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Tweet The SM East quarterback who led the Lancers to a school record 8 wins in 2010 is proving his football career has plenty of life left in it — even if he didn’t get any major program scholarship offers. Now in his second year at the University of Colorado, John Schrock has built on his [...]

Tweet Lest you’d forgotten how much fun it was watching the Lancers play this year, Gridiron Club dad Brian Libeer has put together a wrap-up video with highlights of the 2011 season. Looking forward to next year!

Tweet All good things, they say, must come to an end. So it was on Friday, when the Lancers’ loss to Olathe South in the second round of the state playoffs brought their season to a close. But as Coach Sherman said so often throughout the season, this year’s team was a young one — [...]

Tweet If you looked down the sidelines at an SM East football game this season, you’d likely have seen a few dozen Lancers in their pads and uniforms lined up a few feet behind the out-of-bounds line. And you’d have seen one of their teammates standing out in front of the crowd. He’d watch the [...]

Tweet A recent check of voting results in KMBC’s Hy-Vee Game of the Week voting suggests SM East boosters need to fire up their clicking fingers. The SM East vs. Olathe South matchup was FOURTH out of the four game choices as of Thursday morning. Rockhurst vs. Blue Springs South was in first place with [...]

Tweet So…Olathe South is going to be a tough foe in the second round of the playoffs. They’re 9-1. And they kind of had our number in the playoffs last year. But if the Lancers can put together a performance as complete as they did last Friday against SM Northwest, a victory is most certainly [...]

Tweet Last year, SM East’s football team won a school record eight games, took home its first share of the Sunflower League title in four decades — and got knocked out of the state playoffs in a disappointing first game. Despite the fact that the team’s 2011 regular season was considerably bumpier than 2010, the [...]

Tweet Let’s take a trip down memory lane, shall we? Way back to the olden timey days of early September. Can you remember it? A brutal summer was coming to a close. The kids were back in school. And the SM East football team got its season off to an optimism-inspiring start with a dominating [...]

Tweet With their season on the line, the Lancers put together one of their most complete games of 2011, dispatching SM South 27-0 and earning a slot in the first round of the playoffs. The Lancers will take on 5-4 SM Northwest, who they defeated in the season opener, next Friday. Dakota Collins, who threw [...]

Tweet If there’s a silver lining in the Lancers’ loss to SM West in district play last week, it’s that Friday’s regular season ending matchup against SM South has taken on a new layer of interest. “The playoffs have come for us, they’re just starting a week early,” said SM East head coach Chip Sherman. [...]

Tweet When it mattered most, the Lancers just couldn’t seem to hold onto the ball. A series of costly turnovers — including an endzone fumble at the end of the first half and a interception during a potentially game-winning drive — proved insurmountable for SM East Friday, as they fell to the SM West Vikings 30-25. The [...]

Tweet Two teams at 4-3. Playoff implications on the line. An intra-district rivalry that got more intense after the Lancers snapped SM West’s long winning streak last year. Both SM East and SM West have plenty riding on tonight’s match up at SM South Stadium at 7 p.m. So much so, that the game was [...]

Tweet We couldn’t make it out to the game on Friday, but from the looks of Lancer Gridiron Club dad Brian Libeer’s weekly wrap-up video, the Lancers came out strong in a 21-3 victory over Blue Valley North. The Lancers, now 4-3, finish off their season with games against SM West this Friday and SM [...]

Tweet The Lancers are back on the winning track. Just barely, and with no thanks to the officials. But back on the winning track nevertheless. SM East’s football team slipped past Lawrence Free State Thursday night with a 14-12 win that came only after the Firebirds failed to convert on a two-point attempt after a [...]

Tweet   The SM East Lancers headed into Friday’s first road game of the season looking to rebound from a tough Homecoming loss against Olathe South. The left with a demoralizing 31-0 defeat that dropped them to 2-3 on the season. Lawrence High School quarterback Brad Strauss ran for 192 yards and two touchdowns, and [...]

Tweet It was Lancer quarterback Nick Pirotte’s arm that put SM East on the verge of an I-can’t-believe-what-I-just-saw comeback in Saturday’s Homecoming matchup against Olathe South. And it was Pirotte’s arm that ended the drive as the Lancers sat just yards from the endzone. Facing an eight-point deficit with less than two minutes remaining, and [...]

Tweet Lancer Gridiron Dad Brian Libeer is back with video highlights from the SM East football team’s romp over SM North on Friday — including footage of two touchdown runs from running back Jake Libeer, which I’m guessing his dad had a pretty good time editing together. East vs North from brian libeer on Vimeo.

Tweet The bad news? The apparent sprained ankle that put starting quarterback Dakota Collins on the sidelines in the third quarter last week against Olathe East turned out to be a hairline fracture in his ankle — an injury that will likely keep him off the field for six weeks. The good? After a disappointing [...]