Fort Scott Men’s basketball program is hosting the 2nd Annual Pechone Stepps Classic this weekend at Arnold Arena. Participating teams are Northeastern Oklahoma, FSCC, Bethel College JV and Southwestern College JV. Games times were scheduled to be 6 p.m. Friday with NEO playing Bethel JV, and FSCC (3-2, 0-0) taking on Southwestern JV at 8 p.m. Games today will start at 2 p.m. with NEO playing Southwestern JV. FSCC will play Bethel JV at 4 p.m...

Several Fort Scott High School Tigers earned All-SEK honors in volleyball, football and soccer for the fall 2021 seasons. In volleyball, senior outside hitter Abby Altic was a unanimous first team selection. McKenzie Murphy, a junior middle blocker; Teryn Farley, a senior outside hitter; and Raveyn Kegler, a sophomore setter earned spots on the second team...

ATCHISON - The Fort Scott High School Tigers’ attempt at a comeback fell short Friday night against the Atchison Phoenix in the first round of the Class 4A State Football Championship. The Tigers, a No. 14 seed in the east bracket, played perhaps their best football of the season in a 14-6 loss to the No. 3 seeded Phoenix (8-1) who will advance to regionals on Friday, Nov. 5. The Tigers finished the season at 1-8...

The Fort Scott Community College Greyhound men’s basketball team will hit the court in 2021-22 with a roster that features only two returning players. Those players, who earned All-Conference honors last season, are shooting guard Peter Simon, a 5’8” sophomore guard from Beaumont, Texas, and Maurice Grayer, a 6’3” sophomore guard from Springfield, Mo...

The Fort Scott Tigers once again could not get all the pieces to fall together, falling 19-8 to the Coffeyville Golden Tornado Friday night. The Tigers (1-7) battled turnovers and failed to capitalize on opportunities, as well as sustain drives, all topics Head Coach Bo Graham stressed as important in a pre-game local radio interview...

Fort Scott High School’s varsity soccer team, which wrapped up its regular season Tuesday against Chanute, has won five of its last seven games entering postseason play. The Tigers (7-9 overall) defeated Chanute 2-1 in a non-league matchup Tuesday, and recorded a 10-0 win over Columbus Oct. 12, a 3-1 victory over Towanda-Circle Oct. 9, and two shutout wins over Parsons (5-0) and Chanute (2-0) on Oct. 5...

Three Fort Scott High School Lady Tiger golfers qualified for the second day of the Class 4A State Golf Tournament, which was scheduled to end Tuesday in Salina. See Wednesday's print or online edition for complete story.

The 2021 season for the Fort Scott High School Lady Tiger tennis team concluded last weekend at the Class 4A State Girls’ Tennis Tournament, which took place Friday and Saturday at the T.H. Vaugh Tennis Complex in Winfield. In singles play, Fort Scott’s Jenny Heckman was defeated by Madleine Lancelot of Wichita Trinity 6-7 (5-7) 3-6, and fell 5-9 to Independence’s Callie Schlorholtz...

A group of Fort Scott High School golfers fought nasty weather conditions at the regional tournament to punch their ticket to the Class 4A State Girls Golf Tournament Oct. 18-19 in Salina. The Lady Tiger golfers finished second at regionals with a team score of 438. The regional tournament took place Monday at Chanute’s Stone Creek Golf Course...

Fort Scott High School’s boys’ and girls’ cross country teams are SEK champions after first-place finishes at the 2021 SEK Championships Thursday at the Lakeview Recreation Area in Chanute. The girls’ varsity squad clocked a total time of 1:59:06.84 and average time of 23:49.37, and scored 35 team points in the 5K run. The varsity boys scored 26 team points and finished with a total time of 1:34:25.77 and average time of 18:53.16...

Fort Scott High School will send four Lady Tiger tennis players to state after the Class 4A regional tournament Saturday in Independence. Fort Scott’s Emma Daly went 1-2 to finish fourth with four points, while Jenny Heckman compiled a 3-1 record to place third at regionals with five points in singles play...

Editor's note: The Tribune interviewed Fort Scott High School Head Football Coach Bo Graham following the team's first win of the 2021 season. The following are questions asked of Graham and his responses: • How did it feel to get that first win of the season out of the way? Was it sweeter that it was an SEK opponent?...

ALTAMONT - The Fort Scott Tiger football team earned its first victory of the season Friday night, edging the Labette County High School Grizzlies (0-5) 19-15 in the game’s final seconds. The Tigers (1-4) battled through with consistent offensive drives to notch a close victory over their SEK rivals...

Fort Scott High School’s Lady Tiger golfers have won the SEK League championship. The Lady Tigers finished first as a team in the SEK standings with only one varsity meet remaining for the 2021 season. Individually, three FSHS golfers finished in the top three in the SEK standings for the league season – Karlie Chipman in first, Ryann Thurston in second and Ellie Smith in third...

The early season woes for the Fort Scott High School Tigers continue as they dropped to 0-3 on the season after a 28-0 shutout by the Independence Bulldogs Friday night at Frary Field. The Tiger offense struggled to sustain drives and pick up first downs while the defense gave up some big plays that cost the Tigers in Fort Scott’s first home game of the season...

Fort Scott High School’s varsity volleyball team went 2-2 in a varsity tournament Saturday in Frontenac. The Lady Tigers, who have an overall record of 5-2, defeated Columbus by scores of 25-16, 25-8, and Pierce City 25-12, 20-25 and 25-19. The Lady Tigers fell 21-25, 14-25 to Colgan and 20-25, 20-25 to Baxter...

The Fort Scott Community College Greyhound football team has fallen to 0-2 on the season after a 76-24 shellacking by Garden City Community College Saturday night at Frary Field. The Greyhounds (0-2 in the Kansas Jayhawk Community College Conference) mustered only 14 first downs to Garden City’s 31, while converting only 24 percent of their third-down opportunities. The Broncbusters converted 44 percent of their third-down changes and went three-for-five on fourth down...

The Fort Scott High School Tigers football team will start its SEK League schedule this Friday by hosting the Bulldogs of Independence High School. Last Friday, the Tigers fell to 0-2 on the young season losing to the Bears of Butler (Mo.) High School 31-22 in Butler...

Fort Scott High School’s varsity and junior varsity volleyball teams notched sweeps over Nevada, Mo., and Anderson County Tuesday night in the FSHS gym. The varsity Lady Tigers defeated Anderson County 25-19 and 25-22. See Saturday's print or online edition for full story...

BUTLER, MO. - Despite a valiant effort, the Fort Scott High School Tiger football team saw its hopes for its first win of the season crash in the fourth quarter, ultimately falling 31-22 to the Butler Bears Friday night. Tiger quarterback Cal Cosen’s pass was picked off with less than 30 seconds left in the fourth quarter, ending the Tigers’ drive and shot to get back in the ball game...

Fort Scott High School’s cross country squads opened their seasons at the 16th annual Jerry Howarter Invitational Sept. 3 in Anderson County. The Tiger varsity boys finished third with 72 points, a total time of 1:39:51.94 and average time of 19:58.39. The varsity girls placed sixth with 120 points, a total time of 2:11:09.46 and average time of 26:13.90...