Stories from Friday, January 30, 2015

Fort Scott Middle School seventh-grade coach Brian Lancaster reported some of his team's exploits over the last week to the Tribune Wednesday night. Here is how the Tigers have been performing. Both the "A" and "B" teams participated in a tournament at Iola on January 24. In the first round of the "A" bracket, Fort Scott defeated host Iola, 43-22, behind 17 points from C.J. Horton. Cooper Bradbury added 9 points and had 6 rebounds...

Fort Scott Community College's women went into Wednesday night's game looking for a third consecutive conference victory for the first time since the 2008-09 season. Instead, they were handed an 83-44 loss by Kansas City Kansas, ranked No. 7 in this week's NJCAA Division II poll...

With 45 seconds remaining in a key Division II matchup at Arnold Arena Wednesday night, Kansas City Kansas' Roberto Hernandez hit a 3-point shot to bring his Blue Devils within 3 points of Fort Scott Community College's men. With such little time, usually the trailing team fouls to save time and hope that the opponent misses one or both foul shots...

Fans waited with anticipation as the outcome Fort Scott High's home wrestling dual against Frontenac at the FSHS gymnasium was determined Thursday night. But fans weren't looking at the mat. They were looking at the scorer's table. The dual finished in a 34-34 tie after Frontenac's Kyle Loy pinned Fort Scott's Zach Humble 36 seconds into the second period of the 285-pound match. That sent the match over to the scorer's table to go through the tie-breaking critereia...