Stories from Wednesday, February 15, 2017

The Fort Scott High School FFA hosted a Blood Mobile Monday afternoon. The blood mobile was set up on the south side of the high school behind the agriculture shop and was open to the public.

USD 234 officials are watching the current legislative session and actions that could affect school funding. During Monday's USD 234 Board of Education meeting, Superintendent Bob Beckham and Business Manager Gina Shelton reported they have had recent discussions with area lawmakers who are in the midst of hashing out plans to balance the state budget. The legislative session began in January...

Rotary's Seventh Annual Dancing with our Stars was held Saturday evening at the Danny and Willa Ellis Family Fine Arts Center on the Fort Scott Community College campus. This year's theme was "Battle for the Fort. Ten teams, with a total of 55 dancers, raised a total of $11,084 for local charities...

Fort Scott Community College baseball opened the season with a series win over Cloud County at Dave Regan Stadium over the weekend. The teamssplit on Saturday with Fort Scott winning game one 12-2. The Thunderbirds took the second game, 18-9. Sunday, Fort Scott prevailed, 5-2...

Fort Scott Community College's softball team opened the season Friday with a sweep on the road, then split its home opener on Sunday. Friday's twin bill resulted in a 2-0, 8-4 sweep of North Arkansas in Harrison. Hayley Bledsoe was the winning pitcher in the opener, allowing 3 hits and 3 walks while striking out 8 in 6 innings...

Visiting Johnson County, ranked No. 3 in NJCAA Division II, held a 23-9 lead after one period of play at Arnold Arena Saturday afternoon and went on to a 92-46 victory over Fort Scott Community College's women in a Jayhawk Conference-Division II/Region VI contest...

Fort Scott Community College's men failed to take an opportunity to gain a key tie-breaker in post-season seeding Saturday as the Greyhounds took a 62-50 loss to Johnson County in Jayhawk Conference-Division II/Region VI play at Arnold Arena. Fort Scott and Johnson County are now tied for third in the region along with Labette, all of which are 4-4. Brown Mackie lurks just behind at 3-4 in the region...

UNIONTOWN -- Senior Shalina Harper became Uniontown High School's all-time scoring leader for the girls' basketball program with her 29-point outing against Altoona-Midway in Three Rivers League play here Tuesday night. Eagle girls took a 65-15 win over the Jets while the boys completed the sweep with a 63-15 win...

PITTSBURG -- It was a frustrating night for both basketball teams at Fort Scott High School as both offenses struggled to score in a Southeast Kansas League doubleheader here Tuesday night. Tiger girls scored just 7 points in the first half of a 43-23 loss to the league-leading Purple Dragons. Pittsburg's boys clinched a share of the league title with a 61-28 win during which they did not allow a point in the third quarter...