Two players in their final year at Free State High School were among the most talented pitchers in northeast Kansas during the 2021 campaign, and this year’s All-Sunflower League selections are proof of that. Michael Uhler, who was the ace of the FSHS baseball team all spring, was named the league’s pitcher of the year, and Tatum Clopton, a star pitcher for FSHS softball, won Sunflower League player of the ...
Darrell Andrew has coached a lot of talented javelin throwers at Free State since the school opened in 1997, and he says the rookie season he just witnessed from Aubrey Duncan stacks up with the best of them. Duncan didn’t get to compete as a freshman last year because the spring sports seasons were canceled, but she had a sensational debut as a sophomore. On Thursday at the Class 6A state meet in Wichita, ...
When Baldwin’s girls 4x800-meter relay team won a state title on Friday, the runners made it look easy — so easy, in fact, that you probably wouldn’t have guessed the team made a major lineup change less than a month earlier. Ambrynn Stewart, Diana Messick, Karly Neufeld and Riley Smith were the top seed at the Class 4A state track and field meet in Wichita, and they took care of business with a ...
Area teams Perry-Lecompton, Eudora, Baldwin and Tonganoxie all competed in the state track and field meet on Friday at Cessna Stadium at Wichita State University on May 28, 2021. PLHS boys won a state title in the 4x100-meter relay, while Baldwin girls secured a state crown in the 4x800-meter relay. Photos by Shane Jackson/Lawrence Journal-World
Wichita — In 2018, the Perry-Lecompton 4x100-meter relay team dropped the baton at the state meet. In 2019, the team did it again, and the runners joked that they were cursed. Consider that curse broken. Caden Dean, Hunter Hess, Kaden Doleman and Caidon Quinlan finally took the crown in the 4x100 at Friday’s state meet, posting a time of 43.43 at Wichita State University’s Cessna Stadium. Quinlan had ...
Wichita — In his first race of the first state track meet since 2019, Free State junior Ben Shryock gave his fellow athletes a tough act to follow. On Thursday at Wichita State University’s Cessna Stadium, Shryock executed his game plan to perfection and took first in the Class 6A boys 3,200-meter run. He turned on the jets during the final lap, winning his first career state title as an individual with a ...