Stories from Monday, April 6, 2009

GIRARD -- Girard's baseball team swept Fort Scott High in a non-league doubleheader here Friday night by scores of 10-0 and 8-0. According to statistics sent to the Tribune by the Pittsburg Morning Sun, Girard's pitchers hurled no-hitters in both games. Tanner Poppe went the distance in the opener, striking out 11...

INDEPENDENCE -- Fort Scott High School's tennis team flexed its lineup during a non-medal meet here Friday, the make-up of an event rained out here Thursday. ""We shuffled our lineup around a little in these matches as we are still trying to determine our most effective lineup," Fort Scott head coach Lynn Barr said. "This was a good test for us at this point in the season facing four teams all with some good quality players."...

ALTAMONT -- Fort Scott High School's varsity and junior varsity track teams opened the season here Friday with both JV teams winning their respective team titles. Fort Scott's varsity boys finished in fifth place with 59 points as they won one event and 13 total medals. Iola was the team champion with 114 points followed by Coffeyville with 92 and Girard with 62...

GIRARD -- In order to get in the games that would have been played in the Fort Scott Tournament last Tuesday, three of the four original teams decided to play the tournament at Red Wutke Park here Friday night. The tournament began with the best game of the night as Girard defeated Fort Scott, 1-0, in the bottom of the seventh despite the fact that Tiger pitcher Erica Davis threw a no-hitter...

Fort Scott Community College's softball team took three out of four games over the weekend as they played make-up games at the Betty Ruth Willard Complex Friday and Saturday. Friday, the 'Hounds swept Dodge City 10-0 and 9-1, playing only five innings each time...

Fort Scott Community College split a Jayhawk Conference-Eastern Division doubleheader with Allen County Saturday at Lions Field, which gave the Greyhounds three wins in two days and allowed them to leapfrog from fifth place to third in the division standings...

Italian cuisine and entertainment will highlight a returning Fort Scott Area Chamber of Commerce-sponsored event later this month. Festa Italiana is scheduled to take place at 6:30 p.m. Friday, April 24, at the Liberty Theater, 113 S. Main St. This year, the event's theme is "Italian Bronx: A Taste and Feel of New York Bronx." Guests at the event will be able to enjoy an authentic Italian dinner, and musical entertainment from Kansas City singer Rudy Amato and his three-piece band. ...

USD 234 spring break trip shows fifth graders other forms of transport

Local residents took the opportunity to provide input for the U.S. 69 Corridor Study. Approximately 40 local residents and business owners assembled at the Lyons Twin Mansions Monday for the first two design studios as part of the U.S. 69 Corridor Study. Attendees met with project engineers and designers to express concerns about the transportation and land usage through the U.S. 69 Corridor...