OVERLAND PARK — Free State volleyball’s season ended on the first day of the 6A state tournament as the Firebirds went 1-2 in pool play. It was a sad ending to the Free State season, but the accomplishments the team had in the first year under coach Joel Grillot will be hard to top. Grillot said the team “had a shot in any match we had.” “This team in general had a lot of the pieces we’ve been ...
A little over a month ago, Free State fell 4-1 to Olathe East on the road, dropping the Firebirds’ record to 4-4. The Firebirds had to figure some things out. They weren’t finishing at the net, and they had allowed 12 goals in a four-game stretch. Then came a rainy slog of a match against Olathe West that ended in a 2-2 tie. It wasn’t the win that the team hoped for, but the Firebirds showed themselves ...
TOPEKA — It took 80 regulation minutes, two overtimes and penalty kicks to finish, but a red card on Lawrence’s goalkeeper gave Topeka enough momentum as the Trojans beat Lawrence in penalty kicks. “With 20 minutes left in the first half we go down to 10 men and we take them all the way through double overtime… that’s tough,” Lawrence coach Joe Comparato said. “PKs are just PKs. Anything can ...
While all four Lawrence and Free State boys and girls teams had runners qualify for the 6A state cross-country meet on Saturday in Manhattan, the Lawrence boys and Free State girls also both qualified as teams. The Lawrence boys were the runners-up in the Manhattan substate race, scoring 66 points. The Lions were beaten only by Washburn Rural at 23 points. Free State’s boys team placed fifth with a 105 team ...
After two years of falling just short, Eudora volleyball won its substate bracket on Saturday to advance to the 4A state tournament. “I feel like I’ve held my breath all season long because we felt like this was something we could accomplish, but the last two years we’ve had some tough draws and haven’t made it as far as we wanted to go,” Eudora coach Brooke Harper said. “We knew this was a good ...
