Over 40 of the best senior basketball players in south central Kansas will play in the 4th Annual South Central Kansas All-Star Basketball Classic Sunday evening at PCC.
The event, organized by PCC mens basketball coaches Trevor Rolfs and Jesse Shaw and womens coaches Stephanie Shanline and Patrick Harrison, will include six players and one coach from local high schools, plus a number of PCC basketball recruits.
The girls game will tip off at 4 p.m. Sunday in the Beaver Dome, with the boys contest following at 6 p.m.
After guiding Pratt to a third place finish at the Class 4A State Tournament, PHS boys coach David Swank was selected to coach one of the boys teams in the 6 p.m. game.
Burrton’s Ralph Butler was tabbed to coach the other team after his Chargers qualified for the Class 1A State Tournament.
On the girls side, Sarah McCormick of Garden Plain and Steve Roberts from South Barber will do the coaching. Garden Plain took third in Class 3A, while South Barber was a Class 1A Regional Champion this season.
Four of Pratt’s senior boys will participate in the showcase game.
Skylar Angood, Brady Batman, Brad Richardson and Luke Southard all played key roles during the Greenbacks’ 23-3 season and they will get one more opportunity to play basketball in front of their hometown crowd.
St. John’s Danton Hilton, Macksville’s Garrett Aves, Evan Loomis and Marc Renfro, and Medicine Lodge’s Joe Dohrmann are among other players from the surrounding areas.
The boys rosters will also include Onzay Branch of Topeka High, Drew Brown of Syracuse, Devin Callon of Haven, Chase Clancy from South Gray High School, Jordan Dahlke of Quivira Heights High, Dante Lee from Olathe Christian, Scott Hermreck of Andale, Bucklin’s Zach Kreutzer, Logan Marshall of Great Bend, Nick Morris from South Barber, Alex Santiago of Burrton, Troy Smith and Braden Thompson from Nickerson, Garrett Vratil of Larned, Terrance Williams from Dodge City, and Kevin Wissman of Otis-Bison.
Half of those players have state tournament experience from last week, as Clancy’s South Gray squad took second in Class 1A, a tournament that saw Santiago score a state-record 53 points in Burrton’s quarterfinal loss to eventual champion Hanover.
Aves, Loomis and Renfro were also in Hays Tuesday, but Macksville was sent home by Clancy, who scored 31 points in the contest, and the Rebels.
Smith and Thompson took their team to the Class 4A State Tournament, but like Williams and Dodge City (Class 6A), the Panthers were eliminated in the first round.
Dahlke’s Quivira Heights team won a Class 1A Regional title and fell two points short of a spot in the state tournament while Morris and his South Barber teammates also qualified for a sub-state tournament.
On the girls side, three members of Skyline’s Class 1A Sub-State Runner-Up team will participate, as will a pair of players with state tournament experience.
Natali Jones, Sadee Kumberg and Amy Jo Maphet nearly led their team (21-3) to the state tournament, but couldn’t quite get past eventual Class 1A Champion South Gray in the sub-state final.
Girls rosters will also include Word of Life’s Brianna Albright, Whitney Bates of Rose Hill, Amanda Casey of Plainville, Madison Chambers of Wellsville, Kaylee Cramer from Dighton, Kelli Crittenden from Tribune, Janae Helfrich of Cimarron, Anna Leis of Fowler, South Barber’s Sara Molz, Ann Pauly of Garden Plain, Kieran Phelan from Quivira Heights High School, Cassie Potter of Lawrence, Kami Rash of Syracuse, Catie Riedel of Trego Community High School, and Samantha Soyez of Goddard.
Pauly helped Garden Plain place third in Class 3A. She averaged 9.67 points and 5.67 assists per game as the Owls went 2-1 in Hutchinson.
Crittenden’s team fell short in the first round of the Class 1A tournament, but she led the Lady Rabbits with 10 points and two assists. Earlier in the season, she helped the Lady Rabbits win the Colby Sub-State after finishing as regional runners-up.
Phelan was a big part of Quivira Heights’s 17-4 season that ended just short of a sub-state qualification, and Rash’s Syracuse squad was a win away from the Class 2A State Tournament.
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Over 40 of the best senior basketball players in south central Kansas will play in the 4th Annual South Central Kansas All-Star Basketball Classic Sunday evening at PCC.
The event, organized by PCC mens basketball coaches Trevor Rolfs and Jesse Shaw and womens coaches Stephanie Shanline and Patrick Harrison, will include six players and one coach from local high schools, plus a number of PCC basketball recruits.
The girls game will tip off at 4 p.m. Sunday in the Beaver Dome, with the boys contest following at 6 p.m.
After guiding Pratt to a third place finish at the Class 4A State Tournament, PHS boys coach David Swank was selected to coach one of the boys teams in the 6 p.m. game.
Burrton’s Ralph Butler was tabbed to coach the other team after his Chargers qualified for the Class 1A State Tournament.
On the girls side, Sarah McCormick of Garden Plain and Steve Roberts from South Barber will do the coaching. Garden Plain took third in Class 3A, while South Barber was a Class 1A Regional Champion this season.
Four of Pratt’s senior boys will participate in the showcase game.
Skylar Angood, Brady Batman, Brad Richardson and Luke Southard all played key roles during the Greenbacks’ 23-3 season and they will get one more opportunity to play basketball in front of their hometown crowd.
St. John’s Danton Hilton, Macksville’s Garrett Aves, Evan Loomis and Marc Renfro, and Medicine Lodge’s Joe Dohrmann are among other players from the surrounding areas.
The boys rosters will also include Onzay Branch of Topeka High, Drew Brown of Syracuse, Devin Callon of Haven, Chase Clancy from South Gray High School, Jordan Dahlke of Quivira Heights High, Dante Lee from Olathe Christian, Scott Hermreck of Andale, Bucklin’s Zach Kreutzer, Logan Marshall of Great Bend, Nick Morris from South Barber, Alex Santiago of Burrton, Troy Smith and Braden Thompson from Nickerson, Garrett Vratil of Larned, Terrance Williams from Dodge City, and Kevin Wissman of Otis-Bison.
Half of those players have state tournament experience from last week, as Clancy’s South Gray squad took second in Class 1A, a tournament that saw Santiago score a state-record 53 points in Burrton’s quarterfinal loss to eventual champion Hanover.
Aves, Loomis and Renfro were also in Hays Tuesday, but Macksville was sent home by Clancy, who scored 31 points in the contest, and the Rebels.
Smith and Thompson took their team to the Class 4A State Tournament, but like Williams and Dodge City (Class 6A), the Panthers were eliminated in the first round.
Dahlke’s Quivira Heights team won a Class 1A Regional title and fell two points short of a spot in the state tournament while Morris and his South Barber teammates also qualified for a sub-state tournament.
On the girls side, three members of Skyline’s Class 1A Sub-State Runner-Up team will participate, as will a pair of players with state tournament experience.
Natali Jones, Sadee Kumberg and Amy Jo Maphet nearly led their team (21-3) to the state tournament, but couldn’t quite get past eventual Class 1A Champion South Gray in the sub-state final.
Girls rosters will also include Word of Life’s Brianna Albright, Whitney Bates of Rose Hill, Amanda Casey of Plainville, Madison Chambers of Wellsville, Kaylee Cramer from Dighton, Kelli Crittenden from Tribune, Janae Helfrich of Cimarron, Anna Leis of Fowler, South Barber’s Sara Molz, Ann Pauly of Garden Plain, Kieran Phelan from Quivira Heights High School, Cassie Potter of Lawrence, Kami Rash of Syracuse, Catie Riedel of Trego Community High School, and Samantha Soyez of Goddard.
Pauly helped Garden Plain place third in Class 3A. She averaged 9.67 points and 5.67 assists per game as the Owls went 2-1 in Hutchinson.
Crittenden’s team fell short in the first round of the Class 1A tournament, but she led the Lady Rabbits with 10 points and two assists. Earlier in the season, she helped the Lady Rabbits win the Colby Sub-State after finishing as regional runners-up.
Phelan was a big part of Quivira Heights’s 17-4 season that ended just short of a sub-state qualification, and Rash’s Syracuse squad was a win away from the Class 2A State Tournament.
