The Junction City Lady Jay volleyball team defeated Highland Park in two games and then fell to Seaman 25-19, 25-13 in their match at the JCHS Triangular at the senior high school Tuesday night.
The information was provided by the Blue Jay Athletics Twitter site.
The Junction City High School Girls Cross Country team finished 5th at the Manhattan Invitational. The Lady Jays were led by senior Michelle Sanchez finishing 2nd in the 5K race with a 19:54 run. The Lady Jays finished with a strong pack with Kailey Koomen finishing 27th, Leah Ervin 30th, Kydra Baer 31st, and Stephanie Lechuga in 37th.
The Blue Jays boys team finished in 8th place at the meet. They were led by sophomores Christian Carter finishing in 22nd with a time of 17:54 and Isaiah Galicia finishing in 26th place with a time of 18:02. Juan Tovar finished 40th, Chase Bennett finished 54th, and Joshua Nieves finished 66th to round out the Blue Jays scoring.
The cross country team will return to action on Saturday at the Emporia Invitational
The Junction City Lady Jay tennis team hosted a quadrangular Thursday with Salina South, Lawrence Free State and Manhattan.
The Lady Jays competed hard in their first two rounds against Salina South and Manhattan, but were unable to get into the win column. However, in the final round, the Lady Jays nearly swept Lawrence Free State, winning three of the four events. Codi Post won at the top singles spot 8-0, Anne Kim and Brianna Talley won 8-0 at the top doubles spot and Jordan Dombrowski and Lauren Coffman teamed up to win their final match 8-5. The only loss came at number two singles, where Morgan Carroll lost a hard fought match in a tiebreaker.
The Lady Jays next travel to Topeka on September 7th for the Washburn Rural Quad. Play starts at 3 pm.
Coach Matt Micheel
You can obtain a reserved parking spot and seating for Junction City Blue Jay home football game. According to information released at bluejayathletics.org the cost is $100 for the reserved parking spot and $70 for two seats.
This will be coordinated by the Future Business Leaders of America.
The Junction City Blue Jay boys soccer team fell to Emporia 4-0 Tuesday evening in Emporia.
It was the first match of the season for Junction City.
Week seven on the Junction City football schedule this season had been open, but Monday the athletic director, Matt Westerhaus announced an opponent has been found.
The Blue Jays will host Olathe West on Friday, October 13th at Al Simpler Stadium.
Olathe West is a brand new high school this season in the Olathe school district. According to the school’s web site they are the fifth high school in that district. During their first year there will be approximately 850 freshmen, sophomores and juniors. That will be expanded to a full four-year high school for the 2018-19 school year.
JCHS Athletics Director Matt Westerhaus confirmed Olathe West is not playing a varsity schedule this season. At least for now it will not count as a varsity game for the Blue Jays because Olathe West is not playing a varsity schedule. There will be a check by JCHS with the Kansas State High School Athletic Association to see if there might be a possibility of changing that.
Youth of all ages will be participating in sports activities at Junction City High School Friday night.
JCHS Athletics Director Matt Westerhaus said within the athletic department team photos will be taken beginning at 3:30 p.m.
Cross country will then have a time trial at the state park. “And then at five o’clock the volleyball team is having a Future Lady Jays Volleyball Night. This is a free clinic open to grades three through five.” This will be held in the Shenk Gym.
Football activities are also scheduled at the Al Simpler Stadium at 5:30. Westerhaus stated, “Coach Zimmerman, the football staff and players will have Future Blue Jay drills for grades K-5. That free event will run from 5:30 to 6 p.m.
The Junior Jay youth football program and the school district middle school football programs do a scrimmage on the field from 6 – 7:15 p.m. The Blue – White high school football scrimmage will begin at 7:30 p.m.
The Junction City Blue Jay football team opened practice Monday at Al Simpler Stadium.
The team will prepare for the opening game against Emporia on Friday, September 1st at the Stadium.
Other home games for the varsity on the regular season schedule include Washburn Rural on September 22nd and Seaman on October 20th. The contest with Seaman will be the annual homecoming game at JCHS.
The fall sports information meeting for Junction City High School athletes, parents and guardians was held Monday evening in the Shenk Gym.
Afterwards individual team meetings were held.
Randall Zimmerman, Blue Jay head football coach, noted there was a good turnout. ” We had a really good group of kids. We’ve had a really good summer. The ones that have committed to the weight room have done a nice job.”
Zimmerman talked about the main message to the students and parents. “Just to do right and let us coach your kids. We’re here for them and we’re going to teach them a little bit of football but it’s more about getting them ready and preparing them for the real game, the game of life and those kind of things.” Zimmerman it will include simple life skill things. “Just be your best at all times. Everything else takes care of itself.”
Football practice begins August 14th at 3 p.m. This will be the 24th season that Zimmerman has served as head coach for Junction City Blue Jay football. The season opener is September 1 vs. Emporia at Al Simpler Stadium in Junction City.
Junction City High School has announced Pat Stivers as the new Head Baseball Coach for the Blue Jays at Junction City High School, pending Board of Education approval.
Stivers recently relocated to Junction City from Pratt, Kansas where he was the Head Baseball Coach for Pratt High School as well as the Summer Legion baseball program.
Stivers says that he is “excited to have the opportunity to coach and build on the success of the Junction City Blue Jays baseball program.”
Stivers brings over 20 years of coaching experience in baseball and basketball to Junction City.
