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Thursday, January 14, 2016
Wednesday, January 13, 2016
Dawgs Take Two From Rock Creek
GIRLS GAME
The RHS girls built a nice first quarter lead and withstood a 4th quarter rally to prevail 61-60 on Jan. 12 against Rock Creek.
Rock Creek 13 14 13 20 = 60
Rossville 20 12 13 16 = 61
Rossville 20 12 13 16 = 61
Rossville scoring:
Hill 13 (1) 6-7 33
Steckel 3 (3) 1-2 10
Day 2 1-4 5
Nitsch 1 2-4 4
Conley 1 2-4 4
Shinn 0 1-2 1
Totals 20 (4) 13-23 61
Hill 13 (1) 6-7 33
Steckel 3 (3) 1-2 10
Day 2 1-4 5
Nitsch 1 2-4 4
Conley 1 2-4 4
Shinn 0 1-2 1
Totals 20 (4) 13-23 61
BOYS GAME
The RHS boys had a big second quarter to get an early lead and then added to in the fourth for a nice 56-43 vixtory. Hampered by a late football season, the RHS boys got off to a slow start but are now gettin a nice string of wins.
Rock Creek 12 7 14 10 = 43
Rossville 13 17 10 16 = 56
Rossville 13 17 10 16 = 56
Rossville scoring:
Schumacher 6 (2) 6-9 20
Horak 5 (1) 0-1 11
Roduner 3 (2) 2-6 10
Anderson 3 0-0 6
Hammes 2 0-1 4
Bradshaw 1 1-2 3
Morris 0 2-2 2
Totals 20 (5) 11-21 56
Schumacher 6 (2) 6-9 20
Horak 5 (1) 0-1 11
Roduner 3 (2) 2-6 10
Anderson 3 0-0 6
Hammes 2 0-1 4
Bradshaw 1 1-2 3
Morris 0 2-2 2
Totals 20 (5) 11-21 56
Tuesday, January 12, 2016
Bridge Work To Start Jan 25
From KSNT-TV:
It was an
agenda full of events at the Shawnee County Commission
meeting Monday morning. The meeting started with the election of a
new chairperson. Shelly Buhler will now act as the County Commission
Chairperson and Bob Archer as the Vice Chairperson.
The Willard
Bridge was also one of the main topics and the county commissioners unanimously
approved the $16 million contract to start construction on the bridge.
“We were
just allowed to go out for bids back in December and we received bids and
we got extremely, extremely good bids,” says Tom Vlach.
The 3-0 votes came after Vlach told commissioners that the bid amount is
more than $4 million below what the commission budgeted for. The construction
on the Willard Bridge will begin in two weeks on January 25th.
Monday, January 11, 2016
RHS Hosts Foreign Students
Special to The
Capital-Journal
For a 3A Kansas high
school with an average of about 250 students, hosting nine to 10 foreign
exchange students in one academic year is a little unusual.
But Toby McCollough,
principal of Rossville Junior-Senior High School, embraces those numbers.
“With us being a rural
community, this is a good way for our kids to get that culture that may already
be at another school,” McCollough said of his school’s foreign exchange student
program. “We try to reap the benefits from them (foreign exchange students)
being here.”
Although having an
average of nine to 10 foreign exchange students each year for about the past
three years has slightly increased class sizes, McCollough said his staff also
has fully embraced having more of the visiting students.
“Not a one of them
said they didn’t want another one (student),” McCollough said, recalling the
time when he told his staff there would be a higher count of foreign exchange
students. “They (teachers) extract knowledge from them.”
McCollough said his
students and the Rossville community continue to welcome their visitors, who
have come from all across the globe. He said that full acceptance becomes more
evident when former exchange students bring their own families back to the town
of a little more than 1,000 people to visit.
“They feel that
connection,” he said. “They have lifelong friends here.”
Much of the credit
McCollough gives to the success of his school’s foreign exchange student
program is directed toward Kelly Brown, a Rossville resident and the regional
coordinator for the Academic Year in America, or AYA, program for the past five
years.
Brown said she is
responsible for 19 visiting students out of the estimated 50 students who are
in Kansas currently as part of the AYA. She said the program requires her to
either meet with or contact the student, host family and the student’s
biological family monthly.
“It works really well,”
Brown said. “If we’re in contact continuously, we can work out a problem before
it escalates into a bigger problem. We take pride in that we take care of our
students. We don’t just get them here and then forget about them.”
Brown also said she
gives credit for the success of the visiting student program to the staff and
administration at Rossville Junior-Senior High School.
“I give kudos to them
for allowing us to have this many,” she said, referring to the nine students
who will attend the school this spring semester. “They (students) blend in
really well. They get good grades and usually don’t struggle academically.”
Before she matches a
student with a family, Brown said she spends a lot of time going through the
students’ profiles to understand their preferences and personalities.
Julie Spring said she,
her husband and their son, Zach, now 22, have hosted foreign exchange students
each year since the 2008-09 school year from Japan, Germany and Pakistan. Their
current student, Rafael de Arruda, is from Brazil.
“I think that the Rossville
kids have been very good to them,” Spring said of the foreign exchange students
who have been in the community. “They love that people talk to them but they
really want friends. They came here to be part of America and the culture and
sometimes they’re afraid or they’re embarrassed. They just don’t know how to
ask.”
Spring said as part of
the Academic Year in America program, visiting students have to give
presentations on their culture and lives, as well as perform a required number
of community service hours. She said Bilal Channa, the student she hosted last
year, resonated with her and the Rossville community in particular, because he
is a practicing Muslim.
“He engaged a lot with
adults,” she said. “Some of the things he would consider to be important wouldn’t
be something a normal 16-year-old would think is important. He worries about
what’s happening in his country, he worries about world things.”
Spring said after
hosting Bilal, whom she remains in regular contact with, she sees global events
from a completely new perspective.
“What does happen in
the rest of the world is important to us,” she said. “I’m thankful that he gave
me that.”
3A Football Class For 2016 and 2017
The 3A football classification for the 2016-2017 and 2017-2018 years are available. The classes are based on enrollments in the Ninth, tenth, and eleventh grades only as of Sept. 21, 2015.
Rossville comes in at the lower end of the sixty four schools with 121-203 students with 127.
Other Mid-East schools include St. Marys, 144, Silver Lake 149, Riley County 165. Wabaunsee is in class 2A at 111 and Rock Creek is in 4A at 211.
Rossville comes in at the lower end of the sixty four schools with 121-203 students with 127.
Other Mid-East schools include St. Marys, 144, Silver Lake 149, Riley County 165. Wabaunsee is in class 2A at 111 and Rock Creek is in 4A at 211.
Saturday, January 9, 2016
Rossville Wrestlers Placing
The following RHS wresdtlers placed at the Rossville Invitational on Jan. 9. Fifteen teams competed, but each team had 12 or fewer wrestlers so weight classes were not completely filled.
106 Alex Archer 4th
113 Colin Culbertson 3rd
120 Alex Cavanaugh 1st
126 Bryce Gfeller 1st
132 Holden Hurla 4th
138 Phoenix Thomas 2nd
145 Reed Miller 4th
152 Isaiah Luellen 2nd
160 Derek Gentry 3rd
182 Isaac Luellen 1st
220 Kole Davoren 1st
106 Alex Archer 4th
113 Colin Culbertson 3rd
120 Alex Cavanaugh 1st
126 Bryce Gfeller 1st
132 Holden Hurla 4th
138 Phoenix Thomas 2nd
145 Reed Miller 4th
152 Isaiah Luellen 2nd
160 Derek Gentry 3rd
182 Isaac Luellen 1st
220 Kole Davoren 1st
Final Team Standings of Rossville Invitational
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12
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215.0
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11
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176.0
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13
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156.0
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12
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131.5
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10
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122.5
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100.0
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12
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96.0
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11
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93.5
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65.0
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64.5
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58.0
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55.5
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23.0
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21.0
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16.0
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Riley and Rossville Split Wins
The Riley County and Rossville high varsity basketball teams split on Jan. 8 on the Rossville court.
Boys Varsity Game
Riley County 10 14 20 22 = 66
Rossville 16 23 14 21 = 74
Rossville 16 23 14 21 = 74
Rossville scoring:
Schumacher 6 (1) 10-16 24
Roduner 3 5-7 11
Morris 3 (3) 1-2 10,
Mason 3 (3) 1-4 10
Hammes 2 2-6 6
Bradshaw 2 2-2 6
Horak 0 5-6 5
Anderson 0 2-2 2
Team 0 1-2 1
Totals 19 (7) 29-47 74
Schumacher 6 (1) 10-16 24
Roduner 3 5-7 11
Morris 3 (3) 1-2 10,
Mason 3 (3) 1-4 10
Hammes 2 2-6 6
Bradshaw 2 2-2 6
Horak 0 5-6 5
Anderson 0 2-2 2
Team 0 1-2 1
Totals 19 (7) 29-47 74
Girls Varsity Game
Riley County 9 15 21 17 = 62
Rossville 10 8 18 20 = 56
Rossville scoring:
Nitsch 6 (5) 0-0 17
Hill 5 (2) 2-2 14
Day 1 (1) 2-2 5
Conley 2 0-2 4
Shinn 2 0-0 4
Steckel 1 (1) 0-0 3
Buhler 1 (1) 0-0 3
Porter 1 1-2 3
Hill 1 1-2 3
Totals 20 (10) 6-10 56.
Rossville 10 8 18 20 = 56
Rossville scoring:
Nitsch 6 (5) 0-0 17
Hill 5 (2) 2-2 14
Day 1 (1) 2-2 5
Conley 2 0-2 4
Shinn 2 0-0 4
Steckel 1 (1) 0-0 3
Buhler 1 (1) 0-0 3
Porter 1 1-2 3
Hill 1 1-2 3
Totals 20 (10) 6-10 56.
Friday, January 8, 2016
Sallie Kelley Passes Away
Sallie A. Kelley, 61, passed away Wednesday, January 6, 2016 at her daughter's home in Rossville.
She was born March 4, 1954 at Topeka the daughter of Cornelius and Lorraine Gale Lee Cummings. She was raised in Rossville and graduated from Rossville High School. Sallie lived most of her life in the Rossville community.
Sallie had worked at Goodyear Tire and Rubber, Payless Distribution Center for 28 years and the past five years at Frito Lay all in Topeka. She was an avid KSU fan.
She was preceded in death by her parents, a brother Mark and a sister Sue.
Survivors include her daughter, Waunita (Gary) Smith, Rossville; her son, Shawn (DeeAnna) Kelly, Wathena; siblings, Michael (Barbara) Cummings, Topeka (Willard), Ellen (James) McFarland, Carbondale, Alice (Ron) Andrick, Topeka and Amy (Chris) Rawejasli, Topeka; 3 grandchildren, Mark Smith, Darcy Smith and Molly Kelley.
Inurnment graveside services will be at 10:00 A.M. Thursday, January 14, 2016 at Prairie Home Cemetery, Topeka. A family visitation will be from 6:00 until 8:00 P.M. Wednesday, January 13, 2016 at Piper Funeral Chapel in Rossville. Memorial contributions may be made in Sallie's name for her grandchildren's educational fund and sent in care of Piper Funeral Chapel, P.O. Box 642, Rossville, Kansas 66533
Thursday, January 7, 2016
Main St. Puzzle
If you like to solve simple jig-saw puzzles, here is a fairly easy one of Rossville's new revamped Main St.
http://www.jigidi.com/puzzle.php?id=XCZFZSMF
http://www.jigidi.com/puzzle.php?id=XCZFZSMF
Basketball Video
There is video of the basketball version of the "war on 24" at the below URL from the 2:18 to 4:03 time in the video.
http://ksnt.com/2016/01/05/h-s-hoops-january-5-2016/
Going into Tue night, both girls teams were undefeated, but #1 ranked Silver Lake had an easy time of defeating the RHS girls 73-49.
The RHS boys took care of business with a 37-34 win over the Eagles.
http://ksnt.com/2016/01/05/h-s-hoops-january-5-2016/
Going into Tue night, both girls teams were undefeated, but #1 ranked Silver Lake had an easy time of defeating the RHS girls 73-49.
The RHS boys took care of business with a 37-34 win over the Eagles.
Tuesday, January 5, 2016
Dawgs and Eagles Split
From CJ Online
SILVER LAKE — Coming out of the holiday break, it’s only natural for a coach to be concerned about his team being rusty offensively.
And facing an undefeated Rossville team in Tuesday’s return to the court, Silver Lake coach Loren Ziegler was certainly a bit anxious.
“We had a couple of average practices (over the break),” Ziegler said, then added, ”but we’ve got a pretty focused team. They’re a veteran group who’s been through the wars and know what it takes.”
Those veteran Eagles quickly put Ziegler’s mind at ease. After missing three of its first four shots, Silver Lake hardly missed the mark the rest of the way.
A string of four straight makes got the Eagles going and the offense looked in postseason form as No. 1 Silver Lake easily handled the battle of unbeatens with a 73-49 rout of visiting Rossville. The Eagles improved to 5-0 overall and 3-0 in Mid-East League play.
“We had some lapses defensively, but that’s because Rossville’s so good,” Ziegler said. “But our intensity level was good and our execution level was really good.”
It didn’t take long for that execution to hit full rhythm and it was a trio of seniors who got it going. Alexis Gifford hit her first five shots of the game and never really cooled off, gouging the Rossville defense with 3-of-6 accuracy from 3-point range to complement slashing drives to the basket. She finished with 27 points, hitting 9 of 14 shots overall.
Madison Wegner added 12 of her 14 points in the first half, seven coming in the second quarter when the Eagles blew open the game with a 20-6 quarter to build a 36-18 halftime lead. Rachel Heiman added 16 points on 8-of-11 shooting and Silver Lake finished the game making 29 of 51 shots overall.
“We forced them to play at our speed, in catch-up mode, and that’s what we want,” Ziegler said. “Lexie got us off to a good start and we got into a good flow and we had a lot of good things happen offensively, which helped our defense.”
Rossville fell to 6-1 and was led by Amanda Hill’s 13 points.
ROSSVILLE BOYS 37, SILVER LAKE 34 — A thing of beauty it was not.
But given Rossville hadn’t won at Silver Lake in more than a half decade, well, beauty took on different meaning for the Bulldawgs.
“We’ll take them any way we can get them,” Rossville coach Derek Dick said. “We haven’t won here in like six years, so it’s good to get one here. The thing I like about our kids and their kids is they just competed so hard and even when it’s ugly like it was tonight, they still competed because they don’t like to lose.”
Tied 20-20 at the half, Rossville opened the second half with a 5-0 run that proved to be a significant offensive burst on Tuesday night. Jacob Bradshaw scored all five points in the run that put the Bulldawgs ahead for good.
Rossville never led by more than six and didn’t do a lot to put the Eagles away, missing five of six free throws in the final 1:55, including the front end of three one-and-one situations.
But Silver Lake couldn’t take advantage, going 2 for 9 on its final shots.
Bradshaw led all scorers with 12 points.
SILVER LAKE GIRLS 73, ROSSVILLE 49
Rossville 12 6 18 13 — 49
Silver Lake 16 20 22 15 — 73
Rossville (6-1, 0-1) — Nitsch 3-10 0-0 8, Steckel 2-9 0-0 4, Conley 5-8 1-2 11, Day 1-6 0-0 2, A. Hill 6-14 0-0 13, S. Shinn 2-4 0-0 4, Porter 0-1 0-0 0, C. Hill 1-3 0-0 2, L. Shinn 1-3 3-5 5, Buhler 0-1 0-0 0, Badura 0-0 0-0 0, Kirk 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 21-59 4-7 49.
Silver Lake (5-1, 3-0) — White 2-3 0-0 4, Wegner 5-12 2-2 14, Heiman 8-11 0-1 16, Gifford 9-14 6-9 27, Yoder 2-4 0-0 4, Calderwood 1-1 0-0 3, Johnson 0-0 0-0 0, Lane 0-1 1-2 1, Krogman 0-1 0-0 0, Burkhardt 0-1 0-0 0, Bates 2-3 0-0 4, Fischer 0-0 0-0 0, Mountain 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 29-51 9-14 73.
3-pointers — Rossville 3-7 (Nitsch 2-3, A. Hill 1-2, Steckel 0-1, Buhler 0-1); Silver Lake 6-16 (Gifford 3-6, Wegner 2-6, Calderwood 1-1, White 0-1, Lane 0-1, Burkhardt 0-1). Total fouls — Rossville 16, Silver Lake 13. Fouled out — none.
ROSSVILLE BOYS 37, SILVER LAKE 34
Rossville 8 12 10 7 — 37
Silver Lake 8 12 5 9 — 34
Rossville (5-2, 1-0) — Roduner 2-5 3-5 8, Schumacher 1-7 0-2 2, Bradshaw 4-6 4-6 12, Horak 2-8 0-2 5, Hammes 1-3 1-3 3, Dyche 0-2 0-0 0, Mason 2-3 0-0 4, Anderson 0-0 0-0 0, Morris 1-4 0-0 3. Totals 13-38 8-18 37.
Silver Lake (3-2, 2-1) — Hallacy 2-12 3-4 7, Koelzer 0-2 0-0 0, Wagner 2-9 0-0 4, Griffin 3-8 1-1 7, Adams 1-2 1-2 3, Byrne 1-2 0-0 2, Baird 3-6 3-6 9, Matzke 1-2 0-2 2. Totals 13-443 8-15 34.
3-pointers — Rossville 3-14 (Roduner 1-1, Horak 1-6, Morris 1-4, Dyche 0-2, Mason 0-1); Silver Lake 0-16 (Hallacy 0-7, Griffin 0-4, Wagner 0-3, Koelzer 0-2). Total fouls — Rossville 18, Silver Lake 18. Fouled out — none.
Horak And Coach To Shrine Bowl
Six Shawnee County athletes, including four Topeka players, have been selected to the East Squad for the 2016 Kansas Shrine Bowl, which will be played July 30 in Emporia.
The only other Mid-East League player is Cole Baird of Silver Lake.
You can see the complete Shrine Bowl rosters at:
http://cjonline.com/sports/2016-01-04/four-city-players-rossvilles-horak-headline-east-shrine-bowl-rosterSunday, January 3, 2016
Trailer For Baseball Documentary
Here is a trailer for the documentary film on Kansas baseball. Most of the scenes in the trailer were shot at Rossville.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/KSBaseballHistory/permalink/435585246630859/
https://www.facebook.com/groups/KSBaseballHistory/permalink/435585246630859/
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