Hudson Hardesty competed in the High School Baseball National Championship Series this summer with the hopes that the exposure would help in his recruitment. As it turns out, college coaches were watching and noticing Hardesty, especially as he threw his best game of his career and earned the tournament’s “Best Pitcher” award. After his performance, the coaches at Nebraska were in attendance. “They ...
Lawrence High School's next basketball coach won't have to go far to settle in. Sean Dooley, the longtime men's basketball coach at Baker University, will lead Lawrence's boys basketball program after the hiring was approved by the USD 497 school board on Monday. "Sean Dooley brings a wealth of experience to Lawrence High School," Lawrence interim principal Mike Gillman said in a statement. "His passion for ...
Ivy Ford was preparing for the 6A East regional tournament last year with a path to the state tournament in sight. Then came a cold. “I didn't have it until like the night before at 9 p.m.,” Ford said. “If I did try to go, it probably wouldn't have ended well. And I didn't want to risk getting other people sick ... It was really unfortunate because I was checking the brackets and a lot of the girls would ...
Free State swimmer Ella Marsh finished her first year as the Sunflower League champion, 6A state champion and now a National Interscholastic Swim Coaches Association All-American. Marsh earned an All-American consideration time at the Sunflower League meet, in which she finished the 200-yard individual medley in two minutes, 4.21 seconds, which was also a league record. Two weeks later, Marsh beat that time to ...
Former Free State pitcher Zac Thornton has thrown 21 1/3 innings since being called up to the New York Mets in May, and over the last 18 innings, nobody has scored a run against him. On Tuesday, the former Firebird earned his first MLB win by pitching six scoreless innings in a 4-0 win over the Milwaukee Brewers. Thornton — who recently changed the spelling of his first name to remove the "h" — finished ...
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Fifty local youngsters piled into the gym at Oak Park High School on Saturday morning for the second annual Young Agbaji Foundation Basketball Skills Camp, hosted by former Kansas guard Ochai Agbaji. “We had a really good turnout,” Agbaji said. “It’s a busy weekend with AAU tournaments, but we still had a good turnout. (There were) more younger kids than the older kids, but that’s ...