It is the type of win that could change the course of an entire season. Free State’s volleyball team came through with its biggest win of the year to date with a two-set sweep over Washburn Rural (No. 1 in Class 6A) Thursday night at FSHS. The Firebirds won both sets by a score of 25-21, handing the Junior Blues their second defeat of the season. Sophomore Aubrey Duncan led the team with 11 kills in the win, ...
Lee’s Summit, Missouri — In its first road test of the season — one without any Firebird faithful in attendance — a slow start doomed Free State’s football team in an eventual 49-10 loss to Lee’s Summit North on Friday. The Firebirds are now 0-3 through the first four weeks of the season, which includes one cancellation due to an opponent backing out as a precautionary move. It marks the program’s ...
There is no reason for Free State’s football program to push the panic button after an 0-2 start to the 2020 campaign even though the team hasn’t lost two games in a season since 2016. In fact, the Firebirds have been here before. FSHS dropped its first three games to begin the 2015 season before eventually making it to the Class 6A semifinals. Bryce Torneden, who was one of the standouts on that squad ...
Bishop Seabury sophomore Oona Nelson came away with another first-place finish during Tuesday’s Tonganoxie Invitational. Nelson finished first as an individual in the varsity girls division, marking her second victory of her second season competing in high school cross-country. She finished with a time of 19:43.1, which was 14 seconds faster than runner-up Grace Hanson of Piper High School. Freshman Isabelle ...
To some extent, it is like another opener for the Kansas football team. It might even be more difficult in terms of preparation. KU’s coaching staff at least had an idea of what to expect from Coastal Carolina prior to an eventual 38-23 loss in the season opener, which was thanks in large part to the game film from the 2019 matchup in Lawrence. But that won’t really be an option for the Big 12 opener, as ...
For the second game in a row, the Kansas football team won’t have 2020 tape on its upcoming opponent. There is a certain level of mystery regarding the Baylor Bears ahead of the Big 12 opener, perhaps more than usual for a team coming off an 11-win season. Baylor, which lost in the Big 12 championship game a year ago, has a new head coach after Matt Rhule left the program to take over the Carolina Panthers in ...