Sports
NCCC wins three of four over Cowley
Brian McDowell Sports Editor The many fans who attended the Take Me Out To The Ballgame event at NCCC on Saturday were treated to more than the various free treats associated with the intergenerational event; they were able to witness a stirring 3-2 extra-innings comeback victory by the Panthers. This started a successful weekend for the Neosho Couny baseball team in which they beat Cowley County in three out of four games, and handed the Tig...
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Humboldt softball wins Friedrich tourney
The Humboldt softball team won the 4-team Lindsey Friedrich Memorial Tournament that it hosted over the weekend. The Lady Cubs won 20-5 over Neodesha and 3-2 win against Yates Center to secure the tournament victory. Jaci Ross pitched both games for the Cubs, garnering a total of four strikeouts and picking up the two wins. Kylee Carson had a total of seven RBIs throughout the tournament, while Kindahl Young, Kayle Riebel and Breanna Kline e...
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Chanute girls first, boys second at Fredonia relays
The Chanute girls track team took first place at the Fredonia Relays on Friday, with 133 points, 50 points more than the second place team West Elk. The boys team won second place at the event with 97 points, 16 points behind first place Caney Valley. The varsity track teams will next travel to Girard for a meet on Friday. Here are the results for the Chanute athletes who placed, and helped their teams do so well at the Fredonia event. Girls...
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Erie golfers struggle at Fredonia Invitational
Erie High School golfers were not on top of their game on Tuesday at the Fredonia Invitational Golf Tournament. They finished 5th from a field of seven teams. The host team Fredonia placed first with a score of 340 followed by Olpe 343, Burlington 363, Eureka 363, Erie 381, Yates Center 480 and Sedan 488. Medalist was Olpe’s Chase Coble with a 79. 2nd medalist was Howard Mahan, Fredonia 80, 3rd William Montana, Eureka, 82; 4th Robbie ...
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JV softball falls twice at Labette
ALTAMONT — The Chanute Lady Comets junior varsity softball team struggled on Monday, losing two games to the Labette County Grizzlies. Chanute fell 5-1 and 8-3 in the road match-ups. The first game was never in doubt after the first, as LCHS scored four runs on an error, an RBI single, a steal of home, and a wild pitch. In the fourth inning, Chanute pushed across its only run of the day on an RBI single by Janelle Page. Ashton Cooper pitched...
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NCCC basketball recruits ready for the challenge
Brian McDowell Sports Editor A week after announcing that only one player from this year’s NCCC men’s basketball squad would be returning to the team next year, the Panthers continue to sign recruits to fill roster spots. The team’s latest recruit is Mark Gray, a power forward who averaged 17.5 points a game for his high school in New Iberia, Louisiana. The Panthers also signed Andrew Dawson from Topeka High, D’avonte Garland from Wichita Sou...
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Lady Comets’ losing streak extends in Girard
Brian McDowell Sports Editor Chanute softball coach Maria Hernandez doesn’t like riding roller coasters, so she doesn’t like the way that her Lady Comets squad started off having a good season and then suddenly seemed to go down. Hernandez has noticed that this pattern has even been demonstrated in games, where the Lady Comets play well in the early innings, and then seem to fall as the game goes on. The team is now on an eight -game losing ...
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Royster Invitational track results
Royster Middle School’s home invitational was held on Tuesday. The school’s seventh grade girls team placed third out of seven teams, and the eighth grade girls placed second, only two points behind the meet winners from Pittsburg. For the boys team, the meet offered chances to try some new events. “Several guys stepped up and had some more personal records,” boys track Coach Dallas Masoner said. The teams now have a few days between meets, ...
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Panthers escape with win over Crowder
A nine-inning 14-12 victory over Crowder, Mo. on Tuesday afternoon boosted the NCCC Panthers baseball team’s record to 35-13. The Panthers scored quickly in the game, as both Adam Giacalone and Jordan Miller crossed the plate in the first inning due to a triple hit by shortstop David Bote. A sacrifice fly by Garrett Schaede brought Bote in to score and Neosho County had a 3-0 lead. The Panthers added another run in the third, as Bote was brou...
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Familiarity breeds competition for coaches of Chanute and Girard
Brian McDowell Sports Editor GIRARD — When Chanute baseball coach Matt Koester peered into the Girard dugout during Tuesday night’s doubleheader losses against the Trojans, he saw a couple of very familiar faces. Both Girard’s head baseball coach and assistant coach are natives of Chanute. Girard head coach Keith Matlock came up through the baseball ranks with Koester, and was Koester’s assistant coach in Chanute for five years. He said it wa...
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Comets fall twice in Girard
Brian McDowell Sports Editor GIRARD — The Chanute baseball team had a tough challenge Tuesday night, when it faced a Girard team coached by two men, Keith Matlock and Tyler Gray, who used to work with Comets coach Matt Koester and were familiar with his style of baseball. The Comets fell in the afternoon’s first match-up 9-3 and lost the second game in heartbreaking fashion 8-6. Koester feels that the recent Chanute losses are due to taking a...
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Panthers take 3 of 4 weather-delayed games in Highland
HIGHLAND — Weather significantly altered the baseball schedule for the NCCC Panthers baseball team over the weekend. After winning the first game on Saturday, 3-0, a rain storm interrupted the second game in the fifth inning, when the Panthers were ahead 4-3. The scheduled Sunday games between the two teams were cancelled by inclement weather, so the rest of Saturday’s second game, and Sunday’s doubleheader all had to be played on Monday afte...
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Lady Comets lose two to Labette
The Chanute Lady Comets softball team extended its losing streak to six games by falling twice to the Labette County Grizzlies on Friday night. The Comets lost consecutive contests to the SEK softball powerhose 14-1 and 5-0. The Lady Comets struggled at the plate in these games, striking out 11 times in the first contest and six in the second. Taylor Bailey was on the mound for all five innings of the first game, striking out three hitters. A...
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Chanute driver Allen takes checkered flag at Wheatland race
WHEATLAND, Mo. — Chanute resident John Allen, in his #98 Hughes Racing Chassis, was able to top Jason Russell after the two traded the top spot twice during the feature event. Russell from Henley, Mo., was followed by Tim Setzer from Archie, Mo,, in third. Paden Phillips, Chanute, took the fourth spot, Jaime Ragland finished out the top five in the first night of action for the Lucas Oil Weekly Championship Series of 2012 in Wheatland, Mo. It...
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Chanute track results from Pittsburg State
The Chanute track team traveled to Pittsburg on Friday to take part in the PSU Gorilla Relays. Much of the event was cancelled by storms that hit the area, but, according to track coach Derek Liggett, several Chanute athletes had really good performances, including javelin thrower Haley Taylor, shot putter Sierra Masoner, and freshman runner Madison Dispensa, who set a 10 second personal record in the 1600m. Here are the Chanute athletes that ...
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Panthers win shutout, other Highland games postponed by weather
Weather wreaked havoc on the NCCC Panthers baseball schedule over the weekend. On the road in Highland, the Panthers won the first game of their scheduled doubleheader on Saturday 3-0, and were ahead 4-3 in game two in the fifth inning, when the game was suspended due to weather. The scheduled doubleheader between the two teams on Sunday was also rained out. Jordan Miller got the scoring started for the Panthers in the first game, scoring ...
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Tennis team shows improvement at home tourney
The Chanute tennis coach had a good week of practice, and assistant coach Mike De La Torre believes that paid off with some good wins at the tournament CHS hosted on Friday afternoon. The Comets came in second place place overall, with seven wins, only one win behind the tournament winners from Labette. It marked a significant improvement in the fortunes of the team that has struggled so far this year. Three of these wins were picked up by t...
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Rain saves Comets from second loss to Labette
Brian McDowell Sports Editor The rainstorm that suspended the second baseball game between the Chanute Blue Comets and the Labette County Grizzlies on Friday night was the only source of optimism that Comets Coach Matt Koester saw all night. “We didn’t play very well, to say the least,” Koester said. “Maybe we’ll be ready to play when we make this game up.” Koester’s team continued to struggle during their match-up with the Grizzlies, droppin...
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Royster track results from April 12 Independence Invitational
Track results for Royster Middle School from Independence Invitational on Thursday April 12: Team results: (6 teams total) 7th Grade Girls - 1st Pittsburg 123 pts, 2nd Chanute 94 pts, 3rd Independence 84 pts. 8th Grade Girls - 1st Chanute 118 pts, 2nd Pittsburg 113 pts, 3rd Independence 84 pts. 7th Grade Girls 100 Meter Dash- 3rd Kyndal Frederick, 5th Racelle Toledo 100 M Hurdles- 5th Kyndal Fredercik 1600 M Run- 2nd Kelsey Perez 400...
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Chanute golf gets sixth at Parsons tourney
PARSONS — The Chanute golf team came in sixth place out of eight teams at the Parsons Invitational golf tournament on Thursday afternoon at the Katy golf course. Chanute had 390 total points, while tournament winner Fort Scott had 343 strokes. According to the school’s assistant golf course Steve Slane, Katy is a very tight course. While each of the guys on the team got themselves in trouble at various spots on the course, Slane saw some very...
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