Stories from Saturday, September 10, 2016

GIRARD -- Lauren Madison earned her second varsity medal in three days here Thursday at the Girard Invitational. The first 18-hole tournament of the season was interrupted by rain a few times. But in the end, Madison completed play with a 54 on the front nine and a 49 on the back for a total of 103. She won a scorecard playoff with Pittsburg's Logan Lord (46-57) for 10th place...

Fort Scott Middle School's football teams each fell in their season-opening games to Iola at Frary Field Thursday evening. The Ponies claimed a 20-12 win in the seventh-grade game and 49-0 shutout in the eighth-grade contest. No details were available...

PARSONS -- Fort Scott High's junior varsity tennis team finished third in team standings here Tuesday in the Labette County Invitational. Abbie Houston led the Tigers with a second-place finish in No. 1 singles. She defeated Bree March of LCHS in the first round, 6-1, and Grace Miles of Neodesha, 6-3, in the second round. Ally Hicks of Parsons won the final match, 6-0...

Fort Scott High School suffered a shutout at the hands of rival Pittsburg, 9-0, at Ellis Park Thursday in a Southeast Kansas League match. It was the eighth consecutive loss for the Tigers (0-2 SEK, 0-5 overall) going back to last season. Pittsburg won its first SEK match of the season and is 3-2 overall...

OSWEGO -- Uniontown's volleyball team opened Three Rivers League play here Thursday night by going 2-1 in a quadrangular. The Eagles (2-1 TRL, 8-3 overall) opened the night with a 25-5, 25-6 win over Altoona-Midway. Holly Shinn served 14 aces in the match for Uniontown...

COFFEYVILLE -- Fort Scott Community College improved to 10-2 here Friday with a pair of wins on the first day of the Coffeyville Invitational. In their first match of the day, the Greyhounds, ranked No. 10 in this week's NJCAA Division II poll, swept Longview, Mo., 25-18, 25-18, 26-24. Megan Turner and Mariah Aebersold each recorded 10 kills for Fort Scott (10-2). Aebersold was successful on 10 of 17 attacks, an impressive .529 kill percentage. She was also in on 5 kills, 2 solos and 3 assisted...

INDEPENDENCE -- Storms in the area caused the Independence Tournament to be suspended here Thursday, but Fort Scott High's team had seen some good results while head coach Lynn Barr took a look at his lineup. "With this not being a medal tournament, we shuffled our lineup around a little bit," Barr said. ...

Fort Scott High School's volleyball team stunned state-ranked Baxter Springs in their home opener at the FSHS gymnasium Thursday evening. The Tigers (1-2) swept 25-22, 25-19, 25-22. Baxter (3-1) came in ranked No. 7 in Class 4A-Division II in the latest Kansas Volleyball Association poll...

MOUND CITY -- Defending division champion Jayhawk-Linn began its defense of that title with a 40-0 shutout of Uniontown in Three Rivers League-Upper Division play here Friday night. The Jayhawks (1-0 TRL, 2-0 overall) scored 24 points in the second quarter to take control, going into the locker room with a 32-0 lead...

INDEPENDENCE -- Two long scoring runs were all the offense Independence needed here Friday night as the Bulldogs defeated Fort Scott High in Southeast Kansas League play, 14-11. The Bulldogs scored on a 56-yard first-quarter run by Josh Pralle, which was his first carry of the game, and a 36-yard third-quarter run by Will Schabel...