Comfortable is rarely a positive word when a coach uses it to describe a team. Typically, comfort means players aren’t pushing each other, and starters aren’t worried about their spots. However, for Free State boys basketball, the team is becoming comfortable in the best sense of the word ...
The Eudora girls track and field team totaled 68 points, which was enough for first place among 4A girls teams this weekend. The boys scored 37, enough for seventh. Baldwin finished with 41 points, which earned the team fourth for girls, and scored 27 points for 12th in the boys events. Eudora ...
Free State got a lead early and didn’t look back in a 7-1 win over Shawnee Mission East for third place at the 6A state tournament at Hoglund Ballpark in Lawrence. The Lancers, fresh off a semifinal loss to Blue Valley West, started with two hits and loaded the bases at the top of the first ...
Free State could find no answer for either Wichita-Haysville Campus’ hitting or its pitching on Thursday night and lost 11-1 in the 6A state softball quarterfinals at Arrocha Ballpark. The Firebirds showed signs of life when they scratched across their first run of the night on a sacrifice ...
Free State baseball’s entire lineup was active in the batter’s box in a 12-1 five-inning win over the Topeka Trojans on Thursday at Hoglund Ballpark in the first round of the state baseball tournament. The Firebirds manufactured runs with hits in the gaps and aggressive baserunning. In a ...
The Free State baseball and softball teams have become well acquainted with playing for state titles. Each team has won at least one state championship in the past decade — baseball in 2015, softball in back-to-back years between 2018 and 2019 — and baseball is now riding a streak of six ...