Stories from Saturday, March 11, 2017

Five players from Uniontown were named to the All-Three Rivers League basketball teams, which were released on Thursday. Uniontown junior Ben George was one of five players selected unanimously to the boys' First Team along with Oswego senior Elijah Elliott, Jayhawk-Linn junior Branden Gray, St. Paul junior Brenden Doherty, and Yates Center sophomore Aaron King. Crest sophomore Hayden Hermreck is also on the First Team...

One had to have a truly special season to be named to the All-Southeast Kansas League wrestling team for the 2016-17 school year as just seven of the 28 members did not win a medal at a State Tournament. Fort Scott's Class 4A State qualifiers were both selected to the Honorable Mention team. ...

Fort Scott Community College's baseball team swept a Jayhawk Conference-Eastern Division doubleheader from Independence at Lions Field Friday, taking game one, 7-3, and using five homer runs to take the nightcap, 8-6. These games were moved from Thursday due to anticipated bad weather (see box, right, for more schedule changes)...