PITTSBURG — Iola High’s tennis team had its work cut out for its participants Tuesday. “We played some of our hardest matches of the season, so far,” head coach Chris Belknap said.  Payton Kern fell…

HUMBOLDT — For years, Iola High and Humboldt High’s softball coaches had been hoping to see their teams square off more frequently, but with league and regional schedules getting higher priority, those opportunities have been…

CARBONDALE — Friday’s doubleheader at Santa Fe Trail — which returned nearly its entire starting lineup from last season’s third-place team in the state — gives Iola High head coach Levi Ashmore a good barometer…

PAOLA — Iola High’s track team used Thursday’s competition at the Paola Invitational as a measuring stick of sorts, head coach David Daugharthy explained. “Every year this is one of our more competitive meets,” he…

INDEPENDENCE — Jeremy Sellman had an early hunch Thursday was going to be a special one for the Iola High golf team. The Mustangs’ three top golfers, seniors Xander Sellman and Christopher Holloway and sophomore…

Area high schools know where their postseason activities will take place. The state announced this week regional sites for baseball, softball, golf, tennis and track and field activities. The lists for Iola, Humboldt, Marmaton Valley,…

A pair of dazzling pitching performances put Iola High’s baseball team back on track Tuesday. Buoyed by a combined no-hitter from Grady Dougherty and Landon Weide in a 4-0 win in Game 1, Iola’s fun…

Iola High’s softball team has had its defensive struggles this young season. So it was perhaps fitting that one of the rarest plays in the game — a triple play — proved key in the…

CHANUTE — Iola High’s tennis team is starting to wonder how to get on Mother Nature’s good side. The Mustangs were greeted once again Tuesday by cold, windy conditions at the Chanute Invitational. “It’s not…

Iola Middle School hosted Burlington, Anderson County and Prairie View Tuesday for a quadrangular track meet. The Mustang seventh-grade girls took home first place in its division, while both the seventh- and eighth-grade boys teams…