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UJH football beats Oswego
(Community Sports ~ 09/14/13)
OSWEGO -- Uniontown Junior High's football team raced out an early lead and held on to down Oswego Thursday night on the road, 36-24. "We played really well the first half," coach Chad Hays said. "We returned the opening kickoff for a touchdown and cruised to 30-8 halftime lead. We were able to held on in the second half."...
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UJH volleyball posts wins over Oswego
(Community Sports ~ 09/14/13)
Uniontown Junior High's seventh-grade volleyball team is off to a 2-0 start, while the eighth-grade has split its first two matches. Seventh-grade Coach Paula Coyan has 12 players on this year's team, all playing competitive volleyball for the first time...
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Freshmen take three at home
(High School Sports ~ 09/14/13)
Fort Scott High School's freshmen volleyball team won two of three matches in a home triangular at the FSHS gymnasium Tuesday evening. The Tigers lost to Chanute, 25-14, 25-13, but came back to top Coffeyville, 25-6, 25-5, and Iola, 25-20, 25-14. Emily Hale was credited with 3 kills against Chanute, according to FSHS head freshman coach Jenna Campbell. ...
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Middle school volleyball sweeps Jayhawk
(Community Sports ~ 09/14/13)
MOUND CITY -- The Fort Scott Middle School's seventh- and eighth-grade girls' volleyball teams went to Mound City to take on the Jayhawk Junior High Jayhawks Thursday. The seventh-grade "A" team (3-0) prevailed 25-17, 25-8. Joce Allen served 15 points in a row...
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FSHS volleyball falls twice at Wellsville
(High School Sports ~ 09/14/13)
WELLSVILLE -- Fort Scott High School's volleyball team dropped both matches here Thursday. The Tigers (5-4) lost to host Wellsville, 25-20, 25-21, and to Paola, ranked No. 8 in Class 4A by the Kansas Volleyball Association, 21-25, 25-23, 25-20. No other details were available at press time...
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Fort Scott soccer shut out at Pitt
(High School Sports ~ 09/14/13)
PITTSBURG -- Fort Scott High School's soccer team dropped a 6-0 decision to Pittsburg in Southeast Kansas League play here Thursday. The Tigers were lacking several of their key players due to either injury or suspension. "Clayton Hixon, the varsity goalkeeper, suffered a concussion in the ninth minute and had to come off," Tiger head coach Andrew Cline said. ...
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8th-ranked Uniontown sweeps TRL opener
(High School Sports ~ 09/14/13)
OSWEGO -- Uniontown High School, ranked No. 8 in Class 2A by the Kansas Volleyball Association, opened Three Rivers League play Thursday in strong fashion, dispatching host Oswego and Altoona Midway. In the varsity match with Oswego, Uniontown rolled 25-11, 25-11. Hannah Travis went nine for nine on attacks and contributed six kills. Britney Stokes chipped in with 15 assists...
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Tiger tennis shows progress at Independence
(High School Sports ~ 09/14/13)
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...
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Eagle golfers win team title at West Franklin
(High School Sports ~ 09/14/13)
POMONA -- Uniontown's girls golf team won the team title at the West Franklin Invitational here Thrusday as three Eagles won medals on a course they hadn't played before. "I wasn't sure what kind of scores to expect," Uniontown head coach Jason Tourtillott said. "They had some tough holes but were able to overcome them and have some good holes to offset them and came in with a nice team score...
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Eagles 48, Devils 0 (High School Sports ~ 09/14/13)
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Former 'Hound denied by NCAA (College Sports ~ 09/14/13)
The NCAA has ruled that Kansas cornerback Kevin Short, a 2013 graduate of Fort Scott Community College, is academically ineligible and will have to redshirt this season, according to reports including one from the Associated Press. Short was an NJCAA All-American for the Greyhounds. He played here in 2011 and 2012. Kansas head coach Charlie Weis was reported as saying he was "extremely disappointed" with the decision... -
Titan FG takes it as time expires (High School Sports ~ 09/14/13)
Justin Foust's 27-yard field goal as time expired gave Columbus a 15-14 victory over Fort Scott High School in a hard-fought game between league favorites at Frary Field Friday night. The Tigers were looking to control the clock with a 14-12 lead with less than six minutes to go. But a fumbled pitch was recovered by Columbus at its own 47-yard line with 4:01 to go to give the Titans (2-0) what turned out to be the game's final possession... -
Marie Peterson (Obituary ~ 09/14/13)
Marie Elizabeth Peterson, age 88, resident of Fort Scott, Kan., died unexpectedly Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2013, at the Shawnee Mission Medical Center, Overland Park, Kan. She was born Sept. 4, 1925, in Walkertown, Kan., the daughter of Elmer Lewis Judy and Eliza Elizabeth Judy. ... -
Entities working to keep citizens safe
(Local News ~ 09/14/13)
Fort Scott's City Manager Dave Martin, Fire Chief Paul Ballou and Bourbon County Deputy Emergency Manager Shane Walker approached the Bourbon County Commission during the regular Friday meeting to work on the task of getting emergency sirens to those entities that currently need them...
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Video of fire scene among evidence shown
(Local News ~ 09/14/13)
The jury received a video walkthrough of the scene of a deadly 2011 house fire and other testimony of events surrounding the incident during a half-day of testimony Friday morning at the Bourbon County Courthouse. Mickey Rantz, a special agent with the Kansas Bureau of Investigation, walked jurors and spectators in the courtroom through a detailed video documentation of the inside and outside of 2166 Grand Road, the site of an Oct. ...
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