Maria Aikins, who formerly coached volleyball at Hutchinson High School, has been hired as the next head volleyball coach at Allen Community College. Aikins’s hiring was approved Tuesday by college trustees. She also will be…

HUMBOLDT — There’s a good chance Humboldt High classmates Trey Sommer and Maddox Johnson have suited up together for the last time. Football season ended in early November. Sommer’s focus is on basketball now, while…

LOS ANGELES — The most interesting basketball game in Atlanta on a Friday night in March wasn’t the one played in the city’s downtown NBA arena. It was happening three miles north, between six-figure-earning teenagers…

NEW YORK (AP) — Jayson Tatum scored 29 points, Jaylen Brown had 22 and the Boston Celtics completed a four-game sweep of the Brooklyn Nets, becoming the first team to reach the second round of…

The Red Devils defeated rival Neosho County, 86-79, to win the Region VI-II semifinals Wednesday night at Allen Community College. With the victory, Allen advances to Saturday’s championship game in Salina. They face Johnson County…

CARBONDALE — There was a chance, however remote, that Iola High’s boys could have been on the outside looking in for the upcoming Class 4A playoffs. Had the Mustangs lost their regular season finale Thursday,…

YATES CENTER — While both basketball teams already knew when and where they would be playing next week to start the postseason, Humboldt and Yates Center had some unfinished business to take care of Thursday…

Crest High School will celebrate its homecoming on Friday at a basketball game against SE-Cherokee. Candidates are, front row from left, Lindsey Godderz, Vivian Noah, Lonna Yoder; back row, Keaton Davis, Ethan Prasko and Tucker…

More than 90 area youngsters have been participating in a sports camp this week at Iola’s First Baptist Church. The event runs through Friday, with sports, games and activities mixed in with Bible lessons. Among…

YATES CENTER — Both Yates Center High and Crest High’s squads continued tournament play Thursday. The Wildcat girls fell to Cherryvale, 51-40, but still drew praise from head coach Abbie Collins. “We may have lost,…