The Harrisonville girls fell behind in the first quarter and were unable to mount a comeback in the championship game of the Archie Tournament on Saturday.
In its 40th year of honoring the nation’s most elite high school athletes, Gatorade announced Kayleigh Norris of Harrisonville High School is the 2024-25 Gatorade Missouri Girls Cross Country Player of the Year.
Like almost every year, the past 12 months have been filled with many great accomplishments and stories that captivated fans and audiences of our area high schools.
The Harrisonville boys basketball team beat a rival, avenged a previous loss from earlier in the year and defeated a team it hadn’t beat in eight years en route to winning the Butler Tournament last week.
After back-to-back losses to end the Summit Christian Academy Tournament earlier in the month, the Harrisonville boys basketball team bounced back with three-straight victories last week.
Unfortunately for the Harrisonville girls basketball team, turnovers on the offensive end of the court turned into points on the other end for Smith-Cotton on Friday night.
This year’s Harrisonville boys Basketball team will be a lot like their female counterparts were last year –young and inexperienced to begin the season.
The Harrisonville girls basketball team went through bumps and bruises last year as a young and inexperienced squad, but now it’s a year older and hopes to turn those mistakes into rewards this winter.
PLEASANT HILL — Two streaks remained alive for the Roosters football team Friday night, while the Harrisonville season came to an end earlier than it hoped.
The Harrisonville football team will have a chance to avenge one of its four losses this season, and a chance to end a four-game losing skid to its Cass Country rival Friday night.
Just hours after walking off the Memorial Stadium field following a Harrisonville High School football postseason win, Tryin Samples learned he came close to possibly losing his right leg.
For the second year in a row, the Harrisonville football team won a home district game with ease. On Friday night, the Wildcats crushed Grandview, 52-14, advancing to the Class 4 District 7 semifinals.
RICHMOND — Harrisonville and Pleasant Hill brought home the individual and team titles at last week’s Missouri River Valley Conference West girls race.
When its game finished Friday night at Memorial Stadium, the Harrisonville football team and coaches were quite certain they were hitting the road for their district tournament this week.
Six of seven area football teams closed out the regular season schedules with victories Friday night. Five teams will have a bye next week when the district tournaments begin.
For the first time all season, the Harrisonville football team has a winning streak.
It’s taken until eight games into the season, but the Wildcats were able to put back-to-back wins together.
PLEASANT HILL — Just as the Roosters were grabbing momentum in the second quarter Friday night, things went from bad to worse for the Harrisonville football team.
Harrisonville’s homecoming game was a defensive battle Friday night, and the Wildcats didn’t need any second-half points to earn the non-conference win.
Harrisonville football coach Brent Maxwell and his squad are arguably happy to be back at home this week after a forgettable loss at Warrensburg last Friday.
OLATHE — Harrisonville senior Kayleigh Norris ran a personal-best time Saturday night competing at a meet that’s quickly grown to be a prestigious one.
LIBERTY — Harrisonville senior Kayleigh Norris began her final high school cross country season right where she finished last year – at the front of the pack.
The Harrisonville rushing attack was too much for Richmond to handle Friday night, helping the Wildcats earn their first season opening win in three years.
After battling through a difficult season a year ago with a less experienced squad, Harrisonville volleyball coach Cheyanne Bailey is excited to begin the 2024 campaign next week.
The Harrisonville girls tennis team has won the conference title the past two years and finished as the district runner-up both years, and it looks to compete for both championships again this fall.
The first day of football practice is less than two weeks away, and Harrisonville coach Brent Maxwell feels good about his team heading into the final stretch of the summer.
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.
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 …
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.
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.
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.
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.