The Washburn Rural Junior Blues ( 11-8 ) outscored the Junction City Blue Jays 30-20 in the second half enroute to a 47-43 victory over the Blue Jay boys basketball team Friday night in Topeka.

Jordan White hit eight of nine free throws for the Junior Blues and scored 20 point to lead Washburn Rural to the win on their senior night. The Blue Jays struggled at the free throw line and had a tough time getting inside shots against the Rural defense.

Blue Jay coach Nick Perez noted the team didn’t do a good job of getting the ball into the paint. “We had some costly turnovers there at the end. ” Perez felt his team played hard, but has to learn to finish games.

Junction City ( 7-13 ) will now prepare to play in a Class 6A Substate Tournament next week. Pairings come out Saturday morning.

Washburn Rural ( 16-4 ) jumped out to an 8-1 lead and never trailed as they defeated the Junction City Lady Jays ( 5-15 )  66-33. There was a running clock in the fourth quarter since Washburn Rural led by more than 30 points.

 

 

The Junction City Blue Jay and Lady Jay bowling teams have both qualified for the Class 6A State Tournament.

According to Coach Brad Adams the Blue Jay boys captured first place in the Class 6A Regional Wednesday with a score of 3384 pins. For Junction City, Tyler Gromlovits finished second in the individual competition with a 667, Christian Carter sixth with a 642 and Kazerick Smith eighth with a 622.

For the Lady Jays there was a team score of 2810. Taylar Smith finished eighth with a 564 and Savannah Adams ninth with a 555.

The top three teams in each of three regional tournaments in Class 6A advance to the State Tournament, which will be held next Thursday, March 1st at North Rock in Wichita.

The Junction City Blue Jay – Manhattan boys basketball game Tuesday night went to overtime courtesy of a shot by Tye Dale in the closing seconds that knotted the game at 56-56. But in the extra session the Indians made enough plays to grab a 65-61 win over the Blue Jays.

Junction City coach Nick Perez said the Blue Jays had their opportunities. “I’m proud of our guys and the way they fought tonight. I thought they played with a lot of energy and a lot of passion. ” Perez told his team that they need to bring that every game.

Perez noted the Blue Jays made a couple of mistakes late in regulation and overtime. “I give credit to Manhattan. Coach George is a great coach and they did exactly what they needed to do to win.”

Junction City ( 7-12 ) got 18 points from their senior post player Xavier Cason while Manhattan ( 10-9 ) got 18 from Carson Marsh and 15 from John Ostermann.

The Blue Jays jumped out to a 10-2 lead to start the game but Manhattan battled back and led by three at halftime. The Indians had the lead in the stretch run of the fourth quarter before Dale’s big shot from the right wing tied the game and forced overtime.

Junction City will play at Washburn Rural Friday night.

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In the girls game Manhattan ( 17-2 ) dominated the contest and defeated the Lady Jays ( 5-14 )  63-28.

Alana Kramer did score 14 points for Junction City while Manhattan four players score in double figures.

 

The Junction City Blue Jays turned in a score of 2763 pins Monday at JC Bowl enroute to a first place finish in a triangular with Garden City and Manhattan.

Tyler Gromlovits of Junction City finished first in the individual competition with a result of 803 pins.

Blue Jay coach Brad Adams said the 2763 total beat the season best for Junction City by almost 250 pins. On Gromlovits performance he said, “803 in a high school tournament is huge. 803 for an adult is huge. You just don’t walk around every day and see high school kids shoot 800. It’s unbelievable watching him bowl.”

Savannah Adams led the Lady Jays with a 657. Junction City finished second in the team competition with 2,381 pins.

It was Senior Day for JCHS with the seniors including Tyler Gromlovits, Easton Rindt, Chloe Lovell and Taylar Smith. The Junction City bowling teams will compete in a regional tournament in Lawrence on Tuesday.

The Junction City Blue Jays will send seven wrestlers to the Class 6A State Tournament in Park City next week.

They include Matthew Whitton in the 126 pound weight class, Max Bazan at 132, Logan Roether 138, Russell Wilkey 152, Sadiki Smith 170, Terrance Adeleye 182 and Kenson Henderson at 220 pounds. The state tournament will be at Hartman Arena next Friday and Saturday.

The Blue Jays were in a tough 16-team regional tournament at Wichita South. Junction City Coach Bob Laster feels seven is a good number of qualifiers for state. He noted Bazan’s performance impressed him the most but so did that of two freshmen on the team. “Not surprised but really happy about the ninth graders being able to make it, whick were Sadiki Smith and Russell Wilkey. ”

The Blue Jays tallied 85 points to finish tenth in the team standings. Derby captured first place with 212 points.

JCHS Athletic Director Matt Westerhaus has announced that the 2017-18 Spring sports season is quickly approaching and the Junction City High School Athletic Department would like to remind you of a few important dates/items regarding winter sports (Baseball, B Golf, Softball, G Soccer, G Swim, B Tennis, B/G Track)

• Spring Sports Informational Meeting – Monday, February, 19– 7:00pm JCHS Main Campus (900 N. Eisenhower)  – Spring sports student-parent informational meeting_2-19-18
• JCHS Athletic Packet – All students must complete all paperwork prior to first day of practice/tryout – JCHS Athletic Packet_2017-18
• Physical Form – physicals for the 17-18 school year must be dated after May 1, 2017. Physical Form(Spanish) Physical Form Physical Form
• JCHS Student Athlete Handbook – Athletic Department guidelines – USD 475 Student Athlete Handbook_17-18
• JCHS Student Random Drug Testing Guidelines – Student Random Drug Testing Guidelines – USD 475 – Junction City High School

Davonte King was named the King and Essence Carter the Queen during the King and Queen of Courts ceremony at Junction City High School Friday evening.

The royalty were crowned between the girls and boys varsity basketball games at JCHS.

The Seaman Vikings boy and girls basketball teams cruised past Junction City ( 7-11 ) Friday night at the Shenk Gym.

In the boys contest the Vikings ( 12-6 ) jumped out to a 16-6 first quarter lead and never trailed enroute to a 59-43 victory over Junction City.

Blue Jay Coach Nick Perez noted Seaman played extremely well and made some shots early which got the Vikings from there. On the Blue Jay performance Perez said, “I just felt like our guys didn’t come ready to play.” It left the coach struggling for answers, with Perez adding he has to do a better job as head coach of getting the team ready to go and mentally prepared.

In the girls game Seaman rolled to a 68-52 victory over the Lady jays.

Junction City coach Derek Petty also  indicated he didn’t feel the Lady Jays were as focused as they were in the last few games.

Junction City teams play at Manhattan on Tuesday.

 

 

The Junction City Lady Jays have captured the Centennial League Bowling championship.

The Blue Jay boys finished third out of ten teams in the League Tournament in Manhattan on Wednesday.

JCHS Coach Brad Adams said the Lady jays bowled about 70 pins over average. “Once again some of those other teams that were right next to us, Washburn Rural, they shot a little bit less because the pattern was a little more difficult. The girls did an awesome job today. I couldn’t say anything better.”

For the Blue Jay boys they hadn’t expected to finish as high as third. I guess if you went by averages we were sitting in around that fifth hole. “Our boys bowled average today and everybody else kind of fell off.”

For the boys Tyler Gromlovits finished second in the individual competition, while for the Lady Jays Chloe Lovell captured second place and Taylar Smith finished fourth.

The Junction City Lady Jays led Topeka West by two points half time. But the game changed dramatically behind the three point shooting of Kiara Patty and Briona Jensen Junction City pulled away to a 62-40 win over the Chargers.

Junction City hit ten 3-point baskets in the game with nine of those coming in the second half. When it was over Patty finished with six treys or 18 points while Jensen finished with four 3-pointers and 19 points total.

Lady Jay Coach Derek Petty noted in the second half his squad played as a team. “And when they find the open person like Briona and she knocks down a three that just gets everybody just excited. And then it boiled over, K-P hit I think about four or five threes, people played harder, we played defense.”

Junction City ( 5-12 ) outscored Topeka West ( 4-13 ) 43-23 in the second half.