Stories from Thursday, February 26, 2009

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. -- Fort Scott Community College's baseball team swept a non-conference doubleheader from the Evangel University junior varsity here Tuesday. The Greyhounds won the opener 9-3 and the second game 19-2. Both teams scored three runs in the first inning. The Greyhounds (4-4) put up two in the second, fifth and seventh innings...

Kansas City Kansas shot 61 percent from the field Wednesday night as the Blue Devils drubbed Fort Scott Community College's men, 81-53, in Jayhawk Conference-Eastern Division play at Arnold Arena. KCK (6-11 East, 10-19 overall) hit on eight of its first 10 shots of the game in jumping out to a 21-9 lead with 12 minutes left in the first half. ...

Kansas City Kansas' women outscored Fort Scott Community College 15-4 during the final 3:48 Wednesday night and rallied from a deficit that was as large as 14 points to defeat the Greyhounds, 67-66, on Cameron Roland's layup with three seconds to go...

NOTE: This version has corrections to the Ottawa Sub-State schedule but none of the errors in the print version of this story concerned any of the Tribune Area schools.

Mercy Health Center officials have chosen Richard Thompson, a cardiologist at Overland Park Cardiovascular, Inc., as the keynote speaker for the second annual Day of Dance for Health event on Saturday at Fort Scott Middle School, 1105 E. 12th St. Thompson, a recognized speaker in the Kansas City area, will share with the audience the differences in symptoms of heart attacks among men and women. ...

For the last four years, Southeast Kansas Regional Correctional Center inmates have had the opportunity to participate in the Volunteer Work Detail program and help clean up Bourbon County. The volunteers complete various projects around the county. ...

Fort Scott High School junior Charlie Sercer, who has been composing piano pieces since he was in fourth grade, has earned the opportunity to play one of his original pieces for music educators across the state on Saturday. According to Sercer, after entering one of his piano pieces in a composition competition conducted by the Kansas Music Educators Association, he was informed that he had been chosen as one of the contest's winners...