Fort Scott — The sixth-seeded Free State baseball team chased No. 3 Olathe West all game in the first round of the Class 6A state playoff, clawing for bases and holding off challenges, before falling 6-2 on Saturday at LaRoche Baseball Complex. Free State senior Maddox Burkitt pitched 3.1 ...
State championship showings by Free State High’s Isa Evans in the girls pole vault and Ben Shryock in the 3,200-meter run highlighted Day 1 at the all-class state track meet at Wichita’s Cessna Stadium for the track and field teams from Lawrence. Evans, who lost just one meet all season ...
After a week of waiting out the rain, the Free State baseball team is finally ready to open play in the Class 6A state tournament in Fort Scott. While the Firebirds are certainly used to being in this position, this is not your typical Free State team. A former outfielder playing third ...
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 ...
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. ...