Week one of the Kansas State High School Activities Association and Junction City High School football is upon the region as the Blue Jays prepare to travel to Wichita Friday to take on the Bishop Carroll Golden Eagles.

The 2020 season is underway for the Junction City High School Blue Jays soccer team as they held their annual Blue-White Scrimmage Wednesday inside Al Simpler Stadium. The game featured the varsity team squaring off against the junior varsity squad in their first game-like exercise of the season.

Like other baseball teams in the county, the Junction City Senior American Legion baseball team has been hard at work preparing for their delayed season to begin, starting today with a scrimmage against Chapman at 6 p.m. at Rathert Stadium.

The sports season is on hold for the student-athletes of Junction City High School until March 22, but before the district closed all activities, the girls soccer team was hard at work preparing for their upcoming season at Al Simpler Stadium.

The Junction City boys bowling team was eight pins from achieving a season goal — bringing home hardware to show their hard work to everyone — Thursday at the Class 6A State Tournament at Wichita’s Northrock Lanes.

The Junction City Lady Blue Jays trailed early in the Class 6A State Bowling Tournament in Wichita Thursday before turning their scores around to take second place by two pins over Garden City.

As the final buzzer sounded in the gymnasium at Lawrence Free State High School Wednesday, the 2019-20 basketball season came to a close for the Junction City Blue Jays as they fell 56-68 to the Firebirds.

After a two-day trip to Liberal, the basketball season has come to a close for the Junction City Lady Blue Jays as they fell to the number one seeded Liberal Lady Redskins, 23-58.

After the high of watching Qua’Vez Humphreys crowned the 2020 Winter Homecoming King, the Blue Jays basketball team struggled late against Topeka West to fall 52-60 in the teams next to final appearance in Shenk Gymnasium during the regular season.

Last week when the Lady Blue Jays defeated the Topeka West Lady Chargers they ended a two year losing streak. Friday night, the team snapped a 757 day streak at Shenk Gymnasium earning their first home victory since Jan. 2018.

The Junction City Lady Blue Jays fell to rival Manhattan inside the Nest Tuesday 26-50.

A fourth quarter surge by the Junction City Blue Jays Tuesday night propelled them to the 45-39 victory over Topeka Hayden on the road.

The Junction City Blue Jays travel to Dodge City this week in the second round of the Class 6A football tournament bracket to take on the undefeated Dodge City Demons.

Keiana Newman left her mark in the Junction City High School track program after adding another 100-meter hurdle state championship to her resume. She finished with a time of 14.85 seconds at the state track meet in Wichita this weekend. Despite accomplishing this feat, Newman realized it wa…

Aaron Hamilton moved around a lot as a kid. 

The Junction City track and field team participated in the Kansas State High School Activities Association 6A regional track meet at Lawrence Free State High School Friday. The top four finishers in each event qualified for the state tournament, and JC will have many athletes moving on to th…

The Junction City softball team suffered a 13-1 loss to Topeka High School in the regional playoff round Thursday afternoon, but coach Aaron Craig’s head is not hanging low. Remembering where this team was just a year ago from now, he is encouraged with the current track the team is on.

The thing about playing the same team in both the first and last games of the season to Junction City girls soccer coach Mitchell Dehoff is that it’s a good measuring stick. It’s a culmination of everything the team has gone through over the course of a long season.

The Junction City Blue Jays completed their 2019 regular season at Washburn Rural Friday afternoon, and lost both games. 

It began in Junction City tennis player Kody Westerhaus’s sophomore year when coach Matthew Micheel felt his team needed a lift. Westerhaus delivered on Micheel’s request in a big way. 

Junction City’s Kody Westerhaus is heading to the state tennis tournament.

In his fourth year as Junction City’s head girls soccer coach, this year’s team features the first senior class Mitchell Dehoff has coached for four years. 

The Junction City tennis team finished in eighth place after competing in the Centennial League Tournament Monday.

It’s all about the start, Junction City head softball coach Aaron Craig said. A start to a game often dictates how the rest of the game will go, and that was certainly the case Friday afternoon as JC dropped two games to Emporia.

One of Junction City’s own is coming home. 

Tuesday night’s soccer matchup against Wichita Warriors Homeschool looked all too familiar for Lady Jay coach Mitchell Dehoff. It looked a lot like the team’s past couple games.

The Junction City Blue Jays lost two games at Hayden High School Tuesday afternoon. 

Junction City tennis coach Matthew Micheel has been focused on getting his team to play with intensity this season. He feels playing with that sort of confidence helps with the overall play.

Out of the 80 minutes his team played Friday night, head soccer coach Mitchell Dehoff thinks the Lady Jays played 75 great ones. But, it was the five minutes in which they didn’t that ended up costing them.

The Junction City Blue Jay baseball team swept Tuesday’s doubleheader against Highland Park.

After giving up seven goals on Monday night, Lady Jay head soccer coach Mitchell Dehoff’s main focus in practice this week was on the defense. The result of Friday’s matchup with Emporia High School looks to have been a reflection of that. 

Junction City track and field coach Randall Zimmerman saw signs that indicated Sherrie Jones may soon have a breakout performance. He said he knew she was capable. 

It was Winter Homecoming night at Junction City High School Friday, and the community and student body came out in full force to show support as Highland Park came to town to play both basketball teams. Highland Park played spoiler by sweeping both games.

Both Junction City basketball teams fell to Topeka High School Friday night at Shenk Gymnasium. 

The Blue Jays returned to Shenk Gymnasium for the first time since Jan. 4, and beat Hayden Catholic in a nail-biting 50-49 win Tuesday night.