Stories from Wednesday, April 15, 2015

CHANUTE -- Fort Scott High School's girls track team won 11 medals while the boys won eight in a junior varsity meet here Monday. Fort Scott's girls finished second in the team standings. Host Chanute scored 162 points while the Tigers scored 70. Pittsburg finished third with 59 points...

PARSONS -- Fort Scott High School sent three entries to a junior varsity tennis tournament here Monday. Micah Self played No. 1 singles for the Tigers. He finished in second place with a 2-1 record. He defeated Jack Waring of Pittsburg in the first round, 6-1, and Cameron Goodrich of Independence, 6-3, in the semifinals. Chanute's Payton Cranor won the championship match, 6-2...

COFFEYVILLE --Fort Scott High's junior varsity golf team finished fourth here Monday with three Tigers earning medals. The Tigers finished with a four-man, nine-hole team score of 233. Independence won the team title with a 208. Caleb Rhoades finished in eighth place individually for Fort Scott, shooting a 54. Jesse Jones placed ninth with a 56. Derek Bollinger tied for 10th place with a 57...

For just the second time this season, Fort Scott Community College's softball team lost rhe first game of a doubleheader but bounced back to win the second. This happened Tuesday at the Betty Ruth Willard Complex against Coffeyville in Jayhawk Conference-Eastern Division action...

The announcement that Alvin Metcalf has left his position as head coach of Fort Scott High School's softball program seven games into his seventh season arrived via email Tuesday morning. It was not made clear in the letter if Metcalf left voluntarily...

Following a rare mid-season coaching change (see box at right), Fort Scott High School's softball team simply came out to Don Hewett Field Tuesday night and continued doing what it's been doing for the past week --rolling up big wins. The Tigers, under interim head coach Karen Curran, who replaced Alvin Metcalf Monday, rolled to 14-0 and 17-2 run-rule victories over Parsons in a Southeast Kansas League doubleheader just hours after it was announced that Metcalf would no longer coach the team...