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Oliver wins basketball all-star game MVP

Wabaunsee High School's Abby Oliver continued her amazing senior athletics season by winning the Flint Hills Optimist Club All-Star Game MVP after her Red Team defeated the Blue Team 66-62 Saturday night in Emporia.
Wabaunsee senior Abby Oliver recorded another milestone Saturday night winning the Flint Hills Optimist Club All-Star basketball game MVP. (Photo by Everett Royer, KSportsImages.com)

Spring Sports edition now online

Check out the digital edition of the first ever Spring Sports Preview and find sponsor locations with free hard copies here. The magazine is available free thanks to the support of advertisers across Kansas. *This is the first issue of the all new Spring Sports Preview.

Final KSHSAA State Basketball brackets

The 2018-19 Kansas high school basketball season is over. Check out the State Tournament brackets at the links below: Blue Valley Northwest won their third straight 6A Championship with a 53-41 victory over Washburn Rural.
Cover athletes Xavier Bell (Andover Central junior), Emily Ryan (Central Plains junior), and John Pfannenstiel (Ness City senior) helped their teams to State Titles. (File Photos)

More "upsets" on day two of State

Whether they were truly upsets or just a case of schedule disparity leading to seeding discrepancies more lower seeds took down higher seeds on day two of state tournament play. 6A Girls  (1) Liberal (22-0) vs. (8) Olathe Northwest (15-7) Update: Olathe Northwest won 57-46 (4) Topeka (20-2) vs.
From left-to-right: Osborne's Steele Wolters scored 15 points as the Bulldogs survived Lebo 44-41; Kennedy Brown had 10 points, 10 boards and 4 blocks in just 17 minutes of play as Derby dominated SM NW 60-27; Central Plains' Brett Liebl scored 20 points in the Oilers' 55-30 win over Macksville; and Maize senior Caleb Grill put up 23 points with multiple dunks as the Eagles downed St. James 83-56. (Photo credit, left-to-right: Stephanie Baxa, Osborne County Farmer; Derby Informer; Joey Bahr; Dan Loving)

Sub-state tournament play all wrapped up

From 6A all through 1A, sub-state basketball is all wrapped-up in the state of Kansas. 6A (Boys) The 6A field at Koch Arena is set on the boys side. Every top-seed made state, with the excpetion of a gaint upset on the West side.
Chanute pulled off the upset of the postseason with a 46-45 victory over three-time defending state champions Bishop Miege. (Courtesy Photo)
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