A pair of city bowlers made the All-Sunflower League second team to highlight the postseason accolades for bowling this year. Free State senior Porter Neidow made the second team in the boys division, while Lawrence High senior Emilie Rodman received a second-team selection on the girls side. ...
A pair of city standouts made the first team to highlight the All-Sunflower League accolades for the 2019-20 season. Lawrence High junior Zeke Mayo and Free State senior DK Middleton were both named to the first on the All-Sunflower League boys squad. Both players helped their respective teams ...
At the moment, it would appear that the high school spring sports season is still on schedule. On Friday, KSHSAA released a statement regarding the status of spring sports. Despite the threat of coronavirus that led to canceling the state basketball tournament this weekend, the spring sports ...
Free State and Lawrence High competed in the opening round of the Class 6A state tournament on Thursday at Wichita State University. Photos by Shane Jackson/Lawrence Journal-World
Wichita — If anyone would have walked into Koch Arena during the second half of Lawrence High’s 72-66 loss to Blue Valley North, they would have thought it was just another game. And that was by design. Neither team knew that this was going to be the final game of the season no matter ...
WICHITA — There will be no state champion in high school basketball this season at any level. Late Thursday night, during the final games of the opening round of the state tournament, KSHSAA canceled the state tourney at all six sites due to threat of coronavirus. No division — boys or ...
Updated story - Kansas high school basketball tournament canceled after completing quarterfinal round High school state basketball tournaments are taking place and will allow spectators despite the growing concern over the new coronavirus, organizers of the tournament announced ...
With its sub-state title victory last weekend, Lawrence High's boys basketball team tied a record that the program set almost a century ago: six straight appearances at the state tournament. The current streak started in 2015, and the only other time LHS had a run like this was when it earned ...
Five area teams are headed to their respective state tournament during the final week of the winter sports season. All five squads actually entered the year with the expectation of playing in the final event of the season after qualifying for the state tourney a year ago. Lawrence High’s ...
Lawrence High's boys basketball team defeated Wichita Southeast in the sub-state championship game Saturday night at LHS on March 7, 2020. Photos by Carter Gaskins/Lawrence Journal-World
About 15 minutes after the final buzzer, Lawrence High head coach Mike Lewis made his way toward the locker room. He was then greeted with his first postgame shower of the season, and it was well deserved. For the second game in a row, the Lions turning to their zone defense in the second half ...
In Saturday's sub-state title matchup, Lawrence High’s boys basketball team faces Wichita Southeast — the team that ended LHS’ season in the opening round of the state tourney a year ago. And the third-seeded Lions (17-4, No. 4 in Class 6A) are looking forward to the chance to get ...
For the second season in a row, Free State’s varsity boys bowling team came away with a sixth-place finish at the state meet. The Firebirds posted a team score of 3,421 to place sixth out nine teams at the Class 6A state tournament Thursday afternoon at Northrock Lanes in Wichita. Olathe ...
At halftime of Wednesday’s sub-state opener, Lawrence High’s coaching staff elected to try a tactic it hadn’t used all year — a decision that helped the LHS boys advance to the sub-state title game. After clinging to a 1-point lead at the intermission, LHS tried a 2-3 zone defense ...
In their journey to the state tournament this season, Free State’s boys bowlers have consistently stepped up for one another, and senior Joey Taylor knows that as well as anyone. Because of a schedule conflict with the state choir, Taylor wasn’t able to help out his friends in the regional ...
Lawrence High’s girls basketball team was eliminated in the first round of sub-state with a 61-16 road loss to Wichita Heights on Tuesday. The Lions ended their season with a 5-16 clip, while the Falcons improved to 20-1. Heights will face Washburn Rural in the sub-state title game at 7 ...
For someone who’s looked at as “the mom” of the group, it especially hurt Lawrence High senior guard Ella Stewart to not be out on the floor for her final regular-season game last Friday. “I missed this whole week of school, so I was really trying to be good for (Friday),” Stewart ...
This week is the start of the postseason for all area basketball teams, and area basketball squads are hoping to end the year with a trip to their respective state basketball tournaments. Fresh off sharing the Sunflower League title, Free State and Lawrence High have a strong shot of doing ...
For the second year in a row, Tonganoxie’s wrestling team had two individuals secure state titles to end the season. Sophomore Grayson Sonntag won the 120-pound weight class and senior Connor Searcy netted a state crown in the 220-pound weight class at the Class 4A state tournament at ...
Midway through the third quarter, LHS senior forward Bryce Johnson rifled a pass to the right corner to Mayo. With a defender rushing toward him, Mayo sidestepped to his left and knocked down another 3-pointer. With Mayo back on the floor, Lawrence High secured both a 77-68 win over Shawnee ...