Stories from Friday, May 15, 2015

Fort Scott High School golfers competed in their final two regular-season meets earlier this week. The entire team went to Chanute on Monday while senior Conner Antonetti went to Anderson County on his own on Tuesday as he had participated in only seven tournaments so far this season. Kansas State High School Activities Association rules allow individuals to compete in eight tournaments prior to Regionals, which will be held on Monday...

Fort Scott Community College's Kaden Shaffer was selected as an outfielder on the All-Jayhawk Conference-Eastern Division baseball team that was released recently. Shaffer, a sophomore from Ottawa, was one of three Greyhounds honored. Owasso, Okla., sophomore designated hitter Josh Whisler and Norris, Neb., shortstop Trey Hair were named to the Honorable Mention list...

MOUND CITY -- Jayhawk-Linn handed Uniontown a pair of 10-0 losses in a Three Rivers League doubleheader to cap the regular season here Tuesday. The Eagles, who have lost 12 consecutive games and allowed at least 10 runs in 11 of them, finished regular-season play 1-9 in the TRL and 3-17 overall. They will host Yates Center, which is also 3-17, in the first round of Regional play Monday...

The Kansas State High School Activities Association released pairings for upcoming Regional baseball and softball tournaments in Classes 4A on down Wednesday. Fort Scott baseball will host a Class 4A-Division I Regional while the Tiger softball team will play in a Regional at Chanute. Uniontown's baseball team has been assigned to a Class 2-1A Regional hosted by Yates Center and the softball team was placed in a 2-1A Regional with Rosalia-Flinthills as the host...

CHANUTE -- Fort Scott's offense began to click too late in the second game of a Southeast Kansas League doubleheader here Wednesday as Chanute and the Tigers came away with just a split. "We survived the first game and then got in our groove too late in the second game," Fort Scott interim head coach Karen Curran said. "Too many errors that lead to too many unearned runs."...

CHANUTE -- Fort Scott High School's sweep of Chanute here Wednesday gave the Tigers a piece of a three-way tie for the Southeast Kansas League baseball championship, which it its third consecutive league title. The Tigers finished 9-3 in the SEK along with Labette County and Pittsburg, the latter two splitting a doubleheader with each other Tuesday in Altamont. Had either LCHS or Pittsburg swept their twinbill, Fort Scott wouldn't have been able to finish better than second...

The Bourbon County Commissioners found themselves once again in the middle of the dispute between township trustees and a fire district. Commissioners called in the county counselor to advise them on how to proceed with a request to adopt a resolution to move the boundary line for the Garland and Scott Township fire districts...

A drug investigation by various law enforcement agencies resulted in the arrest of 35 individuals over two days. The Fort Scott Police Department, the Bourbon County Sheriff's Office and the Kansas Bureau of Investigation Drug Task Force were involved in a narcotics investigation that led to the Tuesday arrest of 30 people who were charged with violating Kansas Statute 21-5707(a)(1), unlawful possession of controlled substance using a communication facility, according to a news release issued Wednesday by the FSPD.. ...