Stories from Friday, April 6, 2018

Fort Scott City Commissioners on Tuesday learned of an upcoming campaign designed to save lives and homes from fires. Deputy Fire Chief Dave Bruner updated commissioners on the American Red Cross’ “Sound the Alarm, Save a Life” campaign, which runs from April 28 to May 13. The campaign will involve teams of volunteers who plan to install 100,000 free smoke alarms in more than 100 cities throughout the U.S...

Staff at the Fort Scott Public Library are getting teens involved at the library and in the community. The Teen Advisory Program, held each Wednesday afternoon at the library, was created in order to allow teens a chance to help “shape their library to better serve their age group,” Youth Librarian and Assistant Director Valetta Cannon said...

FRONTENAC — Jasper Atchison won four medals for Northeast’s boys here Thursday as the Vikings went to the Frontenac Raider Invitational as a make-up for a meet at Southeast that was cancelled earlier this year. Atchison scored all 21 of the Vikings’ team points. He finished second in the 3,200-meter run with a time of 11:04.58, third in the 1,600 in 5:03.73, thrd in the 110-meter hurdles in 44.67, and sixth in the 110-meter hurdles in 18.17...

OSWEGO — Despite the wind and cold, the Oswego Invitational track meet went on as scheduled here Tuesday with Uniontown’s boys finishing second in team standings while the girls placed sixth. “Not the best conditions for a track meet, but our athletes competed well,” Uniontown head coach Jackie Hall said. “The boys’ team, which numbers only four, placed second “...

ARMA — Yates Center swept Northeast in a Three Rivers League baseball doubeleheader here Thursday night. The Wildcats won game one, 13-3, in six innings and the second game, 7-5, in seven. The Vikings (1-3 TRL, 1-5 overall) were held to 4 hits in the first game. Matt Cashero, Dalton Reeves, Hunter Jackson and Nathan Boswell each had one of them...

ARMA — Northeast softball got its first win of the season here Thursday night before settling for a split with Yates Center in a Three Rivers League doubleheader. The Vikings won game one, 9-8, with the Wildcats taking game two, 4-1. “Both games had some errors but also some really awesome plays,” Northeast head coach Scott Post said in a statement made on his team’s Facebook page. “We played a good team and our confidence should be high moving toward next week.”...

Fort Scott High School’s boys’ tennis team played in two tournaments this week and a summary of a tournament at Independence from March 29 will also be summarized in this report. The tournaments are listed in the order they were held, beginning with the Independence Tournament followed by Tuesday’s matches at Chanute and Thursday’s at Pittsburg...

KANSAS CITY, Kan. — One of the nation’s best junior-college baseball teams was swept by one of the Jayhawk Conference’s hottest as Kansas City Kansas scored 7-5 and 5-4 wins over No. 15 Fort Scott Community College here Thursday. The Greyhounds (17-5 Jayhawk Conference-Eastern Division, 31-7 overall) dropped out of a tie for first place with No. ...

Fort Scott High School’s softball team was the last one in the Southeast Kansas League to finally play. And the Tigers released some frustration Thursday when they swept rival Pittsburg by scores of 12-2 and 9-2 in a league twinbill at Lions Field. Contrast the Tigers’ schedule to Chanute’s. ...

Sports Editor's Note: Because the Tribune had an early deadline Friday night due to the predicted storm, the version of this story in the print edition has an incorrect schedule for Saturday. The schedule seen in this version is correct. The Tribune regrets any confusion this may have caused.

PAOLA — Ella Beth and Paxsten Eads each won events for Fort Scott High’s girls as the Tigers’ track teams competed in the Paola Invitational here Thursday. Beth won the 800-meter run while Eads was the champion in the 3,200 meters for Tiger girls. The girls won six medals in finishing ninth as a team...