The Junction City Lady Jay and Blue Jay basketball teams are at Topeka High Friday night.

Junction City will enter the varsity girls game 3-13 whle Topeka High is 10-7. It is scheduled to tip off at 6:15 p.m.

In the varsity boys contest Junction City will enter with a 5-12 record, while Topeka High is 10-7. It is scheduled to begin at 7:45 p.m.

Both games can be heard on the Talk of JC, KJCK AM 1420.

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The Junction City Bowl will be the site of the Centennial League varsity boys and girls bowling tournaments.  The boys tournament will begin at one p.m. followed by the girls. The Centennial League junior varsity bowling tournaments for boys and girls has been postponed to Monday at the Junction City Bowl.

The snow and sleet on Monday forced postponements, with the varsity tournaments moving from Thursday to Friday, and the j-v tournaments being postponed from Friday to Monday.

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The Junction City Blue Jay boys swimming team will have two relays in the Class 6A State meet on Friday at the  Capitol-Federal Natatorium at Hummer Sports Park in Topeka.

The 200 freestyle relay team will consist of Brett Magee, Jason Carter, Blake Nimmo, and Gavin Carey. The 400 freestyle relay team will include Brett Magee, Austin Magee, Evan Hallum, and Jason Carter.

The meet begins with the preliminary competition at 1:30 p.m. on Friday.

Two Junction City Blue Jay swimming relay teams will compete in the Class 6A State meet competition Friday at the Topeka-Capital Federal Natatorium at Hummer Sports Park in Topeka.

The 200 and 400 freestyle relay teams will be competing. Coach Beth Schlesener said the relays qualified by their times. “The State has times that you qualify for. We were just outside of truly qualifying, but our times were consideration times. So what they do is to fill out the heats is to let other teams that are really close to the time. Our time was close enough to get us in.”

Schlesener noted the team was excited to make it into the State swim meet. “They were very excited, very excited.”

Members of the 200 freestyle relay will include Brett Magee, Jason Carter, Blake Nimmo, and Gavin Carey. The 400 freestyle relay team will include Brett Magee, Austin Magee, Evan Hallum, and Jason Carter.

The meet begins with the preliminary competition at 1:30 p.m. Friday, and continues with the finals on Saturday.

The Centennial League Bowling Championship tournament scheduled for today and Friday in Junction City has been postponed to Friday.

Matt Westerhaus, JCHS Athletic Director, made the announcement early Thursday morning. He explained that due to the sleet/ice/windy conditions and snow up to three inches expected by 3 p.m. they made the call to postpone.

The varsity tournament scheduled for Thursday will move to Friday, and the junior varsity tournament scheduled for Friday has been moved to Monday.

 

Junior Thomas Gipson registered his seventh career double-double with a team high 16 points and season tying 11 rebounds to help Kansas State to a 65-53 victory over TCU at Bramlage Coliseum on Wednesday night.

The win was the 14th consecutive home court victory for the Wildcats ( 18-8, 8-5 Big 12 ) .

According to k-statesports.com Gipson was one of four Wildcats in double figures, as he was joined in by freshman Marcus Foster with 13 points, junior Nino Williams with 11, and senior Will Spradling with 10 points. The double-double was the seventh of Gipson’s career, including the third this season.

K-State plays at Oklahoma on Saturday at 3 p.m.  Those two teams along with Iowa State are currently in a three-way tie for third place in the league standings, one game behind second-place Texas.

The brand new Mid-Plains League has been formed for the 2014 summer collegiate baseball season.

The League released details Wednesday.

The participating teams will include the Junction City Brigade, Topeka Golden Giants, Rossville Rattlers, Midwest Athletics ( Peculiar, Missouri ), Baldwin City, and the Topeka Senators.

The League’s first commissioner will be David Streeter, who is the General Manager for the Rossville Rattlers. Streeter previouly helped run the Topeka Golden Giants in 2010 and for the past two seasons the Rossville Rattlers.

The conference will feature a 30-game regular season schedule beginning June 5 and culminating July 10.  There will be a postseason league tournament called the “Summer Classic” that will be held from July 16th through July 20.  Work is also under way for an All- Star Game on July 5 that will pit the MPL All-Stars against an opponent to be determined.

The General Manager for the Brigade Cecil Aska has confirmed that both the league postseason tournament and All-Star game will be played at Rathert Field in Junction City. This will be the second year of existence for the Brigade, which went 21-13 last summer.

The Junction City Bowl at 835 South Washington will be the site of the Centennial League Bowling Tournament competition on Thursday and Friday.

The varsity boys begin at one p.m. Thursday, followed by the girls later that afternoon. Nine boys and nine girls teams will be competing. The junior varsity tournaments are Friday.

 

The Junction City Blue Jay boys swimming team will be represented at the Class 6A State Swimming Meet in the 200 Freestyle Relay and the 400 Freestyle Relay.

JCHS Athletic Director Matt Westerhaus said the 200 Freestyle Relay team of Brett Magee, Jason Carter, Blake Nimmo, and Gavin Carey have qualified, along with the 400 Freestyle Relay team of Brett Magee, Austin Magee, Evan Hallum, and Jason Carter.

The meet is Friday ( Feb. 21 ) and Saturday ( Feb. 22 ) in Topeka.

This week’s edition of Sports Illustrated features members of Wichita State University’s unbeaten basketball team on the cover. The magazine is now on newsstands. The Shockers play Loyola Wednesday night.

The Manhattan Indians hit eight 3-point shots enroute to a 94-65 defeat of the Junction City Blue Jays in boys basketball at MHS Tuesday night.

Pierson McAtee was on fire for the Indians in the first half, when he scored 18 points, with 12 coming on 3-point shots. He finished with a game-high 25 points for Manhattan.

The Indians led the Blue Jays by just eight points early in the third quarter but then went on a scoring run that saw them outscore Junction City 27-17 in that period. They never relinquished the lead.

Blue Jay coach Pat Battle said, “They took it to us. There’s just no other way to put it, all facets of the game.” Junction City ( 5-12 ) was led in scoring by Semaj Johnson with 16 points.

Manhattan improved to 11-6 with the win.

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In the girls varsity game Manhattan dominated with a 71-21 in over the Junction City Lady Jays.

Junction City jumped out to a 5-0 lead at the beginning of the game. but scored only two points the rest of the first half. They trailed at halftime 33-7.

Manhattan improved to 16-1, while Junction City fell to 3-13.

 

LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) – No. 8 Kansas should have its normal rotation back for the first time in a couple of weeks when it visits Texas Tech on Tuesday night.

Center Joel Embiid is expected to return from an injury, while forward Brannen Greene should be back after he was held out for Saturday’s 95-65 victory against TCU.

Kansas coach Bill Self said Embiid, who had been sidelined by back and knee issues, practiced at full speed in preparation for the Red Raiders. Self said he hopes the 7-foot freshman will be able to play about 25 minutes in his return.

Greene also missed the Horned Frogs game for what Self called “irresponsible behavior.” It was the second straight game Kansas missed a player for that reason – sophomore forward Jamari Traylor missed an overtime loss to Kansas State on Feb. 10.