Comfortable is rarely a positive word when a coach uses it to describe a team. Typically, comfort means players aren’t pushing each other, and starters aren’t worried about their spots. However, for Free State boys basketball, the team is becoming comfortable in the best sense of the word and familiar with each other and the coaching staff. Before this year, the Firebirds had three boys basketball coaches ...
The Eudora girls track and field team totaled 68 points, which was enough for first place among 4A girls teams this weekend. The boys scored 37, enough for seventh. Baldwin finished with 41 points, which earned the team fourth for girls, and scored 27 points for 12th in the boys events. Eudora High School Hanna Keltner won the 1,600-meter run in 5:10.16 and was the runner-up in the 3,200-meter run with a time ...
Free State got a lead early and didn’t look back in a 7-1 win over Shawnee Mission East for third place at the 6A state tournament at Hoglund Ballpark in Lawrence. The Lancers, fresh off a semifinal loss to Blue Valley West, started with two hits and loaded the bases at the top of the first before Free State pitcher Blaine Larkin threw two strikeouts. The Firebirds won the game with five runs in the bottom of ...
Free State baseball’s entire lineup was active in the batter’s box in a 12-1 five-inning win over the Topeka Trojans on Thursday at Hoglund Ballpark in the first round of the state baseball tournament. The Firebirds manufactured runs with hits in the gaps and aggressive baserunning. In a game shortened by the run rule, FSHS recorded nine hits and six walks. Only one Firebird recorded more than one hit, with ...