Happy 44th anniversary to Mike, Curtis, Rolando and the boys. K-State defeated the Soviet National Team 57-54 on Jan. 19, 1978, the Soviets’ lone loss on a 5-game U.S. college tour. The Soviets featured four 1976 Olympians, including 7-foot-4 Vladimir Tkachenko.
#EMAW
Tough day on the personal front. For those who know my dad from his many coaching and teaching stops at Kansas high schools, Pat Paske (
@trackstarter2
) passed away suddenly this morning at 72. My affinity for sports was his gift.
A little personal news this morning. Excited to announce I've joined the
@KSHSAA
staff to help start a new venture, KSHSAA Covered, covering high school athletics and activities. Thanks to
@CapFed
for their commitment to making this a reality.
This is Bruce’s 100th regular-season conference game at K-State. He’s about to be 50-50. I’ve watched or listened to 90+% of the Cats’ games since Chuckie and Mike. Don’t @ me to keep drinking this Kool-Aid.
Mill Valley senior Katie Schwartzkopf bookends her career with state cross country titles, winning the 5A girls race in a unofficial time of 17:52.
#KSHSAACovered
Warm reception at the state wrestling tournament for the family of Mike Church, Wichita Heights athletic director and former wrestling coach, who passed away Friday after a battle with cancer.
#KSHSAACovered
Class 6A boys championship
SM Northwest 47, Wichita Heights 39, FINAL
Cougars complete the 25-0 march to their first state title. Alven Riley scores 13 and Keaton Wagler adds 10 for SMNW.
Aven Mboule scores 12 for Heights, runners-up for the second straight year.
Historic performance by
@TonganoxieTrack
senior Eli Gilmore at the State Outdoor meet over the weekend. Becomes the first Kansas boy to win state titles in the 400, 800, 1600 and 3200, doing so in 4A.
#KSHSAACovered
Love a good Kansas sports story, and juiced for Eureka ending its state basketball drought (62 years for the boys, first trip for girls). Pops coached a good 19-3 team there in ‘83-‘84 that didn’t make it. Glad to see the Tornadoes have their day.
Saddened to learn of the passing of Andale girls basketball coach Ted Anderson. Ted was a caring coach and genuinely nice person. Always enjoyed chatting when he would call in game results. Our sons competed against each other in HS and junior golf. RIP to one of the good ones.
9,265 entries for this year’s U.S. Open.
And this one will start with a Shawnee Heights T-Bird (Gary Woodland), Washburn Rural Junior Blue (Andrew Beckler), Kapaun Crusader (Sam Stevens) and a Wichita Heights Falcon (Luke Gannon).
Good stuff, Kansas dudes.
Seaman has its first state volleyball title, knocking off reigning champ Aquinas 25-19, 25-21 in the Class 5A final. Vikings finish 38-6.
Maize South tops Spring Hill 22-25, 25-20, 25-21 for third.
#KSHSAACovered
Bishop Miege has announced via its Facebook page that longtime girls basketball coach Terry English died today due to a stroke. English led Miege to a 910-168 record and 22 state titles from 1975-2021.
The calendar says it’s graduation day, so we’ll roll with it. Congrats to my man with his mama’s smarts,
@trent_paske
, Master of Accountancy, K-State Class of 2020.
#EMAW
Credit to
@bhallier
for being on this first.
@CheneyCardinals
senior Jackson Voth unofficially with 19 receptions for 142 yards tonight in a 28-24 win over Andale. The 19 receptions ties a state record for most in a game with 4 others, according to
@kshof
records.
Thinking of you, Class of 2020. College grads. High school grads. Middle school promotions. Preschool grads. Wish there was a page in the playbook for this.
Thriller in Wichita. Blue Valley 33, Topeka 32, FINAL on Jadyn Wooten’s drive right before the buzzer. Blue Valley (20-3) will play Derby (22-1) in Friday’s 6A girls semis.
#KSHSAACovered
For Ernie.
For Lon.
For Chuckie and Mike.
For Rolando.
For Mitch.
For Jacob.
For the sweet elderly women in the Catholic Diocese of Salina who love EMAW shooty hoops and serve in anonymity.
K-State 67, Loyola 62. Let's go.
Maize’s Landon Helm scored the winning 2-point conversion in the Eagles’ 22-21 victory over Kapaun. Helm faked the reverse to Justin Stephens and won the race to the end zone with 29 seconds left.
#KSHSAACovered
End of the line for two great coaches in Kansas high school tennis. After 36 years, Hesston’s Mark Dahlsten will head to Wichita’s Central Christian Academy to teach. Collegiate’s Dave Hawley is stepping down after 42 seasons leading the Spartans.
#KSHSAACovered
6A BOYS: Wichita Heights 61, BV Northwest 54, FINAL. Heights wins its 7th state title and 6th under coach Joe Auer. Falcons are now 4-0 against BVNW in state title games. Heights finishes 23-2.
#KSHSAACovered
Kudos to today's
@KSHSAA
State Scholars Bowl champions
Class 6A – Blue Valley North
Class 5A – Andover Central
Class 4A – Rock Creek
Class 3A – Wichita Collegiate
Class 2A – Salina Sacred Heart
Class 1A I – Hodgeman County
Class 1A II – Tipton Catholic
#KSHSAACovered
It’s my 20,000th day on the Big Blue Marble and 37th with a surgically repaired ticker. Happy to spend it with a little high school football rivalry - Maize South vs. Maize - at Wichita’s Riverfront Stadium.
4A GIRLS STATE TENNIS
Back to back for Hayden senior Lauren Sandstrom and junior Emily Sheet. The Wildcats defeat McPherson sisters Riggs and Brodie Kuhn 6-1, 6-4 to repeat as 4A doubles champs. Sandstrom and Sheetz go 33-3 after a 34-4 run a year ago.
#KSHSAACovered
Andale's winning streak is at 50 after a 36-0 win over Clay Center in the 3A semis. Fifth program in Kansas to reach that milestone (Smith Center 79, Colgan 66, Conway Springs 62, Claflin 51). Austin Westlake has the nation's longest active streak at 52 after winning tonight.
My time-honored tradition of filling out brackets in the state basketball tournament program. Just one of those quirky things I picked up from the old man. Miss you today, Dad.
.
@vivian_kalb
is an angel walking this earth in living form. Thank you for your touching remembrance of my father, congratulations on your outstanding achievements and all the best to you and Derby’s Class of 2022.
6A GIRLS: Washburn Rural 40, Derby 23, FINAL. Junior Blues post their second 17-point win over Derby this season to win the title. Second title in four years for Rural.
#KSHSAACovered
It was an honor for my family to present the Pat Paske Memorial Scholarship to Derby senior Elena Molina today at the Derby Community Foundation scholarship reception. My pops was all about encouraging future educators and would have been delighted for Elena.
Nice Wichita history for PGA champ Collin Morikawa. Won the 2015 Trans-Miss at Flint Hills (set course record with 64). Posted best amateur finish in Wichita Open history in 2016 at Crestview, losing playoff to Ollie Schniederjans.
And shortly before 10:30 p.m., the 2023-24 high school sports year is over in Kansas with the Washburn Rural boys 1600-meter relay winning the Class 6A title at Cessna Stadium in a weather-delayed final heat at the State Outdoor track championships.
#KSHSAACovered
Andale's girls defeat Garden Plain 46-36 in the semifinals of Haven's Wildcat Classic. Andale (8-2) will play Cheney (9-3) in Saturday's championship.
#KSHSAACovered
.
@BCCHS_baseball
rallied from an early deficit to edge De Soto for its third Class 5A title. For freshman Cal Purvis, it was the neighborly thing to do.
#KSHSAACovered
My humble offseason priorities:
Get Wade healthy.
Put Stockard on a traveling team and let him play.
Rebuild Stokes' jumper or recruit over him.
Send coaches and players into frats, sororities, dorms and connect. A good team needs to play in a full Bramlage.
Schedule better.
I understand the been-there, done-that benefit for golfers, but Azinger makes it sound like Woodland rose from the third flight of the Lake Shawnee club championship last week to U.S. Open leader.
One of many reports in the coming days from last weekend's state track meet.
@AndaleTandF
senior McKenzie Fairchild adds 3 more golds to her state medal collection.
#KSHSAACovered
Class 6A girls championship
Party time for SM South. The Raiders defeat Washburn Rural 47-37 for the 6A girls title, their second in program history. Raiders finish 24-1.
#KSHSAACovered
Unexpected life twist: Watching one of your collegians get ready to take his last final in the family room where he honed his Call of Duty: Black Ops skills.
#Classof2020
If you ever saw her shoot a basketball, then you know. Congrats to Moundridge and K-State Wildcat
@LaurieKoehn
on the Kansas Sports Hall of Fame induction.
Seven hundred and seven days since their last home game, the Eureka Tornadoes get their first touchdown in the remodeled McGinnis Field. Eureka 6, Fredonia 0, 1Q.
.
@KSHSAA
officials recognize
@MHSBullpups
performing arts students with the KSHSAA Performing Arts School of Excellence award for 2021-22 at halftime of Mac’s homecoming game with Circle.
#KSHSAACovered
Another absolute classic between Maize and Derby. Maize’s Caden Miranda gets the 4th down sack and Maize edges Derby 52-51, the teams’ third straight 1-point game.
#KSHSAACovered
After posting a Kansas season-best 5K time of 17:45.3 in her first high school cross country race at Manhattan's Warner Park on Saturday,
@SC_Mustangs
sophomore Katelyn Rupe won her age division for 6A, 5A and 4A runners with a time of 18:59.2 today at Hesston.
#KSHSAACovered
Meet 3 of our 5 outstanding Leadership award winners! This award is given to an individual who has exhibited excellence in leadership. Students will be recognized for their contributions to the campus, college, program, and professional organizations.
#KStateHHS
Make room, big sis. Smoky Valley’s Breanne Peters ties older sister Belle’s 5-year-old 3A meet record, clearing 12-8 in the pole vault. Peters also won the triple jump today.
#KSHSAACovered
KSHSAA executive director Bill Faflick presents official John Kaufman a plaque recognizing John's late father, Chris, a longtime official, with induction into the KSHSAA Hall of Fame. The presentation was made before the Class 6A boys championship game in Wichita.
#KSHSAACovered
A three-peat, double gold and it’s off to softball for
@ONWThrows2023
senior Val Galligan. She won her third 6A javelin title (141-10) and first shot put crown (42-11.25). She’ll join her Raven softball teammates for the 6A championship at 5 in Lawrence.
#KSHSAACovered
Swimming practice at the new
@AndoverSchools
district facility on the Andover High campus. Andover and Andover Central’s programs will share the pool. Maize and Maize South also have a new shared district facility.
#KSHSAACovered
.
@AHSTrojanAthlet
grad Eli Shetlar hits the last of his 24 points to help the Gold hold off the Blue 119-114 in overtime to win the KBCA All-Star Game on Saturday in Salina.
#KSHSAACovered
.
@CHSLadyIndianVB
clinches the outright Ark Valley-Chisholm Trail IV title tonight in Andale, sweeping Wichita Collegiate and the host Indians to improve to 33-3 and 9-1 in league play.
#KSHSAACovered