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Busy Friday Night at the Stadium

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Al Simpler Stadium will be the site of the Junction City – Olathe West football game Friday night. Kickoff is at 7 p.m.

Numerous other activities are planned around the football game. It will be Military Appreciation Night in which there will be a static display of vehicles and recognition of the 97th Military Police Battalion prior to the game.

The girls state track and field championship team will be recognized between the first and second quarters, and there will be senior recognition for members of the band, cheer, dance, girls tennis and cross country. The senior for the band will be prior to the game, and the others at halftime.

Blue Jays to Host Olathe West

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Blue Jay Football Coach Randall Zimmerman

A brand new team from a brand new high school will visit Junction City Friday night to play the Blue Jay football team.

The Olathe West Owls will be the opponent for Junction City.

Blue Jay coach Randall Zimmerman explained the Owls have filled an opening on the Junction City schedule. “We’re very very pleased that they said they would come and play this game because if not we would be without a game.”

The Owls are playing a junior varsity schedule in this, the first year of their school. But Zimmerman expects a tough game for the Blue Jays Friday night. “They’re scoring 50 and 60 points against everybody. We can’t be misled with their schedule. They’re a very good football team. They’ve got a bunch of tall, lanky athletes everywhere.” The Owls have not lost a game in junior varsity competition.

Junction City enters the contest 3-3. Kickoff is set for 7 p.m. at Al Simpler Stadium.

You can hear the game on 1420 KJCK, The Talk of JC, with the pregame broadcast beginning at 6:30 p.m.

JCHS Cross Country Competes at El Dorado Invitational

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The Junction City Blue Jay boys varsity cross country team finished 8th out of 18 teams in the El Dorado Invitational.

The Blue Jays finished with a score of 192 points, while Wichita North captured first place with the low score of 72 points.

For Junction City, Christian Carter medaled with an 18th place finish in 17:38.31.

The Lady Jays did not have a full varsity team but Michelle Sanchez finished third in 20:17.69, Briona Jensen 10th in 21:44.05 and Kailey Koomen 17th in 21:58.75.

Bishop Carroll with the low score of 59 points won the girls varsity team title.

Lady Jay Doubles Team Finishes Fourth at Regional

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The Junction CIty Lady Jay tennis team competed in regionals on Saturday and qualified a doubles team for the 6A State Tennis Tournament.

According to coach Matt Micheel Codi Post and Jordan Dombrowski earned fourth place in the regional. They defeated Bella/McShane from Wichita North in the first round 6-1, 6-1.  In the second round, they defeated Joyce/Poulson from Manhattan 6-4, 6-4 to earn a trip to state.  In the semifinals, they lost to the top seeded Wolfe/Pryor from Washburn Rural and then lost the 3rd place match against Washburn Rural’s other doubles team of Aarnes/Beard.

Overall, Washburn Rural won the regional team championships, with the Lady Jays finishing fifth.  The 6A State Tennis Tournament will take place at the Riverside Tennis Complex in Wichita starting on Friday, October 13.

Manhattan Rolls Past Junction City 42-12

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Blue Jay Football Coach Randall Zimmerman

The Manhattan Indians rushed for five touchdowns and took advantage of two Junction City Blue Jay fumbles to score twice enroute to a 42-12 football win at Bishop Stadium in Manhattan.

The game was close in the first half with the Indians on top 14-12 but after going up 21-12 they took advantage of two Junction City fumbles. One led to a 26-yard touchdown run by quarterback Talon Claussen with 1:55 remaining in the second quarter,and the second came when the Indians picked up a Blue Jay fumble and returned it for their fifth touchdown of the first half in the final minute of the second quarter.

After leading 35-12 at halftime, the Indians defense kept the Blue Jay offense at bay for most of the second half enroute to the victory. Junction City coach Randall Zimmerman said Manhattan doesn’t make mistakes, they’re an experienced team and their offensive line was dominant. “We had some going things going in the first half. We were able to match them score for score and getting it figured out defensively, but then we turned the ball over twice offensively. We’re such a young team, we’re so inexperienced it was just tough to come back from that.”

The Blue Jays fell to 3-3 on the season while Manhattan improved to 5-1.

Blue Jay Boys and Girls Fourth in JCHS Cross Country Invitational

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The Junction City Blue Jay boys cross country team captured fourth in their own invitational at Milford State Park on Saturday. Eleven schools entered runners in the meet.

Manhattan finished first with the winning low team score of 47 points followed by Great Bend with 55, Maize 65 and Junction City 113 points.

For the Blue Jay boys Christian Carter finished 13th in the individual competition with a time of 17:28.1. Also for Junction City, Isaiah Galicia finished 20th in 17:48.8, Juan Tovar 22nd in 17:54.4 and Chase Bennett 28th in 18:23.8. Nathan Jones of Maize won the overall individual title in 16:19.2.There were 65 runners in the race.

In the girls varsity race the Junction City Lady Jays also finished fourth with a score of 101 points. Manhattan won the meet title with the low score of 23 points followed by Maize with 57 and Great Bend 78 points.

For the Lady Jays Kailey Koomen finished 16th in 21:54.4, Leah Ervin 20th in 22:14.5, Stephany Lechuga 21st in 22:15.3 and Briona Jensen 23rd in 22:32.4. Clara Mayfield of Manhattan won the overall individual championship in 19:14.2. There were 53 runners in the race.

Blue Jays Roll Over Highland Park

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The Junction City Blue Jays scored first and stayed ahead all the way enroute to a 61-12 victory over the Highland Park Scots ( 0-5 ) Friday night in Topeka.

Junction City got on the board with a five yard touchdown run by Russell Wilkey with 10:29 remaining in the first quarter. The Scots answered after recovering a fumble on a punt return deep in Junction City territory when they scored on a one yard run by Will White with 5:48 remaining in the first quarter to make it 7-6 Blue Jays.

But after that it was all Junction City who scored 55 points before the Scots finally tacked on a late touchdown in the game’s closing moments.

Russell Wilkey rushed for three touchdowns in the ballgame. Rooster Adams threw one touchdown pass and ran for another one, Andrew Khoury threw one touchdown pass and ran for another, D.J. Giddens found the end zone via the rush, and Ethan Alcorn caught two touchdown passes for Junction City.

The Blue Jays ( 3-2 ) play at Manhattan next Friday night.

Friday Night High School Football Scores

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KS-FBH–Prep Scores
Friday’s Scores
The Associated Press

 

PREP FOOTBALL

Andale 50, Clearwater 0

Atchison 33, KC Washington 20

Attica/Argonia 54, Pratt Skyline 18

Augusta 20, Chanute 14

Axtell 50, Frankfort 36

Baxter Springs 47, Riverton 0

Beloit 36, Russell 14

Bennington 54, Lincoln 6

Bluestem 41, Fredonia 33

Bonner Springs 33, Basehor-Linwood 21

Buhler 40, Winfield 0

Burlingame 59, Onaga 0

Burlington 52, Osawatomie 8

Caldwell 63, Burrton 6

Caney Valley 42, Erie 2

Central Plains 60, Canton-Galva 0

Chaparral 75, Douglass 14

Chase County 49, Central Heights 8

Cheney 74, Sedgwick 46

Cherryvale 49, Neodesha 14

Cimarron 44, Hays-TMP-Marian 35

Clifton-Clyde 52, Herington 0

Columbus 47, Prairie View 14

Concordia 35, Abilene 18

Conway Springs 62, Wichita Trinity 35

Crest 50, Altoona-Midway 6

DeSoto 55, Nevada, Mo. 14

Derby 54, Wichita Bishop Carroll 45

Dighton 49, Triplains-Brewster 0

Dodge City 35, Wichita South 19

Doniphan West 18, Troy 13

Elkhart 61, Clayton, N.M. 7

Ell-Saline 14, Hutchinson Trinity 6

Ellsworth 38, Salina Sacred Heart 27

Emporia 54, Topeka West 13

Frontenac 63, KC Harmon 18

Galena 28, Coffeyville 7

Garden City 28, Liberal 27

Garden Plain 71, Belle Plaine 14

Goddard 35, Salina South 14

Halstead 56, Hillsboro 17

Hanover 48, Wetmore 0

Hartford 78, South Haven 54

Haven 48, Lyons 30

Hill City 35, Trego 14

Hodgeman County 60, Greeley County 14

Holcomb 27, Colby 0

Holton 36, Royal Valley 0

Hugoton 28, Goodland 20

Humboldt 50, Eureka 14

Hutchinson 35, Goddard-Eisenhower 14

Hutchinson Central Christian 60, Norwich 6

Independence 56, Anderson County 14

Ingalls 1, Moscow 0

Iola 28, Parsons 25

Jackson Heights 44, Washington County 0

Jayhawk Linn 38, Pleasant Ridge 22

Jefferson North 48, Horton 7

Junction City 61, Highland Park 12

KC Piper 21, KC Turner 0

KC Schlagle 41, KC Wyandotte 13

KC Sumner 27, KC Bishop Ward 6

Kingman 45, Wichita Independent 6

Kiowa County 66, Fairfield-Cunningham 8

LaCrosse 56, Sublette 8

Labette County 34, Fort Scott 7

Lakin 53, Johnson-Stanton County 0

Little River 57, Goessel 12

Louisburg 34, Baldwin 0

Lyndon 47, Council Grove 6

Maize 21, Arkansas City 7

Manhattan 27, Topeka Seaman 9

Marais des Cygnes Valley 54, Chetopa 0

Marmaton Valley 36, Sedan 28

Marysville 28, Clay Center 8

Maur Hill – Mount Academy 43, Missouri Military Academy, Mo. 0

McPherson 62, Circle 7

Meade 27, Syracuse 7

Medicine Lodge 49, Inman 20

Natoma 51, Western Plains-Healy 0

Nemaha Central 13, Centralia 0

Ness City 53, Kinsley 0

Newton 42, Salina Central 20

Nickerson 27, Larned 7

Northern Valley 46, Lakeside 0

Oberlin-Decatur 58, Quinter 12

Olathe North 33, Lawrence 28

Olathe Northwest 48, Leavenworth 9

Olpe 55, Uniontown 0

Osage City 41, Mission Valley 20

Osborne 58, Solomon 40

Oskaloosa 54, Maranatha Academy 14

Oswego 34, Northeast-Arma 28

Otis-Bison 70, Wallace County 24

Paola 42, Eudora 6

Pawnee Heights 52, Cheylin 26

Phillipsburg 69, Ellis 13

Pike Valley 56, Glasco/Miltonvale-Southern Cloud 0

Pittsburg 12, Andover Central 7

Pittsburg Colgan 28, Girard 12

Plainville 50, Republic County 6

Pratt 35, Hoisington 28

Riley County 41, Rock Creek 21

Riverside 34, Atchison County 16

Rock Hills 66, Tescott 16

Rolla 70, Deerfield 0

Rose Hill 21, El Dorado 14

Rural Vista 62, Valley Falls 14

SM East 59, SM North 6

SM Northwest 35, SM West 14

Sabetha 28, Perry-Lecompton 21

Satanta 56, Wichita County 6

Scott City 42, Ulysses 11

Silver Lake 14, Rossville 0

Smith Center 62, Oakley 6

Smoky Valley 49, Hesston 20

South Barber 60, Pretty Prairie 13

South Central 23, Macksville 16

Spearville 48, South Gray 2

Spring Hill 27, Ottawa 19

St. Francis 16, Hoxie 8

St. James Academy 35, Blue Valley 28

St. John 30, Ellinwood 22

St. John’s Beloit-Tipton 53, Linn 6

St. Mary’s 70, Yates Center 0

St. Paul 54, Madison/Hamilton 8

St. Thomas Aquinas 42, Mill Valley 21

Sterling 14, Marion 6

Sylvan-Lucas 50, Stockton 0

Thunder Ridge 62, Wilson 12

Tonganoxie 37, Lansing 3

Topeka 48, Shawnee Heights 14

Udall 50, Oxford 30

Valley Center 24, Hays 7

Valley Heights 50, Wabaunsee 20

Victoria 50, Logan/Palco 26

Wakefield 56, BV Randolph 6

Washburn Rural 30, Topeka Hayden 26

Waverly 66, Lebo 20

Wellsville 28, Santa Fe Trail 12

Weskan 54, Wheatland-Grinnell 20

West Elk 54, Southern Coffey 8

West Franklin 40, Northern Heights 6

Wichita Campus 14, Andover 10

Wichita Collegiate 28, Wellington 13

Wichita East 23, Wichita Southeast 15

Wichita Heights 71, Wichita North 8

Wichita Home School 64, Pleasanton 42

Wichita Northwest 26, Kapaun Mount Carmel 14

JCHS Cross Country Teams Compete at Rim Rock Farm Classic

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The Junction City High School boys & girls cross country competed at the Rim Rock Farm Classic hosted by the University of Kansas on Saturday.  One week after competing at a hot Hays Cross Country Meet the varsity teams responded well in similar hot weather conditions at Rim Rock Farm with the additional humidity at this meet.
Michelle Sanchez

The Junction City Girls team raced against 37 schools that featured 270 runners in the Crimson Division race.  The Lady Jays finished 19th overall in the meet and placed 6th out 21 among Kansas schools in the 5K race.

Leading the way was senior Michelle Sanchez finishing with a strong kick at the end of the race to place third with a time of 19:53.  She was the first Kansan to cross the finish line.
Seniors Kailey Koomen and Briona Jensen had their best performance of the season finishing in a respectful 93rd and 96th place while improving their times to 22:32 and 22:33.  Rounding out the scoring was Leah Erving placing 118th with a time of 22:50 and Kaydra Baer placing 195th with a time of 23:29.
The boys’ team had one of their best performances of the season.  The Blue Jays finished 28th out of 46 schools with placing 16th out of 27 among Kansas

Chase Bennett running toward the finish line

teams in the Crimson Division race.  This race featured 327 runners.  The boys’ teams set three new personal records (PR) on the day.  Sophomore Christian Carter was the first JCHS runner to finish the race improving his career time to 17:50 placing 48th.  Then followed Juan Tovar finishing in 87th placing setting his new PR to 18:08.  Joshua Nieves also set a PR with his 19:56 performance.

Isaiah Galicia was the third Blue Jay to come across the finish line came at 116th place finishing his race at 18:22 and freshman Alex Seelye finished in 211th place with his 19:20 run being the fourth JCHS runner to finish the race.  Chase Bennett was the fifth Blue Jay across the finish line in 223rd with a 19:30 run and Dain Yale finished his varsity debut finishing with a time of 20:42 run.
The Junction City High School Cross Country will be hosting their cross country invitational this coming Saturday morning at Milford State Park.   The meet will feature 13 schools.
Ryan Norton
Head Coach JCHS Cross Country

Randall Zimmerman Moves to Top of the list for Coaching Wins in Blue Jay Football History

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Blue Jay Football Coach Randall Zimmerman

Randall Zimmerman had a big night Friday evening at Al Simpler Stadium.

First he saw his Blue Jay football team rally from a 21-15 deficit to defeat the Washburn Rural Junior Blues 35-21. Then right after the contest he was presented with the game ball by JCHS Athletic Director Matt Westerhaus, signifying the fact that Zimmerman now has more coaching wins than any head football coach in Junction City High School history. His record at JCHS is 143-86.

After the game Zimmerman told JCPost.com that he has never taken a snap or played one down at Junction City. “I just like working with the kids and being around the kids. Maybe all that says is that we’ve been here a long time.”

Zimmerman enjoyed the presentation of the game ball. “It was really neat. I know that there has been talk about that the last couple of weeks. I didn’t want it to happen, but I’m glad the kids were able to experience, this group of kids, because they’re a great group, as every group is. ”

The win over Washburn Rural pushed Junction City to 2-2 on the season, while the Junior Blues fell to 1-3. A big play in the game was a double pass by the Blue Jays that resulted in a 57-yard touchdown pass play to tie the game at 21-21 with 2:25 remaining in the third quarter. Junction City would then go on to score two more touchdowns in the fourth quarter to get the win.

Zimmerman surpassed Al Simpler to move to the top of the list for football coaching wins in JCHS history.

 

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