Stories from Saturday, September 15, 2018

Fort Scott High School has made the following changes to its freshmen and junior varsity football schedules, which were made necessary by a lack of players at some of the schools on the original schedule. The JV teams will play their original opponents while the freshmen will play new teams...

INDEPENDENCE — Fort Scott High School volleyball split its Southeast Kansas League opening matches here Tuesday. The Tigers beat Coffeyville, 25-13, 25-20, but fell to defending league champion Indy, 25-9, 25-16. Fort Scott (1-1 SEK, 3-2 overall) plays in the Erie Tournament today...

RIVERTON — Fort Scott High’s soccer team fell to 1-4 on the season with a 2-1 loss to Riverton here Tuesday. Head coach Gary Floyd said that the Tigers took 29 shots but that seven of them hit the crossbar. The Tigers are playing in the Tornado Tournament at Coffeyville today...

Uniontown’s varsity volleyball team won two of six matches this week, playing in a pair of quadrangular. Tuesday, the Eagles went to Yates Center for Three Rivers League matches. They defeated St. Paul, 25-15, 25-17, as Danielle Howard recorded 2 kills. They lost to Southeast, 25-11, 25-20, with Howard posting 3 kills. And the Eagles fell to Yates Center, 25-21, 25-18, as Howard had 6 kills...

Fort Scott High’s tennis team found some success at Independence Tuesday and Chanute on Thursday as head coach Allison Gorman used different lineups in each tournament. The six varsity players went in at different positions and each produced no worse than a 2-2 record on the day...

WELLSVILLE — Fort Scott’s Gabbie Clements won the girls’ varsity race at the Wellsville cross-country meet here Thursday, turning in a time of 21:19.55 over 5,000 meters to take the title by about six seconds over Trinity Moore of Louisburg. The team results saw Fort Scott in fourth place with 68 points in a deep meet. Pomona-West Franklin was the champion with 49 points followed by Spring Hill with 51 and Louisburg with 67...

JOPLIN — Fort Scott High’s girls’ golf team won two medals at the Galena Invitational here Thursday with Lauren Madison winning her third tourmament of the season. Madison shot 37 and finished eight stokes ahead of Girard’s Marci Heatherly. Karlee Chipman won her second medal of the season as she finished sixth with a 49. Ellie Perkinson rounded out Fort Scott’s results with an 85...

LAWRENCE — Fort Scott Community College’s women’s golf team played in the program’s first tournament here Tuesday and Wednesday. The women will play both fall and spring schedules with one more event on the agenda Oct. 1 at Friends University in Wichita...

By Scott Nuzum Tribune Sports Editor Perhaps a little bit of familiarity helped Labette in the early going of a Jayhawk Conference-Eastern Division volleyball match against Fort Scott Community College at Arnold Arena Wednesday night. It was the third meeting already this season between the teams and first-year LCC head coach Haley Miller was a long-time assistant for Greyhound head coach Lindsay Hill until last season...

UNIONTOWN — Ty Davidson threw for 218 yards and four touchdowns here Friday night as Uniontown rolled by Northeast, 52-12, in Three Rivers League action on Homecoming night. “We executed tonight within our schemes,” Eagles head coach Jeremy Neville said. “The energy and excitement was back. We had several players have very good individual performances, but the team was better at overcoming adversity tonight. We are getting better every time out, but the penalties are still hurting us.”...

A little home cookin’ always seems to cure what ails ya and Fort Scott High School’s football team got heaping helpings of it against Independence at Frary Field Friday night in Southeast Kansas League play. After being drubbed by Paola in Week Two, the Tigers came out, scored the game’s first 36 points and rolled up 20 first downs and 467 yards of total offense in a 55-12 roast of the Bulldogs...