High School Softball

All-SEK Teams: Five softball players rewarded (06/06/08)
Five members of Fort Scott High School's softball team received All-Southeast Kansas League honors recently. Senior shortstop Joce Allen and catcher Hannah Hawkins and junior pitcher Erica Davis were named to the First Team to represent Fort Scott, which finished second in the league behind champion Columbus...

Wildcat pitcher shuts down Eagles (05/15/08)
YATES CENTER -- Uniontown's first season of softball came to an end here Tuesday in a semifinal of the Yates Center Class 2-1A Regional Softball Tournament at Kluendor Field. Yates Center's pitcher, Heffern, held the Eagles (7-6) to one hit, which came off the bat of Cassie Schwalm, as the Wildcats took a 6-0 win...

Independence rallies for upset (05/12/08)
Sometimes the better team doesn't win. Sometimes, it's the team that does better. Independence, the No. 6 seed in the Girard Class 4A Regional, did things better in a first-round game at Don Hewett Field Monday afternoon. And they did them better when it mattered...

Sigwing named KJCCC-East Coach of Year (05/07/08)
Lauren Sigwing, Fort Scott Community College's second-year head softball coach, was recently honored by her peers as she was named Kansas Jayhawk Community College Conference-Eastern Division coach of the Year. Sigwing's Greyhounds had a 17-25 overall record this season, which included an 8-10 record in conference play. They were also 11-9 against district opponents...

Baseball, softball seedings announced (05/07/08)
Seedings were announced Wednesday for Regional baseball and softball tournaments which are slated to begin Monday throughout the area. Fort Scott High School baseball is the No. 3 seed in the Chanute Class 4A Regional. All the games in the tournament will be played in Chanute with the first day's play split between CHS' Katy Park and Neosho County Community College's Hudson Field...

Tiger softball sweeps Iola (05/06/08)
IOLA -- Fort Scott High School softball swept Iola in a Southeast Kansas League doubleheader here Monday evening. The Tigers took the opener 8-1 then followed up with an 11-6 win. Joce Allen was four for five at the plate in the opener, scoring three runs. Afton Gray was three for five with three RBIs. Hannah Hawkins was two for three and Jamie Collins was two for two...

Eagles finish second in TRL (05/06/08)
UNIONTOWN -- Uniontown's softball team assured itself of a second-place finish in the Three Rivers League in its first year of existence after beating Chetopa, 10-9, in the opening game of a doubleheader here Monday. In the second game, a non-league contest, the Eagles took a 7-6 win, which means that that their first season will not end with a losing record...

No-hitter part of softball sweep (05/01/08)
Fort Scott High School's softball team won its sixth and seventh straight games as it swept a Southeast Kansas League doubleheader from Labette County Tuesday at Don Hewett Field. The Tigers won game one 13-0 as Erica Davis threw a no-hitter, the second one by a Fort Scott pitcher this season. The second victory was harder to come by as it took nine innings for the Tigers to come away with a 5-4 win...

Uniontown softball splits in high-scoring doubleheader (05/01/08)
OSWEGO -- Uniontown's softball team, playing for the first time in two weeks, split a non-league triangular here Tuesday. Oswego, the host for the triangular, took game one, 9-7, as an Eagle rally in the seventh fell just short. Uniontown won the second game from Galena, 17-11, after scoring eight runs in the bottom of the sixth...

Fort Scott Tiger softball team on five game win streak (04/26/08)
LENEXA, Kan. -- Fort Scott High School's softball team won its fifth straight game, a 9-1 decision over St. James Academy here Thursday. Erica Davis (5-1) allowed four hits and walked three while striking out 12 for the Tigers (8-2)...

Out with a Tie: Storm brings early end to sophomores' final home game (04/23/08)
It was neither a win nor a loss. It was just the last game. The last home game of the junior college softball careers of Fort Scott Community College sophomores Sam Ribas and Ashley Harris were played at the Betty Ruth Willard Complex Wednesday afternoon. It ended a couple of hours sooner than they probably wished and it did so without any real decision...

Tigers double up Vikes (04/23/08)
PARSONS -- Fort Scott High's softball team swept Parsons by identical 13-0 scores in a Southeast Kansas League doubleheader here Tuesday night. With that sweep and the split recorded between Iola and Pittsburg, the Tigers moved into second place in the league behind undefeated Columbus...

Tigers sweep 'Nado, claim share of third in SEK (04/23/08)
COFFEYVILLE -- Fort Scott High's softball team swept Coffeyville here Monday to claim a share of third-place in the Southeast Kansas League going into Tuesday's league doubleheader at Parsons. Fort Scott took the opener 7-3 and the night cap 9-1 to improve to 3-1 in the league and move into a tie with rival Pittsburg. The Tigers are 5-2 overall...

The long run (04/16/08)

Marmaton Valley sweeps Uniontown (04/16/08)
MORAN -- Uniontown's softball team earned a split in its first-ever meeting with rival Marmaton Valley here Monday. The Eagles (2-3) won the opener, 9-6, but the Wildcats took the nightcap, 7-0. Marmaton Valley led the opener 4-0 after three innings and 5-1 after four. The Eagles scored in each of the last four innings, including a five-run rally in the seventh that made it 9-5 at the time...

Trojans sweep 'Hawks (04/16/08)
OSAWATOMIE -- Jayhawk-Linn's varsity softball team was swept by Osawatomie in a Tuesday doubleheader here by scores of 3-0 and 8-3. Jayhawk-Linn (2-6) had only two hits in the opener, which came from the bats of Amanda Black and Kelsey Ligman. Lynda Beth allowed only one earned run on six hits and struck out five...

'Hounds on a run: FSCC enjoying longest winning streak in five years (04/14/08)
It's been a long time since Fort Scott Community College's softball program has enjoyed a run such as the one it's on now. The Greyhounds swept a doubleheader from Jayhawk Conference-Eastern Division rival Independence at the Betty Ruth Willard Complex Monday afternoon, stretching a winning streak that began Friday afternoon to seven games...

Eagles win in bottom of 7th (04/10/08)
UNIONTOWN -- Uniontown played its first home softball games here Wednesday, a make-up of last Thursday's scheduled game at St. Paul, and won for the first time in the program's month-long history by a 7-6 score in the bottom of the seventh inning...

Tiger varsity beats Warriors, then JV does same (04/07/08)
Fort Scott High's varsity softball team defeated the Wichita Warriors 5-0 in a non-league game Saturday. Then the Tiger junior varsity went out and beat essentially the same team 2-0. It was a different sort of day all around for the Tigers (2-1). First, this was a Saturday morning game, starting at 10:30 a.m., instead of the usual 4:30 weekday start. ...

Location for Saturday Tiger softball games changed (04/04/08)
Includes notes concerning other rescheduled activities. Posted at 2:20 p.m. Friday afternoon.

Jayhawks swept by Anderson County in softball twinbill. (04/02/08)
GARNETT -- Anderson County swept a doubleheader from Jayhawk-Linn here Tuesday afternoon, taking the first game 8-5 and the second 12-2. The Bulldogs held an 8-2 lead after three innings. The Jayhawks tried to rally, scoring four times in the sixth and once in the top of the seventh before falling short...

Pen to paper (04/01/08)
Two Uniontown athletes recently signed scholarship letters of intent to play softball at Kansas junior colleges.

Uniontown plays first baseball, softball games (03/31/08)
ERIE -- Thursday afternoon, Uniontown High School created a little bit of school history. For the first time since about the middle 1960's, UHS played a baseballl game and, for the first time ever, the school had an interscholastic softball game. The softball team fell in the first game of a triangular to Erie, 17-2. In their second game, the Eagles lost to Humboldt, a Class 2-1A State Tournament qualifier last season, 14-1. No statistics were available from the games...

Girard takes tournament title (03/25/08)
Fort Scott's Simpson hurls no-hitter, strikes out 14 in opener

Expectations remain high for Fort Scott softball (03/22/08)
FORT SCOTT, Kan. -- Alvin Metcalf isn't bragging when he says that he expects his Fort Scott High School softball team to go back to the State Tournament this season. It's simply that, during his time as assistant coach -- and now in his second season as head coach -- the bar has been raised that high...

Roughriders bounce Greyhounds (03/13/08)
Crowder pitcher Alex Peters threw 5 2/3 innings of no-hit ball to help her Roughriders to a 9-2 win over Fort Scott Community College in a non-league softball game at the Betty Ruth Willard Complex Thursday afternoon. The second game of the scheduled doubleheader wasn't played after cloud-to-ground lightning began striking around the area...

Former Tigers help lead Tigers: FSHS graduates return to help Cowley sweep 'Hounds (03/11/08)
You can see how much better Fort Scott Community College's softball team is than in previous seasons if you look closely when they play. But the Greyhounds are also a very young team -- only two players were on the FSCC roster last season -- and sometimes, that can also be apparent...

Greyhounds swept by Devils (03/10/08)
What happened Sunday at the Betty Ruth Willard Complex wasn't exactly what Fort Scott Community College softball coach Lauren Sigwing was hoping for. Coming off a promising pair of games Thursday against Johnson County -- the Greyhounds were swept but lost just 5-3 and 6-5 against one of the conference's toughest programs -- the 9-2, 4-1 sweep at the hands of visiting Allen County in a Jayhawk Conference-Eastern Division make-up doubleheader...

College Pledges (02/28/08)
Two Fort Scott High School seniors (seated in the center of each photo) signed letters of intent Wednesday morning to participate in athletics next school year at Fort Scott Community College.