Free State's baseball and softball teams both won home games against Shawnee Mission North Thursday night at FSHS on April 1, 2021. Photos by Chance Parker/Lawrence Journal-World
Kansas City, Mo. — Michael A. Taylor homered, drove in three runs and threw out two players at the plate from center field, leading the Kansas City Royals past the Texas Rangers 14-10 in a wild season opener Thursday. Each team scored five times in the first inning of a game that took four ...
Behind a six-run effort in the bottom of the second, Free State’s baseball team earned a 9-4 home win over Shawnee Mission North Thursday night. The Firebirds improved to 4-2 (1-1 in Sunflower League play). The big second-inning showing started with a leadoff walk to Brady Kern and a ...
Free State softball star Tatum Clopton could count on her fingers how many pitches it took her to strike out all three of Shawnee Mission North’s batters in the top of the third inning on Thursday: nine. And in fact, she did count them on her fingers on the walk back to the dugout, holding ...
When Colin Grunhard was a freshman at Notre Dame, the Fighting Irish were coming off a 4-8 season — a disaster by that program’s standards. Now the offensive lineman is at KU, where 4-8 would be viewed as progress, and Grunhard is hoping to bring some of his former team’s winning ...
After being entrusted as the caretaker of blue blood basketball programs Kansas and North Carolina for the past 33 years, Roy Williams announced his retirement from coaching on Thursday at a news conference in Chapel Hill, N.C. The 70-year-old Williams, who opened the ceremony with tears in ...
