Kansas is one step closer to enacting a multiplier to how private schools are classified.

Marinating on the two-hour drive from Wichita to Topeka after the state track meet, KSHSAA Executive Director Bill Faflick had an epiphany.

ST. PAUL — Nestled in the corner of a barn that houses a family’s fleet of tractors and a combine is a makeshift weight room. Lacking any bells and whistles, a single weight bench and limited equipment has produced Gennie Vitt, a 16-year-old in rural St. Paul who has become the best youth po…

Grey Holland is the new home run queen of Labette following Saturday’s 8-1, 11-3 sweep of Allen.

INDEPENDENCE — Two years removed from a second place finish at the SEK League Tennis Championships, Zach Spriggs of Parsons finally fulfilled a destiny as the senior star won the league’s singles title on Thursday in Independence.

ALTAMONT — The girls side of the Labette County sports equation has dominated this season. The volleyball and girls basketball teams both earned SEK League titles and berths to the KSHSAA Class 4A State Tournament.

COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa — A top 15 finish with two All-Americans is what the Labette Cardinals wrestling program brought back from the NJCAA national tournament, held on Wednesday and Thursday.

COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa — Primed for the NJCAA national tournament, the Labette Cardinals wrestling program is sending a full lineup of 10 wrestlers to compete on Wednesday and Thursday. 

Bryson Dennis, the electric scoring sophomore shooting guard for the Labette Cardinals, was named the KJCCC’s Most Valuable Player for the 2021 season.

Editor's Note: Reporting from the Montgomery County Chronicle was used in this report. The Sun previously reported on this case at the request of the Chronicle.

ALTAMONT — Track and field season got underway at the Labette County Invitational on Thursday in Altamont. It served as the first meet for most teams in attendance since the 2019 season after the 2020 season was canceled amid the initial outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic.

A week ago, coming off a 30-point performance in an upset of then-No. 11 Fort Scott on the road, Labette sophomore guard Bryson Dennis made a proclamation.

Already eliminated from a repeat of the Kansas Jayhawk Conference title, the No. 7 Labette Cardinals went cold late in a 64-58 loss to the No. 1 Johnson County Cavaliers on Wednesday night. The game also served as the regular season finale. 

FORT SCOTT — No. 8 Labette dominated Fort Scott 97-51 on Wednesday night as the Cardinals remained undefeated on the season after playing its third game since a team-wide quarantine put their campaign on pause.

The Labette Cardinals women’s basketball team, still ranked No. 1 in the country, has gone into a team-wide quarantine after multiple players tested positive for COVID-19.

When the Labette Cardinals softball program hosts Maple Woods in its season opener on Thursday, it will have been 351 days since the 2020 campaign came to an abrupt halt amid the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.

In the final round before the state wrestling championships, two wrestlers from Erie qualified for state at this weekend’s sub-state tournaments.

One of the three programs that had its season abruptly cut short by the COVID-19 pandemic’s onset last spring, the Labette Cardinals baseball team is geared up to return to action in 2021.

The postseason path to the state championship for wrestlers started on Friday with district tournaments.

Parsons police are investigating an armed robbery that occurred around 7 p.m. Friday at AuBurn Pharmacy inside King Cash Saver, 2020 Main.

Labette's second straight game against a ranked Division I opponent ended much like Saturday's loss to Coffeyville as the Cardinals fell to No. 24 NEO A&M 72-43 in their home opener.

IOLA — For 453 days, the Labette Cardinals volleyball program waited to take the court for a match. It was the longest layoff of any sport in the school, lengthened by the COVID-19 pandemic.

While the COVID-19 pandemic has changed the optics of every team’s season at Labette, the wrestling program’s campaign underwent some of the most drastic changes.

IOLA — It’d been over 10 months since the Labette Cardinals men’s basketball team took the court with the season delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

IOLA — The Labette Cardinals debuted as the No. 1 ranked team in the nation on Wednesday by throttling Allen 86-38.

Labette’s volleyball program has faced the longest layoff of any sport in the school due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The last time the Cardinals took the floor was Oct. 30, 2019.

One of the most gut-wrenching sports-related costs of the COVID-19 pandemic was paid by the Labette Cardinals women’s basketball team. At the onset of the pandemic last March, fresh off winning a KJCCC title, the Cardinals’ trip to the NJCAA Division II National Tournament was canceled.

The COVID-19 pandemic has stressed hospitals and nursing staffs across the country, and Labette Health’s experience is no different.

For nearly 10 months, residents in skilled nursing facilities have been separated physically from family and community due to safety measures implemented to protect them from contracting the coronavirus, but progress is being made to end that isolation soon.

ERIE — Through hell and high water, the Erie Red Devils basketball programs’ records remain unblemished through five games on both the boys’ and girls’ sides.

Jerrod Stanford, entering his sixth year at the helm of the Labette Cardinals men’s basketball program, did what many tried during the COVID-19 pandemic.

As sports resume following the holiday break this week, KSHSAA, administrators and coaches are bracing for a long stay in the trenches dug by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Tanner Barcus, a star wide receiver for the Parsons Vikings, was among the 2021 Kansas Shrine Bowl selections.

Patiently waiting in the hangar since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Labette Cardinals athletic program is finally scheduled for takeoff when NJCAA sports start in January.

ALTAMONT — The Parsons Vikings got back on track Tuesday night in the SEK League opener, ousting archival Labette County 53-37 in Altamont to snap a two-game losing streak. It was the sixth straight time the Vikings have beat the Grizzlies.

Monroy, Lantz return to form for Cherryvale girls

Parents around Kansas, in the words of one mom who spoke during the KSHSAA Appeal Board meeting last week, mobilized to get back into high school gyms after the association restricted attendance at winter sports.

CHETOPA — Bouncing back from a season-opening loss to Galena, the St. Paul Indians girls downed sister district rival Chetopa 57-36.

One-to-two parents or guardians per participant’s family will be allowed to attend high school and middle school sports in Kansas starting on Thursday, Dec. 10, the KSHSAA Board of Directors decided on Tuesday.

Parsons Vikings head coach Anthony Houk has spent years priming his roster for Friday’s season-opener — the first game in four years without Dariq Williams or DaQuan Johnson suiting up.

A fresh crop of Parsons Vikings girls players got thrown to the fire in Friday night’s season-opening 81-32 loss to the Girard Trojans.

Cherryvale girls survive off night offensively against Riverton

The KSHSAA Appeal Board is recommending that one-to-two fans per participant be allowed to attend high school and middle school winter sports in Kansas.

Cliché as it might be, the high school basketball season in Kansas will look radically different.