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Seaman girls bowler Paige Snyder has been solid through the early going of her freshman season but stepped things up a few notches in Wednesday's Topeka West quadrangular at West Ridge Lanes.
Seaman freshman Paige Snyder bowled a 652 series on Wednesday at West Ridge Lanes to take individual honors in the Topeka West quadrangular. [Photo by Rick Peterson/TSN]
Seaman freshman Paige Snyder picks up a spare in Wednesday's Topeka West quadrangular at West Ridge Lanes. [Photo by Rick Peterson/TSN]
Snyder rolled a 652 series to take the individual title by 76 pins as Seaman rolled to a huge 2,347-2,017 win over Junction City in the team standings.
"This was definitely one of my higher series,'' Snyder said. "I was just hitting that mark every single time.''
Snyder said she continues to gain confidence with city, league, regional and state competition on the near horizon.
"I'm getting a lot more comfortable with the people I'm bowling with and the environment, defnitely,'' Snyder said.
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Junior Jalen Foy turned in a huge performance Tuesday night as Topeka West rolled to a 68-51 United Kansas Conference road win over Lansing, the Chargers' fifth straight victory.
Topeka West junior Jalen Foy scored a career-high 31 points as the Chargers won their fifth straight game Tuesday, 68-51 over Lansing. [File photo/TSN]
Foy scored 31 points with four 3-pointers and a 5 of 5 performance at the free throw line while also contributing 5 rebounds, 4 assists and 6 steals.
Sophomore Keimani Paul scored 11 points with 5 assists and 3 steals while senior Caleb Noonoo had 8 points and 4 steals for the Chargers.
Topeka West, 9-4 overall and 7-2 in the UKC, led 20-14 at the end of the opening quarter and led 37-26 at the half before outscoring the Lions 31-25 in the second half.
Topeka West will travel to Piper on Thursday before hosting Kansas City-Turner on Friday.
Lady Scots rebound from back-to-back losses with 63-34 Meadowlark romp
Highland Park's girls basketball team bounced back from two straight losses with a 63-34 Meadowlark Conference road rout over Kansas City-Washington.
The Scots, who had dropped three of their previous four games, improved to 6-3 overall and 3-0 in the conference.
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Seaman freshman bowler Dylan Hunt started his third game Tuesday at West Ridge Lanes with an open frame, but didn't miss again, rolling 11 straight strikes for a 279 to finish off an individual championship in the Seaman quadrangular.
Seaman freshman Dylan Hunt finishes off Tuesday's 279 game with his 11th straight strike at West Ridge Lanes. [Photo by Rick Peterson/TSN]
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Freshman Dylan Hunt his congratulated by Seaman teammate Riley Parkhurst after his 279 game Tuesday at West Ridge Lanes. [Photo by Rick Peterson/TSN]
"I was about a millimeter from knocking it over,'' Hunt said of his narrow one-pin miss in the first frame. "I think the wind could have blown it down if I was any closer.''
But Hunt started his dominating string of strikes the next frame, ending his day with his season-high score.
"The right side of the lane just started hooking and I just used it to my advantage,'' Hunt said. "I just tried to take my time and breath in, breath out and every shot don't take about the last one, just think about the next one.''
With the biggest meets of the year coming up, Hunt said he feels pretty good about his game.
"I feel pretty confident about it,' Hunt said. "I just need to work on adjusting to the lanes a little bit better.''
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In the first meeting between the Shawnee Heights girls and Basehor-Linwood, the game went down to the final second before Audrey Schulte hit a game-winning 3-pointer to give the T-Birds a one-point United Kansas Conference victory.
Shawnee Heights freshman KK Emmot (1) scored 17 points to lead the way in the T-Birds' 55-51 UKC win over Basehor-Linwood. [Photo by Rex Wolf/TSN]
The finish of Tuesday's rematch wasn't quite as dramatic, but it was still a nailbiter all the way, with the T-Birds pulling out a 55-51 win at Heights.
"During the first game, we lost our composure in the first half,'' Shawnee Heights coach Bob Wells said. "(The Bobcats) like to play a really physical style of game and really get out and defend and deny and I don't think our girls were believers at the time of how hard they were going to play on defense so we were down like 14 at halftime.
"This game our girls kind of bought in to, 'Hey, this is going to be a battle and we better have our composure ready.' We lost our composure a few times but we got it right back and I'm really proud of them.''
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By his own admission, Shawnee Heights boys basketball coach Ken Darting has never been overly quick to pass out compliments.
Senior Brennon Dodge scored a game-high 17 points in Shawnee Heights' 59-41 UKC romp past Basehor-Linwood. [Photo by Rex Wolf/TSN]
But given his high standards, the Hall of Fame coach was almost effusive in his praise of his No. 9-ranked (Class 5A) T-Birds after Tuesday's 59-41 United Kansas Conference home romp past Basehor-Linwood, Heights' 10th win over its past 11 games.
"You don't hear me say this very often, but I'm really, truly pleased,'' Darting said. "We've got a ways to go, but we're playing in the best 5A league in the state. We're going to have three or four or our teams in the state tournament and we've beat all of them except Piper so we're playing good and you can't beat that.''
Now 10-3 overall and 7-2 in the UKC, Shawnee Heights trailed Basehor-Linwood (6-7, 4-6) 16-14 at the end of the first quarter and the Bobcats led by a slight margin much of the second quarter before the T-Birds used a 15-3 run at the end of the second quarer and start of the third to take control and never looked back.
Shawnee Heights went on to lead by 20 points in the third stanza and 21 in the fourth.
