Category: Sports

KCKCC golfers just miss third in best Jayhawk outing

by Alan Hoskins

Kansas City Kansas Community College’s young golf team turned it its best Jayhawk Conference performance of the season in the fifth designated tournament of the year Sunday and Monday.

Putting together rounds of 296 and 310 for a 606 total, the Blue Devils finished fourth just a stroke back of third place Johnson County (305).

Dodge City continued its season-long dominance of the league with a 3-under par 573 with Hutchinson second (583) in the 36-hole tourney played at Rolling Meadows in Junction City.

Freshmen had the four low scores for KCKCC led by Seve Sites of Shawnee Mission West, who had a 74-75-149 to tie for ninth.

Montana Fasching of Piper was another stroke back at 75-75-150 to tie for 12th while Lane Pauls tied for 19th (73-79-152) and Dalton Ayres shared 24th (74-81-155). Both are from Newton.

Sophomore Collin Herron of Topeka Hayden finished in a tie for 31st at 76-81-157 and Alec Otting of Basehor was 51st with a 90-86-176.

A 10-team tournament, Garden City finished fifth (609) followed by Independence (616), Barton County (632), Coffeyville (635), Allen County (658) and Colby (672).

The Blue Devils will close out KJCCC play April 20-22 when the 54-hole Jayhawk championship tournament will be held at Sand Creek in Newton.

Ford’s perfect game highlights KCKCC sweep at Cottey

Leslie Ford

by Alan Hoskins

Leslie Ford’s perfect game highlighted Kansas City Kansas Community College’s sweep at Cottey College in Nevada, Mo., Tuesday.

Ford pitched the Lady Blue Devils to a 13-0 win and Elizabeth Seimears followed up with a 5-hit shutout in a 17-0 rout in pair of 5-inning games.

The two wins boosted the Blue Devils’ overall record to 24-8 heading into a doubleheader at No. 12 ranked Highland Wednesday before they return home to host Cloud County Friday at 2-4 p.m. and Brown Mackie Saturday at noon-2 p.m.

Ford struck out 11 of the 15 batters she faced in Tuesday’s opening win while Seimears fanned seven in her 5-hitter in the nightcap.

Lacey Santiago doubled and tripled and drove in four runs; Amanda Holroyd doubled and tripled to drive in two to pace a 12-hit KCKCC attack in the opener.

Megan Dike added a double and single, Laura Vanderheiden two singles and Hanna Barnhart a double for the Blue Devils.

Santiago and Holroyd sandwiched their triples around Justice Scales single for a 2-0 lead in the first and Santiago’s 3-run double in the second following hits by Ford and Vanderheiden made it 6-0.

The final seven runs came in the fourth in an uprising that included back-to-back doubles by Mierra Morisette, Holroyd and Barnhart and a single and double by Dike. Morisette drove in six runs in the second game, three on a home run and two on a double in a 13-run fourth inning.

Holroyd also had a two-run homer and single in the inning while Barnhart, Scales and Santiago each had a double and single in the uprising.

The 12-hit inning also included a run-scoring double by Dike and two-run double by Henigton.

Piper results

 

The Piper High School forensics team took first place recently in competition at Louisburg. (Piper High School photo)

Piper High School – forensics at Louisburg –

1st place as team

– James Clark and Laura Clark- 3rd in Duet Acting

– Corey Mann- 2nd in Extemp and 3rd in Oration

– Taylor DeWitt- 2nd in Inform and 2nd in Humorous Interp

– Aly Barnett- 5th in Inform

– Sheridan Smith- 6th in Humorous Interp and 6th in Prose

– Sarah Stella- 1st in Poetry and 6th in Dramatic Interp

– Jerry Manan- 2nd in Dramatic Interp and 2nd in Prose

– Abby Neal- 4th in Impromptu –

Chad Irwin- 1st in Prose and qualified for State Champs

Piper High School – soccer at Baldwin

– Varsity won 4-0

– goals by Woolley, Gunnels, Trzok, and Klaas. Shut-out by Ferguson

– JV won 5-0

– goals by Gray (3), Lake, and Cunningham. Shut-out by Ibarra.

Piper High School – golf at Jeff West

– 1st place as a team

– Jackson Jones 1st place with a 46

– Sullivan Ford 6th place with a 49

– Information and photo from Doug Key, Piper activities director