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Boys’ Tennis-
On Monday, the Lancers took on the Cougars from Shawnee Mission Northwest, and were able to sweep the meet in singles and doubles. Friday, the team has matches against St. James Academy, but will be without a few players due to personal conflicts. Next week will be a big week for the Lancers with four days of matches including tough competition such as Pembroke Hill and Blue Valley Northwest.
Baseball-
The Lancer baseball team has been able to continue their early season success. All three of the Lancer teams are above .500 with the Varsity team leading the way at 5-1, so far going undefeated during Sunflower League play. The JV and C team follow Varsity with records of 4-2 and 3-3 respectively.
“All of the teams play tonight and we had Varsity games on Wednesday,” sophomore varsity player Quinn Appletoft said. “The JV and C team both played on Monday.”
Boys’ Golf-
Boys’ Golf is coming off of their worst performance of the year where they placed 4th, behind notables: Blue Valley North and Blue Valley West. Henry Simpson placed 4th overall. Next week the Lancers host the SME invite and begin Sunflower League.
“League is really important to us because it really prepares us for the postseason,” Senior Conner Schrock said. “We don’t want anything more than that.”
Jake Crandall | The Harbinger Online “[The game against SM North] was pretty easy,” Senior Anna Marken said. “We mercy-ruled them with 12 minutes left. They’re not very strong.”
Softball-
The team is still undefeated after two wins against SM South this week. Leading up to the double-header, Coach Vaughan had really pressed the importance of fundamentals and strength in the infield. After going over one week without playing, the Lancers were a little sluggish in their first game. Their pitch recognition and overall plate performance was slightly lacking, but they grinded out a 3-2 win. The second game was a whole other story. East made key adjustments and blew out South 13-0.
“We were patient at the plate when hitting,” said senior Morgan Satterlee. “It helped that we were controlled and adjusted to the pitching.”
After the emotional win Tuesday, the Lancers travelled to Park Hill High School to take on the Park Hill Spartans. Despite a sluggish first half, East was able to prevail and ultimately win the game by a score of 12-1.
East takes on the Tulsa Bulldogs on Sunday morning at 10:30 a.m. on the turf.
Girls Lacrosse-
The Lancer girls’ lacrosse team had no games this week. They were supposed to play Sion last weekend but unfortunately the Sion girls team had to cancel the game due to lack of players being in town. The game is being rescheduled though for a later date that hasn’t been announced yet.
The girls were scheduled to have an out of town tournament this weekend in Des Moines, Iowa but it was also cancelled because many of the teams players are going to be taking the ACT.
Girls Swim and Dive-
Thursday night, the Lady Lancers took on St. Thomas Aquinas and were able to win the meet easily. Saturday, they have a meet at 10 a.m. at Blue Valley North. Next Tuesday, will be senior night when the team hosts the Firebirds from Lawrence Free State. With four meets remaining until the Sunflower League meet, the Lady Lancers will definitely be one of the favorites heading in.
Hiba Akhtar | The Harbinger Online After last weeks Blue Valley Relays with the boys’ team getting fifth place and the girls’ team at sixth they are looking to better their times at this weeks SMWest meet. Last week hurdler Devon Burton was the only runner to receive a first place medal running a 40.37 in the 300 meter hurdles. The boys’ 4×100 placed third with a team of Connor Rellihan, Clint Dunn, Sam Stewart and Joe Lewis. To finish off the meet the boys’ 4×400 placed second with a team or Joe Lewis, Clint Dunn, Jack Fay and Juan Ramos.
On the girls’ team senior Toni Aguiar placed second in the open 100 running a 12.96. While junior Chloe Stradinger placed third in the 300 meter hurdles running a 49.43. The girls’ 4×400 ran a 4:09.54 placing third with runners being Roni Aguiar, Emma Vickers, Grace Quinlan and Abby Dunn.
Long Distance-
Setting a new personal record for the second week in a row, the boys’ 4×800 placed 3rd with a time of 8:08.92. They placed behind 2nd place Blue Valley Northwest and 1st place Shawnee Mission Northwest — Northwest currently holds the fastest relay time in the state with a 7:58.56. The SME girls did not compete in the 4×800.
In the Distance Medley Relay (800, 400, 1200, 1600) the boys placed 2nd with a time of 10:52.88, while the girls took 3rd with a time of 13:19.54.
Both the boys’ and girls’ teams earned no points in the open 1600. Overall, the boys’ and girls’ teams placed 5th and 6th in the meet respectively.
Field Events-
The highlight of the Blue Valley Relays for the field events was the discovery of Christian Blessen as an up-and-comer in the javelin. Recognized for breaking his personal record twice in one meet, the first year sophomore received a star award for tremendous performance after the meet. Blessen took fourth place behind junior Nick Pirotte in the boys’ javelin with Myisha Heinen also placing fourth for the girls.
The squad earned no points through shot put, discus or pole vault, but made up for it with another strong performance by jumper Grace Pickell. Pickell took first in the girls’ high jump and fifth in the girls’ long jump. Alec Bartholomew continued the Lancers’ success in the high jump, taking third.
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