JEFFERSON CITY — Kayleigh Norris closed out her junior season with a bang Saturday at the Class 4 state track and field season.

The Pleasant Hill and Harrisonville girls teams each had another school record fall at the district meet.

KANSAS CITY — The Harrisonville girls soccer team didn’t waste much time in taking a lead during its Class 2 District 7 opener Saturday at the St. Pius X stadium.

A four-run rally in the fifth inning helped the Harrisonville baseball team defeat its county rival April 9, ending a four-game skid in the series.

Just a week after breaking her own school record once again, Harrisonville sophomore Paige Cribbs did it again. This time, she demolished her previous mark.

With his team heading into a pair of home games, Harrisonville girls soccer coach Dan Coleman feels good about where his squad is at before it enters a stretch that contains five conference contests.

Wildcats split games The Harrisonville baseball team played a pair of one-run games last week, and came away with opposite results. On March 27, the Wildcats won 4-3 at Holden. It was their …

A pair of Harrisonville alumni ended their indoor track and field seasons successfully at their respective national meets.

The Harrisonville baseball team is coming off its best season in five years, but it will have a lot of new faces on the diamond this spring.

Similar to other girls teams at Harrisonville this year, the Lady Wildcats soccer team is going to look much different than it did a year ago when it begins the season next week.

With the spring sports season just around the corner, it’s time look at the track and field athletes from the area and who has a chance to turn some heads and make a splash on the state stage in May.

Harrisonville didn’t score in the first quarter as turnovers and missed shots piled up. It was too much to overcome. Sion won 67-37, ending Harrisonville’s season.

Last week, the Lady Wildcats played Pleasant Hill for their senior night. They took control of the game in the fourth quarter and won their fourth-straight game in the series. Harrisonville won 43-31.

The two rivals played close for a little more than a quarter before the Wildcats pulled away and never looked back. They eventually ran away with the game, winning 66-37.

All 11 Lady Wildcats who played Monday scored in the 68-17 blowout win over Center.

Harrisonville beat Center for a second time this season, winning Friday’s game 58-37. Five Lady Wildcats scored at least seven points in the win.

Harrisonville knocked off Center, 54-45, handing the Yellowjackets their first Missouri River Valley Conference West loss since joining the league in 2020.

On Saturday, nearly two dozen area competitors sealed their own berths into this week’s state tournament that began this morning at Mizzou Arena in Columbia.

NEVADA — Of the nine area girls wrestlers who qualified for next week’s state tournament, six of them will be making their first trip to compete against the best Class 1 competitors in Missouri.

ARCHIE — It took the better part of the first half for the Harrisonville boys basketball team to figure out how to attack the Whirlwinds’ zone defense, and once it did, it ran away with Friday’s game against a home squad that was missing two starters after the first quarter.

The final tune up before this weekend’s district tournament in Nevada went well for the Harrisonville girls wrestling team.

Harrisonville senior Mason Worthley made three big plays during the final minute Friday night to help the Wildcats win their first conference game of the season.

 For the second time this season, the Harrisonville girls basketball team fell victim to a Warrensburg team that caught fire in the third quarter.

The Sherwood girls wrestling trio traveled to the Highway 13 Throwdown and finished eighth out of 23 teams. All three Lady Marksmen placed second in their respective weight classes.

ARCHIE — For the second year in a row, the Harrisonville boys basketball team battled a few smaller schools at the Archie Tournament last week, and it emerged as the champion.

On a night where both Harrisonville varsity basketball teams played home games at the same time – in different gyms – the games ended in opposite ways Friday.

Harrisonville baseball and boys basketball coach Jeff Langrehr will be inducted today into the Kansas Association of Baseball Coaches Hall of Fame for his 22 years of coaching at Great Bend, where he won two state titles.

Kayleigh Norris not only put herself on the map in 2023, she put herself as the runner to beat across the state in Class 4.