Softball

Fort Scott Community College softball has been out on the road signing multiple players to National Letters of Intent for the 2020 season. Six players signed last month. Rylie Nickerson of Dewey, Okla., was the first on Nov. 8. She is a left-handed first baseman...

Kae Lani Bryan has been named the new head softball coach at Fort Scott Community College, replacing Lana Ross who left after one season to take the same position at Kansas City Kansas Community College. Bryan played high-school ball at Picher, which is now a ghost town following an EPA-mandated buyout of contaminated parcels of land, graduating in 2006. ...

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...

Three members of Uniontown’s State Tournament-qualifying softball team have received All-Three Rivers League honors from league coaches. Northeast saw three members of its team honored as well Uniontown sophomore Sivanah McAnulty was named to the First Team along with Northeast senior Madison Walker and freshman Rachel Fox. Uniontown senior Keeley Goodridge and juniors Maddie Ard and Makenzee Franklin, and Northeast senior Amber Claffey were named to the Honorable Mention list...

PITTSBURG — Uniontown’s softball team qualified for the program’s second State Tournament appearance by beating Marmaton Valley and Oswego in the Colgan Class 2-1A Regional Tournament here Tuesday. The second-seeded Eagles (16-6) defeated third-seeded Marmaton Valley, 9-2, in the second semifinal. They then beat top seed Oswego — which had beaten host Colgan, 5-4, in the first semifinal — by an 8-3 score in the championship game...

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. ...

Freshman third baseman Shelby Choate was the only member of Fort Scott Community College’s softball team to receive any post-season honors. Choate was named to the First Team on both the Jayhawk Conference-Division II and Region VI-District E teams. ...

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...

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. ...

Fort Scott High School’s softball team has lost five games this season. Each of those losses have come against a team that is a defending league or State (or both) champion. The Tigers (14-5) have been defeated by two-time defending Class 4A-Division I State champion Spring Hill, swept by defending Southeast Kansas League champ Independence and, on Monday at Don Hewett Field, swept by defending Class 4A-Division II State champ Girard. All five losses have come at home...

UNIONTOWN — Uniontown’s softball team won its final four games of the regular season, all at home to go into post-season play next week with a 14-6 record. Thursday, the Eagles swept Pleasanton in a Three Rivers League doubleheader, winning game one, 10-3, and game two, 16-1...

CONCORDIA — The second-best season (by number of wins) in Fort Scott Community College softball history came to an end here Sunday as host Cloud County took game three of a best-of-three first-round series in the District E Tournament. Fort Scott won the first game of Saturday’s doubleheader, 2-0, on Britney Smith’s 2-run home run in the top of the seventh inning. Cloud County staged a 4-run rally in the bottom of game two to even the series with a 7-6 win...

CHETOPA — Uniontown and Chetopa split a Three Rivers League make-up softball doubleheader here Friday. Uniontown took game one, 9-7, after holding off a Green Hornet rally. Chetopa took game two, 8-1. Uniontown (10-6, TRL and overall) led 9-0 going into the bottom of the sixth inning. Chetopa (8-10, 8-10) scored all of its runs in that inning...

Fort Scott Community College softball split its final regular-season games Tuesday at the Betty Ruth Willard Complex, beating Cottey College ,1-0, in game one but falling in the second game, 5-3. These were the last athletic events the two schools will play against each other. ...

UNIONTOWN — Northeast split with Uniontown here Thursday in both baseball and softball in Three Rivers League play. Northeast baseball took game one of its doubleheader, 3-2, but Uniontown won the second game, 9-8. The Vikings also won the first game of the softball doubleheader while the Eagles took the second. The final score in each game was 4-2...

Uniontown baseball sweeps Wildcats YATES CENTER — Uniontown’s baseball team swept Yates Center here Monday night in a Three Rivers League doubleheader by scores of 8-1 and 15-5. Ty Griffiths hit a 2-run home run in the second inning of the opener for the Eagles (8-4 TRL, 10-4 overall)...

Fort Scott Community College’s softball season is in a stretch of tough games as the regular season comes to a close. Monday, the Greyhounds took on then-No. 5 ranked Cowley at home, only to be swept by the division-leading Tigers in Jayhawk Conference-Eastern Division play...

MORAN — Uniontown’s softball team split with rival Marmaton Valley here Thursday in a Three Rivers League doubleheader. The Eagles won the opener, 11-7, but fell to a Wildcat rally in the nightcap, 7-6. Keeley Goodridge led the Eagle offense in the opener with 4 hits while Sivanah McAnulty had 3. Karleigh Schoenberger and Mackenzie Woods each had 2...

ARMA — With a sweep of Pleasanton here in Three Rivers League play, Northeast has won four straight games and improved to 6-6 in both league play and overall. The Vikings took game one from the Blu-Jays, 7-5, and the nightcap, 9-2. Freshman Rachel Fox (2-4) was the winning pitcher in each game and also had 3 hits in the doubleheader...

Defending Southeast Kansas League champion Independence posted a sweep of Fort Scott High’s softball team at Don Hewett Field Tuesday evening, taking game one, 10-3, and the second game, 13-4. Monday, in the make up of the annual season-opening home tournament, the Tigers finished in second place following an 18-1 loss to two-time defending Class 4A-Division I State Champion Spring Hill. It’s the third consecutive Fort Scott Tournament championship for the Broncos...

MOUND CITY — Uniontown’s softball team split with Jayhawk-Linn in a Three Rivers League doubleheader here Monday. The Eagles won the opener, 4-3, after holding off a Jayhawk rally, but dropped the second game, 20-17. The Eagles held a 4-0 lead going into the bottom of the sixth inning. In the second inning, they scored twice. Danielle Young led off the inning and drew a walk. She stole third and scored on Mackenzie Woods’ triple. Woods scored on a groundout...

Fort Scott Community College softball split on the road Tuesday and swept at home Thursday as the Greyhounds continue to have one of the best seasons in the program’s history under first-year head coach Lana Ross. The ’Hounds split a Jayhawk Conference-Eastern Division doubleheader with Coffeyville Tuesday. The Red Ravens won game one 10-4 but the Greyhounds took game two, 10-4...

Fort Scott High’s softball team easily swept Parsons on the road Tuesday but had a battle at Chanute Thursday before finally winning. Tuesday, the Tigers dominated Parsons in Southeast Kansas League play, 18-0 and 22-0. Thursday in SEK action, Fort Scott held off a Blue Comet rally in the bottom of the seventh to prevail 7-5...

ST. PAUL — Uniontown softball posted a sweep of St. Paul here Thursday in Three Rivers League play. The Eagles won game one 10-3 and the second 22-1. Maddie Ard struck out 4 batters for the Eagles in game one. Jacy Bowen had 2 hits. Makenzee Franklin had 3 hits for Uniontown in game two. Sivanah McAnulty had a triple...

ARMA — Southeast’s baseball and softball teams have dominated Three Rivers League play so far in their first season as members. And both teams’ unbeaten streaks continued here Thursday at the expense of Northeasts’ squads. The Viking baseball team made a game of it in the first game of their doubleheader, losing just 6-4, before Southeast won the nightcap, 9-1...

MORAN — Northeast came out on the short end of a high-scoring contest in the first game here Monday but managed to take a split from Marmaton Valley in Three Rivers League play. The Wildcats won game one 11-10. Northeast took the second game, 8-5, holding off a Wildcat rally in the bottom of the seventh...

UNIONTOWN — Southeast outscored Uniontown 25-4 over the course of a Three Rivers League doubleheader here Monday. The Lancers won game one 13-3 and took the second 12-1, remaining undefeated on the season at 8-0 (league and overall). Megan Colvin allowed no earned runs on 5 hits and 2 walks while striking out 12 in the opener for Southeast...

Fort Scott High School’s softball team was the last one in the Southeast Kansas League to finally play. And the Tigers released some frustration Thursday when they swept rival Pittsburg by scores of 12-2 and 9-2 in a league twinbill at Lions Field. Contrast the Tigers’ schedule to Chanute’s. ...

ARMA — Northeast softball got its first win of the season here Thursday night before settling for a split with Yates Center in a Three Rivers League doubleheader. The Vikings won game one, 9-8, with the Wildcats taking game two, 4-1. “Both games had some errors but also some really awesome plays,” Northeast head coach Scott Post said in a statement made on his team’s Facebook page. “We played a good team and our confidence should be high moving toward next week.”...

OSWEGO — Oswego pitcher Natalie Brake was credited with a no-hitter by the Indians’ statisticians in the first game here Monday night as Northeast fell in both ends of a season-opening Three Rivers League doubleheader. Behind Brake, Oswego won the opener, 11-1. The Indians also took the nightcap, 17-1...

KANSAS CITY, Kan. — Fort Scott Community College’s softball team managed only a split here Tuesday in Jayhawk Conference-Eastern Division play. The home team took the opener, 10-9, while the Greyhounds won the second game, 11-4. The win in the first game was the first in conference play for KCK (1-11 East, 7-13 overall), breaking a seven-game losing streak overall. The Greyhounds improved to 4-6, 21-12 with their win in the second game...

After winning nine of their first 11 games versus NJCAA Division II competition this season, Fort Scott Community College’s softball team went just 3-3 over the course of the last week. All six games counted toward Region VI-Division II post season while four of them counted in Jayhawk Conference-Eastern Division play...

CONCORDIA — Fort Scott Community College’s softball team split Jayhawk Conference-Division II games here Saturday, winning game one from Cloud County, 13-5, but dropping the second game, 4-3. The Greyhounds are now 2-2 in the conference and in Region VI and 17-8 overall. ...

Fort Scott Community College’s softball team scored 23 runs in a sweep of Dodge City in non-conference play at the Betty Ruth Willard Complex Thursday afternoon. The Greyhounds won game one 13-5 and the second 10-2, both in just five innings due to the run rule...

Fort Scott Community College’s softball team has had a busy five days in which they played nine games, including Tuesday’s Jayhawk Conference-Division II opening doubleheader versus Labette at the Betty Ruth Willard Complex. Friday and Saturday, the Greyhounds (1-1 conference, 14-7 overall) played five games in two days at the Crowder Bash in Joplin. They lost four of them, but all of those were to Division I teams and three of them have winning records...

Fort Scott Community College’s softball team made it 7-0 by winning the first game of Saturday’s doubleheader versus State Fair, Mo., at the Betty Ruth Willard Complex before falling in the second game, 11-7. That loss was the farthest into a season the program has gone before suffering its first defeat...

A two-week layoff didn’t affect the bats of Fort Scott Community College’s softball team very much as the Greyhounds routed North Arkansas, 22-3 and 9-1, in a non-conference doubleheader at the Betty Ruth Willard Complex Thursday afternoon. Fort Scott (6-0) has tied the 2002 team for the best start in school history. ...

Fort Scott Community College softball under first-year head coach Lana Ross is off to its best start since the 2002 season. Following a sweep of Cloud County in a non-conference doubleheader at the Betty Ruth Willard Complex Thursday, the Greyhounds are 4-0. No Fort Scott team has started that well since the 2002 squad won its first six games...

HARRISON, Ark. — Fort Scott Community College’s softball team got its season underway in grand fashion here Tuesday, sweeping a non-conference doubleheader from North Arkansas 9-0 and 18-2. Abby Cox spun a 3-hit shutout in the opener, walking one batter and striking out 3. She also drove in 2 runs to aid her own cause...

In the past, several Fort Scott High School athletes have gone on to play sports at an NCAA Division I school. In most cases, there was a stop at another school first, usually a junior college. That is the path FSHS grads Mason Knopp and Chase Brown took as they look to make an impact on their baseball teams at Division I schools this season...

Results of the Fort Scott Recreation Commission’s Home Run Derby. 9-year-old boys: 1. Ryder Newton, 2. Reece Roberts, 3. Trace Metcalf. 9-year-old girls: 1. Aubrey Yarick, 2. Addi Metcalf, 3. Grace Anderson. 10-year-old boys: 1. Chayden Clayton, 2. Lennox Vann, 3. Dub Chipman...

Lana Ross will take over coaching duties of the Fort Scott Community College softball program, according to a statement that was posted on the team’s Twitter acount Thursday. Ross replaces Kristin Janes, who leaves after five seasons. Taking over following a winless (0-47) 2012 campaign, Janes posted a 73-176 record, but her teams were 63-95 over the past three seasons. ...

The National Junior College Athletic Association released a list of All-Academic honors in each sport is sponsors earlier this week. A total of 33 Fort Scott Community College athletes received honors. The NJCAA awards First Team honors to all athletes who maintained a 4.0 grade-point average in the academic year. Second Team honors go to those who averaged between 3.80 and 3.99. Those who post a GPA between 3.60 and 3.79 receive Third Team All-Academic status...

Fort Scott Community College had three athletic programs receive honors as the National Junior College Athletic Association released its list of academic national champions late last week. Earlier this week, the Kansas Jayhawk Community College Conference released its list of 2017 Spring All-Academic Selections...

Southeast Kansas League softball coaches selected five members of Fort Scott High School’s team to the All-SEK Team, which was released Monday. The league-runner up Tigers (8-3 SEK, 11-10 overall) had Taylor Krokroskia, Emily Hale and Karlee Stanley selected to the First Team and Aubrey Ard and Lane Bohlken chosen to the Second Team. League champion Independence (12-0, 20-2), which finished third at Class 4A-Division I State, had four players named to the First Team...

Uniontown saw three players chosen to spots on the All-Three Rivers League Softball Team, which was released on Wednesday. Senior Holly Shinn was named to the First Team for the third consecutive season. She was joined on the 16-member list by five unanimous selections:...

PAOLA — Second-seeded Fort Scott won its semifinal game against Louisburg but was unable to complete a rally against Paola in the championship game of the Class 4A-Division I Regional Softball Tournament here Tuesday. The Tigers (11-10) used a 6-run fourth inning to take the lead for good from Louisburg (10-11) in the semifinal to take a 9-4 win ...

PITTSBURG — Uniontown’s softball team was one of the victims of a Cinderella Pittsburg Colgan squad in the semifinals of the Class 2-1A Regional Tournament at Pittsburg State University Tuesday. Colgan lost its first 19 games of the season before beating Southeast, 4-3, in its regular-season finale. ...

CHANUTE — Fort Scott High and Chanute played one of their games of what was to have been a Southeast Kansas League doubleheader here Friday night with the host Blue Comets winning 9-4. Fort Scott ended the regular season with a record of 8-3 in the SEK and 10-9 overall going into Tuesday’s Class 4A-Division I Regional Tournament at Paola. ...

Neither Uniontown baseball nor softball will have to play on Monday as each have drawn first-round byes in their respective Regional tournaments. Eagle baseball (11-5), which swept St. Paul, 10-5 and 8-7, in Three Rivers League play to end the regular season on Tuesday, is the No. 2 seed in the Marmaton Valley Class 2-1A Regional Tournament, which will be held at Allen County Community College’s field in Iola...

Uniontown High School’s softball team will go into Regional play next week as winners of three of its last four games. Monday, the Eagles went to Chetopa for a Three Rivers League doubleheader and split with the Green Hornets. Uniontown won game one, 7-2, while Chetopa took the second game, 8-7...

Six members of Fort Scott Community College’s softball team were named to the Region VI Division II All-District D Team on Tuesday. Fort Scott finished the 2017 season 22-33 but took third-seeded Highland to a third game in a first-round playoff series last week. The win in game two of that series was Fort Scott’s first post-season victory since 2009...

ALTAMONT — Fort Scott High School’s softball team swept Labette County in a Southeast Kansas League doubleheader here Friday by scores of 11-1 and 13-3. Fort Scott was swept by Girard Monday in Girard, 7-1 and 11-2 but information from that doubleheader was not available at press time...

HIGHLAND — Highland won a Region VI District D first-round playoff series from Fort Scott Community College earlier this week but not before the underdog Greyhounds took game two on Tuesday to force a deciding game. The third-seeded Scotties (33-10) won the opener 13-0 in five innings. Highland hit two home runs, including a grand slam by Sydney Anderson in the second inning. Kayla Ross hit a solo shot leading off the second...

Uniontown’s softball team split a Three Rivers League doubleheader versus Yates Center Tuesday but dropped both games against a tough Humboldt squad on Thursday. Tuesday, Yates Center won game one 4-3 in the bottom of the seventh while the Eagles took the second game 4-2...

HIGHLAND — After losing Game One of a best-of-three Region VI District D playoff series to Highland 13-0 here Tuesday, Fort Scott Community College's softball team stunned the Scotties in Game Two, 5-4, to force a winner-take-all third game on Wednesday...

Fort Scott High School’s Southeast Kansas League varsity softball doubleheader was postponed Monday due to wet field conditions at Labette County. The games have been rescheduled for 4:30 p.m. Friday at Altamont.

PAOLA — Fort Scott High and Paola moved their softball doubleheader here Thursday due to wet field conditions at Don Hewett Field and the Panthers made home-field advantage pay off in a 5-2, 13-3 sweep of the Tigers. Karlee Stanley went 3 for 3 for the Tigers (8-6) in the opener while Aubrey Ard was 2 for 3. Fort Scott scored single runs in the first and sixth innings...

Lauren Scott bashed three home runs for Fort Scott Community College’s softball team as they swept the Haskell Indian Nations junior varsity in a make-up doubleheader at the Betty Ruth Willard Complex Monday by scores of 14-0 and 18-3. Games scheduled for Wednesday at Cottey College were rained out, which brought a conclusion to the regular season for the Greyhounds (22-31)...

Fort Scott High School’s softball team posted a sweep of Coffeyville at Don Hewett Field Monday night, winning the opener 10-0 and the second game 11-2. The first game ended after five innings on the 10-run rule. The Tigers (6-2 SEK, 8-4 overall) scored 3 runs in the first inning. Emily Hale led off with a single to center field and went on to score on a single by Laine Bohlken. Bohlken later scored on a triple by Karlee Stanley, who in turn scored on a single by Aubrey Ard...

The Fort Scott Relays track and field competition has been rescheduled for Monday, May 1, at Frary Field due to Friday’s rains that put a stop to all events at Fort Scott High School. Friday’s baseball and softball games at Labette County were also postponed as was a tennis tournament at Chanute. The tennis tourney will be made up Tuesday. The baseball and softball games have been rescheduled for May 1...

OTTAWA — Fort Scott Community College’s softball team swept the Ottawa University junior varsity here Friday by scores of 6-5 and 14-5. The games started early to beat the rain, which came through up there much later. The Greyhounds (20-31) led 6-1 going into the bottom of the seventh inning of game one. Ottawa scored on 2 hits, 3 errors and a hit batter before Fort Scott induced a double play to end the game...

INDEPENDENCE — Independence swept Fort Scott High’s softball team in a pair of run-rule decisions here Tuesday by scores of 12-1 and 11-1 in Southeast Kansas League play. Indy’s win in game one broke a 14-game losing streak against the Tigers. The Bulldogs (4-0, 7-0), who climbed into a first-place tie with Labette County (4-0, 9-1) had last defeated the Tigers in the first round of the 2008 Girard Class 4A Regional Tournament (due to rainouts, the teams did not play in 2013)...

UNIONTOWN — Uniontown’s softball team swept rival Marmaton Valley in Three Rivers League action at George Warren Field here Tuesday. The Eagles (3-3 TRL, 4-4 overall) won the opener 7-1 and the second game 15-5. Holly Shinn led the Eagles’ offense in the first game, going 3 for 4 and droving in 3 runs. ...

Fort Scott Community College’s softball team lost four games over the past two days in Region VI play., three of them by run rule The Greyhounds were swept by Hesston Thursday, 3-2 and 9-0. They were swept by Hutchinson Friday, 8-0 and 11-3, in Jayhawk Conference-Division II play...

Fort Scott High School’s softball team swept Parsons at Don Hewett Field Tuesday and took over first place in the Southeast Kansas League. The Tigers (4-0 SEK, 6-2 overall) won game one, 6-5, and game two, 16-5 in 4 1/2 innings. The Tigers are two wins ahead of Independence (2-0, 5-0) and Labette County (2-0, 7-1). Parsons fell to 1-3, 1-5...

Compared to last Thursday’s 23-10 win over Pittsburg, Fort Scott High’s softball team won a low-scoring game over the Purple Dragons at Don Hewett Field Monday afternoon by a score of 16-1. The Tigers, 2-0 in the Southeast Kansas League and 4-2 overall, have won their last three games and scored at least 10 runs in each one. Pittsburg (0-4, 0-4) has yet to win a game this season...

Fort Scott Community College softball has won just two of its last eight games, both coming over non-conference opponent Mineral Area on Sunday at the Betty Ruth Willard Complex. Friday: Allen 3-10, Fort Scott 0-7. Aubrey Smith allowed only one earned run in taking the loss. She walked one and struck out one...

OSWEGO — Uniontown’s softball team, playing for the first time in nearly a month, dropped both ends of a Three Rivers League doubleheader here Monday, falling to Oswego, 4-2 and 10-0. “Overall, we played pretty well considering we hadn’t had a game since March 16th (at Northeast),” Eagle head coach Paula Coyan said. “We had only been able to be on our field a couple of days due to weather.”...

PITTSBURG —Fort Scott High’s softball team cranked out 19 hits in a 23-10 decision over Pittsburg in both team’s first Southeast Kansas League game of the season here Thursday. Only one game was played. The teams will have a rematch at Don Hewett Field at 4:30 p.m. Monday...

Fort Scott Community College’s softball team moved Tuesday’s Jayhawk Conference-Division II doubleheader up a few hours to beat anticipated storms and ended up with a 5-1, 17-9 sweep of Coffeyville at the Betty Ruth Willard Complex in their first action since March 28. The Greyhounds were unable to play road doubleheaders as scheduled Friday or Saturday. They were to play at Hesston in a Region VI twinbill Friday and in Hutchinson for a Region VI/Jayhawk Conference double dip on Saturday...

Fort Scott High’s softball team salvaged a split with Frontenac when Emily Hale drove in 2 runs in the Tigers’ final at-bat Friday at Don Hewett Field. The Raiders won game one 13-8 while Hale’s heroics allowed the Tigers to take the nightcap, 10-9, and even their season record at 2-2...

Spring Hill isn't the defending Class 4A-Division I State softball champions for nothing. And the Broncos showed why it's not unreasonable for them to contend again this season as they scored 23 runs in taking the annual season-opening Fort Scott Tournament...

'Hounds win 2nd straight walkoff before Cloud takes game two

Fort Scott Community College's softball team broke a seven-game losing streak Tuesday when the Greyhounds won the second game of a home conference doubleheader at the Betty Ruth Willard Complex. Friday, Fort Scott traveled to Independence, where the Greyhounds lost in the bottom of the seventh inning in both games, 5-4 and 12-11. ...

Fort Scott Community College's softball dropped both ends of a Jayhawk Conference-Division II doubleheader to Neosho County at the Betty Ruth Willard Complex Wednesday afternoon, 19-2 and 12-10. The games were moved from Tuesday due to cold weather...

Three area athletes were named either player or co-player of the week in their sports by their respective conferences recently. Fort Scott High School graduates Kaleb DeLaTorre and Jennifer Harrison received honors as did Fort Scott Community College softball player Lauren Scott...

Fort Scott Community College's softball team was forced to cancel a scheduled home doubleheader on Saturday but was able to play on Sunday and swept the Missouri Valley College junior varsity by scores of 10-2 and 16-8 at the Betty Ruth Willard Complex...

Although Fort Scott Community College's softball team won just one of four games in a three-day period, that one win was one of the bigger wins in the four-year tenure of head coach Kristin Janes. When the Greyhounds beat Labette, 7-3, in the first game of a Jayhawk Conference-Eastern Division doubleheader at Parsons Monday, it was their first win over the Cardinals since 2006. ...

Fort Scott Community College's softball team split a non-conference doubleheader at State Fair, Mo., on Wednesday and swept North Arkansas at home Friday afternoon. The Greyhounds (8-9) will face Maple Woods, Mo., this afternoon at the Betty Ruth Willard Complex with the non-conference twinbill starting at 1 p.m. The will open Jayhawk Conference-Division II play Monday against Labette at Parsons...

No. 18-ranked Iowa Central swept Fort Scott Community College softball Saturday in a non-conference doubleheader at the Betty Ruth Willard Complex. The Tritons took game one 22-9 and posted an 8-0 shutout in the second game. Both teams scored 4 runs in the first inning of the opener and Fort Scott (5-8) held a 6-4 lead after two. But a 6-run fourth put Iowa Central (3-4) ahead 11-6 and the Tritions also added 9 in the top of the seventh...

MARSHALL, Mo. -- Following a weekend in Texas during which it went 0-5, Fort Scott Community College's softball team bounced back with an 8-1, 18-1 sweep of the Missouri Valley College junior varsity here Wednesday. Aubrey Smith pitched the entirety of the first game for the Greyhounds (5-6), allowing no earned runs on 5 hits and a walk while striking out 4. Jackie Kirkpatrick was 3 for 4 at the plate. Smith, Aimee Wimp, Hayley Bledsoe, and Lauren Scott each had 2 hits...

Fort Scott Community College's softball team opened the season Friday with a sweep on the road, then split its home opener on Sunday. Friday's twin bill resulted in a 2-0, 8-4 sweep of North Arkansas in Harrison. Hayley Bledsoe was the winning pitcher in the opener, allowing 3 hits and 3 walks while striking out 8 in 6 innings...

Fort Scott High School senior Emily Hale (seated, center) signed her letter of intent Wednesday morning to play softball at Cleveland State University beginning in the 2017-18 season. Cleveland State is an NCAA Division I school and a mamber of the Horizon League. With Emily as she signed were (clockwise from upper left) FSHS assistant coach Allison Gorman, head coach Sean Krokroskia and assistant Brian Pommier, and her parents, Des and Amanda...

Fort Scott Community College athletes and their teams received academic honors recently from the National Junior College Athletic Association. According to a press release on its web site, the NJCAA honored a record 4,578 student-athletes for their success in the classroom...

League champion Fort Scott High saw six members of its softball team named to the All-Southeast Kansas League Team, which was released earlier this week. League policy states that the All-League teams can't be released until the last SEK school completes postseason play. ...

Three members of Uniontown's softball team earned sports on the All-Three Rivers League team as named by league coaches earlier this week. Uniontown senior Holly Shinn and junior Taylor Cooper were both named to the First Team, which had 20 members. Sophomore pitcher Keely Goodridge was named to the Honorable Mention list...

Fort Scott Community College's softball team did not have any players named to the Jayhawk Conference-Eastern Division team this season. But the Greyhounds did get six posts on the All-Division II-District D Team. The conference team was chosen from players in the 12-team Eastern Division. The All-District team has players from the six teams that were in the District D post-season tournament...

The 13th Annual Dave Regan Memorial Softball Tournament will take place July 9 at Ellis Park. This is a co-ed softball tournament with a three-to-four game guarantee based on the number of teams entered. The field is limited to the first 16 teams to sign up...

PITTSBURG -- Uniontown's softball team put up a strong effort here Thursday but fell to fifth-seeded Chetopa, 2-1, in the first round of the Colgan Class 2-1A Regional Softball Tournament at Pittsburg State University. Uniontown (5-16), the No. 4 seed, was originally scheduled to host this game on Monday but rain early in the week caused Colgan officials to move the entire tournament to PSU...

PAOLA -- Third-seeded Spring Hill upset second-seeded Fort Scott High on its way to a Regional title here Wednesday as the Broncos defeated the Tigers, 2-1, in 11 innings in the first round before going on to knock off top-seeded Paola, 4-1, in the finals...

Fort Scott High School softball concluded regular-season play with a split against Chanute in a Southeast Kansas League doubleheader at Don Hewett Field Thursday evening. The visiting Blue Comets won game one 10-6 but the Tigers bounced back in the nightcap to win 8-2...

The Kansas State High School Activities Association released the brackets for next week's Regional baseball and softball tournaments Wednesday. The brackets for each of the teams the Tribune covers are listed below. Records for each team are as of Wednesday, when the brackets were seeded...

UNIONTOWN -- Uniontown softball split a Three Rivers League doubleheader with Chetopa here Monday, losing game one, 13-8, in 10 innings but winning game two, 9-6, top conclude regular-season play. Keely Goodridge, Taylor Cooper and Daryan Herring each had 2 hits for the Eagles (4-8 TRL, 5-13 overall) in the opener. Goodridge, Herring and Danielle Young each had 2 in the second game...

Fort Scott High School made Southeast Kansas League history Friday night at Don Hewett Field when a sweep of Independence made the Tigers the first team to win four consecutive outright league softball championships. Only one other school has accomplished a softball four-peat. Former member Columbus won four in a row from 2002-05 but had to share the last of those crowns with Fort Scott...

Uniontown High School's softball team swept Altoona-Midway in a Three Rivers League make-up doubleheader Tuesday but were swept by Humboldt in a non-league twinbill Thursday. Both doubleheaders took place on the road. The Eagles swept Altoona-Midway 24-2 and 28-6. Keely Goodridge allowed 3 hits and 3 walks while striking out 2 in game one. She allowed 4 hits, walked 2 and struck out 4 in the second game...

MORAN -- Uniontown's baseball and softball teams each split Three Rivers League make-up doubleheaders here Monday. These were games originally scheduled for April 18. Baseball: Uniontown 20-10, Marmaton Valley 4-12. Uniontown's baseball team split a Three Rivers League doubleheader here Monday, winning game one against Marmaton Valley, 20-4. The Wildcats won the second game 12-10...

OVERLAND PARK -- Fort Scott Community College's softball team lost its 14th and 15th consecutive post-season games here Saturday as No. 2 seed Johnson County defeated the Greyhounds 8-3 and 4-2 in a first-round Region VI Division II District D Tournament series...

PAOLA -- Paola broke Fort Scott High's 11-game winning streak here Thursday night with a sweep of the Tigers by scores of 9-1 and 10-1 in non-league play. The Panthers improved to 13-1 on the season while the Tigers fell to 13-3. Katie Gorman had 2 hits for the Tigers in game one, including an RBI single in the top of the seventh inning that played Bailie Brown with Fort Scott's only run...

COFFEYVILLE --Fort Scott High School's softball team extended its winning streak to 11 games Monday, taking a pair of wins over Coffeyville in Southeast Kansas League play. The Tigers (8-0 SEK, 13-1 overall) won the opener, 15-7, and dominated the nightcap, 12-0 in five innings...