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Tiger hoopsters prepare for season with scrimmage (12/3/19)Fort Scott High School Tiger basketball fans got a glimpse of the boys’ and girls’ teams in action during the annual Red and White scrimmage Monday night in the FSHS gymnasium. The night was also a chance for fans to meet the FSHS boys’ and girls’ wrestling squads and watch performances by the school’s cheer and dance teams...
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Tigers give league leaders trouble before falling (12/19/18)Gavyn Elkamil’s 3-pointer with 2.2 seconds to go in the FSHS gymnasium gave his visiting Pittsburg team the lead. Trenton Austin’s tip of the inbound pass following a time out preserved a 64-61 win for the Purple Dragons over Fort Scott High’s boys in Southeast Kansas League play Tuesday night...
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Dragons control fourth quarter to get by Tiger girls (12/19/18)Pittsburg’s fourth-quarter dominance allowed the visiting Purple Dragons to rally from a 9-point deficit at three-quarter time and take a 40-34 victory over Fort Scott High’s girls in Southeast Kansas League play at the FSHS gymnasium Tuesday night...
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Gorman signs with FSCC baseball (12/19/18)
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Tiger boys go 1-4 at Ottawa duals (12/19/18)OTTAWA — Fort Scott High’s boys’ wrestling team finished second in a consolation pool at a large dual tournament hosted by Ottawa High School here Saturday. The 12-team tournament had four preliminary pools of three teams each. Once the teams were sorted from those pools, they were assigned to three four-team pools for placement. The Tigers were second in the “9th-12th” pool...
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Tiger boys dominate LCHS, girls fall by 10 (12/14/18)ALTAMONT — Jordan Hall’s 16-point outing and C.J. Horton’s double-double helped lead Fort Scott High’s boys to a 22-point rout of Labette County in Southeast Kansas League action here Friday night. Prior to that, Labette County’s girls, ranked No. 4 in Class 4A by the Kansas Basketball Coaches Association, dealt the Tigers a 10-point loss...
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Two finish second in brackets at Eudora (12/11/18)EUDORA — Two Fort Scott High School wrestlers finished in second place in their brackets at the Eudora Invitational here Saturday. Jacob Stinnett was second for the Tigers at 132 pounds and Logan Hall placed the same at 182. In all, six wrestlers went on to place...
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Paola wins dual tourney; Tigers stronger as day goes on (12/4/18)Paola won the Fort Scott Dual Tournament for the second year in a row and third time overall at the FSHS gymnasium Saturday as the Panthers won all five duals. Fort Scott finished in fourth place after winning its final two bouts of the day. The Tigers were 2-3 in the tournament, the wins coming in their final two duals against Shawnee Mission West and Blue Valley Southwest, which was ranked No. 6 in Class 5A in the Kansas Wrestling Coaches Association’s pre-season rankings...
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Harrison sweeps Tigers as classic concludes (12/4/18)WILLARD, Mo. — Harrison, Ark., swept Fort Scott High’s basketball teams here Saturday night in the final round of the annual Willard Tri-State Classic. Harrison’s girls led all the way in a 51-29 win. The Goblins boys’ squad pulled away in the fourth quarter for a 65-52 victory...
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Fort Scott teams seeking first wins today (12/1/18)WILLARD, Mo. — Both of Fort Scott High’s basketball teams will be looking for their first wins of the season when they take on Harrison, Ark., in the final round of the Willard (Mo.) Tri-State Classic here today. Fort Scott’s girls fell to Bentonville (Ark.) West, 43-26, Thursday afternoon and to host Willard, 59-34, Friday despite the effort of sophomore Ella Beth, who has scored a total of 43 points in the two games...
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Sub-State, Regional assignments released (12/1/18)The Kansas State High School Activities Association released Sub-State assignments for basketball in classes 3A on down and wrestling for all four classes Thursday morning. With the changes in Class 4A that make Sub-State the same as classes 6A and 5A, Fort Scott High’s teams won’t know what their assignments are until seeding takes place at the end of the season...
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WINTER SPORTS PREVIEW: Tiger boys will challenge SEK with height (11/29/18)Was it somewhat surprising to see Fort Scott High’s boys picked to finish sixth in the Southeast Kansas League coaches poll? Consider that it’s not because that the coaches don’t think the Tigers, 8-13 last season, don’t have the experience or the talent to compete in the always-tough SEK...
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WINTER SPORTS PREVIEW: Fort Scott girls look to reload rather than rebuild (11/29/18)What does a coach do when he has to replace his entire starting lineup? This is what Fort Scott High girls’ head coach Pechone Stepps faces this season, his fifth as head coach of the Tigers, faces. All five of his starters were seniors last season and he’s going to have to rely on some of last year’s reserves and role players to step into key roles...
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WINTER SPORTS PREVIEW: Large contingent gathers for Tiger wrestling teams (11/29/18)Fort Scott head wrestling coach Alvin Metcalf, Jr. has a very crowded wresting practice area. Not only are there 27 boys out, but there are also 16 girls who have chosen to participate this season. “Last year at the end of the year, when I have what’s called ‘reckoning,’ we talked about each kid’s thing we need to work on,’” Metcalf said. ...
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Tiger scrimmage; season begins Thursday (11/27/18)Red & White Night at the FSHS gymnasium Monday night was not only an opportunity for Fort Scott High basketball fans to see their teams in action, it was also an opportunity to meet the wrestlers and watch the school’s spirit teams perform. There weren’t any real glitches in either scrimmage except for one drive in the boys’ contest on which Nick Lawrence was fouled hard. But he shook it off and came back in later...
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Both Tiger teams tabbed for 6th-place finishes (11/17/18)CHANUTE —Both of Fort Scott High School’s basketball teams were chosen to finish in sixth place in the Southeast Kansas League in coaches’ polls released at a media conference hosted by SEK-Sports.com here Thursday. The case could be made, especially on the boys’ side, that the low placement of Fort Scott’s teams are a tribute to how tough the boys’ and girls’ races are expected to be in the SEK this season...
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Michaud Defensive MVP; Campbell Coach of the Year (11/6/18)Fort Scott High School head football coach Bob Campbell was named Southeast Kansas League Coach of the Year and senior Alec Michaud was named the Defensive Most Valuable Player as the All-SEK football team was released Tuesday. Campbell, who just completed a 23-year tour of duty as head coach (see related item, page 6), was chosen for the honor through a vote of his peers. Coaches also picked the All-SEK teams...
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All-league and coaches of year released (11/6/18)Fort Scott High libero Jocie Allen was named to the First Team as the All-Southeast Kansas League Volleyball Team was released Tuesday. Addi Lyons was named to the Second Team for the Tigers. Seven players were voted to the First Team unanimously: Independence’s Kate Gordon and Kate Kleber, Chanute’s Sabry Trout and Tori Busse, Pittsburg’s Vanessa Yaghmore, Labette County’s Justice Brackney, and Parsons’ Nena Taylor. Kadyn Matlock of Pittsburg was also picked for the First Team,...
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Tigers picked to tie for 4th, Comets to repeat (11/2/18)PITTSBURG — Fort Scott High School was picked to tie for fourth place in the Southeast Kansas League and Uniontown was voted second in the Three Rivers League in a poll of coaches announced at an Eastern Kansas wrestling media conference at Pittsburg State University Thursday...
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Tigers, Bobcats to meet on gridiron for first time (10/30/18)Fans of Fort Scott and Basehor-Linwood shouldn’t be unfamiliar with each other. Tiger wrestlers compete in Basehor-Linwood’s home tournament every season and Fort Scott’s basketball teams were long-time participants in the mid-season basketball tournament up there...
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McClure earns State medal (10/30/18)WAMEGO — Fort Scott’s Macayla McClure won a State medal for her 13th-place finish in the Class 4A girls’ race at the Kansas State Cross Country Championships here Saturday. McClure finished with a time of 20:56.8 for the Tigers. Gabriella Clements had also qualified but was unable to participate...
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Tiger boys qualify for State as a team (10/23/18)Clements, McClure earn at-large berths to girls’ championship
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Area teams eliminated in first-round matches (10/23/18)Tigers go down in three to Cardinals LOUISBURG — Fort Scott High’s volleyball team took it to Eudora here before falling in three sets to the Cardinals, 16-25, 25-16, 25-23, in the first round of the Louisburg Class 4A Sub-State Tournament Saturday...
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Tigers to face Atchison in first-round of 4A playoffs (10/23/18)Fort Scott and Atchison will face each other on the gridiron for the first time since 1960 when the teams meet for a Class 4A first-round playoff game Friday night at Frary Field. The Tigers are 6-2 on the season and the No. 7 seed on the East side of the bracket. ...
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Tigers survive Eudora challenge in OT (10/20/18)Eudora’s pre-game adjustments threw Fort Scott High off during the first half of play at Frary Field Friday night. But the Tigers’ halftime adjustments allowed them to take the game over and prevail over the visiting Cardinals, 21-14, in overtime. The Cardinals (1-7) dominated the first quarter, using option and wider spreads between their offensive linemen than teams usually run. ...
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Madison 9th at 4A State (10/20/18)HUTCHINSON — Fort Scott junior Lauren Madison finished in a medalist’s position at the Class 4A State Golf Tournament at Carey Park here Tuesday, a day later than scheduled due to a wet course caused by storms in the area on Sunday. Madison, who won the Independence Class 4A Regional a week ago, shot 45 on the front nine and 41 on the back to finish with a total of 86 strokes. This was her third appearance in a State Tournament. She finished 11th at Hesston in 2016 and tied for 22nd last season...
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Tiger volleyball to face Eudora at Sub-State (10/16/18)Fort Scott High School’s volleyball team drew the No. 12 seed out of the 18 teams on the east side of the state in Class 4A and will has been assigned to the Louisburg Sub-State this Saturday. The tournament was seeded before the results of last Saturday’s Anderson County Tournament were known. The Tigers went 1-2 there, losing to Burlington and Wellsville but beating host Anderson County to finish the regular-season at 11-21. They were seeded with a 10-19 record...
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Tigers hold off Liberators, 28-27 (10/13/18)It might not have seemed like it at the time, but when Fort Scott High blocked an extra point in the second quarter of Friday night’s game versus Bolivar, Mo., it was actually one of the game’s biggest plays in its 28-27 victory. The Tigers (5-2) led 28-13 going into the fourth quarter. ...
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Tiger girls win fourth straight SEK crown (10/13/18)CHANUTE —Fort Scott High’s girls finished with four of the top six finishers and six of the top 13 at the Southeast Kansas League Cross Country Championship Meet here Thursday, giving the Tigers their fourth consecutive league title. Fort Scott’s boys finished second behind Chanute, which won its second straight title and seventh overall. The boys had five All-League finishers...
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Tigers swept at Pittsburg (10/13/18)PITTSBURG — Fort Scott High School’s volleyball team was swept in Southeast Kansas League matches here Tuesday night. The Tigers lost to Chanute, 25-16, 25-12, and Pittsburg, 25-14-, 25-7 Fort Scott fell to 2-8 in the SEK and 10-19 overall. Chanute (30-5 overall) and Pittsburg (25-12) are tied for second in the SEK at 8-2, two matches behind Independence (10-0, 27-1), which clinched no worse than a share of its second consecutive crown when it swept Parsons and Coffeyville Tuesday...
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Madison wins Regional; Chipman also qualifier (10/9/18)INDEPENDENCE — Fort Scott High’s Lauren Madison won the championship of the Independence Class 4A Regional Tournament here Monday while Karlie Chipman will also advance to the Class 4A State Tournament as the fourth-place finisher. Madison shot 40 on the front nine and 47 on the back to finish with a total of 85, one better than Anderson County’s Sammy Walter. They were the only golfers with scores lower than 90...
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Soccer trounces Columbus in the mud (10/9/18)Fort Scott High School’s soccer team broke a seven-match winless streak by trouncing Columbus in the mud at Ellis Park, 6-2, Tuesday afternoon. Monday, Fort Scott concluded Southeast Kansas League play with an 0-7-1 mark after tying Independence, 1-1. It’s the first time the Tigers have not lost to Indy (2-2-1 SEK, 4-7-1 overall) since sweeping the 2012 season series...
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Tennis season closes at Miege Regional (10/9/18)OVERLAND PARK — Although a couple of entries found some success, none of Fort Scott’s entrants were able to advance out of the Bishop Miege Class 4A Regional Tennis Tournament. Alexis Bailey (10-10) was 1-2 in singles play. She won a first-round match over Reece Dulac of Atchison, 3-6, 6-2 (10-1) but lost in the next round to eventual champion Brooklyn Hunter of Topeka Hayden, 6-0, 6-0, and was eliminated by Marysville’s Sierra Becker, 6-0, 6-0...
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Tigers clinch first SEK title since 2012 (10/5/18)CHANUTE — Fort Scott High clinched the Southeast Kansas League football championship for the first time since 2012 with a 22-10 win over Chanute here Friday night. Fort Scott has won 19 SEK titles, third behind two teams that currently are playing as independents — Pittsburg with 33 and Parsons with 22. The Tigers are the third different team to win the SEK since Pittsburg went the independent route following the 2015 season...
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Two Tigers earn SE-KAN golf honors (10/5/18)Two Fort Scott High School golfers earned another honor this morning when the SE-KAN All-Area Girls’ Golf team was announced. SE-KAN was created before the Southeast Kansas League or the CNC had enough teams to make the sport league-sanctioned. The Three Rivers League and the Tri Valley League still do not sponsor the sport and SE-KAN gives recognition to those players who otherwise are unable to receive an All-League honor...
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Tennis Regional moved to Sunday (10/5/18)PRAIRIE VILLAGE — The Bishop Miege Class 4A Regional Tennis Tournament, with Fort Scott taking part, has been moved from Saturday to Sunday due to anticipated bad weather on Saturday. The Regional is being held at the Harmon Park Tennis Complex in Prairie Village, located at 7727 Delmar, about 3 1/2 miles east of I-35. Play should begin about 10 a.m...
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Tiger soccer falls at Paola (10/5/18)PAOLA — Fort Scott High’s soccer team fell to 2-10 on the season with a 9-2 loss to Paola in a non-league match here Tuesday. It was the sixth consecutive loss for the Tigers. Fort Scott plays a Southeast Kansas League match at Independence Monday and hosts a non-league contest versus Columbus at 4:30 Tuesday at Ellis Park...
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Tiger duo finish as All-SEK golfers (10/3/18)INDEPENDENCE — Two members of Fort Scott High’s golf team finished with All-Southeast Kansas League First Team honors following the final of three league-designated tournaments here Monday. Junior Lauren Madison, who was the defending league champion, finished in second place with a three-tournament total of 212. Pittsburg’s Samantha Maceli won the crown this year with a 198...
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Tiger volleyball splits home finale (10/3/18)Fort Scott High’s volleyball team split its home finale Tuesday night, sweeping Coffeyville, 25-21, 25-19 but falling to Independence, 25-15, 25-16 in Southeast Kansas League play. Independence, ranked No. 8 in Class 4A by the Kansas Volleyball Association, also swept Labette County, 25-17, 25-16 to remain unbeaten in league matches at 8-0 with a 25-1 overall mark. ...
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Tennis has rough day at SEK tourney (10/2/18)INDEPENDENCE — Fort Scott High’s girls’ tennis team finished with only one win at the Southeast Kansas League Tournament here Saturday. Independence won its 34th championship since the SEK began sponsoring the sport in 1973. Parsons was second, followed by Pittsburg, Chanute, Labette County and the Tigers...
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Tigers claim top spot in SEK, 21-6 (9/29/18)Fort Scott High took the early lead in the Southeast Kansas League football race with a 21-6 victory over Labette County on Homecoming at Frary Field. Matt Campbell came within a few yards of breaking the school record for passing yards in a game, completing 15 of 27 attempts for 268 yards, the second-most in school history. The record is Matt Wheeler’s 275 yards in a win over LCHS on Sept. 28, 2007...
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Tigers 1-2 in home quad (9/29/18)Fort Scott High’s volleyball team defeated Columbus in the first match of a non-league quadrangular at the FSHS gymnasium Thursday evening, but fell to Pittsburg and Girard in their other two matches. The Tigers swept Columbus, 25-12, 25-10. They lost to the Purple Dragons, 25-10, 25-14, and to Girard in three sets, 20-25, 25-23, 27-25. In the other matches, Pittsburg beat Columbus, 25-6, 25-6, and Girard, 25-18, 25-10. Girard downed Columbus, 25-10, 25-18...
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Tennis wins pair of seconds at Chanute (9/29/18)CHANUTE — Fort Scott High’s tennis team continues to make positive strides as the Tigers picked up two second-place finishes in a four-team tournament here Thursday. Both doubles teams earned the second-place medals in round-robin play. The No. 1 team of Britni Addington and Patience Richwine (7-3) lost their first match to Labette County’s Page Burleigh/Lexi Baughman, 8-2, but went on to beat Pittsburg’s Minnifield/Hutson, 8-1, and Chanute’s Shayla Bogle/Taylor Thompson, 8-6...
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Fort Scott, Uniontown unaffected by new KSHSAA classes (9/29/18)The Kansas State High School Activities Association released classifications for all sports other than football Wednesday morning with the new classification system that’s come into effect beginning this school year. This system reflects the most radical change in the way schools are classified since the expansion from five classes to six in 1978-79...
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Uniontown to host volleyball Sub-State (9/29/18)Volleyball Sub-State hosts for classes 3A on down were announced by the Kansas State High School Activities Association on Friday. Uniontown has been chosen to host a Class 2A Sub-State on Saturday, Oct. 20. The eight-team Sub-State will be played on one court and will begin at 1 p.m. Other teams in addition to Uniontown are Northeast, Southeast, Howard-West Elk, Humboldt, Colgan and Yates Center...
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Coffeyville shuts out Tiger soccer, 4-0 (9/25/18)Coffeyville junior Tate Thornburg was responsible for all of his team’s scoring as the visiting Golden Tornado shut out Fort Scott 4-0 in a Southeast Kansas League match at Ellis Park Tuesday night. It was hoped to get in the day’s action before a cold front brought a storm system into town — and both the varsity and junior varsity games were played in full. ...
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Two Tigers medal at Pittsburg Invitational (9/25/18)PITTSBURG —Lauren Madison and Karlie Chipman earned medals for Fort Scott High’s girls’ golf team at the Pittsburg Invitational here Tuesday. Madison finished in third place, shooting 41 on both the front and back nines for a total of 42. Chipman placed ninth after shooting 50-43—93. Ellie Perkinson finished at 82-78—160...
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Sports Notebook (9/25/18)Uniontown falls to Lyndon, 42-14 LYNDON — Uniontown football fell to 1-3 on the season here Friday night following a 42-14 loss to Lyndon. Ty Davidson passed for 94 yards and rushed for 37 for the Eagles but also threw four interceptions. Andrew Reed rushed for 74 yards and both Uniontown touchdowns, which came in the second quarter...
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Tigers sweep at Southeast (9/25/18)WEIR — Fort Scott High’s cross country team swept the varsity team titles at the Southeast Invitational here Thursday. Tiger girls scored 23 points as they took four of the top six spots in the race and had five top-10 finishers. Colgan was second with 48 points...
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Pittsburg holds off Fort Scott comeback, 17-14 (9/22/18)PITTSBURG — Caden Bressler’s 30-yard field goal with 1:19 remaining here Friday night gave Pittsburg the lead late in Friday night’s game. Fort Scott High then drove to the Pittsburg 16-yard line with less than a minute remaining only to see the Purple Dragons, ranked No. 3 in Class 4A, get a sack and force a pair of incompletions that allowed them to survive a Tiger rally for a 17-14 victory...
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Tiger tennis takes second in home tourney (9/22/18)Fort Scott High’s tennis team finished second in their home tournament Tuesday led by a first-place finish from its No. 1 doubles team and second-place results in No. 1 singles and No. 2 doubles. Independence won the team title, losing only in No. 1 doubles to the team of Britni Addington and Patience Richwine (5-2), who were together for the second consecutive tournament. ...
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Tiger volleyball adjusts to new offense (9/22/18)With injuries to two starters, Abby Humble and Hunter Adamson, Fort Scott High School volleyball head coach Jenna Campbell has had to make adjustments to her team in a short period of time and get them implemented quickly. The work in progress had only one practice to implement the changes but the Tigers managed a split in a Thursday-night home triangular with Girard and state-ranked Louisburg. ...
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Tiger soccer drops two this week (9/22/18)Fort Scott High’s soccer team stands at 0-6 in the SEK and 2-8 overall after falling twice in league play this week. Tuesday, the Tigers went to league leader Pittsburg and lost, 2-1. Thursday, they returned to Ellis Park but were shut out, 5-0, by Independence...
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Madison takes second at Chanute (9/18/18)CHANUTE — Fort Scott’s Lauren Madison finished in second place here Monday in the Chanute Invitational. Madison shot 38 on the front nine and 45 on the back to finish with a total of 83. Pittsburg’s Sam Maceli was the champion, shooting 40-36—76. Karlie Chipman was the only other Tiger entered. She shot 56-45—101 to tie for 15th...
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Tiger volleyball swept in league play (9/18/18)Fort Scott High’s volleyball squad lost Southeast Kansas League duals to two of the league’s top teams in a home triangular in the new gymnasium Tuesday. Fort Scott fell to Chanute, which is ranked No. 3 in Class 4A by the Kansas Volleyball Coaches Association, in three sets, 23-25, 25-13, 25-20. They then were swept by league co-leader Pittsburg, 25-13, 25-18...
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Tigers’ aggressive play goes unrewarded in loss (9/18/18)Fort Scott High’s soccer team was the aggressor in the second half of play at Ellis Park Monday afternoon. But for all the chances the Tigers gave themselves, they came away with nothing to show for them in a 2-1 overtime loss to Chanute in Southeast Kansas League play...
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Tigers bounce back for big win over Indy (9/15/18)A little home cookin’ always seems to cure what ails ya and Fort Scott High School’s football team got heaping helpings of it against Independence at Frary Field Friday night in Southeast Kansas League play. After being drubbed by Paola in Week Two, the Tigers came out, scored the game’s first 36 points and rolled up 20 first downs and 467 yards of total offense in a 55-12 roast of the Bulldogs...
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Two medals for Tigers at Joplin (9/15/18)JOPLIN — Fort Scott High’s girls’ golf team won two medals at the Galena Invitational here Thursday with Lauren Madison winning her third tourmament of the season. Madison shot 37 and finished eight stokes ahead of Girard’s Marci Heatherly. Karlee Chipman won her second medal of the season as she finished sixth with a 49. Ellie Perkinson rounded out Fort Scott’s results with an 85...
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Clements wins Wellsville race (9/15/18)WELLSVILLE — Fort Scott’s Gabbie Clements won the girls’ varsity race at the Wellsville cross-country meet here Thursday, turning in a time of 21:19.55 over 5,000 meters to take the title by about six seconds over Trinity Moore of Louisburg. The team results saw Fort Scott in fourth place with 68 points in a deep meet. Pomona-West Franklin was the champion with 49 points followed by Spring Hill with 51 and Louisburg with 67...
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Tennis team sees success at Indy, Chanute (9/15/18)Fort Scott High’s tennis team found some success at Independence Tuesday and Chanute on Thursday as head coach Allison Gorman used different lineups in each tournament. The six varsity players went in at different positions and each produced no worse than a 2-2 record on the day...
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Soccer falls to Riverton (9/15/18)RIVERTON — Fort Scott High’s soccer team fell to 1-4 on the season with a 2-1 loss to Riverton here Tuesday. Head coach Gary Floyd said that the Tigers took 29 shots but that seven of them hit the crossbar. The Tigers are playing in the Tornado Tournament at Coffeyville today...
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Tiger volleyball splits at Indy (9/15/18)INDEPENDENCE — Fort Scott High School volleyball split its Southeast Kansas League opening matches here Tuesday. The Tigers beat Coffeyville, 25-13, 25-20, but fell to defending league champion Indy, 25-9, 25-16. Fort Scott (1-1 SEK, 3-2 overall) plays in the Erie Tournament today...
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Schedule changes for freshmen football (9/15/18)Fort Scott High School has made the following changes to its freshmen and junior varsity football schedules, which were made necessary by a lack of players at some of the schools on the original schedule. The JV teams will play their original opponents while the freshmen will play new teams...
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Madison takes Frontenac title (9/11/18)FRONTENAC — Fort Scott High’s Lauren Madison won her second tournament of the season here Monday, shooting 42 to win the Frontenac Invitational by 5 strokes. Also for the Tigers, Karlie Chipman tied for 11th with a score of 60 and Ellie Perkinson shot 78...
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Junior varsity tennis results (9/11/18)Fort Scott High’s tennis team played host to its second junior varsity home tournament Monday with six entries. • Emma Daly, No. 1 singles: def. Makayla Ross, Coffeyville, 6-5 (9); lost to Kori Babcock, Chanute, 6-0; lost to Marci Brown, Pittsburg, 6-1; def. Kyler Barger, Labette County, 6-0...
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Tigers, Clements win home meet (9/7/18)Fort Scott High’s girls cross-country team won the individual championships in both varsity and junior varsity and the varsity team title in their home meet Thursday. It was the Tigers’ first outing of the season after their first meet at Labette County Aug. 30 was rained out...
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Tigers rally from two sets down to win (9/7/18)Despite losing one of its key players early, Fort Scott High’s volleyball team rallied from two sets down to beat Baxter Springs in a best-of-five dual in the new FSHS gymnasium Thursday evening, 15-25, 19-25, 25-21, 25-23, 15-4. Head coach Jenna Campbell said that setter Abby Humble went out with a knee injury early in the first set and was unable to return. But sophomore Montana LaRoche was able to set in and fill the role...
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Madison second at Girard (9/7/18)GIRARD — Lauren Madison finished as the runner-up at the 18-hole Girard Invitational here Thursday, shooting 40 on the front nine and 41 on the back for a total of 81. Pittsburg’s Samantha Maceli won the tournament with a 79 as she was the only golfer to shoot under 40 on either nine, going 37 on the front and 42 on the back for a 79...
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Tiger tennis wins three at Independence tourney (9/7/18)INDEPENDENCE — Fort Scott High School’s varsity tennis team competed in a tournament here Thursday with Tiger entrants winning three matches. Paitience Richwine won two matches in No. 1 singles. She defeated Iola’s Ally Utley, 8-2, and Chanute’s Mikayla Kwek, 8-5. Richwine lost to Lilly Cawyer of Pittsburg, 8-6, and to Independence’s Browyn O’Malley in a tie-breaker, 8-7 (4)...
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Tiger soccer drops pair of SEK matches (9/7/18)David Brown scored the only goal for Fort Scott High’s soccer team in a 6-1 loss to first-year Chanute in a Southeast Kansas League match here Tuesday. Brown’s goal came late in the first half. The Tigers played at home Thursday in a Southeast Kansas League match against Pittsburg, losing 5-0 to fall to 0-3-0 in SEK play and 1-3-0 overall...
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JV tennis results from Labette County (9/7/18)PARSONS — The Fort Scott High School junior varsity tennis team played in the Labette County Invitational here Thursday. Results were as follows: • Alyssa Martin, 0-3, No. 1 singles: vs. Bradbury, LCHS, L. 6-1; vs. Cox, Neodesha, L. 6-0; vs. Giager, LCHS, L. 6-0...
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Tigers handle AC, fall to tough Nevada (9/4/18)Fort Scott High School’s varsity volleyball team got its season underway Tuesday night by splitting with Anderson County and Nevada in a non-league triangular at the new FSHS gymnasium. The Tigers (1-1) swept ACHS, 25-13, 25-10. Nevada (3-0) swept both Anderson County, 25-15, 25-17, and Fort Scott, 25-21, 25-19...
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Tigers take top two spots in home tourney (9/4/18)Fort Scott High golfers took the top two spots in the Tigers’ home invitational at Woodland Hills Golf Course Tuesday. Junior Lauren Madison shot 44 over nine holes to take the title while freshman Karlie Chipman came in second with a 45. Jerlyn Kustanborter of Chanute was third over Independence’s Bailey Werner on a tie-breaker after each shot 47...
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Tigers get big contributions from many (9/1/18)Fort Scott High football opened the season with a 23-14 win over Coffeyville in Southeast Kansas League action at Frary Field Friday night as the Tigers gained 328 yards of total offense in building a 23-0 lead. Matt Campbell threw for 143 yards in his first start at quarterback, although he only completed 7 of 19 passes. ...
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Area Sports Notes: Rain results in Thursday cancellations (9/1/18)Cross-country, varsity tennis called off Fort Scott High School’s cross-country and varsity tennis teams were unable to compete Thursday due to rain. The cross-country team was to have opened its season at the Labette County meet while the tennis team was scheduled to play in a tournament at Parsons hosted by Labette County...
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Madison 2nd in season’s first tourney (9/1/18)OSWEGO — Fort Scott’s Lauren Madison finished second here Tuesday on a scorecard tie-breaker in Labette County’s invitational, the first event of the season for both the Tigers and Uniontown. Madison, the Tigers’ only medalist, and Pittsburg’s Samantha Macelli each shot 42 with Macelli winning the scorecard playoff...
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Tiger soccer wins in Floyd’s coaching debut (8/28/18)Sophomore Noah Bootle scored the first of his two goals just 30 seconds into the match at Ellis Park Tuesday afternoon as Fort Scott High’s soccer team defeated Louisburg, 3-2, in the head coaching debut for Gary Floyd, Jr. It was the Tigers’ first win over Louisburg since 2011, breaking a seven-game losing match versus the Wildcats. This is only the second time in 16 meetings that Fort Scott has been victorious over Louisburg...
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Tigers scrimmage in advance of opener (8/24/18)Fort Scott High head coach Bob Campbell wanted to have his varsity work on things without showing off too much at the annual Red & White Football Scrimmage at Frary Field Friday night. Coffeyville — the Tigers’ season-opening opponent Aug. 31 —was scouting the scrimmage since the Golden Tornado held their scrimmage on Thursday. Likewise, Fort Scott scouted Coffeyville’s scrimmage...
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Experienced players return for new head coach (8/24/18)New Fort Scott High School head coach Jenna Campbell took her team out on the court of the FSHS gymnasium for the Red & White Scrimmage Friday afternoon. After a workout that took about an hour, Campbell, a 2011 graduate of FSHS, said she was happy with what she saw but also knows there’s still work to be done. ...
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Tiger tennis tackles tough tournament (8/24/18)PARSONS — Fort Scott High’s varsity tennis schedule opened here Thursday with a round-robin tournament that featured teams which are usually the toughest in the Southeast Kansas League. With that known, the Tigers, a relatively youthful group, were not able to win a match against Independence, Parsons or Pittsburg...
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Soccer scrimmage cancelled; season begins Tuesday (8/24/18)Thursday’s rain forced the cancellation of the Red & White Soccer Scrimmage, so Fort Scott High’s first action of the season will be at home on Tuesday against Louisburg. The varsity game will be played first at 4:30 p.m. at Ellis Park with the junior varsity to follow...
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Tiger JV tennis opens season (8/24/18)Fort Scott High School’s first competitive event of the new school year was a junior varsity tennis tournament on Tuesday. The tournament was originally scheduled for Monday but wet courts forced a postponement. Independence, dominant in tennis in southeast Kansas at any level, swept the four divisions of the round-robin affair. Pittsburg was second in each division and Iola was third...
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Practice restrictions not causing many setbacks (8/21/18)There have been fewer full-contact practices in the early going due to new rules imposed by the Kansas State High School Activities Association over the summer. But Fort Scott High School’s football didn’t look any less prepared during a scrimmage at Frary Field Saturday than it might have been in past seasons...
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Tigers tie for second in SEK coaches vote (8/10/18)PITTSBURG — Defending champion Labette County was picked to repeat while Fort Scott High was picked to tie for second in a Southeast Kansas League coaches pre-season poll released by KSHQ Radio here Wednesday. With coaches unable to vote for their own teams, LCHS head coach gave Chanute his first-place vote while his team received each of the other four. ...
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County players part of State champ Legion team (7/24/18)MOUND CITY — Several Fort Scott and Uniontown players are members of Linn County Post 248’s American Legion Class A State Champion baseball team. Fort Scott’s Brody Bowles and Uniontown’s Nick Hathaway and Chance Fuhrman played for the team while Uniontown coach Brandon Hathaway was an assistant coach. Other players came from Pleasanton, Jayhawk-Linn and Prairie View high schools. Legion A teams consist of players aged 16 or under...
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Five named to All-SEK baseball list (6/1/18)Tigers’ Campbell named to All-Class team by KABC
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Five Tigers make All-SEK softball teams (6/1/18)Fort Scott High School saw five players named to the All-Southeast Kansas League softball team, voted on by league coaches and released earlier this week. Three members of the league runner-up Tigers were picked to the First Team: Lane Bohlken, Aburey Ard, and Kenady Poyner. Mia Bryant and Lexi Milburn were chosen for the Second Team...
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Brown’s Columbus State team reaches DII national final (6/1/18)CARY, N.C. — Fort Scott High School 2015 graduate Chase Brown will be playing for an NCAA Division II national championship today as his Columbus State team advanced with a win over Florida Southern on Friday. Brown, an outfielder who played at Independence Community College in 2016 and 2017, was 0 for 2 but walked 3 times and scored twice in an 11-6 victory. The second-seeded Cougars (47-14) will face fifth-seeded Augustana, S.D. at noon today...
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Fort Scott to host 2019 State Debate Tournaments (6/1/18)The Kansas State High School Activities Association Thursday named the sites of championship events for the 2018-19 winter sports season, choosing Fort Scott High School as host of the Class 4A and Class 3-2-1A State Debate Tournaments. The tournaments will be held January 11 and 12, 2019...
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Eads, Beth win medals in distance events (5/29/18)WICHITA — Fort Scott High School senior Paxsten Eads and freshman Ella Beth won medals at the Kansas State High School Track and Field Championships here over the weekend. Eads won two medals in Class 4A girls’ distance events. She won the first one in the very first event of the meet on Friday morning when she finished fifth in the 3,200-meter run with a time of 11:37.40. Taylor Briggs of Chapman was the winner in 11:03.78...
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King medals at State following 6-way playoff (5/23/18)Sports Editor's Note: This version corrects errors made in the print version as a result of unclear information provided by the Kansas State High School Activities Association. The Tribune regrets the error.
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State Track Schedule (5/22/18)These are the times that each competitor from a Tribune Area school is scheduled to compete at the Kansas State Track and Field Championships Friday and Saturday at Wichita State’s Cessna Stadium. Times for track events are approximate based on what time the first race in each event is set to begin...
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Eads wins Regional 3,200 (5/18/18)EUDORA — Paxsten Eads finished 17 seconds of her nearest competitor in claiming the championship of the 3,200-meter run at the Eudora Class 4A Regional Track Meet here Friday. Eads and Ella Beth qualified for State in two events and the Tigers had four other medalists as they finished in seventh place with 34 team points...
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Indy downs Tigers in final (5/18/18)CHANUTE — Independence will return to the Class 4A-Division I State Tournament for the second consecutive season after downing Fort Scott, 6-2, in the final of the Chanute Class 4A-Division I Regional here Tuesday. Fort Scott (16-6), the No. 2 seed, defeated Labette County, 7-2, in the first semifinal on Monday. ...
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Broncos oust Tigers; Paola takes Regional (5/18/18)Fort Scott High’s baseball season came to a premature end at Dave Regan Stadium when third-seeded Spring Hill jumped out to an early lead in the second semifinal game of the Fort Scott Class 4A-Division I Regional Tournament and the Tigers were unable to recover in a 7-3 loss...
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King, Tigers are Regional golf champions (5/18/18)GARNETT — Fort Scott High’s golf team won the championship of the Anderson County Class 4A Regional Tournament here Monday. The Tigers shot 328 as a team to finish 3 strokes ahead of runner-up Ottawa. Burlington was third at 337. “We won this regional by playing by far our best golf of the year,” Fort Scott head coach Ken Klassen said. “I knew we were capable of this — and even better than this, quite frankly.”...
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Tigers get early lead, hold on for 8-5 win (5/11/18)Fort Scott High School’s baseball team will go into its own Regional Tournament on a five-game winning streak following am 8-5 win over Chanute in a Southeast Kansas League game at Dave Regan Stadium. The last losses for the Tigers (10-2 SEK, 14-6 overall) were to Paola in both games of a road doubleheader on April 23. Both losses were by one run to the Panthers (16-4), who will be the No. 1 seed in the Fort Scott Class 4A-Division I Regional Tournament, which will be played on Tuesday...
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Big first inning leads to Tiger win (5/11/18)An 11-run first inning allowed Fort Scott High’s softball team to wrap up regular-season play with a 14-4 rout of Chanute in a Southeast Kansas League game at Don Hewett Field Thursday. Fort Scott (10-2 SEK, 15-5 overall) used 9 hits and took advantage of three Blue Comet errors in their big first inning...
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Eads claims girls’ 3,200 title at SEK Relays (5/11/18)CHANUTE — Fort Scott’s Paxsten Eads turned in a time of 11;46.85 as she won the girls’ 3,200-meter run at the Southeast Kansas League Relays here Thursday. Eads beat out Independence’s Renee Trout, the SEK girls’ cross-country champion last fall, by nearly three seconds as she claimed her first league title...
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Regional baseball, softball tourneys begin Monday (5/11/18)Regional baseball and softball brackets were released by the Kansas State High School Activities Association Wednesday morning. Fort Scott High School’s baseball team is the No. 2 seed in the Class 4A-Division I Regional it will host at Dave Regan Stadium Tuesday. ...