The Free State High baseball team will have to wait yet another day to open play at this year’s 6A state tournament in Fort Scott.
For the second day in a row on Thursday, the eight-team, single-elimination tournament was pushed back a day, this time to Saturday and Sunday instead of the originally scheduled slate of Thursday and Friday games.
On Wednesday, the games were pushed back to Friday and ...
The Kansas State High School Activities Association announced Wednesday morning that the 6A state baseball tournament slated for Thursday and Friday in Fort Scott had been pushed back a day and now will begin on Friday.
Steady rain is in the weather forecast for that area throughout Wednesday and Thursday, but Friday is projected to have sunny skies with temperatures in the mid-60s.
Free State High's ...
In more than 30 years of coaching the game in Lawrence, Free State High baseball coach Mike Hill has seen just about everything.
That’s what made his new experience this season in leading the Firebirds back to the state tournament one of the more memorable moments of his coaching career. And all he had to do to see it was look at the man next to him on any given day.
Hill’s son, Matt Hill, is one of ...
Kansas junior Christian Braun is staying in the NBA draft after making what his mother, Lisa, called “a tough decision” to forego his senior season at KU.
“He loves KU, but we’re happy for him to start the next chapter,” Lisa Braun told the Journal-World via text message on Tuesday night. “Once a Jayhawk, always a Jayhawk.”
Braun’s decision to officially enter the 2022 NBA draft — June 23 ...
On a wet and rainy Tuesday that saw five of the six high school classifications in Kansas cancel the second round of their state golf tournaments because of unplayable conditions, Free State High’s Jack Randall played on.
Randall, the lone Firebird to advance to Day 2 in Dodge City, followed up Monday’s 5-over par 76 with a 79 on Tuesday in Dodge City to finish at 13-over for the tournament and in a tie ...
