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Wednesday, February 24, 2016

School board approves Bowlus plans

By SUSAN LYNN The Iola Register

A new look for the Bowlus Fine Arts Center was given the go-ahead by USD 257 board members at their meeting Monday night.

Called the “Bowlus Plaza,” the renovation will include an expanded entrance on the east side of the expanSee A4 sive building, a dropoff area for visitors, a loading dock for performers, and an elevator for the infirm.

The update will make the fine arts center more accessible to both patrons and performers, said Susan Raines, executive director of the center.

Friends of the Bowlus, a local non-profit whose goal is to fund capital improvements to the building, have already raised $800,000 to go toward the $1.3 million makeover, said Jan Knewtson, president of the Friends.

As for the remaining $500,000, Knewtson said she was “very confident,” it can be raised.

Paving the way for the renovation was including as district property the three lots to the east of the center previously purchased by the Friends.

The lots double the center’s footprint.

Plans also include an outdoor setting for small-scale performances.

Soccer plea heard

BUT FIRST, the dirty work.

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The east entrance to the Bowlus Fine Arts Center will get a new look starting this summer. Plans include a drive off of Buckeye Street that will allow a drop-off for patrons as well as access to an elevator. Hidden behind a decorative wall will be a loading dock, providing easier transfer of equipment.

Maintenance needs mount

District recognizes donors

By SUSAN LYNN The Iola Register

By SUSAN LYNN The Iola Register

Scott Stanley always seems to get the short end of the stick.

For example, at local school board meetings Stanley is always last to give his report.

So by the time school trustees have waded through mountains of minutiae having to do with budgets, enrollment, curriculum updates, and legislative shenanigans, they finally come to Stanley, who as director of operations rarely can end their night on a good note.

ALLEN COUNTY

Commissioner lobbies for Humboldt streets

By BOB JOHNSON The Iola Register

Allen County Commissioners had a difference of opinion Tuesday morning as to how Humboldt’s main thoroughfare is to be maintained.

According to Jerry Daniels, an expected increase of traffic from Monarch trucks warrants significant road upgrades.

And while other commissioners agreed upkeep is necessary, they maintained the standard procedure of chip-seal is all they are willing to provide.

The whole of Ninth Street as well as Bridge Street extending to the city’s west limits are the county’s responsibility because of their connecting route status.

In the past, county crews sealed the streets periodically with hot oil and fine limestone. That ceased several years ago, apparently

because of a disagreement

by Humboldt leaders with the process. At the last Humboldt Council meeting, members said they were reluctant to approve chipand-seal on Bridge Street because it is near the top of curbs. Adding to the surface, they reasoned, would cause rainwater run-off problems and the dust from ground limestone also is a nuisance.

The preference is to have both streets milled and overlaid with asphalt, a much more expensive procedure.

Mitch Garner, director of Public Works, informed commissioners the county just does chip-seal on county roads.

From which Commissioner Tom Williams drew the conclusion, “It’s our road and we’ll maintain it like we do every other road.”

Daniels, however, said when the commission apSee COUNTY | Page A3

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Monday was no exception.

He had bad news, followed by worse.

First, Stanley recommended the district spend $85,000 to go toward the purchase of a small bus and a passenger van, at $60,000 and $25,000 respectively, to help transport small groups of students.

“We have $145,342 to work with,” Stanley said, referring to the district’s supplemental general budget for summer projects.

THEN STANLEY hit See NEEDS | Page A4

Gifts from local organizations and institutions were recognized at Monday night’s USD 257 Board of Education meeting.

The Iola Senior Citizens organization gave $300 each to Jefferson and McKinley elementary schools; Lincoln Elementary received $51.92 from the “Take Charge of Education” fund sponsored by Target stores, and Iola Middle School received $1,734 from Emprise Bank for an upcoming trip to Worlds of Fun for stu-

dents earning good grades.

“We want everyone to know how much we appreciate these gifts,” said Tony Leavitt, president of the local school board.

TRUSTEES agreed to go with an online program to enroll students for next year’s classes.

The current system requires mountains of paperwork and tons of overtime.

“Picture 900 enrollment packets consisting of 11 pages each,” said Jack Koehn, superintendent of See GIFTS | Page A4

‘THIS IS (ALMOST) SPORTSCENTER’

Iola High School students, from left, Kiefer Endicott, Ethan Scheibmeir, Ethan Sigg, Isiah Shaughnessy and Colby Works donned announcers’ uniforms as part of a pretend ESPN studio Tuesday for the IHS home basketball games against Wellsville. The “announcers” also made periodic trips to the crowd for purported live interviews, which then were posted onto Instagram. To see more details of the Senior Night basketball games, go to Page B1. REGISTER/RICHARD LUKEN

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KS House OKs chiropractor oversight

Obituary Kelly Neighbors Iolan Kelly J. Neighbors, formerly of Eureka, died Saturday, Feb. 20, 2016, at his son’s home in Iola.

Funeral services will be at 2 p.m. Thursday at Koup Family Funeral Home in Eureka, with Jayme A. Koup officiating. Interment will follow at Greenwood Cemetery. Visitation is from 5 to 7 p.m. today at the funeral home.

In lieu of flowers, the family has requested that memorials be made to the funeral fund. Contributions may be sent in care of the funeral home at P.O. Box 595, Eureka, KS 67045.

Online condolences may be sent to koupfunerals. com.

Mobile unit will assist veterans on Thursday The Southeast Kansas Mental Health Center will set up a mobile center to assist veterans from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Thursday at the SEKMHC office in Iola at 304 N. Jefferson Ave. There, military veterans can have their ques-

tions about a wide range of topics answered, including disability benefits, health care benefit applications and other Veterans Administration programs.

For more information, call the (816) 3639116.

Kansas Legislature

House rejects 80 mph TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) before 1957, Kansas said — The Kansas House re- only that a driver’s speed jected an effort Tuesday had to be “reasonable to increase the speed lim- and prudent.” it to 80 miles per hour on “Kansas is very flat for rural interstates, even as the most part, and you it moved to hike it to 70 can see great distances on some other highways. for the most part,” BradThe House approved ford said. a bill 106-19 to allow Several House memthe state’s secretary bers saw increasing the of transportation to top speed limit as unsafe, increase particularly the speed because Today, there are state limits on law rural twosays that way many drivers lane highing that are holding a sonp eae dhighways and cell phone in their way isn’t other noninterstate hand as they drive. a moving highways They’re texting. v i o l a t i o n another 5 unless it’s They’re reading more than miles per email. They’re on 10 miles per hour, from the current Facebook, what- hour over 65. The meathe limit. ever. sure goes Thus, they next to the said, boost— Rep. Don Hineman, R-Dighton Senate. ing the top But the limit to 80 House’s acmiles per tion came after it voted hour will encourage 90-24 against an amend- some drivers to go 90. ment offered by Rep. Rep. Don Hineman, John Bradford, a Lan- a Dighton Republican, sing Republican, to in- said he might have crease the speed limit supported Bradford’s on interstates outside proposal 20 years ago, metropolitan areas to 80 but “something has mph from the current 75. changed.”

Six states — Idaho, “Today, there are Montana, Nevada, South way too many drivers Dakota, Utah and Wyo- that are holding a cell ming — have top speed phone in their hand as limits of 80 miles per they drive,” Hineman hour; Texas sets it at 85 said. “They’re texting. miles per hour on some They’re reading email. highway segments, ac- They’re twittering. cording to the Governors They’re on Facebook, Highway Safety Associa- whatever.” tion. Bradford noted that

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The Kansas House of Representative has approved a bill that would enable chiropractors to sign off on student athletes returning to a sport after a head injury.

Rep. Kent Thompson, R-LaHarpe, voted for the measure. Rep. Adam Lusker, D-Frontenac, was opposed.

The Kansas City Star reports that the current law allows chiropractors to perform student athletes’ physicals before a sports season and to diagnose concussions on the field. It requires

that a medical doctor evaluate and sign off before a student athlete can return to a sport after a head injury.

The bill passed 7351, but prompted an intense debate about whether chiropractors have sufficient expertise to make those decisions.

“Your child. Your child. What do you want that’s best for your child?” asked Rep. Barbara Bollier, R-Mission Hills.

Bollier, a retired physician who opposed the bill, said head injuries

MANHATTAN, Kan. (AP) — All bags brought to ticketed Kansas State University athletic events must be clear starting next school year.

The Manhattan Mercury reports that the goal of the new policy

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is to provide a safer environment and speedier entry into venues. Many other collegiate programs and professional leagues have already adopted the policy.

Kansas State athletic director John Currie said in a news release

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can have a permanent effect on one’s brain and that medical researchers are still in the process of understanding the long-term impact of concussions.

Rep. Dan Hawkins, RWichita said that chiropractors wouldn’t necessarily have the ability to sign off on a student returning to the playing field in every case.

Under Kansas law, chiropractors are doctors, said Rep. Dick Jones, R-Topeka. Jones said allowing chiropractors to make the diagnosis would expand access

to rural communities where there may not be a medical doctor.

“Let’s give the communities in the rural areas at least have the chance to have a functioning sports program,” Jones said.

The Kansas Chiropractors Association backs the bill and the Kansas Medical Society and other physicians’ groups oppose it.

The House reconsidered the chiropractor measure Tuesday and reapproved it 70-53, sending it to the Senate.

Legislators block power plant deal TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas legislators moved swiftly Tuesday to protect a government office building near the Statehouse after their bipartisan criticism forced Republican Gov. Sam Brownback to cancel a $20 million project that would have torn it down.

The GOP-dominated Legislature overwhelmingly approved a bill to prevent Brownback’s administration from spending any money through June 2017 to demolish the Docking State Office Building or build a new power plant to replace one there.

Lawmakers in both parties accused the administration of using an unusual financing arrangement to avoid oversight, something it denied.

“We do not feel like they had the authority,” Senate President Susan Wagle, a Wichita Republican, said after the bill passed.

It was the second time in less than two weeks legislators moved to block a major project pursued by Brownback’s administration without getting their approval first. Lawmakers last week passed a measure to prevent the state from authorizing bonds backed by sales tax revenues for a project aimed at luring the 117-year-old American Royal horse and livestock exhibition to Kansas from the Missouri side of the Kansas City metropolitan area.

The power plant project would have built a new energy center for the Statehouse and four other nearby government buildings while demolishing the 1950s-

era Docking building.

The state had planned to finance the project through a 15-year leasepurchase agreement with Bank of America, paying 2.32 percent interest. The Brownback administration contends it didn’t need legislative approval, and the Department of Administration signed the agreement in December, weeks after members of a legislative committee expressed misgivings.

The House approved the bill blocking such a project Tuesday, 121-1, and the Senate passed it 40-0, within hours, sending the measure to the governor.

The lone no vote came from Rep. Henry Helgerson, a Wichita Democrat. After being asked why he voted against the measure, Helgerson released a statement saying that the project and lack of good oversight from lawmakers is a symptom of “economic mismanagement and incompetence.”

Brownback spokeswoman Eileen Hawley said the governor did not ask lawmakers to send him the bill but is “happy to consider any legislation.”

“The Governor felt like it was time to move onto other issues,” Hawley said in an emailed statement, saying Brownback canceled the project Feb. 17.

Lawmakers also wrote the bill so that the project’s cancellation would be tied to their refusal to provide money for it — a contingency the financing agreement anticipated. Legislators said the language would help the Brownback administration in negotiations with Bank

K-State to implement clear-bag policy to events

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that the experience of fans and their safety is a “top priority.”

Besides clear bags, the policy allows small clutch bags and medically necessary items after proper inspection.

Football season ticket holders will receive one

approved clear plastic bag per account when their season tickets are mailed in August.

Prohibited items include coolers, backpacks, diaper bags, camera bags and seat cushions with pockets and zippers.

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of America and the construction firm, McCarthy Building Companies Inc., over penalties to be paid for canceling the project.

Secretary of Administration Sarah Shipman had warned that canceling the project could force the state to pay $2.4 million. But department spokesman John Milburn said there’s no firm figure now because of the coming negotiations.

McCarthy, which has offices in Leawood, issued an email statement saying it recognizes and respects “the State legislative process and look forward to a positive outcome for all parties.”

Brownback’s administration expects the Docking building to be vacant by the fall, save for the office of the Highway Patrol troop pro-

viding security for the Statehouse and nearby government buildings.

The Department of Administration contends it isn’t cost-effective to keep Docking open because it needs between $75 million and $100 million worth of maintenance.

Some legislators have suggested keeping the power plant there while reducing Docking to three or even only one story from the 12 currently above ground.

The Kansas Preservation Alliance said earlier this month that the building could be turned over to developer to create a hotel, upscale apartments, retail space and restaurants.

“We don’t have another plan,” Milburn said.

“We anticipate ongoing discussions with the Legislature.”

Financial Focus Retirees Need “Longevity Strategy”

The late, great Yogi Berra supposedly said it: “The future ain’t what it used to be.” And the same could be said of retirement. Due to several factors, such as advances in health care, today’s retirees are living longer, more active lives than their predecessors. In fact, you could spend two, or even three, decades in retirement – which means you need a “longevity strategy.”

Such a strategy needs to be part of your overall retirement income strategy, but here are five key areas you’ll need to address: • Lifestyle – What do you plan to do during your retirement years? Travel the world? Stay close to home and pursue your hobbies? Volunteer? Open a small business or do some consulting? Your choice of lifestyle will probably affect every aspect of your longevity strategy.

• Income – Your biggest threat to an enjoyable retirement is the possibility of running out of money.

This fear is apparently widespread; in a survey commissioned by Allianz, a life insurance company, more than 60% of respondents said they were more scared of outliving their assets than they were of dying. You need to create a retirement income strategy that incorporates, among other elements, a withdrawal rate that allows you to take money from your 401(k), IRA and other investment accounts in such a manner that you don’t run out. You’ll also need to answer other key questions, such as when to take Social Security – as you may know, the longer you wait, the bigger your monthly checks, until they “max out” at age 70.

• Housing – Once you retire, you may want to review your housing situation. If you’ve already paid off your mortgage, and you like your house, you may want to stay there. But if you’re thinking downsizing, or moving to a more favorable climate, or even purchasing a vacation home, you need to calculate the costs and include them in your plans.

• Health care – As far as health care, consider these questions: What will the treatment of existing medical conditions cost over the long term? Do you know what costs Medicare will cover? Have you thought of how you might pay for a nursing home or other longterm care? This last item is especially important, because the annual average cost for a private room in a nursing home is more than $90,000, according to the 2015 Cost of Care Survey, produced by Genworth, a financial services company. A financial professional can suggest ways of meeting these longterm care costs.

• Caregiving – It’s possible, at least early in your retirement years, that you could still be a caregiver to aging parents. If so, you might need to factor in these costs to your financial strategy. Later on, you may need some caregiving yourself, such as that provided by a home health aide. So you’ll need to consider these potential expenses.

Your retirement years can be filled with activities and accomplishments. And you can get even more enjoyment from this time of life if you stick to an appropriate longevity strategy.

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Colony

Calendar

March 2-Lions Club, United Methodist Church basement, 7 p.m., March 3-county bus to Garnett, phone 24 hours before you need a ride, 785-436-4410 any weekday; Community Church Missionary, Church Annex, 1:30 p.m.; United Methodist Women, United Methodist Church Fellowship Hall, 7 p.m.

School Calendar

Today-Parent-Teacher Conferences; FridayNo school; Monday-middle school scholars bowl at Crest, 4 p.m.; Tuesday-Sub State basketball begins at Hartford

Meal Site

Friday-ham sandwiches or fish, tomato and rice soup, bun, pineapple, cookie; Monday-smothered steak, mashed potatoes, country veggies, bread, apricots; March 2- meatballs, creamy noodles, winter mix, roll, blueberry mix.

Phone 620-852-3450 for meal reservations.

Christian Church

Scripture presented at Sunday’s service was John 4:1-42. Pastor Andrew Zoll’s sermon was titled “He Had to Go Through Samaria?” If interested in Financial Peace University let pastor know. Cross Training Classes at 9:30 a.m.

Mrs. Morris Luedke

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each Sunday. Classes for all ages. Men’s Bible Study Tuesday, 7 a.m.

March 6-Church potluck dinner following services at the City Hall Community room. Annual meeting follows the meal. It is important you are present since this is the only meeting for the year. March 9-Working Wonders Christian Women’s Council, 7 p.m.

UMC

Scripture presented at Sunday service at United Methodist Church was Genesis 15:1-12, Philippians 3:2721 and Luke 13-31-35.

Pastor Dorothy Welch’s sermon presented was “Vanilla Days.”

Annual Lions Feed

The annual pancake all-day meal runs from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. March 5. Pancakes, biscuits and gravy, vegetable soup and chili are on the menu. These Lions members know how to cook. Come, eat and visit!

Building

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the triangle of Pine and Cherry streets?

That was placed by the Colony Lions Club so community residents may donate pop tabs to be delivered to the Ronald McDonald House in Kansas City. Everyone is encouraged to participate by dropping off cans and/or tabs in this little building. Your efforts will be much appreciated. It is another way our Lions Club members aid our community and others.

County Bus

The Anderson County bus picks up and returns not only senior citizens but children (whom must be accompanied by an adult) to Garnett and Iola. Phone 785-448-4410 (24 hours before you need a ride) anytime during the weekday, tell them the address you wish to be picked up. They will do so and return you to the same spot. A donation to Garnett of $3 and $4 to Iola is appreciated. First Thursday each month they travel to Garnett and each third Thursday to Iola. It does not have to be a medical trip, shopping is included.

Last year they acquired a new Ford El Dorado bus with a lift for those who need to travel by wheelchair.

Driver Ron Anderegg is most helpful.

ed that John Fursman (who is doing well) is residing at Windsor Place in Iola.

The drawing for the Springfield XD 9mm Pistol was won by Matt Bowen of Colony. The next meeting is at 7 p.m.

March 2.

Lions

President Sue Colgin conducted the Feb. 17 meeting with 11 members and one guest attending.

A request for assistance in purchasing glasses for an individual had been received from the Humboldt Lions Club. Colony members voted to pay for half the cost. Bill Ulrich thanked the club for the use of the various assistance devices he needed during his recovery. So far, 534 tickets have been sold for the Gun-A-Month raffle.

A Thank You card was received from the FCCLA thanking the club for its donation to the Annual Easter Egg Hunt. Bill Ulrich report-

Jolly Dozen

The Jolly Dozen Club met Feb. 15 at the Colony City Hall Community Room. Jane Ward and Dixie Ward were hostesses, with a Valentine theme. Roll call was answered by telling how each member met her husband.

Ten members were present. Wilma Goodell didn’t wish to continue as a member. Suggestions were made on new member consideration.

Old business consisted

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of when to take Christmas decorations out of the barrels on Main Street. No date was set, but sometime after the soil thaws. The next meeting will be March 21 with Marilyn Thexton at her home.

Phyllis Luedke-Secretary and Treasurer

Around Town

Congratulations to Crest Winter Homecoming King Evan Godderz, Queen Ashley Geary and the two flower girls, Kamryn Jones and Gracie Young.

Recent visitors of Morris Luedke were David Ensminger, Moran; Mary Bowen, Wallace Strickler, Al Richardson, Stanley Luedke, Colony; and Robert Spencer, Chanute.

Storms rake southern U.S. KENNER, La. (AP) — A deadly storm system that spawned tornadoes in Gulf Coast states Tuesday and killed at least three people in Louisiana and Mississippi was expected to bring severe weather to the Carolinas by this afternoon.

Meteorologists at the national Storm Prediction Center warned of the potential for more tornadoes — including some possibly strong twisters — along parts of the Atlantic coast, including the Carolinas and Virginia.

In a morning briefing today, forecaster Jaret Rogers said large hail and a few tornadoes were expected to develop over the region later today and tonight.

Rogers said some of the larger metro areas at risk of severe weather included the North Carolina cities of Ra-

leigh and Wake Forest.

Tuesday’s storms mangled trailers at an RV park, ripped roofs from buildings and killed at least three people in Louisiana and Mississippi, authorities said.

One of the hardesthit areas in the Gulf Coast appeared to be a recreational vehicle park in the town of Convent, in southern Louisiana. Two people were killed there, said St. James Parish Sheriff Willy Martin, speaking on local television.

Authorities were working into the early morning to look for people possibly trapped under the debris, Martin said.

Thirty-one people were taken to area hospitals and seven of them were in critical condition, he said.

“We never had anything like this; we never had this many people in-

jured in one event, and so much destruction in one event,” Martin told WVUE-TV. “We won’t stop searching until we’re satisfied we’ve searched every pile.”

This morning, Martin said an all-night search of the RV park found no additional injuries or fatalities.

Three people were still missing and Martin said he hoped to locate them today.

Jerome Picou, who lives near the park, said just before the tornado hit that it was raining and the skies grew dark. Then he heard what sounded like a freight train.

“The wind was blowing a little bit, but then it stopped. Then all of a sudden all kinds of wind and rain started. It was so bad, I had to go inside the house or I would have been blown away with it,” Picou said.

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proved Monarch Cement’s dirt mining operation north of town, with it came the responsibility for additional road maintenance.

If asphalt is the answer, Daniels continued, “we need to look at it.”

Garner told commis-

sioners it might cost as much as $2 million to mill and overlay the 2½ miles of Ninth and Bridge streets.

IN OTHER business, commissioners learned the county’s property and liability insurance premiums, through EMC and

serviced by Personal Service Insurance, would be about $2,000 higher for next year, at $139,440. PSI’s Loren Korte said $1,000 of the increase was for new equipment and $921 for cyber insurance, which would deal with hacking and data compromise issues.

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District hears request to start soccer program Maybe the third time will be the charm.

Once again, school board members were asked to introduce soccer as a high school sport.

Brian Plumlee appealed to USD 257 board members at their meeting Monday to pur-

sue the idea, saying a large contingent of Iola youths play recreational soccer and would like to do so competitively against area teams.

Board members heard similar requests in 2012 and 2014.

“I’m here on behalf of the kids,” Plumlee said.

As the father of three, Plumlee said the family spends most weekends attending the kids’ soccer matches out of town.

That very fact can be a barrier to students whose families don’t have the means for such luxuries.

Plumlee said soccer would not detract from

football. “Most who play soccer, don’t play football,” but allowed it might draw athletes away from cross country and track.

“I’m asking for one team, a co-ed team,” Plumlee said, saying Louisburg started with such a model three years

ago. Its popularity grew to the point the school now has two teams, one for each sex.

IHS soccer would be in the Frontier District, joining Louisburg, Baldwin, Eudora, Paola, Ottawa, Spring Hill and De Soto.

“We regularly play —

and beat — teams from Ottawa, Paola and Louisburg,” Plumlee said of the recreational league.

THOUGH school board members received Plumlee warmly, they gave no response to whether they would act on his suggestion.

Bowlus: Plaza designs OK’d

Gifts: School board lauds donors

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A loading dock to accommodate semitrailers loaded with set designs, instruments, and other gear necessary for the myriad performances that occur on the Bowlus stage is the top priority, said Jeff Jordan, technical director for the Bowlus.

Access to the stage has always been a challenge, he said.

The most difficult aspect of the current setup is the 6-foot difference between a truck’s bed and the loading dock doors off the back stage in the alleyway.

Most bridge the difference through sheer muscle or unwieldy ramps.

The new addition will allow visiting artists to unload their equipment with ease, saving time and energy. An angled wall will hide the loading dock,

to ensure its aesthetics.

Second, will be the installation of an elevator on the building’s east side that will accommodate two levels; the lower where offices, restrooms and the art gallery are located, and the next level up that gives access to the auditorium and stage.

The doors on the east side will also comply with the Americans with Disabilities Act and have a touch-button feature that opens the doors.

Also a canopy will extend over the entryway to protect patrons from inclement weather when they are dropped off at the east entrance.

The last phase of the project will include a semi-circular drive and landscaping.

David Kaster of Kaster Architects and

Civil Engineers Schlagel Associates, both of Lenexa, drew up the plans.

Local engineer Ken Shetlar, now retired, has also been a valuable asset to the design, Raines said.

With the board’s approval Monday night, Raines said she would now begin seeking bids for construction.

RAINES added that she would prefer a committee be formed to oversee the project and that it include at least two school board members.

Construction is expected to begin this summer on the first phase.

“We’ll have to work around the school schedule,” Knewtson said, in an effort to limit any disruption to classes held there.

Trump continues roll in Nevada LAS VEGAS (AP) — With a big win in Nevada, Donald Trump claimed a third straight commanding victory in the race for the Republican presidential nomination. Marco Rubio edged out Ted Cruz in a tight race for second that offered little evidence that Republicans were ready to coalesce around one strong alternative to the businessman billionaire.

With victories now under his belt in the West, the South and Northeast, a gleeful Trump was oozing even more confidence than usual Tuesday night that the GOP nomination is within reach.

“It’s going to be an amazing two months,” he told a raucous crowd at a Las Vegas casino.

“We might not even need the two months, folks, to be honest.”

Trump’s rivals know they are running out of time to stop his juggernaut.

Rubio edged out Cruz by fewer than 2,000 votes, according to The Associated Press vote count.

Appearing today on NBC’s “Today” show, Rubio said the majority of Republicans don’t want Trump to be their nominee for president.

“The sooner we can get this race narrowed, I think the easier it’s going to be to stop Donald Trump, he said.

After finishing third in Iowa, fifth in New Hampshire and second in South Carolina and Nevada, Rubio needs a win soon to support the idea he can beat Trump.

Cruz, for his part, skipped right past Nevada’s underwhelming verdict for him in his caucus-night speech and pinned his hopes on the big round of voting that’s coming

schools.

The online enrollment program also provides school officials with valuable information, such as whether a student qualifies for free- or reduced-priced lunches and whether they live outside a 2.5-mile radius of their school and thus qualify to ride the bus to school.

As for school lunches, about 500 district students qualify for federal aid to help pay for their meals. Each form must be checked and calculated by hand as to a student’s qualifications and then mailed to each family. With the new system, that would all be handled online.

Koehn recognized a learning curve is to be expected with the online enrollment process.

“It’s a cultural change for families,” he said, but said the experience at other schools has been positive.

“The first year, there are some rough patches.

But, in a few years’ time,

no one will think twice about it and the savings is considerable.”

Enrollment for next year begins May 1 and is open throughout the summer.

For families who do not feel comfortable completing the forms online, school administrators will help with the process at the district office sometime in late summer.

A NEW phone system was also approved Monday night. The current system, more than 15 years old, is quickly becoming outdated, said Brett Linn, technology director.

Linn reviewed four providers, and recommended the district continue with Kansas Communications to supply about 100 new phones that use the voice over IP service, which replaces an analog system.

Kansas Communications, based out of Chanute, “has provided our phone support for a number of years with

satisfaction,” Linn said.

Linn recommended the district also continue with Cox Communications for Internet service and U.S. Cellular for its 12 smartphones.

Linn recommended the district create a policy on personal cell phone use. Currently, the district reimburses some administrators and staff $15 a month if they use their personal cell phones for school affairs. Linn suggested it be doubled.

Board members approved Linn’s recommendations on the three phone plans.

NEW HIRES approved Monday were Mike Barnes as custodian, Anthony Herrick and Scott Ellis as assistant track coaches at Iola Middle School, and Jennifer Bycroft as a point of sales clerk for the school lunch program.

A “separation of employment” was agreed upon for Ron Helman Jr. as a custodian.

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up next, saying: “One week from today will be the most important night of this campaign: Super Tuesday.”

The candidates were fanning out to their next targets of opportunity as the lights went out in Las Vegas: Trump was campaigning today in Virginia, then on to Texas and Oklahoma. Rubio and Cruz both headed for Texas.

Entrance polls in Nevada captured the sentiment propelling Trump’s insurgent campaign: Six in 10 caucus goers said they were angry with the way the government is working, and Trump got about half of them.

Cruz, a fiery conservative popular among voters on the GOP’s right, had finished a disappointing third in South Carolina after spending much of the past two weeks denying charges of dishonest campaign tactics and defending his integrity.

Nevada raises more questions about his viability.

But Cruz harked back to his win in Io-

wa’s leadoff caucuses to remind supporters that his is “the only campaign that has defeated Donald Trump is this campaign.”

The election calendar suggests that if Trump’s rivals don’t slow him by midMarch, they may not ever.

Trump won 14 delegates in Nevada, while Rubio won seven and Cruz got six. John Kasich and Ben Carson each got one, with one delegate left to be allocated.

Overall, Trump has 81 delegates, and Cruz and Rubio have 17 apiece. Kasich has six delegates and Carson has four. It takes 1,237 delegates to win the Republican nomination for president.

Trump, in his victory speech, took on the notion advanced by both Rubio and Cruz that if more GOP candidates drop out of the race, they’ll coalesce around an alternative.

“They keep forgetting that when people drop out, we’re going to get a lot of votes,” he said.

trustees with projects that need to be completed when school is out over the summer.

Of top priority, year after year, is the roof on Iola Middle School.

“Inspectors say it’s now to the point it is in danger of being carried off by a strong wind,” Stanley said.

Postponed maintenance has led to the roof ’s disrepair. In heavy rains the blistered roof leaks, “Though things have been good for the last couple of weeks,” Stanley said, noting a recent dry spell.

Replacing the roof would cost almost $200,000. Typically, such repairs come out of the capital outlay funds.

“We could deplete our savings,” said Tony Leavitt, school board president. “But we have no assurances from state legislators that we’ll ever be able to refill our coffers again.”

The district has about $500,000 in contingency reserves.

THE SURPRISE of the evening came at the news that the “new” track at Riverside Park needs to be resurfaced at a cost of $76,800.

“I know this will come as a shock, but that track has reached its expected lifetime,” Stanley said.

Now 10 years old, large cracks appear in the track’s surface. In 2010, the track received a five-year touchup where glue was applied to reattach loose granules.

The track now needs a new one-eighth inch “recoat,” Stanley said, that will take it another five years, at which point it will need another round of maintenance for an

expected $45,000.

“That will gain us another 10 years,” he said.

“If we do nothing, we can expect to shell out $190,000 just two years down the road,” for when a one-quarter inch coat would be needed, Stanley said. “It needs attention now.”

OTHER maintenance recommendations include converting a storage closet into a restroom at Jefferson Elementary. Currently the school does not have a restroom that can accommodate those with disabilities. Restrooms at McKinley also need to be made ADA compliant.

Carpets at Iola High School are in need of replacing. “Some are being held together with tape,” Stanley said.

Leaking roofs at all the elementary schools

have caused their gym floors to badly warp. Replacing each would cost $30,000 apiece.

New fire alarm systems are needed for Jefferson and McKinley, the high school gym floor needs re-sanding, and automatic door openers are needed for all the schools to be ADA compliant.

Altogether, maintenance costs come to $456,025.

“I guess we’re going to have to pick and choose our battles,” Leavitt said. “We’re continuing to dig ourselves into a deeper hole. If we do the roof, we’ll have nothing left in our capital outlay budget plus will have to dip into our contingency reserves. If we do the track, that’s half our capital outlay budget.”

Trustees took no action.

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Objections to STAR bonds reveal cluelessness on tax policy So now Kansas legislators are beginning to balk at tax breaks championed by Gov. Sam Brownback. They’re way too late to be crashing his party. They should have spoken up four years ago when the governor’s biggest tax-cut binge began.

Now that the state is in dire financial straits, suddenly some legislators think Kansas can’t afford to be giving up tax revenue. Problem is, they picked the wrong tax incentive program to raise an objection. This one creates jobs and stimulates the economy.

It is the STAR bond program, which allows sales taxes in a designated district to be used to finance a tourism-related development.

Hutchinson used STAR bonds for Strataca Underground Salt Museum.

The first and biggest STAR bond project in the state was the development of the Kansas Speedway near Kansas City and the surrounding

Legends shopping center and other retail, restaurant and hotel projects. That’s been an unquestionable success — so much so that the bonds are being paid off early from the sales-tax revenue.

Brownback now proposes expanding that STAR bond district for more development — reportedly for a massive project to attract the American Royal horse and livestock exhibition along with a new hotel, 5,000-seat hockey arena and children’s museum.

House and Senate budget negotiators want legislation that would restrict future STAR bond projects. Their current hold on new projects also almost halted a planned large downtown redevelopment project in Salina until that one apparently was given a pass.

All of this sudden concern about STAR bonds is terribly misguided. At the risk of quoting the governor who doesn’t have a good record at all on tax policy, he has it

right when it comes to STAR bonds.

“The STAR bond concept was that you’re creating new sales tax. The best example of that is the Legends area.

There wasn’t anything there 15 years ago,” Brownback said.

So you can say “no” to the new STAR bonds and be no better off — worse off, in fact — when the American Royal and the hockey arena and the children’s museum and whatever else doesn’t get built. It’s complaining about giving up something you never had to

The time to object to tax breaks was back when the governor gave away the farm to 300,000 businesses and higher-income individuals.

So here’s the deal — and the same can be said for property tax abatements, tax-increment financing districts and similar tax incentive tools for economic development: These tax breaks aren’t giving away existing tax revenue. No tax revenue would exist were these projects not built — and no jobs and the resulting economic impact.

give up.

One part of this that can be debated legitimately is whether the original STAR bond district in Wyandotte County should remain intact for the new development.

Would be nice, of course, to open that stream of sales-tax revenue to the state — about $42 million — once the bonds are retired. But if the state

has an opportunity to add to this marvelous development, that seems short-sighted.

Foresight is what is needed in the Legislature. The ability to see the forest through the trees. The time to object to tax breaks was back when the governor gave away the farm to 300,000 businesses and higher-income individuals.

Too often these days we have to wonder about the competency of our legislators — those who couldn’t figure out that the broadstroked income tax cuts in 2012-13 would create no new jobs and do nothing but bankrupt the state. And those who now can’t see that a targeted tax incentive program can directly create jobs and stimulate spending and tourism in the state.

Legislators should be smart enough to be a backstop for bad ideas, not just follow the herd off the cliff, and smart enough to spot a good idea when they see it.

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Eliminating KanCare position ill-advised When Kansas turned its Medicaid health care program over to private contractors, proponents emphasized that an inspector general would be hired to make sure the new system was meeting the state’s needs.

An inspector general was hired and then another, but the position now has been vacant for more than a year, and, last week, the Kansas Senate decided the state didn’t need an inspector general after all and approved a measure that would eliminate the position.

According to news reports, the initial legislation sought to make the job an unclassified position instead of a classified position because officials of the Kansas Department of Health and Environment said that would allow them to offer a higher salary and attract more qualified candidates for the job. However, the Senate Public Health and Welfare Committee decided to go a different route.

Some members didn’t want to make the job unclassified because those workers serve at the pleasure of the governor and could be fired for political reasons.

Others simply thought the job wasn’t necessary.

Sen. Mary Pilcher-Cook, RShawnee, said she believed the new Kansas Eligibility Enforcement System computer program would alleviate some of the purpose of the inspector general by preventing Medicaid fraud.

What Pilcher-Cook seems to miss is that a primary duty of the inspector gen-

eral is to keep an eye on the contractors to make sure they are providing acceptable service. Lawrence Memorial Hospital is just one of the Kansas health facilities complaining about difficulties receiving payments from KanCare contractors. People applying to get health insurance through KanCare are waiting for months to be accepted in the program, which recently was reported to have a backlog of about 10,000 applications.

Does this sound like a system that doesn’t need any supervision?

In addition, the three KanCare contractors — Amerigroup, Sunflower Health Plan and United Healthcare — reported a combine loss of $52 million in 2014. That’s better than the $116 million they lost in 2013, but this system doesn’t seem to be working well for contractors either. Will their attempts to increase their profits cause additional problems for KanCare recipients?

In light of the serious questions being raised, it makes no sense that state legislators would conclude that the one position charged with making sure this program is operating efficiently and meeting the needs of KanCare recipients is no longer needed.

The Kansas House has not yet considered the plan to abolish the inspector general’s position. Hopefully, House members will come up with a strategy to fill this job rather than eliminate it.

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Mr. and Mrs. Eugene B. Cook of Iola have received word from the adjutant general that their son, Sgt. James Cook, missing in action since June 9, 1944, must now be presumed dead. Sgt. Cook was a crew member in a B-24 bomber which was among a flight of bombers

that attacked enemy positions on an island in the Truk group in the Pacific and was met with heavy anti-arcraft fire. The plane disappeared and no contact with it could be made. ***** The Rev. and Mrs. Perry O. Hanson hope to leave soon for China for another tour of missionary duty there.

HPV vaccine: A cancer ‘moon shot’ delivers Parents who shun the vaccine put their children at risk A decade ago, public health officials launched a vaccine to combat the virus that causes cervical cancer. You’ve heard about Vice President Joe Biden’s upcoming cancer “moon shot” in hopes of eradicating the disease? This was a cancer moon shot in 2006.

Medical officials recommended the routine vaccination of girls starting generally at ages 11 and up.

On Monday, researchers delivered a payload that is as thrilling as a jaunt on the lunar surface: America is winning the battle against the human papillomavirus, or HPV, which can cause cancers in both men and women. Those include cancer of the cervix, vagina, anus, penis and throat.

The latest study, published in the journal Pediatrics, shows that far fewer teenage girls and young women in their 20s now carry HPV. That likely means many fewer cases of these cancers in decades ahead.

The latest numbers show: • Among girls 14 to 19 years old, HPV dropped by nearly two-thirds, from 11.5 percent to 4.3 percent.

• For women 20 to 24, the rate was down slightly more than one-third, from 18.5 percent to 12.1 percent.

Now, think about how much lower these numbers could go.

HPV vaccination rates in the

U.S., while increasing, remain relatively low. Last year, the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that about 40 percent of girls 13 to 17 years old had taken the full recommended regimen of three doses; the rate was about half that for boys.

The vaccine against cervical cancer: “It’s working even better than we would expect.”

— Debbie Saslow, American Cancer Society

As vaccination rates climb, the numbers of those HPVcaused cancers should plummet. The vaccine, recommended for boys in 2011, is expected to show similarly encouraging results as it becomes more widely adopted.

“The vaccine is working even better than we would expect,” Debbie Saslow, a cervical cancer and HPV vaccination expert at the American Cancer Society, tells us.

One reason could be that even those teens who take fewer than the recommended three doses are being partial-

ly protected. Another possible reason involves what’s known as “herd immunity”: Vaccinated teenagers who become sexually active don’t spread the virus so they unwittingly protect those who haven’t been vaccinated.

Still, the more people vaccinated, the better for everyone.

HPV is a common sexually transmitted infection.

As many as 8 in 10 American adults will become infected at some point. In most cases, however, the virus is held in check by the immune system.

But an estimated 27,000 HPV-associated cancers are diagnosed in men and women every year, the CDC says.

We understand that some parents are leery of vaccines.

We know some doctors may be reluctant to press the case because it involves talking to parents about a teen’s — even a pre-teen’s — sexual activity.

But the science is clear: The HPV vaccine has been proven safe and effective. There are no serious side effects. It doesn’t cause fertility problems. And it doesn’t encourage children to be sexually active earlier.

Parents who shun the vaccine put their children at risk.

Generations of Americans dreamed of a vaccine to prevent cancer. One is here, now.

The reason to shun it? There is none.

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HUMBOLDT — In Humboldt’s home finale Tuesday night, the entire boys basketball team wanted to make sure their seniors went out on a good note. Junior Rayce Hoepker saw that no one left disappointed.

The Cubs’ star playmaker went off for 35 points, leading his team to a 76-58 victory over Cherryvale as the Cubs celebrated their “Parents’ Night.”

His 35 points fell just short of his career-high 38 points.

Just 11 days ago he scored 30 against Fredonia.

“His teammates get him open,” Taylor said. “They’ve been pretty unselfish. He deserves to have some of those accolades, because he’s spent a lot of time in the gym by himself shooting.”

Hoepker and the Cubs put the game out of reach early as they doubled up the Chargers in the game’s opening quarter and built a 22-11 lead. Of Humboldt’s 22 points, Hoepker had 16 of them and hit four threepointers in the quarter.

“I just attacked in transition a lot and had some early threes fall,” Hoepker said.

Jake Haviland added two more buckets in the period and Tyler Korte rounded out the scoring with two points.

Cherryvale made a run in the second period and was able to cut the lead to 34-27 heading into the break. A poor See HUMBOLDT | Page B3

Iola High’s Mikaeala Platt, left, tries for the steal against Wellsville’s Sydney Dwyer Tuesday. Platt scored 19 in Iola’s 48-42 defeat. REGISTER/RICHARD LUKEN

OUT OF REACH Iola falls 48-42 on ‘Senior Night’ to Wellsville

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A handful of ill-timed turnovers were enough to spoil an otherwise special night for Iola High’s girls.

The Fillies bid farewell to five seniors Tuesday, including Mikaela Platt, who was dazzling from start to

finish.

But the miscues spoiled Senior Night as visiting Wellsville scored the game’s last six points in a 48-42 loss.

Now, Iola (7-12) must regroup for one more regular season game (Thursday at Santa Fe Trail) before the Class 4AII substate playoffs begin next week.

“It was a fun game to watch,” Iola

head coach Becky Carlson said. “They just had the best, last run. And we turned the ball over too many times.”

Some of Iola’s turnovers had to do with Wellsville’s lightning-quick guards Skylar See and Sydney Dwyer, who each contributed one of the more See FILLIES | Page B3

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For comparison’s sake, Tuesday’s 61-54 loss to Wellsville showed the strides Iola High’s boys have made this season.

It was less than six weeks ago when this same Wellsville squad thumped Iola by 27, and had a running clock in the fourth quarter.

“Yes, we’ve improved,”

Iola head coach Jay Applegate said. “But I don’t want us to get satisfied just with how much we’ve improved up to now.”

Tuesday was an example.

Iola, for the most part, was effective in slowing down the Eagles’ half-court offense, “but our transition defense wasn’t good at all,” Applegate said. “We didn’t See MUSTANGS | Page B3

Iola High’s Evan Sigg, center, fights for the ball between Wellsville defenders Caleb Mann, left, and Braden Crist Tuesday in the Mustangs’ 61-54 loss. REGISTER/RICHARD LUKEN

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Jamie Jensen entered Tuesday’s doubleheader with Missouri Valley College’s junior varsity a little concerned about how her offense had been looking during the weekend road trip to Fort Worth, Texas for the Cowtown Classic.

“We came back from Texas with a little sickness in our belly because of how we ended,” Jensen said. “At practice, we started out good with our defense, then we set up some live hitting stations and we just melted.

“We couldn’t focus, the girls were unhappy with their swings and we just didn’t look good.”

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HUMBOLDT — Makaylah McCall took the pass at the top of the key. She knew that she didn’t have much time.

The Humboldt junior fired up a three right before the Cherryvale defense could close out completely onto her.

As the ball lofted through the air toward the rim, the buzzer began to sound.

The ball splashed through the awaiting net for three points and at the end of the first quarter Humboldt held a 17-6 lead. At that point it appeared they would enter the playoffs with a win, but unfortunately for the Cubs, the See LADY CUBS | Page B3

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Lady Cubs: Humboldt loses early lead and game

Fillies:

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Chargers still had three quarters to change the narrative to a 61-55 comeback win.

“Early on, we were playing defense and actually working as a team,” Humboldt coach Aubrey Jones said. “Later we started doing our own thing and it didn’t go our way. We gave up way, way, way too many second-chance points and shots because we did box out.”

Jones was at a loss for words when describing her team’s lack of rebounding against Cherryvale.

“I’m not even sure where that came from,” Jones said. “I really have no comment on that because I don’t know what happened.”

Cherryvale senior guard Beth Hawkins did her best to make things hard for Humboldt.

It started in the second quarter when Hawkins scored 15 of the Chargers 27 points and they narrowed the Humboldt lead to just a single point at the halftime break.

“They were the aggressors tonight,” Jones said. “We weren’t aggressive at all. We were back on our heels. The aggressive team is going win.”

In the third quarter Hawkins was held scoreless, but even with her struggling, Cherryvale outscored Humboldt 1411 and grabbed a twopoint advantage for the game’s final eight minutes.

Kaylie Johnson tied

the game for Humboldt at 49 early in the fourth quarter and after a Cherryvale score, Lizzy Myers knotted it again at 51 with 4:36 showing on the clock.

Four straight missed free throws by Cherryvale and a string of empty Humboldt possessions kept the game tied for over a minute.

That was when Hawkins stepped up again and hit a trifecta to give Cherryvale a 54-51 lead.

Another Charger bucket and a free throw for the Cubs set Hawkins up again and with 1:06 left, a Hawkins basket extended the lead to six.

Humbolt answered again and a pair of Tilar Wells free throws as well as one from McCall got the lead back

Humboldt: picks up big win Continued from B1

second period gave Humboldt coach David Taylor cause for concern.

Hoepker was held to just two points.

“We lost our focus the last three minutes of the first half,” Taylor said.

“We went on a threeminute dry spell. It is all because of lack of focus.

It wasn’t because of lack of ability.

“We talked about the hay being in the barn and all we had to do now is feed it. You are not mentally where you got to be all four quarters, from here on out, you are going to eat it, because now our goal is to win the last one,” Taylor said.

The Cubs bounced right back coming out of the locker room and outscored the Chargers 21-11 in the third and essentially ended the game. Hoepker had a 10-point third quarter.

“We kept running sets for him and he kept knocking them down,” Taylor said.

Every team is going to make a run,” Hoepker said. “You just got to fight it off the best you can and make your own

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“We were aggressive defensively but we got called for it, too,” Taylor said.

The message going into the playoffs is simple for Taylor and the Cubs.

“Don’t change what you’re doing,” Taylor said.

Humboldt’s star is confident as his 16-4 team enters the postseason. “”As long as we play together we’ll be successful,” Hoepker said.

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HUMBOLDT’S JUNIOR varsity lost 3020 on Tuesday night.

The Cubs were led in scoring by freshman Ryan Sellman with a game-high 13 points.

Sophomore Jayce Raida led Cherryvale with 12 points.

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HUMBOLDT’S junior varsity was able to roll to a 42-28 win in their game against Cherryvale on Tuesday.

Aricah McCall led the Cub attack with 15 points and she was able to stretch the defense with three 3-pointers.

Eight Cubs scored in the team win. Britnee Works led the other scorers with nine points, while Lizzie Myers had eight and hit a pair of threes.

Cherryvale was led by Carleigh Hughes with 11 points.

allowed it to be a success,” Graf said.

As his team continues to grow together after winning only one game last year, Graff says he is growing as a coach with his group.

“After 25 years of coaching I have learned that each season has its own learning moments.

This year I think a lot of things became clear in my eyes; I know what needs to be done moving forward for sure.”

Yates Center will play in their playoff game next week.

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“We need to get back to playing our basketball,” Jones said. “That wasn’t our style of basketball.”

Yates Center drops final game Building a program back up isn’t easy. Yates Center coach Jason Graff didn’t expect his team’s season to go this way.

Following a 65-25 loss at the hands to Burlington, Yates Center ends their regular season with a record of 2-18.

However, Graf is looking at the positives from this season.

“A 2-18 regular season is never what you plan for but doubling the wins from the previous season and playing together as a team all year

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run.”

Humboldt ended the game officially with another 21-point quarter in the fourth. Hoepker had seven points in the quarter matching senior Rhett Smith for the team lead.

Smith finished the game with 10 points, while fellow seniors Haviland, Anthony Doran and Bryce Isaac each scored eight points.

Korte rounded out the scoring with seven.

The Humboldt defense also was ferocious for most of the game, forcing Cherryvale into several turnovers. Senior Brendan Menzer led the Chargers with 12 points and was the only Charger in double figures.

“We play defense the same every game; up in their face,” Hoepker said. “If you don’t play defense, you aren’t going to get to play for Coach Taylor.”

That in-your-face style led to some foul trouble, but that is the price

to one possession and Humboldt got the ball back. The Cubs had several more looks as they got multiple offense rebounds, but the ball just wouldn’t go in.

Hawkins came away with the ball and quickly added two foul shots with 14 seconds left.

Another free throw by Hawkins provided the final margin and bumped her point total to 28.

Jordan Carinder was the only other Charger to crack double-figures, knocking in 11.

McCall led the Cubs with 16 points, while Wells scored 13.

The Cubs now wait to find out who awaits them in the first round of the playoffs next week.

do a good job of getting back on defense.”

And the Mustangs had a lull that allowed Wellsville to break an 11-11 deadlock. Caleb Mann’s 3-pointer late in the first quarter triggered a 16-7 run to take the lead for good.

The Mustangs showed their grit, keeping Wellsville within arm’s length for much of the duration, but could not put together enough consecutive baskets to be a threat down the stretch.

“Our first half offense hurt us,” Applegate said.

The Eagles twice led by nine in the second quarter before Iola’s Braden Plumlee dropped a baseline runner, followed by a pair of Ethan Holloway free throws to cut the halftime deficit to 29-24.

The lead yo-yoed between five and nine points through much of the third quarter.

Isaiah Fawson sparked a frantic Iola comeback attempt in the fourth quarter. His 3-pointer sliced Wellsville’s lead to 42-36, but Kyle Powelson promptly responded for the Eagles with a 3 of his own. Another Powelson trey a minute later pushed the lead to double digits for the first time.

Fawson, who scored 13 of his team-high 16 points in the fourth quarter, got Iola within six, 60-54, in the waning seconds.

But it was too little, too late.

“We still think we have six games to play,” Applegate said.

Iola has one regular season game left, on Thursday at Santa Fe Trail, before Class 4A-II substate action begins next week. The state

tournament follows.

“If we play as good as we can possibly play, we’re going to get some wins,” Applegate said. “We just need to play well.”

Up until Fawson’s late spurt, Holloway did much of the heavy lifting for Iola’s offense. He wound up with 15 points and 12 rebounds. He also had two blocks.

Brett Taylor, the only senior on the IHS squad, wrapped up his home career with eight points, four rebounds and four assists.

Mann paced Wellsville with 14 points.

IOLA’S junior varsity dropped a 66-63 heartbreaker. Mason Ingle scored 16 points, followed by Zach Cokely with 10. Plumlee and Evan Sigg chipped in with eight apiece. Kane Rogers scored five.

Chase Regehr, Isaac Vink and Rhett Allen all had four. Gage Cleaver and Cale Barnhart scored two apiece.

team action, Iola prevailed 61-48, led

by Derek Bycroft’s 17, Dylan Doolittle’s 16. and Rogers’ 14. Cole Regehr had eight, Blake Ashmore four and Bryce Andres two.

Wellsville (15-14-1319—61) (FG/3pt): Mann 4/1-3-3-14, Strawn 2-11-5, Brown 3-3-4-9, K. Powelson 1-2-3-4, Vance 1/1-4-0-9, Crist 1-0-5-2, Breithaupt 3-2-1-8, Smith 1-0-1-2, C. Powelson 0/20-0-6. TOTALS: 17/4-1518-61.

Iola (11-13-9-21—54) (FG/3pt): Zimmerman 0-0-4-0, Cooper 0/1-2-4-5, Fawson 2/3-2-3-16, Plumlee 2-1-1-5, Regehr 0-0-3-0, Taylor 3-2-3-8, Holloway 6-3-2-15, Ingle 0-2-0-2, Sigg 1-2-1-4. TOTALS: 14/4-1421-54.

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impressive steals you’ll see at any level.

But there were several of the unforced variety, Carlson lamented.

Wellsville held the upper hand courtesy of a 6-0 run to end the third quarter, erasing what had been a 34-33 Fillies lead.

Platt and Ashlie Shields each hit early free throws in the fourth quarter, and Taylor Sell’s bucket helped close the gap to 42-38.

Platt scored again with about 3 minutes remaining, and Della Lohman’s basket at the 1:50 mark knotted the score at 42-42.

Things looked even brighter when Wellsviille turned the ball back over to the Fillies.

But Dwyer took matters into her own hands — or hand, to be specific — she leaped in the way of an Iola pass, caught the ball with one hand, and flipped it to See for a layup to reclaim the lead.

A turnover and missed basket ended Iola’s next two possessions. Dwyer then drained a pair of free throws for a four-point cushion.

Iola came up empty on its final two possessions as the Eagles ran out the clock.

Iola also was a cool 10 of 23 from the line.

The loss spoiled Platt’s memorable night. She scored 19 points to go with 11 rebounds and two assists.

Shields added six points, six rebounds, five steals and three assists. Toni Macha chipped in with six points, six boards and two assists. Riley Murry also had six rebounds. Colbi Riley dished out three assists.

“As far as I’m concerned, we’re getting better,” Carlson said.

“Everybody is stepping up.”

Carlson also hopes to get a boost with the imminent return of junior guard Sydney Wade, who has missed the past several games with an ankle injury.

“We hope she’ll get to see some action Thursday,” Carlson said.

IN JUNIOR varsity action, Wellsville prevailed 56-29. Jadyn Sigg scored 10 points and Murry six for the Fillies JV. Piper Moore scored five, Madisyn Holloway and Chloe Gardner two each and Katie Bauer one.

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team rolled to a 36-21 victory. Holloway led the way with 11 points, Kendra Sprague notched eight, Moore seven and Kassy Shelby six. Shaylee Sutterby and Emmie Brant both had two.

Wellsville (9-10-209—48) (FG/3pt): L. McDaniel 2-0-2-4, See 1-01-2, Showalter 1-2-4-4, Dwyer 3-7-4-13, Patton 4-1-4-9, P. McDaniel 1/10-5-5, Newhouse 3-1-0-7, Kline 2-0-3-4. TOTALS: 17/1-11-20-48.

Iola (9-12-13-8—42) (FG/3pt): Riley 2-0-2-4, Murry 0-1-2-1, Shields 2-2-3-6, Lohman 1-2-3-4, Sell 1-0-1-2, Platt 5/2-34-19, Macha 2-2-4-6, Sutterby 0-0-1-0. TOTALS: 13/2-10-20-42.

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Wednesday, February 24, 2016

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Jayhawks sneak past Bears WACO, Texas (AP) — Landen Lucas and Wayne Selden felt the wrath of Kansas coach Bill Self at halftime, when the second-ranked Jayhawks trailed No. 19 Baylor.

“I got on them hard at halftime, probably too hard,” Self said.

They made up for it down the stretch, and got Kansas a step closer to its 12th consecutive Big 12 title with a 66-60 victory Tuesday night.

Lucas had the tiebreaking layup with 3:03 left after one of his four rebounds down the stretch. Selden, who finished with six points, had four of those in the final 2 minutes, along with two offensive rebounds in that span that led to points.

“I was struggling all night, just trying to find a way to impact the game, and it was rebounding,” Selden said. “Me and Landen, we had to get to the glass, so I just tried to crash the board, give us extra possessions.”

The go-ahead putback

by Lucas came after he rebounded a missed 3 by Selden.

After Selden rebounded a missed tip-in by Lucas with 1:40 left, Kansas (24-4, 12-3) called time out. They set up a play when Devonte Graham’s lob pass to Selden resulted in a dunk.

Frank Mason III had 19 points and Perry Ellis added 15 for Kansas, which has a two-game lead over No. 14 West Virginia in the Big 12 standings with three league games remaining. Graham had 11 points and Lucas had 10 rebounds to go with his five points.

Al Freeman led Baylor (20-8, 9-6) with 17 points, including four 3-pointers. Taurean Prince had 12 points.

“I was proud of how we competed and played for about 36 minutes, and then I wish we could do that last 4 minutes over again,” Bears coach Scott Drew said. “I don’t think we executed as well as we’d like. We didn’t rebound as well as we’d like down the stretch. But I think we’ve seen marked improvement from the first time we played them.”

Baylor lost its Big 12 opener 102-74 at Kansas on Jan. 2.

After losing three straight Big 12 road games, the Jayhawks have won their last four as part of an eight-game winning streak overall.

They play Texas Tech at home Saturday with a chance to guarantee at least a share of the Big 12 title.

“That’s big for us.

About a month ago, a lot of people were doubting us and what-not,” Lucas

said. “So to be able to come back and do it with a couple of games left is just an awesome feeling.”

There were eight ties and 17 lead changes Tuesday night.

The Bears were ahead 45-37, which would equal their largest lead, on Ish Wainright’s 3-pointer on a possession set up when he had a steal — basically taking the ball out of Jamari Traylor’s hands and getting the ball back after a couple of passes.

Kansas led for the first time in the second half when Traylor had consecutive baskets, the second with 10:16 left making it 48-47.

There were a couple more lead changes after that — a 3 by Graham that put the Jayhawks up 51-49 with 8:48 left before Baylor went back ahead on a 3 by Freeman with 8:05 left. Then there was a long gap when neither team scored.

Mason’s jumper ended a 4 1/2-minute scoring drought by the Jayhawks, and then Baylor got its first basket in nearly 4 minutes when Freeman hit another 3.

RICO FROM DEEP IN THE CORNER Baylor led 36-33 at halftime on a buzzer-beating 3-pointer from Rico Gathers, their 6-foot-8 senior forward whose first

career attempt from beyond the arc came on his 836th shot in his 135th game. He made the shot from the corner in front of the Kansas bench after a court-length pass from Wainright. Gathers was still excitedly pounding his chest going into locker room after knocking down someone who was standing at the entrance to the tunnel.

“It was a tough shot.

He made it,” Lucas said.

“That was just a letdown on my part by even letting him get the shot off.”

TIP-INS Kansas: The Jayhawks made missed six of their first seven shots, but made 11 of their next 18 before halftime. They shot 50 percent (23 of 46) in the game. ... Kansas has a 26-4 series lead, including 11-2 at Waco and seven straight wins overall. ... The Jayhawks have reached 24 wins for the 11th consecutive season.

Baylor: Baylor is 0-16 all-time against the No. 1 or No. 2 teams, including 0-3 this season. ... The Bears are 56-21 since Feb. 12, 2014, a stretch when 15 of those losses have been away from home and 14 are to ranked teams.

UP NEXT Kansas hosts Texas Tech on Saturday.

Allen: Softball picks up pair of big wins Continued from B1

work of extinguishing those fears, at least for one day. Allen beat the Vikings 26-2 in the opener of the doubleheader.

“We came out and said, ‘Keep it simple and have fun,’” Jensen said.

“That is what it is all about. At the end of the day, if you are having fun doing what you love, you are going to have good results. The score 26-2 speaks for itself.”

After a 1-2-3 first inning from pitcher Reagan Beckley, the Red Devils came to the plate. And they didn’t want to leave.

Allen nearly batted around twice in the first inning and posted 14 runs. They also hit four homers in the inning, including two by seventhplace hitter Morgan Wayman.

“I expect us to hit like that,” Jensen said. “We have that type of team where we should score a lot of runs.”

Baileigh Rager hit a three-run bomb in the first as well. Sarah Eckhart had the other homer of the frame.

Ekhart hit another home run — this one a solo shot — in the third

Allen’s Alana Renshaw slides into third for a first inning triple in Allen’s 26-2 win.

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inning as Allen added two runs in the second and one in the third.

“I challenged them,” Jensen said. “I said, ‘Lets see if we can hit it off the scoreboard.’”

After Missouri Valley was able to get on the scoreboard with two runs in the fourth, Allen answered back by posting a nine-run inning in the fourth to provide the final margin of victory in the five-inning game.

Beckley pitched three no-hit innings and also

didn’t allow a walk.

“Reagan has been real big for us,” Jensen said.

“She can handle the pressure and she controls the game from the circle.”

Paige Duggar pitched the final two innings.

SOPHOMORE ACE Baileigh Rager took the mound for Allen in the second game of the doubleheader and picked up a 10-2 win over Missouri Valley’s junior varsity.

Rager went five in-

nings for a complete game and allowed only one earned run.

She also helped herself out at the plate with a home run. Fellow sophomore Ashley Womack also went deep for the Red Devils.

Rager wound up 3-for3 at the plate with three runs scored.

Allen is back in action at home on Saturday when Central Methodist University brings their junior varsity to town for a twin-bill.

Senior scores 27 in fourth quarter tering the fourth quarter. He was on pace to break 20, which would be a good night by nearly anyone’s standards, but Frazell was just getting started.

Frazell led a furious Crest comeback to take the seven-point win. The Crest press was working and Frazell was heating up. That is a good combination for any Lance supporter.

After the buzzer sounded and the Lancers secured the win, Frazell

began walking off the floor and was told how many points he had.

The senior had scored 43 points with 27 coming in the fourth quarter. He hit six threes in the final session and scored 27 of his team’s 29 fourth quarter points.

It was a quarter that few could ever dream of, but Frazell’s reaction was a simple one. Without saying a word he just flashed a smile.

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Route 11 —Devon Wilson-Wing, 818 N. Sycamore St., Iola 620363-0839 — (N. Washington Ave., North St. to Buchanan St., 2 E. Buchanan St., 10-20 W. Buchanan, and Monroe St.).

Route 12 — Devon Wilson-Wing, 818 N. Sycamore St., Iola 620-363-0839— (200-600 N. Jefferson Ave., 200-523 N. Sycamore St., 100-500 N. Buckeye St., 100-300 E. Monroe St., 400 block E. Douglas St., 200-506 N. Cottonwood St., 202 E. Jackson Ave., 410-519 N. Oak St.).

Route 13 — Devon Wilson-Wing, 818 N. Sycamore St., Iola 620-363-0839— (600-1400 N. Jefferson Ave., 4-102 E. Buchanan, 4, 116 W. Edwards).

Route 14 — Jessica Tidd, 1418 Virginia Rd., 620-380-1259 — (217 North St., Townhouse East and 217 N. Washington Ave., Townhouse West) Route 15 — Devon Wilson-Wing, 818 N. Sycamore St., Iola 620-363-0839 — (E. Garfield St., Garfield Rd N., Windsor Place, White Blvd., E. Alamosa Cir., W. Alamosa Blvd., 1200-1400 N. Cottonwood St., Mustang Cir.) Route 16 — Adam Guillen, 816 N. Sycamore, Iola, 620-2282554 — (600-1300 N. Buckeye, 700-1110 N. Cottonwood St., 321 E. Buchanan St., 600-1300 N. Sycamore St., E. Jim St., 120 E. Garfield St.).

Route 17 — Brian Abell, 413 N. Jefferson Ave., Iola - 620-2283928— (500-700 E. Lincoln St., N. Oak St., N. Elm 300 block on, 400-710 N. Colburn St.).

Route 18 — Jaedyn Spencer, 511 S. Walnut St, Iola, 620-7161790 — (N. 1st St., N. 2nd St., 800 block of E. Jackson Ave., part of E. Lincoln St., 818 E. Carpenter).

Route 19 — Chris Reyes, 619 N. Chestnut St. #7, Iola, 620-2288430 — (N. 3rd St., N. 4th St., Tara Gardens, 900-1110 E. Carpenter St., 902-1101 E. Douglas St., 1105 E. Lincoln).

Route 20 — Jennifer Tidd, 1418 Virginia Rd., 620-380-1259 — (The Square, 100-300 South St., 100-220 S. Jefferson Ave., 1102 N. Washington Ave., 9-19 N. Jefferson Ave., 110 East St., 1-108 E. Madison Ave., 1-115 E. Jackson Ave., 2-224 S. Washington Ave., 9-120 W. Madison Ave.).

Route 21 — Katie Weide, 1303 2200th St., Iola , 620-794-0759 — (217 E. Madison Ave. to 1000 block, 700 block East St. on, S. 2nd St.).

Route 22 — Chris Reyes, 619 N. Chestnut St. #7, Iola, 620-2288430 — (Low numbers on N. Buckeye, 200-700 E. Jackson Ave., 8-19 N. Sycamore St., East St. thru 700 block, 200 N. Elm St., 200 N. Colburn St., 400-500 E. Monroe St., 100 N. Cottonwood St.).

Route 23 — Emma Neal, 910 North Walnut St., Iola, 620-3632505 — (Meadowbrook Rd. East and West) Route 24 — Chris Reyes, 619 N. Chestnut St. #7, Iola, 620-2288430 — (N. Kentucky 700 block on, E. Buchanan St., Redbud Ln., Kenwood Cir., Sterling Heights Addition).

Route 25 — Robert Burton, 501 Brairwood Dr. Iola, 620-3657410 — (N. Kentucky thru 600 block, N. Ohio St., N. Tennessee St., 1200-1300 block E. Carpenter St., 1100-1300 E. Lincoln St., 1100-1321 E. Douglas St., 1200-1300 E. Breckenridge).

Route 26 — Lucas Wynn, 604 S. Harrison Ave., LaHarpe, 620228-4848 — (N. Vermont St., Kansas Dr., 1500 E. Carpenter St. on, Eisenhower Dr., Wilson Ln.).

Route 27 — Dravin Luttrell, 725 N. Elm, 620-363-2140 — (Dodge Dr., Holiday Ln., Kansas Ave., Holiday Cir. North and South).

Route 28 — Candace Maloney, 1211 1600th St., Iola, 620-2288748 — (1800-2600 N. Cottonwood St., E. and W. Miller Rd., Funston St., Pryor St., Canary Ln, Cardinal Dr.).

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RURAL MOTOR ROUTES Route 29 — Candace Maloney,1211 1600th St., Iola, 620-2288748— (Burris Addition, Country Club Addition, Bennet St. Addition).

Route 32 — Alec Sager, 105 N Stanley St., Gas, 620-496-8521 — (North side of Gas).

Route 38 — Alec Sager, 105 N Stanley St., Gas, 620-496-8521 — (South side of Gas).

Route 33 — Gina Veer Kamp, 414 5th St., 620-852-3479 — (Colony).

Route 34 — Tammy Bunce, 408 E. 2nd, Moran, 620-363-4654 — (Moran).

Route 39 — Jason Garber, 202 S. Main, LaHarpe, 620-363-4280 — (LaHarpe)

HUMBOLDT ROUTES Route 41 — Travis King, 618 S. 7th St., Humboldt, 620-2281875 — (Northwest Section - 300-800 Bridge St., 500 Osage St., 200-800 Central St., 300 Neosho St., 200-800 Charles St., 600-1200 Franklin St., 300-1100 N. 2nd St., 200-500 N. 4th St., 400 N. 5th St., 100-500 N. 6th St., 300-1100 N. 7th St., 100-800 N. 8th St., 400-1200 N. 9th St.).

Route 42 — Brandi Gonzalez, 1318 New York St., Humboldt, 620-228-7047 — (Northeast Section - 900-1300 Bridge St., 1200 Osage St., 900-1700 Central St., 1200-1700 Neosho St., 1000-1600 Charles St., 1200 Elm St., 600-1600 Signor St., 100 Amos St.,1000 Kansas St., 400 N. 9th St., 300-1000 N. 10th St., 100-900 N. 11th St., 200-600 N. 12th St., 500 N. 13th St., 400 N. 14th St., 300 N. 16th St.).

Route 43 — Chris Gonzalez, 1318 New York St., Humboldt, 620-228-7047 — (Southeast Section - 900 Leavenworth St., 400 Pine St., 900-1200 Sycamore St., 1300 Pecan St., 1000 Mulberry St., 900-1200 Cherokee St., 900-1300 New York St., 900 Bridge St., 200-1100 S. 9th St., 500-1200 S. 10th St., 500800 S. 11th St., 300 S. 12th St., 200 S. 13th St.).

Crest’s Frazell drops 43 To say Crest’s Hunter Frazell was clutch on Tuesday night is not giving him justice.

The 5-7 senior — who only had two regular season high school basketball games left in his career — had maybe his most memorable high school basketball moment on Tuesday in a 6962 win over Madison.

Madison led Crest 4940 in the fourth quarter and Frazell was having a solid night.

He had 16 points en-

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Route 44 — Travis King, 618 S. 7th St., Humboldt, 620-2281875 — (Southwest Section - 600 Ohio St., 300-1100 Pine St., 100-700 Sycamore St., 400-900 Pecan St., 200-800 Mulberry St., 1900 Cherokee St., 100-800 New York St., 1-500 Bridge St., 500-700 S. 3rd St., 200-600 S. 4th St., 400 S. 5th St., 300-1400 S. 8th St., 200-1100 S. 9th St., 500-1200 S. 10th St.).

Crest’s Hunter Frazell

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Putting your back pain behind you Dear Dr. Roach: I had spinal stenosis surgery eight years ago, with great success.

Two years ago I had an MRI because I was having terrible pain again, and could have had more surgery, but the surgeon and I decided that I should carry on with medication instead because of my age. I am now 85 and in pretty good health, and I would like to know why I am experiencing burning in my leg. I know that numbness is common with this disease, but I can hardly stand this burning.

Can you help me?

— D.C. Answer: Spinal stenosis is caused by the hard structures of the back pressing on the spinal column or its nerve roots as they exit the spinal canal.

Surgery usually creates more space for the nerve; however, the results of the surgery often aren’t permanent.

The process, usually arthritis, continues and gradually worsens, either in the same area as the surgery or in a new one.

The symptoms of spinal stenosis are numbness, pain and weakness. The numbness is because the information from the nerves (for example, the nerves that go to the feet) is unable to

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Dr. Keith Roach To Your Good Health reach the brain. Pain is caused by direct damage to the nerves, and weakness — usually the last symptom — occurs when the nerve is pressed so badly that the signals from the brain can’t reach the muscle.

Numbness can be just in one small area, or over a whole region of the body, called a dermatome. The quality of the pain can be pins-and-needles, aching or burning. Burning is very common.

Weakness is the most concerning of all, as it indicates the risk of permanent loss of muscle strength. Progressive weakness is a surgical emergency.

Treatment for pain can involve medications, especially the pain medications that are used as antidepressants (such as amitriptyline) and those that are antiepileptic (such as gabapentin). Progressive pain that is unresponsive to medication is another reason to see the surgeon again, but unfortunately, it becomes progressively more difficult to operate and is sometimes impossible.

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Wildcat squads fall at Jayhawk-Linn MOUND CITY — Marmaton Valley High’s basketball teams endured a pair of tough losses Tuesday at JayhawkLinn to wrap up the regular season.

In girls action, the host Jayhawks prevailed, 36-34.

Marmaton Valley limited Jayhawk-Linn to 19 points through the first

three quarers, but the Jayhawks erupted for 17 in the fourth quarter to claim the win.

Marmaton Valley led 6-4 after one period, 17-11 at the break and 25-19 after three.

Mackenzie Tynon scored 10 to lead Marmaton Valley, followed by Kyla Drake with eight, Makayla Brooks with

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IN BOYS action, Jayhawk-Linn triumphed, 47-32.

The Jayhawks zipped to a 13-5 lead, but Marmaton Valley responded with a 14-7 second-quarter run to close the gap to 20-19.

The Jayhawks pushed the lead back to three in the third quarter and closed the game with a 19-7 run. “We played about as well defensively as we could for three quarters,� Wildcat boys head coach Dan Uhlrich said. “The kids play with a lot of heart and intensity.�

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Meanwhile, Marmaton Valley’s Brady Newman scored 10 as he crossed the 1,000-point threshold for his high schol career. Trevor Wilson and Gage Adams added seven points each.

Keagan Boyd scored five, Josh Wise two and Justice Pugh one.

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