Change is here. With the switch to the “Weekender”, I’m working to find how things on the sports pages fit.
One thing is this column, which appeared for years on Fridays, is now going to be on Thursdays. That means during high school football season, The Pressbox and Pregame Outlook on the Iola High Mustang game of the week will be Thursdays as well.
Any sporting event happening Thursday or Friday throughout the fall and winter seasons will be in the Saturday’s Weekender. That means we’ll have more opportunities for color sports photos in the Saturday newspaper.
New ventures have bumps and thumps along the way. They also put variety in life. So we’re all off and running with it here at the Register.
SUMMER BASEBALL and softball are almost over. Iola Recreation’s youth leagues wind up action this week. The Iola American Legion baseball teams are finishing up the regular season with zone
tournaments next week
The Iola AA Indians are playing in the Kansas Amateur Baseball Association (KABA) league tournament at Baldwin this week. They move into Kansas American Legion AA Zone 3 tournament action Monday. The AA Zone 3 tournament is hosted by Garnett. Iola is in the largest zone tournament in the state with Garnett, Osawatomie, Fort Scott, Mound City, Baxter Springs, Burlington and Chanute.
Iola is hosting the Kansas American Legion A Zone 3 tournament next week. Coming into the A Zone 3 event are Emporia Blue, Baldwin and Cherokee.
The Kansas American Legion state tournaments are July 26-29. The AA tournament is at Ottawa and the A tournament is at Salina.
THE “little” Iola Indians, a USSSA 11 A traveling baseball team, are at the 2011 USSSA 11-A World Series this weekend in Liberty, Mo. The tournament is at the Fountain Bluff Sports Complex. The Iola team is ranked No. 2 in the division power ratings.
THURSDAY night at Garnett Iola’s 14-and-under USSSA team — Sigg Motors staged a rally in the bottom of the seventh to win the 14-and-under league tournament.
The team was down 7-5 when Drew Faulhaber drew a walk, Isaiah Grover singled and Brock Peters reached on a fielder’s choice. Alex Bauer came through with a walk-off RBI single to give Sigg Motors the 8-7 win and the title.
