High School Sports

Nevada says goodbye to '08 baseball season (05/17/08)
By Chris Patch Herald-Tribune Nevada baseball's years in the Southwest Conference are over. The Tigers' 6-2 loss to Carthage, Monday night in the first round of the District 12 Tournament closed the door on an era of Southwest play and an 8-10, 3-6 2008 season, as the conference will dissolve next year. Looking back at a season that didn't end the way the team would have liked, head coach Jared Brown still found many positives to take away...

Five Tigers qualify for sectionals at district (05/14/08)
Nevada Daily Mail Nevada track qualified five athletes for sectionals in the District 6 meet Saturday and Monday at Nevada High School Track.. Mariah Mock headlined the event for the Tigers, qualifying in the 100 and 200-meter dashes as well as with the 4x200-meter relay team. Katelyn Brier, Melanie Messick and Taylor Means comprise the rest of the team...

Tigers land two on first team, All-Conference (05/14/08)
Five Nevada baseball players received postseason conference honors Tuesday a day after the Tigers' season ended with a 6-2 loss to Carthage in the first round of the District 12 tournament in Carthage, Mo. Seniors Jordan Kerbs and Jerrod Alexander highlighted the awards with first-team All-Southwest Conference nods. Alexander and Kerbs both have plans to play baseball in college...

Gast ties for tenth at state tourney (05/14/08)
Junior Tyler Gast shot two straight rounds in the 70s Monday and Tuesday at Rivercut golf course in Springfield, Mo., to tie for tenth and receive all-state honors for the first time. Gast missed the top 15, all-state cut by two strokes his sophomore year but broke through Tuesday with a 77 to accompany his first-day 79 and joined an elite group of Class 3 golfers...

Track meet rained out on Saturday resumed Monday (05/13/08)

Nevada Tigers fall to Carthage (05/13/08)
The Nevada Tigers baseball team's season came to an end in Carthage with a 6-2 loss Monday evening, in the Class 3 District 12 playoff game hosted by Carthage at Lawton Stadium. This was the second time in four days these two teams have faced off...

Rain delays cause unusual end of season junior varsity matchup (05/10/08)
Herald-Tribune Nevada, Mo. -- Nevada baseball wrapped up the regular season with a 7-5 loss at Carthage Friday night in a preview of the first-round district tournament game Monday night at Carthage. Carthage (8-15, 5-3) took advantage of the absence of four Nevada seniors due to a previously-planned trip to hit the Tigers nine times and win its fifth conference game of the year despite committing six errors...

Pleasanton sweeps Three Rivers League championships (05/09/08)
Herald-Tribune OSWEGO, Kan. -- Pleasanton's track teams dominated the Three Rivers League Relays here Thursday. Blu-Jay boys scored 193 points to finish nearly 90 points ahead of runner-up Crest. The girls scored 169 points and finished 63 ahead of runner-up Uniontown...

Jayhawk-Linn girls win inaugural Pioneer League meet (05/09/08)
Herald-Tribune RICHMOND, Kan. -- Jayhawk-Linn's girls won the inaugural Pioneer League Relays here Friday, outdistancing second-place Anderson County by 59 points while the boys finished just four points behind Osawatomie in the chase for the boys' title...

Fort Scott boys second, girls third at SEK Relays (05/09/08)
Herald-Tribune IOLA, Kan. -- Fort Scott High School's boys finished as the runner-up to Pittsburg at the Southeast Kansas League Relays here Thursday night while the Tiger girls team was third behind winner Chanute and runner-up Iola. Chanute's girls' title was its first in over 30 years. The Blue Comets won the first three SEK championships in 1974 (an unofficial title), 1975 and 1976. Pittsburg boys won for the second time in three years, reclaiming the title from Chanute...

A small town's golden arm (05/09/08)
By Chris Patch Nevada Daily Mail Hume, Mo. -- Hume baseball may be a class 1 team without much publicity, but this year an ace pitcher by the name of Ryan Austin has commanded attention by putting up unheard of statistics. Austin has been virtually unhittable this season, and that's not hyperbole. ...

Rich Hill track fares well at District meet (05/07/08)
Boys track finished second out of 16 teams and the girls finished fifth. The top four athletes in each event advance to sectionals next week. Girls Pole Vault 3. Ashleigh Rapp Triple jump 3. Madison Bock High jump 3. Jamie Sumner 800-meter run 4. Ashleigh Rapp, 2:40.89...

Dates set for Lady Tiger Basketball Camp (05/07/08)
Nevada High School has announced the dates for the 2008 Lady Tiger Basketball Camp this summer at the Wynn Gymnasium. Camp for grades 3, 4 and 5 will be held from 12:30-2 p.m. June 2-5. Camp for grades 6, 7 and 8 will be 2-3:30 p.m. June 2-5. The grade groupings are for the 2008-'09 school year, not the camper's current grade. The cost is $30 per entrant, which includes a camp T-shirt...

Tigers shut out at McDonald County (05/07/08)
Nevada baseball managed just two hits in an 8-0 loss at McDonald County that ended McDonald County's six-game conference losing streak. Bo Bergen struck out 11 batters in six innings with no walks for McDonald County. He was relieved by closer Nick Wills who allowed no runs and struck out one in the seventh. Nevada's two hits came from Colby Shepherd in the first inning and Kyle Hughes in the fourth...

Austin throws Hume past Adrian, 3-0 (05/03/08)
Herald Tribune Hume baseball won its third game in four days Thursday 3-0 at Adrian. Junior Ryan Austin pitched a complete game for the Hornets, allowing two hits, two walks and 15 strikeouts. It was Austin's third shutout of the season, the other two were no-hitters. Austin's season numbers are mind-boggling: he has 76 strikouts over 37 innings with four earned runs and an ERA of 0.97...

Nevada tennis drops close match to Clinton (05/03/08)
Herald-Tribune Nevada tennis dropped its final home match of the season 4-5 to Clinton Thursday. The Tigers won the No's 1 and 2 doubles points but were only able to salvage 2 more singles points and came out on the losing end. Taylor Chapman and Ethan Holmes began the day with a comfortable 8-5 win at No.1 doubles and James Smith and Dominic Habjan won at No. 2 8-6. Chris Claypool and Will Andrews-Weiss dropped the No. 3 singles point 6-8...

Eagles split before storms hit (05/03/08)
Herald-Tribune ALTOONA, Kan. -- Uniontown split games in a triangular here Thursday night with the second game called just as lightning began to come through the area. "The storm that stopped the game followed us from Altoona to Uniontown," Eagle head coach Alan Shinn said. "When we got back to Uniontown, a tornado alert sent us to a storm shelter in the building for 45 minutes before the girls could go home."...

Fort Scott pulls out clean sweep over Pittsburg (05/03/08)
By Scott Nuzum Herald-Tribune FORT SCOTT, Kan. -- Fort Scott High School's softball team wanted to hit the ball better after getting only seven hits all day while they were being swept by Southeast Kansas League leader Columbus by scores of 1-0 and 3-0, Thursday night...

Nevada golf team sends three to state (05/02/08)
After a third-place performance at the Southwest Conference Tournament Nevada golf surged to second in the district tournament Thursday at Briarbrook Country Club, sending three players to the state tournament. Three Tigers shot under 87 to make the cut and qualify for the state tournament May 12 and 13 in Springfield, Mo. ...