The Junction City Blue Jays got a 32-yard touchdown run by Raye Wilson with 8:08 to play in the first quarter, and were never headed after that as they raced to a 64-0 victory over the Shawnee Heights Thunderbirds on Friday night at Al Simpler Stadium.

The Blue Jays, who led 30-0 at halftime, scored four touchdowns and got a 2-point safety in the first two quarters. They scored five more touchdowns in the second half, including one on a 23-yard interception return by Tim Bell.

The Blue Jays, 3-0, will host the Seaman Vikings next Friday night in Junction City.

Shawnee Heights fell to 0-3 on the season.

Junction City Blue Jay and Lady Jay cross country runners competed in Hays on Thursday.

In the girls 5A – 6A race Myrissa Humphreys finished first in 16:25. Also medaling for the Lady Jays in that race Leah Ervin finished 11th in 17:45 and Breanna Jensen 14th in 18:04.

For the Blue Jay boys Nick Arneson finished fourth and medaled with a clocking of 17:14.

Junction City finished third in the 5A – 6A girls race, and fourth in the 5A – 6A boys race.

( Pictures courtesy of Ty Arneson )

The Junction City Blue Jay boys soccer team scored two first half goals and made them stand up in a 2-1 win over Topeka West at Al Simpler Stadium.

Blue Jay coach Drew Proctor felt his team played well the first 20 minutes of the match. “We struggled a little bit after that. Our attack was mediocre at times, but the first 20 minutes we looked fantastic. We were hitting balls in behind, we winning every 50-50, we were pressing high, we were defending and attacking on both sides of the ball very well.”

After a water break due to the hot weather, Proctor noted the Blue Jays seemed to slow down a little bit.

Junction City, 2-5, will play at Topeka High on Tuesday.

Junction City High School JROTC Blue Jay Battalion traveled to Clinton, MO. for their first Raider Meet of the season.

The teams competed in several events and fought through challenges to finish third overall and third in Army Physical Fitness Test. Raider Meets consist of Army Physical Fitness Test, a 10K road march with equipment, Raider Gauntlet ( obstacle course ), Land Navigation, and One Rope Bridge Competition.

Senior A-back Raye Wilson rushed for 213 yards and three touchdowns in a 51-14 Junction City Blue Jay victory over the Emporia Spartans.

Wilson rambled 62 yards for a first quarter touchdown to put the Blue Jays on top and then scored on touchdown runs of 22 yards in the first quarter and 70 yards in the third quarter.

Blue Jay quarterback Ryan Henington was 6-10 passing for 83 yards and two touchdowns.

Junction City led the game in Emporia 38-0 at halftime with the Spartans’ two touchdowns coming in the fourth quarter after the Blue Jays had widened the lead to 51-0.

The Blue Jays, 2-0, host Shawnee Heights next Friday while Emporia, 0-2,  plays at Topeka West.

The Junction City High School Blue Jays will be headed to Emporia Friday night for week two of the season.

Junction City enters the game 1-0 after defeating Highland Park 56-14 at home last week. Emporia is 0-1 on the season following last week’s 21-0 loss to Washburn Rural.

Head Coach Randall Zimmerman explained what he’s expecting to see out of the Spartans.

“Offensively they’re going to force us to be very disciplined on the defensive side of the football. They’re going to run a lot of triple option stuff. A very smart quarterback, a very, very tough physical front and tough fullbacks, two of them that they rotate in,” said Zimmerman. “Defensively they just never are out of position, they’re always in position and they try to get you to snap the ball more often than what you want to and let you make mistakes. We’re going to have to be at our very best, that’s for sure, to play with them.”

The game will kick off at 7 pm. You can catch it on the “Talk of JC” starting with pre-game at 6:40 pm with Dewey Terrill and Brian Field on the call.