Girls basketball

All the girls basketball team at Indian Hills Middle School knows is winning. Since the return of middle school sports three years ago, the Knights’ A teams have gone 26-2 and have won all three city championships, including a perfect...

Girls to Watch Hunter Bentley, Bishop Miege: If the Stags are going to win their fourth title in a row, it will be in large part because of Bentley. She's been named to the all-Eastern Kansas League first two for the past...

Blue Valley North locked down defensively in the first half against Shawnee Mission East as the Lady Mustangs cruised to a 60-29 victory on Saturday afternoon. BV North used runs of 10-0 and 20-0 to put the game out of...

Shawnee Mission East senior Tyler Keys took the ACT in December of last year as a junior and scored a perfect 36 on the reading portion. Her scores were a little low in math and science so she decided...

Terry English has had an impressive run as the Bishop Miege girls basketball coach as he enters his 40th season at the helm. The Lady Stags went a perfect 25-0 last season on their way to their 19th state title...

SM North isn’t the only northeast Johnson County high school celebrating a state championship this weekend. At Bishop Miege, they are celebrating two. Both the Miege boys and girls teams won state championships in Salina Saturday in the Kansas Class...

It was a good weekend for an SM East girls basketball team that had been waiting a year for the ice to break. The Lancers broke the longest losing streak in program history on Friday with a 67-59 win over...

Dozens of SM East basketball players packed into the schools' gyms on Sunday for the annual Free Throw Derby, a test of skill from behind the charity stripe. Players had 20 minutes to see how many shots they could...

As Lauren Lawrence was nearing the end of her college years — and thus her college basketball career — at the University of Oklahoma in 2010 and 2011, Sooners coach Sherri Coale planted a seed about where Lawrence might focus...

By Dawn Bormann Shawnee Mission expected middle school sports to be popular during the debut year. But even the biggest supporters didn’t anticipate what happened. “We had over 1,300 middle school students participate in a middle school athletic at some point...

If you want to get an opinion on how seriously new SM East girls basketball coach Lauren Lawrence takes student athletics, just ask her younger brother, Bishop Miege quarterback Ryan Willis, who will be playing at the University of...

SM North is hoping a current Emporia State girls basketball assistant can breathe new life into the Indians program much as he did with SM Northwest's a few years ago. Outgoing SM North athletic director George Sallas announced Wednesday that...