Rossville KS Alumni News

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Friday, January 26, 2024

Jack Donovan Stars In Osky Tourney Championahip

JACK DONOVAN, Rossville

A 5-foot-11 sophomore guard, scored a total of 58 points with 10 3-pointers in Rossville's three tournament wins, helping lead the Bulldawgs to the tournament championship in the Oskaloosa Invitational. Donovan capped his big week with a 28-point performance in Saturday's 57-37 win over Perry-Lecompton in the championship game. Donovan hit four 3-pointers against the Kaws and went 6 of 6 at the free throw line. An all-tournament pick, Donovan scored 19 points in a 71-38 win over Oskaloosa and had 11 points in a 57-38 semifinal win over Jefferson County North.

Rylee Dick Leads RHS Girls To Dominating Win

NORTONVILLE -- The Rossville Lady Dawgs, ranked No. 3 in Class 3A, began the Jefferson County North Invitational Tournament playing the Tigers from Atchison County Community High School. The Lady Dawgs dominated from start to finish, winning 78-16.

Rossville sophomore Rylee Dick scored a career-high 27 points in Tuesday's 78-16 win over Atchison County. [File photo/TSN]

The game was never in doubt with Rossville leading 35-3 after one quarter, 52-3 at halftime and outscoring ACCHS 26-13 in the second half.

The Lady Dawgs were led by sophomore Rylee Dick with a career-high 27 points, while freshman Nora Burdiek had 20 points and senior Emma Mitchell scored 17 points. Burdiek led Rossville with 7 rebounds, 8 steals and 4 blocked shots.

Wednesday, January 24, 2024

KWCA Girls Wrestling Ranking For 4321A

This week Rossville High has moved into first place among the 4321A Girls Wrestling.

Individuals in the Top Six of their class are:

115 # Keera Lacock 1st

120 # Kendra Hurla 1st

155 # Haylay Horton 5th

Lady Dawgs At Jeff Co. North Inv.

The RHS girls won their first round game of the Jeff Co. North Invitational Tue night by a lop-sided score of 78-16

Rossville 35 17 19 7 -- 78

Atchison County 3 0 10 3 -- 16

Rossville scoring

Perine 1 1-2 3
Haehn 1 (1) 0-0 3
Mitchell 7 (1) 2-2 17
Dick 11 (4) 1-2 27
Burdiek 10 2-4 22
Spielman 3 0-2 6.

Tuesday, January 23, 2024

Barrett Lietz Has 100 Wins

Senior wrestler Barrett Lietz has an outstanding career and has notched 100 wins. His last vicvtory was this past weekend winning the 215 lb. class at the Eureka Invitational.

Fourth Annual Girls Eureka Inv. Wrestling

Team Scores:

Top 15 finishers out of 23 comp[eting

1 Columbus 140.5
2 El Dorado 118.0
2 Newton 118.0
4 Douglass 110.0
5 Burlington 103.0
6 Rose Hill 89.0
7 Cherryvale 84.5
8 Rossville 81.0
9 Winfield 63.0
10 Eureka 57.0
11 Coffeyville 52.0
12 Caney Valley 50.0
13 Mulvane 47.0
14 Fredonia 46.0
15 Humboldt 37.0

Individual Results

120 Kendra Hurla (24-0) placed 1st and scored 30.0 team points.
125 Shayla Rezac (13-15) place is unknown and scored 0.0 team points.
135 Beya Boumaiza (0-4) place is unknown and scored 0.0 team points.
145 Madelyn Wonnell (25-11) placed 3rd and scored 21.0 team points.
155 Hailey Horton (22-3) placed 1st and scored 30.0 team points.

Boys Wrestling 30th Annual Eureka Inv.

Boys Team Scores (top 18)

1 Newton 254.5
2 Winfield 181.5
3 Field Kindley 111.0
4 Columbus 106.0
5 Caney Valley 89.0
6 Rose Hill 81.5
7 Herington 77.5
8 Clearwater 76.0
9 Burlington 73.5
10 West Elk 67.5
11 Hillsboro 57.0
12 Rossville 55.5
13 Douglass 51.0
14 Humboldt 50.0
15 Erie 49.5
16 Cherryvale 48.0
17 Central Burden 30.0
18 El Dorado 29.5

Individuals

113      Kelton Lacock (14-13) 5th Place         7 pts
126      Remi Drogemeier( 18-9) 3rd Place    15.5 pts
132      Maon Broce (10-11)      2-2                  5 pts
144      Seth Basemore (1-10) 0-2                      0 pts
165      Jordan Johnson (0-6)      0-2                  0 pts
175      Joel McGrath (3-21)      0-2                      0 pts
180      Charles Chance (2-16) 0-2                  0 pts
215      Barret Lietz (23-5) 1st                  28 pts

Monday, January 22, 2024

Lady Dawgs Roll Over St. Marys Lady Bears in BB

Rossville 18 23 20 11 -- 72
St. Marys 15 8 12 2 -- 37

Rossville scoring-

Burdiek 7 3-3 17
Perine 5 (2) 0-0 12
Dick 6 1-1 13,
Haehn 4 (2) 1-2 11
Mitchel 4 (1) 1-2 10
Porter 3 0-0 6
Spielman 1 1-2 3.

RHS Boys Win Osky Tournament Championship

The Dawgs have been hot recently racking up win after win. In last week's Oskaloosa Invitational tournament the Dawgs won all three games including a decisive 57-37 win over Perry-Lecompton for the Championship.

Rossville 14 16 15 12 -- 57
Perry-Lecompton 13 6 11 7 -- 37

Rossville Scoring

McDonnell 0 1-2 1
Badura 7 2-4 16
Donovan 9 (4) 6-6 28
C. Bush 0 1-2 1
Jones 2 1-1 5
Miller 2 (1) 1-2 6.

Friday, January 19, 2024

Semi-Final Win At Oskaloosa Tourney

Semi-final game of Oskaloosa Tournament Jan 19.

Rossville 57
JCN 38

Rossville Scoring:

Horak 8 (4) 0-0 20
Donovan 8 (3) 0-0 19
Miller 5 (1) 0-0 11
Badura 2 (1) 4-4 9
Jones 3 0-2 6
McDonnell 2 1-2 5
Johnson 0 0-2 0

Up and Coming Basketball Future Stars

NORA BURDIEK, Rossville

Rossville freshman basketball standout Nora Burdiek (22)
has been named the Dan Key Farmers Insurance Agency
girls Rising Star of the Week. [File photo/TSN]

A 5-foot-10 freshman, Burdiek has made an immediate impact for Rossville, which is ranked No. 4 in Class 3A by the Kansas Basketball Coaches Association.

Burdiek is coming off a pair of double-figure performances for the Bulldawgs to open 2024 as Rossville improved to 7-1 on the season.

Burdiek scored 10 points in last Friday's 40-33 Mid-East League victory over Riley County and scored 17 points in Thursday's 66-41 non-league win over previously-undefeated Valley Heights.

Rossville sophomore Jack Donovan is the Dan Key Farmers Insurance Agency boys Rising Star of the Week after helping the Bulldawgs post a pair of wins to open 2024. [File photo/TSN]