Tigers advance in state tourney

The No. 1 seeded Fort Scott Tiger varsity baseball team (22-1) has advanced in the KSHSAA Boys Class 4A State Baseball Championship tournament with a 3-1 first-round victory over the No. 8 seeded Kansas City-Piper Pirates (8-12) Thursday at Dean Evans Stadium in Salina.

The Tigers are scheduled to play the No. 4 seeded Buhler High School Crusaders (20-3) at 11 a.m. Friday. Buhler defeated the No. 5 seeded Chanute Blue Comets 9-0 on Thursday.

Other first round games scheduled Thursday were No. 2 seeded Wichita-Trinity Academy (18-1) versus No. 7 seeded Mulvane High School (9-11), and No. 3 seeded Nickerson High School (16-2) versus No. 6 seeded Tonganoxie High School (12-9.)

The winners of those games will advance to play each other in the next round late Friday morning. The winner of that game will play the Fort Scott-Buhler winner in the state baseball championship game later on Friday.

The third-place game is also set to take place Friday. Game start times are set about 25 minutes apart.

See more coverage of the Tigers at the state tournament in Saturday’s Tribune.