At long last, the Lions got the win. Lawrence (1-7) defeated Free State (5-3) 24-6 in the 2025 football City Showdown on Friday night at Lawrence High School to conclude the regular season for both teams. The Firebirds entered the game with five wins and a smashmouth offense that led the team to over 30 points per game. On Friday, however, the much-maligned Lawrence run defense was the difference ...
Baldwin places fourth in 4A state golf tournament; Free State and Eudora send golfers to state tournaments Baldwin’s girls golf team placed fourth in the 4A state golf tournament at Carey Park Golf Course on Monday with a 366 team score. Baldwin’s Peyton Wright placed fourth overall in the individual leaderboard. She shot an 85 in the first round but rebounded with a strong 76 in the second. Carson ...
Sometimes, the best way to turn a season around is to beat a rival, and that's what Lawrence High is hoping to accomplish on Friday. Lawrence (0-7) is set to finish its regular season by hosting its crosstown rival Free State (5-2). Despite the winless record, the Lions have a better point differential than the three one-loss teams, showing that the Lions have been in almost every game they’ve played. With ...
Ethan Prescott’s first college football offer came this past spring from Nebraska-Kearney, which he visited during the school’s spring game. Prescott fell in love with the school, the coaches and the team. As other schools in the Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletics Association reached out and recruited him, the experience from that first visit at Nebraska-Kearney was hard to top. That gave Prescott the ...
Two and a half months ago, both Free State and Lawrence’s girls flag football teams started their inaugural seasons. Both teams were hoping at least seven girls would show up, just enough to field a team and allow a few backups while a number of girls played both offense and defense. What ended up happening at the first practice far surpassed either teams’ coaches. “We didn’t have enough jerseys at ...
Kansas guard Elmarko Jackson had a lot of confidence heading into last year’s men’s basketball season after coming off a season in which he played over 18 minutes per game. Then came the knee injury, a tear of his patellar tendon in his left knee, during the KU basketball camp scrimmage in June of 2024. A year that was supposed to include a jump in his performance and role became a year of sitting on the ...