Atchison Phoenix teams surge through postseason, golf moved by storms
Atchison girls soccer held a No. 1 seed and a home date at Amelia Earhart Stadium, while storms pushed golf back a day and other brackets kept moving.
Tyler Lueckenhoff’s Atchison High School spring sports feed showed a postseason sprint built around one clear local draw: girls soccer at home, with baseball and softball on the road and golf delayed by weather. The Phoenix were deep into regional play, and every bracket line carried a different route for Atchison fans to follow across the county.
Golf was the first change. The school said the event moved from Monday to Tuesday because forecast thunderstorms threatened the original date. Every postseason event except golf carried admission prices of $8 for adults and $6 for students in kindergarten through 12th grade, a useful detail for anyone planning to see the action in person.
The regional assignments were tight. Atchison baseball was the No. 7 seed and traveled to Paola High School to face Tonganoxie, the No. 10 seed, in the first round. Softball was seeded No. 9 and went to Fort Scott to open against Chanute. Under Kansas State High School Activities Association rules, the top 16 teams in each region made the bracket, and the higher seed hosted a one-day regional tournament between May 18 and May 21.
Girls soccer had the clearest local path. Atchison HS and Maur Hill-Mount Academy was the No. 1 seed in its regional and drew a first-round bye, then was scheduled to host the winner of Maranatha Christian Academy and Bishop Miege on Thursday, May 21, at 6:00 p.m. at Amelia Earhart Stadium. Bishop Miege beat Maranatha 8-0 on Tuesday, May 19, at Dixon Doll Stadium, setting up the semifinal. The soccer team had already built momentum with a 3-2 overtime win over Benton on May 7, an 8-2 win over Kansas City-Washington on May 12 and an 8-0 win over FL Schlagle on May 14.
The live updates kept the scoreboard busy. Girls soccer beat FL Schlagle 8-0, baseball beat FL Schlagle 18-0 and Washington 11-4, and the feed also logged softball blowouts over Schlagle and Washington earlier in the postseason run. In the official softball bracket, though, Fort Scott blanked Atchison 9-0, and Chanute moved on at 14-8 while Fort Scott advanced to 25-3.
Track was next on the calendar, with all 2026 regional meets set for May 22, including Atchison’s trip to Eudora. Add in Atchison Public Schools’ graduation livestream on Saturday, May 16, and the last week of spring at Atchison High School became a dense stretch of ceremonies, brackets and weather delays, with Amelia Earhart Stadium, Paola, Fort Scott and Eudora all carrying real postseason weight.
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