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Written by Gene Morris
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Friday, 05 March 2010 08:00 |
FORT SCOTT — Travis Hayes, Nick Wilson and Isaac Cotton hit double figures to help keep the Paola High school boys’ basketball team in its Class 4A substate playoff game against Fort Scott on Monday. 
The Tigers (14-7) proved to be too much for the Panthers, eliminating Paola (8-13) with a 53-40 victory on its home court.
Fort Scott jumped out on an 11-2 run in the first three minutes. Paola answered Fort Scott over the last five minutes, but the damage had been done in an 18-9 advantage for the Tigers when the opening quarter expired.
It was an evenly played game the rest of the way. Fort Scott outscored Paola by just four points in the final three quarters to hang on for the 13-point win.
Both teams scored 10 points in the second quarter. Fort Scott edged Paola by identical scores of 12-10 in the third and fourth quarters.
“You have nothing to hang your heads about,” Paola coach Dave Cash told his players in the locker room. “You played hard, and that is what I expected you to do all year.
“Do I wish we could have won more games? Sure,” Cash said. “I did not want the season to end either, I never do. You did some very good things this year. When we had some bumps in the road, you came back ready to go to work.”
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Written by Gene Morris
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Friday, 05 March 2010 08:00 |
FORT SCOTT — As much as they wanted to and as hard as they tried, the Paola High School Panther girls’ basketball team could not pull out a win against the Tigers on their home court in Fort Scott in the first round of the Class 4A substate playoffs. 
The Panthers (6-15), who trailed by as many as 15 points, never made a serious run at the Tigers (15-6) in a 10-point, 46-36, loss Monday evening.
At the end of the day, Paola was not without its chances. The loss boiled down to two things — too many turnovers and not enough baskets — snapshots of the entire season.
Paola took 10 more shots than Fort Scott on Monday (36-26), but made one less basket (13-14) and did not take care of the basketball at key moments in the game.
“We made a series of mistakes when we were getting back in it, and that let them pull away,” Paola coach Stuart Ross said. “They got to the free-throw line and knocked them down.”
“We played hard,” Ross said. “I wasn’t disappointed with how they played. We went down fighting, and that’s all I care about. We didn’t look like a seventh-seed out there.”
An inside basket by Annie Kessler and a layup by Mackenzie Hallstrom had the Panthers within one point of the Tigers. Fort Scott quickly answered with a 3-pointer, increasing the deficit to four points (8-4).
Kylee Mader drove the lane for a layup to make it a two-point game with 3:41 left to play in the first quarter.
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Written by Gene Morris
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Friday, 26 February 2010 08:00 |
Not many teams come back from a four-point quarter, especially when it comes in the first quarter. 
That is exactly what the Paola High School girls’ basketball team faced at home against Anderson County on Monday night.
Paola posted just four points in the first eight minutes, scoring on a pair of field goals by guard Mackenzie Hallstrom.
Fortunately for the Panthers, the defense was able to slow down the Anderson County Bulldogs and limit the damage by allowing nine points.
The Panthers kept the defensive pressure up in the second quarter and got into an offensive rhythm, taking charge of the game with a 14-4 run on their way to a 44-29 victory.
Post player Annie Kessler stepped up in the second quarter, scoring five points in the frame with a field goal and three free throws.
Courtney Johnson, a veteran guard, made a field goal and a pair of free throws during the run.
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Written by Gene Morris
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Friday, 26 February 2010 08:00 |
Every win is a good one, but Paola High School boys’ basketball players could not have a good feeling in their stomachs the way Monday night’s game against Anderson County ended. 
Paola dominated for three quarters and led by as many as 18 points in the fourth, only to let Anderson County cut its lead to nine points late and then to hold on for a 11-point, 67-56 victory.
Leading by 18 points, the Panthers needed to put the Bulldogs away and did not do it.
The Panthers got off their game and managed just one basket in the final eight minutes.
Taking a quarter off like that, Paola coach Dave Cash said, could cost the Panthers in substate playoffs, where it will be win or go home against the likes of Louisburg, Osawatomie, Spring Hill or Ottawa.
“I don’t feel good about it,” Cash said. “Isn’t it still about getting better? We didn’t take care of the basketball.
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Written by Gene Morris
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Friday, 26 February 2010 08:00 |
Twenty-four wrestlers from area schools will be on the mat today and Saturday, competing in the Class 4A and Class 3A-2A-1A state tournaments in Salina and Hays, respectively. 
The athletes, who qualified by placing in the top four in their weight classifications at regional tournaments last weekend, take a total of 662 wins with them into state action.
Area state qualifiers were 662-236 in 898 matches, winning 74 percent of the time.
Louisburg’s Hood family, featured on the cover of the Miami County Newspapers winter sports preview in December, lived up to their billing with all three brothers qualifying for the Class 4A state tournament at the Bicentennial Center in Salina.
Bryce and Austin Hood won regional titles, and Cullen punched his ticket to state for the first time.
Senior Bryce Hood, 36-1 this season, will compete in the 140-pound weight class, which features six wrestlers with 30 or more wins. Prairie View’s Colton Kral, 37-6, joins Hood in the weight class. To capture a title, the two will likely have to get past Clay Center’s undefeated Tyler Anderson, who is 35-0.
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