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- Davis: FSHS plays ‘good team basketball’
- Lion boys wary of No. 1-ranked Firebirds as showdown looms
- February 5, 2005
- Free State High doesn’t look like the No. 1 basketball team in the state — at least not before the opening tip. The Firebirds don’t have a player taller than 6-foot-3.
- Sprow almost perfect
- FSHS senior settles for 299 in home victory
- February 4, 2005
- Dacia Sprow wasn’t perfect Thursday at Royal Crest Lanes, but she was tantalizingly close. Sprow opened Free State High’s bowling match against Olathe North with 11 straight strikes.
- Ottawa celebrates ‘big day’
- Lineman Blakesley officially joins Jayhawks’ football program
- February 3, 2005
- Caleb Blakesley didn’t think national signing day was anything to get excited about.
- Heckman sweeps KSD
- Coach guides three Seahawks victories
- February 2, 2005
- Seabury Academy’s boys basketball team defeated Kansas School for the Deaf, 45-42, Tuesday night in regulation, but Seahawks coach Marcus Heckman worked overtime.
- Free State places third, Lawrence takes fifth
- January 30, 2005
- Jenna Brantley’s shots wouldn’t fall for three quarters, but the sophomore rallied Free State High from a 10-point, fourth-quarter deficit Saturday in a 61-60 girls basketball victory over Blue Valley in the third-place game of the Firebird Winter Classic.
- Offensive drought dooms FSHS girls
- January 29, 2005
- After trailing Manhattan, 28-17, at halftime Friday night in the semifinals of the Firebird Winter Classic, sixth-seeded Free State limited the second-seeded Indians to four points in the third quarter.
- Free State’s threes great
- Long-range shooting key to 52-32 first-round victory
- January 28, 2005
- Topeka Hayden wasn’t too worried about Free State High’s three-point shooters Thursday night in the first round of the Firebird Winter Classic. Big mistake.
- Lions bothered by turnovers, Tigers
- January 28, 2005
- Lawrence High was within one point of Blue Valley after Lacey Elmore’s basket with 7:22 remaining Thursday night in the first round of the Firebird Winter Classic at Free State High.
- Free State girls hoping recent practice pays off
- January 27, 2005
- Free State High’s girls haven’t played a basketball game in nine days, but FSHS coach Bryan Duncan wasn’t worried about his team being rusty tonight in the first round of the Firebird Winter Classic.
- Back in state form
- After year off, Lion senior Colwell again thriving
- January 27, 2005
- It’s not unusual for high school students to think ahead to their senior year. Last winter, Zach Colwell had little choice.
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