Free State senior Turner Corcoran has made a decision. The four-star offensive tackle, who had double-digit scholarships offers from Power Five programs, announced via Twitter that he was verbally committed to the University of Nebraska. Corcoran was actually in Lincoln, Nebraska this weekend, attending the Huskers' Spring Game. "Feeling is indescribable honestly, but it was a gut feeling and I know that it is ...
The odds were always going to be stacked against the defense during Saturday’s spring game at David Booth Kansas Memorial Stadium. After all, it took a defensive score off a turnover to get the “white” team on the scoreboard. The offense, which was considered the blue team for the event, abused this loophole by scoring 45 unanswered points en route to a 45-7 win in the first spring game of the Les Miles ...
After struggling at the plate for the early part of the season, Free State senior Lauryn Jones gifted her team a lead that it didn’t surrender during the City Showdown Friday night at Lawrence High. Jones smacked an RBI single to left in the top of the second, scoring Maci Miles from second to give the Firebirds a 1-0 advantage. The floodgates opened from there in Free State’s 12-0 win over LHS. The senior ...
After a back-and-forth battle, the Lawrence High girls soccer team dropped a 2-1 decision at home to Olathe North Thursday night. It was a hard-fought loss by the Lions, who fell to 2-4 after their second consecutive defeat. With senior captain Leslie Ostronic out, LHS shifted its lineup around and played three freshmen in key roles. Freshman Avery Kingery netted the lone score for the Lions, which served as ...
It is too early in the season to be scoreboard watching. That being said, Free State’s baseball team understood the importance of its 5-2 win over Gardner-Edgerton at FSHS. Entering Tuesday night, both the Firebirds (8-2, 6-0 Sunflower League) and the Trailblazers (6-2, 4-1) were the only two teams with undefeated league records. As a result, Free State is now alone in first place after notching its eighth ...
After a year of putting up numbers on a nightly basis, redshirt junior Dedric Lawson has [declared for the 2019 NBA Draft][1]. Kansas fans may not have fully appreciated what Lawson accomplished this season, especially given the fact the team was unable to make it past the first weekend of the NCAA Tournament. Lawson, who was a consensus third team All-American, averaged 19.4 points and 10.3 rebounds per ...