The track and field season concluded at Wichita State University on Saturday for all area schools, and that included several teams placing in the top five as local athletes finished their seasons as state champions. 6A Free State’s girls team scored 44 points and tied for fifth with ...
WICHITA — Baseball is often a game of a few feet, and that was exactly the case in Saturday’s 6A state championship. Trailing by one run and down to its last out, Free State had a chance to tie the game on a passed ball before Eli Berns was tagged out at home just in time, giving No. ...
WICHITA — In his first pitching start of the season, Free State senior Ben Graves did not disappoint. The Oral Roberts commit tossed a complete-game, 106-pitch effort to advance the Firebirds to their second consecutive state championship game, as they defeated Shawnee Mission South 3-2 on ...
The high school sports year is nearly completed as the girls swim and dive and boys golf seasons ended, while girls soccer, baseball, softball and track and field wrap up this weekend. In state and regional tournaments, local athletes finished their seasons strong and performed in the playoffs. ...
MAYETTA — Free State golfers Henry Thompson and A.J. Kimzey finished the 6A state boys golf tournament in the top 20 of the individual leaderboard at Firekeeper Golf Course. Thompson and Kimzey were the two Firebirds to qualify for the second round, and both improved upon their first-round ...