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LCC baseball earns split with Coffeyville CC during weekend meeting
COFFEYVILLE — The Labette Community College baseball team earned a four-game split with Coffeyville Community College over the weekend in a pivotal Kansas Jayhawk Community College Conference Eastern Division series.
The two squads faced off in back-to-back doubleheaders here Saturday and Sunday with each team splitting on both days.
The Cardinals opened the series Saturday afternoon with an 8-3 victory behind 14 hits.
Labette jumped out to a ...
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Sedan knocks off LCHS baseball in tourney finals Friday
SEDAN — The Labette County High School baseball team began its season Friday evening in Sedan with a doubleheader in a tourney hosted by the Blue Devils.
The Grizzlies opened the tourney with a 1-0 victory over Caney.
LCHS pitcher Tyler Burris went seven strong innings, striking out eight Caney batters and surrendering just two hits to lead the Grizzlies to the opening-day victory.
“Obviously, Burris pitched extremely well. It was a tremendous...
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Rae grabs three top-five finishes at NJCAA championships
By Anthony Cook
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Maggie Rae was back at the podium over the weekend in her second trip to the NJCAA Men’s and Women’s Swimming & Diving Championship.
After finishing with two firsts and a second as a freshman at Lincoln College, the Parsons native returned to the NJCAA championships in Fort Pierce, Fla., over the weekend and placed in the top five in three separate events. Rae is the daughter of Jerry and Robin Rae of Parso...
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Three Rivers League releases postseason hoops team
Fifteen local athletes were named to the 2011-12 Three Rivers League team, which was released Thursday morning.
The list was highlighted by six girls on the all-TRL first team, including four Oswego High School players.
League champion OHS placed senior Kinzie Nesbitt, junior Sydney Pemberton, junior Bricynn Johnson and junior Jaymie Nesbitt on the first team while St. Paul landed juniors Nikki Sears and Kacie Phillips on the squad.
Hope Jurge...
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Two Cardinals named to all-KJCCC hoops teams
The Kansas Jayhawk Community College Conference Eastern Division has released its all-Conference teams for the 2011-2012 season.
Labette Community College received a nomination on the men's and women's team with each team placing a team member on the first team.
The Labette men placed sophomore guard Dre Conner to the list.
Conner averaged 17.6 points per game and shot 35 percent overall and 37 percent from the 3-point line this season for the...
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:LCC softball sweeps KCKCC Tuesday
The Lady Cardinals are still unbeaten in conference play.
Labette Community College softball improved to 6-0 within the Kansas Jayhawk Community College Conference Eastern Division with a pair of victories over Kansas City Kansas Community College (4-4 overall, 2-2 KJCCC) Tuesday in Parsons.
The wins improve Labette to 15-7 overall and 6-0 within the league in their quest to defend their KJCCC crown.
"Offense started off slow, but we had a gre...
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Labette takes two from Evangel
The Cardinals needed just 10 innings to smack 26 hits Tuesday in a two-game drilling over the Evangel College junior varsity team in Parsons.
Labette Community College baseball improved to 10-6 overall and won its third game in the last four tries after splitting with Cowley Monday afternoon in Parsons.
LCC pitchers Jon Riley and Dalton Tisdale got the wins Tuesday. The two pitched five innings apiece and went the distance in their respective ...
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LCC drops 3 of 4 to Cowley in Saturday, Monday doubleheaders
The Labette Community College baseball team earned a victory over Cowley County Community College in the last of four games with the Tigers Monday.
After losing a pair of games by 11-4 and 7-3 scores Saturday, the two Kansas Jayhawk Community College Conference Eastern Division foes reconvened action Monday after a Sunday rainout.
Cowley took the first game 9-6 before Labette grabbed a 5-2 win in the second game.
Cowley feasted on big innings ...
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Parsons finishes 12-0 in first tennis tourney of 2012
Tennis season is under way.
The Parsons and Labette County high school tennis teams started the 2012 boys’ season Tuesday at Forest Park in Parsons with a four-team meet hosted by the Columbus Titans.
Parsons was the overall winner with a perfect 12-0 mark at the event. Labette County took fourth in the event by winning two matches.
For Parsons, defending regional champion and Southeast Kansas League runner-up Payton Hays finished 3-0 and won ...
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Winners of BEARS tourney named
Sixteen area teams entered the boys’ fourth-, fifth- and sixth-grade BEARS (Better Edna Area Relations and Support) Basketball Tournament March 5-10 at the Edna Community Building.
Medals were given to second- and third-place teams while the winning team was awarded a trophy.
Sixth-grade teams were entered from Altamont, Edna, Meadow View, Mound Valley, Oswego and St. Patrick’s.
St. Patrick’s placed third, Oswego took second and Edna took fi...
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Six locals land on all-SEK first team
The Southeast Kansas League has announced its selections for the 2011-2012 basketball season.
Leading the way on the first team were two Parsons High School players from the SEK co-champion Viking squad.
Seniors James Jackson and Tevin Johnson were awarded first-team bids with Jackson earning the honor as a unanimous pick. He was joined by James Newton of Coffeyville as the only unanimous picks in the league.
It was the third time Jackson's na...
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All-CNC League teams announced
Monday, the CNC League released its all-league basketball teams.
Erie sophomore Bret McGuire and junior Kailey Cleaver were honored on the girl's team while Erie seniors Keith Marquardt and Keaton Page were honored on the boy's team.
The complete list of players is listed below.
2012 All-CNC teams
Girls
First team — Hadyn Herlocker, Girard junior; Tasha Wampler, Baxter senior; Christine Bone, Southeast senior; Taylor Price, Riverton senior; A...
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Tri-Valley League releases postseason teams
Below is the list of all-league Tri-Valley basketball players released Monday.
All-Tri-Valley League basketball teams
Girls
First team
Burlington — Madison Stewart, junior; Jacqulyn O'Connor, junior; Sarah Pearson, junior; Breanna Bluma, sophomore
Caney — Kayla Clapp, senior; Bethan Barlow, junior
Cherryvale — Jasi Adkison, sophomore
Eureka — Ashlen Schwartz, junior; Haley Pitko, senior
Fredonia — Shelby Baker, junior; Shannon Tindle, junior
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Labette women fall to Hutch in region tourney
The Labette Community College women's basketball team completed the season Saturday evening in Wichita with a 69-45 loss to Hutchinson (31-0) in the second round of the NJCAA Region VI tourney.
The Lady Cardinals returned to the quarterfinals of region play for the first time since 2010 thanks to a victory over Barton Wednesday evening.
Labette's reward was a matchup with one of the toughest teams in the country, who took a 27-18 lead into the...
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LCC finishes 2-1 at Mid-West Classic
The Labette Community College softball team traveled to Broken Arrow, Okla. over the weekend and went 2-1 in the MId-West JUCO Classic on Saturday before rain cancelled play Sunday.
The Lady Cardinals opened the day with a 4-3 victory over Garden City in the a.m.
Garden got nine hits off of LCC pitching in the opener but went five innings, and five hits, before they brought a run across home plate.
Labette's Jessica Vazquez tossed the first si...
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PWC qualifies 13 for districts
The Parsons Wrestling Club had 24 wrestlers make the trip to Pittsburg Saturday to compete in the District 1 South Sub-District tournament at Pittsburg State University.
Each wrestler had to place in the top four spots of their bracket to qualify for the District 1 Championship tournament. PWC will have 13 of the 24 move on to the District tournament next week. The team had three wrestlers place first, seven take second and three finish in fou...
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Parsons native finds success as wrestling coach
By Anthony Cook
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The program has his name all over it, and the recent success of Mill Valley wrestling does too.
It’s been 12 years since Travis Keal began his time at Mill Valley High School, and each year the team gets better.
Keal, a Parsons native and a former Labette Community College wrestler, began coaching 15 years ago in Desoto before taking on the head coaching duties at Mill Valley during the opening year of the ...
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Cards finish season in loss
The Labette Community College men’s basketball team fell 78-75 to Cloud County Wednesday evening in Concordia to complete the 2011-12 season.
Cloud entered the game as the No. 3 seed out of the West bracket in Region VI and hosted LCC, which was the No. 6 seed in the East.
Labette had a shot at a triple to tie the game at 78 late, but the attempt rimmed off and Cloud moved to 24-7 and advanced to a matchup with Independence (18-13) Sunday in t...
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LCC women down Barton, will face Hutch Saturday
By Anthony Cook
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The stats tell one story. The final score tells another.
Consider this — Labette shot just 27 percent Wednesday. The Lady Cardinals were outrebounded 54-31. They also trailed by as many as 14 in the second half and never led in regulation.
But Labette’s on its way to Wichita thanks to a 69-63 home victory over Barton Wednesday night in the first round of the NJCAA Region VI tourney.
“They had a spark in the...
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