Regional tournament assignments were announced for baseball, softball and girls soccer on Saturday by KSHSAA. Here’s where each local team will be next week: Baseball The Sunflower League champion Free State Firebirds enter the postseason as the No. 1 seed in the 6A West and will host a regional on Thursday. The Firebirds drew No. 16 Derby (7-19) in the first game and will face either No. 8 Topeka (12-11) or ...
Lawrence scored six points, while Free State scored five in the 6A boys state tennis tournament in Junction City over the weekend. Jun Brewer was the only Lion at the tournament, but he made the school’s presence felt with a ninth-place finish. Brewer started with the ninth seed and lost a close match in the first round that went deep into three sets. He bounced back with an 8-2 win over Free State’s Drew ...
A few Free State and Lawrence swimmers competed in the Shawnee Mission last-chance meet on Wednesday in hopes of earning a qualifying or consideration time before the state championships. Lawrence’s Ashlyn Tell was the only Lion to compete in the last-chance meet. She swam the 200-yard freestyle in 2 minutes, 9.76 seconds, which was a consideration time. Tell hit a qualifying time later in the 100-yard ...
Free State finished its girls soccer regular season with a 3-2 loss to Shawnee Mission South on Thursday. The Firebirds started slow, which made a comeback difficult. The team did fight back and brought the game down to the wire, but the Firebirds were unsuccessful in taking the win. “We caught ourselves outmatched emotionally and at every level for the first 20 or 30 minutes,” Free State coach Joe Waldron ...
On the Lawrence softball team’s senior night, the Lions finished their Sunflower League schedule with an 11-1 run-rule win over Shawnee Mission North, in which every senior recorded at least one hit. Senior shortstop Harper Dye, senior third baseman Maddy Crawford, senior catcher Lillian Spinelli, freshman outfielder Kate Neilson and senior outfielder Reese Dannevik all had two hits. Senior first baseman ...
Free State baseball entered the season with two objectives: to win the Sunflower League and the state. With a 13-1 Sunflower League record, the Firebirds have hit their first goal. The Firebirds are Sunflower League champions for the first time since 2019. The team has only lost two games so far this year, one against St. Thomas Aquinas — the top 5A school in Kansas — and one against Olathe East. That ...