Lawrence football is moving on to the regional round of the 6A playoffs after defeating Shawnee Mission South 52-7 on Friday. An explosive second quarter in which junior quarterback Joey Dooley was perfect through the air put the Lions up by 24 points, and the Lions held control of the game ...
Normally, when two teams are playing each other for the second time in a season, there’s a lot to learn from what happened the first time around. While there are certainly lessons to take from Lawrence’s 44-7 win over Shawnee Mission South on Oct. 1, it will be a very different game this ...
TOPEKA — It took 80 regulation minutes, two overtimes and penalty kicks to finish, but a red card on Lawrence’s goalkeeper gave Topeka enough momentum as the Trojans beat Lawrence in penalty kicks. “With 20 minutes left in the first half we go down to 10 men and we take them all the way ...
While all four Lawrence and Free State boys and girls teams had runners qualify for the 6A state cross-country meet on Saturday in Manhattan, the Lawrence boys and Free State girls also both qualified as teams. The Lawrence boys were the runners-up in the Manhattan substate race, scoring 66 ...
More fall sports seasons concluded this past week, while others are diving into postseason competition. Whether it was at state events or in regular-season finales, local athletes shone in their sports. Here are this week's selections for Journal-World Athletes of the Week: Oliver Schwartz, ...