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Blue Comets head to Parsons today
Tribune Staff Jason Peake Tribune Sports Editor The Chanute High School golf team will head to Parsons today, rain or shine. The Blue Comets will compete at the Parsons Invite at 3 p.m. at Katy Golf Course. The tourney is the second SEK-designated meet of the season. Chanute won the first SEK tourney at Pittsburg and will look to make it two-for-two. “We’re looking forward to it,” Chanute Coach Bill Woodard said. “We’d like to extend ou...
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Panthers drop three of four Jason Peake Tribune Sports Editor The regular season is winding down for the Neosho County Community College baseball team
Winding down Panthers drop three of four Jason Peake Tribune Sports Editor The regular season is winding down for the Neosho County Community College baseball team. The Panthers won one of four from Johnson County CC over the weekend. The Panthers also split with Labette last Friday in Parsons. The busy schedule may have taken a toll on the Panthers, Coach Steve Murry said. “We look very tired right now,” Murry said. “And we are maki...
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Softball team swept by Indy Tribune staff The Chanute High School softball team dropped both games of a doubleheader to Independence on Friday, falling 15-13 in game one and 7-4 in game two
Softball team swept by Indy Tribune staff The Chanute High School softball team dropped both games of a doubleheader to Independence on Friday, falling 15-13 in game one and 7-4 in game two. In game one, Chanute’s defense committed seven errors in the first four innings, allowing the Bulldogs to go up 15-4.¬† “Then we came storming back,” Coach Don Simmons said. The Comets scored two in the fifth, two in the sixth and five in the seve...
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Looking back, looking ahead Jason Peake Tribune Sports Editor CHANUTE—The Second Annual Harold Turner High School All-Star Game served two purposes on Sunday at Neosho County Community College—looking back and looking ahead
Looking back, looking ahead Jason Peake Tribune Sports Editor CHANUTE—The Second Annual Harold Turner High School All-Star Game served two purposes on Sunday at Neosho County Community College—looking back and looking ahead. For starters, basketball fans got the chance to watch the area’s top seniors take to the court one last time as prep athletes. On the other hand, a group of future Panthers showed off their talents and gave fans a chance...
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Tennis team wins Fort Scott invite Tribune staff The Chanute High School tennis team dominated the Fort Scott Invite on Saturday
Tennis team wins Fort Scott invite Tribune staff The Chanute High School tennis team dominated the Fort Scott Invite on Saturday. How? The Blue Comets didn’t lose a match en route to the tourney title. “I was very proud of the team,” Coach Wayne Woodyard said. “This is the fourth meet we’ve won this year and it was in dominating fashion again. We did not lose a single match and it was great warm-up for the league meet.” At number-one si...
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Panthers slip vs. Cowley
Tribune Staff Jason Peake Tribune Sports Editor CHANUTE—Nothing seemed to go Neosho County’s way as visiting Cowley College swept a baseball doubleheader from the Panthers on a sunny Wednesday at Hudson Field. Cowley won game one 9-1 and then took game two 8-3. The Tigers also swept two from the Panthers on Monday. “They’re a very good team,” Panthers Coach Steve Murry said of the league-leading Tigers. “They didn’t make many mistakes a...
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New tennis complex coming to CHS
Tribune Staff Jason Peake Tribune Sports Editor CHANUTE—The athletic facilities at Chanute High School are definitely impressive right now. They’ll soon be even better. Plans are now in the works to build a new tennis complex at Chanute Community Sports Complex. Six courts will be built behind the locker rooms, north of the parking lot at the sports complex. “We’re elated,” Chanute High School Athletic Director Eric Methvin said. “Our tennis...
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Blue Comets finish off sweep of Parsons
Tribune Staff Jason Peake Tribune Sports Editor CHANUTE — The games may have been 12 days apart, but the Chanute High School softball team eventually earned a sweep over Parsons. The Blue Comets took advantage of some timely hitting and a solid pitching performance to knock off the Vikings 6-2 on Tuesday at Santa Fe Park. The Comets took game one on April 9 when the second game was postponed due to a thunderstorm. And in Tuesday’s mak...
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Panthers fall to Cowley, home today
Tribune Staff Tribune staff Cowley College swept a doubleheader from the Neosho County Community College baseball team on Monday. Cowley won game one 5-2 and game two 5-0. “We played the worst we have all year, we played like a deer in the headlights,” Panthers Coach Steve Murry said. “Both pitchers threw well but no hitters except Dave Wade showed up. In the first game, we had a huge error on a doubleplay ball that cost us three unearned run...
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An opportunity too good to pass up
Tribune Staff Williams ready to coach hoops again Jason Peake Tribune Sports Editor Jeff Williams called it the longest day of his life. The longtime Chanute High School educator and coach had a tough speech to make to a lot of people he’s grown to care about. It was last Wednesday when Williams had to inform his students and fellow teachers that his time at CHS is nearly over. In his 27th year at CHS, Williams is now moving on. Willia...
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Turner all-star game is Sunday at NCCC
Tribune Staff Jason Peake Tribune Sports Editor The area’s top high school basketball players will converge on Neosho County Community College on Sunday for the Harold Turner High School All-Star Game. The event is sponsored by Bank of Commerce and is held under the direction of NCCC Men’s Basketball Coach Jeremy Coombs. “We are very excited about this year’s Harold Turner All-Star Game,” Coombs said. “It should be a great day. We’ll have the...
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TRACK: Comets will compete at Fredonia on Friday
Tribune Staff Jason Peake Tribune Sports Editor After splitting up last week, the Chanute High School track team will compete as a full squad at the Fredonia Relays on Friday at 3 p.m. Most of the team went to Iola last Friday, while four members of the team competed at the prestigious Kansas Relays in Lawrence. On Friday at KU’s Memorial Stadium, junior Brooke Sharp finished 15th in the girls high jump by clearing 5’1. Sharp also compet...
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SEK getting rid of double round-robin
Tribune Staff Hoops teams must find new opponents Jason Peake Tribune Sports Editor The 2009-10 basketball season will be the last for the double round-robin format for teams in the Southeast Kansas League. The conference’s athletic directors, coaches and administrators have voted to do away with the format and go back to the single round-robin system that was used in years past. Chanute High School was one of the schools that voted fo...
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Panthers keep on winning, sweep Indy
Tribune Staff Tribune staff EMPORIA—The Neosho County Panthers are on a roll. The NCCC baseball team swept Independence on Saturday at Emporia State, winning game one 2-1 and then taking game two 7-6. “Huge wins,” NCCC Coach Steve Murry said. “We had to scrap all day to get them. Both pitchers kept us in the game but hitting didn’t exactly go our way.” The Panthers are now 17-5 in the Jayhawk East and 22-14 overall. Neosho County has no...
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Baseball team sweeps LCHS, Grizzlies return the favor in softball
Tribune Staff Tribune staff ALTAMONT—The Chanute High School baseball team swept Labette County on Friday, winning game one 3-1 and game two 11-0. The Blue Comets are now 3-5 on the season. In game one, the Comets got on the board in the first inning. Grant McMillan walked and stole a base. Craig Gilmore singled and McMillan scored. Peter Fairchild scored in the third inning. The team’s final run came in the seventh. Ryne Jones hit an RBI sin...
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Comets win own tennis invite
Tribune Staff Jason Peake Tribune Sports Editor CHANUTE—For the second-straight season, the Chanute Blue Comets weren’t very gracious hosts. The Chanute High School tennis team won their own invite on Friday, making it two years-straight they’ve won their only home meet of the season. The Blue Comets won three out of four divisions at the meet, which was held at Highland Park and Katy Park. “It’s great to win the home meet for the seco...
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Blue Comets compete at KU Relays
Tribune Staff Tribune staff LAWRENCE—Chanute High School had three athletes compete with the region’s best on Friday at the 2009 Kansas Relays at Memorial Stadium. While no member of the team was able to bring home a medal, the Blue Comets gained valuable experience, CHS Coach Jeff Williams said. “It’s an awesome meet for the kids,” Williams said. “It wasn’t what we wanted, they didn’t quite hit their marks. It just wasn’t in the cards t...
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Track team ‘practices’ at Iola
Tribune Staff Jason Peake Tribune Sports Editor IOLA—An exhibition meet would be one way to describe the Iola Invite. A competitive practice may be another. Either way, the Chanute High School track team competed at an actual meet on Friday at Riverside Park. But here’s the catch: no team scores were kept, no medals were handed out and there were even a few strange sights. For example, boys and girls ran together in the long distance ev...
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Panthers sweep, home today
Tribune Staff Tribune staff The Neosho County Community College baseball team swept Kansas City, Kansas on Thursday, winning game one 6-3 and game two 13-11. “These were big wins,” Panthers Coach Steve Murry said. “We had some nice hitting all day. We made a few mistakes in the second game, but Chance (Hill) pitched well enough to work around them.” The Panthers improved to 20-14 on the season and 15-5 in the Jayhawk East. In the opener, the ...
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Panthers split with Hounds
Tribune Staff Tribune staff FORT SCOTT—The Neosho County Community College baseball team rebounded from a bad loss in game one to earn a split with the Fort Scott Greyhounds on Wednesday. Fort Scott won game one 15-5, but Neosho County won game two 4-1. “The first game was a disaster that we inflicted onto ourselves by leaving runners all over the place,” NCCC Coach Steve Murry said. “And Caleb (Gress) threw bad for the first time this y...
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