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Cathcart, Rayton the Dan Key Farmers Insurance Agency Rising Stars of the Week
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By RICK PETERSON
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Silver Lake junior baseball player Logan Cathcart and Topeka High freshman track and field standout Ahsieyrhuajh Rayton have been selected by the Dan Key Farmers Insurance Agency as the Rising Stars of the Week.
Here’s a brief look at the accomplishments of Cathcart and Rayton over the past week:
LOGAN CATHCART, Silver Lake
Cathcart helped Silver Lake earn a 9-8, 8-7 doubleheader road sweep at Hayden on Tuesday, with the 9-4 Eagles extending their winning streak to six games.
Cathcart got the pitching save in the first game for the Eagles when he recorded a strikeout to end the game and he started the second game and pitched the first five innings to pick up the pitching win, allowing two earned runs.
Cathcart went 2 for 4 with a double and knocked in a run and scored twice in the first game and went 2 for 3 at the plate with two runs scored in the second game.
ASHIEYRHUAJH RAYTON, Topeka High
A multi-sport standout for the Trojans, Rayton posted three individual victories and a second-place finish in last Wednesday's Washburn Rural Invitational track and field meet.
Rayton won the girls 100-meter dash in a time of 13.51 seconds, won the long jump with a best effort of 16 feet, 7 inches and was the triple jump champ at 35-3.50. Rayton finished second in the 200 dash in 27.52.
Rayton ranks No. 1 in Shawnee County in the long jump and triple jump and is No. 2 in the 200.
Washburn baseball to close out regular season with weekend series at Northeastern State
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By RICK PETERSON
TopSports.news
Washburn University baseball heads to Tahlequah, Okla. for its final regular-season series of the year against Northeastern State, beginning on Friday at 2 p.m.
Last time out the Ichabods won 14-3 over Southern Nazarene on the road Wednesday afternoon and are currently 26-19 overall and 18-12 in the MIAA.
The RiverHawks enter the series with a 20-27 record and an 11-19 record in the MIAA after falling 17-5 to Oklahoma Baptist on Tuesday.
Washburn enters the MIAA Tournament next weekend which is played on the campus sites of the top four seeds. Washburn currently sits in fifth place in the MIAA standings. The Ichabods can go no lower than the fifth seed and could climb as high as third.
To finish in third the Ichabods would need to sweep the RiverHawks, with Central Oklahoma losing all three games in its weekend series and Pittsburg State winning no more than one. If Washburn is tied with the Gorillas the Ichabods would have the tiebreaker to move up to fourth or fifth in the standings. The Bronchos have the tiebreaker over the Ichabods.
Through 45 games Washburn is scoring 9.13 runs per game while allowing 7.49.
At the plate the Ichabods are hitting .324 with a .418 on-base percentage and are slugging .573 as a team. They have 85 home runs and have drawn 224 walks.
Washburn's pitching staff has an earned run average of 7.26 this season in 385.2 inning pitched. The Ichabods have struck out 337 batters while allowing 427 hits and issuing 246 walks.
The Ichabods are second in the nation in home runs with an average of 1.89 per game and 85 total blasts.
TSN to honor Rose, Schuckman as Washburn's outstanding athletes for 2023-2024
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By RICK PETERSON
TopSports.news
TopSports.news will honor All-America track and field thrower Braden Rose and All-America soccer player Khloe Schuckman as Washburn University's outstanding male and female athletes for 2023-2024 at the Topeka Shawnee County Sports Awards and Hall of Fame induction ceremonies on June 26 at Washburn's Memorial Union.
Rose, a Hutchinson native (Buhler High School), is already a four-time NCAA Division II All-American in track and field, with his final NCAA meet still to come, and holds the Washburn school record in the indoor weight throw, discus and hammer throw.
Schuckman, a Wichita Bishop Carroll product, has scored 25 goals with nine assists over her first three WU seasons and helped lead the Ichabods to a 21-4-1 record last fall, earning third-team All-America recognition.
TopSports.news will honor outstanding Washburn athletes for the fourth time in conjunction with the Topeka Shawnee County Sports Awards and Hall of Fame induction ceremonies.
In 2023 Grant Bruner and Jaycee Ginter were named Washburn outstanding male and female athletes of the year.
Washburn Athlete of the Year capsules: