Local sports

Rebounding from heartbreak
Football team trying to fill holes before opener with Spring Hill
Jeff Deters
August 28, 2008
Heartbreak is something the Eudora Cardinals want to avoid this year. For the second time in three years, Eudora lost in the first round of the playoffs. Last season it was a 13-8 defeat to Basehor-Linwood. Eudora also dropped its final regular season game to Baldwin City, finishing the year 8-2.
The wild card
Jeff Deters
August 28, 2008
About the first week of August every year, there’s something about the smell of freshly cut grass and a warm breeze that makes me think of football season. From watching the NFL to college and high school, football is a sport that communities openly support, especially in Eudora.
First-year managers: enjoying it
Jeff Deters
August 28, 2008
It’s 5:30 p.m. and practice is winding down. Kameron Crabtree is on the left sideline. He scurries, gathering footballs into a bag. Mallory Reese is behind the wall of players standing and watching the team kick field goals to end the day’s practice. One kick is blasted 20 yards past the player stationed behind the post to catch the ball.
Team lacks heighth, but will try to offset shortcomings with speed, defense in ‘08
Jeff Deters
August 28, 2008
Eudora Cardinals volleyball coach Jill Stutler is used to having teams that lack height. But now she has only two experienced varsity players to go with it.
Born a traveling man
Bryant enters district, race for starting quarterback
Jeff Deters
August 21, 2008
Zach Bryant knows the way from Wichita to Eudora quite well.
Middle of the road the goal for Eudora soccer
Jeff Deters
August 21, 2008
Eudora soccer coach Gunar Harmon is hoping that one year can make a difference.
The eephus pitch
By Caleb Regan
August 21, 2008
To temporarily step away from the fantasy column, the Olympics have a way of bringing certain stories to light that reflect on greater lessons in life.
Russell a thankful participant at Beijing games
Scott Russell
August 21, 2008
Editor’s Note: Scott Russell is a former Kansas University All-America javelin thrower who competed in his first Olympic Games for his homeland of Canada in the qualifying round at 8:10 (CDT) Wednesday night. Russell, 29, now makes his home in Lawrence.
Open softball tryouts next week for 14U Xtreme to be Sunday
August 21, 2008
The 14U Xtreme Heat fastpitch softball team is holding open tryouts for any girl with a birthday 1995 or later who is looking to play at a competitive level.
Five seniors to lead Lady Cards
Jeff Deters
August 21, 2008
You could say the Eudora girls cross country squad is coming off a good run. The girls have been to the state meet for the last five years, and coach Paul Boone expects them to be there again this year.
The bad beat
By David Oakes
August 14, 2008
Most fantasy football owners used to be able to go into the draft knowing a couple of things. The first being the new guy in the league was going to draft a team that looked like it was drafted by the kid in your first-grade class who used to eat paste and smell his thumb a lot.
Xtreme tryouts approaching
August 14, 2008
The 14U Xtreme Heat fastpitch softball team is holding open tryouts for any girl with a birthday 1995 or later who is looking to play at a competitive level.
CPA golf results
August 14, 2008
The Eudora CPA Golf Tournament was held Friday, July 25 at Eagle Bend Golf Course. 74 golfers teed off at 8 a.m. with an award ceremony and lunch following the golf:
All in the family
Dragster racing turns into a Miller family event
By Caleb Regan
August 14, 2008
Blaine and Ashley Miller don’t remember going to the races for the first time.
Opportunity to join Webb’s staff appealing to Walters
Former head coach just wanted to be somewhere where football was important
August 14, 2008
His luck couldn’t get any worse as a player. As a freshman, incoming Eudora High assistant football coach Chris Walters played special teams for Garden City Community College.

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