Lawrence is home to state chess champions again.

Free State High School and Southwest Junior High School’s teams brought home first-place trophies in their high school and junior high divisions Saturday at the Kansas Scholastic Chess Association’s Kansas State Chess Championships at Blue Valley High School in Stillwell.

Jason Chang, of Southwest, also placed first in the junior high division.

Free State won first in Class 6A, and Lawrence High School finished fifth in 6A. In the elementary school division, Quail Run School took second, and Cordley School finished fourth.

Other area medal winners:

¢ High school – Thomas Clark, fourth; Thomas Reams, fifth; Peter Lesslie, seventh; Sean Stenseng, 10th; Keely Stenseng, 18th; Kellen Cross, 30th, all of Free State; and Roy Wedge, 15th, and Nate McFadden, 58th, both of LHS.

¢ Junior High – Luke Lesslie, third; Alan Shi, 11th; Adriana Perez-Conesa, 12th; Andrei Elliott, 42nd; Sudhanshu Manda, 78th, all of Southwest; Lucas Suchy, 24th, and Cal Young, 28th, South; James Vaughn, 63rd, and Daraham Patel, 64th, both of Ottawa Middle School; and Zack Curran, of Central.

¢ Elementary – Sam Stephens, Quail Run, third; Eddie Wilson, Cordley, fourth; Aaron Simon, Quail Run, 12th; Cole Reams, Quail Run, 13th; Kaustubh Nimkar, Sunflower School, 15th; Siyin Li, Hillcrest School, 22nd; Owen McFadden, Wakarusa Valley School, 24th; Apramay Mishra, Sunflower, 29th; Vinnie Barker, Sunflower, 32nd; Josh Kallenbach, Quail Run, 34th; Colin Bradt, Cordley, 37th; Robert Newman, Wakarusa Valley, 43rd; McCarthy Fitch, Cordley, 46th; Sam Beaulieu, Cordley, 47th; and Ting-Ting Shi, Quail Run, 50th.