Playing a third consecutive home game to open the season, the MidAmerica Nazarene women’s basketball team overcame an early double-digit deficit and routed Ottawa 85-54 last Tuesday. Venturing on the road for the Pizza Ranch Classic, hosted by Northwestern College in Orange City, Iowa, the Pioneers didn’t fare as well and lost games Friday and Saturday. Updated: Nov. 17, 2009 6:32 PM |Full Story

Most Valuable Player: Chelsea Cook, sr., Blue Valley North Co-defensive Players of the Year: Megan Baska, sr., St. Thomas Aquinas; Laura Skaggs, sr., Bishop Miege Updated: Nov. 17, 2009 6:32 PM |Full Story

MidAmerica Nazarene's men's basketball team held College of the Ozarks to a 38-percent clip from the field and had a 44-29 rebounding edge. That spelled a 67-55 victory Saturday in the second game of the Pioneer Classic at Bell Family Arena at the Cook Center.

Making baskets and sharing the basketball weren't the problem Saturday for the MidAmerica Nazarene women's basketball team, which played two games last weekend in the Pizza Ranch Classic at Orange City, Iowa.

MidAmerica Nazarene's women's basketball team played the University of Sioux Falls to a 25-25 second-half draw Friday night in South Dakota.

Rustin Dowd is making this whole college basketball thing look easy. The MidAmerica Nazarene freshman guard, who graduated last spring from Olathe South, scored the final seven Pioneers points, including a game-winning old-fashioned three-point play with 4 seconds remaining.

On Gardner Edgerton's first offensive series, junior quarterback Bubba Starling routinely slipped out of tackles, darted away from defenders and accumulated 75 rushing yards.

The St. Thomas Aquinas Saints want people to start giving them credit.

James Franklin got his record, but, more importantly, Olathe North got its win and avenged a quarterfinal loss against Free State last year.

Two Olathe North seniors are among the finalists end-of-the-season football awards. The finalists were announced Friday by the Simone-Fontana Foundation's Simone Awards.

One blowout and one squeaker, but MidAmerica Nazarene’s men’s basketball got the same result in both games of last weekend’s Jeff Uphaus Classic. The Pioneers, who are ranked No. 22 in the preseason NAIA national poll, destroyed Grace College 93-62 on Friday with four players reaching double figures. Updated: Nov. 10, 2009 7:26 PM |Full Story

MidAmerica Nazarene’s women’s basketball team got a double-double from senior Bethany Rexroth in a season-opening win against Doane and then survived 31 turnovers in improving to 2-0 against Park. Playing in its Tip-Off Classic, the Pioneers knocked off Doane 72-57 on Friday despite 29 points from Vanessa Munter. Updated: Nov. 10, 2009 7:25 PM |Full Story

Key number: 47 That’s the length of Quentin Weygaerts’ game-winning field goal as time expired, handing MidAmerica Nazarene a 28-27 come-from-behind victory over Missouri Valley. The Pioneers trailed by as much as 15 points in the second half before a furious rally in the final eight minutes. Updated: Nov. 10, 2009 7:26 PM |Full Story

NEWTON, Kan. | For Olathe Northwest’s Elayna Briggs, it was the end of an era. The Ravens’ senior, who was the only gymnast on the entire team this season, capped her competitive career with a fourth-place finish in the all-around Saturday at the Kansas girls state gymnastics meet. Updated: Nov. 10, 2009 7:25 PM |Full Story

(4) LAWRENCE FREE STATE, 8-2, AT (1) OLATHE NORTH, 10-0 7 p.m. Friday at the Olathe District Activity Center Updated: Nov. 10, 2009 7:26 PM |Full Story