The Lady Jays had a tough opponent in Seaman High School Friday night as the Lady Jays fell 54-38 to the undefeated Lady Vikings.

Junction City managed to keep the game close going into halftime trailing 24-19 but strong offensive play by Seaman’s top scoring threat, Tatyana Legette in the second half proved to much for the Lady Jays.

“We got her in some foul trouble in the first half which helped us,” JCHS girls coach Nate Parks said of Legette. “She’s just very aggressive and its just hard to keep her off the boards and that’s what killed us.”

Legette finished the game with 17 points for Seaman, 12 in the second half alone.

The Lady Jays were led in scoring by senior Kori Kamm with 12 points. Followed by freshman Darja Russell with 10 points.

Parks said he wasn’t surprised by the freshman’s play,”I know that she has the ability, we’re trying to bring her in slowly not trying to put to much pressure as a freshman but inevitably shes going to be on the court more.”

The Lady Jays fell to 2-3 on the season.

In the boys game a tough first half led to a strong second half for the Blue Jays as they topped Seaman 57-51.

Seaman managed to keep it close with the Blue Jays in the first half by crashing the boards and getting multiple second chance shots. The Blue Jays lead going into halftime was 23-20.

The Blue Jays gave up a lot of rebounds in the first half and Seaman capitalized off that. But Junction City came out in the second half and put a stop to that.

In the second half the Blue Jays stepped it up on the defensive end putting more pressure on the Vikings which Head Coach Pat Battle said was key.

“We challenged our guys to go out there and rebound and box out and limit them to one shot and we did a great job of that,” Blue Jay Coach Pat Battle said. “That’s really what keyed things for tonight is how well we defended as well as how well we boxed out.”

Junction City was led in scoring by Jonathan Wilds who finished with 15 points. Danny Thornton added another 12 points for the Blue Jays all from three point range.

The Blue Jays moved to 3-2 going into Christmas break. “It’s the first time in a long time Junction City basketball has been above .500 going into Christmas. I think this win was really big with us,” Battle said.

Both teams won’t return to the court until January 10th when they return to Topeka to take on Highland Park.