Stories from Wednesday, December 19, 2018

EMPORIA — Uniontown’s wrestling team sent two of its members here Saturday to give them tests against competitors from larger schools at the Emporia Tournament. Freshman Bryce Eck finished in third place at 132 pounds. He drew a first-round bye before pinning Conner O’Donnell, a junior from Topeka, in the quarterfinals...

OTTAWA — Fort Scott High’s boys’ wrestling team finished second in a consolation pool at a large dual tournament hosted by Ottawa High School here Saturday. The 12-team tournament had four preliminary pools of three teams each. Once the teams were sorted from those pools, they were assigned to three four-team pools for placement. The Tigers were second in the “9th-12th” pool...

Fort Scott Community College’s men finished its weekend trip to Texas with two wins. Following Thursday’s win at North Lake, which was summarized in Saturday’s edition, the Greyhounds took a 70-62 win at Brookhaven in overtime on Friday. Saturday, they were beaten in overtime by Eastfield, currently the No. 6-ranked team in NJCAA Division III...

UNIONTOWN — Luke George scored 11 points here Tuesday night but Uniontown’s boys fell to visiting Cherryvale by a score of 63-34 in non-league basketball. Jake Harvey added 8 points for the Eagles, who will head into the holiday break with an 0-6 record...

Pittsburg’s fourth-quarter dominance allowed the visiting Purple Dragons to rally from a 9-point deficit at three-quarter time and take a 40-34 victory over Fort Scott High’s girls in Southeast Kansas League play at the FSHS gymnasium Tuesday night...

Gavyn Elkamil’s 3-pointer with 2.2 seconds to go in the FSHS gymnasium gave his visiting Pittsburg team the lead. Trenton Austin’s tip of the inbound pass following a time out preserved a 64-61 win for the Purple Dragons over Fort Scott High’s boys in Southeast Kansas League play Tuesday night...