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SHAWNEE —
Pittsburg head tennis coach John Seal expressed disappointment Thursday night and two days later, he expressed joy in the performance of the girls squad in the Jaguar Invitational (Mill Valley).
Seal explained that Pittsburg won only a single medal in their four previous years playing this event and on Saturday, Pittsburg brought home a team medal and three individual medals — a first, a second and a third. Pittsburg finished third behind host Mill Valley and overall winner Blue Valley.
No. 1 singles player Katy Short faced a formidable challenge during her first-round match. She played three-time state qualifier and Mill Valley’s ace singles player, Sarah Wetzel . . . Short beat Wetzel 8-7 and Wetzel ended up fourth. Seal called this win “huge for us.”
Short won her next two matches against KC Sumner and Spring Hill before falling 8-1 in the championship match to Morgan Steffes of Blue Valley, a fellow sophomore player who finished her freshman season Eastern Kansas League singles champion and third place at state.
Brittany Wilde, whom Seal says keeps getting better, dropped her opening match and her third-place match to finish in fourth.
Jessica Curlee-Laikyn Long placed third in No. 1 doubles, playing what Seal called their best tennis of the year. Curlee-Long scored Pittsburg a point.
Katie Phalen-Emily Baden won No. 2 singles, defeating Mill Valley 8-6, Spring Hill 8-1, KC Sumner 8-0 and Lansing 8-5. Seal said Phalen-Baden played “fantastic” Saturday.
Team results: Blue Valley 21, Mill Valley 19, Pittsburg 17, Lansing 14, Maranatha Academy 9, Spring Hill 5, Bonner Springs 1, KC Sumner 1.
High school volleyball
Frontenac took second in the Erie Tournament on Saturday, losing both its matches on the day to Class 4A No. 3-ranked Chanute, a team which Frontenac head coach Cassie Buche said outpowered the Raiders.
However, Frontenac enjoyed a little revenge against Southeast and Erie, teams which swept Frontenac on its home floor during a recent Crawford-Neosho-Cherokee League triangular.
“Overall, we had a great day,” Buche said. “Lindsey Gorham did a great job running our offense and our serving game was phenomenal today.”
In the first match of the day, Frontenac defeated Wichita West 2-0 (25-4, 25-17). Gorham had 14 assists, 22 service points, three aces and four digs. Ryleigh McCartney added five digs, eight kills and four blocks. Andi Palumbo had eight digs, six service points and three aces. Nayna Fields added five digs on the defensive end and offensively, Lauren Hipfl and Libby Warrick had four and three kills, respectively.
Pittsburg head tennis coach John Seal expressed disappointment Thursday night and two days later, he expressed joy in the performance of the girls squad in the Jaguar Invitational (Mill Valley).
Seal explained that Pittsburg won only a single medal in their four previous years playing this event and on Saturday, Pittsburg brought home a team medal and three individual medals — a first, a second and a third. Pittsburg finished third behind host Mill Valley and overall winner Blue Valley.
No. 1 singles player Katy Short faced a formidable challenge during her first-round match. She played three-time state qualifier and Mill Valley’s ace singles player, Sarah Wetzel . . . Short beat Wetzel 8-7 and Wetzel ended up fourth. Seal called this win “huge for us.”
Short won her next two matches against KC Sumner and Spring Hill before falling 8-1 in the championship match to Morgan Steffes of Blue Valley, a fellow sophomore player who finished her freshman season Eastern Kansas League singles champion and third place at state.
Brittany Wilde, whom Seal says keeps getting better, dropped her opening match and her third-place match to finish in fourth.
Jessica Curlee-Laikyn Long placed third in No. 1 doubles, playing what Seal called their best tennis of the year. Curlee-Long scored Pittsburg a point.
Katie Phalen-Emily Baden won No. 2 singles, defeating Mill Valley 8-6, Spring Hill 8-1, KC Sumner 8-0 and Lansing 8-5. Seal said Phalen-Baden played “fantastic” Saturday.
Team results: Blue Valley 21, Mill Valley 19, Pittsburg 17, Lansing 14, Maranatha Academy 9, Spring Hill 5, Bonner Springs 1, KC Sumner 1.
High school volleyball
Frontenac took second in the Erie Tournament on Saturday, losing both its matches on the day to Class 4A No. 3-ranked Chanute, a team which Frontenac head coach Cassie Buche said outpowered the Raiders.
However, Frontenac enjoyed a little revenge against Southeast and Erie, teams which swept Frontenac on its home floor during a recent Crawford-Neosho-Cherokee League triangular.
“Overall, we had a great day,” Buche said. “Lindsey Gorham did a great job running our offense and our serving game was phenomenal today.”
In the first match of the day, Frontenac defeated Wichita West 2-0 (25-4, 25-17). Gorham had 14 assists, 22 service points, three aces and four digs. Ryleigh McCartney added five digs, eight kills and four blocks. Andi Palumbo had eight digs, six service points and three aces. Nayna Fields added five digs on the defensive end and offensively, Lauren Hipfl and Libby Warrick had four and three kills, respectively.
Frontenac beat Southeast 2-0 (25-21, 25-14) for its first dip into sweet revenge. McCartney delivered a double-double of 10 digs and 13 kills, proving adept both offensively and defensively. Fields and Jennifer Long added double-digit digs, 17 and 12 respectively. Warrick had five kills and nine digs. Gorham set up 26 points and added two blocks. Palumbo finished with nine service points, one ace and five digs.
Frontenac lost its first match to Chanute 2-0 (11-25, 23-25), despite 15 assists and eight digs from Gorham and eight digs, four kills and one block from McCartney. Long and Fields had seven and six digs, respectively, and Paige Badart added five kills.
Frontenac bounced Erie 2-0 (25-23, 25-18) in the semifinals behind 11 service points, six kills, three digs and two blocks from McCartney and six digs and 13 assists from Gorham. Long finished with 10 digs and Palumbo five digs, seven service points and one ace. Hipfl added four kills and two blocks and Warrick two kills and one block.
Chanute beat Frontenac 2-0 (25-18, 25-16) in the championship match. Gorham led with seven digs and 14 assists.
Frontenac improves to 13-4 on the season and hosts its final home matches Tuesday night.
St. Mary’s Colgan went 4-2 and placed fourth in the Humboldt Tournament on Saturday. Katelyn Flood totaled 41 assists and Sydney Beck 23 kills.
Colgan beat Crest 2-0 (25-4, 25-12), Pleasanton 2-0 (25-16, 25-15), Olathe Metro 2-0 (25-13, 25-11) and Yates Center 2-0 (25-23, 25-13) but lost to Waverly 2-0 (12-25, 18-25) and Humboldt 2-0 (24-26, 20-25).
Flood had six assists and Beck six kills against Crest. Flood had nine assists and Cori Koehn five kills against Pleasanton. Beck led with five kills against Olathe Metro; meanwhile, Flood, Kelly Smith and Alex Minton each had three assists and Katie Kolarik, Abbie O’Brien and Koehn each had three kills. Flood led with 15 assists and Koehn nine kills against Humboldt.
Northeast went 1-3 in the Oswego Tournament on Saturday. The Vikings opened with their only win, beating Elk Valley in three sets (25-11, 23-25, 25-14). Northeast lost to Oswego 2-0 (9-25, 14-25), Columbus 2-1 (26-24, 13-25, 20-25) and West Elk 2-0 (8-25, 14-25).
Colgan swept Galena 2-0 (25-11, 25-15), Northeast 2-0 (25-12, 25-10) and Southeast 2-0 (25-10, 25-19) in a home JV quad. Sydney Russell had 11 service points and 15 assists, Haydn Dawson nine service points and 11 kills, Madison Marietta 27 service points and nine kills, Halee Pace 17 service points and 25 assists, Kylee Duncan 12 kills and seven blocks, and Faith VanBecelaere 34 service points and seven kills.
High school cross country
The Frontenac girls and the Girard boys finished third Thursday in the Calvin Priest Invitational.
Frontenac runners Taylor Jameson (seventh, 16:54.07), Tabor Spurling (12th, 17:25.11) and Hana Coleman (20th, 17:59.00) paced the Raiders in a field littered with high-quality long-distance runners like Michaela Ozier of Labette County, Katren Rienbolt of Fort Scott, Maddison Dispensa of Chanute and Kaylee Bogina of Northeast.
Nathan Hughes of Girard finished third in the boys race with a time of 18:01.02 and he was surrounded by three Labette County runners — overall winner Drew Baum (16:59.51), runner-up David Geren (17:38.95) and fourth-place George Langston (18:10.99).
Varsity girls, team results: Anderson County 45, Chanute 65, Frontenac 71, Girard 95, Independence 100, Labette County 136.
Frontenac: 7. Taylor Jameson 16:54.07, 12. Tabor Spurling 17:25.11, 20. Hana Coleman 17:59.00, 33. Abby Welcher 18:52.69, 34. Karlie Zafuta 18:55.61, 45. Kinsella Brunetti 19:25.53.
Girard: 9. Jenna Schroeder 17:06.92, 11. Christian Provence 17:21.18, 35. Carly Bradshaw 19:00.10, 44. Cassidy Thomason 19:23.97, 51. Kendra Samuels 20:41.37, 52. Jaden Rusher 21:49.25.
Northeast: 4. Kaylee Bogina 16:39.52.
Varsity boys, team results: Labette County 29, Anderson County 72, Girard 78, Iola 84, Chanute 94, Frontenac 162, Independence 167.
Girard: 3. Nathan Hughes 18:01.02, 12. Drew Zimmerman 19:07.95, 19. Jon Zimmerman, 19:47.38, 37. Austin Parker 20:35.11, 38. Tanim Dillon 20:36.71, 48. Lane O’Toole 21:11.03, 50. Russell Frisbee 21:25.04.
Frontenac: 18. Chance Medlin 19:42.62, 43. Louis Brunetti 20:50.62, 52. Trey Tindell 21:33.73, 64. Ty Spurling 22:18.77, 68. Drew Martin 25:33.76.
Northeast: 14. Michael Toms 19:17.54.
