Sports
Vikings survive slow start
By Anthony Cook Sports Editor The Parsons High School basketball team played welcoming committee to Class 4A basketball for the Baxter High School Lions on Tuesday evening. The Vikings weren’t very friendly against the first-year Class 4A school. Parsons survived a slow start to defeat Baxter 55-37 Tuesday evening at home to open the season 1-0. “Baxter is a team that is very athletic. They have three or four really good kids. They did a ...
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Fort Scott hands Lady Grizzlies first loss
FORT SCOTT — The Labette County Grizzlies struggled on offense on Tuesday night, falling to Fort Scott. The Grizzlies led 6-5 after the first quarter, but the Tigers scored 15 points in the second, making it 20-10 at halftime. LCHS stepped it up in the third quarter, scoring 10 points, but the Tigers had another big quarter, scoring 21. The Tigers outscored the Grizzlies 12-10 in the final period for a 53-30 win. Grizzly coach Brad Smith sai...
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Lady Vikes spark late, fall to Baxter Springs
By Anthony Cook Sports Editor The start of the 2010-2011 season for the Parsons High School girls basketball team got off to a difficult start on Tuesday evening, but the final quarter left spectators with plenty to be excited about. The Vikings fell to 0-1 on Tuesday after taking a 41-36 defeat by the hands of the Baxter High School Lions (2-0) as the Vikings entered the Pat Schibi era with an opening-night loss. It was a sloppy start for...
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St. Paul girls defeat Columbus Titans
ST. PAUL — St. Paul High School fought to get back in the game in the second half, but came up short against Columbus 64-49 here Tuesday night in a high school basketball tournament. St. Paul had a slow start, only scoring two points in the first quarter and 16 in the first half. Columbus carried a 30-16 lead going into the third quarter. For the Indians, Tyler Coomes and Willie Westhoff led scoring with 11 points and 10 points, respectively...
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Oswego girls defeat Marmaton Valley
MORAN — The Oswego High School girls’ basketball team won its first game of the year in the Marmaton Valley tournament against the host team on Tuesday evening. The Lady Indians jumped out to a huge lead, 17-2, after the first quarter. Oswego held Marmaton Valley to just 11 points in the first half while scoring 31. The Lady Indians outscored Marmaton Valley 26-20 in the second half for a 57-31 win. Oswego coach Neal Cruse said the team play...
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Neosho County tops LCC men
By Anthony Cook Sports Editor The Labette Community College basketball team ran into one of the hottest teams in the Kansas Jayhawk Community College on Saturday and fell to 1-11 this year and 0-2 within the KJCCC with a 97-66 loss to Neosho County (7-5 overall, 2-0 KJCCC). The Cardinals, who have lost seven in a row, came to play in the opening minutes against the Panthers. Through five minutes of play the score was 13-9 and LCC was hang...
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LCC women get conference win
By Anthony Cook Sports Editor Riding a four-game skid and entering Saturday night’s game against Neosho County with a 0-1 record in the conference thanks to a lopsided-loss to Johnson County, the Labette Community College women’s basketball team needed a win and they needed a confidence booster going into the break. Check, and check. The Lady Cardinals scored a 74-31 win over the visiting Panthers (2-9 overall, 1-1 KJCCC) Saturday to impro...
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LCHS wrestlers open season
The Labette County High School wrestling season began on Saturday when the Grizzlies traveled to Ark City for a a day full of dual matches. The Grizzlies went 0-5 on the day in the duals due to open spots in some of the weight classes, but the Grizzlies won the majority of matches in three of the five duals and won one or more head-to-head matchups in each dual. Just five Grizzlies competed in the event. The Grizzlies were led by Channing Ho...
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LCHS girls overcome deficit for win
By Anthony Cook Sports Editor PITTSBURG — Not many teams can overcome an 11-point second half and still win the game, but then again not many teams can play defense like the Labette County High School girls basketball team. The Grizzlies overcame a tough offensive night to defeat a strong Pittsburg team 39-32 on the road Friday night. “There were times we did a lot of things right. It wasn’t a lack of effort. We had some bad reps with the ...
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Grizzlies stop Pittsburg
By Anthony Cook Sports Editor PITTSBURG — The Labette County High School boys basketball team has a number of sevens littered throughout its locker room. The team doesn’t try to hide why either. It’s to remind the players of what number the rest of the coaches in the Southeast Kansas League thought the team would finish in the league race this season. Friday’s 54-42 victory over Pittsburg may make the Grizzlies put up even more sevens. “(P...
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Labette men lose to Johnson County
After showing promise in the past two games, the Labette Community College mens basketball team fell to 1-10 this season with a 100-61 loss to Johnson County (6-1) on Wednesday. The Cardinals, who have now lost six in a row, lost the previous two games entering Wednesday’s Kansas Jayhawk Community College Conference opener by an eight-point average. Those losses against Hesston and Northern Oklahoma-Enid were a far cry from the first three g...
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Johnson County defeats Lady Cards
The Labette Community College women’s basketball team dropped to 4-10 overall this season and lost their fourth in a row on Wednesday evening when they traveled to Overland Park to take on Johnson County Community College. Johnson scored a 79-49 victory over LCC. The Cardinals, like everyone else this season, struggled against a Cavaliers team that has won each game this season by double digits. The closest anyone has came to Johnson was Pe...
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Ideas for outdoor-related Christmas gifts
It’s that time of year again. Those that read this column on a regular basis will most likely think I am talking about deer hunting or maybe trout fishing at pit No. 30 in the Mined Land Area. But after the last leftover turkey sandwich is eaten, all outdoorsmen and women still have something very important to worry about. How do we get what we really need this Christmas and avoid those other gifts that find their way under our tree? First, ci...
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LCC hoops goes 0-4 over weekend
The Labette Community College women’s and men’s basketball programs finished the weekend 0-4 when the two teams took trips to two tournaments. The Labette women traveled to Concordia for a four-team tourney hosted by Cloud County. In the opener on Saturday, the women fell to Cloud 81-66 to fall to 4-8 this season. In the game, Labette found itself in a small hole at the half when Cloud led by a 39-36 score. However, the hosts pulled away i...
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Saints begin season
The St. Patrick Catholic School basketball season began on Monday evening in Thayer. The St. Patrick girls won two games against the Flyers, and the A and B teams each improved to 1-0. In the A game, the Lady Saints won 43-9. Kaitlyn Landers scored 12 points in the game, and Kelsey Leech added 10. Jessica Forbes finished with six, and Bridget Nash had four. St. Patrick led 20-6 at the break. “Our presses were effective. We passed and shot ...
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Blue Gold game reminder
Parsons High School basketball will kick off the 2010-2011 season this evening at the Parsons High School gymnasium with the Blue and Gold scrimmage. The girls junior varsity will begin the evening at 6 p.m. Boys junior varsity, girls varsity and boys varsity will follow the girls JV game. For more on the upcoming basketball season for PHS and local schools check out the 2010 Parsons Sun basketball preview, which will be included in the Frid...
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State championship was a trip to remember
I’m not a big experience guy. Of all the people in the world you’d expect to have a bucket list, I’d be the last one. While some people love to take vacations and see as many landmarks, oceans and world-record holding structures as they can, I’d rather enjoy a few laughs with some friends and family on a lazy Sunday afternoon. Having said that, there are a few things I want to get around to before my time is up, and I successfully accomplis...
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Parsons wrestlers prepare for season
By Anthony Cook Sports Editor The Parsons High School wrestling team welcomes a new head coach to the fold this season. An assistant coach for the Vikings last season, Chris Ball will be taking over for 2009-2010 head coach Joel Thompson this season. “I am blessed to have been a part of Viking wrestling for a long time, I am also following in some pretty big footsteps left by the Thompson family. I believe that we will work our hardest and ...
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State championships mark end to season
There’s nothing quite like state championship football, or so I’ve been told. This year I plan to put an end to not knowing, as I’ll be making a long trip to Hays with a few friends of mine. By the time you read these predictions I’ll either be in a car, looking for a seat or even watching the game. Before all that happens, I want to make my yearly stab at the championship games. Here’s my two cents about the five games in the state of Kansa...
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Viking boys only local team named to first KBCA poll
The initial Kansas basketball Coaches’ Association (KBCA) rankings for the 2010-2011 Kansas high school basketball season have been released. The rankings will be released weekly from this point forward. The Sun will publish Class 1A division 2 through Class 4A rankings for boys and girls from this point forward. Class 5A and 6A rankings are included this week. The Parsons boys basketball team is the only area team ranked in the preseason po...
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