Weekly Spring Sports Update-Week 4

Boys’ Tennis-

The Lancers beat Shawnee Mission North 8-4. Senior, Jackson O’Gorman-Bean lost to Keenan Smith 4-8 but won in doubles with Spencer Jones 8-1.

The boys’ tennis team was supposed to play Olathe East on Wednesday but the matches were canceled due to inclement weather. East will play Shawnee Mission West on Thursday before playing Sumner Academy on Friday.

Baseball-

The Lancer baseball team was able to improve their record coming off of last week with a win against Olathe North. The JV and C team was also able to open their season 2-0 with back-to-back a win over the weekend over Olathe North.

“We were able to beat Olathe North behind the great pitching of Dylan Brett,” sophomore varsity player Quinn Appletoft said. “Tonight we play Shawnee Mission West and then Olathe South on saturday, two of the top teams in the state.”
Boys’ Golf-

Boys’ Golf competes at the Lake Quivira Invitational this Monday. The team hasn’t had a tournament in over a week and a half. At the Lake Quivira Invite, the Lancers will find their biggest competition from around the state: Blue Valley North and Blue Valley West. The Lancers are undefeated thus far.

Girls’ Soccer-
Girls’ Soccer suffered a tough loss on Tuesday to Olathe East, who is currently ranked 49th in the nation. According to senior Bahar Barani, the girls didn’t play to their potential, although they managed to keep up with them for the majority of the game. Olathe East earned their only goal through a penalty kick.

“It was a big rivalry and we didn’t play that well so it was pretty upsetting,” Senior Anna Marken said.

The girls’ next game will be tonight (Thursday) against SM North at the SM Soccer Complex.

Softball-

East doesn’t have any games this week, but is looking to keep the momentum from its two convincing wins against Leavenworth last week. Coach Vaughan mainly focused on fundamentals for the first few weeks of practice. Now that the season is underway, practices have become more game-oriented.

“We have been practicing game situations by scrimmaging, while continuing to improve on fundamentals,” said senior Morgan Satterlee.

The team is preparing for their game against SM South next Tuesday. This will be a key game against a division rival, but players are already thinking ahead to the Olathe East game on Thursday. Satterlee said that it will be important to have the middle infield in great shape for this game.

Boys’ Lacrosse-

The Lancers beat the Raiders of Shawnee Mission South on Wednesday moving the team to 5-0 on the season. East has taken some significant strides since the first two games of the season, in which the Lancers seemed lackluster on the offensive side of the ball. Since then, the Lancers have clearly become more comfortable in their new offense and won their last three games by a combined score of 37-8. Saturday, the Lancers will travel to Omaha, Nebraska for a day trip in which they’ll play Creighton Prep (5-2) and Lincoln (6-0).

Girls’ Lacrosse-

The Varsity girls’ lacrosse team took on Lee’s Summit West again at Lee’s Summit West last Tuesday April 3rd, winning the game 11-6. Saturday, April 7th, the girls will be playing Sion at East and are really hoping to get some student body to come out to the game.

Girls’ Swim and Dive-
Wednesday night the JV Lady Lancers Swim Team took on Bonner Springs, Turner High School, Lansing High School at Bonner Springs. On Thursday the JV team also took on Piper-Ward High School and Leavenworth High School. Friday, April 5th the Varsity team will head to the Olathe Invitation where they will compete against 20 other teams.

“My goal is to make it to state this year and so I am excited that our season is finally starting to pick up,” sophomore Madeline Peters said. “We are having more meets and so that means everyone has more chances to get state times.”

Track:

Sprints/Hurdlers-

The junior boys cleaned up at South Relays on Saturday. Junior Devon Burton placed first in both of the men’s hurdling events. He ran his personal record of 15.42 seconds in the 110 High Hurdles and 40.92 seconds in the 300 Intermediate Hurdles. Junior Juan Ramos ran a time of 51.67 in the 400 meter dash to place second overall. Not too far behind him was Senior Joe Lewis who won third place with a time of 52.08 seconds.

There was another gold medal on the girls side; senior Abby Dunn won the 400 meter dash with a time of 61 seconds. Senior Toni Aguiar placed second in the 200 meter dash and fourth in the 100 meter dash.

Times were slower than normal for this time of year for runners across the board. Coaches speculate this may have been because of the intense heat — it was sunny and around 80*F — that runners weren’t accustomed to.

Long Distance-

The boys’ 4×800 relay of Jake McCoy, Blake Hill, Carter Olander and Mitch Daniel brought home a gold medal at last Saturday’s SMS Relays with a time of 8:14.60. The race was anchored by senior veteran Daniel who ran his fastest split of the season — a 2:00 flat — to beat out Rockhurst for the win. Keep an eye out for the boys’ relay in the future — they currently hold the 4th fastest time in the state and 2nd fastest among 6A schools.

In the open 800, seniors Blake Hill and Evan Nichols placed fourth at sixth respectively with times of 2:03 and 2:04.

The girls’ 4×800 took second place with a time of 10:01.60. The team placed behind SM West, who has the returning state champion 800 runner, Alli Cash, on their relay (Cash ran a 2:18.78 in the open 800 later that day).
In the open 1600, senior Emily Kerr took fourth with a 5:50 while on the boys side junior Mitch Kaskie and senior Ian Wiseman took 9th and 10th place respectively, with a 4:41 flat and a 4:41.20.

Field Events-

The SM South Relays held some disappointment for the field athletes. Javelin thrower Nick Pirotte was the only male thrower to earn points for the team with a third place finish. Myisha Heinen took eighth place in the javelin and also earned a point.

Grace Pickelll continued to dominate the high jump with a top jump of 5’ 6’’, two inches shy of her personal record set last week. Pickell also received seventh place in the long jump. Ben Williams, a dark horse this season, took second in the high jump for the boys. Williams also placed fifth in the long jump with 19’ 11.5’’. Tommy McGillicuddy got fourth place in the triple jump.
Alic Erpelding and Preston Vaughn took ninth and tenth places respectively in the pole vault while Claire Tracy took eighth place on the girls side.

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