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Make it two in a row for the Liberty baseball team.  ... Read more
Shannon Hall
Contributed photo/Greg Hall
Mother Nature slowed the Blue Jays down a bit.  ... Read more
Kaylee Marquardt and Lauren Holm
Contributed photo/Greg Hall
Lauren Holm and Kaylee Marquardt both credit each other for their individual improvement and accomplishments.  ... Read more
Max Jobson
Contributed photo/Greg Hall
In the Eagles’ first year, only a handful of track athletes extended their season past districts.  ... Read more
Zac Dittmer
Chris Geinosky/Liberty Tribune
Zac Dittmer and Eric Lester made the most of their final rounds of golf in the high school season, and they have the hardware to prove it.  ... Read more
Kellen Burgess
Marty Williams/KCSCSports.net
Chuck Healey and Marc Ohlhausen have produced big wins for the Eagles in each of the past two tennis seasons.  ... Read more
Jake Stansbury
Chris Geinosky/Liberty Tribune
Liberty played close matches all spring long.  ... Read more
Nathan Volkmann
Marty Williams/KCSCSports.net
There is certainly no shortage of clutch hitters in the Blue Jays’ high-powered lineup.  ... Read more
Austin Haywood
Contributed photo/David Williams
All the Eagles needed were three final outs.  ... Read more
Aubrey Ewing, Moriah Jones and Cheyanne Jackson
Contributed Photo/Tiffany Howard
Walk around the Liberty High School campus in early May, and there’s no shortage of sports to catch as a spectator.  ... Read more
Chelsea Ross
Liberty Tribune file photo
There was never really a doubt.  ... Read more
It’s a good day to be a Liberty High School sports fan.  ... Read more
Liberty North will be represented at the state tennis tournament for a second year in a row.  ... Read more
The No. 1 seed in the district tournament – and No. 1-ranked team in the state – needed a late comeback to keep its season alive.  ... Read more
Liberty North boys tennis captured the first district team championship in program history and third district team title for the school’s athletic department.  ... Read more
Kaitlyn Clark
Jeff Billings/KCSCSports.net
Few teams have been able to give the Blue Jays a run for their money during district play the past several years.  ... Read more
Mary Kate Duffin
Jeff Billings/KCSCSports.net
The Eagles should be ready for district play.  ... Read more
Kirk Bragg and a number of his baseball players had one busy day.  ... Read more
Sammy Laurenzo
Contributed photo/Greg Hall
Sammy Laurenzo has had no shortage of accomplishments in the first two years of her prep career.  ... Read more
Zach Pixler
Contributed photo/Greg Hall
Brandon Chapman always thought of himself as a discus thrower.  ... Read more
Marie Taylor
Contributed photo/Greg Hall
It’s safe to say Marie Taylor left the track with a smile on her face.  ... Read more
Alex Hughes
Kyle Rivas/Special to the Liberty Tribune
After bringing home William Jewell College’s first Great Lakes Valley Conference championships at the indoor meet earlier in the year, the Cardinals track and field team competed in their first GLVC Outdoor Track and Field Championships over the weekend.  ... Read more
Eric Lester
Chris Geinosky/Liberty Tribune
Eric Lester will always remember his first state experience.  ... Read more
Nick Giordano
Chris Geinosky/Liberty Tribune
Nick Giordano and Hugo Mendoza had one long wait to find out if they would be heading to state.  ... Read more
Paul Sherwood
Contributed photo/David Williams
One of the most talented district fields in recent memory and perhaps ever in this area should produce an exciting week of high school baseball.  ... Read more
JD Williams saved his best for last.  ... Read more
It’s official. The Blue Jays can call themselves conference champions — again.  ... Read more
When the Blue Jays lost a key baseball game last week at Blue Springs, it looked like it could cost them the Suburban Big Six Conference championship.  ... Read more
A handful of local golfers will be playing on the state's biggest stage.  ... Read more
Isaac Hamilton
Jeff Billings/KCSCSports.net
Marc Ohlhausen and Chuck Healey have aspirations of returning to the state tournament.  ... Read more
Noah Simpson
Most people have begun the countdown to the end of the school year.  ... Read more
Sarah Phillips
Contributed photo/Christy Schram
Thanks to the work of Sarah Phillips, Edge Gymnastics Liberty has its first national qualifier.  ... Read more
Zach Fuller
Marty Williams/KCSCSports.net
With the way the Eagles have been pitching this season, all they needed was a little bit of help from the bats.  ... Read more
Todd Hinkley
Jeff Billings/KCSCSports.net
When the Blue Jays and Jaguars hooked up the first time this spring in the season opener, the two teams scored a combined 21 runs.  ... Read more
Hugo Mendoza
Bill Knust/Liberty Tribune
Jeff Braden had just watched his boys golf team come up a few strokes short of a sectional berth and one of his golfers discover that he had missed the individual qualifying cut by one single stroke.  ... Read more
If the Blue Jays expect to keep their preseason hopes of making a run at a state championship alive, they needed to be at their best this week.  ... Read more
Antwynn Beavers
Bill Knust/Liberty Tribune
There’s one thing and one thing only on the minds of the Eagles these days.  ... Read more
Shannon Hall
Contributed photo/Greg Hall
All spring long, Liberty and Blue Springs have gone toe-to-toe during the high school boys track season.  ... Read more
The countdown has begun. In four months, the William Jewell College football team will be in full swing.  ... Read more
Kurt Petroll
Liberty Tribune file photo
Year after year Blue Jays football has been involved in the Kansas City area’s premier showcase event.  ... Read more
Max Bamburg
Contributed photo/Greg Hall
Max Bamburg has a number of goals on his personal list to achieve this spring.  ... Read more
Marie Taylor, Casey Zollman, Sharee Zombo and Lauren Holm
Contributed photo/Pam Koch
According to head coach Pam Koch, the Liberty High School girls track and field program had never won an event at the Kansas Relays.  ... Read more
Julia Parker
Bill Knust/Liberty Tribune
Nick Roofener must have been chomping at the bit to get back on the track.  ... Read more
Emily Kazmaier, Marie Goeglein and Traci Koon
Contributed photo/Marie Goeglein
Even the most recreational of running enthusiasts have goals at the historic Boston Marathon.  ... Read more
Brian Downer
Chris Geinosky/Liberty Tribune
Blue Springs South has been one of the best boys golf teams in the Kansas City area this season.  ... Read more
Nathan Winfrey
Jeff Billings/KCSCSports.net
It’s not often when the annual Northland Baseball Tournament has a repeat champion.  ... Read more
Lucas Norton
Jeff Billings/KCSCSports.net
There’s no hesitation in Kirk Bragg’s voice. He doesn’t care for rankings. In fact, it’s fair to say Liberty High School’s head baseball coach hates them.  ... Read more
Tight losses continue to torment the Eagles.  ... Read more
With the final weeks of the high school boys tennis season fast approaching, the Blue Jays plan to display just how far they have come.  ... Read more
Noah Simpson has been hired as the next head coach of the Liberty High School girls basketball program.  ... Read more
The Blue Jays picked a good time to play their best golf of the season.  ... Read more
Zac Dittmer
Chris Geinosky/Liberty Tribune
A few smiles could be seen around the Shoal Creek Golf Course clubhouse, but there were no fist-pumps. There were no high-fives.  ... Read more
Nick Giordano
Chris Geinosky/Liberty Tribune
Jeff Braden had waited all spring to put his top team on display.  ... Read more
Nick Robinson
Southern Utah University
It hasn’t taken Nick Robinson much time to make a name for himself in the coaching ranks. Granted, did anyone who knew him expect any differently?  ... Read more
Katelyn Palmer
Jeff Billings/KCSCSports.net
Steve Person tried to inspire his team with one simple statement.  ... Read more
Delaney Kiely
Jeff Billings/KCSCSports.net
Just how challenging is the nationally acclaimed Heart of America Soccer Classic?  ... Read more
Taylor Uhlmann
Jeff Billings/KCSCSports.net
After the first two days of the Northland Baseball Tournament, both local high school teams remained undefeated in pool play.  ... Read more
It appears the Jays could be on their way to another Suburban Big Six Conference baseball championship.  ... Read more
If the Eagles hoped to make a run at a conference title in baseball, they knew they had to find a way to defeat the top two teams in the league — Staley and Kearney.  ... Read more
Rachel Hayden
Kyle Rivas/Special to the Liberty Tribune
As many local sports fans know by now, the William Jewell College athletic department is in a transition year from the NAIA to NCAA Division II level.  ... Read more
Jewell Cardinal
In each of the past few years, the William Jewell College football program has sent athletes to the Kansas City Chiefs local pro day.  ... Read more
Many of the Eagles have rarely experienced a full-fledged high school track meet.  ... Read more
As the Kansas Relays unfolded last year, the Blue Jays knew they were putting together a good meet.  ... Read more
Liberty still has its title defense in tact.  ... Read more
There’s going to be plenty on the line this afternoon in the third and final round of pool play in the Northland Baseball Tournament.  ... Read more
Both local high school teams opened the Northland Baseball Tournament with a win.  ... Read more
One local high school team is playing for a tournament championship and another one is playing in a state title rematch.  ... Read more
The Liberty North girls soccer team has yet to fire on all cylinders this season, and injuries have been the reason why.  ... Read more
Marie Taylor
Contributed photo/Greg Hall
Staley and Liberty went back and forth trying to claim the title as top girls track team in the area all season long last year until the Blue Jays captured the district championship and final bragging rights.  ... Read more
Sammy Laurenzo gave herself a nice birthday present.  ... Read more
Grace George
Jeff Billings/KCSCSports.net
Perhaps a week off isn’t what the Blue Jays wanted at this time.  ... Read more
BBCOR bats
Chris Geinosky/Liberty Tribune
Long before the season started, I had heard all the stories. High school baseball would never be the same.  ... Read more
Lucas Norton
Marty Williams/KCSCSports.net
One season ago the Blue Jays knew they had a good ball club.  ... Read more
Dutch Fullerton
Dustin Fullerton could have given up on his wrestling career long ago.  ... Read more
Max Francisco
Jeff Billings/KCSCSports.net
Garrett Loew and Max Francisco had been teammates before — early in their high school careers on lower level basketball teams at Liberty High School.  ... Read more
Brandon Chapman
Jack Smith/KCSCSports.net
For the first time, a local boys basketball player has won the Barrett Wepler #4 Award.  ... Read more
If you needed an excuse to come out to the golf course, you have one.  ... Read more
Spencer Schwandt
Jeff Billings/KCSCSports.net
The Blue Jays had to wait a little longer than they hoped to play their first home game of the season.  ... Read more
baseball
How big was the Blue Jays’ victory against Lee’s Summit West the other day?  ... Read more
Last season, the Eagles posted a winning record in the Suburban Small Six Conference.  ... Read more
football
High football coaches normally have their upcoming year’s schedule in hand and know their district opponents by mid-February.  ... Read more
Chris McCabe
Chris Geinosky/Liberty Tribune
Chris McCabe has been back to the Shawnee Mission South gymnasium a few times through the years.  ... Read more
Brandon Chapman
Liberty Tribune file photo
Last year Brandon Chapman had a legitimate chance to qualify for state in the discus.  ... Read more
The Liberty North track and field program chalked up better than 40 season-best marks and set 10 new school records at the Smithville Invitational.  ... Read more
Chuck Healey and Marc Ohlhausen
Chris Geinosky/Liberty Tribune
A long day of tennis — one much longer than anticipated — turned out to be a good one for the Eagles.  ... Read more
J.P. Bartmess
Kyle Rivas/Special to the Liberty Tribune
Sixteen seniors guided the Cardinals to one of the more memorable seasons in team history last year.  ... Read more
Jewell Cardinal
The program with the longest season of all William Jewell sports, the track and field team heads into the outdoor phase of its season for the next two and a half months.  ... Read more
Eric Lester
Chris Geinosky/Liberty Tribune
So much for showing up shorthanded.  ... Read more
After the first week of the season, the Blue Jays thought they knew what they had.  ... Read more
Local high school tennis fans just found a way to overcome the Monday blahs.  ... Read more
Kolton Shindelar
Chris Geinosky/Liberty Tribune
Mother Nature did not do the first week of spring sports any favors, but she was willing to cooperate long enough for the Blue Jays to host their annual track meet.  ... Read more
Sammy Laurenzo
Liberty Tribune file photo
At this time last year, Ted Graves and his coaching staff really didn’t know where the Eagles stood.  ... Read more
Liberty North broke six team records at the season-opening meet — the Ron Ives Invitational — Friday, March 23, at Liberty High School.  ... Read more
After playing a sluggish first half, the Liberty girls soccer team eventually got things rolling last night and earned the right to play for fifth place in the Bob Durig Memorial Mo-Kan Challenge.  ... Read more
Delaney Kiely
Jeff Billings/KCSCSports.net
There might be some new faces in the fold, but the first week of the season saw the same old results.  ... Read more
Last year, the Eagles started the girls soccer season with four consecutive victories.  ... Read more
Reed Morton
Chris Geinosky/Liberty Tribune
Liberty North’s 2012 baseball season started the same way as the 2011 season ended — with a one-run loss to Park Hill.  ... Read more
JD Williams
Liberty Tribune file photo
As Ryan Stegall sat in the dugout on a sunny Saturday morning before his baseball team’s practice this past weekend, it started to dawn upon him.  ... Read more
Garrett Loew
Jeff Billings/KCSCSports.net
When Garrett Loew went down with a hip injury during preseason practices that delayed the start of his senior season, the Eagles had issues.  ... Read more
Liberty’s Max Francisco and Liberty North’s Garrett Loew thought their high school hoops careers had come to an end.  ... Read more
Selena Dunn
Marty Williams/KCSCSports.net
When the season ended one win shy of a district title, the Eagles could still hold their heads high and for good reason.  ... Read more
Mike Tuck
Contributed Photo
For years, Mike Tuck dreamt of having the chance to wrestle once again on the national — and maybe even international — level.  ... Read more
A year-round process that never stops, collegiate recruiting is what builds athletic teams around the nation.  ... Read more
After having the first week of the season rained out, the Blue Jays admitted they were chopping at the bit to get the season underway.  ... Read more
Wes Jones
Liberty Tribune file photo
It goes without saying that the Blue Jays could not be more proud of their surprising run to the state championship game last season. But after coming up one win short of winning it all, the Jays have been craving the one thing they missed out on a year ago. Now the Liberty baseball team has the opportunity to feed its appetite.  ... Read more
Zac Dittmer
Liberty Tribune file photo
Blue Jay golfers have made a new nest at Shoal Creek Golf Course this year. With the resulting uncertainties from a fire that burned down the clubhouse at Liberty Hills County Club, the team’s longtime home, this winter, the Liberty High School boys golf program decided to move across town. Ironically enough, it turned out to be not much of a switch at all since several of the top players are employed by Shoal Creek and already know their new home course like the back of their hand.  ... Read more
Hugo Mendoza
Liberty Tribune file photo
Last year, it took Jeff Braden several days before feeling comfortable enough to allow his first-year Liberty North golf team to hit the links in practice. With virtually the entire team back and with a year of experience, it was a much different story this season when Braden sent his Eagles onto the course at Cardinal Hill on the first days of the preseason earlier this month.  ... Read more
Adorin Dorsey
Liberty Tribune file photo
It’s not often that a team finds disappointment in back-to-back state runner-up finishes. This would be one of those exceptions. Despite finishing second in each of the past two years at the MSHSAA Boys Track and Field Championships, the Blue Jays find themselves thinking about what could have been.  ... Read more
Kayla Stark
Liberty Tribune file photo
Of the 17 players on the varsity roster this year, only 10 donned the blue and gold on the pitch last spring.  ... Read more
Haley Baldridge
Liberty Tribune file photo
After losing last year’s talented senior class, the Blue Jays began to hear the whispers. How could this team possibly be good again next year? Forget about the idea of winning a third consecutive state title, right? And so on. Soon those whispers became a little louder. And now the Liberty girls soccer team has all the inspiration it needs heading into the 2012 season.  ... Read more
Marc Ohlhausen
Liberty Tribune file photo
No team experienced as much overall success as the boys tennis squad did in the first year of Liberty North High School athletics. First and foremost, the Eagles posted a winning team dual meet record and went a perfect 5-0 in league play to capture the schools’ first-ever Suburban Small Six Conference team title. Then North went on to advance to a district championship match and even sent the doubles team of Chuck Healey and Marc Ohlhausen to the state tournament.  ... Read more
Liberty North boys basketball finished the season with a victory.  ... Read more
Kade Crow
Liberty Tribune file photo
Anytime a team loses its top two players, it’s not going to be easy move on. When one of those players is Jake Ohlhausen, a two-time all-state award winner, the task becomes that much greater. That’s exactly what the Liberty boys tennis team faces this spring.  ... Read more
Garrett Loew
Jeff Billings/KCSCSports.net
COLUMBIA — As Garrett Loew walked out of the timeout, he knew who was going to take the biggest shot of the season.  ... Read more
Chris McCabe
Jeff Billings/KCSCSports.net
COLUMBIA — As Chris McCabe pulled up a chair for the postgame press conference, you could see the tears started to swell in his eyes. Minutes earlier, his Eagles had put the finishing touches on the final victory of the season.  ... Read more
Jake Hanson
Jeff Billings/KCSCSports.net
COLUMBIA — Coming off back-to-back third-place state finishes and with a roster chock full of seniors, Soldan International Studies had one clear cut goal this year: finally advance past the semifinal round and capture a state title.  ... Read more
Mike Morley
Jeff Billings/KCSCSports.net
Liberty High School has begun the search for a new head girls basketball coach.  ... Read more
Defense on the hardwood might not be flashy, but the final numbers for the Blue Jays sure were.  ... Read more
Maggie Metz and most of her teammates had one goal for the reinstated William Jewell College swim program this season.  ... Read more
No one saw this one coming.  ... Read more
Chris Uz and the rest of the seniors wanted their last season in a Cardinal uniform to be a memorable one.  ... Read more
It didn’t take long for the local high school swimming and diving teams to start thinking about year.  ... Read more
MSHSAA Class 4 Show-Me Showdown Live Blog  ... Read more
The Eagles hope they can end their season with a win.  ... Read more
MSHSAA Class 4 Show-Me Showdown Live Blog  ... Read more
Brinkley Jolly
Jeff Billings/KCSCSports.net
Second-year high school programs are not supposed to make runs to the state final four.  ... Read more
Garrett Loew
Jeff Billings/KCSCSports.net
INDEPENDENCE —When the Eagles walked out on the court down by seven points to start the fourth quarter and with their season on the line, they didn’t look the least bit rattled.  ... Read more
Coaches say defense wins championships. Well, in this case, it still has the Eagles in the hunt for one.  ... Read more
Kyle Malone
Marty Williams/KCSCSports.net
An exhausted Chris McCabe had made his way around a still-buzzing Cokely Fieldhouse, receiving congratulations from anyone who offered a handshake or hug.  ... Read more
Mike Morley has resigned as the head coach of the Liberty High School girls basketball program.  ... Read more
Nick Larson
Kyle Rivas/Special to the Liberty Tribune
Nick Larson can hardly believe it’s over — his playing days are done.  ... Read more
The old saying is that it’s hard to beat a team three times in one season.  ... Read more
When Liberty North and Grandview hooked up for a Suburban Small Six Conference showdown in late January, some people — including this reporter — believed it could be a potential playoff preview.  ... Read more
Liberty North’s boys basketball campaign will go on.  ... Read more
Zach Starr
Marty Williams/KCSCSports.net
OAK GROVE — For most of the two a half quarters, the Liberty North boys basketball team struggled to solve Grain Valley’s trapping 1-3-1 zone defense.  ... Read more
Nadhir Daughtery
Marty Williams/KCSCSports.net
As soon as last season ended, the wheels started spinning for the Eagles and the boys basketball program. Despite winning all of eight games, by the end of the road the boys saw what the future could hold.  ... Read more
Selena Dunn
Marty Williams/KCSCSports.net
OAK GROVE — When the hometown Eagles fell behind by nine points with just a little more than three minutes left in the game, they could have thrown in the towel.  ... Read more
Trailing the Panthers by three points with 11 seconds left in the fourth quarter, the Eagles needed something special to happen.  ... Read more
Sam Griffin
Jeff Billings/KCSCSports.net
With less than two minutes to play, it looked like the Blue Jays were on their way to making it back-to-back upsets.  ... Read more
Chris Uz
Kyle Rivas/Special to the Liberty Tribune
Nick Larson made his final performance at the Mabee Center a memorable one.  ... Read more
Chelsea Meeks
Kyle Rivas/Special to the Liberty Tribune
Chelsea Meeks may have been the one pouring in the points, but it was Katy Colby who provided the inspiration.  ... Read more
What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas. Right?  ... Read more
Amanda Storm
Liberty Tribune file photo
Through the fall and winter sports seasons, William Jewell College athletic teams have done well in their transition to NCAA Division II and the Great Lakes Valley Conference.  ... Read more
Logan Pettz
Tom Eisenhauer had one request of his athletes — prove they can compete at this level.  ... Read more
The Eagles don’t have to travel far tonight, and neither do their fans.  ... Read more
Liberty North’s boys basketball team has captured its first-ever district crown.  ... Read more
On paper, it looked like the Liberty North boys completely outclassed Odessa. The Class 4 District 15 semifinal game played out that way.  ... Read more

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