Stories from Saturday, February 11, 2017

Stell, Lorenz, Caldwell each 3-0 in tourney but Tigers finish 6th

Homecoming was celebrated Friday at Uniontown and Fort Scott high schools. Royalty was crowned between the girls' and boys' games at both schools.

City officials are looking into the future of Memorial Hall. At Tuesday's meeting of the Fort Scott City Commission, commissioners voted to allow City Manager Dave Martin permission to negotiate a possible proposal to sell the building, which is more than 90 years old, to Last Farmhouse Films, Inc., a nonprofit company based in the Kansas City area, which has approached the city with an interest in converting the building into an event center...

The next generation of Fort Scott and Bourbon County historians could be sitting in a classroom at Fort Scott High School. The history club at the high school consists of a group of students who meet once a month to focus on the historical aspects of Fort Scott and Bourbon County. ...

UNIONTOWN --Uniontown's basketball teams swept Pleasanton in a Three Rivers League doubleheader on Homecoming here Friday night. Eagle girls (5-3 TRL, 9-8 overall) won 46-29 behind a 27-point, 6-rebound night from Shalina Harper. Holly Shinn added 11 points and handed out 4 assists...

Tristan Gegg's 28-point night led Labette County's girls, ranked No. 8 in Class 4A-Division I by the Kansas Basketball Coaches Association, to a 67-49 win over Fort Scott High in Southeast Kansas League play at the FSHS gymnasium Friday night. Gegg scored 7 of Labette County's first 9 points as the Grizzlies (7-2 SEK, 13-3 overall) stormed out to a 21-9 leadter one quarter of play...

Fort Scott High's boys were unable to overcome a strong start by visiting Labette County Friday night and eventually fell, 56-49, in Southeast Kansas League play at the FSHS gymnasium on Homecoming. Labette County (4-5 SEK, 7-9 overall) outscored Fort Scott 17-3 in the first six minutes of play with Javon Reliford scoring 10 of his game-high 21 points during the run. Reliford also had 4 steals in the quarter...