Sports

BOLIVAR, Mo. — Maddox Johnson, a freshman track and field athlete at Pittsburg State University, may have found himself on the cusp of qualifying for nationals with a career-best day at the javelin Saturday. Johnson,…

A pair of dazzling pitching performances put Iola High’s baseball team back on track Tuesday. Buoyed by a combined no-hitter from Grady Dougherty and Landon Weide in a 4-0 win in Game 1, Iola’s fun…

Iola High’s softball team has had its defensive struggles this young season. So it was perhaps fitting that one of the rarest plays in the game — a triple play — proved key in the…

CHANUTE — Iola High’s tennis team is starting to wonder how to get on Mother Nature’s good side. The Mustangs were greeted once again Tuesday by cold, windy conditions at the Chanute Invitational. “It’s not…

Iola High’s junior varsity golf team coped with a ferocious north wind Tuesday to launch the 2024 season. The Mustangs were the host school at the Iola Invitational at Allen County Country Club, and finished…

Iola Middle School hosted Burlington, Anderson County and Prairie View Tuesday for a quadrangular track meet. The Mustang seventh-grade girls took home first place in its division, while both the seventh- and eighth-grade boys teams…

BURLINGTON — As the sun got lower in the sky Tuesday, so did Humboldt High’s golf scores. The Cubs were at the Burlington Invitational, and were greeted by a typical early April breezy Kansas afternoon.…

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Royals owner John Sherman and Chiefs president Mark Donovan stood on a small stage in the second-floor lounge of the historic J. Rieger & Co. distillery in Kansas City on…

(To vote for the March nominees, click here.) Sure, the weather fluctuations have kept participants and spectators on their toes, with nobody certain whether to wear tank tops or parkas from one day to the…

GIRARD —  A team of athletes and their peer buddies were a part of Iola High School’s unified sports team March 27, when they competed in the SEK Unified Cornhole event. More than 200 Special…