Sometimes you gotta take some lumps when you’re trying to get to the top of the heap. For some reason I thought Hutchinson had already taken all of theirs. Guess not. Fort Scott showed they’re no joke by steamrolling the No. 4 team in the country. Now the Blue Dragons get No. 4 Butler in Hutch. Could they bounce back so quickly? Not likely.
And Pittsburg State lost again. What’s going on down there?
Jayhawk Conference
No. 6 Fort Scott 31, No. 4 Hutchinson 0
No. 5 Butler 30, Coffeyville 14 (Butler’s moving up…)
Independence (2-1, 2-0) at Garden City (1-3, 0-2),
KCAC
No. 17 Friends 65, Tabor 17
Bethany 63, MacMurray 21 (QB Steven Baker — 329 yds. passing three tds)
No. 13 Ottawa 23, No. 22 Sterling 21 (Ottawa stays undefeated)
Saint Mary 49, Southwestern 7
Kansas Wesleyan 19, Bethel 14 (KWU deserves to be ranked after this)
MIAA
Washburn 36, No. 11 Central Missouri 21
No. 18 Missouri Western 45, Pittsburg State 40
Fort Hays State 40, Emporia State 20 (Fort Hays improves to 4-1 overall and 2-1 in MIAA play)