10/10/2009 09:55 PM
The scene at the Indian Creek Racquet Club on Saturday afternoon resembled how tennis might be played at the North Pole. Girls with hopes of advancing to the Kansas 6A state championships next weekend played matches while decked out in sweat suits, with bulky layers under their tennis skirts. A scattering of fans huddled under hoodies and headbands.
10/09/2009 11:25 PM
Just when you thought Olathe South couldn’t make things any more interesting, they pulled off another come-from-behind victory. This week, the Shawnee Mission East Lancers fell victim to the comeback kids.
10/02/2009 12:35 AM
Thursday’s result Schlagle 29, Pembroke Hill 22
09/29/2009 10:48 PM
As she took the court Tuesday at the Plaza Tennis Center, Shawnee Mission East standout Mimi Fotopoulos had yet to lose so much as a single game — let alone a set — in a dominant start to her sophomore season. The highly regarded 15-team St. Thomas Aquinas Tennis Invitational, though, seemed sure to provide a test for Fotopoulos, the Kansas 6A state runner-up last season.
07/28/2009 10:59 PM
Just a couple of summers ago, before hearing their names called as the NBA’s top draft picks, Blake Griffin and Derrick Rose came to the same Shawnee gym that rising Raytown South freshman Ishmail Wainwright is playing in this week. And just like Wainwright, whose AAU team plays in the eighth annual Price Chopper KC Prep National Invitational, they could not help but sneak peeks at all of the college recruiters in the stands.
07/22/2009 11:06 PM
Reflecting upon her high school soccer career — where she finished as Missouri’s all-time leading scorer — Lee’s Summit North’s Morgan Marlborough doesn’t narrow things down to one specific special goal. It is not the memory of scoring one of the record-breaking 69 goals she notched during her senior season. Nor is there one specific highlight among the 232 career goals she scored in her four years. Instead, she points to the moment she advanced to the Missouri Class 3 state championship match in June.
07/22/2009 11:06 PM
FORWARDS •Shea Groom, Liberty, sophomore. Finished her season with 38 goals and 13 assists. She was voted the Missouri Class 3 offensive player of the year by coaches.
07/21/2009 11:07 PM
On the eve of the first Hoop City Classic, Todd Hensley could barely contain his excitement. That’s saying a lot, considering Hensley has been putting on AAU tournaments like this for years. But he insists he has reason to believe that this one could be special.
06/23/2009 11:21 PM
Michael McGee walked back inside the doors of Rockhurst on Tuesday, a little sunburned from playing a full round of golf but ready for his close up in a full suit and tie. McGee wasn’t expecting such a homecoming this soon after graduating. But as the Kenneth Smith Award winner, given to the area’s top male golfer, he returned to Rockhurst to accept the honor in front of family and friends.
06/13/2009 09:04 PM
Jumpin’ James White captured the attention of hundreds every time he pulled off his sweats, revealed his baby blue Grandview High uniform and approached the towering bar set at the Missouri Class 4 state high jump championships. The coaches stopped walking behind the chain link fence, and the fans who packed the stands in the Dwight T. Reed Stadium in Jefferson City turned their attention to the corner end zone. Athletes — the best in the state who themselves were competing for gold medals — joined in with the rhythmic clapping to cheer on White. Everyone wanted to watch history unfold.
06/07/2009 12:17 AM
In Fenton, Mo. At Anheuser-Busch Center Saturday’s championship Incarnate Word 2, LS North 1 (IW wins on penalty kicks). IWA (Dailey). LSN (Stevenson). Records: IWA 16-5, LSN 25-3. Penalty kicks: IWA: Vogt 1; Skirvan 1; Gravlin 1; Iffrig 1; Mottl 1. LSN: Cross 0; Corder 1; Stephenson 1; Stout 1; Malborough 1.
06/04/2009 11:10 PM
At Meador Park, Springfield Today’s semifinals DeSoto vs. LS North, 10 a.m. Rock Bridge vs. Ft. Zumwalt South, 1 p.m.
06/02/2009 11:11 PM
At Meador Park, Springfield Friday’s semifinals DeSoto vs. LS North, 10 a.m. Rock Bridge vs. Ft. Zumwalt South, 1 p.m.
05/31/2009 10:55 PM
At Twin Oaks Complex, Emporia Saturday’s semifinals St. Marys 10, Pittsburg Colgan 3 Humboldt 9, Salina Sacred Heart 2
05/30/2009 09:41 PM
NORTH NEWTON, Kan. | Rachel Weimer would say afterward how this has been a frustrating season for her at times. How she had struggled to finish scoring opportunities.
05/30/2009 09:41 PM
TOPEKA | Jordan Jackson did a little bit of everything in her final appearance for the Blue Valley West girls soccer team during the Kansas 6A state championship game Saturday at Hummer Sports Park.
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