St. Michaels Just One Win Away From Class 4 Final Four

St. Michaels Just One Win Away From Class 4 Final Four

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March 9, 2024 By Fred Liggettsports.lstribune08@gmail.com The first season for RJ Newton as head boys basketball coach at St. Michael’s continues as the Guardians find themselves just a step away from the Class 4 Final Four in Columbia, MO. The Final Four…

District Basketball Champions

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March 9, 2024 Congrats go out to the Raytown High School boys basketball team on their district championship win. Wednesday night, they defeated Grandview 65-63 in double overtime to secure the district title. The next stop for the Bluejays is the sectionals…

Summit Christian Eagles Win Boys Basketball District Title

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March 2, 2024 By Fred Liggettsports.lstribune08@gmail.com After winning their first two district tournament games by a 59 and 27 point margin the Summit Christian Eagles had to survive a close defensive battle in the title game to claim the championship. The Eagles…

Wrestling Team’s First State Champion

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March 2, 2024 By Talia Evans Lee’s Summit North senior Charlie Dykes won the state championship in wrestling, making him the first Bronco to ever take first in the competition. He placed first in Boys Class 4, 126 lb. Lee’s Summit athletes…

Statement on Gov. Parson’s commutation of Britt Reid’s prison sentence

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March 2, 2024 Jackson County Prosecutor Jean Peters Baker issued the following statement today: I believed that the court’s sentence of 3 years imprisonment for Britt Reid was a just sentence. Leaving the courtroom, I believed that the interests of justice were…

HS Wrestling State Tourney Preview

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February 24, 2024 By Fred Liggettsports.lstribune08@gmail.com All five Lee’s Summit area high schools will be represented at this week’s state boys wrestling tournament held in Columbia, MO. Upon a closer look, Lee’s Summit will be well represented thanks to 22 state qualifiers…

LS West Girls Basketball Team Visits KU Jayhawks

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February 17, 2024 By Fred Liggettsports.lstribune08@Gmail.com By the end of the 2023-24 regular season the Lee’s Summit West Titans girls basketball team will have played 26 games together. The biggest memory the players may have may be of a game they didn’t…

“Last Chance” Swim Meet

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February 10, 2024 By Josi Wood Next weekend, February 16 and 17, the St. Peters Rec-Plex will host the Missouri High School Girls Swim State Championship. To compete at the state championship, a swimmer must post one of the top 32 fastest…

Former LSN Boys Coach Heads To McDonald’s Girls All-American Game

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February 10, 2024 By Fred Liggettsports.lstribune08@gmail.com The 47th Annual McDonald’s All-American Games is set for Tuesday, Apr. 2 at the Toyota Center in Houston, Texas. There is a local flavor to this national event thanks to the West team being coached by…

What I REID Into It

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February 10, 2024 By Fred Liggettsports.lstribune08@gmail.com The Kansas City Chiefs kicked off the 2023-24 NFL season on a Thursday night against the NFC’s Detroit Lions and now end the season playing on a Sunday night against the NFC’s San Francisco 49ers. Between…