St. Mary's Invitational Golf

    The RHS boys golf team competed in the St. Marys Invitational
     Gabe Marney was 14th over all with a 92 and Andrew Hudson finished 16th with a 98.  Kole Davoren had a 103 score and Trey Anderson ended with a 109 to round out the 4 man team.

Team Results  
1.    Sabetha          342
2.    Vermillion        352
3.    Jeff West        376
4.    Rossville        402
5.    Nemaha          402
6.    St. Marys        405
7.    Council Gr.      406
8.    Lynn               429
9.    Herington        464
10.  Silver Lake      482

Baseball Team Loses To Eagles

    The Rossville baseball team lost two games to the Silver Lake Eagles 5-1 and 5-1 on Thursday evening.  The team now is 7-3 overall

Lady Dawgs Clip Eagle Wings

    The RHS softball team notched two more Mid-East victories on Thur. evening by dropping the Silver Lake Eagles 6-3 and 9-7.  The Lady Dawgs are now 8-0 for the Mid-East League lead.

Derek Gentry (16) To Wrestle At BCCC

    Rossville senior Derek Gentry will be wrestling next year for Barton County Community College. He will be signing his national Letter Of Intent on Wednesday, May 4th at 9:15 AM at Rossville High School. 

RHS Boys In Rossville Invitational Track

The RHS boys track and field team participated in the Rossville Invitational track and field meet on April 22.   Individuals finishing in the top 10 were:

100 M Run             4.  Trevor Johnson

200 M Rim             5    Trevor Johnson

800 M Run           10,    Holden Hurla

1600 M. Run           3.    Lorenzo Mason

4 x 100 M Relay      4.    Rossville

4 x 400 M Relay      6.    Rossville

4 x 800 M Relay      4.    Rossville

    The RHS boys finished 9th of 12 teams

Girls At Rossville Track Meet

Rossville Invitational Track and Field results April 22.
The following girls finished in the top 10 of their event.

100 M Run             #1.    Rachel Day

400 M Run             #9    Ashley Ritecheck

800 M Run             #7    Breiara Beergstresser

1600 M Run#         #4    Taylor Bittner
                             #7    Makenzie Deckler

3200 M Run           #7    Taylor Bittner

100 M Hurdles      #5    Jordan Bittner

300 M Hurdles      #4   Jordan Bittner

Long Jump            #8    Makenzie Deckler

Triple Jump           #9    Ashley Ritecheck

Shot put                 #7    Laura Gillum

Discus                 #10     Laura Gillum

Team Standings were:
1.    St. Marys        117
2.    JCN                 79
3.    MH                  78
4.    Wabaunsee       72
5.    Santa Fe Trail    65
6.    Rossville           38
7.    Hiawatha           31
8.    Mission Valley    28
9.    Silver Lake         22
10.  CH                     16
11.  Riverside              3
12.  Valley Falls           2

Silver Lake Invitational Golf

The RHS golf team participated in the Silver Lake Invitational on May 25.

Team Standings:
Burlington      342
Osage City    362
Rossville       393
Lyndon           405
Hayden          422
Silver Lake     442

Top Individual finishers from RHS were
6.    Gabe Marney       89
14.  Andrew Hudson    99
18.  Kole Davoren      102
21.  Cody Hadsall      103
26.  Trey Anderson     110

Kyle Parr (16) Signs LOI For Track

    Kyle Parr signed a Letter Of Intent on April 27 to run track at Missouri Southern State University.

    Here is an old Capital-Journal article about Kyle:
http://cjonline.com/sports/track-field/2011-02-27/around-town-rossville-siblings-help-track-team-national-title

Hugs With Tuck and Mojo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNDhFxSbqo8&feature=em-subs_digest

Library Annual Book Sale

Storm Clouds Near Rossville

Storm clouds roll past a windmill near Rossville, Kan., Sunday, April 24, 2016. (AP Photo/Orlin Wagner)

Michael Lutz At Mize Houser

Michael Lutz,  who grew up in Rossville is the CEO of Mize Houser & Co. P. A.  

From the Capital-Journal:

Topeka-based Mize Houser & Co. P.A. was recognized as a “Firm to Watch” by a top accounting magazine.

“Accounting Today” named the company, which has offices in Lawrence and Overland Park, to its list of businesses that are experiencing significant growth, called “Firms to Watch.” Mize Houser revenues in 2015 jumped 5.94 percent to $24.63 million.

Shareholder James Hilbert said the company has seen steady growth, that has accelerated through significant investments in technology and with business in 40 states.

“Way back into the early ’70s, they were one of the first firms to invest in technology,” he said. “We’re unique in that we have programmers in house. A lot of FPA firms our size don’t have an IT department. We developed our own accounting software package that we can market to firms or companies throughout the United States. Investing in that technology, it’s really opened a lot of doors to us.”

Hilbert said Mize Houser competes with national firms like ADP for payroll accounts, by offering personal service. “I think what sets us apart from them, the big payroll firms, is if you call them and have a question, you never know who’s going to answer the phone. We assign a person to work on your account,” he said.

In addition, they have acquired new clients whose payroll companies couldn’t handle the reporting requirements of the Affordable Care Act, he said. “We’re large enough that we can provide real technical responses, and we’re small enough that we can give them mom-and-pop service.”

The company has grown from about 135 employees in about 2005 to about 230 now. The Topeka office has 160 employees, while 35 work in Overland Park and 35 in Lawrence.

Legacy Financial Strategies Topeka office moves

The Topeka office of Legacy Financial Strategies LLC has relocated, moving up one floor in the business’s current location to increase the space available for its use.

Marguerite Armitage, a spokesperson for the Overland Park-based firm, said the company moved upstairs at its 1414 S.W. Ashworth Place location.

The additional space is useful to the company, which merged three businesses together last year. Legacy Financial, an Overland Park-based business, combined with two Topeka businesses, Peoples Wealth Management and Peoples Benefit Group.

“Michael Lutz is our CEO, and he grew up in Rossville,” Armitage said. “He worked for a number of years in Topeka, and he has always wanted to expand into Topeka, so he was looking for the right merger. For Jim (Reardon, owner of Peoples Wealth Management), he also spent a few years looking for the right candidate. He had a solo practice, and he wanted to make sure his clients had continuity if he wasn’t able to take care of them.”

Nick Neukirch, formerly president and CEO of Peoples Benefit Group, had already partnered with Legacy and officially came into the fold in 2015, she said.

Six FBLA Members Going To Nationals

    Six  FBLA members  from Rossville High will be attending the FBLA Nationals in Atlanta, GA this summer June 29-July 3.  Attending will be Mitchell Porter, Ashley Rietcheck, Ryan Ehrlich, Emily Woodcock, Paul Borcherding, and Kathleen Schuler,  all of whom finished high in the State competition to qualify for the nationals.

 

    This  will be a very expensive trip so the chapter and their sponsor,  Nola Miller,   are going to have to do some serious fundraising.

FBLA Team Finishes Great At State

2015-2016 State FBLA Results

LifeSmarts - Mitchell Porter & Ashley Rietcheck - (Top 12 in Fall challenge)

Cyber Security - Ryan Ehrlich - (3rd out of 191)

Banking & Financial Systems - Mitchell Porter, Emily Woodcock & Ryan Ehrlich - (5th out of 30 teams)

Digital Video Production - Paul Borcherding - (5th out of 17)

Business Law - Matt Stillion - (6th out of 198)

FBLA Principles & Procedures - Kathleen Schuler -  (6th out of 158)

Sports & Entertainment Management - Trey Anderson, TJ Fiedler, & Fred Schuler - (7th out of 62 teams)

Computer Problem Solving - Ryan Ehrlich - (10th out of 143)

Networking Concepts - Ryan Ehrlich - (10th out of 103)

Introduction to Business Procedure - Reed Miller - (10th out of 175)

Securities & Investments - Mitchell Porter - (10th out of 132)