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Tweet For the first time in coach Ermanno Ritschl’s tenure as golf coach at the school, SM East this year will be the host school for the Kansas 6A high school golf championship tourney. Meadowbrook Country Club in Prairie Village will be the site of the tournament, which will be played Monday, May 20. SM [...]
Tweet Monday isn’t just Tax Day this year. It is also the last day to register a team in the 12th annual Lancer Classic Basketball Tournament. The tournament is the largest fundraiser for the SME boys’ basketball program. Proceeds from the tournament help pay expenses that are not covered by school funding, such as summer [...]
Tweet SM East’s champion lacrosse team is picking up the 2013 right where it left off in 2012: winning. The Lancers are 5-1 after a nine day season-opening stretch that took them on a two-game road trip to St. Louis. On the trip the Lancers beat St. Louis-area Chaminade Prep, but fell to St. Louis [...]
Tweet SM East’s Lancer Dancers put on display for a hometown crowd on Tuesday the remarkable talent that earned them first place at the National Dance Alliance championships in Orlando, Fla., last month. The dance team put on a wide ranging performance during their annual Spring Show, showing off their versatility as a team and [...]
Tweet They say there’s nothing harder than herding cats. Tell that to the people charged with herding a bunch of mini-moose. Prairie Village’s Blue Moose Soccer Club kicked off its annual “Mini-Moose” spring sessions Sunday, with dozens of 3 to 6 year olds getting their first taste of the world’s most popular sport. After being [...]
Tweet Alright, li’l Lancer Dancers: the big Lancer Dancers have a deal for you. The SM East dance team is going to provide free admission to every girl who participated in this winter’s Lancer Dancer Clinic for the Lancer Dancer Spring Show at 7 p.m. this Tuesday. From the organizers: We look forward to performing [...]
Tweet Dear God above is this weather awful. Just awful awful awful. Awful. So if you, like me, need a reminder that spring weather is just around the corner — it is, right? — look to the good people at the city of Prairie Village, who open registration for summer (that’s right, SUMMER) programs April 1: Pool [...]
Tweet So, maybe you weren’t able to make it to Orlando to watch the Lancer Dancers win the National Dance Alliance jazz championship earlier this month…but you’ll have the opportunity to see this year’s seniors show off their title-winning routines right here in northeast Johnson County early next month. The Lancer Dancers will have their [...]
Tweet Prairie Village native Cooper Beckett, a Rockhurst High School grad and current Rockhurst University junior, was named the Rockhurst Atheltics Department’s “Hawk of the Week” in February after a solid week on the basketball court. The 6’8″ 190-pound center scored 11 points and six rebounds in a game against Drury College Feb. 3, a [...]
Tweet March Madness may not officially tip off until later this week, but one former SM East student has already enjoyed some of the fun of NCAA tournament basketball. Alison Stephens, a 2010 SM East grad, got to hoist the NCAA Division 3 women’s basketball title trophy Saturday after she and her Depauw University teammates [...]
Tweet After enjoying full-caliber broadcast coverage of their team’s opening-round game in the state 6A boys basketball tournament last Wednesday, SM East fans were left high and dry last Friday when Metro Sports declined to broadcast the Lancers’ semi-final game against Blue Valley West and state regulations prevented the school’s in-house broadcast team from streaming coverage [...]
Tweet Moments before heading into the auditorium where they would perform their jazz routine at the National Dance Alliance championships in Orlando Sunday, the SM East Lancer Dancers were already in tears. As part of a team tradition, each varsity member writes a letter to her compatriots and reads it aloud at some point throughout [...]
Tweet There was no getting around the sense of disappointment in the SM East boys basketball team’s locker room Saturday. Not 24 hours after suffering a heartbreaking 59-58 loss to Blue Valley West in the state 6A semi-finals, they’d had to endure another close loss in the consolation game, this time at the hands of [...]
Tweet In the end, a single point separated the SM East boys basketball team from their chance at the first state title in school history. Propelled by a third quarter in which seemingly ever shot they sent toward the basket fell in, Blue Valley West knocked off the Lancers 59-58 in the state semi-finals in [...]
Tweet The Lancers showed again Wednesday that when they find themselves playing poorly in the middle of a game, they can pull together and bounce back for a win. They may need to draw on that kind of resilience again tonight as they take on a pesky 13-8 Blue Valley West team whose coach has [...]
Tweet Wednesday was a great day to be a Lancer. And as a result, Friday has the chance to be a great day to be a Lancer as well. Despite a dismal first half and a total of 20 turnovers on the night, SM East’s boys basketball team pulled out a 53-41 win over Wichita [...]
Tweet Just a reminder that SM East’s boys basketball team opens 6A state tournament play tonight at 8:15 p.m. The third-seeded Lancers take on 15-7 Wichita East, with the game broadcast live on Metro Sports. It will the the first time in school history that the Lancers and the Blue Aces have met. A win [...]
Tweet A group of Prairie Elementary sixth graders this past weekend proved that Panthers are as comfortable on the basketball court as in the forest. The team won the YMCA 6th and 7th grade end-of-season basketball tournament at Horizons High School, finishing the double-elimination event undefeated. The team is coached by Prairie Village resident Scott [...]
Tweet The SM East baseball team found out first hand on Friday why the pros hold spring training in Arizona: You can’t play baseball on a field buried under two feet of snow. Given the conditions, the Lancers were forced to hold an unconventional first official practice of the season — though it was probably [...]
Tweet Low-seeded Blue Valley High School slipped past SM Northwest by one point in the first round of sub-state play Wednesday. But their dreams of another upset were quickly dashed on the Lancers’ home court Friday, where an SM East squad playing some of its best basketball of the year easily kept the Tigers at [...]
Tweet That game last Friday? Ancient history. The SM East boys basketball team showed plenty of resilience Wednesday with a drubbing of Wyandotte High School in the first round of substate tournament play. Led by a huge night from sophomore Lucas Jones, the Lancers beat the Bulldogs 73-42. SM East jumped to a big lead [...]
Tweet Well. The atmosphere before tipoff was a lot of fun, at least. But once the action had started in SM East’s packed (and we mean really, really packed — so packed the fire marshall kept a long line of fans waiting outside) gym Friday, the home fans didn’t have much to cheer about. Quick offensive [...]
Tweet Check back here for updates from the 7 p.m. boys basketball game vs. undefeated SM South.
Tweet The numbers couldn’t match up more evenly for the SM East and SM South basketball teams. They’ve squared off a total 104 times. Each team has 52 wins. They’ve played all but one game in their Sunflower League schedule this season. Each team is 10-0 in league play. But after tonight, the stalemate will [...]
Tweet SM East grads making their college athletic debuts as freshman have had a good few weeks. Earlier this month, 2012 graduate and current Dartmouth College sprinter Toni Aguiar broke her own personal record in the 60-meter dash with a preliminary heat time of 7.97 seconds. Her previous best was 8.11. “After my race I [...]
