Eudora senior Noah Watkins etched his name into the record books more than once to close out his career on the hardwood. He set the single-season record for charges taken in his final campaign with 21, while also setting the career record for drawn charges with 36. And for four days, that last number actually stood as a state record. Last Monday, the Kansas Sports Hall of Fame tweeted out that Watkins was a ...
Bishop Seabury’s top-ranked boys basketball program may not have had the chance to make a postseason run, but its coach and one of its players earned the top honors in the state on Monday. Junior guard Zach Bloch was named Player of the Year in Class 2A by Sports in Kansas, and Jonathan Raney was named Coach of the Year. The Seahawks were the No. 1 team in Class 2A all year and made it to the state semifinals ...
Because of the coronavirus pandemic, there hasn't been a lot of positive news as of late. Schools have been forced to move online, sports have been canceled and social gatherings have been limited to 10 or fewer people. For a brief moment, at least in the city of Lawrence, Devin Neal changed all of that with a single tweet late Friday night. Neal announced his verbal commitment to the University of Kansas to ...
Nebraska freshman pitcher Ethan Bradford was sitting alone in his room when he found out that the 2020 season was no more due to the threat of coronavirus. About two hours earlier, Nebraska’s road series with Wichita State had been canceled just before the team was about to get on the bus. But Bradford, who graduated from Free State a year ago, fully expected to play baseball again at some point this ...
Lawrence High’s two-sport standout Devin Neal will be staying home at the next level. Late Friday night, Neal announced his verbal commitment to the University of Kansas via his personal Twitter account. Neal, who graduates in 2021, plans to play both football and baseball for the Jayhawks at the collegiate level. “Both of them are my passion and my love,” Neal told the Journal-World Friday afternoon. ...
The season hadn’t gone as well as Baker baseball coach Ryan Goodwin would have liked, but he believes his team was just about to hit its stride before the threat of coronavirus cut the 2020 campaign short. Baker finished the year at 7-16, but was also coming off a sweep of Grand View University on March 8. With just over a month left in the regular season, the Wildcats had plenty of time to turn things ...