Sports
Fish consumption advisories include certain SEK shellfish
TOPEKA — In early January, the Kansas Department of Health and Environment (KDHE) and the Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks (KDWP) issued revised fish consumption advisories for 2011. The advisories identified types of fish and shellfish that should be eaten in limited quantities or, in some cases, avoided altogether because of contamination found in tested aquatic species. KDWP wants to clarify that portions of that advisory apply to s...
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Kendricks looking to play professionally
By Anthony Cook Sports Editor Being fast has always been a big part of who Bridgette Kendricks is. The nine-time state champion track athlete knows all about speed. How else could she squeeze so much into her schedule? The Parsons High School graduate is a few months away from getting her degree in early childhood development from the University of Buffalo, she just competed on one of the most successful University of Buffalo women’s bask...
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St. Paul’s Westhoff headlines area girls on all-state list
Five local girls basketball players have landed on postseason all-state teams for their efforts this season. The Wichita Eagle and Topeka Capital-Journal news outlets have released the all-state teams for the 2010-2011 basketball lists. St. Paul High School senior and Pittsburg State University commit Morgan Westhoff led the list of local girls on this year’s teams with a first-team nomination by both of the news outlets on the Class 1A te...
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Babe Ruth news
Parsons Babe Ruth baseball sign ups are currently ongoing. Teams are forming for youth ages 7 to 18 years old. Sign up at Bleacher Gear in downtown Parsons or you can mail your registration form to PBR P.O. Box 518 Parsons, KS 67357. Any new players to the league will need to have a copy of their birth certificate when they turn their registration form in. The final deadline to sign up is April 11, but late fees can be avoided by signi...
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Clinic scheduled
Parsons Babe Ruth is inviting all kids between the ages of 7 and 12 to attend a baseball clinic that will be hosted and demonstrated by the Labette Community College baseball team. There is no cost to attend. The clinic will be from 5 to 7:30 p.m. on Friday, April 1, at the LCC baseball diamond at Marvel Park in Parsons. Players will have the opportunity to go through hitting, fielding and pitching drills. Food will be provided after the...
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Seven PWC wrestlers head to state
Twelve Parsons wrestling Club members qualified to wrestle in the District 1 Championship Tournament Saturday. Eleven of those qualifiers made the trip to Olathe and seven qualified to move on to the Kansas Folkstyle State Championships. To Qualify for the state tourney each wrestler had to place fourth or better in their bracket. The six and under age division has its own separate state tournament held in Ottawa each year. PWC took five wr...
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Hesston sweep gives LCC softball 20th victory
PARSONS — The Labette Community College softball team got its 20th victory of the season Friday with a sweep of the Hesston Larks. The 20-win plateau comes more than two weeks earlier than 2010. A season ago, the Cardinals got their 20th victory on April 6 in their 38th game. This year it took the Cardinals only 27 games to get 20 wins. LCC opened Friday’s doubleheader with Hesston with an 8-0 win in five innings before a four-run rally pull...
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Surprise trip was memorable one
The A-Game By Anthony Cook Sports Editor Sometimes the best times are had when you don’t make plans. That’s what I remember telling a friend Friday night when playing catch-up on the phone. I told the friend I had little plans for the weekend, but something would come of it. So when I got a text Saturday morning from my cousin telling me he had an extra seat for the trip down to Sunday’s NCAA tournament game in Tulsa, I knew it was a good...
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Seven area boys named to all-state teams
The Wichita Eagle and Topeka Capital-Journal news outlets have released their all-state basketball teams for the 2010-11 season. The entire lists from Class 4A and local inclusions on the boys’ teams are included below. Parsons junior forward James Jackson led the local boys with a second-team nomination on the Topeka Capital-Journal all-state team. Jackson missed the first five games of the season for the Vikings, but was a key piece in the ...
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Vikings JV tennis team begins year in Iola
The junior varsity portion of the Parsons High School tennis schedule began Thursday when the Vikings traveled to Iola for a quadrangular with Independence, Columbus and Iola. In No. 1 singles Tyler Beardmore finished 1-2 to take home third overall. Beardmore opened with an 8-7 (7-4) loss to Aidan Goodrich of Independence before winning a forfeit over Columbus, who had no No. 1 singles player. In his final match of the day Beardmore fell to ...
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Walk-off HR lifts Labette past Crowder
The Labette Community College baseball team moved above .500 for the first time this season Thursday by taking an 11-10 win in nine innings from visiting Crowder College. The victory moves the Cardinals to 6-5 overall this season and is their sixth win in eight games. Crowder opened the game with a 1-0 lead after an inning of play but the second inning started a streak of four frames in a row in which the Labette batters brought home two run...
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Big Hill holds fishing tourney
Twenty-one anglers braved pre-front conditions and a strong prevailing wind as District 58 of the American Bass Anglers held its third tournament for the 2011 season recently on Big Hill Lake. Fishing was tough, with the top weight falling short of eight pounds. Topping the scales in first place was Jim Peoples of Parsons with 7.82 pounds. He was followed in second place by Zac Udock of Joplin with a weight 7.1 pounds. Udock also claimed bi...
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LCHS introduces new weight room, program
By Anthony Cook Sports Editor ALTAMONT — The goal is simple — Get bigger, faster and stronger. A newly remodeled weight room was introduced to Labette County High School students Thursday afternoon just one day after new equipment was installed. The equipment was purchased from Bigger Faster Stronger (BFS), a company based out of Salt Lake City that specializes in weight training and sports fitness for high school-aged youth. The new equi...
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All-TRL teams announced
The Three Rivers League has released its all-league basketball teams for the 2010-2011 seasons. Below are the entire lists. On the girl’s side, Oswego led all three local teams with five selections while St. Paul had four. On the boy’s side, Oswego also led all teams with six selections, St. Paul had three and Chetopa had two. All local selections are highlighted. Three Rivers League girl’s basketball First team Morgan Westhoff, St. Paul...
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Labette softball team goes 5-1 at classic
The Labette Community College softball team improved to 15-6 by taking five of six games at the Mid-West JUCO Classic in Broken Arrow, Okla. this weekend. “We played some very tough competition and found a way to win. Our defense definitely has to improve. Our pitching and offense played well most of the weekend,” said LCC coach Ryan Phillips. Labette began the two-day tourney with a 12-8 victory over Rose State on Saturday. LCC jumped o...
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Cards split with ranked team
The Labette Community College baseball team moved to 5-5 on the season Sunday by finishing a four-game set with No. 12 ranked Johnson County with a split. On Saturday, the Cardinals welcomed the defending Kansas Jayhawk Community College Conference Eastern Division champion Cavaliers to a pair of games at the LCC baseball fields. Johnson was unkind in the opening game behind the arm of sophomore pitcher Cody Schumacher. The Topeka product s...
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Nine locals get all-SEK League bid
The 2010-2011 all-Southeast Kansas League basketball team has been announced. Parsons High School led the way with four selections on this year’s postseason teams, with two of those selections coming on the first team. The Vikings finished the season at 20-4 overall and went 7-1 in the SEK to become the 2010-2011 SEK champions. It was the first time since 1992 that the Vikings won the SEK title. Parsons was awarded for its efforts by placin...
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Vikings bittersweet after opening-round loss
By Anthony Cook Sports Editor The lights shine the brightest at the state tournament, and it may have taken the Parsons High School boys basketball team a bit too long to adjust to them Wednesday afternoon. The Vikings, who finished the season at 20-4, entered the Class 4A state tourney against the No. 7 seeded, but much more experienced, Topeka-Hayden. Hayden came away with a 72-58 victory in the game to end Parsons’ season. Hayden raced ...
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All-SEK wrestlers named
The Southeast Kansas League has released its all-league wrestling teams for the 2010-2011 seasons. Labette County High School senior wrestler Channing Hosey was the only local name on this year’s team. Hosey was named a first-team all-SEK wrestler at 171 pounds. Pittsburg led the SEK with eight selections. The entire list is below. 2010-2011 all-SEK wrestling First team 103 pounds — Brett Cobb, Pittsburg. 112 pounds — Tyler Sharp, Fort S...
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SEK League coaches’ polls announced
PITTSBURG — Southeast Kansas League baseball and softball coaches have named favorites for this year’s season. The coaches’ polls were conducted by the Ticket: 99.1 ESPN Radio on Monday at the inaugural SEK media luncheon in the conference room at Watco Companies of Pittsburg. In baseball, defending SEK champion Pittsburg was the top placing team on this season’s poll. The Purple Dragons gathered six of eight first-place votes and had 61 poin...
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