By Joanna Chadwick
Olathe Northwest swept the Wichita area on Friday and Saturday, beating Maize and Kapaun Mount Carmel. What does the area need to do to improve its soccer? We’ve got good athletes, good teams, good coaches, but how can it be ratcheted up a notch?
This week’s rankings are below, courtesy of the coaches association.
By Joanna Chadwick
Please contact me at jchadwick@wichitaeagle.com or on Twitter (@joannachadwick) with any postponements or time changes for sub-state basketball.
Class 4A
Boys and Girls
At Pratt — Pratt vs. Ulysses girls at 6 p.m. Tuesday
At Pratt — Pratt vs. Larned boys, 7:30 p.m. Tuesday
At Andale — Andale vs. Hugoton boys, 6 p.m. Tuesday
At Andale — Andale vs. Nickerson girls, 7:30 p.m.
Boys
Circle at Coffeyville postponed until Wednesday.
Prairie View vs. Girard, postponed
Fort Scott at Frontenac, 6 p.m.
Nickerson at Ulysses, postponed until Wednesday at 6.
Class 3A
Girls
Osage City at Riley County, game time 3 p.m.
Pittsburg Colgan at SE-Cherokee, 6 p.m.
East High swimmer Jake Spitz joins Joanna Chadwick on the Big Show.
Andover girls basketball coach Max Hamblin joins Joanna Chadwick on the Big Show.
North High boys basketball coach Gary Squires is Joanna Chadwick’s guest on the Big Show.
Kapaun football coach Dan Adelhardt is Joanna Chadwick’s guest on the Big Show.
West athletic director Phil Daignault joins Joanna Chadwick on the Big Show.
Maize South football coach Brent Pfeifer is Joanna Chadwick’s guest on the Big Show.
Rose Hill football coach Greg Slade is Joanna Chadwick’s first guest on the Big Show for the 2012-13 sports year.
Kelley Sayahnejad saw 50 percent more North High football players at workouts this summer. That’s one sign of encouragement for a program that’s won 1 of 18 games the past two seasons.
There are other signs, too. RB Leon Williams (408 yards) is back for his senior season, and he’ll be running behind a much more experienced offensive line, led by Jonathan Villanueva, Jose Chavarria and 6-foot-8 LT Daniel Mathiasen.
“We have three starters back on the offensive line, and we’re a year stronger,” Sayahnejad said. “Up front, we’re better suited to run more than we have.”
Josh Bryan and Zach Beard will compete for the QB job, an opening created when junior Danny Jones transferred to West. Bryan started two games last season, while Beard is the basketball team’s point guard and brings some on-court savvy to the field.
North will have to play without one of its top players, MLB Sean Bernard, for the early part of the schedule after he broke his foot playing summer basketball. He hopes to return by midseason.
