Stories from Friday, May 7, 2010

Herald-Tribune COLUMBUS, Kan. -- Fort Scott High School's softball team was swept by Columbus Thursday night in a Southeast Kansas League doubleheader by scores of 12-2 and 11-10. Columbus (5-9 SEK, 5-13 overall) only needed seven hits in the first-game victory as the Tigers (5-7, 5-11) committed 10 errors. In the second game, Columbus built a 7-2 lead after three innings but Fort Scott rallied to tie the score in the top of the seventh only to see the Titans prevail in the bottom of the inning...

By Eric Wade Herald-Tribune NEVADA -- "I had my, I'm not going to say doubts, because I knew they had it in them." It's easy to second guess and place doubts on the potential to achieve some of the highest goals set forth before a person, especially a high school athlete, but Nevada Tigers head golf coach Brian Leonard was able to look past those doubts and still held the highest confidence in two of his players in their quest for a bid in the Missouri Class 3 State Golf Championships. ...

Jack Gordon, Blue Springs, is one of the many bass anglers who look forward to May and the great bass fishing the month brings, especially fishing topwater lures. This is the time bass fishermen wait for patiently. Bass are moving into the shallow water, actively feed and are particularly vulnerable to fishing. Gordon hits farm ponds using a topwater lure like the Hula Popper and Jitterbug...

Herald-Tribune COLUMBUS, Kan. -- Fort Scott High School's baseball team split a Southeast Kansas League doubleheader with Columbus Thursday night, winning the opener 5-2, but dropping the nightcap 9-7. The Tigers (7-5 SEK, 8-7 overall) got on the board in the fourth inning when Matt Carillo drove in Josh Durossette and Luke Brown with a single, putting Fort Scott up 2-1...

Herald-Tribune HUMBOLDT, Kan. -- Uniontown's softball team improved to 11-3 on the season with a sweep of Humboldt in a non-league doubleheader Thursday. The Eagles won the first game 10-7 after a four-run rally in the top of the sixth. They took the second game 12-5, opening up a one-run game with a total of six runs in the final two innings...

Herald-Tribune HUMBOLDT, Kan. -- Humboldt swept a doubleheader from Uniontown at Walter Johnson Field Thursday, winning the opener 2-1 and the nightcap 12-8. The losses put Uniontown at 5-7 on the season going into the last week of regular-season play...

Herald-Tribune NEVADA -- As the Nevada Griffons get ready to start their 25th season of providing summer baseball games for area fans, they are looking for some help from area residents. Erica Skouby, Griffons housing coordinator, is currently looking for summer homes for about 12 players, many of whom will arrive in Nevada over the Memorial Day weekend and have their first game on June 2...

By Steve Moyer Herald-Tribune April showers have turned into May flowers so it is now time for the fourth annual Schowe and Shine, Dr. Ron Schowengerdt's auto show to benefit Habitat for Humanity. He's excited because this year there are corporate sponsors to help generate funds for Habitat...

Herald-Tribune The Wax Museum, a tradition at Nevada Middle School, is celebrating its 25th anniversary this year. This year's theme is revisiting favorite characters that have been portrayed over the past 25 years. Students in Accelerated English, science and social studies have researched 38 personalities from movie stars, historial icons, atheletes and even a local celebrity. ...

Rebecca Rowland, a fifth grade student at Eugene Ware Elementary School, rides the mechanical bull during an event hosted by Fort Scott Community College on Thursday at the FSCC Arnold Arena. During the event, a group of Eugene Ware fifth grade students watched various demonstrations by FSCC rodeo team members, who performed team roping, goat tying, steer wrestling, calf roping, barrel racing, and bull riding events. ...

By Neoma Foreman Special to the Herald-Tribune Bev and Jeff Koehn of rural Walker were looking for a business to do as a family. In 1997, they built a greenhouse in front of their home. They worked hard, and even with a few setbacks, their business is blooming. They now have four greenhouses and a store building in which they sell bulk food to "get them through the bare times of winter."...

By Lynn A. Wade Herald-Tribune The Vernon County Sheriff's Office is investigating the murder of 23-year-old Dennis Gibbs, of the Nevada-Fort Scott area, whose body, riddled with several gunshot wounds and several stab wounds, was found by Vernon County Sheriff's Office deputies at the intersection of Z Highway and Katy Track Road, near Richards, Mo., Thursday evening...