The Junction City Blue Jay baseball team dropped two one-run decisions at Washburn Rural Friday.
The Junior Blues defeated Junction City in game one 8-7 and in game two 15-14.
The Blue Jays fell to 10-6 on the season.
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In softball Junction City was swept at Cleary Field by Washburn Rural 18-0 in six innings and 12-0 in five innings.
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Lady Jay soccer lost to Topeka High 7-0 at Al Simpler Stadium.
The Blue Jay tennis doubles teams picked up multiple wins on Thursday in the Mustang Tennis Classic hosted by Salina Central. All players competed in the same pool of 16 entries.
Mason Richards and Luke Craft finished the highest of the two doubles teams by winning their first round and picking up another victory in the tournament to earn 6th place with a 2-2 record. Nolan Rothfuss and Jace Goheen dropped their first round match, but then rebounded to win three straight matches to place 9th
The Blue Jays next host a quadrangular with Manhattan, Topeka and Lawrence Free State on Friday, April 27. Matches will start at 3 pm.
Coach Matthew Micheel
The Junction City Lady Jay softball team lost to Seaman in Topeka on Tuesday by the scores of 15-0 in three innings and 15-0 in five innings.
The Lady Jays host Washburn Rural on Friday.
The Blue Jay tennis team traveled to Topeka on Monday for the Topeka High Invitational. Kody Westerhaus led the Blue Jays by earning a runner up finish in the second singles flight. He went 4-1 on the day losing only in the championship match.
All other Blue Jay tennis players went 2-3 on the day. Mason Richards represented the Jays in the top flight of singles, Luke Craft and Yuno Fernandez teamed up in the top flight of doubles and Nolan Rothfuss and Aaron Reutzel competed in the second flight of doubles.
Overall, the Blue Jays finished 6th place as a team. Ten teams were involved in the tournament. The Blue Jays next travel to Salina for the Mustang Classic II this Thursday. Matches begin at 3 pm.
You can help out Junction City Blue Jay basketball during a Drive-A-Thon this Saturday at the Walmart Neighborhood Market on McFarland Road. Coach Nick Perez provided the information.
Ryan Henington entered the Kansas State football spring game at quarterback for the White team with 8:35 to go in the third quarter on Saturday and helped lead them on a 75-yard drive that ended in a touchdown.
The former Junction City Blue Jay quarterback who is now at Kansas State University was in the game for one series. He opened it with a six yard pass completion and ended up completing three of five passes for 20 yards. He also rushed one time for 16 yards and a first down. The drive ended when Luke Sowa took a hand off from Henington and scored on a 39 yard touchdown run with 5:33 remaining in the quarter.
Henington is a redshirt freshman at K-State so it was first time for him on the field for the Wildcats in any kind of game situation. He is one of six quarterbacks listed on the K-State roster, and one of five who played in the game. He is a 2017 graduate of Junction City High School.
The Purple team defeated the White team in the spring game 31-28.
The Junction City Lady Jays finished second out of eleven teams in the Haysville Campus Invitational. Junction City scored 183 points, just seven less than Newton with 190.
Highlights for the Lady Jays included a first place finish by Hannah Reynolds in the discus with a throw of 118 feet. Savannah Adams finished third with a throw of 104’2.” Sherrie Jones won the shot put with a throw of 39’7.” Ayi-lissa Dotson was first in the high jump with a leap of 5’4″ and Nyla Blagrove second at 4’10.”
Kienna Newman won the 100 meter hurdles in 15.05 and finished second in the 300 meter hurdles in 46.03. Lyric Holman finished third in the 100 meters in 12.69. Michelle Sanchez was first in the 1600 meters in 5:31.72 and second in the 800 meters in 2:30.42.
The Blue Jay boys scored 66 points to finish fifth out of 11 teams. Haysville Campus won the team title with 103 points.
For Junction City Rooster Adams finished third in the javelin with a throw of 143’6.” Xavier Cason won the shot put with a throw of 50’01/4″ and finished second in the discus at 145’9 1/4,” Ian Sanchez finished second in the 200 meters in 22.30 and Jamarcus Plato finished second in the 300 meter hurdles in 40.12
The Topeka West Chargers defeated the Junction City Blue Jays in both games of a doubleheader at Cleary Field on Friday.
The Chargers won the first game 11-1 in five innings and took the nightcap 12-0 in six innings.
Topeka West is 6-4 while the Lady Jays are still searching for their first win of the season.
The Junction City Blue Jays dropped the opener of their baseball doubleheader to the Topeka West Chargers on Friday 5-2 but bounced back to win the nightcap 12-1 in the capitol city.
Blue Jay Coach Pat Stivers said in game one Junction City left a lot of players on base, and Ty Clark threw well enough to get the win. Defense was a problem at times. ” We had four errors behind and they were at critical times.” In game two Junction City got more walks and also base hits with guys on base.” Ashton Wiegand was the winning pitcher.
Junction City ( 9-3 ) will host Seaman in a doubleheader on Tuesday at Rathert Field.
The Junction City Blue Jay tennis team traveled to Lawrence High School to play in a quadrangular with Olathe South, Gardner Edgerton and Lawrence on Wednesday. Individually, Aaron Reutzel won all three matches on the day going 3-0.
The Blue Jays split matches with Lawrence with Kody Westerhaus and Reutzel winning the two singles matches. Against Gardner- Edgerton, the Blue Jays won all three matches they played. The doubles team of Mason Richards and Luke Craft won the number one doubles spot, while Jace Goheen and Calen Boller won the other doubles spot. Reutzel finished off the sweep with his second victory in singles. Against Olathe South, the Blue Jays went 1-2 on the day, with Reutzel finishing off his perfect day in singles. Olathe South took both doubles matches.
The Blue Jays next travel to Topeka on Monday for the Topeka Invitational. Matches will start at 9 am.
Coach Matthew Micheel
