The Saint Xavier High School volleyball team lost to Wetmore in Class 1A Substate Tournament action in Axtell on Saturday.
The Lady Rams were defeated by Wertmore 25-10, 25-7.
Category: Sports
Wakefield Boys Finish Second in Regional Cross Country
The Wakefield High School boys cross country team has qualified for the Class 1A State Meet in Wamego next Saturday ( Oct. 31 ).
The Bombers finished second in their 1A regional meet in Belleville this Saturday ( Oct. 24 ). Frankfort won the team title with the low score of 33 points followed by Wakefield with 41. In the team competition there were eight schools, and 17 schools sent runners to the meet.
In the individual competition Brock Barrett led the Bombers with a fifth place finish in 17:53, and Johnathan Bowen was seventh in 18:14. Jordan Colglazier was 13th in 19:24, and Preston McCollum 23rd in 20:09.
The state meet next Saturday will be held at the Wamego Country Club. The Bombers will run at 10:45 a.m.
Lady Jays, Two Blue Jay Boys Cross Country Runners Qualify for State
The Junction City High School girls cross country team has qualified for the Class 6A State meet. The Lady Jays finished third in the team competition at the 6A Regional on Saturday at Milford State Park.
JCHS senior Myrissa Humphrey led the way for the Lady Jays with a ninth place finish in the individual competition in 19:57.7. “It is a very big deal. I didn’t really have much of a goal other than to go to state, so definitely met that goal.” Humphreys said she gave it her all in the race. “I think I didn’t leave anything in the tank.”
Also for Junction City, Briona Jensen finished 17th in 21:02.6, Leah Ervin 19th in 21:21.0, Kailey Koomen 20th in 21:28.1, and Beth Arneson 24th in 21:57.8.
For the Blue Jay boys, Miguel Espinosa and Nick Arneson both qualified for state, which will be held at Rimrock Farm near Lawrence Oct. 31. Espinosa turned in a time of 17:21.0 and Arneson 17:35.0 at the regional.
Miguel Espinosa was excited. “I was thinking I wasn’t going, but it’s awesome going now, knowing officially.”
For Nick Arneson it’s the second year in a row he has qualified for state. It will be Arneson’s last cross country race of his high school career. “Yep, one last. Hopefully, hopefully I can place at this. That’s the hope.” For Espinosa and Humphreys the state meet competition will also be their final cross country race. All three of the JCHS runners are seniors.
In the team competition at Regional, Manhattan won the boys title with the low score of 35 points, followed by Lawrence Free State with 45, and Washburn Rural 74. The Blue Jays turned in a team score of 134 points to finish fifth out of eight teams. For the girls Manhattan was first with a score of 27 points, Lawrence Free State second with 48, and Junction City third with 89.
Backup Quarterback Boosts Texas to Win Over Kansas State
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) – Backup quarterback Tyrone Swoopes scored three touchdowns and the Texas Longhorns defeated Kansas State 23-9 Saturday in game played in heavy rain storm.
Swoopes, a 244-pound junior who started last season, is now used primarily in short yardage situations. His first two touchdowns were on short runs, but his last one, which secured victory, covered 10 yards with 1:47 remaining. Swoopes ran for 13 and 29 yards on the previous two plays.
Texas (3-4, 2-2 Big 12) rushed for 274 yards, maintaining a strength the Longhorns created with 313 yards on the ground – its most since 2013 – during a victory against Oklahoma on Oct. 10.
Tailback Johnathan Gray led Texas with 103 yards against Kansas State (3-4, 0-4).
Charles Jones, Kansas State’s junior running back, rushed for a career-best 122 yards. Jones gained 87 in the second half.
Kansas State has lost four consecutive games for the first time since 2005.
ROYALS WIN THE PENNANT!
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) – Lorenzo Cain sprinted home from first base on Eric Hosmer’s single in the eighth inning, Wade Davis weathered a 45-minute rain delay and a white-knuckle ninth, and the Kansas City Royals beat the Toronto Blue Jays 4-3 Friday night to earn their second straight trip to the World Series.
The victory in Game 6 of the AL Championship Series sent the Royals into the World Series, starting Tuesday night at home against the New York Mets.
After the delay, Cain promptly worked a leadoff walk from closer Roberto Osuna, and Hosmer followed with a clean single that Bautista fielded down the right-field line.
Rather than hit the cutoff man, though, Bautista threw to second to keep Hosmer to a single. That gave the speedy Cain, running full speed the entire way, enough time to beat the relay throw from second base with a textbook slide that ignited a sellout crowd.
Davis retired Josh Donaldson on a grounder with runners on second and third to end it.
Blue Jays Roll….Again!
The Junction City Blue Jays remained unbeaten Friday night with a 53-0 football shutout of Wichita East in Wichita.
The Blue Jays got on the board on their first offensive series of the game with a 22-yard touchdown run by Raye Wilson, and then led 36-0 at halftime. The Junction City scoring in the second half included a blocked punt which was recovered by Tim Bell in the end zone for a touchdown.
The Blue Jays improved to 2-0 in district play, and 8-0 overall. Junction City will host Wichita North ( 1-1, 1-7 overall ) next Friday night at 7 p.m. at Al Simpler Stadium.
Wichita East fell to 0-2 in district and 0-8 overall.
Zimmerman to Serve as Head Coach in Shrine Bowl
Junction City Blue Jay head football coach Randall Zimmerman has been named the 2016 head coach for the West team in the Kansas Shrine Bowl All-Star football game.
The 43rd annual Kansas Shrine Bowl will be played on Saturday, July 30, 2016 in Emporia at Welch Stadium on the Emporia State University campus. Kickoff will be at 7 p.m.
Returning for his seventh Shrine Bowl, Zimmerman has been coaching for 29 years, including 22 seasons at Junction City High School. His current Blue Jay football team is 8-0.
Zimmerman served as an assistant coach for the West team last summer, and has two previous stints as a head coach in the Shrine Bowl game.
Blake Pierce of Topeka Seaman High School will serve as the 2016 head coach for the East team in the Shrine Bowl.
High School Football Scores
Friday’s Scores
By The Associated Press
PREP FOOTBALL
Abilene 38, Hays 7
Andale 49, Clearwater 8
Anderson County 22, Iola 21
Andover Central 70, Circle 6
Ashland 46, Fairfield-Cunningham 0
Atchison 25, Basehor-Linwood 20
Atchison County 24, McLouth 20
Attica/Argonia 56, Norwich 0
Augusta 42, Coffeyville 0
Axtell 60, BV Randolph 12
Bishop Miege 42, Louisburg 6
Blue Valley Stillwell 49, Olathe South 16
Buhler 44, McPherson 28
Burlingame 48, Peabody-Burns 0
BV Northwest 21, Gardner-Edgerton 7
Caldwell 66, South Haven 20
Central Burden 54, Sedan 32
Central Plains 46, Solomon 14
Centralia 44, St. Mary’s 15
Centre 54, Wilson 8
Chase 52, Tescott 0
Cheney 35, Anthony-Harper-Chaparral 28
Cherryvale 28, Riverton 24
Colby 42, Clay Center 35
Columbus 54, Frontenac 43
Concordia 35, Goodland 0
Conway Springs 50, Belle Plaine 16
Crest 56, Southern Coffey 20
Derby 51, Wichita South 13
Destiny Christian, Okla. 55, Wichita Life Prep 8
Dighton/Healy 46, South Gray 8
Douglass 14, Bluestem 6
Ellinwood 40, Little River 24
Ellis 64, Sublette 6
Erie 39, Northeast-Arma 14
Eudora 27, DeSoto 24
Fort Scott 28, Labette County 25
Frankfort 58, Glasco/Miltonvale-Southern Cloud 8
Fredonia 42, Eureka 0
Galena 49, Southeast 0
Girard 26, Burlington 0
Goddard 53, Arkansas City 6
Goddard-Eisenhower 27, Liberal 6
Goessel def. Canton-Galva, forfeit
Great Bend 57, Salina Central 38
Greeley County 56, Wheatland-Grinnell 34
Halstead 32, Garden Plain 28
Hanover 46, Clifton-Clyde 0
Hartford 65, Altoona-Midway 8
Hesston 27, Council Grove 0
Hoisington 56, Sterling 0
Holcomb 33, Pratt 7
Holton 28, Perry-Lecompton 6
Hoxie 58, Golden Plains 0
Hugoton 35, Larned 28
Hutchinson 72, Dodge City 34
Independence 21, Winfield 14
Ingalls 66, Deerfield 0
Jackson Heights 42, Wabaunsee 7
Jayhawk Linn 36, Central Heights 8
Jefferson North 58, Maranatha/Immaculata (FB) 20
Jefferson West 35, Royal Valley 21
Junction City 53, Wichita East 0
Kapaun Mount Carmel 51, Andover 27
KC Piper 33, Tonganoxie 6
Kingman 26, Hutchinson Trinity 0
Kiowa County 58, St. John 6
LaCrosse 42, Wichita County 0
Lawrence 31, Olathe North 28
Lawrence Free State 31, Manhattan 14
Lincoln 54, Quinter 8
Logan/Palco 46, Hill City 18
Lyndon 52, Yates Center 14
Lyons 21, Ellsworth 13
Madison/Hamilton 50, Flinthills 8
Marion 50, Herington 6
Meade 56, Elkhart 0
Mill Valley 48, Bonner Springs 14
Mission Valley 28, Northern Heights 22
Moscow 21, Fowler 0
Mulvane 42, Wellington 30
Nemaha Central 40, Rock Creek 14
Neodesha 31, Caney Valley 14
Nickerson 47, Chapman 0
Norton 35, Beloit 16
Oakley 33, Plainville 12
Olathe Northwest 24, Olathe East 7
Olpe 28, Chase County 6
Onaga 30, Valley Falls 2
Osawatomie 48, KC Bishop Ward 7
Otis-Bison 52, Northern Valley 6
Ottawa 19, Baldwin 3
Paola 55, Chanute 7
Parsons 62, Baxter Springs 6
Phillipsburg 52, Ell-Saline 0
Pike Valley 44, Linn 0
Pittsburg 35, Blue Valley Southwest 7
Pittsburg Colgan 31, Humboldt 8
Pleasant Ridge 32, Maur Hill – Mount Academy 27
Pratt Skyline 66, Kinsley 26
Pretty Prairie 74, South Barber 26
Rawlins County 56, Oberlin-Decatur 32
Remington 45, Oswego 12
Republic County 26, Valley Heights 21
Riley County 53, Minneapolis 31
Riverside 55, Hiawatha 0
Rock Hills 52, Lakeside 6
Rossville 61, Osage City 7
Rural Vista 50, Lebo 14
Russell 19, Hays-TMP-Marian 6
Sabetha 55, Horton 0
Salina Sacred Heart 47, Moundridge 15
Salina South 53, Newton 30
Santa Fe Trail 23, Prairie View 12
Satanta 58, Rolla 8
Scott City 55, Lakin 0
Sedgwick 54, Medicine Lodge 7
Shawnee Heights 41, Topeka West 20
Silver Lake 48, Oskaloosa 0
SM West 56, SM South 0
Smith Center 55, Bennington 12
South Central 54, Macksville 6
Southeast Saline 49, Hillsboro 7
Spearville 46, Hodgeman County 0
Spring Hill 42, KC Sumner 20
St. Francis 46, Stockton 0
St. James Academy 28, KC Turner 0
St. John’s Beloit-Tipton 57, Thunder Ridge 14
St. Thomas Aquinas 42, BV West 6
Stafford 66, Bucklin 18
Sylvan-Lucas 48, Burrton 0
Syracuse 40, Johnson-Stanton County 0
Topeka 34, Washburn Rural 10
Topeka Hayden 48, El Dorado 0
Topeka Seaman 48, Highland Park 7
Trego 50, Ness City 6
Triplains-Brewster 61, Weskan 28
Troy 47, Inman 26
Udall 58, Cedar Vale/Dexter 8
Ulysses 57, Rose Hill 7
Uniontown 52, Pleasanton 6
Valley Center 28, Maize 7
Wakefield 86, Osborne 40
Wallace County 52, Cheylin 0
Wamego 18, Smoky Valley 14
Washington County 14, Marysville 0
Waverly 70, Marmaton Valley 34
Wellsville 61, West Franklin 0
West Elk 54, Oxford 8
Wichita Bishop Carroll 42, Maize South 14
Wichita Collegiate 63, Wichita Independent 14
Wichita Heights 27, Emporia 25
Wichita Home School 64, Hutchinson Central Christian 18
Wichita Northwest 38, Garden City 21
Wichita Sunrise 40, St. John’s Military 36
Wichita Trinity 52, Haven 7
K-State – Texas On Saturday
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) – Kansas State coach bill Snyder sent a letter to students this week apologizing after his team lost at home 55-0 to Oklahoma.
Kansas State (3-3, 0-3 Big 12) gets a chance to erase that memory a bit with a visit to Texas on Saturday. The Longhorns (2-4, 1-2) are the perfect example of how a team can keep their season from falling apart after a blowout loss.
Two weeks ago, Texas was coming off a 50-7 loss to TCU when it beat the Sooners. Now they get a Wildcats team eager to show it is better than what it showed last weekend.
Royals vs. Blue Jays — Game Six
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The Kansas City Royals have established a reputation for dramatic postseason comebacks the past couple of years, beginning with last season’s wild-card victory over Oakland.
Turns out, the Toronto Blue Jays have some never-say-quit spirit as well.
After going on a second-half run to make the playoffs, then rallying from a 2-0 deficit to defeat Texas in a best-of-five matchup, the Blue Jays will try to beat the Royals in another win-or-else situation in Game 6 of the AL Championship Series on Friday night.
Toronto forced the series back to Kansas City with a 7-1 rout on Wednesday, closing to 3-2.
“You look at all the elimination games, our offense has really come to life,” Blue Jays manager John Gibbons said Thursday. “We’ve said all along that’s the key to our team, scoring runs. You hate to make a habit of it, but maybe we can pull it off again.”
David Price will take the mound for the Blue Jays after his collapse in Game 2, when he tossed six shutout innings and then surrendered five runs in the seventh.
Yordano Ventura will oppose him for Kansas City. He was only marginally better, allowing three runs and eight hits in 5 1/3 innings before watching the comeback win from the dugout.
“I’m very fortunate and happy that this game has landed on my turn, here in Kansas City, and with the opportunity to take this club to the World Series,” Ventura said through catching coach Pedro Grifol, acting as a translator. “I’ll be ready for this game.”
The Blue Jays promise they will be, too.
Toronto lost the first two games against the Rangers at home, then won three straight with its season hanging in the balance. The first two were at Texas, and the last at Rogers Centre, but none of the victories was even close — all by at least three runs.
The Blue Jays lost the first two games in Kansas City, too. But in Game 3 in Toronto, the hosts overcame a 1-0 deficit and rolled to an 11-8 victory.
“We’ve been through a bunch of hurdles all year,” Blue Jays outfielder Chris Colabello said. “We were 7 1/2 games (back) at the deadlines. … We had to claw back from that. We were down two games back in the division series and we clawed back from that. I’ll tell you what, we’re going to leave everything we have out there.”
They may have to do just that. While the Blue Jays have won four straight elimination games, the Royals are 6-2 in their last eight postseason games at Kauffman Stadium.