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Created: 29 March 2023

By RICK PETERSON

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NOTE: Top.Sports.news will compile a weekly track and field honor roll for Shawnee County high schools throughout the 2023 season. Coaches are asked to email updated times and marks or any corrections to Rick Peterson at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. Coaches should designate whether times were fully automatic (FAT) or hand-timed. FAT times for individual sprints are considered .024 of a second faster than hand times. TopSports.news will rank the Top 5 in each event.

GIRLS

100 METERS

Nichols, Shawnee Heights         12.70

Marshall, Topeka High                13.17

Steiner, Seaman                         13.62

Randa, Hayden                           13.81

Fredrickon, Washburn Rural       14.00

200 METERS

Brooks, Topeka West                  26.43

Marshall, Topeka High                27.65

Fredrickson, Washburn Rural     28.26

Zuniga, Topeka High                  28.49

Steiner, Seaman                         28.61

400 METERS

Hillebert, Hayden                          60.74

Brooks, Topeka High                     61.48

Rice, Highland Park                      66.68

North, Hayden                               66.74

Zuniga, Topeka High                     67.59

Returning state champion Bethany Druse of Seaman is the Shawnee County leader in the girls 800. [File photo/TSN]

800 METERS

Druse, Seaman                             2:25.28

Heston, Seaman                           2:39.07

Wolff, Hayden                               2:52.56

Christensen, Washburn Rural       2:57.39

Ramshaw, Washburn Rural          3:02.59

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Created: 27 March 2023

By Rick Peterson

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Washburn Rural girls soccer team made an early goal from senior Brooklyn DeLeye stand up for a 1-0 non-league victory over Kapaun Mt. Carmel Friday at McElroy Field.

Washburn Rural senior Brooklyn DeLeye (17) reacts to her goal in Friday's 1-0 non-league soccer win over Kapaun Mt. Carmel. [Photo by Trevor Falcon/Special to TSN]

Washburn Rural senior Brooklyn DeLeye (17) celebrates with her teammates after what proved to be the game-winning goal in Friday's 1-0 win over Kapaun Mt. Carmel. [Photo by Trevor Falcon/TSN]

DeLeye scored early in the match off an assist from Mackinly Rohn and the Junior Blues blanked the Crusaders for the match to improve to 2-0 on the season.

Senior Hailey Beck picked up the shutout in goal for Washburn Rural.

Washburn Rural will return to action Tuesday against Blue Valley Southwest at 5 p.m. in the opening round of the Olathe Northwest tournament at the  College Boulevard Activities Complex. 

West earns softball split with 5A power Seaman

Topeka West softball posted a statement win in last Thursday's United Kansas Conference doubleheader at perennial Class 5A stalways Seaman, with the 2-2 Chargers taking a 6-3 first-game decision to end a long losing skid against the Vikings.

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Created: 27 March 2023

By Rick Peterson

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For the seventh time in her Ichabod career and third time this season, Washburn University's Jaycee Ginter has been named the MIAA Pitcher of the Week after going 3-0 with a 0.00 earned run average in four appearances as the Ichabods went 4-0 with sweeps over Lincoln and Central Missouri.

Washburn star pitcher Jaycee Ginter, a Shawnee Heights product, has been named the MIAA Pitcher of the Week for the third time this season. [Photo by Rex Wolf/TSN]

Ginter posted two combined shutouts and a complete game, striking out 26 with two walks in 17.0 innings pitched while holding batters to a .140 batting average.

The former Shawnee Heights star tossed five innings in Friday's series opener against Lincoln, facing the minimum in five innings while striking out 10 Blue Tigers. She came in the second game in relief, tossing 2.0 innings and striking out five while allowing three hits.

In Saturday's first game against UCM, she tossed 7.0 innings while allowing three hits and holding the Jennies scoreless through 6 and 2/3 innings before UCM scored an unearned run. In the second game, Ginter tossed 3.0 innings in relief, striking out five with one walk.

The Ichabods will return to the field next weekend with conference twinbills at Missouri Western and Northwest Missouri.

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Created: 27 March 2023

 By RICK PETERSON

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Reagan Chapman

REAGAN CHAPMAN, Washburn Rural

A freshman, Chapman, Washburn Rural softball's leadoff hitter, opened the bottom of the first of Friday's Centennial League doubleheader against Topeka High with a solo home run. Chapman added a pair of doubles in the opener while knocking in a pair of runs and scoring the game-winning run in the bottom of the seventh in Rural's 4-3 win. In the nightcap, Chapman tripled and broke the game open with a three-run home run in the Junior Blues' 8-3 victory.

Jaycee Ginter

JAYCEE GINTER, Washburn University

Ginter, a junior, picked up three pitching wins as No. 21-ranked Washburn University softball swept MIAA foes Lincoln and Central Missouri Friday and Saturday. Ginter pitched five innings of no-hit ball with 10 strikeouts in a 5-0 win over Lincoln on Friday and picked up both wins on Saturday as the Ichabods took a pair of 2-1 wins over UCM. Ginter pitched a three-hitter with six strikeouts while allowing only an unearned run in the first game against the Jennies and pitched three innings of shutout ball with five strikeouts in the second game, improving to 19-2 on the season.   

Lenny Njoroge

LENNY NJOROGE, Topeka West

A returning Class 5A state medalist, Njoroge opened his senior track season with a pair of victories in last Thursday's Topeka West Invitational. Njoroge won the 1,600 meters by nearly 14 seconds in 4 minutes, 29.84 seconds and came back later in the evening to win the 3,200 by nearly 14 seconds in 9:45.51. Njoroge is also a three-time Class 5A state cross country medalist, including a fourth-place finish last fall.

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