Stories from Friday, December 1, 2017

Barbara Sue McDaniel, age 79, a resident of rural Fort Scott, Kansas passed away Thursday, November 30, 2017 at her home. She was born on January 16, 1938 in Illinois, the daughter of Floyd and Rose Burcham Russell. She married Edward McDaniel on June 3, 1956 in Hunt City, Illinois. ...

Fort Scott High School head cross-country coach Tracey Bogina has been named Class 4A Girls Coach of the Year by the Kansas Cross Country Track and Field Coaches Association. It’s the second consecutive year Bogina has been honored as for her work with the girls’ team. Last season, Bogina received this award for both boys’ and girls’ coaches...

Sports Editor’s Note: The information for the Northeast High School boys’ basketball preview arrived at the Tribune too late to include in the Winter Sports Preview that was published Wednesday. The girls’ preview and the Northeast schedule are both published in that issue...

Northeast has five seniors among the 15 players out for head coach Scott Post but his best players are likely to be one of his nine sophomores and his lone freshman. The Vikings finished 11-10 last season, one year removed from a 15-win season that had Post feeling as though his team could contend for a State Tournament berth...

Uniontown’s girls bring back two starters and six letterwinners from a team that finished 6-3 in the Three Rivers League last season. But that group finished just 11-10 overall after some early-season struggles. “The best part of last season was how we responded to some adversity that we faced early in the season,” sixth-year head coach Dustin Miller says. ...

Uniontown’s boys finished third in the Three Rivers League last season, going 8-2 against league foes and 14-7 overall. With three seniors and six letterwinners returning, the Eagles were voted sixth in a pre-season coaches’ poll. But that’s not necessarily because they expect a drop off from Uniontown. The league got a bit tougher with the admission of Southeast, picked to finish fourth, and defending champion Jayhawk-Linn was picked third behind Yates Center and St. Paul...

Second-year Uniontown head wrestling coach Cody Kramer doesn’t have any seniors out for his team this season. But of his seven wrestlers, three are returning letterwinners, including a State Tournament qualifier. “Our three returners know our program’s expectations,” Kramer, a Fort Scott High graduate, said. “We are going to be young but I believe by past seasons that we will be the most physically-ready team in our (Class) 3-2-1A Regional. Conditioning will be a big part of our program.”...

There will be 10 returning letterwinners for the Fort Scott High School wrestling team this season. One of them, however, probably isn’t going to be three-time State-qualifier Zarek Fewell, who has said he wants to concentrate on preparing to play college football, although Metcalf did include him as one of his returnees. Senior Derek Bollinger, who missed nearly all of last season due to injury, is not expected to be on the team this season. Bollinger was also a State qualifier in past seasons...

Fort Scott High’s girls were picked to finish in a tie for third in a pre-season poll of Southeast Kansas League coaches. And it’s not difficult to see why. The Tigers, 8-13 last season, have five seniors and six juniors among their 27 players this season, 11 of whom earned letters. There are five seniors and six juniors...

Fort Scott High School’s boys were picked to finish in sixth place in the Southeast Kansas League after finishing seventh last season. That could be based on the depth of the league, which is expected to be a dogfight among those schools other than defending champion Pittsburg, but also that the Tigers return most of the same players from last year’s 6-16 season...

MORAN — Uniontown’s boys were in control through their season opener with Marmaton Valley here Friday night, leading 21-6 after one period on their way to a 50-35 win in Three Rivers League action. Marmaton Valley’s girls won the opener of the varsity doubleheader over Uniontown, 30-15...

Fort Scott High School has been selected to host a Class 4A-Division I Sub-State Tournament March 1-3. The Tigers will host an all-Southeast Kansas League tournament with Labette County, Chanute and Independence also traveling to the FSHS main gymnasium. This is the last season of the current format for post-season play in 4A-I as next year, Class 4A will have 32 teams without any divisions and will switch to the post-season system currently in effect in classes 6A and 5A...

WILLARD, Mo. — Fort Scott High School’s girls lost in a close, hard-fought battle in Thursday’s opener of the annual Willard (Mo.) Tri-State Classic. But on Friday, the host school used a pair of long scoring runs to drop the Tigers to 0-2 on the season...

WILLARD, Mo. — The first two days of the Willard Tri-State Classic didn’t go like Fort Scott High’s boys hoped as they lost games to Bentonville West Thursday and host Willard Friday. The Tigers, 0-2, will face Harrison, Ark. this afternoon at 4:15 hoping to come home with third place in the fourth-team round-robin tournament...