Sports
Three PWC wrestlers place at state
Seven Parsons Wrestling club members who qualified via districts traveled to the Kansas Folkstyle State Championship Tournament held at the Expo Center in Topeka last weekend. Three of the seven wrestlers made their way through the 16-man brackets to find a spot on the podium Sunday afternoon. Kolton Misener, Keenan Dodd and Dontel Martinez have all qualified for the tourney in past years, but all ended this year’s tourney with career bests...
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Lady Grizzlies open with sweep of Fillies
By Anthony Cook Sports Editor ALTAMONT — If the entire Grizzly lineup hits like it did Tuesday, the Southeast Kansas League title might be staying in Altamont for another year. The Labette County High School softball team improved to 2-0 overall and in league play with 13-0 and 15-0 victories over visiting Iola on Tuesday. The Grizzlies needed only 4 1/2 innings in the first game and three in the second to dispatch of the Fillies. “I told...
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St. Paul swim team has its first meet
The St. Paul High School swimming team raced in its first meet ever on Tuesday evening in El Dorado. The swimming team was added this year, and four of the five members, including one Southeast High School student who is swimming with the program, competed in El Dorado. Below are the entire results. Next up for the swim team will be a trip to Coffeyville on Saturday morning. El Dorado meet Tuesday, March 29 Relay results 200 freestyle ...
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Parsons, LCHS JV tennis travel to Independence
INDEPENDENCE — Tennis season resumed for the Parsons and Labette County high school junior varsity teams here Monday with a six-team invitational. The host team Independence was divided into two teams. The Vikings took first overall with 20 points while Neodesha came in second with 15 and Independence Black came in third with 11 points. Labette County finished sixth as a team with three points. For Parsons, Kevin Debald took first overall i...
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St. Paul opens season
ARMA — The St. Paul High School baseball season began on Monday with a split when the team traveled to Northeast High School for the 2011 Northeast Invitational Baseball Tournament. St. Paul began play in the tourney against host Northeast and lost 8-3 to the Vikings despite out-hitting Northeast 5-3. The two teams were knotted after an inning of play, but the Indians took a 1-0 lead after two when first baseman Nick Corn scored after walkin...
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MIAMI, Okla. — The Labette County High School golf team competed in the Miami Invitational at the Peoria Ridge Golf Course in Miami, Okla., on Monday morning. Two Grizzly golfers shot sub-90 rounds in the 18-hole tournament. Freshman Braden Page had the best round by an LCHS golfer with an 86 while senior Spencer Schulze turned in an 89 for Labette. Rounding out the scoring was Heath Charles (93), Dylan Vitt (100) and Aaron White (100). T...
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Fish consumption advisories include certain SEK shellfish
TOPEKA — In early January, the Kansas Department of Health and Environment (KDHE) and the Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks (KDWP) issued revised fish consumption advisories for 2011. The advisories identified types of fish and shellfish that should be eaten in limited quantities or, in some cases, avoided altogether because of contamination found in tested aquatic species. KDWP wants to clarify that portions of that advisory apply to s...
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Kendricks looking to play professionally
By Anthony Cook Sports Editor Being fast has always been a big part of who Bridgette Kendricks is. The nine-time state champion track athlete knows all about speed. How else could she squeeze so much into her schedule? The Parsons High School graduate is a few months away from getting her degree in early childhood development from the University of Buffalo, she just competed on one of the most successful University of Buffalo women’s bask...
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St. Paul’s Westhoff headlines area girls on all-state list
Five local girls basketball players have landed on postseason all-state teams for their efforts this season. The Wichita Eagle and Topeka Capital-Journal news outlets have released the all-state teams for the 2010-2011 basketball lists. St. Paul High School senior and Pittsburg State University commit Morgan Westhoff led the list of local girls on this year’s teams with a first-team nomination by both of the news outlets on the Class 1A te...
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Babe Ruth news
Parsons Babe Ruth baseball sign ups are currently ongoing. Teams are forming for youth ages 7 to 18 years old. Sign up at Bleacher Gear in downtown Parsons or you can mail your registration form to PBR P.O. Box 518 Parsons, KS 67357. Any new players to the league will need to have a copy of their birth certificate when they turn their registration form in. The final deadline to sign up is April 11, but late fees can be avoided by signi...
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Clinic scheduled
Parsons Babe Ruth is inviting all kids between the ages of 7 and 12 to attend a baseball clinic that will be hosted and demonstrated by the Labette Community College baseball team. There is no cost to attend. The clinic will be from 5 to 7:30 p.m. on Friday, April 1, at the LCC baseball diamond at Marvel Park in Parsons. Players will have the opportunity to go through hitting, fielding and pitching drills. Food will be provided after the...
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Seven PWC wrestlers head to state
Twelve Parsons wrestling Club members qualified to wrestle in the District 1 Championship Tournament Saturday. Eleven of those qualifiers made the trip to Olathe and seven qualified to move on to the Kansas Folkstyle State Championships. To Qualify for the state tourney each wrestler had to place fourth or better in their bracket. The six and under age division has its own separate state tournament held in Ottawa each year. PWC took five wr...
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Hesston sweep gives LCC softball 20th victory
PARSONS — The Labette Community College softball team got its 20th victory of the season Friday with a sweep of the Hesston Larks. The 20-win plateau comes more than two weeks earlier than 2010. A season ago, the Cardinals got their 20th victory on April 6 in their 38th game. This year it took the Cardinals only 27 games to get 20 wins. LCC opened Friday’s doubleheader with Hesston with an 8-0 win in five innings before a four-run rally pull...
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Surprise trip was memorable one
The A-Game By Anthony Cook Sports Editor Sometimes the best times are had when you don’t make plans. That’s what I remember telling a friend Friday night when playing catch-up on the phone. I told the friend I had little plans for the weekend, but something would come of it. So when I got a text Saturday morning from my cousin telling me he had an extra seat for the trip down to Sunday’s NCAA tournament game in Tulsa, I knew it was a good...
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Seven area boys named to all-state teams
The Wichita Eagle and Topeka Capital-Journal news outlets have released their all-state basketball teams for the 2010-11 season. The entire lists from Class 4A and local inclusions on the boys’ teams are included below. Parsons junior forward James Jackson led the local boys with a second-team nomination on the Topeka Capital-Journal all-state team. Jackson missed the first five games of the season for the Vikings, but was a key piece in the ...
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Vikings JV tennis team begins year in Iola
The junior varsity portion of the Parsons High School tennis schedule began Thursday when the Vikings traveled to Iola for a quadrangular with Independence, Columbus and Iola. In No. 1 singles Tyler Beardmore finished 1-2 to take home third overall. Beardmore opened with an 8-7 (7-4) loss to Aidan Goodrich of Independence before winning a forfeit over Columbus, who had no No. 1 singles player. In his final match of the day Beardmore fell to ...
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Walk-off HR lifts Labette past Crowder
The Labette Community College baseball team moved above .500 for the first time this season Thursday by taking an 11-10 win in nine innings from visiting Crowder College. The victory moves the Cardinals to 6-5 overall this season and is their sixth win in eight games. Crowder opened the game with a 1-0 lead after an inning of play but the second inning started a streak of four frames in a row in which the Labette batters brought home two run...
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Big Hill holds fishing tourney
Twenty-one anglers braved pre-front conditions and a strong prevailing wind as District 58 of the American Bass Anglers held its third tournament for the 2011 season recently on Big Hill Lake. Fishing was tough, with the top weight falling short of eight pounds. Topping the scales in first place was Jim Peoples of Parsons with 7.82 pounds. He was followed in second place by Zac Udock of Joplin with a weight 7.1 pounds. Udock also claimed bi...
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LCHS introduces new weight room, program
By Anthony Cook Sports Editor ALTAMONT — The goal is simple — Get bigger, faster and stronger. A newly remodeled weight room was introduced to Labette County High School students Thursday afternoon just one day after new equipment was installed. The equipment was purchased from Bigger Faster Stronger (BFS), a company based out of Salt Lake City that specializes in weight training and sports fitness for high school-aged youth. The new equi...
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All-TRL teams announced
The Three Rivers League has released its all-league basketball teams for the 2010-2011 seasons. Below are the entire lists. On the girl’s side, Oswego led all three local teams with five selections while St. Paul had four. On the boy’s side, Oswego also led all teams with six selections, St. Paul had three and Chetopa had two. All local selections are highlighted. Three Rivers League girl’s basketball First team Morgan Westhoff, St. Paul...
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