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Carolina Chedzoy
CAROLINA CHEDZOY, Washburn Rural
A junior tennis standout, Chedzoy won the singles championship in Saturday's Class 6A regional tournament at Wichita, topping Junction City's Hannah Micheel in the title match to help the Junior Blues win the team title. Now 19-8 on the season, Chedzoy finished second in the Centennial League tournament earlier in the week as Rural won the team championship, part of a city, league, regional title sweep.
Jackson Esquibel
JACKSON ESQUIBEL, Shawnee Heights
Esquibel, a senior cross country star, captured his first city individual title on Saturday at Kanza Park after finishing second as a junior. A two-time Class 5A state medalist in cross country and a state champion in track, Esquibel set a new personal record on Saturday with a five-kilometer time of 15 minutes, 16.7 seconds, winning by more than 13 seconds.
Jette Glasenapp
JETTE GLASENAPP, Shawnee Heights
A junior foreign exchange student from Germany, Glasenapp completed a sweep of city, United Kansas Conference and Class 5A regional singles tennis championships. Glasenapp won the UKC title last Tuesday with an 8-2 win over Seaman's Emma Sweeney in the final and followed that up with a 6-0, 6-0 win over Sweeney in Saturday's regional tournament at Kossover Tennis Center.
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After winning the United Kansas Conference title on Tuesday, the Seaman girls' tennis team added a Class 5A regional championship on Saturday at Kossover Tennis Center, qualifying its entire team for Friday and Saturday's state meet at Salina, while Shawnee Heights junior Jette Glasenapp punched her ticket to state with the regional singles title.
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Seaman rolled to a Class 5A regional championship Saturday at Kossover Tennis Center, winning by a 24-10 margin while qualifying its entire team for the Class 5A state tournament at Salina. [Photo courtesy of Seaman Athletics]
Senior Katie Krumins and sophomore Molly Gorman won the doubles championship witn a win over teammates Kate Eckert, a senior, and freshman Camryn Lux in an all-Seaman doubles final while Viking freshman Emma Sweeney and junior Sidney Chinn finished second and third in singles.
Seaman senior Katie Krumins and sophomore Molly Gorman won a Class 5A regional doubles title Saturday, giving the Vikings a sweep of city, UKC and regional championships. [Photo courtesy of Seaman Athletics]
Krumins and Gorman, who have now swept city, UKC and regional titles, topped teammates Eckert and Lux 6-1, 6-1 in the doubles championship
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Topeka West football coach Trey Parker’s Chargers have been fighting for their first win all season, and Friday night against Kanss City-Turner they found it, riding the legs of senior Josh Nitschke.
Topeka West senior Josh Nitschke ran for 271 yards and scored four touchdowns in Friday's 35-15 UKC win over Turner. [File photo/TSN]
Trey Parker picked up his first victory as Topeka West's head football coach in Friday's 35-15 United Kansas Conference victory over Kansas City-Turner. [File photo/TSN]
Nitschke led the Chargers with 271 rushing yards and four touchdowns as Topeka West rolled to a 35-15 United Kansas Conference decision over the Bears at Hummer Sports Park.
Parker picked up his first victory as a head coach Friday night.
"Hopefully, it's the first of many wins here at Topeka West,'' said Parker, in his first season as West's head coach after taking over as the Chargers' interim coach for the final three games of the 2022 campaign. "I'm glad we got it out of the way. It felt like a monkey was on our back.
"We had a tough road to this point, but we're just glad to finally be here.''
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Coming off a 14-point loss to Silver Lake in the War on 24 last week, Rossville bounced back with a 21-0 non-league road shutout at perennial state power Holton Friday night.
Rossville senior quarterback Camden Horak ran for a touchdown and passed for a TD in Friday's 21-0 shutout win at Holton. [File photo/TSN]
Rossville junior Tayson Horak (12) scored the Bulldawgs' final touchdown in Friday's 21-0 non-league win at Holton. [File photo/TSN]
The Bulldawgs, who evened their record at 3-3, scored the only touchdown they would need at the 5:57 mark of the first quarter, with senior quarterback Camden Horak connecting with sophomore Jack Donavan for an 8-yard score.
Rossville stretched its lead to 14-0 at the half, with the Bulldawgs scoring at the 11:25 mark of the second quarter on a 1-yard run by C. Horak.
The Bulldawgs finished their scoring with 54 seconds left in the third quarter, getting a 37-yard run from junior Tayson Horak.
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Hayden's girls tennis team will be out in full force Friday and Saturday in Winfield as the Wildcats defend their Class 4A state championship.
The Wildcats put themselves in position for another strong state performance in Saturday's regional tournament at Kossover Tennis Center, qualifying all six players for state while winning the regional team title by a 19-18 margin over Bishop MIege.
Hayden senior Lauren Sandstrom returns a shot during Saturday's Class 4A regional tennis tournament. Sandstrom and partner Emily Sheetz are the defending Class 4A doubles champs. [Photo by Rick Peterson/TSN]
Hayden junior Emily Sheetz and doubles partner Lauren Sandstom are 26-3 on the season after winning the Class 4A doubles title a year ago. [Photo by Rick Peterson/TSN]
Hayden's doubles team of junior Lauren Sandstrom and sophomore Emily Sheetz, now 26-3, repeated as regional champions with a 6-1, 6-3 win over Bishop Miege's Livi Shull and Ellie Gudex and the Wildcat standouts will enter state as the defending state doubles champs.
The Wildcats also got a fourth-place double finish from sophomores Izzy Glotzbach and Avery O'Bray while sophomore Grace Funk posted a runnerup finish in singles and junior Sofia Sexton qualified for state with a sixth-place regional finish.
"I'm thrilled,'' Hayden coach Christy Sheetz said. "I knew that they could play this well and I knew that they had it in them. To watch them come out here and be able to put into practice all the things that they've learned and worked for this season is really, really gratifying and satisfying.''
Hayden sophomore Grace Funk finished second in Saturday's Class 4A regional tournament and is a returning state medalist. [Photo by Rick Peterson/TSN]
Funk (17-13) placed 10th at state last season and is one of three Hayden returners from last year's state title team, along with Sandstrom and Sheetz.
