Charlie Peters grew up around baseball. As a young kid in Reno, Nevada, Peters spent a lot of time around the sport with his family, going to Reno Aces games and playing with his friends. Baseball has always been a part of his life. The Peters family moved to Lawrence for more opportunities ...

Henry Thompson hadn’t played the course at the Kansas Junior Amateur golf tournament before. Once he went through a practice round the day before, he felt good about his chances. Thompson turned in a top-10 performance last week. He finished the three-day tournament -2, seventh among 113 ...

For the last three years, the Free State girls basketball team has had a trial by fire as young players stepped into prominent roles against tough competition. Rising senior Addie Fulscher is one of those Firebirds, and she has risen to the challenge each year. Since she arrived, Fulscher has ...

The spring sports season concluded with local teams competing in baseball, softball and track and field state tournaments. Here are this week's selections for Journal-World Athletes of the Week: Katie Courter, Eudora Eudora shortstop Katie Courter was a defensive playmaker in Eudora's ...

Eudora’s girls track and field team finished second in the 4A state meet in Wichita on Saturday after having won the state meet last year. The Cardinals finished second with 67 points, which was 24 points behind the first-place Andale. The team got 36 points from its jumps, 26 from its ...

There were some nerves Friday ahead of the Free State baseball team’s 6A state tournament semifinal game. The Firebirds had been in that situation the previous two seasons, and both times came away on the short end of the stick, posting back-to-back third place finishes. “To be honest, I ...