{"id":374717,"date":"2026-10-16T11:31:01","date_gmt":"2026-10-16T11:31:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/374717\/"},"modified":"2026-10-16T11:31:01","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T11:31:01","slug":"manhattan-high-football-blasts-topeka-high-60-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/374717\/","title":{"rendered":"Manhattan High football blasts Topeka High 60-13"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Toby Hammes<br \/>thammes@themercury.com<\/p>\n<p>TOPEKA \u2014 Despite the unusual circumstances of a Thursday night matchup, Manhattan High football made sure it was business as usual against Topeka High, taking down the Trojans 60-13 at Hummer Sports Park.<\/p>\n<p>The Indians (5-2) extended their winning streak to five games and improved to 3-0 in Centennial League play, setting up a potential winner-take-all matchup for the league title against Washburn Rural next week if the Junior Blues beat Junction City on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s just a constant battle to stay focused, stay motivated and give great effort,\u201d head coach Joe Scartz said. \u201cWe\u2019ve gotten better at that as the season\u2019s gone along, and but we still have some improvement to do.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For the first time in league play this season, Manhattan found itself trailing early Thursday night. But after the Indians responded with seven unanswered scores to take a 45-7 halftime lead, the damage had been done before the break once again.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/themercury.com\/sports\/mhs-football-blasts-topeka-high-60-13\/article_21e903b3-5357-4a2f-ac55-66d781afa8bc.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read the rest and subscribe to The Mercury!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Toby Hammesthammes@themercury.com TOPEKA \u2014 Despite the unusual circumstances of a Thursday night matchup, Manhattan High football made sure&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":374718,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[75,84,83,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-374717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=374717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374717\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/374718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}