Stories from Friday, April 15, 2016

Kevin Olson's message to Fort Scott High School students on Wednesday was about choices. Olson, an author, website designer and motivational speaker who lives in Oswego, spoke to FSHS students during an assembly in the high school gym. Olson has been paralyzed from the shoulders down since a diving accident in 1991 when he was 19 years old and a student at Kansas State University...

The city of Uniontown will soon have two 10 feet by 20 feet storm shelters to protect citizens from dangerous storms, specifically tornadoes. Dale Zogleman, president of Protection Shelters, LLC., of Wichita, attended the monthly Uniontown City Council meeting Tuesday in the community center. Zogleman gave a presentation about PSL's shelters and various amenities that can be added to a shelter...

COFFEYVILE -- Fort Scott Community College's softball team split a Jayhawk Conference-Eastern Division doubleheader here Wednesday. Coffeyville won the first game, 7-3, and the Greyhounds took the nightcap, 9-6. Fort Scott (4-14 East, 19-26 overall), looking for consecutive 20-win seasons for the first time in school history, scored in the first (one run) and seventh innings of the opener. ...

PITTSBURG -- Fort Scott High's golfers struggled here Tuesday and saw their team score rise by 20 strokes at the Pittsburg Invitational at Crestwood Country Club. The Tigers finished sixth out of seven teams with a score of 407, up from the 387 they shot at Independence on April 7...

PARSONS -- Fort Scott High's Elijah Wright and Joe Adams moved up to No. 1 doubles here Tuesday and finished in second place at the Labette County Invitational. While that was a bright spot for the duo, who had been 13-4 in No. 2 doubles, it was not a good day overall as the Tigers finished third as a team...

PARSONS -- Fort Scott High's softball team swept Parsons here Tuesday by scores of 9-0 and 12-1 in Southeast Kansas League play. The first-place Tigers (4-0 SEK, 9-1 overall) scored eight of their first-game runs over the course of the fifth and sixth innings. Taylor Krokroskia and Lane Bohlken had 3 hits each while Katie Gorman and Kyley Brown each had 2. Abby Denton drove in 3 runs and Emily Hale had 2 runs batted in...

Tigers sweep Parsons in SEK doubleheader

No. 5 Neosho sweeps Fort Scott in Chanute; rematch here Saturday