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Thursday, Feb. 9, 2012
Pleasanton Blu-Jays

Pioneer League sweeps Pleasanton titles (01/24/12)
PLEASANTON -- The Pioneer League swept the championships at the Pleasanton Mid-Season Tournament Saturday. Prairie View's girls defeated league rival Central Heights, 33-31, in the girls' title game. Central Heights took down Humboldt of the Tri-Valley League, 68-58, in the boys' final...
Uniontown, J-Linn girls to meet for 3rd (01/20/12)
PLEASANTON -- Uniontown and Jayhawk-Linn will meet in the third-place game of the Pleasanton Mid-Season Tournament Saturday as a result of semifinal losses here Thursday. Of the Tribune Area's three boys' and three girls' teams, the only victors Thursday night were Pleasanton's girls and Jayhawk-Linn's boys, both in consolation semifinals...
Jayhawks sweep Blu-Jays in LCT (12/08/11)
MOUND CITY -- Jayhawk-Linn's teams swept Pleasanton on the opening night of the round-robin Linn County Tournament here Tuesday night. Jayhawk-Linn's boys took a 53-46 victory. Austin Coleman led the Jayhawks (1-0) with 20 points while Jake Rowe added 10. Preston Coffman led Pleasanton (0-1) with 19 points...
Jayhawks picked second on both sides of TRL (11/15/11)
PITTSBURG -- Three Rivers League basketball coaches greeted Jayhawk-Linn upon its return by picking the Jayhawks to finish second in both boys' and girls' play in the pre-season poll released by KSEK-FM here Monday. Crest's boys were picked to finish on top on the boys' side while Oswego was the choice to end St. Paul's three-season reign on the girls' side...
Rienbolt finishes 3rd at State (10/31/11)
WAMEGO -- Fort Scott High School sophomore Katren Rienbolt finished third in the Class 4A State Cross Country Meet here Saturday. As a top-10 finisher, Rienbolt earned All-State honors in her first season of competition. She finished the four-kilometer course in a time of 15 minutes, 39.09 seconds...
'Hawks beat Eagles for 2A State berth (10/25/11)
OSWEGO -- Jayhawk-Linn defeated Uniontown two games to one in the final of the Oswego Class 2A Sub-State Volleyball Tournament here Saturday. It was the third meeting of the season between the top-seeded Eagles (27-10) and second-seeded Jayhawks. Jayhawk-Linn won each time but it always took three games to do so...
Three area runners advance to 2A State Meet (10/25/11)
MOUND CITY -- Three runners from three area schools will participate in this Saturday's Class 2A State Cross Country Meet at Wamego. All three moved on as at-large qualifiers out of the Jayhawk-Linn Class 2A Regional Meet, held Saturday at Sugar Valley Golf Course...
Eagles sweep, clinch top seed (10/20/11)
UNIONTOWN -- Uniontown's sweep of Pleasanton and Marmaton Valley here Tuesday night allowed the Eagles to clinch the top seed at Saturday's Oswego Class 2A Sub-State Volleyball Tournament. Uniontown (23-9) has two fewer losses than second-seeded Jayhawk-Linn (23-11). The Eagles will face Marmaton Valley (12-22) in the first round at 1 p.m...
Pleasanton wins Three Rivers girls' title (10/15/11)
BURLINGTON, Kan. -- Each year, the schools of the Three Rivers League gather to take part in the Burlington Invitational, which also serves as the TRL championship meet. Here Friday, Pleasanton's girls finished fifth overall but were the best of the Three Rivers League schools, making them the TRL champion...
Pittsburg drops to 4A in other sports (09/28/11)
The Kansas State High School Activities Association has changed its method of determining the classes in all sports other than football and it may have affected Pittsburg. In the past, the six classes were determined by a count of students in grades 10-12. Beginning year, the KSHSAA is counting students in grades 9-12...
Rienbolt reigns over girls' varsity division (09/09/11)
Fort Scott High School sophomore Katren Rienbolt has run in exactly two cross country races. Last week, in her first race ever at Labette County, she won the junior varsity race by two minutes. She was placed into the varsity girls' race at the Fort Scott Invitational. She won it by 1 minute...
Blu-Jays get league victory (09/08/11)
ST. PAUL -- Pleasanton's volleyball team gained a victory over St. Paul in Three Rivers League play here Tuesday night but couldn't keep up their level of play in the following non-league matches. The Blu-Jays defeated St. Paul, 25-18, 24-26, 25-18. They lost to Southern Coffey County, 25-2, 25-16, and Prairie View, 25-16, 25-16...
Blu-Jays 2-3 in TRL Tournament (08/30/11)
Pleasanton won two of five matches in the host role at the Three Rivers League Volleyball Tournament Saturday. The Blu-Jays defeated Crest in their first match, 25-15, 25-20. Lindsey conn led the Jays with 6 kills. Lauren Baker had 6 assists and Karesa Lewis led with 6 digs...
Fall sports practices underway (08/16/11)
Fall sports practices got underway Monday, the first day allowed under the rules of the Kansas State High School Activities Association. The first event of the new sports year will be held Monday afternoon as Fort Scott High School's tennis team hosts a junior varsity tournament which is set to begin at 3 p.m...
Tigers picked third in SEK; Crest tops TRL vote (08/12/11)
PITTSBURG -- Chanute and Pittsburg are co-favorites in Southeast Kansas League football, Crest is the top pick in Three Rivers League eight-man football, and Colgan was tabbed as the best in the CNC in voting released at a media conference here Thursday afternoon...
Coffman runner-up in 1A pole vault (06/01/11)
Pleasanton sophomore Preston Coffman finished in second place in pole vault at the Kansas Class 1A State Track and Field Championships in Wichita Saturday. Coffman, a first-time competitor, cleared 13 feet, 6 inches. Brady Tien, a senior from Logan who finished third in this event last year, won the event with a mark of 14' 6"...
Conn reaches finals in two events (05/28/11)
WICHITA, Kan. -- Sophomore Lindsey Conn advanced to two finals in the Kansas Class 1A State Track and Field Championships here Friday and hopes to reach another this morning. Conn had the third-best time of the eight qualifiers in the 200-meter dash. She was second in her heat in 27.22 seconds, trailing last year's State runner-up, Taylor Kisner of Victoria, who wan 26.50. Stephanie Caro of Satanta, who had the best time in Regionals, won the other heat with a 27.02...
More State Track Notes (05/26/11)
Boys' defending champions: 6A -- Olathe East, 5A -- Hays, 4A -- Paola (2nd straight), 3A -- Garden Plain (2nd straight), 2A -- Bennington, 1A -- Ness City (2nd straight). Girls' defending champions: 6A -- Olathe East (3rd straight; 1st sweep in 6A since Hutchinson in 2004), 5A -- Gardner-Edgerton, 4A -- Baldwin, 3A -- Rossville, 2A -- Olpe, 1A -- Victoria...
State Track Schedule (05/25/11)
Italic type indicates a preliminary event. The athlete(s) listed must qualify for the finals. All finals are in regular type.
Blu-Jay girls finish as Regional runners-up (05/24/11)
BURLINGTON -- A very young group will represent Pleasanton at the Class 1A State Track and Field Championships this weekend in Wichita. Of the 10 athletes who qualified from the Southern Coffey County Class 1A Regional Meet in 12 events here Friday, six are sophomores and three others are freshmen...
Regional baseball, softball pairings set (05/13/11)
First-round pairings for Regional baseball and softball tournaments to be held next week were released Wednesday. All tournaments are set to begin on Monday. Fort Scott High School's baseball team has been assigned to the Spring Hill Class 4A Regional, with all of the games played at the host site. The Tigers (11-6) drew the No. 4 seed and will face fifth-seeded Paola (8-12) at 4:30 p.m. Monday...
11 area players receive All-TRL mention (03/18/11)
Eleven players from Uniontown and Pleasanton were honored by the Three Rivers League with spots on the All-League basketball teams. Uniontown senior Breanna Esslinger was one of three unanimous selections to the All-TRL girls First Team. The other two are Uniontown senior Morgan Westhoff and St. Paul senior Kali Ketterman...
Moundridge wins semifinal; Jayhawks play for 3rd today (03/12/11)
MANHATTAN, Kan. -- Third-seeded Moundridge ended Jayhawk-Linn's hopes of winning a State championship by defeating the Jayhawks, 47-32, in the semifinal round of the Kansas Class 2A State Basketball Tournament here Friday night. The Jayhawks (14-11), the lower-seeded team in every game it's played this post-season, will face top-seeded Oxford for third place today at noon. The Wildcats were dominated by No. 4 seed Brookville--Ell-Saline, 70-35, in the first semifinal...
Pleasanton stuns Uniontown; first-place showdown Monday (02/12/11)
UNIONTOWN -- Pleasanton's girls won their seventh consecutive game Friday night, jumping out to an 18-7 lead on Uniontown and coasting from there to a 61-45 victory. The Blu-Jays remain tied for the lead in the Three Rivers League and set up a first-place showdown at St. Paul Monday night...
NJCAA reports 40 FSCC signees; N.C. prep QB said to be coming (02/12/11)
FORT SCOTT -- The National Junior College Athletic Association website has a list of 40 high school seniors who have signed football letters of intent with Fort Scott Community College for next season. That count, if accurate, can be boosted to at least 42 as Drew Bryant and Griffin Knopp joined Fort Scott High School teammate Kelsey Adams on that list in a signing meeting at the FSHS media center Friday afternoon (related photo, Page 1B)...
Tigers postponed; make-ups piling up in area leagues (02/09/11)
Fort Scott High School's basketball games versus Parsons, scheduled for to be held at the FSHS gymnasium Tuesday night, have been rescheduled for Monday, Feb. 21. Fort Scott's doubleheader was one of eight in the Southeast Kansas, Three Rivers and Pioneer leagues that were postponed Tuesday. The only other area school to be affected was Pleasanton, which scheduled a TRL doubleheader versus Crest for February 17. Uniontown and Jayhawk-Linn were not scheduled to play Tuesday...
Central Heights claims both crowns at Pleasanton Tourney (01/25/11)
PLEASANTON -- Central Heights' teams claimed the championships of both the boys' and girls' brackets of the Pleasanton Mid-Season Tournament here Saturday. Viking boys (9-1) defeated Pioneer League rival Jayhawk-Linn, 67-38, in the boys' championship game. This was the first of three meetings the teams will have in seven days. They also met in a make-up game at Richmond Monday night and will face each other at Mound City Friday night...
Weather changes area tournament schedules (01/20/11)
Inclement weather has changed the schedules for the tournaments which involve area basketball teams. Fort Scott High's teams saw their games at the Basehor-Linwood Invitational postponed for the second consecutive day. In order to keep the tournament going in a lively fashion the boys and girls will play at the same time Friday...
Brackets set for Pleasanton tourney (01/14/11)
PLEASANTON -- The brackets are set for next week's annual Pleasanton Mid-Season Tournament, which also includes area schools Uniontown and Jayhawk-Linn. Games will be played Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday. Action starts at 4 p.m. the first two days and at 1 p.m. Saturday. Two gyms will be used...
Three Rivers honors 17 area athletes (11/16/10)
Three Rivers League athletes recently received honors as the All-League 11-Man, Eight-Man and Volleyball teams were revealed. Uniontown saw seven players honored at nine positions on the All-TRL 11-Man Football Team. First Team honorees included senior Tyler Halll at center and defensive end, senior Matt Maloney at offensive tackle, junior Seth Sympson at tight end, senior Ryan Schenker at defensive and and junior Max Labbe at linebacker...
Playoff odds better for some than others (10/28/10)
Some area football team's chances are as easy as "A beats B" while others are a bit more complicated as high-school and junior-college regular-season play comes to a close over the weekend. Tonight at Garnett, for example, both opponents in the Fort Scott-Anderson County contest already know they've qualified for the Class 4A playoffs. ...
Pleasanton reaches 1A semifinal round (10/25/10)
ST. PAUL -- Pleasanton's volleyball squad reached the semifinal round of the St. Paul Class 1A-Division I Sub-State Tournament here Saturday and finished the season with a record of 13-22. The Blu-Jays opened with a 27-25, 25-11 sweep of Three Rivers League rival Crest. Megan Lowe had 9 kills in the match for Pleasanton. Johnnea Saulsberry handed out 6 assists...
Two qualify from Sugar Valley (10/25/10)
MOUND CITY -- Pleasanton's Savannah Smith and Jayhawk-Linn's Lane Harris will be going to their respective State Cross Country meets this Saturday after qualifying from Regionals held at Sugar Valley Golf Course here Saturday. Smith finished in seventh place in the Pleasanton Class 1A Meet's girls' race, going 4 kilometers in 17 minutes, 49.74 seconds, to qualify as one of the at-large runners...
Three area teams draw No. 1 seeds in Sub-States (10/22/10)
The volleyball team from Fort Scott, Uniontown and Jayhawk-Linn high schools have all drawn No. 1 seeds for their Sub-State tournaments that will be held Saturday. Fort Scott is the top seed at the Louisburg Class 4A Sub-State, Uniontown at the Northeast Arma Class 3A Sub-State and Jayhawk-Linn at the Yates Center Class 2A Sub-State. Meanwhile, Pleasanton will be the No. 4 seed at the St. Paul Class 1A-Division I Sub-State...
Uniontown sweeps, Pleasanton beats Marmaton Valley (10/21/10)
PLEASANTON -- Uniontown's volleyball squad swept through its opponents here Tuesday night in a final tune-up before Class 3A Sub-State play begins Saturday at Arma. The Eagles, who will be the top seed in the Northeast Class 3A Sub-State with a 32-5 record, swept Marmaton Valley, 25-10, 25-13, and Pleasanton, 25-8, 25-14...
Eagles defeat Northeast in home tourney final (10/12/10)
UNIONTOWN -- Uniontown's volleyball team gained a measure of vengeance in the finals of their home tournament Saturday afternoon. The Eagles defeated Northeast in the finals, 25-19, 25-23, to avenge a loss to the Vikings in Three Rivers league play on Sept. 21...
No. 5 Eagles sweep at Pleasanton (10/06/10)
PLEASANTON -- Uniontown's volleyball team, ranked No. 5 in Class 3A by the Kansas Volleyball Association, swept Pleasanton and Crest in a Three Rivers League triangular here Tuesday night while the host Blu-Jays were able to salvage a split by defeating Crest...
Uniontown climbs to 3A; Class 1A splits into divisions (10/01/10)
Only one school among those in the Southeast Kansas League, Three Rivers League or Pioneer League changed classes when the Kansas State High School Activities Association released its enrollment figures that will be effective in all sports other than football for the 2010-11 school year...
Blu-Jays split league matches (09/23/10)
MORAN -- Pleasanton's volleyball team split a Three Rivers League triangular here Tuesday night, beating Oswego but falling to host Marmaton Valley, both in 3 games. Scores against Oswego were 26-28, 25-22, 25-20. Megan Lowe recorded 12 kills and Lindsey Conn had 4. Johnnea Saulsberry dished 10 assists while Conn had 8...
Blu-Jays 1-3 at Humboldt Tournament (09/20/10)
HUMBOLDT -- Pleasanton's volleyball team went 1-3 at the Humboldt Tournament here Saturday. In their opening match, the Blu-Jays (6-13) fought back from 10-point deficits in each game but fell to Crest in two games, 25-21, 25-23. Megan Lowe recorded 8 kills and Johnnea Saulsberry had 9 assists...
Blu-Jays go 1-2 at Colgan Tournament (09/14/10)
PITTSBURG -- Pleasanton's volleyball won 1 of 3 matches at the Colgan Tournament here Saturday. The Blu-Jays lost to Liberal (Mo.) 25-7, 25-13; defeated Colgan 25-19; 25-17; and lost to Baxter Springs, 25-14, 25-23. According to Pleasanton coach Danny Looney, this was the first time a Blu-Jay girls' team has defeated Colgan in any sport in 10 years. Megan Lowe had 10 kills in that match...
Uniontown goes 6-0 at Three Rivers tourney (08/30/10)
PLEASANTON -- Uniontown swept all six of its matches as it won the Three Rivers League Pre-Season Volleyball Tournament here Saturday afternoon. Pleasanton won its first and last matches of the day to finish at 2-4. All six of Uniontown's victories were two-game sweeps...
Contrasting programs start season Saturday (08/24/10)
When it comes to Three Rivers League volleyball, there's been a great contrast between the programs at Uniontown and Pleasanton high schools in recent seasons. Both teams begin their season Saturday when the Three Rivers League holds its pre-season tournament at Pleasanton...
Three Rivers joins pre-season meeting (08/09/10)
PITTSBURG -- For the first time, Three Rivers League schools will be part of the annual KSEK High School Football Media Day, which will be held here Thursday. The media day event, which began under sponsorship of KKOW-AM for many years before KSEK took over several years ago, has always included the Southeast Kansas League (SEK) and the Crawford Neosho Cherokee League (CNC)...
Conn earns medal for Pleasanton (06/01/10)
WICHITA -- Pleasanton's Lindsey Conn earned her school's only medal of the 2010 Kansas State Track and Field Championships here Saturday when she took seventh place in the Class 1A 400-meter dash. Conn, a freshman, turned in a time of 1:03.87 in the finals. Hallie Kuhlman of Sharon Springs won the race by nearly two seconds in 57.85...
100th Boys'/39th Girls' KSHSAA Track and Field Championships (05/27/10)
Friday, 7:45 a.m. (Classes 6A, 5A and 4A) and 2 p.m. (Classes 3A, 2A and 1A) and Saturday 8 a.m. Cessna Stadium, Wichita State University --- Schedule: A compete schedule of preliminaries and finals for each event in which a Tribune Area athlete is participating was published in Tuesday's edition...
Several from area among state's best (05/25/10)
A check of state track times and distances shows that five individuals and one relay team from the Tribune Area have marks that are among the state's best this season. Those individuals will get their chance to prove their mettle when the best athletes in Kansas gather in Wichita for the Kansas State Track and Field Meet Friday and Saturday...
Morrisey wins 2nd State golf title (05/24/10)
McPHERSON -- Pleasanton's Joey Morrisey won his second consecutive State golf title, taking Class 1A with a score of 74 here Monday. Morrisey was the 2A State champ last season. His finsh also helped lead the Blu-Jays to second place as a team with a score of 341, two strokes behind champion Ashland...
Pleasanton sending athletes to 1A State in seven events (05/24/10)
MADISON -- Five individuals and two relays from Pleasanton will take part in the Kansas State Track and Field Meet at Wichita Friday and Saturday as a result of qualifying from the Madison Class 1A Regional Meet here last Friday. The Blu-Jays did not have any event winners and their best finish was accomplished by a freshman. Lindsey Conn finished second in the 400-meter dash to earn her first berth to State...
ONLINE FIRST: Area State Track Qualifiers (05/22/10)
The following is the list of area qualifiers to the Kansas State Track and Field Meet, which will be held May 28-29 at Wichita State University. More details on how these athletes qualified as well as other results from Regional meets will be published in Tuesday's print edition...
Uniontown's Query, Jayhawk-Linn's team qualify for 2A State golf (05/20/10)
Jayhawk-Linn earned the third team berth to the Class 2A State Tournament while Uniontown's Justin Query grabbed one of the at-large individual berths at the Uniontown Class 2A Regional Golf Tournament, held at the Fort Scott Golf Course & Country Club here Monday...
Pleasanton girls close second at Crest (05/06/10)
IOLA -- Pleasanton's girls missed out on the team title by just four points here Thursday in a very competitive Crest Invitational. The boys side was more spread out as Southern Coffey County took the team title. Uniontown attended this meet as well...
Jays have troubles at tough Madison Invitational (05/03/10)
MADISON -- Pleasanton's track team struggled somewhat at the tough Madison Invitational Friday as the Blu-Jays did not win any events. However, the level of competition here may be seen again when Class 1A Regionals are held here in about 2 1/2 weeks, so this meet could turn out to be good preparation...
Regional Assignments (04/29/10)
Regional assignments for each Tribune Area school in each sport and the schools assigned to those regionals with them (first-round baseball and softball games may be held at home field of higher-seeded team). FORT SCOTT, Class 4A...
Jayhawk girls win Waverly meet; J-Linn boys second (04/22/10)
BURLINGTON -- Jayhawk-Linn's girls won the team title at the 17-team Waverly Invitational held here Tuesday while the girls finished second. Uniontown and Pleasanton also participated in the meet. Due to space constraints in the print edition, the medalists from area schools are listed below...
Blu-Jay boys take title at Southeast; girls second (04/08/10)
CHEROKEE -- Pleasanton's boys won the team title at the Southeast Invitational here Tuesday while the girls finished in second place. Blu-Jay boys scored 79 points while Joplin College Heights finished with 73. Baxter won the girls' side by one point, 92-91, over Pleasanton...
Pleasanton Junior High track results (04/07/10)
PLEASANTON -- Pleasanton Junior High's girls track team competed in its home meet Monday night. The seventh-grade girls finished in first place while the eighth-grade team was second. SEVENTH GRADE Team 1. Pleasanton, 2. Jayhawk-Linn, 3. Crest, 4. Uniontown, 5. Marmaton Valley...
Pleasanton track season gets underway (04/02/10)
Pleasanton's track and field teams opened the season Tuesday with a varsity meet at Archie, Mo., and a junior varsity meet at Southeast. Results from Archie: At Southeast, Pleasanton's teams swept the meet. The boys scored 111 points to finish 20 ahead of Colgan. The girls edged Baxter Springs by 3 points (103-100). Southeast was the third-place team on both sides...
Pleasanton track season gets underway (04/01/10)
Pleasanton's track and field teams opened the season Tuesday with a varsity meet at Archie, Mo., and a junior varsity meet at Southeast. Results from Archie: At Southeast, Pleasanton's teams swept the meet. The boys scored 111 points to finish 20 ahead of Colgan. The girls edged Baxter Springs by 3 points (103-100). Southeast was the third-place team on both sides...
Sub-State seeds set; Tigers hosting rare first-round doubleheader (02/25/10)
Sub-State tournament pairings were made official Wednesday afternoon with a twist on the usual first-round scenario for Fort Scott's teams. Sub-States were drawn in Classes 4A, 3A, and 2A, Classes 6A and 5A will be drawn Saturday while Class 1A Sub-States will be determined by the outcome of this week's 1A Regional Tournaments...
Eagle girls coast past Pleasanton (02/16/10)
PLEASANTON -- Uniontown's girls coasted by Pleasanton in Three Rivers League action here Friday night, 60-24. This was Pleasanton's second game in three nights. They lost to Marmaton Valley Thursday and to Chetopa, 39-30, Saturday. They also played a league game against Oswego Monday night and go to Southern Coffey County for a game tonight. ...
Fort Scott Homecoming postponed; game, ceremonies to made up on different dates (01/30/10)
Naturally, every single game that was to be held on the Kansas side of the state line involving area teams was postponed Friday afternoon. The storm passing through even put off two events that were to be held Saturday. Homecoming at Fort Scott High School, with Pittsburg as the opponent for the basketball doubleheader, has been rescheduled for Thursday, Jan. ...
Uniontown girls advance at Pleasanton (01/21/10)
PLEASANTON -- Uniontown's girls advanced into the championship semifinals of the Pleasanton Tournament with a 55-16 rout of Humboldt in the first round on Tuesday. The Eagles (6-3) will face Prairie View at 7 p.m. tonight in Pleasanton's north gym. Tiffany Poyner led Uniontown with a season-high 14 points. Abbie Smith followed with 12 and Brooke Harper added 10...
Three Rivers League picks football, volleyball teams (11/12/09)
The Three Rivers League released it's all-league teams for 11-man football, 8-man football and volleyball earlier this week. Volleyball champion Uniontown saw five players chosen. Senior Abbie Smith, who signed Thursday morning with Pittsburg State University, was one of two unanimous choices on the First Team along with Crest senior Amanda Strickler...
Tigers join field at Jayhawk-Linn; girls third (10/13/09)
MOUND CITY -- Fort Scott High's cross-country team joined the crowd at the make-up of Jayhawk-Linn's invitational meet here Monday. Jayhawk-Linn was set to host this meet Thursday with Pleasanton participating while Fort Scott was originally scheduled to be at Independence that day. Rain made the courses at both sites unsafe for the runners. Independence chose not to reschedule its meet so Fort Scott joined this meet...
Eagles fall to SCC in finals (10/12/09)
UNIONTOWN -- Southern Coffey County swept Uniontown in the championship match of the Uniontown Invitational here Saturday, 25-21, 27-25. The Eagles (27-2) and Titans won their pools with undefeated 4-0 marks. But UHS head coach Jackie Hall said that passing struggles in pool play caught up to her team in the finals...
Area teams compete at Central Heights (10/06/09)
RICHMOND, Kan. -- Fort Scott, Jayhawk-Linn and Pleasanton all sent athletes to the Central Heights Invitational here Thursday. Fort Scott's involvement was a last-minute arrangement as the meet it was scheduled to go to at Pittsburg was canceled after heavy rains made the course at Four Oaks Golf Course unusable...
Jayhawk-Linn, Pleasanton each drop one classification (09/29/09)
While Fort Scott and Uniontown will remain in their classes for this school year, both Jayhawk-Linn and Pleasanton will each drop one classification after the Kansas State High School Activities Association released 2009-10 assignments Tuesday. Football classes for the 2010 and 2011 seasons were also released. Those will be reviewed in Thursday's edition...
Blu-Jays dispatch Bronaugh in 4 games (09/16/09)
PLEASANTON -- Pleasanton's volleyball team took care of Bronaugh (Mo.) in four games here Tuesday night, 25-15, 25-13, 17-25, 25-16. Since this was a dual, a best-of-5 match was played instead of the usual best-of-3. Megan Lowe led Pleasanton with 9 kills followed by6 Kim Robinson with 8. Johnnea Saulsberry had 7 assists and Brytnee Streeter had 4. Lowe was also credited with 15 digs for the Blu-Jays...
Bogina wins Fort Scott meet again (09/10/09)
Tracey Bogina, Fort Scott High School's head cross country coach, doesn't like to make a big deal out of how well her son, Austin, runs for Northeast-Arma. It's not her nature. Even if Tracey were that kind of parent -- and those who know her know she is the antithesis of the overbearing jock mom -- she wouldn't have to shout from the rooftops. ...
Short-handed Pleasanton team opens season (09/04/09)
GARNETT, Kan. -- Pleasanton did not have its full contingent when it opened its season Thursday at the Jerry Howarter Invitational, hosted by Anderson County High School. According to head coach Dan Saulsberry, many members of the team had responsibilities involving the football team's season-opening home game, which was also played Thursday...
Pleasanton swept at Frontenac quad (09/03/09)
FRONTENAC -- Pleasanton's volleyball team lost all three matches in a quadrangular against Class 3A schools here Tuesday night. The Blu-Jays lost to Frontenac, 23-25, 25-12, 25-15, Galena, 25-13, 25-16, and Neodesha, 25-10, 25-10. Frontenac was a Class 3A State qualifier in 2008 and head coach Danny Looney said the Blu-Jays played their best match of the young season...
Eagles, Blu-Jays go in opposite directions at TRL tourney (09/01/09)
PLEASANTON -- Uniontown's volleyball team won all five matches it played and took first place at the Three Rivers League Pre-Season Tournament here Saturday. Host Pleasanton, meanwhile, lost all five matches it played. Uniontown's path to the title was via a 25-17, 25-6 sweep of Oswego, a 25-16, 22-25, 25-20 win over St. ...