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LJWorld.com Area Basketball Roundup

Other than the Free State and Lawrence High boys basketball teams, no area squads will be competing during the final week of the 2020-21 campaign. The Baldwin City, Tonganoxie, Eudora, Perry-Lecompton and Bishop Seabury squads were all eliminated during substate week.

In the Class 4A girls competition, Baldwin’s girls basketball team (10-9) knocked out Eudora (9-7), 33-32, in the substate opener on Wednesday, but the Bulldogs then fell at top-seeded Bishop Miege, 61-29, on Saturday. Tonganoxie’s girls basketball team (5-15) was in the same substate bracket and was eliminated by Bishop Miege, 68-20, in the opener.

On the boys side in Class 4A, Tonganoxie fell to Bishop Miege, 63-30, in the substate championship on Friday. It was the third year in a row that the Chieftains lost in the substate finals. But the 2020-21 season was still a successful one for the Chieftains, who went 15-4 overall and won the Frontier League for the first time in 35 years.

Tonganoxie eliminated the Eudora boys (7-10) in the substate opener, 37-36. Baldwin (2-16) was overwhelmed by Bishop Miege, 82-25, on the other side of the bracket.

In class 3A, both of Perry-Lecompton’s basketball teams were eliminated in the substate semifinals at Wellsville High School.

The girls team (5-17) beat Burlington, 54-42, in the opening round but then lost to top-seeded Osawatomie, 92-56. The Perry-Lecompton boys (13-8) beat Bishop Ward in their opener, 62-55, and lost in the semifinals to Burlington, 47-46.

Bishop Seabury’s boys basketball team earned its first win of the year in the play-in game of its substate bracket. The Seahawks defeated Northern Heights, 53-39, last Saturday before falling to Jefferson County North, 67-38, on Monday.

Bishop Seabury, which advanced to the Class 2A semifinals a year ago before the state tournaments were canceled, finished with a 1-13 record this season.