Stories from Tuesday, April 23, 2013

Fort Scott High's junior varsity softball team swept Southeast at Don Hewett Field Friday evening. The Tigers won the first game 3-1 and rallied to take the second game, 8-5. Emily Bowman scored 2 runs for the Tigers in the first game. Kinede Ross had Fort Scott's only hit, which drove in Abi Keating in the third inning...

Fort Scott Community College's softball team could have decided to pack it in long ago. The Greyhounds could have decided that being down by 15 runs in the first game of Saturday's doubleheader with Cottey College at the Betty Ruth Willard Complex was just as well. It was the bottom of the seventh, anyway...

A pair of Fort Scott Community College signees were Most Valuable Players of Sunday's Pechone Stepps All-Star Basketball games at Arnold Arena Sunday afternoon. Jayhawk-Linn's Baylea White was named MVP of the girls' contest after she finished with 26 points and 12 rebounds in leading the White All-Stars to a 73-47 victory over the Maroon...

CHANUTE -- Fort Scott High's tennis team got a taste of what this week's Southeast Kansas League Tournament will be like as they played in a bracket-style tournament here Friday. The Tigers finished in sixth place out of eight teams. Fort Scott played the make-up of its home tournament Monday. Those results will be available in Wednesday's edition...

Fort Scott Community College's baseball team moved into a second-place tie with Coffeyville in the Jayhawk Conference-Eastern Division over the weekend -- but only after salvaging a split of its four-game series with Highland by winning the second game of Sunday's doubleheader in its final at-bat...

Gevena, Wade don't allow a single baserunner as Tigers sweep Coffeyville