Sports

The Blazer Boys continue on to State XC in Lawrence: On Saturday morning, the Blazer Regional XC squads competed in the toughest 6A Regional in the State of Kansas at Johnson County Community College hosted by Olathe East. The Blazer Boys took to the course first and ran a dominant and impressive race putting our top 5 runners in the top 20 and scoring 71 points. The Blazer boys were bested only by Olathe East to bring home a second place Regional Runner-Up trophy. The Blazers placed 6th, 13th, 14th, 18th, and 20th with Junior Parker Walion leading the charge for the Trailblazers with a 16:41 4th place finish in 20-30 mph winds. The boys put three runners under 17 minutes and ran quite well as a pack to hold off Olathe South and Olathe West who were also looking for those coveted top three spots. Only three teams (Olathe East, GEHS, and Olathe South) move on to the State XC Championship at KU’s Rimrock Farm next Saturday. Congratulate Parker Walion 4th, Nick Kilonzo 14th, Andrew Leach 15th, Aidan Scherman 18th, Jackson Elsey, 20th, Cade Halton 23rd, and Robert Falkner 31st for one of the best Regional performances in Blazer XC History. THE BLAZERS RETURN TO THE STATE MEET FOR THE THIRD YEAR IN A ROW and 4th TIME IN PROGRAM HISTORY. The boys finished 3rd/14 teams in the Sunflower League, 2nd/9 teams in the Olathe 6A Regional... the their work is not done yet...State XC has 5 teams fighting for the podium and your Trailblazers are in the mix. Wish them luck this week as GEHS sends these boys to run a tight race against Olathe East, Shawnee Mission East, Garden City, Olathe South, and Lawrence Freestate. All of these teams are fighting for the top three podium spots on Saturday--it is going to be quite a race!

The Debate team was in action this last weekend at Eudora High School. We brought two novice teams to compete in open category and this was their first tournament for both teams. Team Kate Sanders and Sofia Tortolero had a rough start but continued fighting and ended up getting their first win before the day was through. Kaila Burnside and Will Sloss hit the ground running and were able to complete the day with 3 wins and 2 losses. We look for more success this weekend as the team travels to Springhill. Please congratulate these students for their success.

The Varsity and JV Trailblazer XC squads headed to Lawrence in the pre-dawn hours on Saturday to compete at the largest meet in the midwestern US at KU’s historic Rimrock Farm XC Course. There were 8 States, 312 teams, and over 3100 runners in 8 different races, and our Blazers performed well.In the JV Girls Crimson Division, the girls had their best JV performance ever since moving to 6Awith a 6th place finish out of 20 teams. The JV girls averaged a 23:34 5K time across their top 7 runners with Junior Caroline Clarke leading the way with an overall 28th finish out of 195 runners at a course PR time of 23:15.

Varsity: 9-20-22 Shawnee Mission East: 25-19 and 25-22 Shawnee Mission West: 25-18 and 25-20 The Varsity Blazer volleyball team took home two wins Tuesday evening against Shawnee Mission South and Shawnee Mission East. DS/Liberos Reese Kehl and Jadyn Padilla kept the Blazers ahead with stellar defense and serve receive passing. Setters Ryleigh Sander and Lana Chamongchith ran their offense efficiently and gave hitters an open net a majority of the time. Right side hitter Elise Hmielewski led the team in blocking to close out the win against Shawnee Mission East. We are looking forward to another night of competition on Thursday against Olathe East and Shawnee Mission West.

By Kara Bouwens Shawnee Mission West and Shawnee Mission East Monday, Sept. 19 SMW 25-10, 25-16 SME 20-25, 25-13,15-7 The Blazers had 36 kills.

The Trailblazers Men’s soccer team competed last night. Both the JV & Varsity teams went head to head with the Shawnee Mission-East Lancers home at the GEHS Trailblazers Soccer Stadium.

The GEHS Trailblazers Men’s soccer team went head to head with the Olathe South Falcons home at the Olathe District Activities Center but dropped both games. The Junior Varsity were downed by the Falcons suffering yet another loss to bring their†record to 3-5.