A year ago, the Olathe East and Olathe South boys basketball teams reached the Kansas 6A state tournament only to bow out in the opening round. Returning to state and making a deeper run was the primary focus for the starters who came back this season for each school. Updated: Mar. 9, 2010 6:10 PM |Full Story
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If Olathe South's girls are going to reach the Kansas 6A state title game for the third time in four years, the Falcons will have to go through some familiar foes to get there.
Blue Valley Northwest led wire-to-wire Saturday in a superb performance that earned the Huskies a second berth at the Kansas 6A state tournament in the last three seasons.
The third quarter only hinted at the mayhem to come in the closing period Saturday when top-seeded Olathe South faced upset-minded Blue Valley North in the Bracket A sub-state final at Blue Valley.
Bill Olin notched his 499th career win for the second time Thursday when MidAmerica Nazarene's women rallied from a 15-point halftime deficit for a 72-66 victory against Benedictine in the first round of the Heart of America Athletic Conference postseason tourney in Atchison.
WICHITA | For the second day at the Kansas 6A bowling tournament, Olathe North found out the hard way just how costly a missed pin here and a pin there can be.
Gardner Edgerton's Martin rolls 300 at state
North boys place fourth in 6A
WICHITA | After 13 career games of 279, Gardner Edgerton’s Chris Martin had enough. After struggling through a tough first game at the Kansas 5-1A boys state tournament at Northrock Lanes, Martin knew that he would have to bowl a high game to stay in contention. And what better time to get his first 300 game?
During an 8-minute, 49-second window that spanned halftime, Olathe East's girls struggled with turnovers, struggled to make shots and struggled to guard the 3-point line Friday during the Bracket B sub-state championship.
For the sixth consecutive season, Olathe South's girls will be finishing the campaign in the friendly confines of White Auditorium in Emporia, site of the Kansas 6A state tournament.
Blue Valley North dominated the first half and opened the third quarter with a potentially back-breaking 11-point run Thursday at Olathe Northwest.
Max Brewer was among the 22 celebrants Thursday during a ceremony to honor Olathe East seniors who inked athletic scholarships, and he knew how fortunate he was to be there.
The playing careers of Olathe Northwest’s boys basketball seniors came to an end Thursday at home at the hands of Blue Valley North in Kansas 6A sub-state play.
Olathe North stayed with the top-seeded Olathe South boys through the first quarter, but couldn't sustain that pace in a 53-38 loss at South.
After winning all but two of their first 18 games, the Olathe East boys closed the regular season with a pair of losses and found themselves trailing again through three quarters of their sub-state opener Thursday against a young Blue Valley West team.