“If we had let it get tied, it may have been that much tougher. “I think that was a huge key,” Kinnamon said on his team never letting Miege tie the game or take the lead after the first quarter. In Friday night’s edition of the McPherson versus Miege rivalry, the Bullpups would lead for the final 24 minutes after being tied at 10-all through the first quarter. McPherson’s latest crack at Miege before Friday’s matchup was in the 2021 state semifinals, where Miege downed the Bullpups 78-51. That 2015 state tournament matchup with Miege was the first of four straight state tournament showdowns with the Stags, but McPherson would lose the next three as all three losses came in the state championship game. The last time McPherson took down Miege was a 79-68 win in the 2015 4A state semifinals, which was also the last year that the Bullpups won their latest state title. That’s a really good basketball team and we withstood everything that they had. I’m just extremely proud of those guys and how hard they played,” McPherson head boys basketball coach Kinnamon said after McPherson’s first win over Miege since 2015. “When guys invest, when guys compete and guys have success, that chokes me up. However, 13-time state champion McPherson dethroned the vaunted Stags Friday evening with a 60-54 win that sent the Bullpups to their 27 th all-time state championship game and their first since 2018. Five of those seven titles have come in the last seven years (2016, 2017, 2018, 20), which has drawn much attention, both good and bad, to the Stags’ program. Since 2001, the Bishop Miege boys basketball team has had a strangling hold on the class 4A and 5A state tournaments as they have accumulated seven state titles in a 21-year span. 6 seed Bishop Miege 60-54 in the state semifinals Friday evening in a raucous environment. This article was most recently revised and updated by Amy Tikkanen.By Joel Kansas – For the first time since 2019, the class 4A boys state basketball tournament will have a new team hoisting the championship trophy as No. A popular area attraction is the Mennonite Heritage Museum in Goessel, north of Newton. Bethel College (1887) in North Newton is the oldest Mennonite college in the United States the Kauffman Museum on its campus features collections of antique automobiles and pioneer relics, as well as a reconstructed prairie with 16 species of native grasses and more than 100 species of wildflowers. Also significant to Newton’s economy are railroad maintenance shops, food-processing and grain-milling plants, and factories that manufacture mobile homes. Newton is now a trading and shipping centre for the surrounding wheat-growing area. In the 1870s Russian Mennonite settlers began raising Turkey Red hard winter wheat brought from their homeland, and this variety became Kansas’s principal agricultural product. Founded in 1871 and named for Newton, Massachusetts, it was a railhead for the Chisholm Trail cattle drives from 1871 to 1873, when it was designated a division point of the Santa Fe Railroad. Newton, city, seat (1872) of Harvey county, central Kansas, U.S. North Newton: Bethel College Administration Building
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