Stories from Tuesday, October 6, 2015

UNIONTOWN -- Uniontown Junior High's volleyball team swept Crest here Thrusday, with both the seventh-grade and eighth-grade teams prevailing. The seventh graders won the first set in convincing fashion, 25-12, and then took the second 25-20 for the sweep, improving its record to 4-1. In the first set, Breanna Stokes had 11 points for the Eagles. In the second, Karleigh Schoenberger netted 8 points and Stokes 4...

PITTSBURG -- The Fort Scott Middle School eighth-grade volleyball team finished fourth in an eight-team tournament here Saturday. The Tigers fared well in pool play, winning two of three, losing only to Joplin, Mo., 25-13 and 25-17. FSMS took down Independence 25-20, 25-22 and also defeated Coffeyville 25-17, 25-17...

PITTSBURG --Fort Scott's Cassidy Westhoff and Devin Brooks each won the varsity races at the Pittsburg Invitational here Thursday. Westhoff took the girls' race by a substantial margin, going 5,000 meters in 17:37. McKenzie Wilks of Pittsburg was second in 18:52...

CHANUTE -- Fort Scott Community College's volleyball team managed just a 2-2 record over the weekend at the Neosho County Invitational. The No. 17-ranked Greyhounds (20-7) fell in their first match on Friday to No. 16 Coffeyville, 25-15, 22-25, 25-21, 25-16. Julia Stringer had 13 kills and Brette Moore 11 for the 'Hounds...

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...

DODGE CITY -- Fort Scott Community College tied the score twice but could never find a way to get in front of No. 17 Dodge City here Saturday night as the Conquistadors survived an upset bit, 17-14, at Memorial Stadium in Jayhawk Conference play. The 'Hounds fell for the fifth straight time since winning their season opener at Iowa Central. However, their last two losses have come by a total of 9 points...