For the third year in a row, Free State’s boys cross-country secured a regional crown. The Firebirds had five runners finish inside the top-14 on their way to a first-place finish at the Class 6A regional meet on Saturday at Frontier Trail Middle School. Free State scored 38 points as a ...
Baldwin senior Grady McCune set another record this week to add to a long list of achievements throughout his soccer career. McCune recorded all five assists in Baldwin’s 5-1 win over Midland Academy Monday night at BHS. Not only was McCune responsible for every score in that win, but it set ...
Free State senior Keegan VanPelt will end a sensational high school tennis career this weekend at the Class 6A state tournament. The two-day event, which is slated to take place at the College Boulevard Activity Center, will begin Friday and end Saturday. VanPelt, who is coming off a ...
Free State's boys cross-country team earned a win its own meet at the Baldwin City Golf Course on Saturday, Oct. 10, 2020. Bishop Seabury's sophomore Oona Nelson finished third in the varsity girls race. Photos by Chance Parker/Lawrence Journal-World
Baldwin — Free State’s top cross-country runners wasted little time after finishing the boys race, in which all five athletes ended up inside the top five as individuals on Saturday at the Baldwin Golf Course. Junior Ben Shryock, senior Christopher Stone, senior Ethan Sharp, junior Jack ...
Bishop Seabury sophomore Beck Oldridge is coming off an impressive week, where he scored five goals in three matches to help his team extend its winning streak to four games. After struggling out of the gate, the Seahawks appear to be hitting their stride as a team and are now 5-2 on the ...
Perry-Lecompton’s football team cruised to a 41-13 road win over Winfield Friday night to stay undefeated this season. The Kaws (5-0, No. 2 in Class 3A) jumped out to a 19-0 lead in the first quarter, and the defense eventually held Winfield (1-4) to 33 yards of total offense in the second ...
Senior linebacker Cole Mondi had the honor of leading the breakdown of a socially-distanced huddle following Lawrence High’s first varsity football practice in two weeks. “It felt great,” Mondi said. “Everybody’s energy today was surprisingly unbelievable. Us not being together, and ...
Bishop Seabury sophomore Oona Nelson came away with another first-place finish during Tuesday’s Tonganoxie Invitational. Nelson finished first as an individual in the varsity girls division, marking her second victory of her second season competing in high school cross-country. She finished ...
In a battle between a pair of top-three teams, Perry-Lecompton (No. 2 in Class 3A) came away with much-deserved bragging rights after a 28-14 road win over Holton (No. 3 in Class 3A) on Friday. The Kaws, who are coming off a runner-up finish last season, are now 3-0 to start the year. Both ...
Free State’s volleyball team clawed its way back to .500 for the first time all season with a much-needed road sweep at the Shawnee Mission North triangular on Tuesday. The Firebirds, who are now 4-4 on the year after losing their first four matches of the season, secured a pair of 2-0 ...
Area football teams Tonganoxie and Perry-Lecompton remain undefeated following wins in Week 2 of the 2020 season. THS — which is ranked No. 3 in Class 4A — jumped out to a double-digit lead in the first half in an eventual 24-14 home victory over Louisburg on Friday. Perry-Lecompton (No. 2 ...
Thursday’s boys soccer city showdown is slated to take place earlier in the year compared to previous seasons, and there is a lot less on the line than there was the last time these two teams met. Lawrence High, which has raced off to a 3-0 start, will be looking to prove something when it ...
The Kansas State High School Activities Association on Wednesday released a set of guidelines for upcoming fall sports seasons, but many of the specifics will remain in the hands of local school districts and administrators. The guidelines are broken up into two parts: a set of general ...
Longtime assistant coach Jamelle Blunt has been named the new head coach of the Bishop Seabury Academy boys basketball program. Blunt, 33, takes over for Jonathan Raney, who left the program after leading BSA to the state semifinals last season. Blunt worked as an assistant under Raney for ...
Bishop Seabury Academy’s athletic teams are officially joining a conference. Beginning in the fall of 2021, Seabury will compete in the newly formed Kaw Valley Conference, the school announced this week. The KVC will include five other schools — Heritage Christian Academy in Olathe, KC ...
Bishop Seabury basketball standouts Zach Bloch and Juju Ramirez, along with Free State’s Miles Branch, are all headed to prep schools next season. While their absence from the Lawrence hoops scene figures to change the outlook of both teams, their coaches said they were looking forward to ...
The Bishop Seabury boys basketball team got some national media attention Monday night after a dominant 2019-20 season was cut short by the COVID-19 pandemic. On ESPN's SportsCenter, the Seahawks were among the teams honored by Scott Van Pelt as a part of his #SeniorNight segment, which was ...
It took five games, but following a convincing 40-13 victory over Veritas, a young Bishop Seabury girls basketball team gained some much-needed confidence. “After that Veritas game, they realized we can be a pretty good team and we can compete with anyone as long as we kind of do what we do ...
After each high school sports season, the Journal-World recognizes outstanding athletes with its All-Area Teams. Because of statewide precautions taken to prevent the spread of COVID-19, the annual All-Area winter group photos were not able to be taken this year. The teams still were selected ...