The Junction City Blue Jays ( 8-2 ) play the Topeka High Trojans ( 9-1 ) Friday night at Hummer Sports Park in Topeka. The two teams meet in the quarterfinal round of the Class 6A football postseason playoffs.

The game will be broadcast on 107.9 FM and 1420 KJCK with the Central National Bank pregame show beginning at 6:30 p.m. followed by the kickoff at 7 p.m.

The other 6A quarterfinal round playoff games Friday night include Manhattan ( 9-1 ) at Derby ( 10-0 ), Blue Valley West ( 7-3 ) at Olathe North ( 8-2 ) and Blue Valley High School ( 7-3 ) hosting Blue Valley North ( 5-5 ).

 

Two Junction City Lady Jay volleyball were on the list when the 2019 Centennial League All-League Volleyball Team was announced.

Savannah Adams was named Second-Team All Conference and Taylor Strickland received Honorable Mention.

Brooklyn DeLeye of Washburn Rural was named the Newcomer of the Year, Camryn Turner of Seaman Player of the Year and Kevin Bordewick of Washburn Rural Coach of the Year.

PREP FOOTBALL=

6-Man=

Semifinal=

Cheylin 52, Golden Plains 36

Moscow 62, Weskan 53

8 Player DI=

Regional=

Caldwell 30, Medicine Lodge 18

Canton-Galva 58, Lebo 8

Hodgeman County 62, Spearville 54

Little River 44, Ness City 42

Madison/Hamilton Co-op 52, Maranatha Academy 6

South Central 43, Attica/Argonia 6

St. Francis 52, Hill City 0

Wichita County 54, Clifton-Clyde 38

8 Player DII=

Regional=

Axtell 46, St. John’s Beloit-Tipton 0

Centre 46, Crest 0

Hanover 36, Frankfort 32

Hutchinson Central Christian 64, Minneola 18

Osborne 40, Sylvan-Lucas 6

South Barber 62, Norwich 22

St. Paul 28, Waverly 18

Thunder Ridge 64, Wheatland-Grinnell 18

Class 1A=

Regional=

Centralia 46, Northern Heights 14

Inman 43, Elkhart 13

Jackson Heights 6, Valley Heights 0, OT

Olpe 56, Uniontown 0

Pittsburg Colgan 29, Hillsboro 21

Plainville 53, Ell-Saline 21

Sedgwick 34, Meade 12

Smith Center 56, Republic County 14

Class 2A=

Regional=

Conway Springs 40, Eureka 7

Garden Plain 56, Belle Plaine 0

Hoisington 48, Lakin 7

Humboldt 60, Southeast 14

Nemaha Central 29, Rossville 21, OT

Norton 34, Cimarron 6

Riley County 14, Southeast Saline 8

Silver Lake 62, Riverton 21

Class 3A=

Regional=

Andale 49, Clearwater 0

Beloit 28, Colby 14

Cheney 30, Wichita Collegiate 13

Frontenac 20, Galena 6

Perry-Lecompton 35, Holton 21

Prairie View 35, Columbus 0

Scott City 28, Concordia 0

Topeka Hayden 14, Jefferson West 6

Class 4A=

Regional=

Andover Central 45, Augusta 7

Arkansas City 13, Winfield 3

Bishop Miege 57, Bonner Springs 16

Buhler 24, Mulvane 0

Chanute 30, Louisburg 21

McPherson 14, Goddard 8

Paola 42, KC Piper 14

Tonganoxie 45, Spring Hill 24

Class 5A=

Regional=

BV Southwest 37, KC Schlagle 14

DeSoto 31, Shawnee Heights 0

Maize 31, Emporia 0

Maize South 41, Hays 10

Mill Valley 42, Olathe West 6

St. Thomas Aquinas 34, St. James Academy 7

Wichita Bishop Carroll 35, Andover 7

Wichita Northwest 48, Great Bend 14

Class 6A=

Regional=

BV North 42, Gardner-Edgerton 41

BV West 42, SM Northwest 29

Blue Valley 24, Olathe East 7

Derby 49, Wichita West 13

Junction City 54, Dodge City 7

Manhattan 49, Lawrence Free State 28

Olathe North 56, KC Wyandotte 13

Topeka 56, Lawrence 35

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The Junction City Blue Jays travel to Dodge City in Class 6A postseason playoff football Friday night.  You can hear the game on 107.9 Fm and 1420 KJCK.

The Central National Bank pregame show will begin at 6:30 with kickoff at 7 p.m.

The matchup is in second round, or regionals, in the 6A playoffs.

 

On Tuesday, Nov. 12th at 7 p.m. Junction City High School will hot an informational meeting for students, parents and / or guardians who are interested in obtaining information about the upcoming winter sports season.

Junction City High School offer boys and girls basketball, boys and girls bowling, boys swimming and boys and girls wrestling during the winter sports season. At 7 p.m. each winter sport will conduct their own informational meeting to discuss tryout procedures, rules and other teams.

Winter sports will begin their first day of practice on Monday, Nov. 11th.

The Junction City Blue Jays turned in a seventh place finish in the Class 6A Regional Meet on Saturday at Milford State Park. They scored 201 team points, with Lawrence Free State capturing first place with the low team score of 50.

In the individual competition for Junction City, Carlos Lozano finished 32nd in 18:58.80 and Isaiah Smith was 37th in 19:08.30.

For the Lady Jays they turned in a team score of 206 points while while Manhattan finished first with a score of 37 points.

For Junction City, Mariah Parrott finished 36th in 23:26.00  while Cassidy Eschliman was 41st in 23:55.50.

There were no state meet qualifers from Junction City.

JCHS coach Ryan Norton felt his team did well in the meet. “Probably a little bit below where we wanted to be today, but overall we’ve been kind of limping through the last couple of weeks here trying to get through this week here with our athletes. We had a nice showing for where we have been this year and where we started off.”

 

The Junction City Lady Jays defeated Dodge City 26-24, 25-19 in the Class 6A Substate Tournament played at Washburn Rural High School on Saturday.

In the championship match Junction City fell to Washburn Rural 25-2, 25-9.

The Lady Jays finished the season with a record of 20-17.

The Junction City Blue Jays ( 6-2 ) are a number seven seed in the western bracket of the Class 6A postseason playoffs. Junction City will host tenth seeded Wichita Southeast ( 3-5 ) in a first round game on Friday Nov. 1 at Al Simpler Stadium.

The winner of that game will advance to meet the winner of number two seed Dodge City vs. 15-seeded Haysville-Campus in a second round contest on Nov. 8.

The 6A playoffs will span five rounds with the championship game on Saturday, Nov. 30th at 1 p.m. in Emporia.

The Manhattan Indians, a four seed, will host 13-seed Hutchinson Friday Nov. 8 in a first round game.

Jo Jo Nieves returned a kick more than 70 yards for a touchdown to bring Junction City to within one point at 14-13 against Emporia. But the Spartans blocked the extra point kick, took control of the football following the kickoff and never gave it up again. Final score Emporia 14 Junction City 13.

Emporia improved to 5-3 while the Blue Jays fell to 6-2 with the loss.

The Blue Jays were flagged for a number of holding penalties in the game and also fumbled the football away at the Emporia one-yard line in the first quarter. This game didn’t go Junction City’s way. Blue Jay coach Randall Zimmerman agreed. “No it did not. We should have won it. We had all kinds of things going on. We weren’t executing in the first quarter and I think that gave them enough hope. They’re big, strong physical kids and they started leaning on us.”

The coach added, “Our defense was out for way more snaps than we should have been. They’re just good at what they do. They’re very very disciplined, they played very hard, they’re all very strong kids.”

Junction City will host Wichita Southeast in the first round of the Class 6A postseason playoffs next Friday night at Al Simpler Stadium.