Area high school golf teams competed in league tournaments Monday. Uniontown High’s Eagles and Marmaton Valley High’s Wildcats were in Pleasanton at the Three Rivers League tournament. The 18-hole event was played on the Deer…

MORAN — After getting no hits and losing 14-1 in the opener, Marmaton Valley High’s Wildcat softball team turned in its best game of the season. The Wildcats still lost 9-6 to visiting Chetopa High’s…

COLUMBUS — Iola High’s Fillies wrapped up the 2012 softball season and  their final year of competing in the Southeast Kansas League on Thursday. The Fillies lost 16-1 in four innings and 5-1 to host…

MOUND CITY — Marmaton Valley High’s boys captured five event titles at the 2012 Three Rivers League track meet Thursday. Crest High claimed three event championships and Uniontown High had one event league champion. Senior…

CHERRYVALE — Sam Aguirre is a double gold-medalist and Tri-Valley League champion. The Yates Center High junior is a hurdle specialist. Aguirre won the TVL 110-meter high hurdle title in 15.6 seconds at the 2012…

Iola High’s Mustangs played their final regular-season doubleheader Friday at Columbus and head into Monday’s Kansas Class 4A regional baseball tournament without their starting catcher. Senior Drew Walden was among a group of Iola High…

Misses mean a lot in pole vault and high jump competitions. Iola High sophomore Michael Wilson and Labette County High senior Seth Trimmell went higher than the rest in Thursday’s pole vault field. They both…

Up and over. Two different events; both make competitors go up and over. Kendra Taiclet capped her senior regular season of track and field winning a league championship. Junior Breanna Stout continued an Iola High…

Brent Clark will speak on behalf of the other 81 Iola High School seniors who will be graduated in Sunday afternoon’s 2 o’clock ceremonies.The honor came about by default, he said, with a hint of…

Janet Dawn Taylor, 73, Iola, died Monday, May 7, 2012, at her home. Janet was born Nov. 29, 1938, in Essexville, Mich., the daughter of Soloman James and Pearl Opal (Clark) Barber.  Cremation has taken…