The Kansas softball team was not picked for the 64-team field of the 2024 NCAA Tournament, which was announced Sunday evening. The Jayhawks closed the Big 12 Conference tournament with their highest win total of head coach Jennifer McFalls' tenure at 28-25-1, and vastly exceeded their previous success in league play by winning 11 conference games, compared to 10 combined in the past three seasons. They were ...
Four Jayhawks, all from the Kansas men's track and field team and primarily in field events, won titles at the Big 12 Outdoor Championship, which was held from Thursday to Saturday in Waco, Texas. KU's best showing of all came in the men's pole vault, when not only did sophomore Anthony Meacham win the league championship by clearing 5.40 meters, but teammate and classmate Ashton Barkdull was right behind in ...
A slew of local teams learned Saturday morning where, when and whom they will play for their opening matchups of the upcoming KSHSAA regional playoffs. Here's what awaits the area's top baseball, softball and soccer squads during the week ahead. Baseball 6A East Regional: No. 10 Lawrence High (13-13) will face No. 7 Mill Valley (14-11) at Blue Valley Antioch District Athletic Complex at 2 p.m. Wednesday. If ...
The Free State boys track and field team continued a successful season in the 4x800-meter relay, claiming the latest in a series of first-place finishes this year when Ryan Whittlesey, Cristian Wills, Jonah Frye and Jake Loos combined to win the event at the Sunflower League track meet Friday night at Mill Valley High School. The Firebirds’ time of 8:05.94 was more than four seconds faster than that of the ...
Nate Lie came into his first spring as Kansas head soccer coach needing to get acquainted with a new school and a new set of players for the first time since he took over at Xavier in 2017. The players weren’t new to each other, though, nor new to college soccer. Even after the retirement of longtime head coach Mark Francis, KU was able to retain the vast majority of its 2023 roster, and among that group ...
The Lawrence High softball team split a low-scoring doubleheader with Shawnee Mission East on Thursday to finish its regular season with a 9-16 record. In the top half of the doubleheader, Charlee Burghart’s third-inning RBI single to score Harper Dye went down as the Chesty Lions’ lone run, but that was all they needed thanks to Keira Norris’ 16-strikeout complete-game shutout, as they won 1-0. They ...