Silver Lake Invitational Wrestling Results

From CJOnline"  
    Though Greg Tooley has had his share of decent tests this season, both he and St. Marys coach Travis Van Vleck knew Saturday’s Silver Lake Invitational would be the ultimate challenge for the 145-pound junior.
    “We’ve had this date circled since after Christmas,” Van Vleck said. “We knew this was going to be his toughest tournament leading up to state.”
    Indeed, the challenge seemed formidable with Class 5A No. 2 Andrew Tujague of St. James Academy and Class 4A No. 2 Kaleb Konitzer of Prairie View — both returning state champions from a year ago — in the same bracket. Yet Tooley kept his undefeated season going, defeating both on his way to capturing the title.
    “I was scared to death against Tujague going into the match,” Tooley said of the title showdown with last year’s 5A 138 state champion. “I saw he had a one-point match with Michael (Olson of Lansing, 5A’s top-ranked 145-pounder) and thought, ‘Oh man.’”
    Tooley calmed those fears before facing Tujague, however, getting a big boost from an 8-7 semifinal win over Konitzer. Tooley was taken down for the first time this season in that match, falling behind 3-2 early, but came back to take down Konitzer two more times, building an 8-5 lead before hanging on.
    The title match with Tujague wasn’t that close. After the two battled through a scoreless first period, Tooley got an escape and takedown in a five-second span and then added another takedown later in the period to lead 5-2 going into the third.
    After Tujague worked an early escape to start the third, Tooley ended the match with one move. In taking Tujague straight to his back on a takedown, the St. James standout’s left leg got pinned under him and he cried out in immediate pain.
    Tooley was somewhat distraught coming to his corner, yelling, “I heard it snap!” Tujague was helped off the mat with knee and ankle injuries, ending the match with an injury default.
“I felt bad because he’s probably going to win state and I was scared I took away that chance,” Tooley said. “I just did everything I wish I would have done in the state finals against Brogan (Humphrey of Fredonia). They both have the same style and both are small and down to the ground. In the state finals, I was scared and today I just saw all the moves I needed to do.”
    Tooley improved to 33-0 with the title and was named the tourney’s most outstanding wrestler.
“Konitzer and Tujague, they’re amazing wrestlers,” Van Vleck said. “Greg wants to be considered one of the best and this was a very important day for him. This can catapult him to truly thinking he can go back and take state.”
    Two other area wrestlers entered Saturday’s tournament with undefeated records, but only one joined Tooley unscathed. Doniphan West’s Tristan Speer pinned his way to the finals for a showdown with Iola’s Bryce Misenhelter, who had just one loss on the season.
Speer grabbed a 4-2 lead before getting Misenhelter to his back and working the pin with 1:15 left in the third period.
    Silver Lake freshman Dalton Dultmeier also reached the finals at 113 with easy wins. But he couldn’t work any takedowns against St. James’ Stephen Tujague and dropped a 1-0 decision for his first loss of the year.
    Rossville’s Tagen Lambotte captured his third Silver Lake title, but seemed none to pleased about how he got it. Though he beat Prairie View’s William Holland 11-6 in the finals to improve to 26-1, Lambotte was far from satisfied with his performance.
    “Not at all,” said Lambotte, who got three of his five takedowns in the final period after trailing 1-0 in the first. “I have to get to my offense. I was in position, but I just have to execute better.”
Rossville also got a title from Bryce Gfeller at 106, who took an 11-3 win over Prairie View’s Tanner Snow in the finals. Bulldog Isaac Luellen also reached the finals but fell 5-2 to St. James’ Matt Pratt.
St. James ran away with the team title, getting seven champions to score 250 points and easily outdistance runner-up Baldwin (182.5), which had one champion — 220-pounder Tiler Garcia, a 7-4 winner over St. James’ David Feist.

Team scores
St. James Academy 250, Baldwin 182.5, Prairie View 142, Rossville 96.5, Silver Lake 94, Salina South 89.5, Doniphan West 69.5, St. Marys 69, Leavenworth 65.5, Free State 62, Wamego 60, Iola 55, Osawatomie 52.5, Erie 43, Clay Center 42, Anderson County 33, Chase County 10.

Championship finals
106 — Gfeller, Rossville maj. dec. Snow, Prairie View, 11-3.
113 — S. Tujague, St. James dec. Dultmeier, Silver Lake, 1-0.
120 — Heberly, Salina South pinned Christie, Wamego, 1:33.
126 — Cokeley, St. James maj. dec. Lisher, Baldwin, 12-0.
132 — Hensley, St. James dec. Howerton, Silver Lake, 9-2.
138 — Lautt, St. James dec. Clark, Baldwin, 3-1.
145 — Tooley, St. Marys won by injury default over A. Tujague, St. James.
152 — Lambotte, Rossville dec. Holland, Prairie View, 11-6.
160 — Van Lerberg, St. James pinned Tuckfield, Baldwin, 3:00.
170 — Pratt, St. James dec. Luellen, Rossville, 5-2.
182 — Salsbury, St. James pinned Koch, Anderson County, 5:07.
195 — Speer, Doniphan West pinned Misenhelter, Iola, 4:45.
220 — Garcia, Baldwin dec. Feist, St. James, 7-4.
285 — Colborn, Erie pinned Katzer, Baldwin, 1:57.

The details of all matches can be read at:  http://www.kawvalley.k12.ks.us/schools/rjshs/athletics/wrestling/13-14/14_sl.pdf

The Burlington Double Dual tournament scheduled for Feb. 6 was canceled.

Class Reunions For This Year

If your graduating class year ended in 09 or 04,  then you should be starting to plan for a class reunion this summer.
Let me know when and where it will be.    frank.ruff@juno.com

Upcoming Wrestling Tournaments

The Mideast League wrestling tournament will be at Silver Lake on Feb. 14

The 321A Wrestling Regionals will be on Feb. 21-22 at Sabetha, and will include:
Atchison-Maur Hill Mount Academy, Centralia, Easton-Pleasant Ridge, Effingham-Atchison Co. Comm., Eskridge-Mission Valley, Hiawatha, Highland-Doniphan West, Horton, Leavenworth-Immaculata, Marysville, McLouth, Onaga, Oskaloosa, Riley County, Rossville, Sabetha, Silver Lake, St. George-Rock Creek, St. Marys, Troy, Wabaunsee, Wakefield, Wathena-Riverside, Wellsville.

The State 321A State tourney will be Feb. 28-Mar1 at Hays.

RHS Girls Lose At Wabaunsee

Rossville         7      15     11     9     =     42
Wabaunsee     8      12     11    20    =     51

Rossville scoring:   
Hill                     7          2-2     16
Kirk                    4          2-4     10
Nitsch                 4 (2)     0-0     10
Steckel               1          2-2      4
VanderPutten      1          0-0      2
Totals               17 (2)     6-8     42

Wabaunse Gets Overtime Win

     The Dawgs had a 5 point half-time lead,  but Wabaunsee whittled it down during the second half  to force the game into overtime.  Wabaunsee then outscored the visitors 11-6 during OT to win 57-52.

Rossville                 14      12     11     9      6      =      52
Wabaunsee             10      11     14   11    11      =      57

Rossville scoring:
Schultz-Pruner             3          9-12       15
Horak                          3 (3)      2-4        11
Horak                          2           5-5         9
Horak                          3           2-2         8
Roduner                       2 (1)      0-0         5
Sowers                        0           2-5         2
Woodcock                   1           0-2         2
Totals                        14 (4)    20-30      52

Winter Royalty Crowning Rescheduled For Feb. 20

Winter Royalty was scheduled for Tuesday Feb 4^th   at the St. Marys basketball game.  But  the weather caused school to close and the game has been rescheduled  for Thursday, Feb 20^th.   The  Game will still be against St. Marys and the crowning will occur during half-time of the boys game. 

Candidates this year for queen are  Briena Duryea, Samantha Thompson and Therese VanderPutten

Candidated for king are Jacob Gentry, Zach Nitsch and Davis Warton.

Nicholas McKenzie (11) on Dean's List

Nicholas McKenzie was named to the Benedictine College Dean's List for the fall semester.

Stephanie Garlock (09) On Dean't List

Stephanie Garlock was named to the Dean's Honor Roll for the fall semester at Washburn University.  She is in the school of nursing.

Rachel Beiker (12) On President's Honor Roll

Rachel Beiker was named to the President's Honor Roll at Washburn Universtity for the fall semester

Donkey Softball Game at Rossville

Back in the 50s,  the local towns would compete in games of "donkey softball" and "donkey basketball."   Of course some of the fun was the fact that the donkeys usually had a mind of their own as to where they wanted to go,

Below are pictures taken at such a game.  If you recognize the people in any of the pictures (click on picture to enlarge),  please e-mail me at frank.ruff@juno.com.

3A Wrestling Rankings

    The latest 3A wrestling rankings are out,  but no change from last week.
    The top five are:
1.  Norton
2.  ACCHS
3.  Silver Lake
4.  Rossville
5.  Hoisington

    RHS grapplers in the top five of their weight class include:
106#    Bryce Gfeller  #3
152#    Tagen Lambotte  #1
170#    Isaac Luellen  #2

Ashleigh Tidwell To Receive Scholarship

Ashleigh Tidwell, a senior from Rossville, will be a news editing intern at The Pioneer Press in St. Paul, Minn.   She is one of 102 students earning a paying internship and $1,000 scholarship from the Dow Jones News Fund.

http://news.ku.edu/2014/01/31/journalism-students-land-nationally-prestigious-reporting-editing-internships

Ben Wano, Sr., Passes Away

     Ben A. Wano, Sr., 84, Kansas City, KS, passed away Friday, January 31, 2014.
    The Funeral Mass will be at 11:00 a.m. Monday, February 3, at the Cathedral of St. Peter Catholic Church, 416 N. 14th St. Kansas City, KS. Visitation will precede the Mass from 9:30-11:00 a.m. at the Church. Entombment in Gate of Heaven Cemetery. Memorial contributions may be made to Sisters Servants of Mary or to the Cathedral of St. Peter.
    Ben was born March 25, 1929 in Rossville, KS, the son of Ben and Ruth Wano. He worked in the hardwood lumber business for many years. Ben was an avid sports fan, coach and hunter. He was skilled at wood working, loved gardening and doing things the old way.
    Ben was preceded in death by his brother, Dane Wano. He is survived by his wife of 62 years, Nadine Wano, son, Ben (Jill) Wano, Jr., and sister, Noreen Slease. (Condolences may be expressed at: www.porterfuneralhome.com.   Arrangements: Porter Funeral Home & Crematory, 1835 Minnesota Ave. Kansas City, KS.

Patricia (Coffey) (59) Essman Passes Away

Patricia Jane "Patty" Essman, age v72, passed away Thursday, January 30, 2014 at Midland Hospice in Topeka, Kansas.

Patty was born on November 27, 1941 in Richmond Kansas.  She was one of nine children born to Joseph Richard and Mary Belle Coffey.  She moved to Rossville at an early age living on a farm west of town with Harry and Etta Gutshall.  During her years at Rossville High School she participated in many activities including drum majorette for the band and she was an RHS cheerleader.  She graduated from Rossville High School in 1959.

After high school, Patty married Gerald D Perry and together they raised four children in Rossville. As a devoted mother of four, she was a stay-at-home mom involved in many of the children's activities such as 4H and girl scouts.  She worked for Kidney Insurance Company from the office and at home as she raised her children.  In 1974, Patty and Jerry divorced.

She married Samuel R. Essman of Topeka on January 30, 1976 and they had a daughter together.  Patty, Sam and their daughter moved to Texas in 1978 where she worked for Assurance Specialist of Texas as an insurance specialist for almost 35 years.  She and Sam were members of the Tree of Life Church and volunteered time to Sunday communion services.  After many happy years of marriage, she lost her husband Sam on December 20, 2002.  Patty continued to live in Texas until June of 2013 when she retired and returned to Kansas.

Patty is survived by her children Tammy (Chris) Petrocelli, NJ, Sherrie Thomas, Topeka, Tate (Kristy) Perry, Silver Lake, Holly (Scott) Graves, Rossville, Crystal (Narciso) Gomez, TX and 20 grandchildren and 8 great-grandchildren. Also surviving are her step-children Randy Essman, Terry (Linda) Essman, Keith Essman, Benny Essman and Diane DeHart, all of Topeka.  Surviving siblings include a brother, Fred Coffey and sister Shirley Kitto of Parker and Phyllis (David) Stadler of Rossville.

She was also preceded in death by her parents and siblings, Sheldon Eugene, Mary Lou, Etta Yvonne, Joseph Richard and Betty Jo.

Mrs. Essman will lie in state and the family will receive friends from 5:00pm until 7:00pm on Saturday, February 1, 2014 at Piper Funeral Chapel in Rossville. A memorial service will be held at 3:00pm Wednesday, February 5, 2014 at the Rossville Bible Church. Inurnment will follow at the Rossville Cemetery.   In lieu of flowers Memorial Contributions may be made to Midland Hospice and sent in care of Piper Funeral Chapel, P.O. Box 642, Rossville, Kansas 66533. Online condolences may be sent to www.piperfuneralhome.com.