Junction City
Saturday

100 meters – Ta’Marche Mason, 1st, 11.36 (State Champion)

Discus – Hannah Reynolds, 15th, 100″ 6.6″

4 x 400 relay – Lyric Holman, Deisjambro Bisio, Alana Kramer, Myrissa Humphreys, 5th, 4:05.62

4 x 800 relay – Myrissa Humphreys, Shamya Banks, Briona Jensen, Deisjambro Bisio, 7th, 9:58.98

4 x 100 relay –  Jacqui Moran, Lyric Holman, Amaya Booker, Keiana Newman, 3rd, 49.34

100 meter hurdles –  Keiana Newman, 4th, 15.44

400 meters – Juwan Bush, 4th, 49.68

800 meters – Myrissa Humphreys, 11th, 2:24.98

4 x 100 relay – Dai-Jon Lopez, Charles Winchester, Ian Sanchez, Ta’marche Mason, 5th, 43.05

300 meter hurdles – Alana Kramer, 5th, 46.64

200 meter dash – Ta’ Marche Mason, 8th, 23.14

shotput – Stephon Starks – foul, no place

Pole vault – Traecy Freeman, 10th, 12’6

The Blue Jays finished 14th in the 6A boys team competition with 23 points. Shawnee Mission North won the team title with 57. In the 6A girls competition the Lady Jays scored 21 points to finish 19th. The team champion was Olathe East with 61 points.

 

Chapman

100 meters – Ninta Little, 1st, 12.47 (State Champion)

200 meters – Ninta Little, 2nd, 26.05

Wakefield

100 meters – Sara Casaus, 11th, 13.33

800 meters – Brock Barrett, 5th, 2:02.85

4 x 800 relay – Brock Barrett, Jeffrey Thompson, Kirk Iseli, Andrew Rothfuss, 13th, 9:00.95

4 x 100 relay –  Andrew Rothfuss, Sammy Finnegan, Nathan Jackson, Chris Hardin, zone violation DQ

White City

High Jump – Austin Stroede, 5th, 6′ 2″

Friday
Junction City

Girls Shotput — Hannah Reynolds, 11th, 34’3

100 meter high hurdles — Keiana Newman 4th, 15.81, qualified for finals

Girls 4 x 100 relay — Jacqui Moran, Lyric Holman, Amaya Booker, Ayi-lissa Dotson, 5th, 49,14, qualified for finals

Boys 4 x 100 relay — Charles Winchester, Ta’ Marche Mason, Dai-Jon Lopez, Ian Sanchez, 6th, 43,31, qualified for finals

Girls 400 meter dash prelims — Lyric Holman, 9th, 1:01.37, did not qualify finals

Girls 400 meter dash prelims — Amaya Booker, 16th, 1:04.63, did not qualify finals

Boys 400m dash prelims — Juwan Bush, 2nd 49.98, qualified for finals

Girls 300m Hurdles prelims — Alana Kramer, 7th, 47.49, qualified for finals

Girls 200m dash prelims –Ayi-lissa Dotson, 15th, 30.87, did not qualifiy for finals

Boys 200m dash prelims –Ta’Marche Mason, 5th, 22.40, qualified for finals

Boys Triple Jump Finals –Jaylen Brime, 6th, 44’4”

Girls High Jump Finals — Ayi-lissa Dotson, 14th, 4’10”

Chapman

3200 meter run — Amber Hahn, 14th, 12:52.96

Boys Javelin — Robert Steck, 5th, 172′

Boys Javelin — Tanner Hettenbach, 12th, 148’7

Blue Jay Tennis Coach Matt Micheel was voted by his peers as Centennial League Boys Tennis Coach of the Year. 

“It felt great knowing that my peers, the ones I go up against all the time, respected the work I put in; I think that there were a lot of deserving coaches – and I didn’t expect that I would have [won],” said Micheel.

Micheel is from a small town in Iowa where he played baseball, tennis and basketball while in highschool.

Micheel was a Men’s Tennis Coach at Missouri Western for three years, and a Men and Women’ s Tennis Coach at Chowan University in North Carolina for two years before coming to Junction City High School where he has been the head tennis coach for six years.

“When you look at overall how our program [at JCHS]  is made up, a lot of the credit has got to go to Coach Zimmerman for the work he has put in with our guys in strength and conditioning.”

Micheel humbly credits the entire Blue Jay staff for his Boys Tennis Centennial League Coach of the Year award.  The Blue Jay athletics program encourages multi-sport athletes, says Micheel, and all the coaches work together to make sure the athletes transition well from season to season, keeping in mind that the athletes have multiple areas of interest athletically.  

Micheel was especially proud of his assistant coach David Goheen, “He’s been right next to me for four years helping these guys become who they are and the athletes they’ve become. He’s done a fabulous job and needs to get recognized the same way, and I can’t be more thankful than having him as a coach next to me.”

Although, he’d hope to get more boys to the state meet, Micheel was proud of Angeleau Scott, who did make it to state and was the “first repeat boys state qualifier in over 30 years.”

Scott finished 6th in the Centennial League Singles play, tying the highest place received by a JCHS boys tennis athlete at the league championship in the six years Micheel has been coach.

“The athletes are what really made this award,” said Micheel.

What the newly voted Centennial League Coach of the year is most proud of:  “…I’ve got a bunch of consistent, great hard-working athletes that just make for an unbelievable time when you’re out on the courts and the last two years have been phenomenal.”

The  Blue Jay Boys Tennis team finished seventh at the league championships.

 

The Junction City High School track and field program will send a strong contingent to the state track meet Friday and Saturday at Cessna Stadium in Wichita.

Twenty-six athletes are making the trip, with two serving as alternates on relay teams.

Blue Jay coach Randall Zimmerman says Hannah Reynolds gets Junction City started on Friday morning. She will throw the shotput at 9 a.m. Numerous other JCHS athletes will compete Friday morning and early afternoon in the 100 hurdles, 4 x 100 boys and girls relays, boys and girls 400 meter dash prelims, girls 300 hurdles, boys and girls triple jumps, boys 300 hurdles prelims, boys and girls 200 meter dash prelims, and the boys and girls 4 x 400 relay prelims.

Finals in the events on the track are Saturday along with the 100 meter dash prelims. Field event competition is spread over both days.

KJCK AM, The Talk of JC,  and JC Post will provide coverage from Cessna Stadium both days.

The Junction City Blue Jays led top seeded Blue Valley 1-0 going into the bottom of the 5th inning in their first round matchup in the Class 6A State tournament Thursday in Lawrence.

But then the Blue Valley bats woke up and the Tigers put one run on the board in the fifth and four in the sixth enroute to a 5-1 win over Junction City.

Blue Jay coach Drew Biery said he thought his players were ready to play. “As a coach you worry about a couple things when you get to state. You worry about the shock and awe factor , you’re playing in a really nice stadium, you’re playing a team that has a lot of talent, but I thought our guys said here we go and lets’ play.”

Blue Valley got three hits and drew two walks in the bottom of the sixth to open up the four run lead.

Biery stated unfortunately the game go the Blue Jays way, “But when you look at the little things that I talk about all year our kids did a phenomenal job of that, and we’re going to hang our hat on that because that’s who we are, that’s who we’re going to be, and that’s what we’re going to be in the future.”

Junction City finished the season with a 13-10 record, while Blue Valley improved their record to 21-2.