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A1 Lock & Key Performers Feb. 10, 2025
By RICK PETERSON
TopSports.news
KAYLA DUNCAN, Seaman
A freshman, Duncan captured the girls individual championship in Friday's second annual Topeka City Bowling Championships, bowling a 623 three-game series to help lead the Vikings to their second straight city team title by a 3,000-2,949 margin over Washburn Rural. Duncan bowled games of 203, 235 and 185.
LOGAN GLINKA, Washburn Rural
Glinka, a senior bowler, won his second straight city boys title on Friday at Gage Bowl with a 734 three-game series while leading Washburn Rural to the team championship by a 3,505-3,398 margin over runnerup Shawnee Heights. A former Class 6A state medalist, Glinka rolled games of 278, 232 and 224 in the city meet.
JACOREY ROBINSON, Highland Park
A 6-foot-6 senior basketball standout, Robinson scored 68 points on the week as undefeated and top-ranked (Class 5A) Highland Park posted three wins. Robinson had 17 points in a 54-30 Meadowlark Conference win over Kansas City-Washington, 32 points in a 67-50 win over city rival Topeka West and 19 points in an 81-14 conference win over KC-Wyandotte.

Top-ranked Scots roll on with 63-25 Meadowlark Conference win over Stallions
By RICK PETERSON
TopSports.news
The top-ranked and undefeated Highland Park boys got off to a slow start in Monday's home Meadowlark Conference game against Kansas City-Schagle, which didn't come as a big shock to Scots coach Mike Williams.
Highland Park coach Mike Williams talks to his team during Monday's 63-25 win over KC-Schlagle. [Photo by Rex Wolf/TSN]
After all, Highland Park was playing the first varsity game of the night, about two hours earlier than normal, in front of a small crowd with zero pre-game fanfare.
But after scoring just eight first quarter points and trailing by a point, Highland Park got things cranked up in the second quarter and never looked back, improving to 16-0 overall and 8-0 in the conference with a 63-25 romp past the Stallions.
"It's an early game, a different environment,'' Williams said. "We're used to everybody being in it and the band around, but it's the type of game you've got to figure out how to play. There will be a 3 o'clock game at state, a 5 o'clock game at state and there's no energy and then you're complaining about why you didn't play well and who knows what happens in that environment and that situation.
"So I thought our guys did a good job. It's unfortunate that some games are a little bit harder to get up for. Every game aint like playing Topeka High or Topeka West, where everybody's in the gym and we're also dealing with teenagers, but I thought we did a good job of answering the call.''
After trailing 9-8 at the start of the second period, the Scots held a 23-6 scoring margin in the quarter, including the first 12 points, to open up a commanding 31-15 halftime advantage.

Highland Park girls romp to 79-11 Meadowlark Conference decision over Stallions
By RICK PETERSON
TopSports.news
It was evident from Monday's opening minutes that Highland Park's Meadowlark Conference home game against Kansas City-Schlagle was going to be a blowout.
Sophomore Pearmella Carter scored a game-high 20 points and grabbed nine rebounds in Highland Park's 79-11 win over KC-Schlagle. [Photo by Rex Wolf/TSN]
But even though the Scots cruised to a 79-11 rout after scoring the first 21 points, Highland Park coach Rob Brown said his team (12-3 overall, 8-0 in the conference) got what it needed to get out of Monday's game.
"The main thing we came into tonight talking about was just getting the ball moving side to side better, sharing the ball and just trying to stay engaged the whole game and being able to finish games the right away and just keep growing as a team,'' Brown said.
"I felt like we grew as a team tonight.''
KC-Schlagle (1-7, 1-7) did not get on the scorboard until the Stallions connected on a 3-pointer with 1:12 left in the first quarter and Highland Park led 25-3 at the start of the second quarter.
Things only got worse for the Stallions from that point on, with Highland Park using a 20-6 second quarter to go up 45-9 at the half.