High School Track

Jayhawk-Linn teams both finish in sixth place; Girls' relay takes Class 3A crown (05/27/08)
WICHITA -- Both Jayhawk-Linn track teams finished in sixth place in Class 3A at the Kansas State Track and Field Championships at Wichita State University's Cessna Stadium here Saturday. Coincidentally, both the boys and girls scored 28 team points. The girls shared sixth place with Allen-Northern Heights while the boys held their spot outright...

McCullough, Allen win Saturday medals (05/27/08)
WICHITA -- Pleasanton won two medals in the Class 2A State Track and Field Meet at Wichita State University's Cessna Stadium. Senior Danny McCullough finished fourth in the 300-meter hurdles with a time of 41.76 seconds The winning time was 39.03, turned in by Bennington senior Lawson Montgomery. Solomon senior Derek Knight was second in 40.46 and Meade junior Taylor Headrick was third in 40.67...

Mason medals in 300-meter hurdles (05/27/08)
WICHITA -- Uniontown won one medal here Saturday in the Class 2A State Track and Field Meet at Wichita State University's Cessna Stadium. Senior Zach Mason finished in seventh place in the 300-meter hurdles in 42.02 seconds. Bennington senior Lawson Montgomery was the winner in 39.03. Solomon senior Derek Knight was second in 40.46 and Meade junior Taylor Headrick was third in 40.67...

'Hound frosh fourth in NJCAA high jump (05/22/08)
LEVELLAND, Texas -- Fort Scott Community College's Kyle Grant performed at the NJCAA Outdoor Track and Field National Championships here last weekend. Grant, one of 23 athletes to qualify in the high jump, won fourth place at the National Championships and, by clearing 6' 10 3/4", broke the Greyhound school record...

Brown wins third State medal (05/20/08)
MANHATTAN -- Fort Scott High School senior Chris Brown finished his career by earning his third State medal after the Class 4A State Golf Tournament at Stag Hill Golf Course here Monday. Brown also won an individual medal at State last year and a team medal when the Tigers placed in 2006...

State Track Schedule (05/20/08)
State Track Schedule From the 2008 Track & Field Manual, published by the KSHSAA: This schedule is a guide. Should the meet sessions run ahead of schedule, (they) will continue to run ahead and no adjustments will be made. In the first session on Friday, Class 4A will compete first followed by Class 5A and Class 6A. ...

Jayhawk-Linn dominates Baxter Springs Regional (05/20/08)
BAXTER SPRINGS -- Jayhawk-Linn's track teams swept the team titles at the Baxter Springs Class 3A Regional Meet here Friday as the Jayhawks won a total of 33 medals and qualified 27 entries into this weekend's Class 3A State Track and Field Championships...

Pleasanton to send 17 entries to State; Uniontown will take 15 (05/20/08)
PLEASANTON -- Pleasanton will send 17 entrants to this weekend's Class 2A State Track and Field Championship while Uniontown will send 15 there as a result of finishes at Pleasanton's Class 2A Regional Meet here Friday. Pleasanton's boys finished second in the team standings, scoring 63 points. Uniontown was fifth with 51 points. Howard-West Elk was the winner with 88 points...

Fort Scott Tigers send eleven to state (05/17/08)
OTTAWA, Kan. -- Fort Scott High School's track teams combined to send 11 entries to state, eight of them from the boys' team, out of the Ottawa Class 4A Regional Meet at Ottawa University Friday night. Final team scores have Fort Scott's boys fourth as a team behind champion Paola, DeSoto, then Louisburg. The girls' placed seventh with Baldwin winning the team title followed by Eudora and DeSoto...

Tiger girls second, boys third at Chanute meet (05/05/08)
CHANUTE -- Fort Scott High's girls finished second in team standings while Tiger boys placed third at the Thad Clements Invitational here Friday. Chanute's girls won the meet with 105 points followed by the Tigers with 89, 20 points ahead of third-place Independence...

Tiger boys win Burlington Relays handily (05/01/08)
BURLINGTON -- Fort Scott High's boys won the Burlington Relays handily here Tuesday, beating Carbondale-Santa Fe Trail and Iola, which tied for second place, for the championship by 25 1/2 points. Fort Scott's girls finished in third place behind Santa Fe Trail and Chanute...

Short-handed Eagles still win 17 medals (04/29/08)
NEODESHA -- A short-handed Uniontown team, missing one of its male and female athletes due to injuries, won three events and 17 medals at the Neodesha Invitational here Thursday. Jamie Shelton won boys' javelin with a throw of 151 feet, one inch and also finished third in the high jump. Drew Johnson took boys' high jump at 5' 10" and also took second in the triple jump and fourth in long jump...

Nevada, Fort Scott visit Girard for 24 team track meet (04/26/08)
GIRARD, Kan. -- Fort Scott and Nevada both took part in the Girard Optimist Club Relays at Frank Jameson Field here Friday, the largest regular-season competition hosted by a high school in Southeast Kansas with 24 schools attending this season...

Jayhawks claim titles at Uniontown Invitational (04/23/08)
UNIONTOWN -- Jayhawk-Linn's boys and girls' track teams once again both claimed championships at the same meet. Monday, it was at Uniontown's 20th annual invitational. Jayhawk-Linn's boys won only one event but claimed 23 medals as they scored 139 points to finish ahead of Uniontown in the nine-team meet. The Eagles scored 100 points, winning four events and 15 medals...

Fort Scott meets Nevada at FS Invitational (04/19/08)
FORT SCOTT, Kan. -- Clouds, cold, and a few raindrops couldn't put a damper on things at the Fort Scott Relays Friday night at Frary Field. Just about each of the eight boys' and girls' teams had individuals perform well and the meet itself went off without any delays due to rain or lightning...

Pleasanton thinclads compete in Wichita, at home meet (04/17/08)
Pleasanton's track team recently competed in two meets. Friday, the Blu-Jays traveled to Wichita to take part in the K.T. Woodman Relays. Pleasanton had winning results in two relays and medals in two others. There were also several other medalists...

Jayhawk thinclads continue dominance (04/15/08)
BURLINGTON -- Jayhawk-Linn's track teams had another dominating day here Monday as Burlington's stadium played host to Waverly's annual Gene Farrow Invitational track and field meet. Uniontown's teams, however, didn't see things go very well, especially considering some of the good performances it had just three days prior at the K.T. Woodman Relays at Wichita State University. In fact, although Eagle performers won 16 medals, they didn't win any events...

Johnson wins pair of events at Wichita State (04/14/08)
WICHITA -- Uniontown's Drew Johnson won two events at the K.T. Woodman Relays hosted by Wichita State University here Friday. Johnson was a winner in the Class 2-1A division in long jump at 19 feet even and high jump at 5 feet, 10 inches. He also took third in the triple jump at 38' 7 1/4"...

Jayhawk girls dominant even in shortened meet (04/10/08)
MOUND CITY -- Jayhawk-Linn's girls won their home meet easily here Thursday, scoring 143 points, double the amount scored by runner-up Central Heights. Six events went uncontested as thunderstorms came through the area. The pole vault probably would have been scratched regardless due to the slick surface but the 4x200-meter relay, 200-meter dash, 3,200-meter run, 4x400 relay and shot put were not completed, either...

Jayhawk girls take Frontenac meet (04/07/08)
FRONTENAC -- Jayhawk-Linn's girls easily took the team title of the rain-delayed Frontenac Invitational here Friday evening. The Jayhawks scored 142 points, finishing well ahead of second-place Pittsburg Colgan, which scored 79. Uniontown was third with 54 points...

Tiger girls third, boys fourth at Paola (04/07/08)
PAOLA -- Fort Scott High's girls finished in third place while the boys came in fourth in a 12-team track meet here Friday. Even with seven medals awarded in each event rather than the usual six, there were not very many individual medalists partly due to the depth of the field and partly due to the performances of the top team on each side of the standings...

Blu-Jays win 44 medals at Southeast meet (04/02/08)
CHEROKEE -- Pleasanton's track teams combined to win 44 medals at the Southeast High School Invitational here Tuesday. Blu-Jay girls finished first in the 10-team meet after winning three events and 25 medals on their way to scoring 134 1/2 points. Host Southeast was second with 74 points followed by Columbus with 71 and Liberal, Mo., with 60...

Eagle girls second, boys third at Oswego (04/02/08)
OSWEGO -- Uniontown's track teams opened their seasons here Tuesday with the girls' team finishing in second place while the boys placed third. Eagle girls scored 94 points to place behind Wyandotte, Okla. The boys scored 102 points while Wyandotte was first and Quapaw, Okla., was second. Eight schools competed in the meet, including Altoona-Midway, Chetopa, Longton-Elk Valley and St. Paul...

Varsity girls win opening meet; boys fourth at LCHS (03/31/08)
ALTAMONT -- Fort Scott High's varsity girls' track team won the team title at the Labette County Invitational here Friday, which was the opening meet of the season for most of the teams here, including the Tigers. Fort Scott's boys placed fourth in team standings. Tiger junior varsity teams also competed here with the girls finishing sixth and the boys ninth. There were 10 schools in all four divisions...

Defending 3A champ breaks school long jump record (03/31/08)
RICHMOND -- Jayhawk-Linn sophomore Taylor Dawson, who won the Class 3A State championship in long jump last season, broke the school record in a meet at Central Heights Friday. Dawson, who won State with a mark of 17 feet, 5 1/4 inches last year, cleared 17' 9 3/4" Friday, also scoring team points that helped her team win the meet...

Pleasanton girls third in first varsity meet (03/27/08)
ARCHIE, Mo. -- Pleasanton High School's girls track team won nine medals and finished in third place in the Blu-Jays' first varsity meet of the season here Tuesday. Pleasanton's girls scored 56 points, finishing behind winner Saint Mary's, which scored 144, and runner-up Jasper, Mo., which had 78. The Jays finished six points ahead of fourth-place Butler, Mo. There were 16 schools in the meet...

Tiger track season begins Friday (03/26/08)
Fort Scott High School's track season begins Friday afternoon with a combined varsity/junior varsity meet at Labette County Friday afternoon. Tiger head coaches Don Epps (boys) and Tracey Bogina (girls) will be doing a lot of evaluating at this meet, which will begin at 2 p.m. and quite possibly end somewhere around 10:30. Epps plans to use 17 athletes on the varsity level at this meet while Bogina, at least for now, intends to use 14 girls...

Pleasanton JV track opens season at Southeast (03/26/08)
CHEROKEE -- The Pleasanton High School junior varsity track team got its season underway here Tuesday with a freshman-sophomore meet at Southeast High School. Blu-Jay boys won eight events while the girls won three. In all, Pleasanton's boys brought back 21 medals as they won the meet with 149 points. Northeast-Arma was second with 137 points while Pittsburg Colgan was third with 50...

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.