Just a week after finding out that the high school winter sports seasons would go on as scheduled, four Lawrence High programs will jump into competition in the coming days. Lawrence’s swim and dive program and the wrestling team will kick off the 2020-21 campaign on Wednesday, though fans of all winter sports will not be allowed at games through at least Jan. 28, 2021. The LHS girls basketball team will ...
Perry-Lecompton’s football team will finish as the Class 3A runners-up for the second year in a row. PLHS suffered a 20-0 defeat to Andale during Saturday’s state championship game at Gowans Stadium at Hutchinson Community College. It marks the second consecutive state title for the Indians, who secured a 35-7 win over the Kaws a year ago. Andale, which finished the year with a 12-0 record and has won 25 ...
When Perry-Lecompton head coach Mike Paramore first started watching game film of Andale in preparation for today's state championship game, he thought he'd made a mistake: This year's footage of the defending champs looked just like last year's. “They look the same," said Paramore, who has led Perry-Lecompton (11-1) for 20 years. "I almost wondered if I put the wrong tape in when I started looking at it. ...
Nearly a decade ago, a talented group of small-town football players from Perry-Lecompton were the underdogs in a huge game, but they found a way to win against a squad from a much bigger city. But this wasn't high school ball — this was a group of second and third graders in the 2011 Toy Bowl, when the Junior Kaws upset the Lawrence Hurricanes to win the Lawrence Youth Football League's big game for the ...
It ended up being the perfect night for head coach Brandon Schneider, and not just because the Kansas women’s basketball team got the opportunity to play for the first time in nine months. During a 78-62 victory over Northern Colorado, Kansas put together two quarters of quality basketball to jump out to a commanding lead Wednesday night at Allen Fieldhouse. Then, KU stumbled down the stretch to let the ...
Free State will have a new head bowling coach for the 2021 campaign. The school announced on Tuesday via its website that Taylor Stuart will take over as head coach of both Free State bowling teams. Stuart will replace Burton Gepford, who was the head coach of FSHS bowling between 2013-17 and again in 2020. Chuck Law, the Free State boys golf coach, served as the head bowling coach in 2018 and ...