Stories from Saturday, April 30, 2016

NEODESHA -- Shalina Harper won three medals here Thursday for Uniontown's track and field squad in the Neodesha Invitational. Harper won the 1,600 meters in 6:02, took second in the 800 and fourth in javelin. Also for Eagle girls, Jimme Keller was fourth in the 400 and fifth in the 200...

PAOLA -- Paola broke Fort Scott High's 11-game winning streak here Thursday night with a sweep of the Tigers by scores of 9-1 and 10-1 in non-league play. The Panthers improved to 13-1 on the season while the Tigers fell to 13-3. Katie Gorman had 2 hits for the Tigers in game one, including an RBI single in the top of the seventh inning that played Bailie Brown with Fort Scott's only run...

COFFEYVILLE -- Fort Scott sophomore Jonathan Allen, who has played for the Coffeyville Community College golf program the last two seasons, has signed a scholarship agreement to continue playing golf at Alcorn State University for the 2016-17 school year...

COFFEYVILLE -- Fort Scott High School's baseball team handed Coffeyville a pair of rlosses that produced some of the highest scoring in the program's history here Thursday night. The Tigers won game one of a Southeast Kansas League doubleheader from the Golden Tornado 24-0. ...

After several years of planning and hoping, progress on the repairs for the Fulton Middle and High School is about to come to a head. The school building, which was built in 1917 and officially closed its doors more than 40 years ago, has been in need of repairs for the roof, ceiling tiles, and flooring for some time, Mary "Sug" Beckford has said...

Although the Kansas Department of Transportation recently announced delays in 25 major highway construction projects, Fort Scott projects receiving KDOT money should not be affected, city officials said. Construction work on a project to widen U.S. Highway 69 and make improvements to the highway's intersections with various other streets is expected to begin Monday, according to a KDOT news release...

INDEPENDENCE -- Alex Gorman and Micah Self finished in third place in No. 1 doubles here Thursday at the Southeast Kansas League Tennis Tournament. Gorman and Self have a 16-12 record this season but that comes after overcoming an 0-5 start. The duo started off the day by beating Pittsburg's Dante Menghini/Ben Kargis in the first round, 8-4. They fell to eventual champs Will Schabel/Sam Hilger of Independence, 6-0, 6-2 in the semifinal round...