Stories from Saturday, May 5, 2007

HUME, Mo. -- The First Annual Hume High School Dodgeball Tournament will be held May 12 at the Hume High School gym. Teams may be co-ed but must be comprised of students in grades 7-12. Each match will start with six players on the court. The tournament will be a round robin with the number of games based on the number of teams participating. T-shirts will be awarded to the first-place team based on won-loss record...

GIRARD -- Fort Scott High School's junior varsity golf team went to Girard Thursday to participate in a nine-hole tournament here. This was a varsity tournament. But the Tigers performed well, shooting 185 and finishing seventh out of 10 complete teams (four other schools didn't have the four players required to record a team score)...

INDEPENDENCE, Kan. -- Both of Fort Scott High School's doubles teams will be going to the Kansas Class 4A State Tournament after finishing in the top four at the Independence Class 4A Regional Tournament here Friday. Bryce Hart and Stephen Buntain finished in second place while Sam Johnson and Corey Chandra placed fourth...

FORT SCOTT, Kan. -- A severely under-manned Parsons team was only able to bring eight players here Friday for a make-up Southeast Kansas League doubleheader against Fort Scott High. But the Tigers took just under two hours to complete a 15-0, 15-0 sweep at Ellis Park, used because Don Hewett Field couldn't be made ready in time...