The Junction City Lady Jay volleyball team lost to Manhattan in the first round of their Class 6A Substate Volleyball Tournament.
Manhattan won the match in two games, 25-17 and 25-19.
Manhattan defeated Wichita East to capture the Substate Tournament championship. The Indians will advance to the Class 6A State Tournament on Friday.
The Junction City High School cross country program is sending three runners to the Class 6A State meet at Rimrock Farm near Lawrence on Saturday, Oct. 29.
JCHS coach Rebecca Steiger reported that Hope Stephens finished 8th in 19:45 and medaled in the Class 6A regional at Warner Park in Manhattan. She will compete at state as will Kailey Kooman for the girls and Jacob Lovell for the boys. They will advance by rule.
In the team competition at regional the Lady Jays finished fourth and the boys placed fifth.
The Junction City Blue Jays ( 7-1 ) have drawn Wichita West ( 3-5 ) as their opponent in the first round of the Class 6A football playoffs Friday night, October 28 at Al Simpler Stadium.
In the new 6A playoff format all 32 teams in Class 6A will advance into the postseason playoffs beginning next Friday. The teams on the eastern side of the state are seeded 1 through 16, and the teams on the western side of the state, including Junction City, are also seeded 1 through 16.
Junction City is a number five seed in the west and Wichita West is a 12-seed in the west. In each round of the playoffs the higher seed will be the host team.
In the Class 6A west seedings:
–Derby ( 1-seed ) hosts Wichita North ( 16 )
–Manhattan ( 2 ) hosts Wichita Southeast ( 15 )
–Garden City ( 3 ) hosts Wichita East ( 14 )
–Hutchinson ( 4 ) is hosting Wichita-Haysville Campus ( 13 )
–Junction City ( 5 ) hosts Wichita West ( 12 )
–Lawrence Free State ( 6 ) is home against Wichita South ( 11 )
–Topeka-Washburn Rural ( 7 ) is home against Dodge City ( 10 )
–Wichita Northwest ( 8 ) hosts Topeka High ( 9 )
The winning team from this group of 16 will advance to the 6A state championship game to play the winning team from the east for the state title.
The Junction City Blue Jays ( 7-1 ) rallied from a 10-7 halftime deficit to defeat the Seaman Vikings ( 6-2 ) 20-13 Friday night in Topeka.
Junction City got on the board on their opening drive when quarterback Ryan Hennington hit tight end Alonzo Range on a 19-yard touchdown pass play. After Seaman countered with a drive ending in a field goal the defenses took over. There was only one more scoring play in the first half when the Vikings culminated a drive with a one-yard touchdown run by quarterback Dalton Cowan.
In the third quarter the Blue Jays put two touchdowns on the board…one on a two-yard touchdown run by Tim Bell and the other a one yard run by Hennington. But Seaman made another charge in the fourth quarter with a 20-yard field goal by Walker Bassett. In the final 1:19 of the ballgame the Vikings had the ball one final time but could not score.
The Junction City Blue Jay and Lady Jay cross country teams competed in the Centennial League Meet on Saturday.
The Lady Jay varsity team finished fourth and the boys varsity squad fifth in the ten school league.
According to coach Rebecca Steiger the Centennial League recognizes the top 21 runners as “All League” runners. JCHS runners earning that distinction included in the girls competition Hope Stephens who finished 13th in 20:45 and Kailey Kooman, 21st in 21:39. For the Blue Jay boys Jacob Lovell finished 20th in 17:26.
Additionally, Beth Arneson placed fifth in the junior varsity girls race with a time of 22:20.
The JCHS teams will compete in the Class 6A Regional meet in Manhattan at Warner Park next week.
Ryan Hennington ran for three touchdowns as the Junction City Blue Jays cruised to a 43-14 win over the Gateway Stem Jaguars of St. Louis, Missouri on a neutral field in Lansing, Kansas.
The Blue Jays got on the board with 5:03 remaining in the first quarter with a 12-yard touchdown run by Hennington and never trailed in the ballgame. The two touchdowns for Gateway Stem were scored in the fourth quarter after the Blue Jays had built up a 43-0 lead. There was a running clock for the entire fourth quarter.
Blue Jay coach Randall Zimmerman praised the Jaguars, saying they were a good football team, and the Blue Jays did some nice things. “The only thing I was disappointed in the first half, we have a tough time just making plays. We want to create plays. That git us in trouble offensively, that got us in trouble defensively a little bit, and special team-wise as well as well. But once we got settled in and got going, saw some really things from our kids.”
The Blue Jays, 6-1, play at Topeka Seaman next Friday. Gateway Stem fell to 6-3 with the loss.
Abilene 50, Wamego 14
Andover Central 7, Rose Hill 0
Anthony-Harper-Chaparral 27, Cheney 6
Arkansas City 56, Newton 35
Attica/Argonia 50, Kiowa County 0
Baldwin 60, KC Bishop Ward 0
Basehor-Linwood 48, KC Piper 34
Bishop Miege 51, Eudora 0
Blue Valley 42, BV Northwest 7
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Buhler 28, Andale 21
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BV Randolph 50, Wetmore 44
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Chase 64, Bucklin 16
Chase County 14, Olpe 7
Cheylin 35, Natoma 18
Christ Preparatory Academy 34, Medicine Lodge 30
Cimarron 36, Lakin 14
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Clifton-Clyde 51, Centre 20
Coffeyville 21, Chanute 13
Columbus 42, Baxter Springs 14
Conway Springs 21, Garden Plain 20
Council Grove 25, St. Mary’s 0
Crest 50, Marais des Cygnes Valley 20
Derby 56, Salina South 7
DeSoto 14, Spring Hill 13
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Douglass 28, Belle Plaine 20
El Dorado 49, Circle 24
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Fredonia 26, Neodesha 19
Frontenac 55, Parsons 14
Galena 40, Cherryvale 0
Garden City 36, Dodge City 13
Girard 55, Anderson County 14
Goddard 49, Valley Center 7
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Goessel 56, St. John 6
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Halstead 46, Haven 0
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Hartford 56, Caldwell 42
Herington 36, Rural Vista 28
Hesston 49, Hillsboro 20
Hiawatha 27, Riverside 14
Hill City 68, Oberlin-Decatur 36
Hoisington 39, Ellsworth 20
Holcomb 28, Kingman 0
Holton 47, Jefferson West 6
Hoxie 28, Trego 12
Humboldt 16, Erie 8
Hutchinson 49, Wichita Campus 14
Hutchinson Central Christian 92, South Haven 12
Independence 28, Labette County 12
Iola 33, Burlington 12
Jayhawk Linn 44, Northeast-Arma 0
Jefferson North 22, Doniphan West 7
Junction City 43, Gateway, Mo. 14
KC Washington 30, KC Harmon 3
KC Wyandotte 35, KC Sumner 6
Kinsley 6, Wichita County 4
LaCrosse 44, Ellis 12
Lakeside 70, Thunder Ridge 32
Lansing 14, KC Turner 7
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Lawrence Free State 28, Olathe East 14
Lebo 56, Altoona-Midway 0
Little River 54, Canton-Galva 8
Logan/Palco 50, Lincoln 0
Louisburg 35, Fort Scott 6
Lyndon 40, Northern Heights 0
Macksville 38, Pratt Skyline 16
Madison/Hamilton 50, Southern Coffey 26
Maize 42, Salina Central 28
Maize South 21, Augusta 14
Manhattan 48, Emporia 0
Maranatha/Immaculata (FB) 60, Atchison County 44
Marysville 42, Beloit 16
Maur Hill – Mount Academy 28, Pleasant Ridge 24
McLouth 37, Horton 6
McPherson 48, Hays 14
Meade 67, Johnson-Stanton County 0
Minneola 46, Moscow 0
Mulvane 28, Ulysses 14
Nemaha Central 20, Sabetha 14
Ness City 62, South Gray 14
Nickerson 30, Wichita Trinity 0
Northern Valley 68, Sylvan-Lucas 44
Norton 48, Russell 14
Olathe North 17, Olathe Northwest 14
Osawatomie 21, Prairie View 0
Osborne 54, Victoria 8
Oswego 32, Uniontown 6
Ottawa 38, Paola 7
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Perry-Lecompton 44, Royal Valley 8
Phillipsburg 58, Hays-TMP-Marian 18
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Plainville 51, Oakley 0
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Pratt 31, Hugoton 28
Pretty Prairie 52, Ashland 6
Rawlins County 48, Quinter 0
Remington 58, Inman 35
Republic County 42, Ell-Saline 12
Riley County 64, Minneapolis 0
Riverton 42, Southeast 0
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Scott City 42, Colby 12
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Solomon 68, Bennington 26
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Spearville 72, Satanta 24
St. James Academy 28, Kapaun Mount Carmel 17
St. John’s Beloit-Tipton def. Glasco/Miltonvale-Southern Cloud, forfeit
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St. Paul 56, Marmaton Valley 8
Sterling 39, Hutchinson Trinity 8
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Topeka 62, Topeka West 7
Topeka Hayden 27, Santa Fe Trail 6
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Troy 20, Washington County 6
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Wakefield 54, Axtell 6
Wallace County 48, Hodgeman County 28
Waverly 62, Onaga 40
Wellsville 48, Osage City 10
West Elk 46, Sedan 24
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Wichita Collegiate 27, Clearwater 6
Wichita Independent 44, Bluestem 0
Wichita Northwest 73, Wichita North 13
Wichita South 60, Wichita East 23
Wichita West 51, Wichita Southeast 19
Winfield 21, Wellington 20, OT
If you are planning on traveling to the Junction City Blue Jay football game in Lansing, Kansas tonight travel east on I-70 to the Bonner Springs exit.
JCHS Athletic Director Matt Westerhaus said upon leaving the interstate go north on K-73 Highway to McIntyre Road, head west to 147th Street, turn right and you will be at Lansing High School. There could be heavier traffic than normal on the interstate due to the Kansas 150 Race tonight at the nearby Kansas Speedway.
The Blue Jays are playing a St. Louis, Missouri team, Gateway STEM, at 7 p.m. on a neutral field in Lansing.
The Friday night high school football finds:
–Junction City playing on a neutral field in Lansing against Gateway STEM High School of St. Louis, Missouri
–Manhattan hosting Emporia
–Shawnee Heights hosts Highland Park
–Seaman at Washburn Rural
–Topeka West hosts Topeka High
–Abilene hosts Wamego
–Chapman goes to Clay Center
–Concordia is at Goodland
–Hayden visits Santa Fe Trail
–Centre at Clifton-CLyde
–Herington is at Rural Vista
–Solomon hosts Bennington
–Wakefield is hosting Axtell
–Blue Valley Randolph goes to Wetmore
–Riley County hosts Minneapolis
–Marysville hosts Beloit
Melina Melendez has qualified for the Class 6A Girls State Golf Tournament.
The information was provided by the Bluejayathletics twitter feed.