Prairie Village – An edge-of-your-seat overtime battle didn’t quite pan out for Free State and first-year head boys basketball coach Dwayne Paul on Tuesday. The Firebirds fell to Raytown South (Mo.) 71-70 in the first round of the Varsity Classic at Shawnee Mission High School. A game-high ...

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 ...

Ten members of Seabury’s boys basketball team scramble around one side of the floor like mad scientists, tuning and retuning their offense over and over again. Head coach Trey Johnson prefers it this way, knowing he or one of the team’s assistants will undoubtedly throw one of their ideas ...

Battling wet conditions all night long, the No. 7 seed Free State soccer team advanced to the 6A regional boys’ championship with a 3-1 victory over No. 10 seed Manhattan on Tuesday night. The night didn’t start with smiles though, as the Indians (7-9-1) took an early 1-0 lead when senior ...

This high school sports season, the Journal-World sports staff is highlighting a boy and girl athlete each week in Friday's paper. As fall sports heat up, there's already been several standouts. Here are this week's selections: Xeva Oldridge, Bishop Seabury Without a dominant performance by ...