RHS Boys Play St. Marys Tonight

Rossville Boys take on the #1 seeded St. Marys Bears on the St. Marys court tonight at 7:30.

RHS Girls Clip Eagle's Wings

    The RHS girls beat Silver Lake on the St. Mary's court 49-44 to advance to the sub-state final game.

Silver Lake    13   8  12  11    =   44
Rossville        10 12  10  17   =   49


Silver Lake scoring:
Bates           6 (3)     4-8    19
Lane            5 (3)     2-5    15
Mountain     1           4-6     6
Calderwood 1 (1)     1-2     4
Totals         13 (7)    1-22  44

Rossville scoring:  
Hill             8 (3)       8-9      27
Shinn         3            1-2        7
Shinn         3            0-0        6
Hill              2           2-5        6
Morelli        0           2-2        2
Buhler        0           1-2        1 Totals       16 (3)    14-20    49

    The Dawgs will meet Riley County for the sub-state championship.  Riley defeated Perry-Lecompton 46-23 in the other semi-final at St. Marys.

Girls Sub-State BB Tonight

   The semi-finals of the Sub-State girls basketball tournament are tonight (Thur).  Rossville plays Silver Lake at 7:30 at St. Marys.    Riley County and Perry-Lecompton clash at 6:00.

Edith Sack Passes Away

Edith E. (Glotzbach) Sack, 92,  passed away Thursday, March 2, 2017 at her home in St. Marys.

She was born July 8, 1924 at Paxico the daughter of Isedor and Otillia Meinhardt Glotzbach.  Edith graduated from Paxico High School and lived in St Marys for 70 years.

You can read her complete obituary at:  

http://piperfuneralhome.com/obituaries/edith-e-glotzbach-sack/

St. Patrick's Day Parade

Parent Resource Night March 9

      Parent Resource night is open to any parent in the USD #321 area. If you have a teenager -- then this is the place for you to come get information on banking, voting, interviewing, salary negotiation, and more. Reading and math interventionists will be there too! March 9th 6:30 - 8:00 -- in a career fair style. Visit the agencies that pertain to you and your student!

Traffic Enforcement Drive

    Beginning February 27 thru March 10, the Shawnee County Sheriff's Office will join other Kansas Law Enforcement to stop what has been an epidemic for the past several years, too many teen deaths on our roadways. In an effort to change this trend, law enforcement across Kansas will be extra-vigilant when patrolling around schools. There should be no surprises when it comes to this enforcement effort. Officers will issue citations to any individual who refuses to obey the traffic laws, whether it is for speeding, texting or failing to buckle up.

Rossville Boys Win First Round

Rossville won their first round of the boys basketball sub-state over Hoyt-Royal Valley 66-62.  In the other games of this sub-state,  the results were:

St. Marys 70, Riley County 50
Silver Lake 68, Pleasant Ridge 31
Perry-Lecompton 51, Oskaloosa 48

Royal Valley  13  10  15  24   =   62
Rossville        17  14  10  25   =   66

Rossville scoring:
Musick             6         5-6     17
Morris              3 (3  ) 7-10    16
Hulbert            4 (1)     6-8    15
Anderson         3          1-2      7
Quiett               2 (2)     0-0     6
Dyche              0           5-6     5 
Totals             18 (6)   24-32  66

Number four seed Rossville will play in the semi-finals on Friday night against number one seeded St. Mary at St. Marys at 7:30.

Number two seed Silver Lake will play number three seed Perry-Lecompton at 6:30 on Friday.

Stipp and Terliesner On All-State Honor Band

Ella Terliesner,  Mr. Jones, Ava Stipp

Ava and Ella during Band Rehearsal

For the first time in 22 years, Rossville has band members in the All-State Honor Band - Ava Stipp (Clarinet) and Ella Terliesner (Clarinet), a foreign exchange student from Germany.  Teresa Lacock (flute), a 1995 Rossville graduate, was the last person to make the honor band.  Students grades 10-12 must first perform a live audition for their District honor band, of which there are six districts in Kansas - Southeast, South Central, Southwest, Northwest, North Central, and Northeast.  After successfully making the district band, district band members are given the opportunity to perform a live audition for All-State selection in early January.  If they are selected to the All-State ensemble, students travel to Wichita during the Kansas Music Educators Association (KMEA) convention in late February to rehearse with the other All-State members and perform a concert on the final day of the convention.

All-State students are divided into two bands.  One comprised of all 1A-4A classified schools, and another of 5A-6A schools, representing the "best of the best" high school musicians Kansas.  Ella & Ava both worked very hard for this honor, and played very well at the concert, which was Saturday, February 25th at the Century II Performing Arts Center in Wichita.  The Rossville Jr/Sr High School band and community are very proud of their accomplishments and dedication to excellence.  I look forward to having many more students achieve this great honor in the future.

Thank you

Garrett Jones

Rossville Jr/Sr High School

Band & Choir Director

Head Cross Country Coach

Assistant HS Track Coach

    To see additional photos of the girls and the All-State Band,  go to:

http://rossvilleksphotos.blogspot.com/2017/02/2017-all-state-honor-band.html

Boys First Round Game Tue.

    The RHS boys will host Hoyt-Royal Valley for their first round sub-state game.  The game on the Rossville court will tip-off at 7:00 PM on Tuesday evening.
    The complete sub-state bracket can be read at:
http://kshsaa.org/Public/ScoreCenter/Brackets/Basketball/3ASub-State.cfm?Activity=2&WeekID=2478

RHS Girls Defeat Oskaloosa

    The RHS girls basketball team won their first  round game of their sub-state tournament with an easy 55-37 win over Oskaloosa.  They will play Silver Lake,  the winner of the Silver Lake - St Marys game, on Thur. Night at at 7:30 St. Marys.    Riley Co plays Perry-Lecompton at 6:00 at St. Marys.

Oskaloosa    7 12  9    9   --   37

Rossville     17 11 11 16   --   55

Rossville scoring:
A. Hill         13 (1)     2-2      29
C. Hill           4          3-9      11
Anderson     2           2-5       6
Shinn           2           0-0       4
Shinn           1           0-0       2
Buhler          0           2-2       2
Morelli          0           1-2       1
Totals         22 (1)     10-24   55

    The tournament bracket is at:  http://kshsaa.org/Public/ScoreCenter/Brackets/Basketball/3ASub-State.cfm?Activity=2&WeekID=2479

Girls BB Sub-State Tonite

    The Sub-State girls basketball tourney kicks off tonite (Mon) with Oskaloosa (6-13) at Rossville (17-2).  Tip-off is 7:00 PM.
    The winner will play Thursday night against the winner of the St. Marys-Silver Lake game.

Bryce Gfeller In Toughest Class At State

    The most competitive class at this years 321A wrestling state meet was the  138 lb class where three former state champions competed.  Rossville's Bryce Gfeller was state champion three times in other weight classes.  
http://cjonline.com/sports/highschools/2017-02-25/atchison-county-s-ostertag-survives-loaded-138-bracket-second-state

Isaiah Luellen Video

    Here is a video interview of Isaiah Luellen before the start of the State 321A Meet at Ft. Hays on Feb. 24.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iyu3xYIBJEQ