Girls Tennis

While they are relatively new to the sport, two Fort Scott Tiger tennis players have made it to state-level competition. Ella Beth, a junior, and Emma Daly, a sophomore, will take their doubles team to the Kansas State High School Activities Association 2019 Class 4A Girls State Tennis Tournament, which began Friday at the Winfield-T.H. Vaughan Tennis Center at Wellington High School...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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. ...

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...

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...

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...

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)...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Area high-school athletic teams began practice on Monday under new rules designed to reduce the risk of harm from the heat in all sports and to cut the risk of injury in football. The rules were put into place by the Kansas State High School Activities Association over the summer...

Southern Coffey County sweeps Uniontown. UNIONTOWN — Uniontown’s teams swere swept buy Southern Coffey County in non-league games to conclude the regular season here Friday night. Uniontown girls (4-16) lost 44-32. Karleigh Schoenberger led the Eagles with 8 points while Danielle Young collected 6 rebounds...

PARSONS — Tennis season came to a close for Fort Scott High’s girls here over the weekend in the Parsons Class 4A Regional Tournament. “We knew going in that this would be a tough tournament for us,” Fort Scott head coach Lynn Barr said. “The girls played hard with all of our losses coming to eventual State qualifiers. I was proud of their effort...

CHANUTE — Independence took the team championship and all four divisions at the Southeast Kansas League Tennis Tournament here Saturday while Fort Scott High finished sixth as a team. Independence scored 28 points as a team while defending champion Pittsburg finished with 18. It was the 33rd team title for the Bulldog program. Girls’ tennis has been a league sport for 44 seasons...

After 2017-18 KSHSAA classifcations were released on Tuesday, assignents for post-season play began to be posted on Wednesday and Thursday. Assignments for Tribune Area schools Fort Scott, Uniontown, and Northeast can be seen below. Volleyball Fort Scott High School will host a Class 4A-Division I Volleyball Sub-State Tournament on Saturday, Oct. 21 at the FSHS gymnasium. This will be a four-team tournament scheduled for a 1 p.m. start...

Fort Scott High’s girls finished second in their home tennis invitational Tuesday and had a champion entry in No. 2 doubles. “The girls had a good tournament in our only home match of the season,” Fort Scott head coach Lynn Barr said. “They should be very proud of the way they competed. Everyone played some good tennis and everyone placed.”...

Fort Scott High School’s tennis team played in two tournaments this week, finishing in second place in each one in the team standings. Tuesday at Independence, Every Tiger entrant won two of four matches and placed third in their divisions. That allowed Fort Scott to take second place in the tournament...

Fort Scott High School hosted its second girls’ junior varsity tennis tournament of the season Monday with two doubles entries. Abbie Houston and Alexis Bailey played No. 1 doubles and finished third with a 1-2 record. They lost their first match to Pittsburg’s Gina Mathew and Carmen Kent by a 6-1 score but defeated Labette County’s Bree March and Aubri Stewart by the same score. They lost their third match in a tie-breaker, 6-5 (7) to Ashlyn Smoot and Kiley Smoot of Chanute...

INDEPENDENCE — Fort Scott High’s tennis team arrived here Thursday for the first of two tournaments here this season, finding some success with a new lineup. “We are still being hurt by errors and inconsistent play, but the effort is there and we just need to keep grinding and keep improving,” Fort Scott head coach Lynn Barr said...

PARSONS — Fort Scott made changes through its lineup here Thursday for the Labette County Invitational and found some success with the No. 2 doubles team of Britni Addington and Patience Richwine. “We are still hurting ourselves with our unforced errors, but we are showing improvement,” Fort Scott head coach Lynn Barr said. “The 2 doubles team of Addington and Richwine played well together and had a good tournament.”...

PITTSBURG — Fort Scott High’s junior varsity tennis team took a pair of duals from Pittsburg here Tuesday. The Tigers defeated the Pittsburg White team 4-2 and swept the Pittsburg Purple team. Alexis Bailey and Addie Smith won both their singles matches and both doubles teams also picked up sweeps...

PARSONS — Fort Scott High School’s tennis team opened the varsity schedule in a five-team tournament here Thursday. Both doubles teams finished 2-2 on the day and placed third in their divisions. “It was a typical first match, but encouraging because although we do have players without a great deal of varsity experience, I felt like they played hard and competed,” Fort Scott head coach Lynn Barr said. “Everyone needs to play more consistently, but the effort was there.”...

Fort Scott High School’s girls’ tennis team will be short on experience this season. Only three players with varsity experience return and there are only nine players overall. “We graduated five of our top eight players,” Fort Scott head coach Lynn Barr said. “The three returning players all saw some varsity action last season.”...

Fort Scott High School’s junior varsity tennis team opened its season at home Monday as host of a four-team junior varsity tournament. Fort Scott had only three players. Shaylee Terry played No. 1 singles and lost to Amanda Trout of Independence, 6-0, Allie Utley of Iola, 6-0, and Rylee Johnson of Pittsburg, 6-4...

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...

CHANUTE -- Tennis season came to a close for Fort Scott High School here Saturday at the Chanute Class 4A Regional Tennis Tournament. The Tigers were in a 10-team field that included Independence, Parsons and Winfield. All four of their entries were eliminated after one match...

PITTSBURG -- Fort Scott High School's tennis team finished in a tie for sixth in the Southeast Kansas League Tournament here Saturday. Pittsburg won the school's first-ever girls' tennis team title with 22 points, outscoring four-time defending champion Independence by 2 points...

CHANUTE -- Fort Scott High's No. 2 doubles team placed first in the final junior varsity tennis of the season at Chanute here Monday. Aubry Terry and Patience Richwine won all three of their matches. They defeated Carmen Kent/Rylee Johnson of Pittsburg, 6-4, in the first round. They beat Selena Stich/Hannah Hugo of Chanute, 6-3, in the second round. In the finals, they won easily over Pittsburg's Megan Noe/Maddie Maple, 6-1, in the final...

PITTSBURG -- Fort Scott High School's girls' tennis team got a "a good test for us looking ahead to the upcoming league and regional tournaments," according to head coach Lynn Barr here Thursday. The Tigers finished in sixth place among the eight teams but there was one Class 6A school and a couple of other unfamiliar opponents in the field...

Fort Scott High School's tennis team won three pools Tuesday as the Tigers won their home varsity tournament. Fort Scott entries placed first in No. 1 singles, No. 1 doubles and No. 2 doubles and second in No. 2 singles. Another doubles team filling in for a missing Independence entry finished second...

Fort Scott High School's tennis teams have been playing a lot of tennis over the past six days. They hosted their own varsity tournament on Tuesday. More coverage of that will be included in Friday's edition. The varsity also played Thursday and Monday while the junior varsity team played at Parsons on Monday...

INDEPENDENCE -- Fort Scott High School's tennis team finished in third place here Tuesday at the second of two invitationals here this season. Independence won the tournament with 15 points, followed by Labette County with 12 and Fort Scott with 8. "The girls played hard today and we are beginning to show signs of improvement in places," Fort Scott head coach Lynn Barr said. ...

There are 16 girls out for Fort Scott High School girls' tennis this season, including eight returinng letter-winners. The main thing for Lynn Barr's team will be experience as the Tigers graduated three seniors, including three-time State Tournament qualifier Jennifer Harrison...

Fort Scott High School's junior varsity tennis team hosted its second tournament of the season Monday, entering two teams. Every entry for Fort Scott Red placed second in their pools as the team tied for first place with Pittsburg with 12 points. Chanute was third with 11 points. Fort Scott White had two entries, both in doubles and placed fourth...

INDEPENDENCE -- Storms in the area caused the Independence Tournament to be suspended here Thursday, but Fort Scott High's team had seen some good results while head coach Lynn Barr took a look at his lineup. "With this not being a medal tournament, we shuffled our lineup around a little bit," Barr said. ...

PARSONS -- Fort Scott High's junior varsity tennis team finished third in team standings here Tuesday in the Labette County Invitational. Abbie Houston led the Tigers with a second-place finish in No. 1 singles. She defeated Bree March of LCHS in the first round, 6-1, and Grace Miles of Neodesha, 6-3, in the second round. Ally Hicks of Parsons won the final match, 6-0...

PARSONS -- Fort Scott High School's doubles teams paced the Tiger girls' tennis team here Thursday in Labette County's home tournament. The No. 2 doubles team of Rebekah Sweyko and Mikayla Norris, playing together for the first time, finished second while the No. 1 team of Emily Adams and Addison Cunningham moved over from the No. 2 slot to take third...

PITTSBURG -- Fort Scott High's junior varsity team played a pair of best-of-nine duals here Tuesday, with six singles matches and three doubles matches in each one. Pittsburg was the host and has a co-op with St. Mary's-Colgan, so it split its JV players into teams based on which school they attend. PHS won the first dual 7-2 while Fort Scott defeated Colgan 9-0 in the other...

PARSONS --Fort Scott High School's varsity tennis team saw live competition for the first time this season in a tournament here Thursday that was halted prematurely by thunderstorms. "We needed to see some live competition to measure where we are," Fort Scott head coach Lynn Barr said. ...

Fort Scott High School's girls' junior varsity tennis team opened its season Tuesday by hosting a tournament. No team scores were kept. The best finisher for the Tigers was in No. 2 singles where Alexis Bailey finished 2-1 and placed second. There was also a three-way tie for first in No. 1 doubles at 2-1 with Fort Scott's team placed third after tie-breakers...

WINFIELD -- Fort Scott High School senior Jennifer Harrison saw her high-school tennis career end here Friday at the Class 4A State Tournament here. Harrison finished the season 15-7 in singles play with a 1-2 mark here and was 12-2 in doubles for an overall record of 27-9. She won at least 20 matches in singles and doubles each of her four years and finished 74-41 in singles matches and 17-5 in doubles for a total of 91-46...

Fort Scott High School senior Jennifer Harrison has achieved something that is rare for athletes at any school, much less here. She has qualified for a State Tournament in the same sport all four years of high school. Her final trip will take place Friday and Saturday at the Class 4A State Tennis Tournament in Winfield...

INDEPENDENCE -- Fort Scott High School senior Jennifer Harrison will be going to the Class 4A State Tennis Tournament for the fourth time following a fifth-place finish at the Independence Class 5A Regional over the weekend. "This is a goal she has had since her freshman year, to be our first four-time State qualifier," Fort Scott head coach Lynn Barr said. "We have had many great young ladies in this program and several three-time qualifiers, but she is now our only four-time qualifier."...

PARSONS -- Fort Scott High School's tennis team finished fifth at the Southeast Kansas League Tennis Tournament here Saturday. Independence won for the fourth consecutive season and the 11th time in the last 12 years. The Bulldogs, who have won 32 of the 43 SEK girls' tennis titles offered since the first season of the sport in 1973, scored 21 points, beating Parsons out by 2. Fort Scott and Coffeyville scored 7 points each...

CHANUTE --Fort Scott High School's junior varsity tennis team completed its season here Monday and finished fifth out of nine teams. Three entries finished fourth in their brackets. Britni Addington played No. 1 singles. She defeated Natalie Woolfolk of Labette County, 6-1, in the first round. Kaylee Bryant of Independence took a 6-4 verdict in the semifinal and Shelby Bubb of Parsons defeated Addington by the same score in the third-place match...

PITTSBURG -- Fort Scott High School's tennis team took second place behind host Pittsburg in the final tournament of the regular season here Thursday. The Tigers had one division champion, two seconds and a third in finishing with 12 points. "We played pretty well today in our final regular-season match," Fort Scott head coach Lynn Barr said. ...

Fort Scott High School's tennis team won its home tournament Tuesday with undefeated entries in three of the four divisions. The Tigers scored 10 team points. Labette County and Independence each had 7 but LCHS won the tiebreaker for second. Columbus did not score and finished fourth...

PARSONS -- Fort Scott High's junior varsity tennis team saw all of its entries go 2-1 on the day at the Parsons Invitational here Monday. Both singles players finished in fifth place for the Tigers while both doubles teams took second. The No. 1 doubles team of Addison Cunningham and Madi Larson won its first-round match in a tiebreaker over Devon Coulter/Kamryn Kelley of Pittsburg, 6-5 (7-5). ...

It was a busy day for Tiger tennis Thursday as Fort Scott High sent teams to Chanute for varsity play and Parsons to make up an junior varsity tournament that had been rained out earlier in the season. But it was also a good day for both units as the varsity finished second behind Pittsburg at Chanute and the JV took second behind Parsons in a tournament hosted by Labette County High School...

INDEPENDENCE -- Despite losses in three of four matches here Thursday evening, Fort Scott Middle School girls' volleyball coach Kelly Toll remained upbeat, citing continued progress. The seventh-grade B Team earned the lone victory of the day for Fort Scott, with the Tigers winning 25-22, 25-16. The B Team is 4-1 on the season...

INDEPENDENCE -- Char Hutchison went undefeated in the second Independence tournament here Tuesday. Independence and Parsons were both scheduled to play in an all-day tournament in Baldwin on Wednesday, so they witheld their normal set of players. Also, due to a misunderstanding, Independence entered an extra No. ...

Fort Scott High's junior varsity tennis team hosted its second tournament of the season Monday. No team scores were kept. Extra players from participating schools were used to fill out the pools as much as possible after Coffeyville was unable to attend...

INDEPENDENCE -- Char Hutchinson and Jennifer Harrison continued to play well as the No. 1 singles team as Fort Scott High took part in a tournament here Thursday. Hutchison and Reeves improved to 7-1 together by going 3-1 in the tournament. They were first paired at the Labette County Tournament the week before...

PARSONS -- Fort Scott High School's doubles teams combined for a 7-1 record here Thursday at the Labette County Invitational. The Tigers finished tied for third place with the host school but won the tie-breaker on the basis of more games won, 71-68. Pittsburg was the team champion with 14 points followed by Chanute with 8...

PARSONS -- Fort Scott High School's tennis team tied for third place here Thursday in their season-opening tournament. The Tigers scored 7 points to tie with Pittsburg. Independence was the winner with 12 points followed by Parsons with 10. "It was about what I expected for the season opening match," Fort Scott head coach Lynn Barr said. ...

The junior varsity tennis team became the first Fort Scott High School athletic team to take the field this academic year when it hosted a quadrangular Monday. No team scores were kept. Abury Terry played No. 1 singles for the Tigers. She lost to Sagan Shire of Independence, 6-1, in her first match. She defeated Judy Branstetter of Iola in her second match, 6-3. Nicole Konopelko of Pittsburg won the final match, 6-0...

Fort Scott High School's girls' tennis season begins Monday when the junior varsity plays host to a round-robin tournament. The varsity schedule begins Thursday with a tournament at Parsons. Four of the six players head coach Lynn Barr took to Regionals last season are back. Three are seniors, including three-time State Tournament qualifier Jennifer Harrison, Emmah Reeves and Char Hutchison. The fourth is junior Alex King...

WINFIELD -- Fort Scott High junior Jennifer Harrison didn't have as long of a stay at the Class 4A State Tennis Tournament as she would have liked here this past weekend, going 0-2. But she finished the season with a record of 22-14 and will be back next season in a quest to qualify all four years of her high-school career...

Fort Scott High School junior Jennifer Harrison got into playing tennis because her older sister, Corina, needed someone to practice with. "When I was in fifth grade, Corina, who was on the team when I was a freshman, said, 'I need someone to hit with me,' because she decided she wanted to play as a freshman (2009)," Jennifer said. "And I said, 'OK, I'll hit with you.' And then we just all started hitting as a family and I've liked it ever since."...

CHANUTE -- Fort Scott junior Jennifer Harrison will be going to the Class 4A State Tournament for the third time in as many seasons after finishing sixth at the Chanute Class 4A Regional Tournament here over the weekend. Harrison (22-12) went 2-2 in the tournament, falling in the fifth-place match to Parsons' Sami Ford. The top six finishers in singles and doubles --one bracket for each -- advanced to State, which will be held in Winfield Friday and Saturday...

CHANUTE -- The first day of play at the Chanute Class 4A Regional Tennis Tournament was called off Friday due to rain and wet court conditions. Fort Scott High and the other teams will try to get things going this morning at 10 a.m., hoping that a 30-percent chance of rain is highly overestimated...

CHANUTE -- Independence won its third straight championship and its 10th in 11 seasons after finishing well ahead of the pack at the Southeast Kansas League Tennis Tournament here Saturday. Independence, which has won or shared 31 championships since the first SEK girls' tournament in 1973, scored 26 team points while Chanute was second with 17 and Parsons third with 14. Fort Scott finished in seventh place with 6 team points...

CHANUTE -- Fort Scott High School's junior varsity tennis team tied for fifth place in its final tournament of the season here Monday. There were eight teams, including two from Labette County and an "SEK Combo" team, which allowed extra players from any school to get some matches in...

PITTSBURG -- Fort Scott High tennis player Jennifer Harrison is on a big-time roll. She won the No. 1 singles pool for the third time in her last four outings as she went 4-0 in the Pittsburg Invitational here Thursday, dropping just 2 games the entire day...

Fort Scott High School's girls varsity tennis team hosted its annual home tournament Tuesday afternoon, coming away a first-place medal and two seconds in the four-school round-robin. And the Tigers got to play in front of a good-sized crowd, at least at the high-school courts where the No. 1 pools of singles and doubles were held...

PARSONS -- Fort Scott High School's junior varsity tennis team took part in a tournament here Monday. The highest finish was posted by the No. 2 doubles team of Kristal Castillo and Savanah Dixon, which finished third. They lost to Nakia Palmer/Selena Stich of Chanute, 6-0, in the first round. But they claimed a 6-3 win over Jaiden Rausch/Nyeesha Natt of Parsons and a 6-1 decision over Megan March/Addison Saye of Labette County...

Fort Scott High School's tennis team juggled its lineup a little bit at the a round-robin tournament at Independence Tuesday and saw Jennifer Harrison come away from the day with a perfect 4-0 record in No. 1 singles. "Jennifer had a solid day, probably playing some of her best and most consistent tennis of the season," Fort Scott head coach Lynn Barr said. "She stroked the ball well today, and for the most part played with the patience she needs to be successful."...

Fort Scott High's junior varsity tennis team hosted its second tournament of the season Monday and got to use all nine of its players when Iola was unable to show. The coaches put together a "combo" team to take Iola's place, which had two entries from Fort Scott and two from Chanute...

INDEPENDENCE -- Fort Scott High School's tennis team had to work around an injury here Thursday at the Independence Invitational. Mikayla Norris, who was to play No. 2 doubles with Breanna Leslie, suffered an ankle injury before the tournament got underway. It was too late to substitute her out for a match against Iola, so the Tigers had to forfeit that match. Then head coach Lynn Barr moved Alex King from No. 2 singles to partner with Leslie for the rest of the day...

PARSONS -- Fort Scott's No. 1 doubles team of Briana Williams and Emily Adams won all three matches here Tuesday and claimed first place at the six-team Labette County junior varsity tennis tournament. Williams and Adams first defeated Pittsburg's Alexa Yantis/Delaney Borton, 6-4. Then they shut out Iola's Judy Branstetter/Tori Danford, 6-0. Finally, they beat Labette County's Candance Carr and Kiersten Sailsbury, 6-3...

PARSONS -- Fort Scott High School's tennis team took part in a round-robin tournament hosted by Labette County here Thursday. Head coach Lynn Barr said he saw signs of improvement from the season-opening tournament at Independence but that there was still work needed on being consistent in their play...

PITTSBURG --Fort Scott High School's junior varsity tennis team played a pair of best-of-nine duals here Tuesday against two Pittsburg teams. Results: No. 1 singles: Ashlee Montojo lost to Trina Pail, Pittsburg White, 6-0; def. Breiyana Binegar, Pittsburg Purple, 6-2...

PARSONS -- Fort Scott High School's varsity tennis team opened the season here Thursday at the Parsons Invitational. With some of the top teams in the Southeast Kansas League entered in the five-team round-robin tournament, the Tigers experienced a tough outing that was good for evaluation...

Although there are 14 girls out for tennis at Fort Scott High School this season, leadership will have to come from young players as none of them are seniors. Junior Jennifer Harrison is a two-time State qualifier in singles with a high-school varsity record of 37-20, going 20-13 last season. Also, classmates Char Hutchison and Emmah Reeves were 13-15 together as a doubles team last season. But the remainder of the Tiger roster has about 20 sets of varsity experience combined...

Fort Scott High's junior varsity tennis team started its season on Monday with a home tournament. Each of the Tigers' entries finished third in their pools, all with 1-2 records on the day in round-robin play. Briana Williams played No. 1 singles. She lost to Independence's Emily Wilson in her first match, 6-0. She defeated Iola's Erin Klubek, 6-3, and lost to Pittsburg's Chania Stewart, 6-2...

Seventy-two athletes, freshmen included, reported Monday for the first day of football practice at Fort Scott High School. Monday was the first day of practice for all fall sports allowed under Kansas State High School Activities Associaton rules. Since school doesn't begin for another week, Tigers head coach Bob Campbell said that there will be more two-a-day practice sessions than there have been in the past few seasons...

TOPEKA -- Both of Fort Scott High School's entrants were 2-2 at the Class 4A State Tennis Tournament here over the weekend. The meet was delayed one day due to rain and cold temperatures and was held Saturday and Sunday. Seniors Courtney Crain and Kenna Savage, appearing as a team for the second consecutive season, finished the season with a 23-11 record. ...

PARSONS -- Fort Scott High School's tennis team will send three players to this weekend's Class 4A State Tournament at Topeka. And all of them will be returning State qualifiers. Seniors Coutrney Crain and Kenna Savage will be returning in doubles and sophomore Jennifer Harrison will be going back in singles. ...

INDEPENDENCE -- Jennifer Harrison finished second in the No. 1 singles bracket and Fort Scott High's girls finished in fourth place at the Southeast Kansas League Tennis Tournament here Saturday. Harrison's only loss came to the defending league champion and Class 4A State runner-up, Abbi Groff of Independence, in the finals. Each of the other Tiger entries finished in a position equal to or higher than their seed in their respective brackets...

INDEPENDENCE -- Fort Scott High School's tennis team finished in second place here Thrusday at the make-up of the second Independence Tournament that was originally scheduled for Sept. 17. Parsons won the team title with 14 points. Fort Scott scored 10 points while host Independence had 8...

NEVADA -- Fort Scott High's tennis team took a best-of-nine dual from Nevada here Tuesday, winning eight matches. Doubles matches were played first with the Tigers taking all three matches. Kenna Savage and Courtney Crain (13-4) defeated Jessica DeCocq/Megan Payne, 8-3, and Char Hutchison and Emmah Reeves (8-11) beat Kiersten Lanham/Ellie Pruitt by the same score. ...

CHANUTE -- Fort Scott High School's junior varsity tennis team finished in seventh place at the Chanute Tournament here Monday. Kristian Engle and Breana Leslie finished highest for the Tigers, sixth in No. 1 doubles. They lost to Jaymi Lawrence/Rachel Ungles of Chanute Blue, 6-0, in the first round. They defeated Jordan Schrebbel/Alea Blackburn of Labette County in the consolation semifinal, 6-1. They fell to Abbie Ford/Emily Gatewood of Parsons in the fifth-place match, 6-1...

PITTSBURG -- Because he needed to hold out both his No. 1 singles player and his No. 1 doubles team due to KSHSAA limits on days of competition, Fort Scott High head tennis coach Lynn Barr moved his No. 2's into the No. 1 slots and gave junior varsity players a chance in the No. 2 positions...

Fort Scott High School's tennis team won the team title and two divisions of its home varsity invitational Tuesday. The Tigers won the team title with 10 points. Independence won a tie-breaker over Labette County for second place after both finished with 7 points. Columbus brought up the rear, failing to score a point...

PARSONS -- Fort Scott High School's junior varsity tennis team took part in the Parsons JV Invitational here Monday. The Tigers finished fifth as a team with two fourths, a sixth and a seventh individually. Alex King in No. 1 singles was one of those fourths. She defeated Selena Perez of Labette County, 6-1, in her first-round match. In the second round, she lost to Morgan Stephens of Coffeyville, 6-2. In the third-place match, Casidee Cox of Independence took a 6-3 win...

CHANUTE -- There was only one match remaining when the Chanute Tournament was suspended due to rain here Thursday evening. And that match just happened to involve the Fort Scott High School No. 1 doubles team, which was seeking to win the bracket. It was a six-school tournament with the teams split into two pools. Fort Scott was drawn into the Gold Pool with Coffeyville and Columbus...

Pittsburg won the team title at the Fort Scott High School Junior Varsity Tennis Tournament Monday while a Tiger singles player finished in second place in the No. 1 bracket. Pittsburg finished with 15 points while Chanute was second with 11 and Fort Scott came in third with 7 points, followed by the "SEK Combo" team with 4 and Iola coming in last with 3. ...

INDEPENDENCE -- The results may not indicate such, but Fort Scott High School head tennis coach Lynn Barr said his team showed progress at the Independence Invitational here Thursday. "We have a lot of players in new positions this season or playing at a higher level than they did last year and it's just going to take some time to consistently compete at the varsity level," Barr said...

PARSONS -- Fort Scott High School's junior varstity tennis team played at the Labette County tournament here Tuesday with one player finishing second in singles and a team placing third in doubles. There was pool play with two matches in each, then a third match to determine places based on the finish in the pools...

PARSONS -- Fort Scott High School's girls tennis team showed signs of progress here Thursday, according to head coach Lynn Barr, as they finished fourth in the Labette County Invitational. "Although we definitely aren't where we would like to be, there were signs of progress and improvement by several players," Barr said. ...

PITTSBURG -- Fort Scott High School's junior varsity tennis team went to Pittsburg Tuesday to play a pair of best-of-nine duals with two Purple Dragon JV teams. Pittsburg Purple defeated Fort Scott in the first dual, 9 matches to none. The Tigers won the second dual from Pittsburg White, 6-3...

PARSONS -- Fort Scott High School's tennis team finished fourth out of five teams in a tournament that included three of the Southeast Kansas League's top programs at the Parsons Invitational here on a hot, windless Thursday. Independence won the team title with 13 points followed by Parsons with 11, Pittsburg 9, Fort Scott 7 and Coffeyville with no points...