Class Of 1969 Event

      The RHS Class of 1969 will have an informal "get-together" on July 14 at 6:00 PM at Reeds Ringside Sports Bar & Grill at 4731 NW Hunters Ridge Circle, Topeka, KS 66618.  All class members are invited to attend.  There is a Facebook page for the event.

Rattlers Vs. Lobos July 6

Rattler's Baseball Clinic

Youth Baseball Clinic!

 Players age 8+ are invited to participate in 3 half day sessions of drills 

in fielding, hitting and pitching with NCAA players and coaching staff.

All for $60! Save $10 by signing up today! 

Visit www.rossvillerattlers.com for more information.

Rattlers Get 10-6 Win Over Lobos

    The Rattlers won game 2 against the Sabetha Lobos 10-6 on Friday night.
     Game three of the series schedules for Sat. night has been canceled because of rain.

Rattlers On MPL All-Star Squad

The Mid Plains League All-Star game will be Sunday at Junction City.  Several Rattlers made the Eastern All-Star team.  They are:

4	OF	Nate Reeder	Rossville Rattlers	University of Evansville
15	LHP	Taylor Mah	Rossville Rattlers	Nebraska-Kearney
18	INF	Tristan Peterson	Rossville Rattlers	Kansas State
35	RHP	Drew Scrimsher	Rossville Rattlers	Emporia State
41	OF	Danny Mitchell Jr.	Rossville Rattlers	Arkansas-Little Rock
42	UTL	Brandon Wilkerson	Rossville Rattlers	-

Last Home Series For Rattlers

    The Rattlers came out on the  short end of  to the Sabetha Lobos on Thur. night. 

    Catch game 2 of the three game series Fri.  night at 7. 

This is the last home series of the year.

The Rattlers have a great Saturday planned with team picture giveaways 

and more great merchandise deals! 

Don't miss this last home series of the regular season!

Thursday Night At The Joe

    The Rattlers and Sabetha Lobos tangle at Joe Campbell Stadium at 7 PM tonight.

Rattlers Playing at St. Joe

I am watching the Rattlers at the St. Joe Mustangs.
The St. Joe stadium is very nice and they have a crowd of near 1,000 tonight.

Score is 6-1 Mustangs after 6 innings.

Reliever Taylor Mah held the Mustangs scoreless in the 7th to keep the score at 6-1.  The Rattlers have stranded 7 on base thus far.

The Rattlers picked up one run in the eighth,  but the Mustangs won 6-2.

Rattler's Game On-line

Rossville Rattlers

Watch tonight's game online!     7:00 PM

Mustangs TV

Mustangs TV

WWW.UCLICKTV.COM

Willard Bridge Progress

Photos by George Brown

Thad Hess Obituary

Thad M. Hess, 40, passed away from injuries he received in an auto accident on Monday, June 27, 2016 near Topeka.

Thad was born June 1, 1976 in Topeka and grew up in the Rossville community where he graduated from high school.  He also graduated from Washburn University in Topeka.

Thad was employed as a supervisor for Koch and Company in Topeka.   He was a true family man and dearly loved his wife, children, granddaughter and all of his family.  He was compassionate about the NFL and was a New England Patriot fan.  NFL attire is encouraged for both the funeral and visitation.

He was preceded in death by his grandparents William and Margaret Hill.

On February 18, 2002 he was united in marriage to Amy Osborne in Topeka.  She survives of the home.

Other survivors include his mother, Janice Deiter, Rossville; three daughters, Ashley Sheats, Osage Beach, MO., Briannah and Clarysta Hess both of the home; his granddaughter, Adylynn Hess, of the home; his brother, William Scott “Billy” Hess, Rossville; Aunts, Uncles, Cousins and many friends.

Funeral services will be at 10:30 A.M. Saturday, July 2, 2016 at the Rossville Christian Church.  Interment will be in the Rossville Cemetery.  Thad will lie in state at Piper Funeral Home in St. Marys from 2:00 until 8:00 P.M. Friday, July 1, 2016 where the family will receive friends from 6:00 until 8:00 P.M.  Memorial contributions may be made to the Thad M. Hess Memorial Fund and sent in care of the U.S. Bank, P.O. Box 611, Rossville, Kansas 66533.

Condolences may be left at:  http://piperfuneralhome.com/obituaries/thad-m-hess/

Rattlers Lose A Pair

    The Rattlers lost both games Tuesday evening by scores of  4-3 and 8-5. 
    Rossville now heads to St. Joseph, Missouri for a  Wednesday evening game against the defending MINK League Champion Mustangs at 7:00 pm.

Helping the Hess Family

    There is a Go Fund Me site for helping the Thad Hess family at:
https://www.gofundme.com/2bm8u24

Thad Hess Killed In Collision (updated)

TOPEKA, Kan. (KSNT) – The Kansas Highway Patrol have now identified the two people killed in a fatal crash Monday morning in Shawnee County.

KHP says just after 6:00 a.m. a 2001 Dodge pickup driven by 16-year-old Daniel Jordan Warner was traveling north on K-4 Oakland Expressway when it went left of the center striking a 2002 GMC pickup heading southbound driven by 40-year-old Thad H. Hess of Rossville.

The highway patrol says Hess was wearing a seat belt however Warner was not.

The crash closed the Oakland Expressway for about five hours.

From the Capital-Journal:

Two people — including a 16-year-old boy — were killed early Monday in a two-vehicle, head-on crash on the Oakland Expressway just northeast of Topeka, officials said at the scene.

The driver of each truck was pronounced dead at the scene, authorities said. The drivers were alone in their vehicles.

The crash occurred about 6:15 a.m. and involved two pickup trucks that collided head-on near the north end of the Oakland Expressway on K-4 highway, about a half-mile south of the US-24 highway interchange.

The crash occurred at a point where the expressway curved slightly.

Lt. Adam Winters, of the Kansas Highway Patrol, said a red 2001 Dodge pickup truck traveling north on K-4 crossed the center line “for an unknown reason” and crashed head-on into a maroon 2002 GMC pickup truck southbound on the road.

The driver of the Dodge truck was identified as Daniel Jordan Warner, 16, of Topeka. The patrol said he wasn’t wearing a seat belt.

The driver of the GMC truck was identifed as Thad H. Hess, 40, of Rossville. The patrol said Hess was wearing a seat belt.

Winters said investigators were looking into whether fog that blanketed the area may have contributed to the crash.

K-4 highway, which travels over the Oakland Expressway, was closed for several hours between N.E. Seward Avenue and US-24 highway after the crash.

Crews from the Kansas Highway Patrol, the Shawnee County Sheriff’s Office, KDOT and the Soldier Township Fire Department responded to the scene.

The Oakland Expressway uses both a surface road and a long bridge to take motorists on K-4 from Interstate 70 on the south about 5 miles to US-24 on the north.

The two-lane expressway has been the site of other fatal crashes, including one on July 14, 2015, in which a 50-year-old Topeka woman was killed.

Other fatality crashes were reported in March 2012, May 2008, December 2004 and September 2003.

■ View video from the scene here: http://cjon.co/2922CLo

■ See an interview with Winter here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bq4cy59GYQc.