Preps Notebook

2022-23 Journal-World All-Area Teams: Track and Field

All-Area selections are made by the Journal-World sports staff. • Coach of the Year: Joe Pickett, Eudora Joe Pickett’s team took third (girls) and sixth (boys) in Class 4A events in Wichita, leading multiple Cardinals to Frontier League and regional titles. • Player of the Year: Eli ...

2022-23 Journal-World All-Area Teams: Baseball

All-Area selections are made by the Journal-World sports staff. • Coach of the Year: Mike Hill, Free State Mike Hill led a fairly young Firebirds team back to state for the program’s seventh all-time state semifinal appearance, where Free State’s postseason ended in a 2-1 loss to Blue ...

2022-23 Journal-World All-Area Teams: Boys Tennis

All-Area selections are made by the Journal-World sports staff. • Coach of the Year: Aaron Clark, Free State Clark sent two singles players and a doubles team to state this year. Each Firebird on Clark’s varsity roster earned a winning record. • Player of the Year: Britton Snyder, ...

2022-23 Journal-World All-Area Teams: Softball

All-Area selections are made by the Journal-World sports staff. • Coach of the Year: Bill Finucane, Eudora Bill Finucane led the Eudora softball team to a 15-5 finish and a third-place title at the Class 4A state championship. Originally a volunteer recreation softball coach, Finucane led ...

Five Lawrence ballplayers named All-Sunflower League

The Free State and Lawrence High baseball teams landed a total of five players on the 2023 All-Sunflower League team at the end of the high school baseball season last week. Here’s the rundown on this year’s Lawrence-area selections: Kyle Graves (P), Free State — First Team Free State ...