May 24
De Soto wins Kansas 4A softball title
Wildcats beat Augusta 7-4 and are crowned Kansas 4A champions. Mill Valley places second in 5A.
May 24
De Soto takes fourth in Kansas 4A baseball
De Soto loses to Towanda Circle in the third-place game at the Kansas state 4A baseball tournament.
May 24
De Soto, Spring Hill fall in girls soccer semis
The two schools will face each other in the 4A-1A consolation game after being shut out Friday night.
May 24
Kansas Class 6A girls soccer final will pit Blue Valley against BV Northwest
The Kansas Class 6A girls soccer semifinal game between Blue Valley Northwest and Maize might have played out differently if the Huskies hadn’t scored a goal less than 30 seconds into the game. But BV Northwest’s clear advantages in speed, athleticism and instinct probably would have been established eventually.
May 25
Aquinas advances to 5A final
Goal late in first half is key as Saints take 2-0 victory over Bishop Carroll.
May 25
High school results - May 25
CLASS 6A
May 24
Park Hill South doubles team overcomes slow start to advance to state tennis semifinals
Park Hill South’s Zack Royle and Jim Geary dropped the first set of their doubles quarterfinal matchup against Lee’s Summit West but rebounded to win 12 of the final 13 games and advance to the Missouri Class 2 tennis state semifinals. Rockhurst’s doubles team of Jacob Moore and John Nogalski Jr. also made the semifinals.
May 24
Olathe East softball team advances to Class 6A semifinals
Senior pitcher Jenni Brooks scattered five hits and struck out five without surrendering a walk as the Hawks reached the state semifinals for the 14th time since 1998.
May 24
Blue Valley slips by Olathe Northwest and advances to Kansas 6A state baseball semifinals
Blue Valley and Olathe South also move on
May 23
Jaguars advance in 5A, De Soto moves on to 4A semifinal
Sisters Lexie and Lacie Myers fueled a five-run first with hits for extra bases and Mill Valley held off Andover Central 5-1 at the Two Rivers Youth Complex.
May 23
Blue Valley Southwest falls short against Topeka Seaman
Behind a complete game shutout from ace Ryan Colombo, the Vikings won 5-0 and will face Shawnee Heights for the third time this season.
May 23
Staley punches its ticket to state baseball semifinals
Falcons get a gutsy job from starter White to beat Blue Spring South 4-2 in Class 5. Meanwhile in Oak Grove’s 3-2 Class 4 win over St. Pius, a reversed call proves crucial.
May 23
Five things to watch at the Missouri Class 4 and 3 state track meets
The Missouri Class 4 and Class 3 track and field state championship meets take place Friday and Saturday at Lincoln University in Jefferson City.
May 24
Rockhurst zips through state tourney bracket to win state tennis title
Hawklets dispatch Christian Brothers College High School 5-1 in the semifinals and then finish their season undefeated by shellacking Rock Bridge 5-0.
May 23
Fort Osage’s Cole draws rapt attention when she throws
The junior shot putter and discus thrower has so much potential — and gold medals at the Missouri state track meet last year to prove her bona fides — that she has fans on the edge of their seats, waiting to see a monster throw.
May 22
Five things to watch at Kansas state baseball
Kansas’ five baseball state tournaments — Class 6A in Lawrence, 5A in Wichita, 4A in Salina, 3A in Manhattan and 2-1A in Emporia — will start a day earlier than previous years with the quarterfinals set for Thursday followed by the semifinals and finals on Friday.
May 23
Five things to watch at Kansas state softball
Kansas’ five softball state tournaments — Class 6A at Blue Valley West, 5A in Wichita, 4A in Salina, 3A in Manhattan and 2-1A in Emporia — will start a day earlier than previous years with the quarterfinals set for Thursday followed by the semifinals and finals on Friday.
May 22
Five things to watch at Missouri state boys tennis
The Class 2 and Class 1 state team tournament takes place Thursday at the Cooper Tennis Complex in Springfield. The singles and doubles tournaments will run Friday and Saturday at the same site.
May 22
High school results - May 22
CLASS 6A
May 22
Olathe East’s Haley Hanson wins Gatorade girls soccer honor
Olathe East junior Haley Hanson was announced Wednesday as the Gatorade Kansas Girls Soccer Player of the Year for 2012-13.
May 21
Blue Valley Northwest sends Olathe East home in Class 6A quarterfinals
Huskies top defending champions 4-3 in a match that featured six goals in the first 42 minutes, but only one — the decisive one — in the final 38 minutes.
May 21
Aquinas blitzes BV Southwest early, easily moves into Kansas quarterfinals
The Saints, a perennial at the state tournament, score three goals in the first 8 minutes, 5 seconds and go on to beat the Timberwolves 4-2 Class 5A state quarterfinal match.
May 21
Blue Springs South outlasts Rockhurst 2-1 in Class 5 sectional baseball
Blue Springs South’s Reece Eddins and Rockhurst’s Joe Huber hooked up in a pitchers’ duel in Missouri Class 5 sectional baseball. But the hero was Blue Springs South junior Zac Slaven, who delivered a two-out, pinch-hit single in the bottom of the eighth that gave the Jaguars a 2-1 victory.
May 21
Lee’s Summit West needs overtime to get by Blue Springs
Johnson’s second goal of the game provides the winning margin for the Titans in their Missouri Class 3 Sectional.
May 22
High school results - May 21
CLASS 6A
