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No. 3-ranked Shawnee Heights girls top No. 1 Basehor-Linwood for UKC wrestling title

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By RICK PETERSON

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Shawnee Heights' girls regained the United Kansas Conference wrestling championship Saturday at Piper, with the Class 5A No. 3-ranked T-Birds topping No. 1 Basehor-Linwood by a 179.5-163 margin.

CiannaGraves2026UKC 2Shawnee Heights senior Olivia Stevens (left) reached the 100-win milestone in Saturday's UKC wrestling tournament while T-Bird senior Cianna Graves registered her 100th career pin. [Photo courtesy of Shawnee Heights wrestling]

The T-Birds garnered five individual conference titles while posting 10 top-three finishes.

Shawnee Heights got gold-medal performances from freshman 120-pounder Brinnley Morris, junior 125-pounder Audrey Hinkly, sophomore 130-pounder Olive Jones, senior 145-pounder Olivia Stevens and senior 155-pounder Cianna Graves.

Stevens, 27-4 on the season, and Graves, 28-2, both reached career milestones on Saturday, with Graves reaching 100 pins for her career while Stevens notched her 100th career victory.

Shawnee Heights also got runnerup UKC finishes from sophomore Bianca Juarez (110), senior Shelby Watson (170) and junior Brooklyn Binkley (190) while sophomore Halle Hall (115) and freshman Raelyn Kelly (130) placed third.

Seaman's girls finished sixth as a team, led by junior 130-pound runnerup Chloe Stewart, while 10th-place Topeka West got a third-place finish from 235-pound junior Monica Stewart.
 
The Shawnee Heights girls will compete in a Class 5A regional Saturday at Bonner Springs while Seaman and Topeka West will compete in a 5A regional at Newton.
 
Seaman's boys finished second as team to Basehor-Linwood, which outdistanced the Vikings by a 257.5-170.5.
 
The Vikings got individual conference titles from junior 150-pounder Deegan Frazier, senior 157-pounder Brennan Bowers and junior 285-pounder Henry Reichert.
 
Seaman also got second-place finishes from freshman Bennett Scheier (106), junior Maddox Malone (120), freshman Colt Heston (126) and senior Landen Miller (165).
 
Shawnee Heights finished fifth as a team, led by second-place finishers Brody Brown (150), a junior, and senior Evan Johnson (175).
 
Ninth-place Topeka West was led by 215-pound senior Cortez McCutcheon, who finished second.
 
The Seaman and West boys will compete in a 5A regional on Feb. 21 at Hays while Shawnee Heights will compete in the regional tournament at Lansing.
 
 
  
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