District 4 Standings

 2A District 4 Standings as of 10/19/19

Riley County         ... 4-0 
Rossville                ... 3-1 
Southeast-Saline  ... 2-2 
St. Marys                ... 2-2 
Council Grove        ... 1-3 
Mission Valley       ... 0-4 

Abigail McCrory Wins WU Contest

From the Capital-Journal:

Abigail McCrory, a sophomore at Washburn University, pitched her idea for Grounded on the Go, a mobile coffee shop, to judges Thursday during the final round of the sixth annual Washburn University Pitch Competition. McCrory was one of five competition finalists who competed for cash prizes meant to help competitors get their business ventures off the ground. McCrory was the first-place winner, taking home an $8,000 check.

“I’m incredibly humbled for sure, and it’s really exciting to have my family and friends here to see it happen,” McCrory said. “It’s really rewarding. All the hard work finally paid off.”

McCrory said her business idea has been years in the making. Her family owns Grounded Coffee House in Rossville, so McCrory is no stranger to the coffee business.

“I grew up eating breakfast with the regulars as they quizzed me on my spelling words before school,” McCrory said. “I became a barista and am now an assistant manager of the shop. Grounded Coffee House has done well, but that was my mom’s idea. This is mine.”

McCrory wants to scale up the business by making Grounded Coffee mobile. Prize money from the pitch competition will help McCrory purchase a trailer that looks like a “renovated vintage camper.” It’s where she’ll headquarter operations.

She plans to park her coffee truck at festivals and sporting events around town, on Washburn’s campus and outside Downtown businesses. She said mobility is exactly what will set her business apart — the fact that it can be “wherever, whenever.” And she also sees potential for growth once she graduates from Washburn.

“In the future, I hope to see several Grounded on the Go trucks traveling all over the capital city, focusing on caffeinating one cup at a time,” McCrory said.

The Washburn University Pitch Competition is open each year to all Washburn and Washburn Tech students. The competition invites students to develop a business idea and model, which they pitch, either as individuals or teams, to a series of judges.

Shawna Slack Injured

    Rossville resident Shawna Slack, 38, was injured Thursday evening when her 2018 Ford Escape struck a deer on I-470 in SW Topeka.  She was alone in the vehicle and was taken to St. Francis Hospital with minor injuries.

Dawgs Roll Over Council Grove

    The Dawgs controlled the first half racking up 40 points to the Council Grove Braves 7 points.  The larger Braves team showed very few good plays due to Rossville's superior speed.
    The second half was more of the same,  but was also limited by a running clock to lessen the damage.  But the Dawgs still prevailed in a lop-sided 62-13 game.

1st    5:38    Horak 10 yd run             2 pt try failed
1st    3.38    Horak 54 yd run             Sowers 2 pt run
1st    1.16    Horak  7 yd run              missed kick
2nd   11.33  Bealing (CG) 60 yd run Reeves kick good
2nd   9.32    Rezac 10 yd run             Reeves kick good
2nd   3.44    K Brown 16 yd pass      2 pt try failed
2nd     .20    Sowers 6 yd pass           Reeves kick good 
3rd    6.33    Sowers 19 yd run          Reeves kick good
3rd    5.42    Reeves 30 yd pass         2 pt Hurla to Sowers pass
3rd    5:24    King, 44 yd pass           kick blocked
4th    3.01    Perine 1 yd run              Lemma kick good                     

    There is video of the game on KSNT at the 3:00 mark at:
  https://www.ksnt.com/football-frenzy/football-frenzy-10-18-19/         

Other district four scores were:
    St Marys 44    Misson Valley  43
    Riley Co 33    SE Saline  29                                                                                     

MEL Volleyball Standings

MID-EAST  Volleyball Standings 10/18/19

                   ... League ... Overall

Silver Lake    ... 7-1 ... 26-11
Wabaunsee  ... 6-2 ... 30-3 
Rossville       ... 4-4 ... 14-15
St. Marys      ... 3-5 ... 16-14
Rock Creek   ... 2-6 ... 11-14
Riley County ... 2-6 ... 7-28

Maur Hill-Mount Academy Triangular VB

  Rossville picked up two wins on Oct 16 at the Maur Hill-Mount Academy Triangular meet. They defeated Maur Hill 25-20 and 26-24 and then Veritas 25-14 and 25-8.
  Rossville is now 16-13 for this year as of 10/15/19.

MEL Football Standings

MID-EAST LEAGUE FOOTBALL STANDINGS ON 10/17/19

                   ... League ... Overall
*Silver Lake    ... 3-0 ... 6-0
  Riley County ... 2-1 ... 4-2
  Rossville        ... 2-2 ... 4-2
  Rock Creek    ... 1-2 ... 2-4
  St. Marys        ... 0-3 ... 1-5
x-Wabaunsee  ... 0-0 ... 1-5

x-no league schedule

Dist. 4 Football Standings

 2A District 4 Standings as of 10/17/19

                                ... Dist. ... All ... PF ... PA ... Pts.

Riley County         ... 3-0 ... 4-2 ... 185 ... 135 ... +39
Southeast-Saline ... 2-1 ... 5-1 ... 249 ... 89 ... +13
Rossville                ... 2-1 ... 4-2 ... 192 ... 85 ... +13
St. Marys                ... 1-2 ... 1-5 ... 70 ... 232 ... -13
Council Grove        ... 1-2 ... 2-4 ... 104 ... 161 ... -25
Mission Valley       ... 0-3 ... 2-4 ... 113 ... 168 ... -27

CatchItKansas 2A Football Rankings

CLASS 2A Football Rankings for Oct. 17, 2019
1.   Hoisington (6-0) [1]
2.   Silver Lake (6-0) [2]
3.   Garden Plain (6-0) [3]
4.   Conway Springs (5-1) [5]
5.   Cimarron (6-0) [8]
6.   Humboldt (6-0) [4]
7.   Riley County (4-2) [NR]
8.   Rossville (4-2) [6]
9.   Belle Plaine (6-0) [10]
10. Lakin (5-1) [7]

Silver Lake continues to hold at #2,  but Rossville dropped a couple places to 8th.  Riley Co. has joined the rankings coming in ahead of Rossville.

Ronald Bond (77) Passes Away

     Ronald K. Bond, 58, died Sunday, September 8, 2019, at his home in Topeka.

     He was born September 23, 1960, at Onaga, the son of Oren R. and Marguerite V. Clark Bond.  Ronald graduated from  Rossville High School in 1977. He worked in construction.  He was preceded in death by his parents.

     Survivors include his brother, Robert E. Bond, Kingsville, MO; a sister, Shirley Voight, Millington; TN;

     Private Inurnment is in the St. Clere Cemetery.

Eagles Win Two Over Lady Dawgs

Silver Lake swept Rossville to keep its one-game lead in the Mid-East League standings over Wabaunsee. The Eagles are 7-1, while Wabaunsee is 6-2 and Rossville 4-4.    Rossville lost the first match 19-25, 10-25 and then lost the second 15-25, 25-22, 10-25.

Alivia Sherer First Dawg At Golf State

From the Capital-Journel:

Alivia Sherer dabbled in tennis a little bit when she was growing up, but the sport really didn’t pique her interest until two years ago.

And once it did, she was hooked. It was the sport she wanted to pursue in high school.  One problem. Sherer is a freshman at Rossville and that school had never fielded a tennis program.

“I just do tennis,” she said. “Over the summer I do drills, so the whole idea was I would just keep doing drills and wait to see what happened.”

What happened was something the Sherer family has been trying to finalize for a couple years. Rossville entered a co-op agreement with Hayden, allowing Sherer to practice and play for the Wildcats during the season.

Sherer took full advantage of the opportunity and when it came time to compete on her own for Rossville at last week’s Class 3-2-1A regional at Hillsboro, it paid off. Sherer became Rossville’s first-ever state tennis qualifier, placing sixth in singles at the regional.

Not many people can say they’ve accomplished a first at their high school. But Sherer can.

“It’s nice and I never really thought about it like that,” she said. “All these other sports always talk about getting to go to state and I never really thought that I am the first one. But I’m excited I get to go do it.”

The daughter of former Washburn player Jesse Sherer, who played for the Ichabods from 1993-97, Alivia wasn’t overly optimistic she would get the chance to play tennis this year after her family had unsuccessfully tried to get a co-op in place for her older brother, Alex, who is a junior at Rossville.

But once she found out it would happen, she was elated.

“I was so excited,” she said. “It was great to learn how everything was going to work.”

Sherer wasn’t alone. Rossville junior Peyton Price, daughter of Washburn assistant coach David Price, also opted to go out for tennis. The two commute every day to Topeka for practice with one of their parents chauffering them.

Jesse Sherer also serves as Rossville’s official coach after taking online training and testing. During the regular season, she was coached by Hayden coach Christy Sheetz, who said her program welcomed the Bulldawg duo with open arms.

“We as coaches, we’re all ambassadors for the sport and the entire Topeka tennis commmunity was so welcoming for this,” Sheetz said. “I’d talked to them about it over the summer and knew Jesse was involved in the tennis community here. So it was kind of a way to pay it back and keep the cycle going.

″(Sherer’s) had such a successful start for a freshman and has done an incredible job. She’s got a sweet and open personality and was so eager to join the team. It’s just been a real blessing and we’ve developed a strong relationship with these two girls.”

“It was kind of weird at first and I mostly talked to Marisol (Blair, a Hayden senior) since I knew her,” Sherer said. “But now I know everyone and we all get along really well.”

Sherer rotated at singles with Hayden’s top-two singles players Marisol Blair and Rhen Calhoon, and put together a 14-6 record during the regular season. She also played some doubles with Price with both playing singles at regionals.

“It was definitely different from what I would see in USTA,” Sherer said. “But it was nice seeing that competition and playing a lot of really good players. It made me a lot better, knowing how I need to move the ball more, use my angles more.”

Price was eliminated in her first match at regionals, while Sherer beat Perry-Lecompton’s Bailey Wheeler, 6-1, 6-4 to reach the quarterfinals. After falling 6-4, 6-1 to Smoky Valley’s Lena Rauchholz, she found herself in a tough spot when she lost the first set to Smoky Valley’s Isabella Wright 7-6 (8-6) in the match to qualify for state.

But she bounced back in a big way to clinch a state berth with a 6-1, 6-2 win in the next two sets. Sherer wound up falling in the fifth-place match to Wabaunsee’s Autymn Schreiner, a defacto Mid-East League championship match between the top singles players for the only two schools in the league with tennis.

“It was definitely nerve-wracking in the (match with Wright), losing that first set in a tiebreaker,” Sherer said. “We were both trying to make every point. I thought getting to state was possible and I just needed to fight.”

Sherer will take a 16-8 record to this weekend’s Class 3-2-1A state tournament in Prairie Village.

“I’m really looking forward to it,” Sherer said. “Having my dad there coaching me will be great, too. I just want to do well and see how far I can get.”

Lady Dawgs Win Osage CC

Standings of Osage City Invitational Cross Country Meet Oct. 9, 2019.

1. Rossville          52
2. Silver Lake       53
3. Anderson Co.   56
4. Osage City       96
5. Santa Fe Trl.    117
6. Hillsdale           150
7. Northern Hts    182
8. Chase Co.       213
9. Wellsville         215

Top Finishers from Rossville were:

2.    Julia Streit
6.   Amelia Foster 
8.   Julia Seidel
11. Emma Streit
25. Alexis Zabala
35. Cassie Fund

Rodehorst To State Golf Meet

Standings of the 3-2-1A golf regionals.

Silver Lake              388
Meriden-Jeff West   410
Osage City               417
Council Grove         462
Rossville                  483
St. Marys                 497

Jenna Rodehorst was the leading golfer for Rossville finishing  13th with a 105.  This qualifies her for the state tournament next week.

Alexandra Broughton finished 23rd with a  119.