The Junction City Lady Jay volleyball team finished third out of five teams in pool competition Saturday at Emporia. They defeated Pittsburg and Emporia, but lost to Shawnee Heights and Leavenworth. In bracket play that followed, Junction City fell to Maize 25-23, 25-20 and to Lawrence Free State 25-11, 25-17.

Alabama and Florida State hold the top two spots in the first BCS standings of the season. Oregon was a close third behind second-place Florida State.

The Seminoles (.9348 BCS average) are coming off their biggest win of the season, a 51-14 victory at previously unbeaten Clemson.

The Ducks (.9320) have only played one team that was ranked at the time, but could get a boost in the next two weeks with games against UCLA and at Stanford.

Ohio State is a more distant fourth, followed by Missouri in the standings released Sunday night.

The top two teams in the final standings after the end of the regular season play in the Rose Bowl for the national title in January.

 

The Junction City Blue Jays rallied from a 21-7 second quarter deficit to defeat the Washburn Rural Junior Blues 42-25 on Senior Night at Al Simpler Stadium.

It was a big win for the Blue Jays coached by Randall Zimmerman. “Washburn Rural is such a good team, just an incredibly good team, physical, strong. They had eight returning offensive starters, seven returning defensive starters, and our kids came out and they played hard, and they played for each other.”

Blue Jay running back Jerma’l Campbell got the comeback going with a 41-yard touchdown run with 2:17 remaining in the second quarter. Washburn Rural drove the ball downfield but a pass by quarterback Blake Peterson was picked off and returned 92 yards for a touchdown by Blue Jay safety Raye Wilson with just 14 seconds remaining in the first half. That touchdown allowed the game to be tied 21-21 at halftime.

In the third quarter Junction City reeled three consecutive touchdowns to go ahead 42-21 entering the fourth quarter, but the Junior Blues put together their own late rally scoring two touchdowns in the final five minutes. But a final onside kick by the Junior Blues was recovered by Junction City and the Blue Jays were able to run out the clock, and secure the win.

The victory for Junction City came in the district opener for both teams.  The Blue Jays and Washburn Rural are both 5-2 overall on the season.

Junction City 42 Washburn Rural 35
Andale 28, Buhler 21
Andover 42, Valley Center 17
Andover Central 49, Arkansas City 14
Atchison County 37, Maur Hill – Mount Academy 13
Axtell 47, Frankfort 0
Baileyville-B&B 56, Southern Coffey 6
Baldwin 61, Ottawa 0
Beloit 48, Phillipsburg 27
Bishop Miege 49, KC Turner 0
Blue Valley Stilwell 47, Blue Valley Southwest 3
Bonner Springs 16, DeSoto 15
BV West 56, Pittsburg 35
Cair Paravel 54, Veritas Christian 6
Caney Valley 28, Cherryvale 0
Canton-Galva 58, Pretty Prairie 22
Central Plains 40, Lincoln 20
Centralia 55, Troy 20
Centre 42, Hartford 0
Chanute 38, Iola 7
Chase 44, Goessel 28
Cheney 56, Nickerson 14
Chetopa 42, Crest 14
Christ Preparatory Academy 37, Jayhawk Linn 0
Coffeyville 55, Labette County 6
Columbus 46, Baxter Springs 0
Concordia 22, Colby 12
Conway Springs 35, Belle Plaine 6
Derby 76, Wichita Southeast 13
Douglass 32, Chaparral 0
Elkhart 64, Johnson-Stanton County 32
Ell-Saline 40, Republic County 8
Ellis 26, St. Francis 0
Eudora 14, Santa Fe Trail 13
Fort Scott 48, Anderson County 6
Fowler 50, Bucklin 0
Fredonia 44, Burlington 26
Frontenac 35, Parsons 0
Galena 30, Pittsburg Colgan 14
Garden Plain 40, Haven 6
Gardner-Edgerton 52, Olathe South 7
Goodland 8, Clay Center 7
Hanover 44, BV Randolph 0
Hays 47, Great Bend 14
Hays-TMP-Marian 49, Russell 0
Hesston 62, Circle 20
Hiawatha 21, Horton 6
Hodgeman County 64, Minneola 0
Holcomb 48, Southwestern Hts. 0
Holton 56, Wamego 6
Hope 48, Burrton 0
Hoxie 48, Hill City 0
Hugoton 30, Pratt 6
Humboldt 34, Eureka 20
Hutchinson 35, Dodge City 0
Independence 41, Girard 0
Ingalls 14, Rolla 6
Inman 48, Herington 7
Jefferson North 64, Jackson Heights 0
Jefferson West 36, Basehor-Linwood 35, OT
Kapaun Mount Carmel 14, Wichita West 13
KC Bishop Ward 26, KC Sumner 14
KC Piper 28, Atchison 20
Kingman 35, Hutchinson Trinity 6
Kiowa County 50, Fairfield 0
LaCrosse 30, Sterling 14
Lakin 28, Cimarron 0
Lansing 40, KC Washington 18
Lawrence Free State 55, KC Wyandotte 14
Leavenworth 16, Lawrence 8
Lebo 36, KC East Lions 0
Liberal 64, Goddard 46
Linn 62, Glasco/Miltonvale-Southern Cloud 40
Louisburg 47, Prairie View 0
Lyndon 69, Oswego 24
Lyons 40, Ellsworth 33
Madison 62, Burlingame 14
Maize 40, Garden City 24
Maize South 65, El Dorado 17
Manhattan 22, Topeka 7
Marais des Cygnes Valley 70, Uniontown 22
Maranatha Academy 62, Wentworth Military, Mo. 8
Marion 27, Halstead 0
McLouth 38, Oskaloosa 0
McPherson 42, Smoky Valley 13
Meade 73, Wichita County 18
Medicine Lodge 50, Ellinwood 36
Mill Valley 48, KC Schlagle 0
Moscow 54, Ashland 6
Moundridge 40, Hillsboro 35
Nemaha Valley 20, Riley County 12
Neodesha 19, Erie 14
Ness City 26, Trego 6
Newton 49, Emporia 42
Northern Valley 72, Stockton 44
Norton 41, Minneapolis 7
Oakley 12, Oberlin-Decatur 6
Olathe North 33, Olathe Northwest 7
Olpe 33, Northeast-Arma 6
Onaga 46, Chase County 22
Osborne 80, Clifton-Clyde 32
Otis-Bison 72, Western Plains/Healy 26
Oxford 58, Central Burden 8
Paola 73, Osawatomie 28
Peabody-Burns 48, Flinthills 0
Pleasanton 36, Marmaton Valley 4
Pratt Skyline 40, St. John 34
Rawlins County 56, Quinter 8
Remington 14, Bluestem 8
Rock Creek 35, Marysville 6
Rock Hills 74, Lakeside 24
Rose Hill 32, Augusta 26
Rossville 35, Mission Valley 0
Sabetha 28, Riverside 12
Salina Sacred Heart 21, Southeast Saline 8
Salina South 55, Salina Central 27
Scott City 6, Hoisington 0
Sedgwick 55, Wichita Independent 14
Shawnee Heights 48, Highland Park 6
Silver Lake 55, Pleasant Ridge 6
SM East 35, SM Northwest 13
SM West 56, SM North 29
Smith Center 40, Plainville 8
Solomon 50, Little River 0
South Barber 66, Attica/Argonia 56
South Central 66, Macksville 16
South Gray 56, Deerfield 54
South Haven 68, Caldwell 26
Southeast 34, Riverton 0
Spearville 58, Satanta 8
St. John’s Beloit-Tipton 40, Logan 14
St. Mary’s 46, Council Grove 20
St. Mary’s Academy 20, St. John’s Military 12
St. Thomas Aquinas 60, KC Harmon 0
Stafford 54, Norwich 6
Sublette 28, Syracuse 6
Sylvan-Lucas 46, Wilson 0
Thunder Ridge 48, Cheylin 0
Tonganoxie 38, Perry-Lecompton 8
Topeka Hayden 21, Royal Valley 0
Topeka Seaman 37, Topeka West 20
Triplains-Brewster 48, Greeley County 0
Udall 50, Sedan 26
Ulysses 41, Larned 0
Valley Heights 35, Doniphan West 15
Victoria 20, Dighton 0
Wabaunsee 21, Northern Heights 18
Wakefield 76, Pike Valley 50
Washington County 45, Bennington 6
Wellington 21, Clearwater 19
Wellsville 12, Central Heights 7
Weskan 2, Wheatland-Grinnell 0
West Elk 50, Cedar Vale/Dexter 0
West Franklin 42, Osage City 21
White City 50, Tescott 0
Wichita Bishop Carroll 56, Goddard-Eisenhower 21
Wichita Collegiate 49, Wichita Trinity 14
Wichita North 52, Wichita South 26
Wichita Northwest 69, Wichita Campus 16
Winfield 20, Mulvane 14
Yates Center 64, St. Paul 18

 

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) – Kansas State coach Bill Snyder will have to dust off some mighty old notebooks this week to see what he did the last time his team had a losing record through its first six games.

The defending Big 12 champions are just 2-4 as they enter their off week in the conference schedule, dropping their first three league games to Texas, Oklahoma State and Baylor.

It’s the first time since 2004 that Kansas State has gotten off to such a sluggish start, the year before Snyder stepped away for a brief retirement. It’s only the fourth time in 22 seasons under Snyder that the Wildcats have had a losing record at this point in the season.

Kansas State returns to face West Virginia a week from Saturday.

The Friday night football schedule finds:

–Junction City hosting Washburn Rural

–Topeka High at Manhattan

–Abilene at Chapman

–Concordia hosts Colby

–Shawnee Heights at Highland Park

–Seaman at Topeka West

–Clay Center hosts Goodland

–Wamego at Holton

–Council Grove at St. Mary’s

–Marysville visits Rock Creek

–Solomon at Little River

–Centre at Hartford

–Herington hosts Wabaunsee

–Riley County hosts Nemaha Valley

–Hanover visits Blue Valley Randolph

–Hope hosts Burrton

–White City hosts Tescott

The 1969 and 2008 Blue Jay state championship football teams will be honored Friday night at Junction City High School.

Activities begin at 5 p.m. in the Warren Settles Auditorium, and continue with a team picture, and recognition at the Blue Jay – Washburn Rural football game at Al Simpler Stadium. 

A member of the 1969 team, linebacker, Richard Wilhite of Junction City, said most of the kids he played with over the years were local. “There were a few military kids on the team, but we were all local kids. We had been playing since 8th grade together…all these years.” Wilhite noted the varsity was undefeated his junior season in 1968. And the 69 squad captured the Class Four-A state title in the first year of postseason playoffs in Kansas high school football with only one loss during the season to a team from Ponca City, Oklahoma. The Blue Jays defeated Bishop Carroll 20-8 in the state championship game.

The 2008 football team went 13-0 and won the Class 6A state title. They defeated Lawrence Free State in the state championship game.

Members of the 1969 team who have said they plan to attend include Billy Baughman, Les Chaves, Richard Wilhite, Alan Hart, Paul Poole, Steve Miles, coaches Ben Bennett and Jim Pendarvis, and Dee Simpler, the son of the late head coach Al Simpler. Dee Simpler would later become  a Blue Jay assistant coach.

Members of the 2008 team who have said they will attend the activities Friday night include Connor Gallentine, Josh Bassett, Justin Aumen, Jordon McCallister, Ty Zimmerman, Braden Gallentine, Brandon Martino, Justin Irvine, Brian Heldstab, and Andy Birchmeier. They should have an opportunity to visit with their head coach Randall Zimmerman since he continues to serve as the head football coach at Junction City High School.

There will be some big changes for the Junction City Brigade in their second season of summer collegiate baseball.

Officials have made it clear the team will play ball in 2014, but as part of a new six-team Great Plains League, instead of as an independent.

Brigade spokesman Cecil Aska said other teams in the league will be the Topeka Golden Giants, Rossville Rattlers, Kansas City Blues, Kansas City A’s, and the Golden Giants group is expected to put a second team on the field….probably in Lawrence.

In addition to 15 league home baseball games and some non-league matchups,  there will be an all star game and league tournament….all at Rathert Field. “The league tournament will be held here in Junction City, and the league was pretty insistent that that happen. And that will be days, a double elimination tournament. It will start on a Wednesday and end on a Sunday.”  The tournament will be played in mid-July.

There is a plan to play the all star game July 5. Officials are trying to line up a game matching the All Stars from the Great Plains League against the Military All Stars. That has not yet been finalized.

Shane Sieben, Brigade manager, said 22 players have already committed to play in Junction City next summer including some returners from 2013.  Kansas State University and Emporia State University will continue to send players for the roster. Two other Division I schools will also be represented on the roster…..Wichita State and Arkansas State.

The Kansas State football game against West Virginia will kick off at 2:45 p.m. on Saturday October 26 at Bill Snyder Family Stadium.

The game will be televised by Fox Sports 1, the Big 12 and Fox announced on Monday.

The contest will be the Mountaineers’ first ever trip to Manhattan.

Last season Kansas State defeated West Virginia 55-14 in Morgantown.

Kansas State ( 2-4 , 0-3 ) is idle this week before hosting the Mountaineers. The contest will serve as the annual Homecoming game and the 150th anniversary celebration at Kansas State University.

Single-game tickets for Kansas State’s nine-game men’s basketball exhibition and non-conference home schedule as well as the Holiday and KU Mini-Plans will go on sale to the public on Monday, Oct. 21.

K-State Athletics is offering two mini-plans for fans to provide affordability and flexibility when attending men’s basketball games this winter. The Holiday Mini-Plan includes a general admission seat for both the George Washington game Dec. 31 and the Big 12 opener with Big 12 co-favorite Oklahoma State on Saturday Jan. 4 for just $30. The KU Mini-Plan includes a reserved ticket to the Big Monday tilt with Kansas on Feb. 10, two non-conference games, and two Big 12 contests for $250.

Those ticket options, along with season tickets for the defending Big 12 co-champions, can be purchased through the Athletics Ticket Office in a variety of ways, including toll free at (800) 221.CATS ( 2287 ), online at www.k-statesports.com/tickets and in-person at Bramlage Coliseum.