Free State head girls basketball coach Summer Frantz had plenty of positive takeaways from a 53-30 loss to Blue Valley West in Thursday night’s season opener on the road. Her group fought well into the second half, but endurance waned for the Firebirds, as Frantz’ young squad fell to 0-1 ...
The Journal-World All-Area teams are carefully selected by the Journal-World's sports staff. • Player of the Year: Fisayo Afonja, Baldwin High Afonja averaged 5.7 kills per set with 567 total kills during her senior season with the Bulldogs, including 74 blocks and 299 digs. As a ...
The Journal-World All-Area teams are carefully selected by the Journal-World's sports staff. • Player of the Year: Cooper Carr, Baldwin High Carr topped his breakout freshman season this fall with 18 goals and 14 assists, finishing just two points behind the school record (52) in his ...
No score was kept, but all three schools – Lawrence High, Eudora High and Gardner Edgerton – benefited from a newly allowed preseason scrimmage on Tuesday night in Eudora. Until this season, the Kansas State High School Activities Association prohibited teams from hosting such events before ...
Fifteen total members of the Free State and Lawrence High boys soccer teams appeared on the All-Sunflower League team, the league revealed over the weekend. Four of those area names made the first-team cut, including FSHS junior midfielder JJ Zheng, senior defender Utah Hester and junior ...
Spectators likely guessed which school would take first place when Eudora High senior Sydney Owens and junior Hanna Keltner crossed the finish line first and second, respectively, at the 4A state cross-country championship over the weekend in Wamego. Owens (18:47.90), the individual champion, ...