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Anthony Cook/Sun photo Labette Community College freshman second baseman Briana Walker delivers to second base for a force out in game one of Tuesday's sweep over Kansas City Kansas Community College.
: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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Anthony Cook/Sun photo Labette County High School senior Allie Maffei is shown signing her letter of intent to compete in track next season at Southwestern College Wednesday morning at LCHS. Maffei is joined on the front row by father Daniel Maffei and mother Vickie Maffei. Southwestern College women's track coach Mike Kirkland and LCHS girl's track coach Stacy Smith are shown on the back row.
Maffei signs with Southwestern

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Anthony Cook/Sun photo Labette Community College sophomore Matt Crawley throws to first for a force out during the third inning of Tuesday's second game with Evangel. LCC hammered the visitors to improve to 10-6 overall.
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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Anthony Cook/Sun photo Parsons High School junior Kevin Debald returns a serve against Labette County High School junior Aidan Carter Tuesday afternoon in Forest Park. Debald finished the day at 3-0 overall and Parsons was 12-0 as a team.
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 acook@parsonssun.com 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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Anthony Cook/Sun photo Shawnee Phillips of Labette Community College comes up with a loose ball during a second-half rally over Barton Wednesday evening. The LCC women defeated the Cougars 69-63 to move into an NJCAA Region VI quarterfinal matchup with Hutchinson (30-0) on Saturday in Wichita.
LCC women down Barton, will face Hutch Saturday
By Anthony Cook acook@parsonssun.com 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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Johnson evens season series with Labette
After opening with two wins Sunday, the LCC baseball team settled for a four-game split with Johnson County after taking two losses Monday afternoon in Overland Park. Labette defeated Johnson 12-5 and 5-2 Sunday but fell 15-4 and 9-8 (10 innings) on Monday. Johnson scored eight runs in the first three innings to lead 8-2 in Monday’s opener before breaking the game wide open with a six-run sixth highlighted by a walk-off homer from Scott Living...
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Anthony Cook/Sun photo Labette Community College sophomore Kala White slaps a bunt during the second inning of game one in a doubleheader with Coffeyville Tuesday afternoon in Parsons. The Lady Cardinals defeated Coffeyville 11-2 and 7-3 Tuesday afternoon in Parsons to improve to 11-6 on the season and 4-0 within the Kansas Jayhawk Community College Conference Eastern Division.
LCC powers past Coffeyville
The Labette Community College softball team still has a chance to go .500 on its current 10-game home stand. The Lady Cardinals defeated Coffeyville 11-2 and 7-2 Tuesday to move to 3-5 during a stretch of 10 games in eight days. The Cardinals entered the doubleheader at 9-6 overall and on a three-game skid after losing the second game with Marshalltown 10-7 on Friday and dropping a doubleheader with No. 4-ranked Iowa Central Sunday. But the L...
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Grizzlies picked to win SEK softball
PITTSBURG, Kan. -- The Southeast Kansas League coaches picked the Iola Mustangs baseball squad and the Labette County Grizzlies softball team as the favorites to top the standings in 2012. That is according to The Ticket -- 99.1 ESPN Radio coaches polls announced during the second annual Southeast Kansas High School Baseball/Softball Media Luncheon at the Watco Companies Conference Room Monday. Iola, playing their last season in the SEK League...
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Two local wrestlers named to all-SEK team
Parsons High School senior Thatcher Murdock and Labette County High School senior Spencer Gatewood were named to this year’s all-Southeast Kansas League wrestling team, which was released Tuesday. Murdock was a state-qualifier in Class 4A and finished with a 33-7 record overall in the 132-pound division. Jacob Durossette of Fort Scott earned the first-team bid at 132 pounds. Gatewood, a 285-pound wrestler, earned the honorable mention spot in ...
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LCC women to host region game; Cards sweep Greyhounds
Labette Community College will host a regional opener. The LCC women's basketball team won its second in a row and third game in the last four tries with an 89-66 victory over Fort Scott Community College Saturday evening in Parsons. The win avenges a 73-70 loss to the Greyhounds earlier in the season. More importantly, the victory improves the Cardinals to 11-19 overall and 6-8 in region play, giving them a fourth seed in the Eastern Division...
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