COLONY  — Crest Middle School’s Lancers outlasted Marmaton Valley Junior High’s Wildcats 40-30 Thursday on the Lancers’ football field. Hunter Frazell scored four touchdowns for Crest (4-3). Frazell rushed for 63 yards and had 15…

COFFEYVILLE — Following a scoreless first half, Iola Middle School’s eighth-grade football team  came out on the short end of a 20-6 score Thursday. Coffeyville’s Roosevelt Middle School Roughriders were up 14-0 by the 6:25…

Kurt Thompson, a 1984 graduate of Iola High School, will be inducted into the Missouri Football Coaches Hall of Fame in December. “I was fortune enough to be named head coach at Webb City (Mo.)…

FORT SCOTT — Iola High’s Fillies took on two of the top three teams in the Southeast Kansas League Thursday. It was the finale of SEK play for Iola as it moves to the Pioneer…

Four area modified stock car drivers are going to be racing for a big prize right in their own backyard. All four call Humboldt Speedway their home track and come Wednesday they are ready to…

For Kurt McGuffin it’s like coming home. McGuffin, a 1992 Iola High graduate, was introduced this week as the new director of athletics for Missouri Western State University in St. Joseph, Mo. He is currently…

UNIONTOWN — Going into Friday night’s Kansas Class 3A, District 4 football game, Uniontown High’s Eagles had the second-best record among the four teams. The problem was the Eagles hosted the team with the best…

PITTSBURG — Humboldt High’s Cubs had a tall order in Kansas Class 2-1A district play Friday night. The Cubs had to find away to stop powerhouse Pittsburg-St. Mary’s-Colgan High’s Panthers. It didn’t happen. Colgan scored…

COLONY  — Marmaton Valley High Wildcats and Crest High’s Lancers waged a seesaw battle Friday night. The two Three Rivers League rivals’ Kansas Eight-Man I, District 1 game came down to the final plays of…

Three All-SEK runners and three runners earning league honorable mention is not bad for the final Southeast Kansas League cross country meet in Iola High’s history. Sure, it would have been a great end to…