Sports

BLHS adds new baseball, soccer coaches
03:29 p.m., June 18, 2013 Updated 01:55 p.m.
This month, ink dried on contracts for a new baseball coach, Jeff Vestal, and a coach in Erik Jones who will oversee both the boys and girls soccer programs at BLHS. They replace three coaches — Brian Lohafer, Austin Knipp and Derek Mazeitis — who stepped down because of either family reasons or professional opportunities, all of which lacking in controversy.
BLHS wrestling became ‘team to watch’ during third-place run in Iowa tournament
04:38 p.m., June 17, 2013 Updated 01:53 p.m.
BLHS placed third among 40 teams in a dual tournament during the Iron Sharpens Iron Team Camp in Dewitt, Iowa, surpassing Cordts’ expectations and raising the bar for what will constitute possible in 2013-14.
College coach, BSHS alumni help instruct weeklong wrestling camp
June 14, 2013
Windows were slid open in a futile attempt to relieve the oppressive humidity inside the Bonner Springs High wrestling room on the final day of a weeklong camp. The 40 wrestlers jammed inside looked as if they’d rather be nowhere else.
Kasick, Lackner earn first-team all-state softball honors
June 14, 2013
Junior Allison Kasick was recognized as a first-team infielder and fellow junior Katie Lackner earned a first-team outfielder selection.
BLHS wrestling team eagerly awaits addition of triple-crown youth champions
June 14, 2013
Corbin Nirschl, Cody Phippen and Jonny Trowbridge, kids who have spent a majority of their lives on the mat, are almost in high school. Learn their names because, boy, can they wrestle.
82-year-old Bonner Springs resident shoots under his age at Sunflower Hills
June 14, 2013
In the game of inches, Gene Reynolds also has the years. He has about as many memories on the course as there are dimples on a golf ball and the avid golfer has no intentions of putting away his clubs anytime soon. Besides, why should he?
KSHSAA announces new state volleyball sites
June 12, 2013
The Kansas State High School Activities Association has announced new locations and schedules for state volleyball tournaments. The existing system was altered to accommodate for the recent split of Class 4A.
Bonner Springs YMCA registration deadlines nearing
June 12, 2013
The recent split in Class 4A will result in both divisions playing their state volleyball tournaments at Salina’s Bicentennial Center on Nov. 1-2, the Kansas State High School Activities Association announced Tuesday.
New-look BSHS girls basketball team coming together this summer
June 11, 2013
To again challenge for the Kaw Valley League title in 2013-14, BSHS coach Clay Oakes is counting on both a deep junior class and multiple sophomores ready to take the leap.
K-7 League, weekend wood-bat tournament highlights BSHS baseball’s start to summer play
June 10, 2013
With the spring season being as compact as it is, the Bonner Springs baseball team is utilizing the opportunity to continue playing together this summer.
With big ambitions, experienced BLHS boys basketball team busy in June; adds 6-5 transfer
June 7, 2013
The 6-foot-5 soon-to-be junior Pat Muldoon transfered from Mill Valley and will join a BLHS boys basketball team in the thick of a grinding June. He left a Kaw Valley League team with its own state aspirations for another that won’t accept a conclusion to 2013-14 not involving a ring. With a senior class of an upward of nine players and the bitter taste of its 2013 sub-state exit still lingering, a sense that there weren’t enough days in June to prepare for 2013-14 was ever-present.
2013 spring sports season in review: Baseball, swimming records fall at Bonner Springs
June 5, 2013
As far as spring sports seasons go, there have been few, if any, like that of 2013. This is to say nothing of how Bonner Springs student-athletes fared; that the season even took place was itself a minor miracle.
2013 spring sports season in review: Sorrow spawns unity, resilience for BLHS soccer, softball
June 5, 2013
There were wins and losses, memories made and lumps taken. The season has already given way to summer. Fall is on the minds of some and winter pursuits like basketball and wrestling on the minds of still others. But before the memory of spring 2013 recedes for good, let’s take one last look back.
KSHSAA announces split of Class 4A
KVL principals discuss division of 64-school class
09:35 p.m., June 3, 2013 Updated 11:44 a.m.
Just as the disparity in Class 4A has gradually inflated, competitive disadvantages have become more and more of a concern in recent years. Tuesday morning, both issues officially became null and void.
All-Kaw Valley League baseball, softball, girls soccer teams announced
May 29, 2013
Multiple BLHS and BSHS student-athletes represented on Spring 2013 All-KVL teams.

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