Jonathan Wilds hit a shot with 3.6 seconds remaining to lift the Junction City Blue Jays to a 60-59 win over the Topeka High Trojans.

A late shot by Shon Sanders of Topeka High was no good and Junction City prevailed at the Shenk Gym for their fourth win in seven tries this season.

The fourth quarter was a bit bizarre. Junction City was ahead by 14 points 54-42 when the Trojans went on a run to take a two point lead.  In the closing minutes Junction City got two baskets from Ja-Male Morrow and the Trojans got a three-point bucket from Joshua Barber that put Topeka High ahead 59-58.

In the final 20 seconds  Wilds came down the left side of the court,veered into toward the free throw lane before putting up the game winning shot.  After the game Blue Jay coach Pat Battle noted scary didn’t begin to describe the closing minutes of the victory. “If there’s one thing our kids did tonight they played hard for the entire 32 minutes, there’s no question about it. ”

Battled noted the Blue Jays didn’t execute well all the time, but played with a lot of heart.  The coach said he knew the late run by the Trojans was coming. “We didn’t do enough things with our possessions to limit that run. I knew that run was coming somewhere during the course of the game.”