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Seaman's boys tennis team took some lumps early in Monday's United Kansas Conference championships at Kossover Tennis Center, with the Vikings coming up short in their bid to advance to the title matches in either singles or doubles.
But Seaman was at its best down the stretch, with Jamie Robinson's Vikings rallying to claim their first UKC team crown by a 57-55 margin over Topeka West.
Seaman rallied from a slow start to capture its first UKC boys tennis championship Monday at Kossover Tennis Center. [Photo by Rick Peterson/TSN]
"We lost some early matches that I thought we could win,'' Robinson said. "We lost a heartbreaker in a tiebreaker when we were up in the tiebreaker with one of our doubles teams, but we were able to rebound in the last few rounds and that was enough. It was close and that was a lot of fun.''
Seaman got third and fifth-place singles finishes from Ethan Winter and Camden Dutton while Dayton Schneider and Owen Stewart took third in doubles and Wesley Budge and David Budge rounded out the Viking lineup with a ninth-place doubles finish.
Robinson said the Vikings have continued to grow as a team as the season has progressed.
"I knew we had depth this year,'' he said. "I didn't know if we had any big, big juggernauts, but we had depth and that came through. We had a lot of success early in the year and I thought, 'Wow, we're for real.' ''
Shawnee Heights' Brock Curley fought through cramping issues to win the UKC singles championship Monday at Kossover Tennis Center. [Photo by Rick Peterson/TSN]
Shawnee Heights also had a UKC title to celebrate, with Brock Corley overcoming mid-match cramping issues to take an 8-4 win over Topeka West's Mark Cianciarulo in the singles championship match.
"Usually I really don't have cramps, but today I was dehydrated so I was cramping up,'' Corley said.
Corley returned to action after being forced to take a short break and was able to take control down the stretch for the victory.
"I was drinking electrolytes and eating salt to help the pain go away and it went away after I took the salt,'' he said.
Corley said he tried to play with a sense of urgency after the cramping problems.
"I was like, 'Lets just go end it now. Lets go end it so we don't have to worry about it any more,' '' Corley said. "It felt good to win.''
In addition to Cianciarulo's second-place finish, team runnerup West also posted a second-place finish in doubles, with Julian Ramcharan and Collin McGee dropping an 8-2 decision to Piper in the final.
Seaman and Topeka West will compete in a Class 5A regional tournament on Saturday at Bonner Springs while Shawnee Heights will compete the same day in a regional at De Soto.
The 5A state tournament will be contested May 16-17 at Salina.
UNITED KANSAS CONFERENCE CITY BOYS TENNIS CHAMPIONSHIPS
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GIRLS
100 METERS
Keimara Marshall, Topeka High 12.44
Ciarra Hartz, Highland Park 12.77
Morgan Robinson, Shawnee Heights 12.80
Karys Deiter, Silver Lake 12.94
Ally Steiner, Seaman 12.95
Keimara Marshall, Topeka High
200 METERS
Keimara Marshall, Topeka High 25.72
Molly Worley, Washburn Rural 26.10
Ally Steiner, Seaman 26.20
Morgan Robinson, Shawnee Heights 26.58
Adriana Raub, Washburn Rural 27.10
400 METERS
Ryin Miller, Seaman 57.65
Keimara Marshall, Topeka High 60.28
Madison Blanco, Washburn Rural 61.65
Ali Gerber, Silver Lake 61.75
Ally Steiner, Seaman 62.01
Ryan Miller, Seaman
800 METERS
Ryin Miller, Seaman 2:09.28
Payton Fink, Washburn Rural 2:21.21
Rylee Ismert, Washburn Rural 2:23.09
Kinley Robinson, Seaman 2:24.07
Emily Graf, Washburn Rural 2:24.19
1,600 METERS
Ryin Miller, Seaman 4:41.47
Emily Graf, Washburn Rural 5:08.24
Rylee Ismert, Washburn Rural 5:09.15
Brooklyn Nolte, Washburn Rural 5:20.69
Kenzie Maddox, Washburn Rural 5:21.56
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Tadd Armstrong
TADD ARMSTRONG, Washburn Rural
A senior golf standout, Armstrong captured the individual championship in last Monday's city golf tournament at Topeka Country Club, posting a 27-hole score of 118 and winning his first city title in a playoff over Hayden's James Kuta as Washburn Rural won the team crown by a single stroke (489-490) over the Wildcats.
Eric Buchenau
ERIC BUCHENAU, Cair Paravel Latin
A junior foreign exchange student from Germany, Buchenau teamed with fellow Cair Paravel junior Drew Fay to win the No. 1 doubles title in last Thursday's city tennis tournament at Kossover Tennis Center. Buchenau and Fay registered a 6-4, 7-6 (7-4 tiebreaker) win over Washburn Rural's Cale Deutscher and Dylan Willingham in the city title match, improving to 20-1 on the season.
Drew Fay
DREW FAY, Cair Paravel Latin
Fay, a junior, teamed with fellow Cair Paravel junior Eric Buchenau to win the city title in No. 1 doubles title in last Thursday's city tennis tournament at Kossover Tennis Center. Fay and Buchenau won the city championship with a 6-4, 7-6 (7-4 tiebreaker) win over Washburn Rural's Cale Deutscher and Dylan Willingham in the city title match.
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Veteran Washburn Rural girls soccer coach Brian Hensyel knows that to be the best his Junior Blues, a perennial state contender, are going to have to prove they can beat the best if they're going to win their first state title after a string of near-misses.
Washburn Rural soccer celebrates Saturday's 3-1 win over previously unbeaten St. James Academy. [Photo by Rick Peterson/TSN]
And Rural took a big step in that direction Saturday when it completed a big three-game week with a 3-1 win over previously unbeaten St. James Academy at McElroy Field.
The Junior Blues, now 10-2, opened their busy week with a 4-0 win over city rival Shawnee Heights before knocking off 10-time state champion Blue Valley West for the first time ever in a 2-0 road decision and capping the week by handing the Thunder its first loss after 12 straight victories.
"We said at the beginning of the year we were going to challenge the girls with the toughest schedule we could find and this week in particular, playing two teams back to back we wanted to try to create what the last week of the season will look like because you have to win a semifinal and then you have to play somebody great in the final,'' Hensyel said.
"So we had Blue Valley West, a team we hadn't beat before, and St. James, who hadn't lost a game. That's about as tough as we can make it.''
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Runs came in bunches for the Topeka High softball team on Friday evening, as the Trojans swept city rival Topeka West by 10-4 and 12-2 scores in a doubleheader at Hummer Sports Park.
London Backman turned in a big day at the plate as Topeka High softball swept city rival Topeka West 10-4 and 12-2 Friday at Hummer Sports Park. [File photo by Kyle Manthe/Special to TSN]
After a scoreless first inning in Game 1, the Trojans got on the board first in the top of the second, with Campbell Dawson’s leadoff single resulting in a sacrifice fly to center field by Taimane Isaia.
West answered with a run of their own in the bottom half of the inning after Callie Jones came around to score on a Trojan error after opening the inning with a walk and a stolen base.
The Chargers took their first lead of the evening in the bottom of the third inning.
After the first two batters went down on strikes, catcher Addaline Hall kept the inning alive with a double to left field. Jones gave the Chargers their second consecutive extra-base hit in the form of a triple to right field, scoring Hall and giving the hosts a 2-1 lead.
T-High found its first big inning of the day in the top of the fourth, pushing across four runs to take a lead it would not relinquish.
The Trojans’ London Backman hit a hard line drive that hit directly off the left leg of Charger starting pitcher Ahlexis TenEyck, scoring pinch runner Masyn Chard.
Despite staying in the game, TenEyck was not rewarded for her toughness, as two more runs came around to score on an error and a fourth crossed the plate on an RBI single by Dawson, putting the Trojans up 5-2 entering the bottom of the fourth.
West cut the deficit to two in their half of the fourth with an RBI single to left field by Breonnah Keeling. T-High tacked on two more runs in the fifth on a wild pitch and a groundout, and added three more in the sixth, courtesy of RBI singles by Backman and Madilyn Poole.
The Chargers scored one final run in the bottom of the sixth to make the score 10-4, but couldn’t mount a late rally.
The Trojans rattled off 13 hits in the contest, with Backman tallying four hits in five at-bats with two runs driven in.
Poole and Adrianna Adame also drove in two runs each for T-High.
Campbell Dawson went the distance for the pitching win in Topeka High's 10-4 first-game win over city rival Topeka West Friday at Hummer Sports Park. [File photo by Kyle Manthe/Special to TSN]
Dawson went the distance in the circle for the Trojans, allowing three runs on seven hits while striking out eight batters.
Hall went 3 for 4 to lead the Chargers in the loss, while Keeling drove in a pair of runs.
In Game 2, the Trojans opened with an offensive onslaught, putting up 10 runs in the top of the first inning.
