Last Friday night, the Meadville Eagles and Lady Eagles traveled to Galt to play a pair of games of softball with Grundy County.  The boys remained undefeated on the young season with a 16-15 win, and the Lady Eagles made it a sweep with a 12-4 big win.

As the young man accused of breaking into a 65-year-old Brookfield woman’s home and forcibly raping her has been in custody in Kentucky, local residents may have been feeling a renewed sense of security.
However, a 70-year-old Brookfield woman has reported to police that at about 2 a.m. Wednesday, she heard someone raising a window in the spare bedroom of her home on East Helm Street.
 

 For the first time in seven years, the Brookfield Lady Dogs golf team travelled to a meet with Kirksville and came within 10 strokes of the powerhouse Lady Tigers golf team.

Advisors to the five-member Missouri Public Service Commission (PSC) are recommending that the state regulatory committee award AmerenUE less than a quarter of the retail electric rate increase Ameren is asking for.

The 2008 edition of the Brookfield Bulldogs got off to a start Friday night at Burlington Field in front of a raucous home crowd.  Head Coach Shane Cavanah led the team into the opening week minus starting quarterback Colby Bailey, and the lack of Flash in the backfield was indeed noticed by Bulldogs fans.  Junior Austin Lindsay, who played through some intense cramping, stepped in to lead the blue and white offense.  To the team’s credit, the defense was spectacular, limiting the wide-open Putnam County offense to nearly no impact at all, and the basic offense of the Dogs was enough to post three scores and an two-point conversion on the evening. “It sure wasn’t a pretty game,”said Coach Cavanah, “but it’s a win and we’ll take it.”
 

The Marceline Tigers came out of the gate in the 2008 season with a single goal in mind…win.  Now this shouldn’t be any kind of surprise to fans of any sport.  But considering that the Tigers started off winless last season, this team was bound and determined to start things off on the right foot.  With the Schuyler County Rams coming to Chester Ray Stadium, the Tigers were hopeful of a game one win and building some momentum heading into their week two clash with Brookfield in the annual rivalry-epic, the Bell Game.