Sub-State seeds released; UHS girls at home Monday

Thursday, February 27, 2014

Sub-State tournaments for classes 4A through 1A were seeded Wednesday. Fort Scott High's basketball teams are both third-seeded in the Spring Hill Class 4A-Division I Sub-State while Uniontown's girls will have a home game Monday night in the opening round of the Yates Center Class 2A Sub-State. Uniontown's boys will be on the road Tuesday night.

Class 4A has been split into two divisions of 32 schools each this season, so each Sub-State tournament has only four teams instead of eight. Thus, first-round play doesn't begin until Thursday night for the girls and Friday night for the boys.

Fort Scott's girls were seeded with their 15-4 record in the No. 3 slot and will face No. 2 Paola (16-3) Thursday night at 6 p.m. At 7:30 top seed Louisburg (16-3), which won a tie-breaker for the top seed on the basis of a win over Paola earlier in the season, will face Spring Hill (7-12). Thursday's winners meet for the championship Saturday night at 6 p.m. in Spring Hill. The girls' Sub-State features three teams currently ranked in the top 10 in 4A-I by the Kansas Basketball Coaches Association. Paola is ranked No. 4, Fort Scott No. 7 and Louisburg No. 10. Defending Class 4A State champion Wamego is No. 1 followed by Bishop Miege and Topeka Hayden. Southeast Kansas League rival Coffeyville is No. 9.

Fort Scott's boys are also seeded third at 9-10 and will take on host Spring Hill (10-9) Friday night at 6 p.m. No. 1 Paola (13-6) will play Louisburg (5-14) at 7:30. The winners play for the Sub-State title at 7:30 Saturday.

Both Fort Scott teams play at Pittsburg tonight to finish regular-season play.

Uniontown's girls have been seeded fourth in the Yates Center Class 2A Sub-State with their record of 10-10. They will face fifth-seeded Oxford (9-10) at 6 p.m. Monday night in the West Bourbon Elementary School gymnasium.

Also Monday night, top-seeded Sedan (15-4) will host eighth-seeded Oswego (7-13) while Yates Center (7-12) travels to second-seeded Pleasanton (12-7) and Howard-West Elk (8-13) plays at No. 3 Colgan (11-8), which is the only team not to have faced at least one other team in this field.

Thursday night at Yates Center, the Uniontown-Oxford winner will face the Oswego-Sedan victor and the West Elk-Colgan winner will square off against the Yates Center-Pleasanton winner. What order those games will be played will be determined by the combined mileage of the two schools from the host site. The schools with the greater combined mileage will play first.

The championship game will be at 6 p.m. Saturday night at Yates Center.

Uniontown's boys (8-12) have been seeded fifth and will go on the road to take on No. 4 Oxford (15-5) at 6 p.m. Tuesday night. In other first-round games, No. 8 Yates Center (4-15) goes to top-seed West Elk (18-2), No. 7 Sedan (7-12) will head to No. 2 Oswego (17-3) and No. 6 Pleasanton (7-11) will play at No. 3 Colgan (14-4).

West Elk is ranked No. 2 in Class 2A by the KBCA while Colgan is No. 5.

Friday night at Yates Center, the Uniontown-Oxford winner will face the Yates Center-West Elk victor and the Sedan-Oswego winner plays the Pleasanton-Colgan winner. The championship will be played Saturday night with tip off at 7:30 p.m.