Following a bye week for both teams, Kansas and West Virginia are slated to square off this weekend in Morgantown, W.Va. The Mountaineers might not be near the bottom of the Big 12 conference like some predicted entering the 2020 season. West Virginia is 2-1 through three games, which includes a 27-21 home victory over Baylor. For comparison, KU suffered a 47-14 loss to Baylor in the Big 12 opener and is 0-3 ...
For the third year in a row, Free State’s entire varsity girls golf team will be competing in the state tournament. The Firebirds finished as a runner-up in their 6A regional meet Monday afternoon at Prairie Highlands Golf Course in Olathe. FSHS shot 355 as a team, finishing just five strokes behind Manhattan High. Olathe Northwest also qualified as a team by placing third with a score of 357. Free State was ...
Perry-Lecomton’s perfect record was never threatened Friday night when the team cruised to a 58-6 victory over Osawatomie. The Kaws (6-0, No. 2 in Class 3A) jumped out to a 30-0 advantage in the opening period, and they were in complete control after that. PLHS added 21 points in the second period for good measure, while not giving up a score until the final quarter. Perry-Lecompton had over 500 yards of ...
Baldwin — Free State’s top cross-country runners wasted little time after finishing the boys race, in which all five athletes ended up inside the top five as individuals on Saturday at the Baldwin Golf Course. Junior Ben Shryock, senior Christopher Stone, senior Ethan Sharp, junior Jack Keathley-Helms and senior Brock Cordova crossed the finish line and immediately ran as a group back toward the track. They ...
Free State senior Keegan VanPelt will be heading back to the state girls tennis tournament. VanPelt finished fourth in singles play Saturday afternoon at the 6A regional meet at Gardner-Edgerton. VanPelt, who took fourth at the state meet a year ago, was the lone local player to punch her ticket to the final meet this season. As the No. 3 seed in the singles bracket, VanPelt started things off by defeating the ...
Overland Park — Devin Neal of Lawrence High and Tyron “Tank” Young of St. Thomas Aquinas traded impressive runs all night on Friday in a game that was billed as a battle between two of the top running backs in the state — and that lived up to the hype. But it was Neal and the Lions who came away with the bragging rights in the end, as Lawrence High (No. 1 in Class 6A) led all night in a 39-27 win. It ...