LYNDON — Marmaton Valley High’s Wildcat basketball teams wrapped up regular season play on the road Tuesday.
The Wildcat girls lost 48-27 to host Lyndon High’s Tiger girls. The Tiger boys notched a 74-52 win over the Wildcats.
Marmaton Valley’s girls are 5-15 and the boys are 6-14. The Wildcat squads await today’s seedings and pairings for next week’s Kansas Class 2A Substate Basketball Tournament hosted by Oswego.
Lyndon’s girls raced to a 16-6 advantage in the opening eight minutes. The Tigers led the Wildcat girls 26-12 at halftime.
Maggie Meiwes scored 14 points for Marmaton Valley. The Wildcats were 4 of 10 at the free-throw line.
Marmaton Valley played without starter Alysha Westhoff, who was ill.
The Tiger girls hit six three-pointers. Malori Gales had 18 points, which included four of the threes. Kylee Fine hit two threes as she had 14 points.
The Wildcat and Tiger boys were going point for point in the first half. The Tigers had a 34-33 halftime lead.
Lyndon took over the game in the second half. The Tigers outscored the Wildcats 18-10 in the third then rolled on a 22-9 surge to the end of the game.
Marmaton Valley drained six treys in the contest. Lyndon netted seven.
Ethan Ericson fired in 15 points and had five blocked shots for the Wildcats. Tanner Lewis scored 11 points and Kurtis LaRue has 10 points, seven rebounds and four assists.
Derek Banzhaf scored 30 points, having four threes. Trey Brown scored 22 and David Spencer had 12 for the Tigers.
Marmaton Valley girls (6-6-4-11—27) (FG/3-pt): McNutt 1-0-1-2, Boyd 1/1-1-1-6, Miller 2-0-1-4, Meiwes 5/1-1-1-14, Ford 0-1-2-1. TOTALS: 9/2-4-6-27.
Lyndon girls (16-10-14-8—48) (FG/3-pt): Schmidt 0-0-1-0, Gales 2/4-2-2-18, Bitts 1-0-0-2, Bronson 0-2-0-2, Fine 2/2-4-1-14, Burkett 3-0-3-6, Barone 2-0-3-4, Roth 2-0-3-2. TOTALS: 12/6-6-13-48.
Marmaton Valley boys (11-22-10-9—52) (FG/3-pt): McNutt 1/1-0-2-5, Lewis 2/2-1-1-11, Louk 0/1-4-1-7, Houk 1-0-5-2, Ericson 4/2-1-2-15, Becker 1-0-1-2, LaRue 4-2-2-10. TOTALS: 13/6-8-14-52.
Lyndon (11-23-18-22—74) (FG/3-pt): Incomplete information on individuals for Lyndon
Lady Lancers lose out in regional play
MELVERN — Crest High’s Lady Lancers bowed out of Kansas Class 1A Regional Basketball Tournament contention Tuesday night.
The Lady Lancers dropped a 56-25 decision to host Marais Des Cygnes Valley High’s Lady Trojans. It was the opening round of regional action.
Crest finished the season at 1-18.
Marais Des Cygnes Valley rolled to a 17-4 advantage in the first quarter. It was 26-9 at halftime.
Kristen Golden led Crest with eight points. The Lady Lancers were 8 of 18 from the free-throw line.
Jamie Rice scored 17 points to lead the Lady Trojans. Emily Rose had 10 points.
Marais Des Cygnes Valley advances to the 1A regional semifinals at Pleasanton High School Friday. The Lady Trojans play top-seeded and 10th-ranked Southern Coffey County at 7:30 p.m.
Hartford dispatched Pleasanton 49-15 Tuesday. Hartford plays second-seeded Waverly at 6 p.m. Friday.
The championship game is 6 p.m. Saturday at PHS. The top two teams advance to 1A substate play next week.
Crest (4-5-10-6—25): Catt 0/1-2-4-5, A. Strickler 0-6-4-6, Kur. Gilliland 1-0-0-2, Honn 1-0-5-2, Louk 0-0-2-0, Kol. Gilliland 1-0-3-2, K. Golden 4-0-1-8, Tinlsey 0-0-1-0. TOTALS: 7/1-8-20-25.
MDCV (17-9-18-12—56) (FG/3-pt): Rice 6/1-2-3-17, Rose 3-4-3-10, Spencer 0-0-2-0, Lemmon 3-3-2-9, Schuyler 2-2-1-6, Phillips 0-0-1-0, Bush 1-1-4-3, Vanderpool 2/1-1-2-8, Schimmel 0/1-0-2-3. TOTALS: 17/3-13-19-56.
IHS freshman teams play in tournament
FORT SCOTT — Iola High’s freshman boys and girls are playing in a round-robin tournament hosted by Fort Scott High School this week.
Monday night, the freshman Fillies lost 54-11 to Chanute. Alexa Fawson had six points and Breanna Stout toss-ed in four.
The Mustang freshmen lost 55-26 to Fort Scott Monday. Mason Coons led Iola with 11 points.
Eli Grover added five points and Garrett Cat-ron had four. Scoring two points each were Levi Ashmore, Shelton Reno and Jacob Harrison.
Iola’s girls play Jayhawk-Linn today at 5 p.m. at the Fort Scott High gym.
The IHS boys play Chanute at 6:30 at Fort Scott’s Buck Run Community Center.
On Friday, the Fillies play Fort Scott at 5 p.m. at the high school and the Mustangs take on Jayhawk-Linn at 5 p.m. at Buck Run.
‘Kay’ Jackson
Former Iola resident Mary Kathryn “Kay” Jackson, 87, of Augusta died today, Feb. 23, 2010, at Lake Point Nursing Home in Augusta.
She was born March 31, 1922, in Gladbrook, Iowa, the daughter of J. Andrew and Zella “Pudge” (Horton) Sebbert. The family moved to Humboldt and she graduated from high school there.
She was a registered nurse and received her degree from St. Joseph’s Nursing School in Fort Scott.
On March 5, 1944, she married Harry L. Jackson in Fort Scott. They lived in several communities before moving to Iola in 1966. She worked as a registered nurse mainly in nursing homes until her retirement. He died June 23, 1996.
When her health failed she moved to Augusta to be near family. She was a member of Grace Lutheran Church and Red Hat Society.
She is survived by two sons, Bob and his wife, Marsha, and Bill and his wife, Pat, and a daughter, Jean Shetlar and her husband, Lloyd, all of Augusta; a brother, Gary Sebbert and his wife, Judy, Muscatine, Iowa; two sisters, Arlys Sakata, Topeka, and Shirley Breiner, Humboldt; nine grandchildren; and 14 great-grandchildren.
Two brothers, Jack and Bob Sebbert, and a sister, Jane Wilkerson, died earlier.
The family will receive friends from 2 to 3 p.m. Thursday at Waugh-Yokum & Friskel Memorial Chapels in Iola.
Graveside services will be at 3:30 p.m. Thursday in Mount Hope Cemetery in Humboldt.
Memorials to Grace Lutheran Church in Iola may be left at the funeral home. Online condolences may be left at iolafuneral.com.
Holt services
Funeral services for Opal Lucille Holt of LaHarpe, whose death Sunday was reported in Monday’s Register, will be at 1 p.m. Friday at Iola’s Church Of Christ. Burial will be in LaHarpe Cemetery.
She was born April 4, 1924, in Paola, the daughter of Roley and Marguarite (Stalker) Parrish. She lived in and attended school in Yates Center until the age of 16. She then moved to Missouri where she finished high school and graduated from the School of the Ozarks in Point Lookout, Mo.
On April 27, 1946, she married Calvin L. “Billy” Holt in Wichita. They made their home in Wichita where she worked as a loan officer for a savings and loan company. They later lived in Oklahoma, Florida, Missouri and California before retiring and moving to LaHarpe in 1990. He died Jan. 3, 2003.
She was a member of Church of Christ, LaHarpe Loyal Neighbors Club and an Extension Homemakers Unit.
She is survived by a brother, Willis Parrish, Iola; sisters-in-law, Nancy Holt, Collinsville, Okla., and Shirley Parrish, Moore, Okla.; nieces, Sharon Prather, Porterville, Calif., Glenda Pargman, Iola, Sandy Keating, Olathe, Denise Parrish, Wichita, Belinda Cuevas, Broken Arrow, Okla., Cynthia Combs and Kelley Murray, Claremore, Okla., and Eva Haraway, Fort Smith, Ark.; and nephews, Roley Taylor, Porterville, Wayne Elwood Parrish, Moultrie, Ga., Michael Parrish, Blanchard, Okla., Eldon Roy Parrish, Moore, Okla., Paul Parrish, Tonkawa, Okla., and Robert Holt, Collinsville.
Two brothers, Harvey and Wayne, two sisters, Edna and Grace, and by two nephews, Gary Taylor and Danny Parrish, died earlier.
Memorials to Allen County Hospice may be left at Waugh-Yokum & Friskel Memorial Chapels of Iola, which is in charge of arrangements. Online condolences for the family may be left at iolafuneral.com.
Crest wins junior high tourney
UNIONTOWN — Crest Middle School’s Lancers won the Uniontown tournament Saturday with a 40-30 decision over Westphalia.
The Lancers had edged host Uniontown 35-33 on Thursday, led by Brock Ellis’ 19 points.
On Saturday, the Lancers were again led by Ellis with 20 points. Austin Green added six, followed by Taylor Davis with five. Craig Brailler scored four points, Landon Stephens tossed in three and Clayton Miller had two.
Crest wins junior high tourney
UNIONTOWN — Crest Middle School’s Lancers won the Uniontown tournament Saturday with a 40-30 decision over Westphalia.
The Lancers had edged host Uniontown 35-33 on Thursday, led by Brock Ellis’ 19 points.
On Saturday, the Lancers were again led by Ellis with 20 points. Austin Green added six, followed by Taylor Davis with five. Craig Brailler scored four points, Landon Stephens tossed in three and Clayton Miller had two.
Titans win, advance to 1A regional semis
PRIDE meeting set for Wednesday
Residents in LaHarpe, Moran and Humboldt will learn Wednesday what accompanies their recent designation as PRIDE communities when Trudy Rice, a Manhattan-based extension associate with the Kansas PRIDE program, speaks at 7 p.m. at the former LaHarpe Elementary School gymnasium. The public is invited.
PRIDE offers a community-based approach to improving quality of life by encouraging citizens to work together to identify and take on improvement projects. It also offers a network of ideas along with tools and resources needed to achieve various goals.
“Trudy will explain what each community’s next step should be,” said Sunny Shreeve, program director for Thrive Allen County, which assisted each town with developing PRIDE programs.
PRIDE is administered jointly through the Kansas Department of Commerce and Kansas State University Re-search and Extension.
Clarice Bartlett
Clarice M. Bartlett, 89, of Le Roy died Saturday, Feb. 20, 2010, at Life Care Center in Burlington.
She was born April 26, 1920, in Bedford, Iowa, to Elmer and Elsie (Wilson) Beauchamp.
She was a member of First Christian Church in Le Roy.
On Dec. 13, 1946, she married Dale Bartlett in Kansas City, Mo.
She is survived by two children, Catherine Meats and her husband, Don, Le Roy, and James and his wife, Shirley, Manhattan, a sister, Edna Barbour, Buffalo, Wyo.; a brother, Roy Beauchamp, Des Moines, Iowa; seven grandchildren; 14 great-grandchildren; and one great-great-grandchild.
He husband, a granddaughter, Tricia Meats Penwell, brothers, Howard, Dean, Clarence, John and Freddie, sisters, Alta, Elizabeth, Doris, and an infant sister, died earlier.
Visitation will be from 7 to 8 p.m. today at First Christian Church in Le Roy.
Services will be at 10 a.m. Tuesday at First Christian Church in Le Roy. Burial will be in Le Roy Cemetery.
Memorials to First Christian Church may be sent to Van Arsdale Funeral Home, P.O. Box 8, Le Roy, KS 66857.