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 ...
Less than a month after she was selected by the Connecticut Sun at No. 19 overall, and less than two weeks after she began training camp with the team, former Kansas center Taiyanna Jackson has been waived. The Sun announced the news Friday morning, a day after Jackson made her first unofficial appearance in a Connecticut jersey, scoring two points and grabbing three rebounds in an 82-79 preseason loss to New ...
One local singles player and two doubles pairings will participate in the high school state boys tennis championships beginning Friday. At the 6A level, Free State senior Jake Hedges and the doubles partnership of Lawrence High senior Logan Daniels and junior Josh Lavin will head to Wichita-Riverside Tennis Complex to take part in state competition hosted by Wichita North. Hedges advanced out of last ...