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Lady Cougars shake off slow start to snap streak with 61-50 victory at Colby

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The Barton Community College women’s basketball team shook off a slow start Wednesday to snap a four game losing streak defeating host Colby Community College 61-50 at the Community Building.  Responding to an early 9-0 run by the Lady Trojans, Barton scored the next seventeen to lead by ten at intermission.  Carrying the momentum into the second half Barton rattled off seven points in the first five minutes increasing the lead out to seventeen.  The win wouldn’t come easy for the Lady Cougars as Colby cut the deficit to five points late but 4-of-4 free throws down the stretch sealed the victory.  Barton improves to 2-4 in Jayhawk Conference play and 12-6 overall while Colby slips to 3-4 and 10-10 on the season.  The Lady Cougars return to the Barton Gym on Saturday for a 5:30 p.m. tip against Pratt Community College.

“We made things interesting,” said Barton Women’s Head Coach Carter Kruger. “We’ll take it but we need to get better.”

Despite a season high twenty eight turnovers, Barton owned the glass with sixteen board 56-40 advantage with three Lady Cougars grabbing eight or more rebounds.  The Lady Cougars also struggled from the field at 30% but held Colby to a mere 25%.

“Katrina Roenfeldt played great defensively and led our strong defensive effort,” Kruger said. “Ciera Lampe hitting the three late in the game helped us gain separation and allowed us to relax a little in the last minutes to be able to execute.”

Phikala Anthony led three Lady Cougars in double digit scoring with nineteen points in part to 9-of-10 from the charity stripe while hauling down eight rebounds and dishing out five dimes.  Knocking down 3-of-6 beyond the arc, Lampe posted a new career high with fifteen points.  Indiah Cauley also recorded a career high grabbing fourteen rebounds and adding ten points for her first career double-double.  Katrina Roenfeldt also added a solid game with nine rebounds and seven points including two free throws to ice the game for the Lady Cougars.

Colby had three players in double figures led but the twelve point efforts by Jada Grady and Deandra Williams.  Amanda Miller added eleven points just missing a double-double with a team high nine rebounds while DJ Cato led the Lady Trojans with three assists.

Saturday’s game will be followed by an on-court recognition of three inductees into Barton Community College’s Sports Hall of Fame.  The 2015 Class of Gene Butler, Jeff Christy, and Pete Manely will be inducted earlier in the day at a 3:00 p.m. ceremony in the Kirkman Activity Center located on the Barton Campus.  Induction ceremony is free and open to the public with attendance also encouraged in honoring the inductees at the on-court recognition.

Butler and Christy are former players for the Cougars, Butler a member of the 1990-92 men’s basketball teams while Christy was on the 2002-04 baseball teams.  Manely will carry the distinction into the Hall as the first student-athletic trainer to receive the honor.

Valentine’s Day concert Feb. 15

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To celebrate the weekend of love, come to the Valentine’s Day concert hosted Pratt Community College’s Encore! on Sunday, Feb. 15 at 2:30 p.m. in Carpenter Auditorium.

The show will feature love songs from a variety of genres featuring solos, duets and ensembles.

There will be cookies and punch at intermission.

The concert is a fundraiser for the students’ trip to Tennessee in May so it does have a $5 suggested donation per person.

“We hope everyone will come out and enjoy some great music and treats to finish up the Valentine’s weekend,” said Misty Beck, theater instructor.

Pratt Indoor Track Opens Season

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The Pratt Community College indoor track teams opened their season at the Missouri Southern State Invitational over the weekend. Twenty-four PCC athletes competed against nine other schools.

Elisabeth Richins (pictured) led the way for the women, finishing in twelfth place (2:31) in the 800 meter run. For the rest of the team, some winter break rust reared its head.

The women have two weeks to prepare for the Texas Tech Open on January 30-31.

The men had a little more success as Dennis Barfield finished tenth (53.5) in the 400 meter run. Detrius McGuire also had a successful debut in the 60 meter run, clocking a solid 7.35.

The distance medley team of Ryan Landry, Greg Guajardo, Andres Pelayo and Alfredo Vega finished in seventh place. Vega finished the relay in strong fashion, clocking a 4:42 for the 1600 meter anchor leg.

The men will be joining the women at Texas Tech in two weeks.

Performer-historian will bring Amelia Earhart live to Bethel stage

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NORTH NEWTON, KAN. – The search for Amelia Earhart can finally be called off.

The famed aviator will be talking about her thrilling flights at Bethel College Jan. 31 at 11 a.m. in Krehbiel Auditorium in Luyken Fine Arts Center.

Scholar and performer Ann Birney, Admire, takes her audience back to just before Earhart’s disappearance over the Pacific Ocean in 1937. Birney’s performance is being sponsored by Kauffman Museum as part of their annual Kansas Day celebration and is free and open to the public.

Most people don’t know that Earhart twice set out to fly around the world at the Equator before she disappeared.

The first time, heading west from California, she wrecked her twin-engine Lockheed Electra taking off from Hawaii.

Birney, as Earhart, brings listeners to April 14, 1937, as Earhart waits for her airplane, her silver “flying laboratory,” to be repaired so she can try again.

This time, she tells the audience, she will go east instead of west, hoping to reverse her luck with the reversal in direction.

Earhart came into the public eye when she became the first woman to cross the Atlantic Ocean by air in 1928.

The young social worker presumed that she would then resume working with children at a Boston settlement house. One book publication and innumerable speaking engagements later, she was instead planning more record-setting flights, speaking tours, books and articles.

Among her other records, Earhart became the first woman and second person to solo across the Atlantic, the first person to solo over the Pacific, the first person to fly from Hawaii to California and the fastest female flyer non-stop across the United States.

Ann Birney is a member of Ride into History, a historical performance touring troupe that has performed throughout the United States, and from the Smithsonian to Saipan.

Made up of scholars who are also scriptwriters and performers, Ride into History is one of few “cross-over” groups whose members have been on both humanities council and arts commission rosters.

In addition to their performances, which include six other first-person narratives, the troupe conducts adult workshops, school residencies and summer camps to guide others in becoming historian-researcher-scriptwriter-actors.

Scholar and performer Birney’s interpretation of Amelia Earhart is based on extensive research. She holds a doctorate in American Studies from the University of Kansas. Like Earhart, she is a native Kansan.

Birney has been doing her Chautauqua-style performances of Amelia Earhart since 1995. In March 2000, she became the first person to do a historical performance for the Smithsonian Institution’s National Air and Space Museum, whose education curator described her performance as “what living history should be – accurate, natural, evocative, and accessible.”

Barbara Aliprantis of the American Center for the Theatre and Storytelling said of another of Birney’s performances, “Your telling of Amelia’s story was nothing less than brilliant. I was transported to another time and place.”

David Downing of the NASA Kansas Space Grant Consortium wrote of Birney’s after-lunch performance for the National Conference of Space Grant Consortium Directors: “I think you understand that this was a tough audience. Many of us have been everywhere more than once and have seen everything more than once. This was a group many of whom routinely carry on conversations when the NASA brass are presenting. You, on the other hand, had their undivided attention.”

Birney’s “Amelia Earhart, Live!” is part of Kauffman Museum’s annual Celebrate Kansas Day!, held the last Saturday in January each year, supported in part by a grant from the North Newton Community Foundation.

For more information, contact Andi Schmidt Andres, Kauffman Museum curator of education, at 316-283-1612.

Extended 2015 Kansas Day events at museum to focus on transportation

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Extended 2015 Kansas Day events at museum to focus on transportation ‣ News ‣ News & Events – Bethel College

NORTH NEWTON, KAN. – The popular annual Kansas Day celebration at Bethel College’s Kauffman Museum will have extended programming this year.

In addition to many of the usual activities and opportunities in and around the museum itself, there will a special presentation at 11 a.m. in Krehbiel Auditorium in Luyken Fine Arts Center.

Historical interpreter Ann Birney will perform “Amelia Earhart, Live!” in keeping with this year’s Kansas Day theme, “Transportation.”

Birney, of Admire, is an independent scholar in American studies and a member of the Kansas Alliance of Professional Historical Performers.

Following the program, Kansas Day visitors are invited to the Bethel cafeteria for a special brunch. This is the only thing on the schedule for which ticket purchase is required (at the door), for those age 5 and older.

“I’m excited that we are adding some new elements to Kansas Day this year,” said Andi Schmidt Andres, Kauffman Museum curator of education. “We’ve always wanted to offer something in the morning, so we’ve scheduled historical interpreter Ann Birney.

“We’ve also wanted to include a lunch option, so we worked with Aladdin, Bethel College’s food service, to offer a meal option for the public in the college cafeteria. We don’t require reservations, but we would appreciate a head count if families know they are coming.”

Call Andres at 316-283-1612 if you plan to eat in the cafeteria, where the menu will be a brunch, including a hot breakfast with eggs, bacon and sausage, Belgian waffles, burritos (with vegetarian option), baked potato bar, salad bar and desserts.

“Equally exciting is the tractor, truck and car show this year,” Schmidt Andres continued. “Monty Graber has done a great job getting that organized. There will be a real variety of vehicles, from a ‘rat rod’ to a new Agco tractor to an antique fire engine.”

The show opens at noon in the Kauffman Museum parking lot. Among the vehicles on display will be a Ford Model T, a 1951 GMC grain truck, a cutter (small horse-drawn sleigh), a 1926 American LaFrance fire truck, a 1958 Oliver 770 tractor and a car restored through the McPherson College program.

From 1:30-4:30 p.m., there are a range of choices on the museum grounds.

Three presentations in the Kauffman Museum auditorium deal with a diversity of transportation-related topics.

At 1:15 will be a program presented by representatives of the automotive restoration program at McPherson College.

At 2:15, Bill Fitzgerald will present “Operation Lifesaver” and at 3:15 will be Keven Hiebert with “The Horse and Dog in Native American Culture.”

Fitzgerald’s program is an illustrated talk on train safety. He will bring a car that was struck by a train, which will be on display in the vehicle show in the parking lot.

Hiebert is a farmer, taxidermist and historical interpreter from Goessel, who has been bringing the Native American teepee to Kansas Day for the past decade.

Special displays and activities related to the transportation theme include the Kansas Aviation Museum, a Kaye Electric light-up bike, travel memorabilia and a transportation scavenger hunt.

Make-it-and-take-it craft stations this year are paper airplanes, a covered wagon craft, train engineer hats, stick puppet vehicles and a Chisholm Trail cattle stamp.

There will also be corn shelling and a beginner’s spokeshave bench, along with demonstrations of rope making, “woodsman” skills and blacksmithing with Bill Moffett of Rose Hill.

Popular outdoor events planned are old-fashioned schoolyard games; wagon rides, weather permitting, both tractor-drawn and horse-drawn (from Country Boys Carriage); kettle popcorn popping; and the Native American teepee.

The restored farmhouse will be heated and open for touring.

The Friends of Kauffman Museum will sponsor their annual Kansas Day bake sale. The museum store will be open.

The 2015 Celebrate Kansas Day! event is supported by a North Newton Community Development Grant.

For more information on the 18th annual Celebrate Kansas Day! at Kauffman Museum, call 316-283-1612.

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