The Lawrence High baseball team took its third consecutive loss on Friday — this time falling 11-1 to Harrisburg on a windy afternoon at home. The Tigers, who came all the way from South Dakota, tightened their grip on the Lions (2-3) in the fifth, crossing seven runs worth of insurance against senior reliever Jack Pfeifer to put the game away. Before the inning that sealed the Lions' fate, junior starter ...
The Free State baseball team completed a home sweep over Harrisburg with an 8-3 win on Saturday afternoon. The Firebirds (5-1) defeated the Tigers 7-1 on Friday afternoon, as well. Junior Jackson Waggoner received the starting nod, allowing three runs on three hits through four innings. Free State coach Mike Hill said the confident start by Waggoner on the mound muffled Harrisburg’s hitting power. “I ...
Filling the shoes of long-gone senior arms is a routine task for any high school baseball team and a regular part of the job according to Free State coach Mike Hill. But when those shoes belong to last year’s Class 6A Pitcher of the Year where do you begin? Senior righty Tyler Vigna, who made his first start in a 9-3 loss at Olathe South on Monday, has been atop Hill’s short list for a while in the team's ...
Lawrence High softball never stepped off the gas in a 13-3 home win over Shawnee Mission South on Thursday, with the Lions holding their foes scoreless until the fourth inning and piling on insurance late in the game. Freshman starter Sophie Rowley led the Lions (2-2) to a hot start, allowing just one hit through her first three innings on the hill. Rowley, who was replaced by junior Taylor Zeckser in the ...
The Lawrence High softball team beat Shawnee Mission Northwest 14-7 on the road on Tuesday, recording 13 hits and just one error. SM Northwest took an early 1-0 lead, but it didn’t last long. The Lions (1-2) jumped out to a seven-run lead by the end of the fourth. And although SM Northwest was able to trim LHS’ lead to two runs by the end of the sixth, LHS rattled off five more runs in the final inning to ...
A Class 6A state wrestling title just wasn’t enough for Free State senior Matthew Marcum. Marcum (220 pounds) became the first wrestler from Lawrence to secure a national title this past weekend, besting three-time North Carolina state champion Caleb Beaty 6-2 in the championship round of the National High School Coaches Association wrestling tournament in Virginia Beach, Virginia. History was first made ...