Stories from Saturday, September 29, 2018

Volleyball Sub-State hosts for classes 3A on down were announced by the Kansas State High School Activities Association on Friday. Uniontown has been chosen to host a Class 2A Sub-State on Saturday, Oct. 20. The eight-team Sub-State will be played on one court and will begin at 1 p.m. Other teams in addition to Uniontown are Northeast, Southeast, Howard-West Elk, Humboldt, Colgan and Yates Center...

The Kansas State High School Activities Association released classifications for all sports other than football Wednesday morning with the new classification system that’s come into effect beginning this school year. This system reflects the most radical change in the way schools are classified since the expansion from five classes to six in 1978-79...

UNIONTOWN — Uniontown’s volleyball team swept a Three Rivers League triangular here Tuesday night. The Eagles beat Northeast, 25-18, 25-15, and Jayhawk-Linn, 25-11, 25-22. In the middle match, Northeast fell to Jayhawk-Linn, 25-19, 25-16. No statistics were available for Northeast...

HIGHLAND — Fort Scott Community College’s volleyball team took Highland, ranked No. 5 in NJCAA Division II, to five sets here Wednesday night in Jayhawk Conference play before falling 20-25, 25-18, 25-12, 22-25, 15-7. The Greyhounds (1-4 conference, 9-7 overall) are tied for eighth place in the Eastern Division with Labette while Highland improved to 4-1, 20-2...

CHANUTE — Fort Scott High’s tennis team continues to make positive strides as the Tigers picked up two second-place finishes in a four-team tournament here Thursday. Both doubles teams earned the second-place medals in round-robin play. The No. 1 team of Britni Addington and Patience Richwine (7-3) lost their first match to Labette County’s Page Burleigh/Lexi Baughman, 8-2, but went on to beat Pittsburg’s Minnifield/Hutson, 8-1, and Chanute’s Shayla Bogle/Taylor Thompson, 8-6...

Fort Scott High’s volleyball team defeated Columbus in the first match of a non-league quadrangular at the FSHS gymnasium Thursday evening, but fell to Pittsburg and Girard in their other two matches. The Tigers swept Columbus, 25-12, 25-10. They lost to the Purple Dragons, 25-10, 25-14, and to Girard in three sets, 20-25, 25-23, 27-25. In the other matches, Pittsburg beat Columbus, 25-6, 25-6, and Girard, 25-18, 25-10. Girard downed Columbus, 25-10, 25-18...

UNIONTOWN — Olpe scored 20 points in the first quarter here Friday night and went on to beat Uniontown, 48-6, in non-league play. “Olpe is one of the best small-school football programs in the state of Kansas,” Eagle head coach Jeremy Neville said. “They were extremely disciplines in their execution and played as a unit...

Fort Scott High took the early lead in the Southeast Kansas League football race with a 21-6 victory over Labette County on Homecoming at Frary Field. Matt Campbell came within a few yards of breaking the school record for passing yards in a game, completing 15 of 27 attempts for 268 yards, the second-most in school history. The record is Matt Wheeler’s 275 yards in a win over LCHS on Sept. 28, 2007...