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Tourney time (1-24)

Jan. 24, 2009 @ 2:26 p.m. by Joanna

by joanna

7 p.m. — At Dodge City, West beat Moscow to finish seventh, Buhler beat South for fourth and Derby beat Holcomb for third. Great Bend beat North 49-38 in the third-place game at El Dorado.

Also, I have to give props to the home economics teacher — or whatever they call it now, you know what I’m talking about — she gave the most amazing recipe for the most amazing peanut butter and MandM cookies. When I do make them for my family, I guarantee you they will never ever be mad at me again.

They’re better than any cookie your mom has ever made for you. Even my mom. No offense.

5:30 p.m. — Heights beat SM East 78-60 in the McPherson fifth-place game.

Any updates are coming in very slowly, although I see that Brooks has updated us on Valley Center having lost in overtime.

5 p.m. — Gardner-Edgerton beat Kapaun 66-51 in the fifth place game at El Dorado. KC Washington lost on a last-second shot by Denver Lincoln’s Danny Rodriguez. It was the second time in three games he’d won a game for the school in the final seconds.

A couple updates — Topeka beats Lawrence 66-64 to finish fifth in Topeka. Lawrence’s Dorian Green had 28, while Topeka’s Onzay Branch had 16.

At El Dorado, Campus beat El Dorado 51-45 to finish seventh. As you’ll see below, Wichita Northwest lost to Topeka West.

Here’s my first installment of the final day of boys tournament week. (I’ll do a recap when I get back to Wichita tonight, which will be late.)

In the seventh place game here at Topeka Highland Park, Topeka West just beat Northwest 54-46.

Northwest has played well at times, especially in the first quarter when it shot 7 of 15 from the floor, 3 of 6 from three-point range. Topeka West hit 8 of 12 shots in that period, 2 of 3 from three. Northwest trailed by four with two minutes to go. But Northwest just shot poorly after that first quarter, finishing 18 of 53, which means the Grizzlies were 11 of 38 in the final three periods.

So where are you? Any updates out there?

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  • ks kid

    Derbydad and tanner19: Another Sophomore to the rescue. Check out the Eagle or Kansas.com about Ja’ln Williams’ performance for East. Hmmm, looks like present day recognition to me and not waiting until his senior year. This supports my theory that the Derby mindset is one of depreciation. You might want to stock up on the tacos and hot sauce Ja’ln mania is about to begin. GO ACES!!

  • FBallfn

    Ks Kid Derbydad and tanner19 dont rep the whole Panther fanbase so easy on the “theory” which im not sure exactly what your theory is anyway. Im sure they are ready to tapout from the beat down they have taken. A “player” is a “player” no matter what age and ill take Xhot on my tacos please!

  • Brooks

    KC Turner 52, Garden City 43. Garden City loses three games by a combined 19 points, that’s tough.

  • Brooks

    Valley Center 47, KC Schlagle 47 going to overtime in the fifth place game…Valley misses shot to win at the buzzer.

  • Brooks

    KC Schlagle 57, Valey Center 51 in overtime.

  • http://kansas.com/sports Trich

    Halstead v. Cheney (3rd place at Adolph Rupp Invitational) about to tip off.

  • http://kansas.com/sports Trich

    Halstead 12-3 after 1Q

  • http://kansas.com/sports Trich

    Halstead 25-11 at half.

  • http://kansas.com/sports Trich

    Halstead 35-23 after 3Q

  • Brooks

    Junction City 53, Topeka Seaman 45 in the third place game here in Valley Center.

  • Brooks

    Tipping off here with Southeast and Blue Valley Northwest… Should be a great matchup between the guards of both teams.

  • http://kansas.com/sports Trich

    Halstead 51-36 to win 3rd place. Haven v. Rose Hill tip off imminent.

  • Brooks

    Southeast 22, BV NW 16 after 1st…. very entertaining and fast-paced 1st quarter… Cecil Shaw and Joe Mitchell have hit deep three-point baskets with Shaw scoring 14 points for Southeast.
    Brett Comer has nine points for NW.

  • http://kansas.com/sports Trich

    Rose Hill 11, Haven 11 after 1Q. Haven fans travel very well.

  • Brooks

    At half, Southeast 39, BV NW 33… wow what a show by the guards of these two teams. Comer has been great, although you can still see he is only a sophomore by some of his turnovers. Cecil and Joe for Southeast are just fun to watch. Both teams are shooting pretty well, BV is struggling from the free-throw line. They have missed the front end of 1 and 1s three times and are 4-10 in the half.

  • http://kansas.com/sports Trich

    Haven leads Rose Hill 29-23 at the half.

  • Brooks

    Southeast 56, BV NW 54.
    It just keeps getting better. Any runs are answered. Any deep threes are answered. Comer hits one two steps behind line…Joe hits one in the same spot for SE….

  • Brooks

    (at the end of 3)

  • Brooks

    SE 63, BV NW 61 3:30 left in the 4th

  • http://kansas.com/sports Trich

    Haven leads Rose Hill 42-38 after 3Q

  • Brooks

    Southeast 74, BV NW 68 final. Comer, Shaw and Mitchell all have 28 each.

  • http://kansas.com/sports Trich

    Haven wins 63-61 over Rose Hill.

  • Spencer

    Does anyone have a score for maize and mcpherson?

  • http://kansas.com topcity

    hp win over east

  • jayhawk99

    what was the score of the hp and east game

  • http://kansas.com topcity

    hp 66 east 53

  • Hillsboro

    Hesston lead the whole way while winning 50-42, it was close in the fourth quarter though.

  • Hillsboro

    that was Hesston vs Republic County in the Hillsboro tourny

  • Zap

    Anyone one know what the score was between Goddard vs. Andover Central… I heard that Goddard won the tournament, but I haven’t heard any scores or stats yet.

  • Oz

    Goddard 62, Andover Central 54

  • Zap

    Thanks Oz!

  • ProudDad

    Congratulations Goddard. You really turned things around after last week, and played with a lot of spirit. Those were three fun games to watch.

    A big thanks to the Chanute student section, who for some reason, showed up at the championship game and adopted Goddard as their home team. They even did the “Goddard Shout” and the “Oh My Goddard” chant, and mobbed the team on the court after the win. It was pretty cool. If only the Goddard student section would support their own team (with a few very notable exceptions — FridayNight and the other superheroes), like Chanute did, it would sure pump up the team and make the games more fun for everyone. How about it, kids?

    Congratulations to Andover Central for a well-played tournament. Good luck the rest of the season. I expect you’ll do well.

  • WC

    Collegiate 59 Trinity 56 in 3OT

  • Andover Trojans

    dang that seems like it was a huuuuuge game

  • RockChalk69

    The Collegiate – Trinity game was awesome. How about Jablonski’s set shooting….I think he hit ten 3′s?

  • FridayNight

    ProudDad- thanks for the props. it’s sad to me though that all the Goddard support we got was 4 students including me. I don’t understand why there isn’t more support for our team. While we may not be the best in the state it doesn’t matter we should have support but oh well i have tried to get more students and i lead most of the cheers and everything but it must just be the stuck up kids or the kids that think they are too cool to cheer that won’t join in. But I continue to try and nothing will stop me from dressin up weird and crazy and yellin until I lose my voice. Hopefully more kids come out to the next games. Maybe we can call the Chanute kids down, at least they care!!

  • bornalion

    ProudDad
    You are right about the Chanute students, they were awesome. I love to see that.
    Andover Central students were good too, loud and proud.
    To the Goddard students, all 4 of them, Thanks.
    OH MY GODDARD(CHANUTE)!!

  • Jefferson

    “If only the Goddard student section would support their own team like Chanute did,”

    First of all, the Chanute fans traveled 2 minutes while Goddard fans would have had to travel 2.5 hours. Second of all, I’m sure its easy for Chanute fans to rally behind Goddard, how is their team doing?!?

  • FridayNight

    Jefferson- ProudDad isn’t just referring to the tournament. Yeah it was a long trip for us but even at home games when it takes “2 minutes” we don’t get much involvement or we get kids there but only the first two rows yell the cheers. no matter how hard any of us try the other kids just won’t yell. they’d rather stand there and have conversations about what they did at school that day or gossip. it’s rather pathetic. and I have tried but they don’t listen. they are much too cool to let loose and cheer and yell and dress up. that’s the problem with our school.

  • TheLion

    like fridaynight said, its tough to get kids to cheer in our section. the front two rows get excited when a big play happens and the rows after that end up asking what just happened. our team gets great support from its seniors and some juniors. but other than that kids just go to the games so they can say that they were there. as a senior its sad to see that happen.

  • FormerLion

    Bring Smokestacks back. That usually got Goddard students fired up. Heck I still got boxes of t-shirts I would be more than willing to give them out free at a home game if it will help get support up. Goddard student section for the past few years has always been really loud and supportive of their team and Goddard has been a place opposing teams hated to play at. If one of you seniors recognize who I am contact me if you would like to pass out the t-shirts during a game.

  • ProudDad

    The cheerleaders already throw out tshirts every game. Doesn’t help. Several years ago the student section was awesome, even at away games, but if I remember right, it was dead at the beginning of the year, and then if it was a good year it would start to build, and if not, forget it. Maybe they just haven’t figured out we have a good team yet. I don’t know why. How about those three massive alley-oop dunks in the last two games by Chippeaux? Awesome!

  • FridayNight

    When I was younger, freshman year if I remember right there was a kid named Cliff Russell and the only reason I went to the games was to see if he would dunk. And now on this team we have plenty of kids that can dunk. It’s exciting to watch. I love high school basketball. and we have a good team now but I don’t see why kids won’t yell. Maybe we need to pass the word around with flyers and posters and whatnot.

  • jmks

    Joanna, WHAT’s THE RECIPE?
    Thanks! :)

    P. S. I think they are called FACS teachers now. (???)
    (Family and Consumer Science)

  • FormerLion

    To: Proud Dad

    Yea cheerleaders throw out t-shirts but only a few students get them. I have enough t-shirts left over from last year that just about the entire student section would recieve free shirts. I know I always showed up to something if it meant getting free something.

    To: Current Goddard Students

    Its your choice if you think this would be a good idea. Its the senior’s student section, so if you guys want free t-shirts to pass out let me know. I’m sure plenty of you know who I am. Contact me if you are interested. I’ll contact some of you who may not get on this website about it. If you guys decide that you do not want to involve smokestacks anymore thats fine, its YOUR student section.

  • http://wichitatwolves@yahoo.com varsity1

    East High had 24 fouls called against them compared to Highland Parks 13.

  • AnreneeR

    I’m a Blue Comet fan! We love our Comets! But recently it hasn’t been too hot. Not a whole lot to love. We’re 1-12! We have the right to be enthusiastic about something.

    I was at the game. Twenty or such more have an hour detention for stormin the court at the end.

    Another point, yeah it did just take us 2-10 min to get there. But during out of town games, especially football, you’ll see a good number of Comet fans there. We all travel to Louisburg or where ever. Always.

    We all plan on coming up sometime to watch the Lions play!

  • comet fan

    however long it takes to get there we will more than likely be there to support our team win or loss..and goddard is a great team and we just wanted to help them out by showing them support when they werent not on the home court and hopefully we did that good enough..and i would love to come up there and watch games! its a long drive but its well worth it! and andover played a good game too! and i always expect them to do well! although we have an hour class after school on wednesday, we were just trying to help out the team. well goddard you guys played great and hope u have a great rest of the season! congrats on first place!!

  • ProudDad

    I’ve heard of taking one for the team, but you guys took one for a guest team! When I was a kid, the fans ran onto the floor after every game. I suppose there are safety issues when the rivalries are intense, but it seems like the rules have taken away a lot of fun. Goddard used to have the “shirtless crazies” for years at football games, but this year the admins made them quit. Hutch had some shirtless guys at their home basketball game this year. I saw no problem. It just added to the fun.

    Anyway, thanks again, Blue Comets. You’re welcome in Goddard any time!

  • FridayNight

    to Chanute- yall were so amazing! and I look forward to cheering with you again at the game yall are coming to!

    ProudDad- I don’t know if you know but I got a petitition with over 100 signatures of girls and boys alike to let us have shirtless crazies. I took it to the administration (the AD) and a few days later they called me for a meeting. They said it’s indoors and “too close a proximity” as well as being gender bias and a few other reasons that were unimportant. It was rather disheartening for me since I went to all that trouble and then at Hutch when there shirts came off I was livid. but I guess that’s that because we get limited on nearly everything we do. Like that one time I was dressed up as Santa Gumby and ran down the out of bounds line on the court and did the wave with the whole crowd to get the boys pumped up and our AD stopped me

  • goddard lion

    Listen proud dad the thing is that nowone from our school wants to go watch a basketball game that is and hour and a half away and plus it is on a saturday all the seniors and juniors are working.

  • CKIDD

    Proud dad- I am all about team spirit! I agree with you, the students just don’t cheer.
    I was at the East vs HP game and East had a handful of fans. The parent support is lacking too. Adams, Flowers, Williams, Kennard and Byers had their parents there, and there may have been more, but our players need our support.

    Im not a player just a fan, but a question to you players. Does all the fan hype help or does it matter at all?

  • ProudDad

    Goddard Lion – that doesn’t explain the home games with only two or three rows of kids out of 1200.
    Friday Night – nice try anyway. Welcome to Government Schools. I hope your post doesn’t result in repercussions.
    Ckidd – No doubt that a hyped up crowd pumps up the players, but it’s also good for school and community spirit. A dead crowd is a boring game. It’s a shame that the ADs seem to want it that way.

  • ProudMom

    I want to say thank you to everyone who made the nice comments about the CHS student section. It makes me proud to see that the students supported another team so well. I was unable to attend the Championship game and I was told I missed a really good game. Congrats Goddard for winning and congrats to Andover Central for taking second. Just an FYI, the CHS students ended up not having to serve the hour detention for storming the floor. They all hope to come to Goddard to watch you play. Hope to see ya there. Good Luck for the rest of your season.