From staff reports
Southeast Kansas
is well represented
WICHITA, Kan. — Five senior football players from Southeast Kansas will represent the East in the 2009 Shrine Bowl scheduled for July 25 in Cessna Stadium at Wichita.
They include CNC Conference all-league performers Chas Smith of St. Mary’s-Colgan and Chase Williams of Riverton.
Picked from the Southeast Kansas League were Pittsburg’s Fred Sellars, Chanute’s Ty Blanchard and Independence’s Ethan Speicher.
Head coaches for the 2009 game are Rod Stallbaumer of Lyndon (East) and Bo Black of Great Bend (West).
Shrine Bowl team members were announced on Saturday night during the Kansas Shrine Bowl Hall of Fame banquet.
Inducted into the shrine were Mike Bell (former star at Wichita Bishop Carroll), Steve Henry (Seneca Nemaha Valley) and Kent Rogers (coach and administrator).
Oklahoma Wesleyan
topples Ambassadors
BARTLESVILLE, Okla. — Oklahoma Wesleyan, ranked fourth nationally in NAIA Division II, beat Ozark Christian College 106-44 in men’s basketball on Saturday.
Steven Tackett and Clancy Allmoslecher scored 10 and nine points, respectively, for OCC.
Oklahoma Wesleyan has lost just once in 15 games. It’s scored more than 100 points five times this season.
OCC will play in the Cookson Hills Classic at Kansas (Okla.) Tuesday through Thursday. The Ambassadors open against St. Louis Christian at 10 a.m. on Tuesday.
Sports
January 4, 2009
Local Briefs
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Outlaws open season Thursday on the road
Chris Oldner takes a cut during the Joplin Outlaws practice Tuesday afternoon. The Outlaws open their season on Thursday night at Rossville and play seven road games before their home opener on June 5.
The Joplin Outlaws and new coach Rob Vessell have set some lofty goals for the 2012 baseball season.
Continued ... - Stanton’s homers fuel Marlins’ surge in May
- Five sign to join Missouri Southern women's track team
- Whisner ignites Joplin Miners past Webb City
- Venus Williams joins Serena on sideline in Paris
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- Pittsburg State Sports
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- Vengels sixth in heptathlon; PSU picks up two seventh-place finishes
- Ethan Cordray signs with Pittsburg State
- Lions, Gorillas begin competition in outdoor track and field championship
- Three finalists named for PSU head baseball coach position
- Lions qualify 10, PSU 15 for Division II outdoor track meet
- Missouri Southern Sports
- High School Sports
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Area athletes turn shine at state meet
Webb City's Jarvis Jones takes sixth in the 200.
- Cleo Elbert steps down at Thomas Jefferson
- Frontenac wins first state baseball title
- Joplin's Jeremy Lynn takes fifth at state tennis
- Frontenac advances at state baseball
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