The Junction City Lady Jay tennis doubles team of Jordan Dombrowski and Codi Post went 3-1 in the Salina South Invitational Thursday, finishing in ninth place.
Anne Kim and Brianna Talley went 2-2 to finish tenth.
In singles play Morgan Carroll earned a victory in the second round and finished 1-3 in 12th place.
The Lady Jays travel to Topeka on Tuesday for the Topeka West Invitational. Matches will begin at 3 p.m.
The Junction City Lady Jays finished second and the boys team fourth in the Hays High Cross Country Sand Plum meet on Friday.
Coach Ryan Norton provided the results.
In the girls varsity run for classes 5A and 6A Michelle Sanchez of Junction City finished first in 20:14.60. Also from Junction City Leah Ervin finished fifth in 22:42.70, Stephany Lechuga ninth in 23:34.30, and Kailey Koomen tenth in 23:36.90.
In the boys varsity race for classes 5A and 6A Christian Carter of Junction City finished 13th in 18:37.30 and Isaiah Galicia of Junction City finished 15th in 18:46.00.
The Junction City Blue Jays ( 1-2 ) scored 10 touchdowns enroute to a 60-21 win over the Topeka West Chargers ( 0-3 ) Friday night in the capitol city.
The Blue Jays jumped out first on a three yard scoring run by Baylor Wilkey but the Chargers tied the game on a six yard touchdown run by Hunter McDaniel. From there the Blue Jays scored three straight touchdowns to take the lead for good. Junction City quarterback Rooster Adams rushed for three touchdowns and threw for another score in the victory.
The Blue Jays host Washburn Rural next Friday.
The Lady Jay Tennis team traveled to Olathe to for a quadrangular against Olathe Northwest, Gardner Edgerton and Shawnee Mission West on Thursday.
The Lady Jays had three events go 1-2 on the day. In doubles play, Codi Post and Jordan Dombrowski teamed up at the #1 spot to earn a victory against Gardner Edgerton 8-6, and Anne Kim and Brianna Talley picked up a win in the #2 bracket against Shawnee Mission West winning 8-3. Rounding out the victories for the Lady Jays, Lauren Coffman, defeated her Shawnee Mission West opponent at the top singles spot by a score of 8-4.
The Lady Jays next host a home quadrangular on Monday, September 18. The start time will be at 3 pm.
Coach Matt Micheel
The Junction City Lady Jay volleyball team defeated Emporia in game one of their match Thursday night at the Shenk Gym 25-20 but lost the next two games 25-15 and 25-23.
Junction City lost to Topeka High 25-15 and 25-8.
The Junction City Lady volleyball team defeated Topeka West 25-17 and 25-12 but lost to both Washburn Rural and Shawnee Heights Tuesday night at the Shenk Gym.
The Lady Jays fell to Washburn Rural 25-7 and 25-13, and they lost to Shawnee Heights 25-15, 25-9.
The Lady Jay tennis team traveled to Chapman for a Quadrangular with Wabaunsee, Clay Center and Chapman on Monday night.
June Smith led the Lady Jays, by going undefeated in her three matches and bringing home first place at #2 singles.
At the top doubles spot, Regina Jackson and Abby Rosauer also picked up a win as they went 1-2 on the day, defeating Chapman in their final match.
The Lady Jay Tennis team next competes in the Manhattan Quad on Tuesday, September 12th. Due to the current playing conditions of the tennis courts in Manhattan, the event will now take place on the Junction City High School Tennis Courts. Matches will start at 3 pm.
JCHS coach Matt Micheel
The Junction City High School cross country team competed in the Emporia High School Invitational meet at Jones Park. The Emporia meet lived up to the expectation on being one of the toughest meets for large classification schools taking place during week two of the season. Nineteen schools took part in the meet.
The Lady Jays finished in ninth place at the meet. They were led by Michelle Sanchez finishing in second place improving her seasonal 5K time to 19:26. Finishing the scoring for JCHS was Kaydra Baer 22:28, Kailey Koomen 22:35, Stephanie Lechuga 23:07, Leah Ervin 23:18, Briona Jensen 23:26, and Hailey Eschllman 23:45.
The Blue Jays boys team finished in 13th place. Christian Carter led the boys by finishing in 31st place with a 17:58 5K. He was followed up by teammates Juan Tovar 19:00, Isaiah Galicia 19:18, Ryan Westfall 19:41, and Chase Bennett 20:12.
The cross country team will return to action on Thursday at the Hays High School Cross Country Meet held at Sand Plum Nature Trail near Victoria.
Coach Ryan Norton
The Junction City Lady Jay varsity volleyball team finished second at the William Chrisman Tournament in Independence, Missouri on Saturday.
Junction City lost to St. Joseph Central in the championship match.
According to the Blue Jay Athletics twitter site the Lady Jays went 5-1 in pool play and then defeated William Chrisman to advance into the championship match.
The Topeka High Trojans ( 2-0 ) took advantage of five Junction City turnovers to defeat the Blue Jays 42-28 Friday night in the capitol city.
The first turnover, an interception, set the Trojans up inside the Blue Jay 30 and led to the first touchdown of the ballgame. Later in the first quarter the Blue Jays drove to the Trojan two yard line but fumbled, and it was recovered by Topeka High. On the next play Junction City did register a safety but 7-2 score was the closest it would be for the rest of the night.
JCHS coach Randall Zimmerman said his team improved, but continues to turn the ball over too much. “three of them were in the first quarter, two of them were inside the 20-yard line. We just cannot continue to do that.”
One of the big plays for Junction City was a 50-yard punt return for a touchdown by Aaron Hamilton with 1:09 remaining in the third quarter.
Junction City ( 0-2 ) plays Topeka West at Hummer Sports Park in the capitol city next Friday.
