Stories from Tuesday, September 12, 2017

William Thomas Sheehy was born Aug. 27, 1939, in Fort Scott, Kan., to Joseph Andrew and Elizabeth Ellen (Keating) Sheehy. He passed away Saturday, Sept. 9, 2017, at the Prescott Country View Nursing Home at the age of 78 years. William was employed at K.C. ...

After receiving more details on a proposed student trip overseas in the spring, members of the USD 234 Board of Education approved an extended trip application at their Monday meeting. Amy Harper and Polly Mayberry, teachers at Fort Scott High School, appeared before the board to provide information on a trip to China being planned by the Global Culture Diversity student organization. ...

As of Tuesday morning, county commissioners were waiting to speak with the construction manager at risk about the appearance of the concrete floors at the Bourbon County Law Enforcement Center under construction at 323 E. 20th St. Southeast Kansas Regional Correctional Center Major Bobby Reed, Sheriff Bill Martin, Undersheriff Ben Cole and SEKRCC Captain Alvin Metcalf Jr. attended the commission meeting armed with photos of the floor in one of the jail pods...

A sinking sun, framed by a U.S. flag on a light pole, sets amid wisps of clouds in the western sky Tuesday evening in downtown Fort Scott. The photo was snapped on Old Fort Boulevard near North National Avenue. Skies were cloudy Tuesday as remnants of Hurricane Irma entered the Midwest...

YATES CENTER — Coming off a season-opening 53-0 loss to Liberal, Mo., Northeast High School performed better in a 20-14 loss to Yates Center in Three Rivers League 11-man football here Friday. The Vikings (0-1 TRL, 0-2 overall) took an 8-6 lead in the third quarter. Donovan Anderson ran in the touchdown and Karter Dugan ran in the 2-point conversion...

INDEPENDENCE — Fort Scott High’s junior varsity football team played its first game of the season here Monday night and took a 14-10 win over Independence. Levi Bin scored on an 8-yard run for the Tigers. Jon Daniels hauled in a 16-yard touchdown pass from C.J. Horton and Dalton Colvin ran in the 2-point conversion...

MORAN — Uniontown’s junior varsity volleyball team won a pair of matches here Saturday in a tournament at Marmaton Valley. The Eagles lost their first match of the day to Humboldt A, 15-13, 15-13. They defeated Crest in their next match, 15-4, 15-8. Richmond-Central Heights then beat the Eagles in three sets, 15-3, 10-15, 15-11. Pleasanton downed Uniontown, 15-11, 15-12. Finally, the Eagles beat Northeast, 7-15, 15-11, 15-10...

Results of the One-Person Scramble Tournament held Saturday at Woodland Hills Golf Course saw winners in two divisions of play. Josh Query won the First Flight and $65 for shooting 68 while Don Garrett was second and won $40 for his score of 71. Doug Scism won a tie-breaker with Levi Hermreck for the championship of the Second Flight after both tied with scores of 76. Scism won $65 and Hermreck won $40...

COFFEYVILLE — Fort Scott Community College’s volleyball team went 2-2 at a weekend invitational here Friday and Saturday. The Greyhounds (10-4), who entered the week ranked No. 8 in the NJCAA Division II poll but lost three of five matches during it, began the tournament with a sweep of Division I Pratt on Friday, 25-20, 25-17, 25-14. ...

Fort Scott High School hosted its second girls’ junior varsity tennis tournament of the season Monday with two doubles entries. Abbie Houston and Alexis Bailey played No. 1 doubles and finished third with a 1-2 record. They lost their first match to Pittsburg’s Gina Mathew and Carmen Kent by a 6-1 score but defeated Labette County’s Bree March and Aubri Stewart by the same score. They lost their third match in a tie-breaker, 6-5 (7) to Ashlyn Smoot and Kiley Smoot of Chanute...

PARSONS — Fort Scott’s Lauren Madison retained her lead in the Southeast Kansas League girls’ golf race by one stroke as she finished second here Monday in the second of the three SEK designated tournaments. After winning the Fort Scott Tournament on Sept. 5 with a score of 43, Madison duplicated that score on the KATY course. Pittsburg’s Jamie VanWyck was the tournament winner with her score of 40...

Fort Scott High’s soccer team accounted for itself quite well in a Southeast Kansas League loss to Independence on Monday, then bounced back from that to defeat Riverton, 3-1, on Tuesday in a pair of week-opening matches at Ellis Park. Independence (1-0 SEK, 5-0 overall) was coming to town off a 6-0 win over Mulvane in the final of Arkansas City Tournament on Saturday. The Bulldogs didn’t allow a goal in three games in that tournament played over the course of last week...

The Fort Scott Tribune has reached out to school officials at Northeast High School, Arma, to offer to cover the school’s athletic teams. Coverage of Northeast programs will begin as soon as coaches are up to date on how to make sure reports of their events appear in each issue. Hopefully, readers in northeast Crawford County will see coverage, if not beginning today, then in time for Saturday’s edition...

COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa — No. 7 Iowa Western scored 34 points in the first quarter alone here Saturday night and went on to a 63-6 victory over Fort Scott Community College in a non-conference football game here. The Reivers, who are 3-0 with all their games played against Jayhawk Conference teams, rolled up 604 yards in total offense and led 56-0 at the half. Fort Scott (0-3) got its only score on the first possession of the second half when Raidshod Devizin scored on a 1-yard run...