ALTAMONT — Hosting a rare set of matches on a Saturday morning, the Labette County Grizzlies hosted Chetopa-St. Paul, St. Mary’s Colgan and Coffeyville. Saturday’s matches were scheduled after the Charger Classic in Cherryvale was canceled due to scheduling efforts in the pandemic.
CHERRYVALE — Playing their first match in over a week, the Cherryvale Chargers beat West Elk 3-1 (24-26, 25-6, 25-27, 25-14) in a home dual on Saturday morning. The dual match was held in place of the previously scheduled Charger Classic, which was canceled due to scheduling efforts in the C…
Galena gashes Parsons on ground
OSWEGO — A showdown between a pair of undefeated teams ended in a lopsided win for the Oswego Indians, who trounced the Yates Center Wildcats 52-6 on Homecoming.
Four quality tennis programs met at Forest Park on Monday as the Parsons Vikings girls hosted Bishop Miege, Independence and Chanute.
OSWEGO — A showdown between a pair of undefeated teams ended in a lopsided win for the Oswego Indians, who trounced the Yates Center Wildcats 52-6 on Homecoming.
Four quality tennis programs met at Forest Park on Monday as the Parsons Vikings girls hosted Bishop Miege, Independence and Chanute.
Heading into the start of district play against the perennially dominant Galena Bulldogs, the Parsons Vikings have more questions than answers.
ALTAMONT — Still searching for their first win of the season, the Labette County Grizzlies hit the road for the third time in four games as they face the Wellington Crusaders.
PITTSBURG — Labette County volleyball continues to stay perched atop of the SEK League standings after a quad at Pittsburg on Tuesday where the Grizzlies notched wins over Coffeyville and Pittsburg.
History was made at Parsons High School on Monday afternoon.
Familiar struggles in stopping the run sank the Parsons Vikings in their home opener to the Prairie View Buffaloes on Friday night. The Buffaloes dominated along the lines en route to a 41-14 win over the Vikings.
A second half shutout by the Parsons Vikings defense fueled a comeback in last week’s win over the Iola Mustangs.
ALTAMONT — Reeling yet still playing, the Labette County Grizzlies aim for yet another reset to the season in Friday night’s home opener against El Dorado.
INDEPENDENCE — A second place showing a tournament in Independence has the Parsons Vikings girls tennis team trending upwards.
After winning their first match of the season at the Iola tournament over the weekend, the Parsons Vikings dropped two matches of a home tri on Tuesday to Fort Scott and Coffeyville.
ALTAMONT — In Labette County’s home opening volleyball tri on Tuesday, the Grizzlies played a pair of three-set matches against Chanute and Independence. The two three-setters were the fifth and sixth matches in a row for the Grizzlies that went to a tiebreaking set.
As Wayne Gilmore crossed the finish line of his virtual Boston Marathon on Saturday surrounded by cheering fans from the Parsons community, there was one person that the local optometrist had to speak to.
IOLA — Jeff Schibi now has a win on his coaching resume with the Parsons Vikings.
ST. PAUL — For the first time since 1990, the Oswego Indians beat the St. Paul Indians on Friday night 54-8. The tilt featured the two co-champions of the Three Rivers League from a season ago, while the win for Oswego marked a passing of the torch.
INDEPENDENCE — The first match for the Parsons Vikings boys soccer program saw the defending SEK League champions on the ropes, possibly an evolution of what the immediate future of the program holds.
Nineteen years ago, America was attacked.
On Saturday morning, the famed Boston Marathon will find its way to Parsons.
Week 2 for the Parsons Vikings brings both a familiar foe and an all-too-common challenge.
ALTAMONT — Despite being limited to 33 plays on offense, the Labette County Grizzlies had a chance to stun the Pittsburg Purple Dragons last week.
ST. PAUL — A split of a tri is how the Chetopa-St. Paul co-op volleyball program made its home debut on Tuesday evening.
ARKANSAS CITY — At Saturday’s girls tennis invitational in Arkansas City, the Parsons Vikings notched eight victories across its four groupings.
GARNETT — Bo Dilliner wanted no part of any celebratory headlines of Parsons Vikings head coach Jeff Schibi's coaching debut.
Pittsburg pounces on Labette County late
Just a day removed from having a season-opening quad at Pittsburg canceled because the host team is being quarantined, the Parsons Vikings stitched together an opening tri alongside Labette County and Independence on Thursday.
For the fourth time in six years, a new head coach for the Parsons Vikings will make their debut in Week 1.
INDEPENDENCE — The Independence Invitational girls tennis meet was rained out on Wednesday, but the Parsons Vikings still had plenty of takeaways.
ALTAMONT — A familiar, formidable foe awaits the Labette County Grizzlies in Week 1 as they travel east to face the Pittsburg Purple Dragons.
Cherryvale High School competed in a varsity athletic event for the first time since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic on Tuesday as the Chargers’ volleyball program hosted a tri with Sedan and Coffeyville.
A year ago, the Chetopa High School’s volleyball team made the state tournament for the first time in school history. Head coach Jill Blackledge guided the team to a Three Rivers League title, a regional title and sub-state championship en route to the greatest season in school history.
In a season-opening tournament that marked the first sporting event for Parsons High School since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Parsons Vikings girls tennis team tied for third in a four-team tournament it hosted on Friday at Forest Park.
Friday, a day later than intended due to weather postponement, the Parsons Vikings girls tennis program brought high school sports back to the community from the COVID-19 pandemic.
The KSHSAA Board of Directors approved a plan that will allow schools who opt out of the fall sports season to play those sports in the spring during a special meeting on Friday.
With the state of Parsons Vikings girls athletics, perhaps the reset opportunity provided by the COVID-19 pandemic was a welcome one.
ALTAMONT — Heather Wilson’s fifth season as the head coach of the Labette County Grizzlies volleyball program will be unlike any other. In addition to operating under the COVID-19 pandemic, Wilson believes this team is capable of progressing from being a formidable opponent in the SEK League…
CHERRYVALE — Aimee Strickland took over a Cherryvale Chargers volleyball team midway through last fall’s season that was starved for continuity and leadership.
On Thursday, high school sports will finally return to Parsons.
Schools in Kansas that are forced to forgo fall sports because of the COVID-19 pandemic may get a chance to compete in the spring.
In a time where sports are under siege by the COVID-19 pandemic, a new program at Parsons has emerged.
Jane Posch, one of the most decorated and accomplished coaches in Parsons High School history, is retiring from her position as the head tennis coach as well as her teaching post.
On Monday, practices for fall sports in Kansas will commence across the state in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Five student-athletes at Labette Community College tested positive for COVID-19 after the school conducted testing on every athlete — approximately 140 — who arrived onto campus for the fall semester.
Athletic directors from every school in the SEK League met at Parsons High School in effort to come up with uniform COVID-19 protocol for fall sports on Friday morning.
An on-time start for fall sports and activities was green lit by the Kansas State High School Activities Association on Tuesday. Now, school administrators across the state are scrambling to prepare for a season that will have vastly different optics than year’s past as schools try to preser…
Kansas high school fall sports and activities will start on time in 2020, the Kansas State High School Activities Association executive board decided in a Tuesday meeting.
While the Kansas State High School Activities Association is set to make a decision on fall sports as early as Tuesday, the executive director of the National Federation of State High School Associations (NFHS), Karissa Niehoff, debriefed media on where the country stands.
A year removed from its first-ever trip to the state tournament, the Chetopa volleyball team will ditch its green and yellow uniforms for maroon and gold ones.
While the Kansas State High School Activities Association continues to deliberate a start date for fall sports, the association released comprehensive, sport-by-sport health guidelines to the public on Wednesday.
A final decision on the fate of fall sports from the Kansas State High School Activities Association will have to wait until next week.
TOPEKA — As KSHSAA wrestles with the future of fall sports, Saturday’s Shrine Bowl all-star football game in the state’s capital provided a glimpse of what a season could look like operating with COVID-19 restrictions.
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