When Jason Thoren was coaching at Baker, his first recruiting stop after Lawrence High was always Olathe North. Thoren knows the Olathe North program well. The Eagles were the biggest rival of the Lions when Thoren was in school, and even though he grew up in heated games against them, Thoren ...
More fall sports concluded over the weekend as local athletes performed at their peak in state competitions. Here are this week's selections for Journal-World Athletes of the Week: Joey Dooley, Lawrence Dooley was nearly perfect through the air in Lawrence's 52-7 win over Shawnee Mission ...
The Free State and Lawrence cross-country teams were at a familiar course on Saturday, racing at Rim Rock Farm on Saturday for the 6A state meet, where Free State's girls team took eighth and the Lawrence boys finished 10th. The Lions and Firebirds had representatives from both their boys and ...
Lawrence football is moving on to the regional round of the 6A playoffs after defeating Shawnee Mission South 52-7 on Friday. An explosive second quarter in which junior quarterback Joey Dooley was perfect through the air put the Lions up by 24 points, and the Lions held control of the game ...
Normally, when two teams are playing each other for the second time in a season, there’s a lot to learn from what happened the first time around. While there are certainly lessons to take from Lawrence’s 44-7 win over Shawnee Mission South on Oct. 1, it will be a very different game this ...