Callie Fischeer Honored

    Callie Fischeer of Rossville, now attending Baker University, was third in sports Reporting at the  recent Kansas Collegiate Media Conference Awards

http://www2.ljworld.com/news/2015/apr/16/baker-orange-website-win-awards/

Prom Pictures

    Photos of Rossville's Fire and Ice Prom can be seen at:

http://beta.spotted.cjonline.com/mediadetail/22199489/?gId=590241

Dawgs Shut Out Bears 13-0

    Amanda Hill pitched a five inning shutout while allowing only one hit in the night cap on April 16.     Amanda had nine strikes-outs while only throwing 6 first pitch strikes.
    Taylor Kirk, Amanda Hill and Heidi Nitsch each had three hits and Heidi also led the RBI column with four.
                                           R     H    E
StM    0   0   0   0   0           0      1    5
Ros     2   1   7   3              13    18    0    

Lady Dawgs Sock It To Bears

    The Lady Dawgs put on another fine performance against visiting St. Marys on April 16 by opening the double header with an 8-0 shutout.
    Taylor Kirk and Breanna Hill led the batters with three hits each.  Breanna led the team in RBIs with two.  Lauryn Steckel, Heidi Nitsch, and Breanna Hill each had three quality at bats.
    Taylor Kirk was the winning pitcher getting 7 strike-outs and 17 first pitch strikes in her seven innings on the mound.
                                               R  H  E
StM       0  0  0  0  0  0  0       0   3   3
Ros        1  1  1  2  3  0           8  13  0

Boys Track Team Fifth at Royal Valley

    The boys track team came in 5th of 10 teams in the Royal Valley Invitational on April 14.
    Kyle Parr scored most of the team's point finishing well in every event he entered.  Those include the 2nd in the 110 meter hurdles (he was 1st in the preliminaries), 1st in the 300 meter hurdles, 2nd in the high jump, 2nd in the triple jump.
    Fred Schuler finished 4th in the long jump.
    The 4 x 100 meter relay team was 3rd of four teams.  They were 4th of 6 teams in the 4 x 800 relay event.
    For complete results,  go to:  http://www.kawvalley.k12.ks.us/schools/rjshs/athletics/Track.htm

Girls Track Team 6th At Royal Valley

    The Rossville girls finished 6th out of 10 teams at the Royal Valley Invitational on April 14.
     Some of the better performances were turned in by  Rachel Day, 3rd in 100 M Dash and  Ashley Rietcheck, 4th in 400 M Run,  The girls also did well in the relays.  They were 3rd of 7 teams in the 4 x 100 meter event, 2nd of 6 teams in the 4 x 400 M relay, and 4th of 6 teams in the 4 x 800 M relay.
    For complete results,  go to:    http://www.kawvalley.k12.ks.us/schools/rjshs/athletics/Track.htm

Golf Team At Southern Lyon C.

    The Rossville boys golf team finished seventh of fourteen teams competing in the Southern Lyon County Golf Tournament at the Emporia Municipal Golf Course.
     Paul Steinke placed third, right behind Jessee Bittner of Burlington and Connor Mickins of Jeff West.  Jessee and Connor each had a 79 and Paul was one stroke off their pace with an 80.  
    Other Rossville team members were Colby Hadsall (90), Gabe Marney (98) and Alex Bird (103).   St. Marys finished in 11th place and  Silver Lake was 13th.
    For complete tournament results,  go to:  http://www.kawvalley.k12.ks.us/schools/rjshs/athletics/boys_golf.htm

Thatcher Horak To Play At Washburn

    RHS senior Thatcher Horak has signed a Letter of Intent to play baseball next year at Washburn University.  Video of his signing can be seen at:

http://ksnt.com/2015/04/16/rossville-shawnee-heights-send-state-champs-to-next-level/

Dawgfeed 16 Now On Line

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kvh7Sm9mees&feature=em-subs_digest

Wabaunsee Invitational Track & Field

BOYS  Team scores

St. Marys 128, Santa Fe Trail 102, Rossville 88.5, Northern Heights 65, Rock Creek 52.5, Wabaunsee 47, Cornerstone 23, St.Xavier 2.

Best Dawg Individual results

800 — 1. Rubio, Rossville, 2:14.66; 2. Sowers, Rossville, 2:15.56; 3. Mason, Rossville, 2:16.21.
1600 — 1. Rubio, Rossville, 5:07.28;
400 relay* — 1. Rossville, 47.84; 2. St. Marys, 49.07; 3. St. Marys “B,” 50.81.
400 relay* — 1. St. Marys, 3:38.69; 2. Rossville, 3:51.93; 3. Northern Heights, 4:04.72.
800 relay* — 1. Rossville, 9:17.29;
400 throwers relay — 1. St. Marys 52.46; 2. Rossville, 53.78; 3. Rock Creek, 55.13.
Shot Put — 1. Hastings, Santa Fe Trail, 41-6; 2. Uezona, Rossville, 39-10.5;
Discus — 1. Hastings, Santa Fe Trail, 114; 2. Anderson, Santa Fe Trail, 105-6; 3. Uezona, Rossville, 104-11.

*  The information about the relays seem to have an error(s).

GIRLS Team scores

St. Marys 149, Wabaunsee 130, Northern Heights, 81, Rossville 59, Santa Fe Trail 49, Rock Creek 31, Cornerstone 7.

Best Dawg Individual results

100 — 1. Day, Rossville, 13.03; 2. Moser, Wabaunsee, 13.49;
1600 — 1. Honeyman, S F Trail, 5:29.6; 2. Schultz, Wab., 5:43.95; 3. Bittner, Rossville, 5:57.28.
100 relay — 1. St. Marys, 53.48; 2. Wabaunsee, 54.78; 3. Rossville “B,” 60.39.
Long jump — Vornweg, Rossville, 14-8; 2. Barber, 14-0.75;

For the complete scores go to:
http://www.kawvalley.k12.ks.us/schools/rjshs/athletics/track/15/15_wab.pdf

Lady Dawgs Get Easy Win

    The Lady Dawgs avenged their earlier loss to Manhattan by walloping them 11-1 in a five inning night cap shortened by the mercy rule.
    Taylor Brecheisen led the batters for RHS with four hits.    Breanna Hill led the RBI list with three.  Brecheisen had four quality at bats in the short five inning game and Heidi Nitsch had three.
    Amanda Hill pitched the whole game getting 17 first pitch strikes and eight strike-outs.

              Scoring                    R      H     E
Ross      4    0    2    1    4      11    12     0
Manh     0    0    1    0    0        1     1      5

Lady Dawgs Lose To Manhattan

    The Lady Dawgs softball team lost a close contest at Manhatton of April 14, going down 7-6 after holding 6-3 lead going into the bottom of the seventh.
    Heidi Nitsch led the team with three hits.   Lauren Steckel led the team with RBIs at two.  Stecklel and Taylor Kirk each had three quality at bats.
    Taylor pitched six and two thirds innings getting four strike-outs and 17 first pitch strikes.

               Scoring                               R   H    E
Ross       2    0    1    1    2    0    0      6    9    1  
Manh      0    0    0    3    0    0    4      7    9    5

Baseball Team Beats Wab. Twice (updated)

The RHS baseball team added two victories with wins of 13-0 and 13-2 over Wabaunsee.  They are now 4-0 for the season.

Game One
    Christian Roduner led the batters with three hits and three RBIs.   Corbin Horak had two hits and three RBIs.
    Thatcher Horak pitched four innings allowing four hits.  Jack Steckel pitched one inning allowing no hits

Wau       0   0   0   0   0        0      4    1
RHS      0    3   4   3   3      13    11    0

Game Two
    Tucker Horak had three hits and three RBIs.  Corbin Horak had only one hit,  but that was a home run giving him four RBIs.
    Freshman Jarred Morris pitched four innings  allowing four hits and two runs.  Junior M. Matumoto pitched one inning allowing no hits or runs.

Wau       1   0   1   0   0      2    4    4
RHS       1   1  10  1   -      13   5    1

History of Joe Campbell Stadium

Below is From:  http://www.fhsu.edu/biology/Eberle/Historical-Baseball-Sites-in-Kansas/

 8) Joe Campbell Memorial Stadium, Parkway Street off US Hwy 24, Rossville, Kansas (1924, 1924, 19__)

Historical Baseball Park. A vote on an $8,000 bond issue for a city park easily carried in April 1922, and a site just south of the city limits was selected for an 8-acre park. The park site was surveyed in November, but negotiations with the landowner continued through the winter before the bonds were finally issued in March 1923. Work on the baseball field and grandstand began in the spring of 1924. Initially, the diamond was to have been in the northwestern corner of the field, but it was placed in the southeastern corner to provide a better fit for the outfield, which would be 290 feet to right field, while the distances to left and center fields would be “unlimited.” “Practically every carpenter in the city…promised to donate some of their services” in the construction of the grandstand, which was supervised by 2 carpenters who also sat on the City Council. It was to seat 500 people and “have a section back of home base and wings paralleling the first and third base lines.” In the meantime, baseball games continued to be played at the “school diamond.” Rossville defeated Tecumseh 4–3 in the first game played at the new ballpark on Sunday, June 8, 1924.
     Perhaps the most prestigious opponent to play at the new ballpark in 1925 was the Kansas City Monarchs, who were soon to play in their second Negro World Series. The Monarchs played 8 games on a brief barnstorming tour through northern Kansas and southern Nebraska during a break in their league schedule, stopping for their final game in Rossville on August 3. Not surprisingly, the Monarchs won, but the score was a respectable 4–1. Rossville’s only run scored “in the second inning when Maupin drove one to right field, ordinarily good for a single, but McNair lost so much time finding the ball in a bunch of weeds Maupin made the circuit.”
     The Fourth of July fireworks display at the ballpark in 1928 could have ended in disaster. Sparks accidentally ignited 2 “skyrockets,” which “shot toward the packed grandstand with a roar and a stream of sparks.” One pierced a 1-inch board on the front of the wooden grandstand, and the other went through the wire netting intended to stop only baseballs. There was a momentary panic, but no one was seriously injured, although one woman was badly bruised when hit by a rocket.
     Although electricity was installed at the grandstand in 1924, the first floodlights at the City Park were not installed until June 1934, at a cost of about $200 paid by the city and subscriptions from local boosters. Intended primarily for use at softball games, the six reflectors, each with a bulb of 1,500 watts, were placed on as many poles “set in a semicircular formation in the northwest [outfield] section of the ball field” by local volunteers.
     Dedicated to the memory of a Rossville baseball pioneer, the stadium features one of the few historical, wooden grandstands remaining in the United States and the only historical, all-wood grandstand in Kansas. The exterior of the covered grandstand is open, exposing the supporting framework. There is no press box, only a built-in table among the seats behind home plate. The infield is all dirt, and the outfield is grass. The outfield fence is chain-link, mostly 6 feet tall, except in right field, where it is 24 feet tall, offering some protection to cars parked at the convenience store just beyond the tree-lined street that borders the fence.
     In 2014, the city of Rossville received a Shawnee County Historical Society Preservation Award for its work preserving the historical stadium. Kudos to the members of the local community (a town of only about 1,150 people) currently engaged in efforts to restore and maintain this Kansas baseball gem near Topeka. The park is only 5½ miles north of Interstate Highway 70 at exit 346, across the Kansas River (the bridge deck is metal grate, so be sure to drive slowly when crossing it). Turn right (east) on Parkway Street in Rossville (just past the swimming pool and stone shelter house on your right). The ballpark is down this road on your right, along US Highway 24, next to the high school. It is a great place to watch a collegiate league baseball game, and the ballpark is the summer home of the Rossville Rattlers (Mid-Plains Collegiate Baseball League). [I still need to complete research on the ballpark and grandstand after 1934.] [I attended a game here on a windy 16 June 2014 between the Rossville Rattlers and the Topeka Senators, and I will return to watch more games in 2015.]

Joe Campbell Stadium, Rossville, KS

Joe Campbell Stadium, Rossville, KS

Joe Campbell Stadium, Rossville, KS