Kapaun got everything it wanted out of last night’s 24-7 win over Northwest.The win, however, came with a price for Kapaun. Starting tackle Spencer Rotolo-Utz was injured on the first play of the game in throwing a key block to spring Krehbiel on a screen pass for 16 yards. After the game Rotolo-Ultz, supported by crutches was emotional in as he gave his team the bad news.

“It looks like I tore my ACL,” he said looking at the disappointment in his teammates faces.

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Will Wichita Southeast be able to make it through another season of undefeated soccer in the City League? It is definitely the team to beat in its league, but Northwest, Kapaun, East and Heights are all teams that have improved and will be gunning to take down the reigning league champ.

Southeast will face a tough stretch beginning in the second half of September (Northwest, Kapaun and East consecutively). Thoughts?

by joanna

Northwest’s top player from a season ago, Top 11 selection Demarcus Robinson, is gone. But Northwest always seems to have a stud in the backfield. This season will be no different.

Want more info on Northwest? Check out the preview.

But don’t miss our football section, which will run on Aug. 21 and we’ll have videos online with each team.

by joanna

Kapaun Mount Carmel senior David Auer, who has finished second in Class 5A twice in the past three seasons, made an oral commitment to play golf at Kansas.

Auer had been recruited by UMKC, Iowa and Wichita State, too, but KU was an offer he didn’t want to miss.

It was an offer he didn’t want to miss.

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by joanna

South rising senior Jordan Turner, a 6-foot-4, 330-pound defensive lineman, made an oral commitment to Memphis this afternoon.

“It’s a big thing for me,” Turner said. “Mike DuBose, my position coach, he had so much wisdom. The way he talked to me, I loved what he was telling me…. He said, the maximum I can play, he’ll bring it out of me.”

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by joanna

Check out our daily dose of football with this preview on the Heights Falcons.

We have Heights going undefeated in the regular season, which means wins over Bishop Carroll, Northwest, Great Bend and Derby. Are we spot on or off our rockers?

by joanna

When Lane Lord was coaching girls basketball at Heights, he was always one of my favorites. A nice guy, who always had a kind word and a smile. Those are not common traits, folks.

He was at Heights early in my career, and he even met my parents, who loved talking to him. Even after he left Heights to coach at Barton and now Pitt State, he’d still talk to my parents when they came to town. Again, a rarity in a person.

Here’s a story by the Topeka Capital-Journal on Lord.

by joanna

Our football previews will run in Aug. 21 in the paper and on VarsityKansas.com, along with photos and video. But until then, we’ll give you a daily dose of football previews. (Other fall sports will run later in the month, closer to their start dates.)

Today it’s Bishop Carroll, so go check it out at: http://www.varsitykansas.com/2010/08/09/9628/2010-varsity-kansas-football-previews.html

Kapaun Senior David Auer shot 73 in the final round of the Big I National Junior Championship in Chesterfield, N.J. on July 30. He finished tied 33^rd place out of a starting field of 108 players from 35 states. Auer was the only KS golfer to make the cut and It was the highest finish for a Kansan since former Jayhawk Ross Geubelle made the cut in 2005.

North’s Conner Frankamp and Height’s Perry Ellis are a few of the names representing Wichita in the KC Prep Invitational. The AAU tournament will feature some of the nation’s top talent under the same roof – the Okun Fieldhouse at the Mid-America Sports Complex in Shawnee.