Benton Smith Sports writer

Benton Smith covers sports and news for The Mirror. He is a graduate of the University of North Carolina but bleeds Crimson and Blue for the Jayhawks.

Recent stories

Lansing edges MVHS as Kaw Valley king
By Benton Smith
August 21, 2008
After four years of supremacy, Mill Valley’s reign as the top athletics department in the Kaw Valley League is over.
From Way Downtown: MLS not bad fit at the CAB
By Benton Smith
12:00 a.m., July 22, 2008 Updated 04:32 p.m.
Until recently I had never in my life watched a Major League Soccer match. Not even on television.
Opening day of Butch Foster Memorial Baseball Classic is in the books
By Nick Bates, Benton Smith, Chris Wristen
02:30 p.m., April 24, 2008 Updated 03:29 p.m.
The Butch Foster Memorial Baseball Classic is under way at CommunityAmerica Ballpark, and St. James Academy, Bonner Springs, Spring Hill and Basehor-Linwood all advanced to the winner’s bracket on Thursday.
Henley earns complete-game victory against Tonganoxie
By Benton Smith
April 9, 2008
It was two triples, one in the second and one in the sixth, off the bats of Basehor-Linwood players that decided the tight, well-pitched game between THS starter Logan Forbis and BLHS lefty Tyler H

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