Local athletes make LJW all-area teams

Keaton Schaffer
The Lawrence Journal-World winter sports all-area teams are out and two Tonganoxie High athletes, as well as one from McLouth High, received first-team honors.
Boys basketball
Keaton Schaffer, senior, Tonganoxie
Schaffer finished his senior season averaging a league-best 19.4 points per game, adding 5.2 rebounds and 3.3 assists a night for the 13-9 Chieftains. He led the Kaw Valley League in scoring in each of the past two seasons and was an all-state honorable-mention selection in 2009. Schaffer had an 18-point quarter against Bonner Springs this season and he is the Lawrence Journal-World’s Player of the Year.
Honorable mention: Dane Erickson, sophomore, Tonganoxie.

MIssy Rome
Girls basketball
Missy Rome, senior, McLouth
Rome averaged 17.7 points, 7.2 rebounds, 3.6 steals and four assists per game this season, leading McLouth to 14 victories — the second-highest total in school history. She was an all-state third-team selection last season, has averaged 17.3 points per game over her career and will graduate with MHS career records for points, steals, assists and three-point field goals.
Wrestling
Jeremie Maus, senior, Tonganoxie

Jeremie Maus
Maus finished with a 40-7 record this season in the 171-pound weight class and with 108 career victories. He turned in a fifth-place showing at the Class 4A state tournament, and was a league and regional champion.
- Keaton Schaffer
- MIssy Rome
- Jeremie Maus