The Emporia State softball teams won two games over Newman to wrap up their home schedule at the Trusler Sports Complex on Saturday. The Lady Hornets finished the first game strong for a 12-4 run-rule victory over the Jets. The Navy & Red opened the scoring with a surprising homer, just the second for the Jets all...

Four area athletes competed on the final day of the KU Relays on Saturday. The top finish came from Northern Heights' Jaitlyn Johnson, who finished 13th in the discus with a toss of 122-8. Emporia High had three athletes compete. After finishing third in the triple jump on Friday, Emporia High's Paige Newland finsihed ...

The Emporia State tennis teams each fell on the road Friday against conference rival Northwest Missouri. In the men's matchup, the #49 Bearcats shaved the #37 Hornets 4-3. The Hornets took the doubles point with the decisive win at #1 doubles by #36 doubles team Alexis Mattenberger and Gwendal Mazuay . Mostafa Elbasn...

The Emporia High girls soccer team fell to Wichita East, 5-2, on Friday night. The first 40 minutes were competitive with a 2-2 tie. Emersyn Johnson gave the Lady Spartans a 1-0 lead. The Blue Aces responded and then a goal by Lodia Gamez made it 2-1 in the 21st minute. Wichita East scored the next four goals in the ga...

In the high school portion of the KU Relays in Lawrence, Emporia High's Paige Newland finished third in the triple jump with a mark of 39-0.5. Chance Duncan finished 12th in the discus (158-6). RJ Tabares finished 15th in the 300m hurdles, while finishing 30th in the 110m hurdles prelims (15.13). Harley Smith finished ...

The Emporia High baseball team snapped a 3-game losing streak with a sweep at Topeka High on Friday. EHS won the first game 12-0 and completed the sweep with a 20-0 victory in game two. In game one, the Spartans scored two each in the first and sixth innings, added five in the third and three in the fourth. Owen Ruge g...

The Emporia State baseball team unleashed an onslaught to powder Northeastern State in a doubleheader sweep Friday to sweep their three game series in Tahlequah, Okla. In game one of the true doubleheader Friday, ESU only had three more hits than the RiverHawks but lapped NSU 18-5. The Hornets pounded 18 hits in the g...

Two area schools hosted track and field invitationals on Thursday. Northern Heights, Marais des Cygnes Valley, Olpe, and Osage City competed in the Travis Sheeley Memorial Invitational in Allen. Chase County, Burlingame, Hartford, Madison, and Waverly competed in the Tim Griffin Relays in Cottonwood Falls. Travis Sheel...

The Emporia State baseball team got off to a hot start on the way to an 18-8 victory in game one of their series at Northeastern State. The Hornets scored four in the first and followed that up with five runs in the second. ESU pounded out 17 hits led by Jovanni Toledo's 4-for-5 day, including two runs and five RBIs ...

Lebo senior Saige Hadley was named to the KVA All-Star Game to be played on June 7. Hadley will be playing on the red team in the game that will be played at Washburn Rural High School at 5 p.m. Hadley, a two-time Class 1A-Division II Player of the Year, helped the Wolves to state championships in 2022 and 2023 and sta...

The Emporia State women's tennis team leveled their season and MIAA record after a 5-2 win at Missouri Western Thursday. After Andrea Santiago and Paige Stranghoner won 6-1 at #3 doubles, the Lady Hornets coughed up the doubles point by losing the next two matches, but ESU dominated singles winning five of the six mat...

The Emporia State softball teams posted a split on Wednesday against Drury. The Lady Hornets claimed game one 3-1 and took the lead scoring on a pair of fielder's choices in the second inning. ESU added a run in the third on a sacrifice fly. The Lady Hornets were outhit 7-4 in the game but Drury committed two errors ...

The Emporia High girls swim and dive team finished third at the Topeka West Invitational on Wednesday. Emporia High finished with 323 points, finishing behind Manhattan and Seaman. Allie Weiss won the diving portion of the event with a score of 283.05, winning by 71 points. The 200-yard freestyle relay of Camryn Spaffo...

For the first time this season, the Emporia High baseball team was swept in a doubleheader. Hayden, the No. 2-ranked team in Class 4A, defeated the No. 8 team in 5A, 14-0 in six innings and rallied for a 5-3 victory in the finale. The sweep kept the reigning state champions in Class 3A undefeated with a 10-0 record. In...

Two Emporia High athletic teams were on the road on Tuesday. Emporia High junior Allie Weiss won the Campus Diving Invitational with a score of 460.80. Weiss will dive again on Wednesday at Topeka West, with the Lady Spartan swimmers competing following the diving portion of the meet. The Emporia High girls soccer team...