Tenacity tinged with tragedy, a delicate balancing act that Labette Cardinals sophomore catcher Winter Snyder is engulfed in.
PITTSBURG — Tristan Gegg and Javon “Magic” Reliford have found their hardwood homes at Pittsburg State.
Find another NJCAA women’s basketball program affected more negatively by the COVID-19 pandemic than the Labette Cardinals.
Fans attending the Labette Cardinals’ men’s basketball games this winter will leave dizzied.
Doubt crept into the minds of the Labette County Grizzlies as they trailed the Wamego Red Raiders 20-13 in the third set of the KSHSAA 4A Sub-State Tournament championship.
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Fans attending the Labette Cardinals’ men’s basketball games this winter will leave dizzied.
Doubt crept into the minds of the Labette County Grizzlies as they trailed the Wamego Red Raiders 20-13 in the third set of the KSHSAA 4A Sub-State Tournament championship.
Amy Coney Barrett, one of the United States Supreme Court’s most conservative justices, just opened the door for conferences and colleges across the country to be aggressive in implementing COVID-19 vaccine mandates.
Law enforcement officers are continuing their search for a 12-year-old boy who walked away from his foster home Sunday afternoon, according to Labette County Sheriff Darren Eichinger.
Fall practices across Kansas high school sports began on Monday with renewed optimisms about upcoming seasons, as well as recurring fears of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Three wins in the last two seasons have the Labette Cardinals volleyball coaching staff continuing its hunt for a turnaround.
ALTAMONT — Brianna Volmer has been named the new co-athletic director at Labette County High School and is the first female to ever take the position.
Vaccination status may be a key factor in the Kansas Jayhawk Conference’s fall guidelines regarding the COVID-19 pandemic.
Parsons High School will play home to college athletics this fall — at least temporarily.
After hearing from two local health care officials, the Labette County Commission, acting as the board of health, urged everyone in the county to get vaccinated and wear masks when in public.
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The same day the NCAA announced that student-athletes are allowed to profit off their name, image and likeness (NIL), the NJCAA announced a new bylaw affording junior college athletes the same opportunity.
Rudra Dixit, the first freshman in Parsons history to win an SEK League tennis singles title, is still searching for a true home.
A potential move by the Kansas Board of Regents may provide relief to junior college athletes who faced the biggest burdens from the COVID-19 pandemic.
Kansas is one step closer to enacting a multiplier to how private schools are classified.
Marinating on the two-hour drive from Wichita to Topeka after the state track meet, KSHSAA Executive Director Bill Faflick had an epiphany.
ST. PAUL — Nestled in the corner of a barn that houses a family’s fleet of tractors and a combine is a makeshift weight room. Lacking any bells and whistles, a single weight bench and limited equipment has produced Gennie Vitt, a 16-year-old in rural St. Paul who has become the best youth po…
Grey Holland is the new home run queen of Labette following Saturday’s 8-1, 11-3 sweep of Allen.
INDEPENDENCE — Two years removed from a second place finish at the SEK League Tennis Championships, Zach Spriggs of Parsons finally fulfilled a destiny as the senior star won the league’s singles title on Thursday in Independence.
ALTAMONT — The girls side of the Labette County sports equation has dominated this season. The volleyball and girls basketball teams both earned SEK League titles and berths to the KSHSAA Class 4A State Tournament.
COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa — A top 15 finish with two All-Americans is what the Labette Cardinals wrestling program brought back from the NJCAA national tournament, held on Wednesday and Thursday.
COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa — Primed for the NJCAA national tournament, the Labette Cardinals wrestling program is sending a full lineup of 10 wrestlers to compete on Wednesday and Thursday.
Bryson Dennis, the electric scoring sophomore shooting guard for the Labette Cardinals, was named the KJCCC’s Most Valuable Player for the 2021 season.
Editor's Note: Reporting from the Montgomery County Chronicle was used in this report. The Sun previously reported on this case at the request of the Chronicle.
ALTAMONT — Track and field season got underway at the Labette County Invitational on Thursday in Altamont. It served as the first meet for most teams in attendance since the 2019 season after the 2020 season was canceled amid the initial outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic.
A week ago, coming off a 30-point performance in an upset of then-No. 11 Fort Scott on the road, Labette sophomore guard Bryson Dennis made a proclamation.
Already eliminated from a repeat of the Kansas Jayhawk Conference title, the No. 7 Labette Cardinals went cold late in a 64-58 loss to the No. 1 Johnson County Cavaliers on Wednesday night. The game also served as the regular season finale.
FORT SCOTT — No. 8 Labette dominated Fort Scott 97-51 on Wednesday night as the Cardinals remained undefeated on the season after playing its third game since a team-wide quarantine put their campaign on pause.
The Labette Cardinals women’s basketball team, still ranked No. 1 in the country, has gone into a team-wide quarantine after multiple players tested positive for COVID-19.
When the Labette Cardinals softball program hosts Maple Woods in its season opener on Thursday, it will have been 351 days since the 2020 campaign came to an abrupt halt amid the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.
In the final round before the state wrestling championships, two wrestlers from Erie qualified for state at this weekend’s sub-state tournaments.
The COVID-19 vaccine is still trickling into Labette County and is being directed to those age 65 and older and into schools.
One of the three programs that had its season abruptly cut short by the COVID-19 pandemic’s onset last spring, the Labette Cardinals baseball team is geared up to return to action in 2021.
The postseason path to the state championship for wrestlers started on Friday with district tournaments.
OSWEGO — Labette County Health Department will receive 300 doses of the Moderna vaccine for administration next week, but the department already has a waiting list of 800 names wanting the vaccine.
Parsons police are investigating an armed robbery that occurred around 7 p.m. Friday at AuBurn Pharmacy inside King Cash Saver, 2020 Main.
Labette's second straight game against a ranked Division I opponent ended much like Saturday's loss to Coffeyville as the Cardinals fell to No. 24 NEO A&M 72-43 in their home opener.
IOLA — For 453 days, the Labette Cardinals volleyball program waited to take the court for a match. It was the longest layoff of any sport in the school, lengthened by the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Labette County Health Department has filled all the current appointment slots for Labette County residents age 65 and over to receive one of the initial 300 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine it has received.
While the COVID-19 pandemic has changed the optics of every team’s season at Labette, the wrestling program’s campaign underwent some of the most drastic changes.
IOLA — It’d been over 10 months since the Labette Cardinals men’s basketball team took the court with the season delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
IOLA — The Labette Cardinals debuted as the No. 1 ranked team in the nation on Wednesday by throttling Allen 86-38.
Kansas is moving into Phase 2 of its vaccine distribution plan starting Thursday, but questions remain about how distribution will be handled and how much vaccine will be available locally in the short term. Federal vaccine supplies remain in short supply, state officials said.
Labette’s volleyball program has faced the longest layoff of any sport in the school due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The last time the Cardinals took the floor was Oct. 30, 2019.
One of the most gut-wrenching sports-related costs of the COVID-19 pandemic was paid by the Labette Cardinals women’s basketball team. At the onset of the pandemic last March, fresh off winning a KJCCC title, the Cardinals’ trip to the NJCAA Division II National Tournament was canceled.
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