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Labette County girls advance in substate tourney
ALTAMONT — The Labette County High School girls basketball team is moving on to the second round of substate. The LCHS girls improved to 16-4 overall on Tuesday evening by knocking off Columbus (7-14) 49-32 here Tuesday evening in a game that saw Labette pull away late. “We struggled shooting (in) the first quarter last night but put together a couple of defensive flurries to take control of the game,” said LCHS coach Kristi Snider, whose te...
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Erie, Cherryvale boys set to play Friday
CHERRYVALE — The Cherryvale Chargers stayed true to seeding on Tuesday evening with a 54-46 victory over Fredonia (2-19) to improve to 14-7 overall this season and to advance to the second round of substate and to set up a meeting with Erie on Friday. Although Fredonia entered the game with just two wins, one of them came over the Chargers in early January. This time around Fredonia outscored Cherryvale by four points overall in the first, sec...
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Lady Indians survive round one
OSWEGO — The Lady Indians got a stiff test from No. 6 seed Yates Center, but had enough in the tank to advance to a semi-finals matchup with Pittsburg-Colgan (11-9) on Friday. The Indians needed a late run to get the victory over Yates Center, whose 5-15 record may not have been a good indicator of their talent. The Wildcats had played multiple games against Class 3A powers Burlington, Eureka and Fredonia this season during play in the Tri-Va...
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St. Paul boys blow by Pleasanton
ST. PAUL — Balanced scoring and tight defense has advanced St. Paul (13-8) into a rematch with Colony-Crest Friday evening. The Indians defeated Pleasanton 43-24 on Tuesday night after allowing just nine first-half points. St. Paul started the game slow on offense when it scored only six points off two 3-pointers, but the Indians gave up just one field goal in the first eight minutes and led 6-3 after one. In the second quarter St. Paul was...
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Labette women, men finish year
Basketball season ended for the Labette Community College basketball teams on Tuesday evening. The Labette women traveled to Great Bend to take on Barton County in the opening round of play in the NJCAA Division 1 Region VI basketball tournament. Barton was able to score an 84-47 victory over the Cardinals to drop LCC to 10-21 overall this season and end the year for the Lady Cardinals. Barton raced out to a 37-18 lead at the break before o...
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Fleet of Viking 3-pointers sink Girard Trojans
By Anthony Cook Sports Editor It’s normally not a good thing when a team fails to score a point in an entire quarter. Of course, the game isn’t normally out of hand by the time the start of the fourth period comes around. The Parsons High School boys basketball team improved to 18-3 overall on Monday with a 48-24 home victory here over Girard. The Vikings hit an eye-popping 11 3-pointers in the game and breezed by the Trojans and into the ...
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Grizzlies' comeback falls short
COFFEYVILLE — Labette County High School’s fourth-quarter rally here Monday night was not enough to defeat Coffeyville in the opening round of substate, but it was close. The 66-63 loss ended the Grizzlies’ season with a record of 9-11. Coffeyville will advance in the tournament and play on Thursday against Columbus, a surprise winner over Chanute Monday. Senior Mitchell Smith scored 17 points in the game for Labette County, hitting five 3-po...
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OHS overcomes 1-point quarter
OSWEGO — The Oswego High School basketball team got quite a scare here Monday, but advanced to the second round of substate thanks to a strong defensive effort. The Indians improved to 18-2 overall and more importantly stayed alive in the 2010-2011 season with a 31-24 victory over Central Burden. The Raiders (7-13) used a tightly-packed zone defense to keep Oswego uncomfortable in the early moments of Monday’s game. Oswego failed to register...
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Riverton knocks off Lady Chargers
CHERRYVALE — The Lady Chargers’ season ended here on Monday with a 48-37 loss to visiting Riverton. The Rams pulled off the mild upset over the No. 4 seeded Chargers on Monday thanks to a strong start and big lead at the half in a game that ended 48-37 in favor of Riverton. A win would have put Cherryvale in line for a matchup with No. 1 seed Fredonia on Thursday, the same team the Chargers had knocked off a week ago. “It was one of those n...
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Indy's late rally ends Parsons' season
By Anthony Cook Sports Editor INDEPENDENCE — The closer it got to its ultimate end, the more unforgiving Losey Gymnasium got. The Independence Bulldogs (14-7) defeated the Parsons Vikings (10-11) 59-51 by using a 13-5 rally over the final five minutes of play here Tuesday evening to end the Vikings’ season and to tally the final high school basketball win ever in the Bulldogs' historic gym in its final game. “I told the girls I was so prou...
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State champ has local ties
A champion performer at this year’s Class 6A wrestling tournament held in Wichita has local ties. Olathe Northwest junior Connor Middleton competed in the championship last weekend as part of the Northwest High School Ravens wrestling team. Middleton finished the tournament in first place in the 152-pound division. The Northwest junior finishes the year at 45-1 overall and is a three-time state qualifier. He is the son of Mark Middleton, a L...
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Murdocks place sixth in state
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Hosey gets fourth in state
SALINA — Labette County High School senior Channing Hosey finished out his career as one of the top 171-pound wrestlers in the state Saturday. Hosey competed in the Class 4A state wrestling tournament over the weekend and came away with a fourth-place finish in the 171-pound division. “Channing really strung together a lot of great matches this weekend. Some of the most athletic kids in his bracket lost in the early rounds of the tournament,...
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Five LCC wrestlers now All-American
Five Labette Community College wrestlers will finish this season as All-Americans. The LCC wrestling team completed the 2010-11 season on Saturday in the final day of the 2011 NJCAA Wrestling Championships in Spokane, Wash., hosted by North Idaho College. As a team, the Cardinals finished fifth overall with a total of 85.5 points. The top seven spots were closely contested with just 25 points separating those teams. Clackamas Community Col...
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High school wrestlers head to state
By Anthony Cook Sports Editor Although a team sport, wrestling becomes individualized at this point in the year as grapplers from around the state prepare for the final tournament of the year in Salina. Luckily for the Parsons High School team, three similar-sized Vikings will compete in today’s stat tourney and will have helped each other prepare. “It does change practice a little bit,” PHS coach Chris Ball said, who spoke of his three fi...
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Parsons boys clinch SEK League title
By Anthony Cook Sports Editor There’s something about the Coffeyville Golden Tornado that brings out the best in the Parsons Vikings. The Parsons High School basketball team (17-3 overall, 7-1 SEK) defeated Coffeyville 83-63 (13-7 overall, 5-3 SEK) 83-63 Thursday here. The win eclipses Parsons’ previous best offensive outing of the season, an 80-point effort against the same team on Jan. 25. Thursday’s regular-season finale was critical fo...
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LCC wrestling team competes at nationals
By Anthony Cook Sports Editor The Labette Community College wrestling team has put itself into a spot to return the NJCAA national title to Labette for the first time since 2005 thanks to an outstanding performance at this year’s regional tourney. After every wrestler qualified for the finals, and three won the entire bracket at regionals, the Cardinals will send 10 men to the mats today during the first round of the NJCAA championships in ...
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Fort Scott defeats Labette County
Four Grizzlies were in double figures, but two Labette County players were also in foul trouble and ended up picking up five fouls. Seniors Keaton Turner and Mitchell Smith both fouled out. Junior Cole Traxson scored 18 points and senior Trevor Nash added 17. Mitchell Smith had 14 points and Keaton Turner 11 on the night. The Grizzlies, without 6-5 senior Christian Hosey in the lineup, struggled to stop Fort Scott’s offense. Cody Harper scor...
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St. Paul splits with Crest
COLONY — St. Paul struggled getting points on the board here Thursday night and lost to Crest 37-26. Crest had a quick start, outscoring the Indians 18-8 in the first quarter. St. Paul played better defense as the game progressed, but still struggled with offense. The Indians started the second half down 22-15. Willie Westhoff scored 10 points to lead the Indians. D.J. Vitt scored seven. IN THE GIRLS’ GAME, St. Paul simply overpowered Crest...
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Coffeyville defeats Lady Vikings
By Anthony Cook Sports Editor The second meeting ended the same way as the first, and the two teams got to the finish line pretty much the same way. The Parsons High School girl’s basketball team fell to Coffeyville (7-13 overall, 3-5 SEK) 42-40 on Thursday evening to end the regular season at 10-10 overall and 4-4 in the Southeast Kansas League. The loss recalled the Jan. 25 meeting between the two teams that ended in overtime. In that ga...
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