Stories from Tuesday, February 28, 2017

No. 18-ranked Iowa Central swept Fort Scott Community College softball Saturday in a non-conference doubleheader at the Betty Ruth Willard Complex. The Tritons took game one 22-9 and posted an 8-0 shutout in the second game. Both teams scored 4 runs in the first inning of the opener and Fort Scott (5-8) held a 6-4 lead after two. But a 6-run fourth put Iowa Central (3-4) ahead 11-6 and the Tritions also added 9 in the top of the seventh...

Fort Scott Community College baseball split a doubleheader with State Fair, Mo., at Dave Regan Stadium Saturday, then swept the Ottawa University junior varsity at Lions Field on Monday. The Greyhounds (8-3) won Saturday's opener 3-0 with all their runs coming in the bottom of the first inning. ...

HIGHLAND -- Fort Scott Community College's men will not win the Jayhawk Conference-Division II regular-season title for the first time since the division was created three seasons ago. That was assured when Highland clinched no worse than a share of the championship after defeating the Greyhounds, 48-43, here Saturday afternoon...

HIGHLAND -- Despite losing to No. 8 Highland here Saturday by a score of 81-66, Fort Scott Community College's women still have a chance to host a first-round playoff game in the Region VI-Division II post-season tournament. A complicated tie-breaker gives an edge to the Greyhounds if they can beat Brown Mackie tonight and Kansas City Kansas loses to Jayhawk Conference-Division II leader Johnson County...

HAYS -- Uniontown freshman Colt Eck was 0-2 in his first State experience here Friday at the Kansas State Class 3-2-1A State Wrestling Tournament at Fort Hays State University. Eck (28-7) was pinned by Scott Resler of Wathena-Riverside in the first round at 145 pounds. He was eliminated by a 12-4 decision by Cole Sramek of Atwood...

SALINA -- Fort Scott High School junior Zarek Fewell finished in fourth place at the Kansas State Class 4A Wrestling Tournament here over the weekend, going 3-2. Fewell (24-8) competed in the 152-pound weight class and had a first-round match against Holcomb's Tanner Johnson, who was ranked No. 5 in Class 4A by the Kansas Wrestling Coaches Association coming in. Fewell took a 3-2 decision to move into the quarterfinal round. There, third-ranked Jarrett Jurgens of Scott City won a 5-2 decision...