Even if Free State’s baseball team had played its best game, head coach Mike Hill knew it would have been a challenge to defeat a talented Olathe West squad. Yet the lopsided 12-0 defeat was a result of the Firebirds struggling in all three phases of the game Monday night at FSHS. Free State managed just one hit, committed four errors on defense, and had to deploy five different pitchers on a night where its ...
OLATHE — Fresh off a 16-1 loss in the first game of their doubleheader, and with the rain falling even harder in the second game, it would have been easy for the spirits of the Lawrence High softball players to sink. Instead, Lawrence somehow appeared to be more energized after its loss to Blue Valley, and the Lions showed plenty of fight in the second game, a 4-0 loss to Blue Valley West. The game was ...
OLATHE — The bad news: Free State softball came up short, 3-2, against Washburn Rural on Friday. The good news? In 2019, the Firebirds were forced to recover from a similar regular-season loss to Washburn Rural — and they bounced back big, eventually avenging that defeat in the 6A state championship game. Now FSHS head coach Lee Ice is hoping his team can follow the same blueprint again. “It’s kind ...
For the first time in school history, Lawrence High School has a DiRenna Award winner. Lawrence senior Zeke Mayo was named the male DiRenna Award winner, sharing the selection with Bishop Miege junior Mark Mitchell. It is only the third time in the 68-year history of the male award that there have been co-winners named. It is an award that was created by Dr. James A. DiRenna Sr., recognizing excellence in the ...
Lawrence High’s baseball team was stymied by another talented pitcher in a 4-0 loss to Shawnee Mission Northwest Thursday night at LHS. The Lions managed just two hits off Shawnee Mission Northwest left-handed pitcher Ty Blecha, who spun a complete-game shutout — the latest performance in what has been a gauntlet of impressive hurlers to pitch against LHS. “It was very difficult,” LHS head coach Brad ...
Plenty of local track and field athletes earned victories during Wednesday’s Little KU meet at Lawrence High School. Athletes or relay teams from Lawrence High, Free State or Bishop Seabury won 34 events at the meet. Topeka West also competed. LHS senior Graham Hough won multiple individual races. He placed first in the boys 100-meter run with a time of 11.58, and later won the 200-meter dash in ...