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Season ends for CHS girls in first round
Jason Peake Tribune Sports Editor BAXTER SPRINGS —  Just when the Chanute High School girls basketball team seemed to have all of the momentum on its side, the Baxter Springs Lions took it away. And they never gave it back. The Lions clawed, scratched and scrapped their way past the Blue Comets 43-33 on Tuesday night in a first round contest of the Parsons Class 4A Sub-State Tournament. With the loss, the season ended for the Comets. Ch...
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Monday's loss an unfitting end for CHS seniors
Jason Peake Tribune Sports Editor The seniors of the Chanute High School basketball team have taken the floor together for the last time. For Alec Haight, Griffin Williams, Dustin Eccles, and Skyler Miner, three years of varsity basketball is now over. Throw in classmates Mitchell Hale, Caleb Wood and Logan Fox, and a solid senior season has come to an end. Chanute Coach Max Ruark said he’ll miss the group. “Some of them have been playing...
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CHS BOYS: ONE AND DONE
Jason Peake Tribune Sports Editor CHANUTE — Shocked. Stunned. Silenced. All three of those words sum up the general feeling that took a hold of the Chanute High School boys basketball team and its fans on Monday night as the final seconds ticked off the scoreboard. A team with high postseason expectations was suddenly done — season over. Sixth-seeded Columbus came to town and upset the third-seeded Blue Comets 74-67 in a first round contest of...
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Monday's sub-state basketball scores
PARSONS CLASS 4A SUB-STATE Monday's boys scores Parsons 48, Girard 24 Independence 56, Baxter Springs 44 Coffeyville 66, Labette County 63 Columbus 74, Chanute 67 Thursday's games AT PARSONS Parsons vs. Indy Coffeyville vs. Columbus Saturday's title game — 7:30 p.m. Class 2A boys at Sedan Oswego 31, Central-Burden 24 Pittsburg Colgan 68, Humboldt 32 Yates Center 50, West Elk 37 Sedan 67, Oxford 37
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WEB UPDATE: Columbus upsets Chanute
Columbus defeated Chanute 74-67 on Monday night in a first round game of the Parsons 4A Sub-State. Chanute's boys entered the game as the third seed in the sub-state, but the sixth-seeded Titans pulled out the win. With the loss, the season ended for the Comets. Look for more in Wednesday's Tribune and on-line tomorrow. Columbus 74, Chanute 67 CO 12 15 16 31 — 74 CH 18 14 9 26 — 67 Chanute: Alec Haight 4 0-0 9, Du...
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STATE WRESTLING: McComb, Fiscus earn medals
Jason Peake Tribune Sports Editor SALINA — In more ways than one, Jared McComb was motivated. On Friday, the Chanute High School junior was pinned by Rose Hill’s Eastin Dockers in a quarterfinal match of the Class 4A State Wrestling Tournament. On Saturday night, the two met up again — with completely different results. McComb got some payback by pinning Dockers in the fifth place match at 189 pounds. After the match, McComb admitted he w...
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STATE WRESTLING: Son captures third
Jason Peake Tribune Sports Editor SALINA — Sam Son’s only loss of the entire 2010-11 season came in the semifinals of the Class 4A State Tournament on Friday night in Salina. But if you ask anyone who knows anything about the sport of wrestling in the state of Kansas, they’ll tell you that semifinal bout was really the state title match. A Chanute High School junior, Son fell 4-3 to Ryne Cokeley of St. James Academy on Friday, but respond...
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STATE WRESTLING: Seniors finish careers with wins
Jason Peake Tribune Sports Editor SALINA — In their final moments as high school wrestlers, Tim Wrestler and Troy Clark had their hands raised in victory. It was a fitting end for the Chanute High School seniors. Both Blue Comet standouts went out with wins, with both coming in third place matches on Saturday night at the Class 4A State Wrestling Tournament at the Bicentennial Center in Salina. Wrestler defeated Robbie Hines of Ulysses 3-...
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STATE WRESTLING: Chanute finishes sixth at state
Jason Peake Tribune Sports Editor SALINA — With five different athletes earning trips to the medal stand, the Chanute High School wrestling team finished sixth overall at the 2011 Class 4A State Wrestling Tournament in Salina. The Blue Comets scored 76 points at state, the second highest point total in school history. Chanute’s 2009 team scored 96.5 points and also finished sixth at state. Chanute Coach Andy Albright was definitely please...
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Video interviews now on-line
Watch exclusive videos of Chanute's state wrestling qualifiers as they chat with Tribune Sports Editor Jason Peake at the state tournament in Salina. Click multimedia at left to check out the videos and tell us what you think.
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WEB UPDATE: Chanute sixth at 4A state wrestling
The Chanute High School wrestling finished sixth in Class 4A at the state wrestling tournament on Saturday in Salina. Chanute's Sam Son, Tim Wrestler and Troy Clark all finished third in their brackets. Jared McComb and Jared Fiscus both finished fifth. Look for more online Monday and in Tuesday's Tribune.
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Oehlert's hunting video to air on national television
PITTSBURG — Nathan Oehlert loves the outdoors and he has dreams of turning his passion for hunting and fishing into a career. Oehlert, a senior at Pittsburg State University from Chanute, will take a significant step in that direction on March 6 when the Outdoor Channel airs a video he shot to chronicle one of his most memorable bow hunting experiences. Oehlert’s film will air at 6 p.m. that day on the Matthews TV with Dave Watson show.  ...
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Parsons boys, LCHS girls clinch SEK titles
The Parsons High School boys basketball team clinched the SEK League title on Thursday with an 83-63 win over Coffeyville. The Labette County girls finished first in the league standings this year. SEK BASKETBALL GIRLS League Overall x-Labette County 7-1 15-4 Independence 6-2 13-7 Iola 5-3 11-9 Chanute 5-3 10-10 y-Parsons 4-4 10-10 Fort Scott 3-5 9-11 y-Coffeyville 3-5 7-13 Pitts...
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Panthers fall just short vs. ranked Crowder
Tribune staff NEOSHO, Mo. — Another ranked opponent awaited the Neosho County Community College baseball team this week. Nationally-ranked Crowder pulled out two close wins over the Panthers on Wednesday, winning 3-2 and 7-5. “We had plenty of chances, but they are a very good team,” NCCC Coach Steve Murry said. “We have played four of our six games against ranked opponents and we are four runs shy of being 6-0.” Game one was tied at one w...
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Home finale ends with a loss for NCCC women
Jason Peake Tribune Sports Editor CHANUTE — The Neosho County Community College women’s basketball team stayed close to league-leading Cowley, but just could never quite get over the hump. A late first half run allowed Cowley to knock off the Panthers 60-42 on Wednesday night “Cowley’s a really good team and they have some shooters,” Neosho County Coach Kelley Newton said. “They shot lights out. We didn’t get to their shooters. But we did ...
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Panthers fizzle down the stretch vs. Cowley
Jason Peake Tribune Sports Editor CHANUTE — For the Neosho County Panthers, Wednesday night’s game against Cowley was a microcosm of its entire season. The Panthers got going early, had a solid team on the ropes, but then fell short at the end. Cowley rallied late for a 74-63 win over Neosho County, spoiling the Panthers final home game of the season. The Tigers outscored the Panthers 43-26 in the second half, as the hosts failed to get ...
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CHS WRESTLING: GOALS SET HIGH FOR STATE
Jason Peake Tribune Sports Editor For Tim Wrestler, Troy Clark and Tyler Kidwell, this is it. The three Chanute High School seniors will finish their respective prep careers at the Class 4A State Wrestling Tournament this weekend in Salina. They won’t be alone, however, as three others from Chanute will also compete this weekend — Sam Son, Jared McComb and Jared Fiscus. All six Blue Comets have the goals set high for the state tourney, wh...
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Area high school basketball sub-state pairings
PARSONS SUB-STATE BOYS Monday's games (1) Parsons (16-3) vs. (8) Girard (6-13) (4) Independence (12-7) vs. (5) Baxter Springs (12-7) (2) Coffeyville (13-6) vs. (7) Labette County (9-9) (3) Chanute (13-7) vs. (6) Columbus (10-9) Thursday's games (at Parsons) PAR-GIR winner vs. INDY-BAXT winner COFF-LCHS winner vs. CHA-COL winner. Title game Saturday, 7:30 p.m. GIRLS Tuesday's games (1) Girard (17-2) vs. (8) Coffeyville (6-13) (4...
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Blue Comets sweep Coffeyville in regular season finale
Tribune staff COFFEYVILLE — The regular season finale couldn’t have gone much better. The Chanute High School boys basketball won its sixth-straight contest with an impressive 71-58 win over Coffeyville on Tuesday night. The one-two punch of Griffin Williams and Caleb Wood proved tough to stop. Williams scored 27 and Wood added 25 for the Blue Comets, who end the regular season at 13-7 overall and 6-2 in the SEK League. The Blue Comets go...
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Comets will open sub-state with Columbus, Baxter
The Chanute High School boys basketball team will open the Parsons Class 4A Sub-State Tournament against Columbus at home on Monday night at 7 p.m. The Blue Comets are the third seed, while the Titans are seeded sixth. Riding a six-game winning streak, Chanute is now 13-7 on the season. The higher seed earns a home game in the first round, with winners advancing to Parsons. If Chanute beats Columbus on Monday, they would play the winner of...
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