Sports
Sweep gives Labette ladies 2011 SEK crown
By Anthony Cook Sports Editor ALTAMONT — A late home run and a little help from a previous foe gave the Labette County High School softball team its second Southeast Kansas League title in a row here Thursday night. The LCHS softball team improved to 18-1 overall and 14-0 within the SEK with a sweep of Parsons High School (11-5 overall, 9-5 SEK). The win coupled with a Fort Scott loss to Columbus Thursday was enough to clinch the outright ...
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LCHS to hold baseball clinic
The Labette County High School baseball program will be conducting a summer baseball prep clinic for baseball players age 8 and up, coaches and parents on Saturday, May 14 from 10 a.m. to noon at Vic George Baseball Field in Altamont. Former Grizzly all-state and all-SEK League baseball standouts will be in town to teach fundamentals and take-home activities for players, coaches and parents to work with all year round. Clinic coaches will ...
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Cards’ volleyball camp announced
The Labette Community College volleyball team will have its 2011 summer camp June 1-3. The camp will be divided into three divisions; with fourth- through sixth-graders camping from 8 to 11 a.m., seventh- through ninth-graders camping from 12:30 to 3:30 p.m. and 10th- through 12th-graders camping from 5 to 8 p.m. LCC head volleyball coach Jennifer Ginn and assistant coach Sherrie Blackburn will be joined by 15 LCC volleyball players as instr...
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Local track teams travel to Independence Tuesday
INDEPENDENCE — The Independence High School track team hosted eight other squads Tuesday for its annual track meet. Arkansas City High School was the big winner on both sides. The Ark City girls gathered 135 points to win the meet. Labette County High School came in second overall with 90.5 points, and Parsons was fifth with 53. Ark City also won the boys’ division with 146 points, 56 more than second-place Fort Scott. Parsons was third ov...
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Four Vikings state bound
INDEPENDENCE — Tennis season will continue for four local players next week in the Class 4A state tournament. Payton Hays, Corentin Prevot, John Paul Hurley and Parker Robertson of Parsons all qualified for the state tournament by going 2-0 on the opening day of the area Class 4A regional here Thursday. The four will begin semifinal play this morning. Hays and Prevot will square off against one another and guarantee the Vikes will have a si...
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Big seventh leads Grizzlies past Comets; Reynolds Ks 26 in sweep
ALTAMONT — Friday’s first loss of the season almost turned into a losing streak here Tuesday, but timely hitting turned things around for the Labette County High School softball team. LCHS improved to 16-1 overall and 12-0 within the Southeast Kansas League Tuesday with a pair of wins over Chanute (6-10 overall, 6-6 SEK). The opening win was a rarity for LCHS in league play this season — it took a come-from-behind effort. Labette won 2-1 afte...
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Erie track competes
Two second-place finishes highlighted the Erie High School track team’s performance at the Baxter Springs Invitational Tuesday evening. Chris Bohrer took second overall in the javelin and teammate Christian Murphy brought home a silver in the 300-meter hurdles. Erie also had a fourth-place finish by Bohrer in the high hurdles. Murphy added another medal in the shot put, where he took fifth, and Jamie Lovett took fifth overall in the javeli...
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Labette places nine on KJCCC teams
The KJCCC Eastern Division champion Labette Community College softball team (40-13 overall, 21-5 KJCCC) has been awarded for its season so far with nine selections to the 2011 Kansas Jayhawk Community college Conference Softball All-Conference teams. In addition, the Cardinals also were given awards for the Coach of the Year (Ryan Phillips), the Most Valuable Player (Taylor Paulson) and the Freshman of the Year (Lacie Cook). Phillips helped ...
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PHS, LCHS golfers travel to Coffeyville
COFFEYVILLE — The Golden Tornado hosted the Field Kindley High School Invitational here Tuesday and Coffeyville was able to win its home meet by firing a 332 under nice conditions at Hillcrest Golf Course. Coffeyville ended the day seven strokes clear of Southeast Kansas League rival Pittsburg to top the 11-team field. Chanute finished in third with a 340. Parsons High School came in sixth with a 364 and Labette County shot a 389 to finish i...
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Indians start long week 4-0
The St. Paul High School baseball team improved to 8-3 on the season Tuesday evening with a pair of wins over Altoona. St. Paul opened with a 25-0 victory in three innings before winning game two 17-2 in the second game of the doubleheader. The win moves St. Paul to 7-2 in Three Rivers League play. The Indians opened with a 12-hit performance in the opener. St. Paul scored 17 runs in the first and eight players scored twice in the inning. ...
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Vikings come from behind to earn eighth in row
By Anthony Cook Sports Editor The Vikings are playing their best softball, and it couldn’t come at a better time. Parsons High School improved to 11-3 overall and 9-3 in the Southeast Kansas League with a two-game home sweep over Coffeyville (0-12 overall, 0-12 SEK) Monday. The eight-game winning streak comes after Parsons followed up a 3-0 start to the year with a three-game losing streak to drop to .500. Parsons opened the doubleheader ...
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FS takes two from LCHS
ALTAMONT — Fort Scott earned a sweep over Labette County High School here Monday to drop the Grizzlies’ baseball team to 3-7 overall and 2-6 in the Southeast Kansas League. The Tigers (8-3 overall, 8-2 SEK) got their seventh and eighth wins of the season with a big inning in each of the wins. Fort Scott opened with a 7-1 win behind a five-run fifth. The two schools were knotted four innings into the game before the Tigers put five runs on th...
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Parsons MS hosts track meet Monday
The Parsons Middle School track team hosted a seventh- and eighth-grade track meet on Monday afternoon. Individual results for the Parsons Vikings are listed below. The Parsons seventh-grade boys took second, the eighth-grade boys took eighth; the seventh-grade girls took ninth and the eighth-grade girls took seventh overall. Parsons MS track meet Monday, May 2 Individual results Seventh-grade girls 100 dash — 4. Tatum Johnson. 7. Daniel...
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Fewin to speak at KSHSAA school
Andy Fewin of Oswego has been selected to speak at the 79th KSHSAA Coaching School to be held August 3-5 at the Capitol Plaza in Topeka. Coach Fewin will serve as a Strength and Conditioning Clinician at the event. Fewin’s speech will focus on “Starting from scratch” and will target starting an overall strength and conditioning program at the high school level. This is the second time in three years that Fewin has been selected to speak at ...
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Correction
The Labette Community College baseball team will continue play this weekend in NJCAA Regional tournament. The Cardinal’s doubleheader with Fort Scott Monday was part of the regular season and was not the beginning of the playoffs, as stated in the Tuesday edition of the Parsons Sun. Labette’s opponent in the playoffs was yet to be decided as of press time.
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PHS takes third at Indy JV invite
INDEPENDENCE — The Bulldogs held the annual Independence JV Invitational here Monday in a nine-team tournament. Independence was divided into three teams to fill out the field, which featured 11 total final scores with the Bulldogs being split up. Independence A won the invite with a 345 as a team while Columbus came in second with a 385 and Parsons took third with a 392. The Vikings were led by Dillon Swanson, whose 46-41 — 87 was good for...
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Lady Cardinals power way into Topeka
Labette softball took one small step closer to the national tournament Saturday with a home sweep of the Dodge City Community College Lady Conquistadors (5-37 overall, 3-23 KJCCC). The Lady Cardinals (40-13 overall, 21-5 KJCCC) hosted the opening round of the 2011 NJCAA Region VI District D Softball Tournament in a bracket they entered as the No. 1 seed. Two games were scheduled for Saturday with a possibility of a third on Sunday should the...
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Lady Grizzlies drop first game
RIVERTON — It took 14 games, but the Labette County High School softball team finally suffered its first loss of the season Friday evening. Labette (13-1 overall, 10-0 SEK) traveled to take on the Rams Friday and fell 4-3 in eight innings to get the first blemish of the year despite outhitting the home team 12-7. “The three errors were the story of the game,” said Labette County coach Lori Green, who told her players after the game they have...
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Tigers’ late rally keeps PHS winless
FORT SCOTT — Parsons High School remains winless, but the Vikings got as close as they have all season to a win Friday night. The PHS baseball team (0-12 overall, 0-10 SEK) lost a pair of 3-2 ballgames here Friday against Fort Scott (6-3 overall, 6-2 SEK). The Tigers managed to get a run in the bottom of the 10th in game one and two in the bottom of the seventh in game two to seal the sweep. Parsons took an early lead in game one, thanks to...
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Cards’ season ends
FORT SCOTT — The Labette Community College baseball team’s season ended Monday with a pair of losses to Fort Scott Community College (40-16 overall, 23-13 KJCCC). The two teams squared off in the opening round of the NJCAA Region VI Eastern Division tournament. Fort Scott won the first two games of the best-of-three series to advance to the second round and to knock off LCC. Fort Scott won the opening game 5-2 and game two 7-5. Box scores we...
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