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Hayden took control in the fourth quarter to take a 42-33 Centennial League road win at Washburn Rural Friday night, wrapping up the league championship.
Hayden senior Millie Ramsey (left) scored 17 points and grabbed 14 rebounds in Friday's 42-33 Centennial League win over Washburn Rural while sophomore Maddie Vickery (right) led the Junior Blues with 12 points. [Photo by Doug Walker/Special to TSN]
No. 2-ranked (Class 4A) Hayden bounced back from a league loss at Manhattan on Monday while improving to 16-2 overall and 8-1 in the league while No. 5-ranked (6A) Washburn Rural fell to 13-5, 6-2 as the Wildcats finished off a season sweep over the Junior Blues.
"Monday when we played Manhattan, that was a really frustrating game,'' Hayden coach Carvel Reynoldson said. "We didn't seem to have much energy and just couldn't get over the hump. So this week in practice we just emphasized absolutel intensity defensively and on the glass and then try to get into our offense and run stuff because Manhattan was just kind of running up and down the court like we were playing a pickup game.
"Tonight we needed to get into our offense and get the ball inside and we did.''
Freshman Hailey Schmidtlein (2) scored eight points and went four for four at the free throw line in Hayden's 42-33 win over Washburn Rural. [Photo by Doug Walker/Special to TSN]
Millie Ramsey, a 6-foot senior, posted a double-double with game-high totals of 17 points and 14 rebounds while Hailey Schmidtlein, a freshman, and senior Brylee Meier added eight points apiece for the Wildcats.
"This win was super huge,'' Ramsey said. "It was a good win and I'm proud of everybody. I'm really proud of our freshmen (Schmidtlein and Blakely Walter). They really stepped up.''
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Most any team in the country would be envious of Washburn University's 22-2 start to the 2024-2025 season.
But after suffering back-to-back road losses that snapped the Ichabods' 22-game winning streak, WU was looking for a bounce back Thursday night in Lee Arena.
And the No. 4-ranked Ichabods got just that, shooting a blistering 64 percent from the field in the second half in a 93-72 MIAA win over Central Oklahoma.
Washburn sophomore Brayden Shorter (20) led all scorers with 25 points in Thursday's 93-72 home MIAA win over Central Oklahoma. [Photo by Rex Wolf/TSN]
Senior Jacob Hanna scored 22 points for Washburn in Thursday's 93-72 win over Central Oklahoma. [Photo by Rex Wolf/TSN]
"It's kind of funny how quickly expectations can change,'' Washburn coach Brett Ballard said. "And if I would have told anybody associated with our program that we were going to be 22-2 coming into this game everybody would have been like, 'Holy cow, you're having the most amazing year.'
"But with what happened last week, sometimes outside of our bubble people thought a certain thing. I think our guys were disappointed by it, but we came back and had three really good practices this week. I was really proud of the intent and I thought we learned from that and it doesn't mean you're going to come out and play well, but I did think we had a great intensity and a want to and a compete to us tonight.''
Sophomore Brayden Shorter, who led Washburn with a game-high 25 points, agreed that Thursday was a good bounce-back performance.
"We emphasized that all week in practice,'' Shorter said. "I feel like our practices have been a lot more turned up, with a lot more energy in practices. Not that we weren't having good practices, we were just on a 22-game win streak and sometimes you just let off the gas a little bit and I think we did a good job coming out tonight of getting back to what we do.''
Washburn (23-2 overall, 14-2 MIAA) trailed for only 26 seconds in the game as UCO (14-11, 8-8) jumped out to a 5-2 lead after the Ichabods scored the first two points of the game.
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The Cair Paravel Latin girls basketball team came up short in its bid for a Senior Night victory Thursday. A 48-37 loss to Atchison County closed the Lions’ regular season at 4-15.
Junior KellyAnn Chada led Cair Paravel with 16 points in Thursday's 48-37 loss to Atchison County. [File photo/TSN]
The Lions and Tigers traded leads in a game full of runs. But the Tigers got the momentum when it counted. They turned a 33-26 third-quarter deficit around by reeling off 12 straight points, going up 38-33 midway through the fourth period. In the end, they outscored Cair Paravel 20-4 in the final period.
“In the fourth quarter, (Atchison County) pushed more, they were just fighting, they were being aggressive, and we just didn’t have the execution and the drive,” said Cair Paravel coach Jaley Barkley. “Finishing those last 10 minutes is always hard, but I’m still proud of them. I could see the heart they had.”
Trailing 19-16 at halftime, the Lions got hot in the third period, outscoring the visitors 17-9. Freshman London Backman was the catalyst, scoring nine points in the third. But Backman picked up her fifth foul at a crucial moment early in the final period, depriving the Lions of one of their two primary offensive threats.
Junior KellyAnn Chada scored 16 for the Lions, followed by Backman with 14. Those two combined for 30 of the Lions’ 37 points.
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Cair Paravel Latin's boys celebrated Senior Night and set itself up for the postseason in style Thursday. The Lions raced passed Atchison County 76-30 to finish the regular season with a 9-10 record.
Ben Roeder led Cair Paravel with 21 points in Thursday's 76-30 Senior Night win over Atchison County. [Photo by Jan Pabitzky/Special to TSN]
The outcome was not in doubt from the time Cair Paravel reeled off 12 straight points to start the game. The Lions hit 32-62 from the field and got points from eight different players.
Senior Jase Pavlik scored 15 points as Cair Paravel's boys finished their regular season with a 76-30 win over Atchison County. [Photo by Jan Pabitzky/Special to TSN]
Junior Lucas Marichal scored 14 points Thursday as 9-10 capped its regular season with a 76-30 rout over Atchison County. [Photo by Jan Pabitzky/Special to TSN]
Ben Roeder led the Lions with 21 points in his final regular-season game, while fellow senior Jase Pavlik added 15. Junior Lucas Marichal chipped in 14.
“It’s awesome having this group of people here to support us,” Roeder said. “I love this community and I’m grateful for my senior buddies. We’re looking to let Christ’s light shine through us to our teammates and to the other schools we play.”
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Washburn University's women outscored Central Oklahoma by 16 points in the middle two quarters and led by as much as 26 points early in the fourth quarter en route to a 75-60 MIAA win Thursday night in Lee Arena.
Junior Payton Sterk led Washburn with 20 points in a 75-60 MIAA home win over Central Oklahoma Thursday night. [Photo by Rex Wolf/TSN]
Washburn junior YIbari Nwidadah scored 13 points and grabbed seven rebounds in Thursday's 75-60 home MIAA win over Central Oklahoma. [Photo by Rex Wolf/TSN]
Washburn, which improved to 15-11 overall and 9-7 in the MIAA, got a game-high 20 points from junior Payton Sterk while junior Yibari Nwidadah added 13 points with a team-high seven boards and junior Gabi Giovannetti 12 points.
The Ichabods have now won four of their last five games while surpassing last season's win total by two games with a minimum of four games remaining.
"For the first three quarters it was about our defensive effort and I was proud and I was really proud of how few points (Central Oklahoma) scored,'' Washburn coach Lora Westling said. "And we were able to control the glass pretty convincingly.
"I think we're trending in the right direction and I think what's great about this group is that we still have so much we're getting better at every day. We're still having a lot of fun at practice and getting better every week and we love that.''
In the first five minutes of the opening quarter both teams traded baskets, with five ties. Three straight points from Nwidadah sparked a 7-0 run for Washburn that would put it in front by five. Central Oklahoma (7-18, 6-10) ended the quarter with a jumper to make it 20-17 after one.
A 3-pointer by Sterk at the 9:39 mark in the second quarter was the only basket for either team in the first four minutes of play. After a layup from the Bronchos with 5:40 to play the Ichabods went on a 12-0 run that began and ended with layups by freshman Brooke Gomez. Central Oklahoma shot just 2-10 in the quarter and got its second field goal at the buzzer on a last second 3-pointer to cut the WU lead down to 35-23 going into halftime.
