The spring sports season ended over the weekend as local athletes competed in baseball, boys golf and track and field meets. Here are this week's selections for Journal-World Athletes of the Week: Ben Graves, Free State Graves threw seven innings and allowed five hits and one walk against ...
As long as there’s been a Free State baseball team, Mike Hill has been the one leading it. Since the school opened in 1997, Hill has been the baseball coach, and through 29 years with Free State, Hill led the Firebirds to three state titles, four second-place finishes, 10 Sunflower League ...
The track and field season concluded at Wichita State University on Saturday for all area schools, and that included several teams placing in the top five as local athletes finished their seasons as state champions. 6A Free State’s girls team scored 44 points and tied for fifth with ...
WICHITA — Baseball is often a game of a few feet, and that was exactly the case in Saturday’s 6A state championship. Trailing by one run and down to its last out, Free State had a chance to tie the game on a passed ball before Eli Berns was tagged out at home just in time, giving No. ...
WICHITA — In his first pitching start of the season, Free State senior Ben Graves did not disappoint. The Oral Roberts commit tossed a complete-game, 106-pitch effort to advance the Firebirds to their second consecutive state championship game, as they defeated Shawnee Mission South 3-2 on ...