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Tyler Gonzalez named new JCHS head wrestling coach

Posted on April 5, 2019April 5, 2019

By Dewey Terrill

JC Post

( Photo courtesy of Blue Jay Athletics Twitter )

Tyler Gonzales has been named to head the Junction City Blue Jay wrestling program.

Gonzalez, wrestled at Shawnee Heights High School, and for Fort Hays State in college. Since then he has served as an assistant coach at Colby Community College and Shorter University in Georgia. He spent the last two years as an assistance coach at Discovery Canyon Campus High School. Gonzales also has served stints in the USA Wrestling and U.S. Olympic Committee offices.

Gonzales is the son of current Manhattan High School head coach Robert Gonzales, and was coached by his father at Shawnee Heights High School. “He supports me no matter what. We’ve talked about it, obviously, with me being there next to him in Junction City.” Tyler added they just look forward to seeing each and not necessarily as a town rivalry. They will look forward to the times that they can collaborate together. “The way that he and I have discussed it is we’d rather be fighting each other for a state championship title than any other team.”

Tyler said his early goals for the Blue Jay program will be to become acclimated to the wrestling community, get in touch with the returning varsity and junior varsity wrestlers, expectations moving forward, and learn about traditions from the athletes. “There are a lot of kids walking the hallways that I would love to see wrestling and begin wrestling at Junction City so growing my passion through other students in the hallways will be important for me.”

Blue Jay sports report

Posted on April 5, 2019April 6, 2019

The Junction City Blue Jay baseball team split a doubleheader with Manhattan in Manhattan on Friday.

The Blue Jays won the first game 10-6 while Manhattan won the nightcap 3-2.

The Blue Jays are 6-2 on the season.

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The Junction City Lady Jay softball team ( 0-4 ) fell to Manhattan ( 3-1 ) at Cleary Field on Friday by the scores of 11-0 in five innings and 6-3.

The second game was pretty competitive. Lady Jay coach Aaron Craig said in the first game he felt his squad kept worrying about mistakes that had occurred. In the second game the players communicated better, the decision making was better and the Lady Jays were more committed at the plate.

Junction City will host Shawnee Mission West Monday in a doubleheader at 4 p.m.

The Lady Jays are conducting a youth clinic today ( Saturday ).

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The Junction City Blue Jay boys track team captured first place in the Maize Invitational on Friday. The Lady Jays finished fourth in the team competition, only one half-point out of third place.

The JCHS Invitational for boys and girls is Monday at Al Simpler Stadium.

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The Lady Jay soccer team defeated Highland Park on Friday by the score of 7-2.

Lady Jays fall to Topeka High in softball

Posted on April 3, 2019

The Junction City Lady Jays softball team lost two games against Topeka High in the capitol city on Tuesday by the scores of 10-0, 10-0.

Junction City will host Manhattan in a doubleheader beginning at 4 p.m. on Friday at Cleary Field.

Blue Jay baseball splits two games with Great Bend

Posted on April 3, 2019

The Junction City Blue Jay baseball team traveled to Great Bend for a doubleheader on Tuesday.

Junction City won the first game 10-0 but dropped the nightcap 4-2. The Blue Jays are 5-1 on the season.

Blue Jay tennis competes at Highland Park

Posted on April 2, 2019

The Junction City Blue Jay Tennis team traveled to Topeka for the Highland Park Varsity Tennis Quad on Monday.

Coach Matthew Mikheel said the Blue Jays started out the day winning 3 of 4 matches vs. Highland Park and then dropped 3 of 4 matches to both Topeka West and Desoto.

Three players for the Blue Jays went 2-1 on the day. Those players were Albert Caba, Aaron Reutzel and Hayden Diestelkamp. All other players for the Blue Jays, went 1-2 on the day including Jace Goheen, Erik Mitchell and Trenton Reynolds. The Blue Jays found a lot of success at #2 doubles with a variety of player combinations going 3-0 on the day.

The Blue Jay tennis team next travels to Olathe Northwest for a quadrangular this Thursday, April 4^th. Matches will begin at 3 pm.

JCHS Athletics postponements

Posted on March 29, 2019

Junction City High School weather-related postponements reported by JCHS Athletic Director Matt Westerhaus:

–Lady Jay softball in Topeka against the Topeka High Trojans. The makeup date is Tuesday, April 2nd.

–The varsity boys tennis quadrangular scheduled for Saturday in Topeka has been postponed and rescheduled for Saturday, April 13th.

–The JCHS Invitational track and field meet for the varsity was postponed Friday until Monday, April 8th.

JCHS Track and Field Invitational POSTPONED!

Posted on March 28, 2019March 29, 2019

Update:

The Junction City High School track and field invitational that was scheduled on Friday has been postponed due to weather condition. There is a 90 percent chance of rain in the forecast.

The makeup date will be Monday, April 8th at 3:30 p.m.

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The Lady Jay softball team is scheduled to play their season opening doubleheader in Topeka against the Topeka High Trojans. The first game is at 4 p.m.

Blue Jay soccer update

Posted on March 27, 2019

The Junction City Blue Jay boys soccer team lost to Wichita Classical 4-1 Tuesday night.

The information was provided by Blue Jay Athletics Twitter.

Blue Jay baseball 4-0

Posted on March 26, 2019

The Junction City Blue Jay varsity boys baseball team defeated Andover and McPherson in McPherson on Tuesday.

JCHS Athletic Director Matt Westerhaus reported that Junction City won their first game over Andover 7-6 and then defeated McPherson 12-0, leaving the Blue Jays with a record of 4-0 for the season.

Junction City will play at Great Bend April 2nd.

Blue Jay baseball teams will travel in early April

Posted on March 25, 2019

The Junction City Blue Jay varsity baseball team will play in Great Bend on April 2nd at 4 p.m. The doubleheader had initially been scheduled for Rathert Field but the work to install artificial turf on the infield and foul territories, and grass sod on the outfield is still under way.

Also, Athletic Director Matt Westerhaus said that the Blue Jay junior varsity baseball team will play in Manhattan at 4 p.m. on April 5th. Again, that is due to the work that is in progress on Rathert Field.

Westerhaus noted that officials are currently looking / hoping to play the first varsity games at Rathert Field on April 12th, but that is a best case scenario date.