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Oswego loses to Uniontown
UNIONTOWN — The fourth quarter proved to be the Oswego Indians' undoing on Friday night as they lost to Uniontown, 40-30. Oswego led 8-0 after the first quarter after Ethan Spore connected with Brant Yeoman on a 9-yard touchdown pass and passed to Nick Billingsly for the two-point conversion. Uniontown scored two touchdowns in the second quarter, but so did Oswego, once on a 9-yard run by Spore and again when Spore ran in from the 1 yard line ...
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Week 2 football about finding out team’s identity
The A-Game By Anthony Cook Sports Editor In high school football, week one never makes for a good view. The football is ugly first and foremost. Referees earn their checks in the first September game more so than any time throughout the year. Laundry is littered across the field. It’s also nice and hot. And for one of the two teams it doesn’t go as planned. Maybe later in the season there are, but in the opening game there’s no moral victory....
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Host Vikings have shot at 2-0 tonight
By Anthony Cook Sports Editor One season ago Parsons High School won for the first time in 21 games. Since then, they’ve done more losing than winning. Parsons enters tonight’s matchup with Iola at 6-4 in its past 10 games including that 63-20 triumph over the Mustangs. The past 10 don’t matter though, and neither do ones in the future — just the game in front of Parsons does. With Iola on a 12-game losing streak and this game sandwiched betw...
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Grizzlies getting ready for tough Chanute team
By Anthony Cook Sports Editor Week one did not go the way the Labette County football team wanted it to. To turn it around in week two, the Grizzlies will have to do so against one of the top offenses in the league. Labette County (0-1) will host Chanute High School (1-0) at 7 p.m. on Friday at Lucas Field in Altamont for the Grizzlies’ home opener. After being shut down by Fort Scott in week one the Grizzlies will face a Chanute team that top...
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Fort Scott sweeps Labette frosh, JV Tuesday
The Labette County High School junior varsity football team dropped its opener against Fort Scott 14-13 Tuesday evening. Fort Scott got on the board first with a safety following an LCHS fumble. Early in the second quarter, LCHS JV quarterback Austin Ryan connected with Logan Morgan for an 84-yard touchdown pass. Torbin Sieman made the PAT and Labette County led 7-2. Following a blocked punt, Fort Scott answered with two scores before halftime...
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Parsons MS volleyball travels to Coffeyville
The Parsons Middle School volleyball team traveled to Coffeyville Tuesday evening. The combination team won the first set 25-17 and the second 25-14 to get the victory. Avery Smith and Tina Sutton had five aces each, Bailey Collins added 11 of her own and Samantha Sweet had four aces and a kill. “The girls served great, made great passes and even had some kills. They worked together great,” said Parsons MS coach Janell Houk. In the seventh-gra...
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DU banquet is Saturday night in Parsons
The annual banquet for the Ducks Unlimited Parsons chapter will be held at 5:30 p.m. on Saturday at Commercial Bank’s meeting room in Parsons. Tickets for the event are $25 for a single or $40 for a couple. The cost includes a Ducks Unlimited yearly membership with six magazines. Greenwing tickets for those under the age of 16 are $15 dollars each. All greenwings will receive a duck call the night of the banquet with their membership. Tick...
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Parsons frosh sweep at home
The Parsons High School freshmen volleyball team hosted three teams Tuesday evening in the PHS gymnasium. The Vikings finished 3-0 on the night. In the opening match, Parsons lost the first set 25-18 before racing back to win 27-25, 15-5 in the next two games. Awbrey Lawson finished with 17 service points, five aces and a pair of kills. Jessica Forbes totaled six service points and an ace in the win. Against rival Labette County, Parsons score...
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Viking golfers take third place
The Parsons High School girls’ golf team began the season on Tuesday with a trip to the Fort Scott invitational. The Vikings brought home a third-place medal as a team while there and came home with two top-10 finishers — senior Rachel Newland who took sixth and junior Allsion Hudson who took seventh. The two shot a 50 and 52, respectively. The team was expected to begin play last week in Caney but due to sickness on the team and extreme temps...
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CHS ready for rematch with Oklahoma school
FORT SCOTT — Labette County High School failed to score until the clock struck zero Friday evening in the Grizzlies’ opener against Fort Scott. By that time, the Tigers had already put up 39 points and put the game out of hand. Labette County was outrushed by over 200 yards in the opener against the Tigers and Labette fell to 0-1. “Fort Scott dominated the line of scrimmage against us all night. They were quicker off the ball and more aggress...
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CHS ready for rematch with Oklahoma school
By Anthony Cook Sports Editor The Green Hornets got into a shootout with Southwest Christian Academy a season ago in a 42-30 loss to the eventual Oklahoma state semifinalists. This year, the team is hoping it doesn’t have to score as much to keep up. The Hornets (1-0) will take what they believe is an improved defense across state lines to Norman, Okla., on Friday in a matchup with Southwest Christian Academy (1-2). “I feel really good about o...
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Parsons MS volleyball takes on Chanute
The Parsons Middle School volleyball team traveled to Chanute Thursday night. The seventh-grade B team lost the first set 25-16 before battling back and losing a close second set 25-23. In the seventh-grade A game, Parsons fell 25-9 partially due to missed serves. Chanute won the second set 25-16. Lindzi Pellock had one kill, Jamaika Kindrick had an ace and Emily Falke had one kill in the game. The combo team lost its first set 25-11 before be...
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Erie gets revenge on Eureka, 28-26
ERIE — Erie High School avenged a season-opening beating from last year by out-hustling Eureka here Friday night. The Red Devils won 28-26 in the season opener, coming back from an early deficit. Last year, Eureka handed Erie a 60-12 beating. Eureka had a 12-0 lead after the first quarter and added another eight in the second to build the 20-0 halftime lead. Erie came alive in the second half, outscoring Eureka 28-6. Erie senior Keith Marquard...
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Labette County tennis wins home tourney
The Labette County High School tennis team won three of four events and 12 of 16 matches overall to take first place at the LCHS Varsity Invitational tennis tournament Thursday at the Forest Park courts in Parsons. The Grizzlies won the No. 1 singles, No. 2 singles and No. 1 doubles portion of the event. In No. 1 singles, senior Katie Anderson turned in a perfect 4-0 performance to earn the top spot. She defeated Czarina Ramos of Chanute 8-6 i...
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Vikings beat Titans to open season
By Anthony Cook Sports Editor The game featured a half dozen interceptions, a football field worth of penalty yards and endless cramps. But at the end of the day, the Vikings stood strong. Parsons High School moved to 1-0 on the season Friday night by taking a 20-12 come-from-behind victory from Columbus High School. The Vikings faced a 12-0 deficit through just over a quarter of play but persevered the entire night, never giving up an easy y...
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PHS frosh go 2-1 in Fort Scott
The Parsons High School freshman volleyball team traveled to Fort Scott Thursday evening for a quad and finished the night at 2-1. Parsons earned a 22-25, 25-17, 25-20 victory over the home Tigers to start the night. There, Kyla Reyes had 13 service points, five assists and three kills. Justyce McWilliams had eight service points, and Jessica Forbes had seven service points and three aces. Adreanna Kendrick had six kills. Parsons again came fr...
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PHS JV team splits with Indy
The Parsons High School junior varsity volleyball team was in action on Thursday at Independence. The JV went 1-1. In the opener, Parsons defeated host Independence 25-23, 25-22. Haley Flores had four assists and three aces in the match. Ry’Eshna Webber had eight kills and Shannon Dunlay had seven assists. In the closing match, the junior varsity took on rival Labette County High School and lost 25-23, 25-13. Dunlay had three aces in that mat...
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Olpe defeats Cherryvale 27-7
CHERRYVALE — Cherryvale scored early against Olpe here Friday night but then couldn’t get across the goal line again, falling in the season-opener 27-7 to the state-ranked team. “We got off to a little slow start,” Cherryvale head coach Harry Hester said. Olpe had the benefit of a short field all night, which didn’t help the younger Cherryvale team on defense. “They’re pretty good. They got after us early.” He said a clipping penalty went aga...
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Oswego gets past Quapaw
QUAPAW, Okla. — The Oswego Indians recovered from five unanswered touchdowns on Friday night to get past Quapaw, 36-34. Oswego scored first with 3:10 left in the first quarter on the first of four Nick Billingsly touchdown runs. Quapaw answered that TD with one of its own with just more than a minute left in the quarter. Quapaw then scored three times in the second quarter and again in the third before Oswego found the end zone again. The Indi...
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St. Paul defeats West Elk
HOWARD — St. Paul High School had first-game jitters against West Elk here Friday night, but the Indians settled in for the second half and held on for a 22-8 win. “We came out sluggish in the first half, particularly the first quarter,” St. Paul head coach Doug Tuck said. The Indians gave West Elk too many chances on offense early in the game, but the Indian defense tightened up when it needed to, keeping West Elk out of the end zone. St. Pa...
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