If it weren’t for the frigid temperatures outside, or mostly the fact basketball was being played, one might have actually mistaken Lawrence High’s 68-44 rout of Olathe West for a track meet. The Lions (No. 3 in Class 6A) ran — and ran some more — all the way past the Owls Thursday night at LHS for their fifth win in a row. Lawrence attacked Olathe West in transition all night, which led to a lot of ...
Thursday was another step in the right direction for the Lawrence High girls basketball team during its 56-33 road loss to Olathe West. Lawrence (2-13) was able to hold Olathe West (6-2) to just 6 points in the third quarter. The defensive showing came after the Owls had scored 31 points in the first half, but was a sign of what the Lions can do when they lock it on that end of the floor. “We really stepped ...
Thanks to a shutout in the second quarter, Free State’s boys basketball team cruised to a 54-26 road win over Shawnee Mission West Thursday night. Shawnee Mission West (2-11) jumped out to a 12-11 lead after the first quarter, but the Firebirds (14-2, No. 5 in Class 6A) took over the game in the second period. FSHS didn’t give up a single point during that eight-minute stretch in the second quarter, while ...
Free State’s girls basketball team ultimately ended up on the wrong end of a hard-fought 47-43 battle at Notre Dame Sion. The Firebirds fell to 4-8 on the year following Thursday’s narrow defeat. Senior Shannon Clarke, who will eventually continue her basketball career at the Naval Academy after high school, cracked the 1,000-point mark in her FSHS career on Thursday. She led the Firebirds with 19 points in ...
Because of a different postseason schedule this year, the stakes are even higher this week for the local wrestling programs. Rather than the usual two-day regional meet, both Free State and Lawrence High will compete in a one-day regional event on Friday. Free State will be in action at the Wichita Southeast regional, while Lawrence will compete in the regional meet at Olathe East. Only the top four wrestlers ...
After more than two decades of coaching at the collegiate level, Clint Bowen is coming back home to take over the high school program that he once played for. Bowen, a Lawrence native who graduated from Lawrence High in 1990, was named the new LHS head football coach on Monday. He becomes just the ninth person to hold that title since 1945 and takes over a program responsible for 10 Class 6A state championships ...