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ESU Softball 'Dials' Up 1st Team All-Region Honor
Emporia State senior outfielder Alexis Dial has been named First Team All-Region by the National Fastpitch Coaches Association. She's the first Lady Hornet to earn All-Region honors since Stephanie Goodwin and Taylor Zordel both earned the distinction in 2015. The Topeka native hit .430 in 2024 while slugging .778 fo...
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ESU Soccer Adds Two Transfers
A pair of transfers have been added to Emporia State soccer's incoming class. Nagi Kawahata and Sade Lee will join the program as part of first-year head coach Jane Grimley-Gunn's first recruiting class in Emporia. Kawahata transfers to ESU from Otero College in Colorado. The Japan native had 24 starts as goalie las...
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Emporia High boys golf wins home invitational
The Emporia High boys golf team shot a season-best 303 to win the Emporia Invitational Wednesday at Emporia Golf Course. Will Walker led the way for the Spartans shooting a -3 (68) to win the tournament by seven strokes over teammate Nolan Jacob. Walker said his short game was big for his round. Southern Lyon County al...
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Emporia High promotes assistant coach Taylor Scott to head coach; Jesse Nelson to join EHS boys staff
Emporia High has found its new girls' basketball coach and it didn't go far to find its new coach. Lady Spartan assistant coach Taylor Scott has been promoted to head coach as approved by the USD 253 Board of Education during their meeting on Wednesday. Scott said when the job came open, she wanted to apply because the...
May 09, 2024
Emporia High's Dario Guevara signs with Mid America Nazarene for soccer
Emporia High senior Dario Guevara signed a National Letter of Intent to continue to play soccer at Mid-America Nazarene Wednesday. Guevara said this was something he's been looking forward to for a long time. Guevara is the second Spartan to sign to play soccer this spring. Edwin Maciel signed with Walla Walla Communit...
May 08, 2024
Coach O Adds Five for Lady Hornet Basketball
Emporia State head women's basketball coach Brian Ostermann has added five players to his 2024 recruiting class. The list includes two transfers and three freshmen. The transfers include: Makenna Clark (Ankeny, Iowa) - sophomore, guard, Wayne State College - Clark played in four games for the Wildcats before transfer...
May 08, 2024
Council Grove's Buchman, Braves sweep Flint Hills League championships
Council Grove's Drew Buchman shot a personal best 65 (-6) to win the Flint Hills League Championship held at Emporia Golf Course on Tuesday. Buchman won the tournament by 18 strokes over teammate Brycen Palmquist who shot an 83. Dax Myers made it a clean sweep of the top 3 spots for the Braves finishing third with an 8...
May 08, 2024
Emporia High girls soccer falls to Hayden
The Emporia High girls soccer team was shut out in its final regular season home game against Hayden on Tuesday night, 4-0. Hayden scored three times in the first half and added its final goal halfway through the second half. Emporia High coach Oscar Macias said the Lady Spartans can't have a performance like this agai...
May 08, 2024
Emporia High softball swept by Topeka High
In a resumption doubleheader from April 30, the Emporia High softball team was swept by Topeka High on Monday afternoon, 10-4 and 9-8. The first game resumed with Topeka High holding a 7-4 advantage in the bottom of the fourth inning. Topeka High never gave up the lead by adding three runs in the sixth. Maedeen McClure...
May 06, 2024
Heimburg Finishes Strong to win Dynamic Discs Open
Calvin Heimburg hit over 95% of his fairways while carding a birdie on over 72% of his holes on the way to a three-stroke win at the men's Dynamic Discs Open at Champions Landing Sunday. Heimburg entered the final round one shot back of Ricky Wysocki but charged into the lead with birdies on each of his first seven ho...
May 06, 2024
ESU Track Takes Home Two Individual MIAA Titles
The Emporia State track & field team won two events with 12 provisional qualifying marks at the MIAA Outdoor Track & Field Championships at Bearcat Stadium in Maryville, Mo. on Sunday. The three-day event ended with the Hornet men finishing fifth while the women were 11th. Ty Anderson led the way for the men ...
May 06, 2024
Gannon Wins Playoff at Dynamic Discs Open
Missy Gannon survived a three-hole aggregate playoff to win her first Dynamic Discs Open on Sunday at Champions Landing. Gannon started the day in a tie with Hailey King for first and the two battled for prime position all day in Emporia. Gannon started strong with birdies on five of her first seven holes to go out i...
May 05, 2024
Emporia High baseball falls to St. Thomas Aquinas
Through four innings, the Emporia High baseball team was right with St. Thomas Aquinas on Saturday afternoon at Soden's Grove. However, Aquinas was able to use two big late innings for an 8-3 victory over the Spartans to conclude the Spartan Classic. Emporia High jumped out to a 1-0 lead after the first inning after Ca...
May 04, 2024
Emporia High softball falls to Blue Valley Southwest
The Emporia High softball team finished 1-1 in the Spartan Classic that wrapped up Saturday at the Trusler Sports Complex. After Emporia High defeated Life Prep, 16-1, on Friday, Blue Valley Southwest defeated the Lady Spartans, 11-2, on Saturday. Blue Valley Southwest jumped out to a 3-0 lead in the top of the first a...
May 04, 2024
Emporia High baseball shut out by Andover Central
The Emporia High baseball team got a quality start on the mound by Madden Seidl, but it wasn't enough in its Spartan Classic opener against Andover Central on Friday night at Soden's Grove. Andover Central shut out the Spartans, 5-0. Andover Central jumped out to an early 1-0 lead in the first, then tacked on three in ...
May 04, 2024