish in singles while Shawnee Heights seniors Roscoe Poyner and Alex Austin finished sixth in doubles.

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Created: 04 May 2024

By RICK PETERSON
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Seaman showed its outstanding quality in Friday's girls City Swimming and Diving Championships at the Capitol Federal Natatorium, winning eight of 12 events.

But in the end it was Washburn Rural's superior depth that ruled the day, with the Junior Blues winning their 21st straight team title by a 580.50-490 margin over the Vikings.

Washburn Rural celebrates its city girls swimming championship Friday at the Capitol Federal Natatorium. [Photo by Rick Peterson/TSN]

"We do have that depth,'' Washburn Rural coach Bob Burdick said. "I felt pretty good about today overall. I knew Seaman was going to walk in and try to take first place in as many events as they could and I would do that if I had those kids, too.

"But our depth pulled it out. We worked really hard this last week to drop times to make sure we came into this with time drops with everybody and that paid off.''

Burdick said that everyone on the team contributed to the Rural championship.

"Everybody did contribute and I'm really proud of the girls,'' Burdick said. "They worked hard and they earned this.''

Avery Walz, Seaman  

Tauren Walz, Seaman

Joslynn Grace, Seaman

Seaman got two individual wins apiece from Avery Walz (100-yard freestyle, 100 backstroke), Tauren Walz (50 freestyle, 100 butterfly) and Joslynn Grace (200 individual medley, 100 breaststroke) and the Vikings' star trio teamed with Avery Samuelson to win the 200 medley and 200 free relays. 

Washburn Rural, meanwhile, got individual victories from Audrey Appuhnn in the 200 freestyle and 500 free and Appuhn teamed with Sophie Heinen, Jella Belgardt and Genevieve Miranda to win the meet-ending 400 free relay while Rhiannon Good and Hayden's Kaylee Gregg shared the one-meter diving title, tying in that event in Thursday's diving competition.

The Junior Blues put Appuhn, Belgardt, Miranda, Good, Madeline O'Brien and Molly Didde on the All-City first team, while the Walz twins and Grace represent Seaman on the first team, along with Topeka High's Hara Del Castillo, Shawnee Heights' Ashtynn Landry and Kaitlyn Aldridge and Hayden's Gregg and Presley Green.

Seaman, Shawnee Heights and Topeka West will compete in the United Kansas Conference meet at the Cap Fed Natatorium on Tuesday while Hayden, Topeka High and Washburn Rural will compete in the Centennial League meet, which will be held at Cap Fed on Thursday.

CITY SWIMMING CHAMPIONSHIPS

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