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Piper results
High school – soccer vs. Tonganoxie
– Varsity won 4-0
– goals by Woolley (4), 2 assists by Gunnels, and shut-out by Ferguson
– JV won 10-0
– goals by Wallace (3), Gooch (2), Brownell (2), McCloud, Gray, and shut-out by Ibarra
– Doug Key, Piper activities director
Piper High School – track at Basehor-Linwood
– Boys 1st and Girls 2nd place
– 1st: Davis (100m/200m), Murray (LJ), Richardson (300m), Ortiz (discus – new school again), G 4x100m (Webb. Morrow, Erwin, Davis)
– 2nd: Morrow (400m), Ja. Wayne (800m), White (110h), Kempf (discus), Webb (TJ), Saunders (100m), Richardson (110h), Jones (LJ), Rogers (Jav), G 4×400 (Morrow, Erwin, Washington, Ja. Wayne), B 4×100 (Jones, Owens, Hooks, Saunders)
-3rd: White (300h), Murray (TJ), Saunders (220m), Schneider (1600m/3200m), McIntosh (110h), Ortiz (SP), B 4×400 (Saunders, Bah, Wright, Pahls)
Piper High School – swimming at Shawnee Mission East
Girls 200 Yard Medley Relay
2nd Morris,Grable, Johnson, Dailey
5th Eikenbary, Waters, Muthoni
Girls 200 Yard Freestyle
1st Johnson State qualifying time
Girls 200 Yard IM
1st Dailey State qualifying time
Girls 100 Yard Butterfly
1st Morris
4th Muthoni
Girls 500 Yard Freestyle
2nd Waters
4th Shearer
Girls 100 Yard Breaststroke
2nd Dailey
3rd Johnson
4th Grable
Girls 400 Yard Freestyle Relay
1st Morris, Grable, Dailey, Johnson State qualifying time
Piper High School – forensics at Tonganoxie
3rd place overall
Laura Clark- 6th in Poetry
Jalen Zwart- 1st in Poetry and qualified for State Champs
Morgan DeWitt- 5th in Prose
Tyrone Hooks- 1st in Humorous Solo Acting and qualified for State Champs
Jared Winzer- 4th in Informative Speaking and qualified for State Champs
Matt Romero and Ian Smith- 6th in Improvised Duet Acting
Jalen Zwart and Maggie Wolf- 5th in Improvised Duet Acting
at East Kansas National Forensics League National Qualifier:
Team took 3rd overall
Logan Stacer- 1st in Original Oration and qualified for Nationals, and 5th in Dramatic Interpretation.
Jerry Manan- 2nd in Dramatic Interpretation and qualified for Nationals.
Taylor Smith 9th in Dramatic Interpretation.
Cole Oakland 9th in International Extemp.
– Informaton and photos from Doug Key, Piper activities director
by Alan Hoskins
Shutout pitching by Geoff Birkemeier and reliever Hunter Phillips carried Kansas City Kansas Community College to a doubleheader sweep of Labette Thursday.
Birkemeier threw a two-hit gem in shutting out the Cardinals 5-0 in the opener while Phillips retired the final 10 batters as the Blue Devils rallied for an 8-7 win in the nightcap.
The sweep vaulted the Blue Devils (23-17) into a fifth place Jayhawk Conference tie with Independence, both 14-12 with 10 games remaining starting with a return doubleheader against Labette in Parsons Saturday.
KCKCC’s final eight games will be played against Highland April 17-19 and Allen County April 24-26.
Trailing 7-6 in the bottom of the eighth of the second game, the Blue Devils put runners on second and third with one out on a hit batsman, a single by Daniel LaMunyon and, a sacrifice bunt by Eric Hinostroza.
An attempted squeeze play with Sam Baxter at the plate misfired but pinchrunner Alex Thrower escaped a rundown to score the tying run and the winning running scored moments later on Baxter’s ground ball to short.
The rally made a winner out of Phillips, who came on in the sixth inning with two on and one out, served up an inning-ending double play pitch and then set down the Cardinals in order the final three innings.
KCKCC took advantage of Labette miscues to build a 5-0 lead. Lucas Norton’s bunt single to lead off was the only hit in a two-run first inning while an error opened the door for a 3-run third that included the first of three singles by Zane Mapes, Norton’s second hit, a sacrifice fly by Tyler Raymond and an RBI single by Garrett McKinzie.
Preston Bailey got the mound start but had to be lifted in a four-run fourth with an arm injury.
Labette then went ahead 7-5 in the sixth, scoring three runs off Cole Frackes on an error, two singles and a walk before Phillips came on to slam the door on the Cardinals.
KCKCC closed back to 7-6 in the bottom of the sixth on Mapes’ two-out single following a single by Mitch Glessner and a walk.
Birkemeier retired the Cardinals in order in the five of seven innings and faced only three men over the minimum in the opener.
A two-out double in the third following an error and a two-out single in the seventh were the only hits off Birkemeier, who struck out three and walked none.
“I thought Geoff Birkemeier was throwing well enough to throw a no-hitter,” said KCKCC coach Steve Burleson. “He pitched impeccably. The second game we were a little bit luckier than good.”
The Blue Devils bunched all of their six hits in the first three innings in the 5-0 win.
Norton was hit to start the game, moved up on Raymond’s single and scored on a wild pitch in the first and Mapes and Norton rapped back-to-back triples following Eric Hinostroza’s single for a 3-0 lead in the second.
Bunt singles by LaMunyon and Mapes following an error, walk and Hinostroza’s sacrifice fly plated the final two runs in the third.