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 ...

Updated 2:07 p.m. Wednesday, June 4: Lawrence’s two women’s college basketball programs will share the same floor in an official game for the first time in more than 50 years. The Kansas women’s basketball team is hosting Haskell Indian Nations University at Allen Fieldhouse on Dec. ...

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 ...

For the first time since 2015, the Free State baseball team (28-2) etched its name into the history books, defeating Shawnee Mission West, 7-1, on Friday night at Hoglund Ballpark to win the program’s third state championship. “Zane (Shaw) was lights out the first couple innings. He was ...

Salina — Eudora softball fell short in the 4A state championship game, losing 4-1 to McPherson and finishing their season 27-2. “I’m very proud of this team,” coach Bill Finucane said. “I’m very proud of what they accomplished and where we ended up, except for the last game. But I ...