There is nothing quite like the first week of the football season. It has been a long summer, so I’m beyond ready for the first Friday night under the lights of the 2019 season. And I’m sure that I’m not the only one. This fall figures to be another exciting season in the area football scene with many teams poised to have success on the gridiron. Free State will have a new coach this year, but this is a ...
Gone is the single stripe down the Lawrence High football helmet. For the first time in a long time, LHS will have a new look this football season. The new helmet design, which was voted on by the team in July, will feature a Lion on one side and the player’s number on the other. “It is going to make a lot of people upset,” junior linebacker Cole Mondi said. “But I love them. I think they look ...
Head coach Kevin Stewart doesn’t think he will be nervous. For the first time in school history, someone other than Bob Lisher will lead Free State’s football out on the field when the team hosts to Olathe West at 7 p.m. at FSHS. It will also be a first for Stewart, who will make his debut as a head coach. The former Blue Valley North assistant has been involved in a number of big games, including a pair ...
It was one of the few things we knew for certain entering the 2019 season opener. As mentioned multiples times, Kansas head coach Les Miles didn’t reveal too much in the offseason when asked about his scheme. About the only things we knew for certain prior to KU’s 24-17 win over Indiana State was that the quarterback was going to be under center more often than in previous years. That proved to be true, as ...
At the start of the fourth quarter is when it hit junior linebacker Dru Prox. Prox played every snap up to that point, and he proceeded to play all 71 snaps on defense during KU’s 24-17 win over Indiana State in the season opener. In fact, both Prox and junior Kyron Johnson played every snap last weekend in their first start at the two inside linebacker positions. “We did it,” Prox said during Monday’s ...
Eudora’s William Sangill didn’t want to show any emotion, so he took a moment to dump his water bottle on his head. The junior goalkeeper had just surrendered a goal in the 22nd minute, allowing Bishop Seabury to take a 1-0 lead in the season opener. It was not the start that Sangill had envisioned when he moved to Eudora from Denmark in early August. “I was just thinking that this is my first game,” ...