KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Josh Fleming pitched two-hit ball into the sixth inning, Kevin Kiermaier led a strong effort from the bottom of Tampa Bay's batting order and the Rays beat the Kansas City Royals 4-1 Monday night. Fleming (1-1) struck out three in 5 1/3 innings, getting big cheers ...
Despite jumping out to an early advantage, Lawrence High’s baseball team was handed a 16-9 defeat by Olathe South on Monday at the Olathe District Athletic Complex. LHS fell to 6-6 on the year after its latest loss. Lawrence leaped out to a 4-0 lead in the top of the first, as Devin Neal and ...
Even if Free State’s baseball team had played its best game, head coach Mike Hill knew it would have been a challenge to defeat a talented Olathe West squad. Yet the lopsided 12-0 defeat was a result of the Firebirds struggling in all three phases of the game Monday night at FSHS. Free State ...
Ben Sigel’s hole-in-one on the 17th hole highlighted the final day of play for the Kansas men’s golf team on Sunday at the Hawkeye Invitational at Finkbine Golf Course. Sigel aced No. 17 and shot a five-under 67 on his way to pacing the Jayhawks in the third and final round. The Jayhawks ...
In the regular-season finale, the Kansas women’s tennis team dropped a 4-2 decision to Oklahoma State Sunday afternoon at the Jayhawk Tennis Center. Oklahoma State grabbed an early 1-0 advantage by winning courts one and three during doubles action. Kansas bounced back to score two quick ...
Kansas coach Bill Self is prepared to give a prominent role to four-star point guard TyTy Washington, a current KU recruiting target out of Compass Prep in Phoenix, Ariz. During an Instagram Live interview with ESPN recruiting analyst Paul Biancardi over the weekend, Washington shared the ...
In a hard-fought series, the Kansas softball team went 1-2 against Texas Tech this past weekend at Arrocha Ballpark. Due to inclement weather on Friday, the two teams played a doubleheader on Saturday. Texas Tech earned a 8-4 win in the first game, while Kansas bounced back to record a 3-0 ...
After losing the first two games on Saturday, the Kansas baseball team ended its home series against Baylor in style with a walk-off win during Sunday’s series finale at Hoglund Ballpark. Freshman Maui Ahuna played hero for the Jayhawks (21-15, 3-9 Big 12) by delivering a walk-off single in ...
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Salvador Perez tapped his bat twice on the plate to make sure it wasn't cracked, then sent the next pitch he saw from Toronto reliever T.J. Zeuch into the left-field fountains, breaking open a scoreless game and sending the Kansas City Royals to a 2-0 victory over the ...
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Kansas City Chiefs tight end Fred Arbanas, a key member of their first two Super Bowl teams in the 1960s and '70s who later had a long career in county politics, has died. He was 82. The Jackson County Democratic Party in Missouri, for which Arbanas was a major player for ...
The Kansas men’s basketball program made the latest cut in the recruitment of four-star prep guard Ty Ty Washington, who trimmed his list to six on Saturday. Washington, a 6-foot-4 point guard from Compass Prep in Phoenix, narrowed his list to KU, Arizona, Baylor, Kentucky, LSU and Oregon. ...
The Baker University football team won a shootout on Saturday over Olivet Nazarene, 59-54 in the first round of the NAIA Football Championship series in Baldwin. It marked the first game for Baker football since Nov. 26 and moved the Wildcats to 7-0 on the season, which started last September ...
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The Kansas City Royals and Toronto Blue Jays got wildly different yet equally effective pitching performances in splitting their day-night doubleheader on Saturday. In the opener, starter Steven Matz held the Royals without a hit into the sixth inning, and Jonathan ...
It was just a Saturday morning in mid-April, but what interim Kansas football head coach Emmett Jones saw out of his players during the team’s first full scrimmage of the spring looked to him like a game day in the fall. Jones told reporters during a video press conference afterward he left ...
As University of Kansas Athletic Director Travis Goff ascertains which coaches across the country are interested in the KU football vacancy, the man currently running the program, interim head coach Emmett Jones, is thrilled to be a contender for the position. “Just being a candidate, I’m ...
Kansas basketball coach Bill Self will be one of three people to present the late Eddie Sutton at the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame enshrinement ceremony next month. Self, who was inducted into the Naismith Hall of Fame in 2017, will be joined by Kentucky coach John Calipari and ...
Both Free State and Lawrence High softball squads competed in the Sunflower League Softball Festival Friday afternoon in Olathe on April 16, 2021. The Lions lost both of their games, while the Firebirds went 1-1 on the day. Photos by Chance Parker/Lawrence Journal-World
For the first time in school history, Lawrence High School has a DiRenna Award winner. Lawrence senior Zeke Mayo was named the male DiRenna Award winner, sharing the selection with Bishop Miege junior Mark Mitchell. It is only the third time in the 68-year history of the male award that there ...
OLATHE — Fresh off a 16-1 loss in the first game of their doubleheader, and with the rain falling even harder in the second game, it would have been easy for the spirits of the Lawrence High softball players to sink. Instead, Lawrence somehow appeared to be more energized after its loss to ...
OLATHE — The bad news: Free State softball came up short, 3-2, against Washburn Rural on Friday. The good news? In 2019, the Firebirds were forced to recover from a similar regular-season loss to Washburn Rural — and they bounced back big, eventually avenging that defeat in the 6A state ...
