Sports

Saturday marked the fourth annual running of the Camp Leavenworth 5K Run and Walk. More than 350 participants competed.

Soccer

A blistering arsenal of strength and precise hitting proved to be the difference Thursday as Tonganoxie High School volleyball team earned a hard-fought 25-23, 25-20 nonconference victory over host Leavenworth High School.Making the victory even more impressive was the way the Chieftains did so without senior standout Finley Rieke, who sat out with an injury.“It was definitely an adjustment for us,” Tonganoxie coach Kyle South said. “For our girls, it was an adjustment to figure out where those points were going to come from, because (Rieke) has a third of our kills this season.”After a seesaw first set during which the Pioneers were never out of shouting distance, the Chieftains took control with a short but decisive run midway through the second.

Driving through the hills and valleys of the Ozarks renews my spirit. Leaves are just starting to change and the air smells cool and fresh with an occasional scent of changing leaves still wet after a brief but heavy rain.

I’m a sucker for local sports trivia, and as a guy who spends an awful lot of time in press boxes listening quietly, I pick up some fun nuggets.One of those recent gems came to me in the Tongie press box last Friday as I was riding shotgun with the crew from Tonganoxie Sports Live. It was late in the game – an impressive Chieftains’ blowout – when play-by-play announcer Dylan Funk dropped this awesome series of facts surrounding the Lansing-Tongie football rivalry:The earliest recorded matchup between the programs dates back to 1911, when the official scorebooks recorded a 6-5 Lansing victory.

Football