Stories from Wednesday, September 16, 2015

Uniontown is likely to be playing 11-man high school football next year because of higher than projected enrollment. Athletic Director Jim Mason gave a report during the USD 235 Board of Education monthly meeting Monday night. "It seems to us, we are going to return to 11-man (football), and most likely 2A (classification) in our district," Mason said...

Bronson council members are looking into the costs required to replace and install a new four-way flashing light. The current light, which is located above the intersection of Clay Street and U.S. Highway 54, has not functioned for over 20 years, council member Steve LaRue said...

The amount Bourbon County charges municipalities for housing inmates at the Southeast Kansas Regional Correctional Center will change beginning Jan. 1. Bourbon County jail and sheriff's officials met with county commissioners Tuesday to explain the changes...

NEVADA -- Fort Scott Middle School volleyball played here Monday night, suffering losses in all four matches versus Nevada. The seventh-grade A Team fell, 25-14, 25-21. The B Team lost, 25-21, 25-18. The eighth-grade A team went down in 3 sets, 17-25, 25-22, 15-12. The B Team lost 25-23, 25-19...

YATES CENTER -- Uniontown's junior varsity volleyball team took part in a four-team tournament here Monday night, going 0-3. Cherryvale defeated the Eagles, 25-20, 25-18. Burlington prevailed, 25-5, 25-14. And Howard-West Elk won, 25-12, 25-21. The Eagle JV played Tuesday at Southeast. Results will be presented in a future edition...

SPRING HILL -- Fort Scott High's freshmen football team defeated Spring Hill here Monday by a score of 34-16. The Tigers improved to 2-0 on the season. Trenton Wilson scored two touchdowns for Fort Scott, one in each half of play. Alec Michaud also scored in the first half. Quarterback Tyler Gorman threw two second-half touchdowns, one to Matt Campbell and the other to Mason Ferguson. Gorman and Campbell also connected on a 2-point conversion. David Brown Jr. kicked two extra points...

UNIONTOWN -- Uniontown Middle School's volleyball team will field 10 girls on the eight- grade team and 12 for the seventh grade as Julie Schafer and Paula Coyan return to lead the team. The veteran Schafer, in her 15th year, coaches the eighth graders and oversaw a 6-3 mark last year...

Fort Scott High's junior varsity tennis team hosted its second tournament of the season Monday. No team scores were kept. Extra players from participating schools were used to fill out the pools as much as possible after Coffeyville was unable to attend...

PARSONS -- Both Fort Scott and Uniontown sent teams to the Parsons Invitational here Monday. The Tigers only had two golfers participate while Uniontown sent five and finished in sixth place out of nine schools. Camiren Defebaugh of Fort Scott had the highest finish of area golfers, shooting 52 over nine holes. She tied for 10th place but was denied a medal when Pittsburg's Logan Lord won the scorecard playoff...

Fort Scott High School's volleyball match Tuesday evening was the first time the Tigers had a chance to see how some adjustments to their rotation worked out. A 25- 22, 25-19, 25-16 sweep of Three Rivers League at the FSHS gymnasium showed that they appear to be working quite well, although Tiger head coach Carol Bingesser said that there are still some things that need sorted out...