The Junction City Lady Jay soccer team lost to Manhattan 2-0 in a first-round Class 6A Regional match Tuesday in Manhattan.
The loss ended the season for Junction City.
Category: Blue Jay Sports
Two Blue Jays Qualify for State Golf
Logan Roether and Tyler Gromlovits of Junction City High School have qualified for the Class 6A State Golf Tournament.
Roether finished 8th in a Class 6A Regional Tournament on Monday with a round of 80, while Gromlovits shot an 88.
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The Blue Jay tennis team concluded its season at the 6A State Tennis tournament held in Olathe this past Friday and Saturday. Representing the Blue Jays program was the doubles team of Guido Greco and Mason Richards. In the first round they squared off against Czapinski and Nickel from Lawrence Free State. They lost to the eventual fifth place finishers 6-1, 6-0. In the first round of the consolation bracket, the Blue Jay doubles team played Searl and Iba from Shawnee Mission South. The Blue Jays started slowly getting down 8-2, before making a comeback to tie it up at 8 games apiece to force a tiebreaker. After building a 5-3 lead, the team from Shawnee Mission South thwarted the Blue Jay comeback to win 7-5. The Blue Jay tennis team will hold their end of the year banquet this Monday, May 15th.
Regional Pairings Set for JCHS Teams
The Junction City Blue Jay baseball team will travel to Dodge City on Wednesday for a 6A Regional Baseball Tournament. The Blue Jays ( 11-9 ) will meet Hutchinson ( 7-13 ) in a first-round game at 2 p.m. The other half of the bracket for the four-team tournament pits Wichita South ( 4-14 ) against Dodge City ( 12-8 ) at four p.m. The championship game is scheduled for six p.m. Wednesday.
The Junction City Lady Jay softball team ( 6-14 ) will play in a 6A Regional Tournament in Wichita on Thursday at three p.m. against Wichita-Haysville Campus ( 8-10 ). The other side of the tournament bracket finds Wichita Southeast ( 15-5 ) vs. Wichita West ( 1-17 ) at 4:30 p.m.. The championship game is at six p.m. Thursday.
The Junction City Lady Jay soccer team will play at Manhattan at six p.m. Tuesday in a Class 6A Regional match.
Lady Jays Win Centennial League Track and Field Championship
The Junction City Lady Jays won the Centennial League track meet on Thursday at Seaman High School in Topeka.
Junction City finished with 174 team points, while Manhattan was second with 164.
Highlights for the Lady Jays included a first place finish by Kierra Newman in the 100 meter hurdles in 15.57, and the 300 hurdles in 45.42. Her time in the 300 meters was a league record.
Amaya Booker won the 100 meter dash in 12.51 and the 200 meters in 25.47. Lyric Holman captured first place in the 400 meters and the four by 100 and four by 400 relay teams also captured first place.
In the boys competition Junction City finished seventh 50.5 points. Seaman won the Centennial League title with 119 points.
For Junction City Jaylene Brime finished second in the triple jump with a jump of 43 feet 2.5 inches.
Manhattan Wins Baseball Doubleheader Over Junction City
According to JCHS, the Manhattan Indians edged the Junction City Blue Jays 4-3 in game one of their doubleheader in Manhattan on Tuesday.
The Indians took the nightcap over Junction City 12-6. The Blue Jays are 11-9 on the season.
The next action for Junction City will be in a Class 6A Regional Tournament next week.
Lady Jays Fall to Manhattan
The Junction City Lady Jays dropped the opener of their softball doubleheader to Manhattan 14-0 on Tuesday at Cleary Field.
The game was called after five innings due to a 10-run rule.
In game two Manhattan overcame a 6-1 deficit going into the fourth inning to defeat Junction City 14-7.
Lady Jay Coach Aaron Craig said his team has gotten better through the season in being able to understand they are at that moment but need to learn how to finish. “At one point you have to kind of get that feeling and say we’ve go to get this. I really thought we had it in the second game. The girls came out, their intensity was better, their whole approach to everything was better.” Craig added the Lady Jays did some good things and took advantage of Manhattan mistakes. “And we were doing some good stuff. It just, it wasn’t to be for us.”
Junction City will now wait to learn their destination in a Class 6A Regional Tournament next week.
Two Blue Jays Qualify for State Tennis
The Junction City Blue Jay boys tennis team has advanced one of their doubles teams to the 6A state tennis tournament.
Guido Greco, a junior and sophomore Mason Richards, teamed up to earn 6th place at the regional tournament held at Wichita East. In the first round, they defeated a team from Topeka High 6-2, 6-2. In the next round they faced off against the second seed, a team from Manhattan, and lost a tough match in a 3rd set super tie breaker 10-8. In their last chance to advance to the state tournament, they squared off against a team from Washburn Rural. After dropping the first set 6-1, the duo rallied to win the next two sets 6-4, 6-4 to qualify for state.
In the fifth place match, the Blue Jay doubles team lost to the top seeded team, a team from Derby, 6-4, 6-0. Other participants for the Blue Jay team were Adonnis Washington and Kody Westerhaus in singles and Korbin King and Yuno Fernandez in doubles. The 6A state tennis tournament will be hosted by Olathe South and will begin on Friday, May 12.
Lady Jays Win Salina Central Invitational Track Meet
The Junction City Lady Jays scored 189 points to capture first place in the 10-team Salina Central Invitational on Friday.
Ayi-lissa Dotson set a JCHS record with a 5’5 jump to win the high jump.
Hannah Reynolds won the discus with a throw of 113’6″, Kienna Newman finished first in the 100 meter hurdles in 15.18 and first in the 300 meter hurdles in 45.72, and the Lady jay 4 x 100 relay team of Shamya Banks, Kienna Newman, Lyric Holman and Amaya Booker finished first in 48.82.
Savannah Adams finished second in the shot put with a throw of 35’2.50″ and Amaya Booker captured second in the 100 meter dash in 12.60. In the 200 meter dash for Junction City Lyric Holman finished second in 26.06 and Kienna Newman was third in 26.59.
The Blue Jay boys team finished seventh with 39 points. Hutchinson captured the boys team title with 120 points.
For Junction City Jacob Lovell finished second in the 1600 meter run in 4:37.72.
Blue Jays Win Two in Baseball
The Junction City Blue Jay varsity baseball team defeated Highland Park in the capitol city 14-0 and 16-3.
The Blue Jays improved to 11-7 on the season.
JCHS Varsity Softball Sweeps Highland Park
The Junction City Lady Jay softball team rolled to a pair of victories over Highland Park Thursday at Cleary Field.
The Lady Jays won the first game 20-1 in three innings and the second contest 16-1 in four innings. Both games ended early due to a 15-run rule. Junction City is 6-12 on the season.
The Lady Jays also held their Senior Night activities at the ball field.