Gardner Edgerton‘s Wait wins 6A gold with an all-class record clearance of 13 feet, 2 inches. Mill Valley’s Brigham takes 5A gold with a state-meet record 12-8. Maranatha‘s Bailey also sets state record at 11-5 to nab 2A title.
De Soto loses to Towanda Circle in the third-place game at the Kansas state 4A baseball tournament.
The two schools will face each other in the 4A-1A consolation game after being shut out Friday night.
The Kansas Class 6A girls soccer semifinal game between Blue Valley Northwest and Maize might have played out differently if the Huskies hadn’t scored a goal less than 30 seconds into the game. But BV Northwest’s clear advantages in speed, athleticism and instinct probably would have been established eventually.
Stewart gets the win in both games as the Hawks go extra innings to take down Derby 2-1 in the semifinals, then escape a determined Washburn Rural team in the final.
For the second straight year, the senior is crowned a champion in the event, this time leaping more than a foot farther than her nearest competitor.
Wildcats beat Augusta 7-4 and are crowned Kansas 4A champions. Mill Valley places second in 5A.
Park Hill South’s Zack Royle and Jim Geary dropped the first set of their doubles quarterfinal matchup against Lee’s Summit West but rebounded to win 12 of the final 13 games and advance to the Missouri Class 2 tennis state semifinals. Rockhurst’s doubles team of Jacob Moore and John Nogalski Jr. also made the semifinals.
Senior pitcher Jenni Brooks scattered five hits and struck out five without surrendering a walk as the Hawks reached the state semifinals for the 14th time since 1998.
Blue Valley and Olathe South also move on
Sisters Lexie and Lacie Myers fueled a five-run first with hits for extra bases and Mill Valley held off Andover Central 5-1 at the Two Rivers Youth Complex.
Behind a complete game shutout from ace Ryan Colombo, the Vikings won 5-0 and will face Shawnee Heights for the third time this season.
Falcons get a gutsy job from starter White to beat Blue Spring South 4-2 in Class 5. Meanwhile in Oak Grove’s 3-2 Class 4 win over St. Pius, a reversed call proves crucial.
The Missouri Class 4 and Class 3 track and field state championship meets take place Friday and Saturday at Lincoln University in Jefferson City.
Hawklets dispatch Christian Brothers College High School 5-1 in the semifinals and then finish their season undefeated by shellacking Rock Bridge 5-0.
The junior shot putter and discus thrower has so much potential — and gold medals at the Missouri state track meet last year to prove her bona fides — that she has fans on the edge of their seats, waiting to see a monster throw.
Kansas’ five baseball state tournaments — Class 6A in Lawrence, 5A in Wichita, 4A in Salina, 3A in Manhattan and 2-1A in Emporia — will start a day earlier than previous years with the quarterfinals set for Thursday followed by the semifinals and finals on Friday.
Kansas’ five softball state tournaments — Class 6A at Blue Valley West, 5A in Wichita, 4A in Salina, 3A in Manhattan and 2-1A in Emporia — will start a day earlier than previous years with the quarterfinals set for Thursday followed by the semifinals and finals on Friday.
The Class 2 and Class 1 state team tournament takes place Thursday at the Cooper Tennis Complex in Springfield. The singles and doubles tournaments will run Friday and Saturday at the same site.
CLASS 6A
Olathe East junior Haley Hanson was announced Wednesday as the Gatorade Kansas Girls Soccer Player of the Year for 2012-13.
Huskies top defending champions 4-3 in a match that featured six goals in the first 42 minutes, but only one — the decisive one — in the final 38 minutes.
The Saints, a perennial at the state tournament, score three goals in the first 8 minutes, 5 seconds and go on to beat the Timberwolves 4-2 Class 5A state quarterfinal match.
Blue Springs South’s Reece Eddins and Rockhurst’s Joe Huber hooked up in a pitchers’ duel in Missouri Class 5 sectional baseball. But the hero was Blue Springs South junior Zac Slaven, who delivered a two-out, pinch-hit single in the bottom of the eighth that gave the Jaguars a 2-1 victory.
Johnson’s second goal of the game provides the winning margin for the Titans in their Missouri Class 3 Sectional.
