The annual King / Queen of Courts will be held Friday night at Junction City High School.

The King / Queen of Courts will be crowned in the Shenk Gym between the girls and boys varsity basketball games.

Washburn Rural is the basketball opponent for the JCHS teams.

The 2014 King and Queen of Courts candidates are:

–Taylor Collette and Michael Hall

–Ashley Evans and Matthew Champagne

–Christina Flowers and Hunter Seech

–Emilia Walsh and Jaron Beck

–Breanna Waterman and Semaj Johnson.

 

 

The St. Xavier Lady Rams basketball defeated Smoky Valley Home Educators on Thursday in basketball 42-29.  

In the boys game Smoky Valley Home Educators defeated the Rams 43-37.

Junction City High School officials have been sorting out the problem that occurred during Tuesday night’s Blue Jay boys basketball loss to Seaman at the Shenk Gym.

Late third – early fourth quarter was the key problem time when a six point swing resulted in a 10-point lead for Seaman instead of a four-point lead over Junction City.

Matt Westerhaus, JCHS Athletic Director, explained there was an error at the scorers table.

“During the third quarter we gave Seaman credit for a three-pointer that we hit. So at the end of third quarter the clock had the score as 39-46 in favor of seaman, the score was correct on the clock at that time,” Westerhaus said. “At the 7:52 mark of the fourth quarter, we then added three points to Seaman’s score, which now made the score 39-49 in favor of Seaman. That adjustment was made after a conversation with table workers.”

The game continued on until the scoreboard read 52-45 in favor of Seaman, but then after a conference at the scorer’s table an adjustment was made to reflect what had become an inaccurate official scorebook, and three points were taken away from Junction City to make the score 52-42.

Despite the fact the Blue Jay coaches pointed out the score was wrong, the game then proceeded with Seaman winning by the final score of 58-46.

JCHS officials reviewed video of the game and scorebook records as they worked to determine what had actually happened in the game.

BOYS’ BASKETBALL
Anderson County 60, Wellsville 46
Andover 65, Arkansas City 39
Axtell 59, Pawnee City, Neb. 36
Beloit 59, Southeast Saline 52
Bishop Seabury Academy 46, Leavenworth 40
Blue Valley Stilwell 36, Blue Valley Southwest 32
Burlington 58, Fredonia 46
BV North 57, BV West 49
Central Plains 54, Ellinwood 28
Centralia 58, Troy 29
Chapman 69, Wamego 34
Cheney 43, Chaparral 36
Chetopa 62, Oswego 44
Cimarron 74, Sublette 32
Concordia 76, Riley County 44
Deerfield 50, Syracuse 34
Derby 82, Maize 78, OT
Dodge City 60, Ulysses 41
Douglass 66, Bluestem 40
Elkhart 84, Turpin, Okla. 48
Flinthills 55, Cedar Vale/Dexter 40
Garden Plain 64, Belle Plaine 45
Goddard 56, Valley Center 50
Goddard-Eisenhower 89, Andover Central 81, 2OT
Goodland 46, Scott City 42
Great Bend 77, Buhler 68
Hays 51, Salina Central 50
Hesston 58, Nickerson 22
Highland Park 70, Topeka Hayden 47
Hill City 60, Golden Plains 34
Hillsboro 67, Smoky Valley 36
Hutchinson 48, Wichita Campus 30
Inman 58, Bennington 51
Jefferson West 75, Santa Fe Trail 64
Kapaun Mount Carmel 40, Wichita North 36
KC Piper 72, KC Turner 46
Kingman 57, Lyons 46
Lansing 82, Bonner Springs 57
Macksville 60, Kinsley 31
Maize South 57, Wichita Collegiate 53
Marion 48, Ell-Saline 43
McPherson 65, Winfield 42
Nemaha Valley 63, Hiawatha 48
Ness City 59, Western Plains 45
Northern Valley 56, Franklin, Neb. 25
Oakley 55, Ellis 42
Olathe South 58, SM East 57
Osborne 52, Smith Center 46
Ottawa 51, DeSoto 48
Oxford 39, Udall 37
Peabody-Burns 47, Remington 46
Pike Valley 49, Wilson 39
Pratt 63, Haven 57
Rock Creek 58, Marysville 56
Rural Vista 53, Goessel 43
Salina Sacred Heart 65, Russell 39
Salina South 56, Newton 52
Satanta 59, Spearville 47
Shawnee Heights 78, Washburn Rural 55
SM South 59, Olathe East 48
SM West 49, Olathe North 45, OT
Topeka 30, Emporia 25
Topeka Seaman 68, Junction City 56
Topeka West 69, Manhattan 59
Wellington 52, El Dorado 48
West Elk 70, Elk Valley 29
Wichita East 66, Wichita Heights 61
Wichita Independent 49, Medicine Lodge 47
Wichita South 49, Wichita Northwest 47
Wichita Trinity 53, Conway Springs 44
GIRLS’ BASKETBALL
Andover 65, Arkansas City 33
Andover Central 64, Goddard-Eisenhower 49
Atchison County 76, KC Washington 53
Axtell 51, Pawnee City, Neb. 28
Baldwin 55, Eudora 34
Basehor-Linwood 47, Tonganoxie 37
Beloit 56, Southeast Saline 40
Berean Academy 33, Chase County 32
Bishop Seabury Academy 32, Immaculata 27
Bonner Springs 52, Lansing 46
Caney Valley 48, Cherryvale 41
Cedar Vale/Dexter 52, Flinthills 37
Central Plains 56, Ellinwood 32
Chanute 41, Independence 29
Cheney 41, Chaparral 12
Cimarron 73, Sublette 26
Clearwater 58, Rose Hill 50
Dighton 44, Wichita County 17
Dodge City 51, Ulysses 37
Douglass 55, Bluestem 20
Elkhart 42, Turpin, Okla. 31
Ell-Saline 56, Marion 51
Ellis 54, Oakley 42
Frankfort 56, Onaga 45
Frontenac 50, Columbus 39
Galena 46, Riverton 18
Garden Plain 53, Belle Plaine 21
Girard 44, Baxter Springs 40
Glasco/Miltonvale-Southern Cloud 40, Tescott 29
Goessel 45, Rural Vista 38
Golden Plains 31, Hill City 30
Goodland 66, Scott City 33
Great Bend 74, Buhler 68
Hesston 81, Nickerson 24
Hillsboro 55, Smoky Valley 30
Hoisington 53, Victoria 47
Holcomb 58, Lakin 36
Holton 40, Perry-Lecompton 30
Horton 52, Pleasant Ridge 33
Inman 48, Bennington 40
Jefferson North 52, Atchison County 22
Johnson-Stanton County 39, Springfield, Colo. 37
Kapaun Mount Carmel 60, Wichita North 23
KC Piper 66, KC Turner 13
Lawrence Free State 83, SM North 51
Leavenworth 72, Olathe Northwest 47
Liberal 50, Guymon, Okla. 30
Lincoln 60, Chase 29
Little River 42, Solomon 25
Lyons 61, Kingman 42
Macksville 56, Kinsley 38
Maize 61, Derby 37
Maize South 44, Wichita Collegiate 21
Manhattan 60, Topeka West 17
Marais des Cygnes Valley 62, Cornerstone Alt. Charter 32
Marysville 64, Rock Creek 45
McDonald County, Mo. 57, Pittsburg Colgan 32
McPherson 49, Winfield 46
Medford, Okla. 47, Caldwell 44
Moscow 57, Keyes, Okla. 35
Moundridge 42, Canton-Galva 21
Natoma 65, Lakeside 21
Nemaha Valley 57, Hiawatha 49
Ness City 54, Western Plains 22
Newton 45, Salina South 24
Northern Heights 64, Herington 39
Norton 40, Oberlin-Decatur 33
Olathe East 58, SM South 39
Olathe South 44, SM East 27
Oswego 57, Chetopa 30
Paola 71, Spring Hill 59
Pike Valley 62, Wilson 42
Pittsburg 56, Parsons 48
Pratt 47, Haven 36
Pratt Skyline 42, Attica 36
Remington 62, Peabody-Burns 14
Salina Central 83, Hays 19
Salina Sacred Heart 43, Russell 39
Santa Fe Trail 56, Jefferson West 19
Satanta 53, Spearville 50
Sedgwick 50, Hutchinson Trinity 47
Silver Lake 65, Abilene 58
SM Northwest 71, Lawrence 52
SM West 44, Olathe North 14
Smith Center 43, Osborne 40
South Central 55, Fort Supply, Okla. 34
St. James Academy 52, Notre Dame de Sion 40
St. Paul 55, Jayhawk Linn 26
St. Thomas Aquinas 46, Bishop Miege 38
Sterling 69, Halstead 48
Sylvan-Lucas 38, St. John’s Beloit-Tipton 34
Syracuse 46, Deerfield 17
Syracuse 46, Deerfield 17
Topeka 64, Emporia 52
Topeka Hayden 65, Highland Park 41
Topeka Seaman 48, Junction City 34
Trego 52, Otis-Bison 44
Valley Center 38, Goddard 35
Wabaunsee 50, Mission Valley 27
Wallace County 55, Triplains-Brewster 41
Wamego 60, Chapman 34
Washburn Rural 60, Shawnee Heights 42
Wellington 41, El Dorado 13
Wellsville 41, Anderson County 32
West Elk 43, Elk Valley 11
Wheatland-Grinnell 54, Quinter 21
Wichita Campus 45, Hutchinson 37
Wichita Heights 52, Wichita East 20
Wichita Home School 59, Sunrise Christian 29
Wichita Independent 48, Medicine Lodge 37
Wichita Trinity 51, Conway Springs 38

 

The Junction City Blue Jay – Seaman boys basketball game will be remembered for a nutty fourth quarter.  

Seaman got the win at the Shenk Gym 58-46.

But there was controversy at the scorer’s table apparently with the scorebook in the second half.  JCHS officials believed there was a six-point swing with three points added to the Seaman total and three taken away from Junction City. The score was 46-39 in favor of Seaman when the Blue Jays scored. Junction City coach Pat Battle remembered that score and the Blue Jays hit a 3-point shot. “And I saw the 49 go up ( for Seaman ). Then they put 41 up ( for Junction City ) and then they hit a three, and it was 52. To make a long story shot….bottom line was is that it was a six-point swing.”

After the game there was also some discussion that it was only a five-point swing since the 3-point shot made by the Blue Jays may have only been a two-point basket at the end of the third quarter.

The problem was realized early in the fourth quarter, and after a long conference at the scorer’s table that’s when three points were removed from the Blue Jay total.

Battle noted his team needed to do a better job throughout the game of defending Seaman. He pointed out that Seaman also shot the ball well,  and got way too many second-shot opportunities. But he also stated,  “When you cut it to a four, and the next thing you know and you’re looking up it went from a four-point…it’s a four point deficit  to a ten point deficit in the early fourth quarter, it totally changes what you do and how you call a game, without a doubt.”

A review of the game video will be the only way to determine specifically what occurred and whether the score was right.

Seaman improved to 6-9 with the victory, while Junction City fell to 4-11.  Tanner Lueker led the Blue Jays in the game with 14 points.

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Seaman defeated Junction City in the girls game at the Shenk Gym 48-24. Seaman jumped to a 10-6 first quarter lead and led throughout the game.

Junction City, 3-11, was led in scoring by Kealee Rains with 13 points. Kori Kamm had 11 for Junction City.

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Junction City High School basketball teams will host Washburn Rural Friday night.

 

 

 

 

Kansas was never able to take control of the game Monday night in Manhattan, never leading by more than two.

The game went back and forth for the first five minutes with each team exchanging baskets before K-State went on a 7-0 run to lead 13-5 with 13:12 to play in the half.

“I felt like there was a time where we could have taken the lead and just get away with it. They did not stop fighting, they were fighting the whole game and they were relentless,” Nadiir Tharpe, Kansas junior guard, said after the game.

Kansas was able to battle back in the first half though and kept it within four for the final ten minutes. KU even led by one with :50 seconds left in the half but a free throw by K-State’s Omari Lawrence tied it back up again at 29-29. A missed dunk by Perry Ellis and Brannen Greene’s put back on the rebound was blocked by Lawrence in the final seconds of the half ended it tied 29-29.

“The first half was an ugly game. You can ask anybody, even the officials. It is hard to referee a game with a lot of missed shots, a lot of kicking and banging going on, but I thought that kind of gave us the best shot to make them not play as well,” Bill Self, Kansas head coach explained.

The second half started the same way the first half started. Both teams swapped points for the first few minutes before Kansas State took off on a 9-0 run to lead 46-37 with 13:26 to play in regulation.

“We did not do anything to make them play poorly in the second half,” Self said.

Kansas never did go away though. Whenever the Wildcats would go on a run Kansas would find a way to get a shot to stay in it.

The Jayhawks finally made their move in the final two minutes of regulation, going on a 9-1 run to tie it up 69-69.

Kansas scored first in overtime to go up 71-69 but Kansas State’s, Will Spradling, quickly responded with a three to retake the lead. Two free throws by Perry Ellis with 3:32 to play in overtime gave the Jayhawks the lead back, however, K-State’s Marcus Foster scored on a fast break to retake the lead, this time for good for the Wildcats.

“We did not play very well in overtime,” Self said. “Give them credit though, that is kind of deflating the way the way we came back against them, but they responded well in overtime. They had some guys step up and make some really nice plays.”

The Jayhawks had four players in double figures and were led by Perry Ellis who finished with 19 points.

Kansas fell to 18-6 on the season and 9-2 in the Big 12. K-State improved to 17-7 overall and 7-4 in conference play.

 

It took an extra five minutes but Kansas State was able to pull out the win over in state rival Kansas Monday night 85-82 in overtime.

The game went back and forth nearly the entire time with 20 lead changes but Kansas was never able to run away with it leading by no more than two the entire game.

“We had to guard. If we had tried to outscore them we weren’t going to win. We were trying to be patient on offense,” explained Bruce Weber, KSU Head Coach.”That was the only way we had a chance to beat them was to defend them, out hustle them, out tough them and take the game to them. I thought we did that enough to get the victory.”

The game was tied going into half time 29-29. In the second half the score went back and forth with K-State going on a run and then Kansas coming right back to either tie it up or go up by a basket. The Wildcats saw their lead go as high as nine multiple times in the second half but in the final two minutes was when Kansas went on a 9-0 run to tie it up 69-69, off of a tip-in by Andrew Wiggins with four seconds left.

The clock would run out just after a turnover by Will Spradling.

Going into overtime Weber told had a message for his team, “I told them all to look at me. You’ve all worked too hard to not grab this game.”

After Kansas scored the first basket in overtime Weber said K-State could have given up, “I thought the crowd lost a little energy. Our assistants were trying to get the crowd to stay in it.”

It was :24 seconds later though that Spradling responded with a three point shot that got the crowd right back in it.

“I’ve made a lot of those in my day so I wasn’t really worried about it,” Spradling said. “I was confident in shooting it and taking it.”Kansas took the lead back on the next possession but a layup by Marcus Foster gave the Wildcats the lead back and they would never give it up again.

Foster led the Wildcats in scoring with 20 points. Spradling followed Foster with 15 points.

“We just went out there and played hard,” Foster said after the game. “We knew if we played hard then the rest would take care of itself.”

“It was a great win for us and just another step. We are in the Big 12 race. There is still a chance and we are only two games back,” Spradling said. “It was really a big game for us and we have to come out Saturday and be prepared.”

K-State improved to 17-7 on the season and 7-4 in Big 12 play. Kansas fell to 18-6 and 9-2 in conference play.

The Wildcats will be on the road Saturday to Waco, Texas, taking on Baylor in a 6:00 p.m. game.

 

Freshman Marcus Foster has been named the Phillips 66 Big 12 Newcomer of the Week for the second time after his season-high 34-point effort in the Kansas State win over No. 15 / 18 Texas.

Foster became the first K-State true freshman to earn the weekly honor twice since Michael Beasley did it for the eighth and final time on March 3, 2008. He joins Beasley and Bill Walker ( redshirt Freshman ) as the only freshmen in school history to earn the accolade mroe than once in a season.

Foster won the award for the first time on Jan. 6 after averaging 16 points in wins over George Washington and No. 6 / 6 Oklahoma State.

 

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) – Royals pitchers and catchers report to Arizona for the start of spring training on Friday, and that presumably means All-Star closer Greg Holland will be there.

Of course, there’s a little business that still needs to be finished.

Holland is eligible for arbitration and the two sides have yet to reach an agreement. He asked for $5.2 million after going 2-1 with a 1.21 ERA and 47 saves, while the Royals offered $4.1 million. Either way, it’s a big bump from the $539,000 he made last season.

The Royals would not disclose when his arbitration hearing will take place, so it’s unclear when a deal would need to be reached. Hearings run through Feb. 21.

STILLWATER, Okla. (AP) – Oklahoma State star Marcus Smart has been suspended three games by the Big 12 for shoving a fan in the closing seconds of the Cowboys’ loss at Texas Tech on Saturday night.

Oklahoma State coach Travis Ford announced the suspension as he spoke in support of the All-America guard Sunday.

Smart apologized for his actions prior to Ford speaking at the news conference on the Oklahoma State campus.

Ford says Smart accepts his punishment and feels terrible. Smart will miss games against Texas, Oklahoma and Baylor.

Late in Saturday night’s game at Lubbock, Texas, Smart shoved Tech fan Jeff Orr with two hands after it appeared the Red Raiders fan said something to the top NBA prospect. Teammates quickly pulled Smart away as he pointed back in Orr’s direction.