Rattlers Win First Playoff Game

    The Rossville Rattlers won their first game of the playoffs with a 7-5road win at Sabetha Tuesday night.  The Rattlers host the Lobos on Wed. evening at 7 PM in game two of their three game series.

Tall Corn Festival Aug. 12-14

Special License Plates, Mugs, etc.

Ray McCollum is doing special coffee mugs, etc.  Here is a message from him.
If anybody would like a custom made coffee cup or license tags I will be at the tall corn festival in the park set up so bring your favorite pictures just going to concentrate on license tags and coffee cups and maybe a little bit more stuff I don't know yet so come see me. MC U NEEK

Cowdin Cup Playoffs Set

      The Cowdin Cup Playoffs begin  Tuesday night at 6:30 pm in Sabetha against the Lobos. Game two will be Wednesday night at 7:00 pm in Rossville. Game three, if needed,  will be Thursday night in Sabetha at 6:30 pm.

Tucker Horak Article

    This is an old article (2015) about Tucker Horak,  but it has some interesting information about last year's QB for Rossville.  
http://kansas-sports.com/ks/news/?id=5983&t=faces-in-ks-tucker-horak

Willard Bridge Progress

Photos by George Brown

Rattlers Close Season With 17-16 Win

    The Rattlers closed out their regular season with a 17-16 win over the Topeka Golden Giants at Lake Shawnee.  Video of the game can be seen at:
http://ksnt.com/2016/07/09/rattlers-use-big-start-hold-of-golden-giants-rally-to-win-in-high-scoring-game/

    The Rattlers first home game of the playoffs is tentatively scheduled for July 13th at 7 PM.   Come join all the pre-game festivities including  host family recognition and  annual awards night and then a post game potluck,  More info when available.

Rattlers Get Late Rally For 4-3 Win

From the Capital-Journal:

The Rossville Rattlers couldn’t produce much offense against the assembly line of pitchers employed by the Topeka Golden Giants, but they made the most of what they had.

Managing only four hits, the Rattlers manufactured a pair of runs then got a go-ahead, two-run double from Michael Sinks in the top of the eighth inning to pull out a 4-3 victory over the Giants in a Mid-Plains League game Friday at Jerry Robertson Field.

“We got all we could out of four hits,” Rattlers coach Tobi Cowdin said.

Jacob Schwandt, the fifth of six Topeka pitchers, alternated two walks and two strikeouts when he entered the game in the top of the eighth before Sinks drove in two runs with a double to center field for the 4-3 lead.

“Michael Sinks did a great job with a two-out, two-strike hit,” Cowdin said. “That was huge for us.”

The Giants had taken a 3-2 lead in the bottom of the seventh on an RBI single by Will Brennan and a suicide squeeze bunt by Connor Rule that knocked out Rossville starter Blake Peterson.

Nick Cole relieved Peterson and worked the final 22/3 innings to earn the win.

“Cole did a real good job coming in and throwing strikes to get us out of that inning after they took the lead,” Cowdin said. “He gave us a chance to win the game.”

Peterson — the Washburn Rural product who is transferring from Texas State to Washburn to play baseball and football — allowed three runs (two earned) on six hits with four strikeouts and no walks in 61/3 innings.

“He’s been working hard all summer at both baseball and football doing double-duty,” Cowdin said. “It was an outstanding performance tonight. He looked as good as he has all summer throwing strikes with multiple pitches in the zone. He’s a very dynamic pitcher.”

The first two runs scored by the Rattlers (13-20) both came home on wild pitches. The first of those in the fifth inning came about when Brandon Wilkerson walked, moved to second on a passed ball, stole third and scored on the wild pitch.

“They were bringing a whole slew of pitchers at us and they were all doing a really great job of throwing strikes and keeping us off-balance,” Cowdin said. “We were able to manufacture a couple of runs and get the lead, then we gave it back and we came back and got it. It was a good back-and-forth game.”

The three-game series is tied 1-1 with the rubber game at 6:15 p.m. Saturday, the final regular-season home game for the Giants (13-19).

Rossville 000 011 020 – 4 4 1

Topeka 010 000 200 – 3 7 0

Peterson, Cole (7) and Gragg. Lawrence, Wheeler (3), Middendorf (5), English (6), Schwandt (8), Halter (9) and Rule. W – Cole. L – Schwandt. 2B – Rossville: Eckberg, Sinks. Topeka: Farthing.

Booster Club Golf Tourney

RHS FBLA Team At Nationals

    The Rossville Future Business Leaders of America had a great time in Atlanta and did a great job.  . Our LifeSmarts team of Mitchell Porter & Ashley Rietcheck placed 6th. Mitchell placed 1st in the written assessment portion which was over Personal Finance.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Nola Miller,  FBLA Advisor

Pictured left to right: Nola Miller (advisor), Ashley Rietcheck, Mitchell Porter, 

Emily Woodcock, Ryan Ehrlich, Paul Borcherding, Kathleen Schuler

Pictured left to right: Ashley Rietcheck, Mitchell Porter

                                                                                                                                                              

Carolyn Brown-Ezell Passes Away

Carolyn Leona Brown-Ezell  died June 25, 2016. She lived in Rossville, Ks. She was born in Benton Co., Mo. She was 74 years old.

Survived by 6 children, Duane Wesley Morris, Leona Sue Morris, Dale Allen Morris, Eddie Dean Morris, Arthur David Morris, and Barbara Lenore Morris. With 15 grand children, and numerous great-grand children.

Three sisters, Wilma Arlene Brown-Bays, Cella Joyce Brown-Figueroa, and Dona Laverne Brown-Lee and her spouse Levi Lee. Her parents, Clarence Benjamin Brown and Georgia Louise Brown, preceded her in death.

Carolyn was a CNA, an avid Quilter and Crocheter. Services for her funeral will be July 14, 2016 at 2:00 pm. This will be  Graveside service at Maple Hill Cemetary, she will be Cremated. God Rest Her Soul.

To leave condolences, go to:  www.midwestcremationsociety.com#sthash.MINY26DA.dpuf

Rattlers Lose To Giants 5-3

From the Capital-Journal:

The Topeka Golden Giants entered their final regular season series riding a five-game losing streak, looking to turn things around and improve their postseason playoff prospects.

Solid pitching and one big inning was enough to give the Golden Giants a 5-3 victory over the Rossville Rattlers in a Mid-Plains League game Thursday at Bettis Family Sports Complex.

In snapping the five-game skid, the Giants improved to 13-18 to stand third in the MPL West Division with a 1½-game lead over the fourth-place Rattlers (12-20) with the league tournament starting next week.

“Every game at this point is really important,” Giants coach Chris Graves said. “At this point in the league, everybody has beaten everybody so I don’t know if it really matters where you end up because anybody can beat anybody this year.

“We’ve been struggling a little bit with a little bit of everything, including having guys showing up, so it was good to have everybody here and get a good team win.”

Rossville scored two unearned runs in the fourth inning to take a 2-1 lead but Topeka put together a three-run fifth with four hits, including an RBI double by Connor Rule and run-scoring singles from Butch Rea and Peyton Grassanovits.

“I thought we hit the ball real well most of the game but we didn’t find many holes,” Graves said. “We finally we found a few holes and strung some stuff together, and it happened to be enough.”

The Giants had eight hits with center fielder Will Brennan going 2-for-2 with two walks, three runs scored and three stolen bases.

Topeka starting pitcher Ethan Frazier allowed two runs on four hits in four innings. Paul Wolfram, the second of four Giant pitchers, worked one inning and earned the win with Justin Watkins going the final two innings for the save.

“Our plan going in is to have everyone ready for the tournament so the rest of the games we play will be by committee,” Graves said of the pitching staff. “We won’t have anybody go probably more than three or four innings.”

Rattlers designated hitter Garrett Weber went 2-for-4 with two RBIs while Cameron Thomas and Nate Reeder had two hits apiece.

The three-game series continues Friday at 6:15 p.m. at Bettis.

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Topeka 010 031 00x — 5 8 1

Scrimsher, Kutzke (6), Michalski (8) and Whitworth. Frazier, Wolfram (5), Correl (6), Watkins (8) and Kirmer. W – Wolfram. L – Scrimsher. Sv – Watkins. 2B – Topeka: Rule. 3B – Rossville – Reeder.

Lobos Sneak By Rattlers 5-4

    The Sabetha Lobos won their Wed. night game with the Rattlers 5-4.
     Here is video of the game from KSNT.
http://ksnt.com/2016/07/06/sabetha-lobos-beat-rossville-rattlers-in-makeup-game/

Last regular season games