November 2022

Marceline Football Trio First-Team All-L&C

Nine Marceline High School football players received some level of all-Lewis and Clark Conference recognition in the voting by conference head coaches, results of which were announced recently. Three Tigers – seniors Tanner Sayre and Ryder Gooch and junior Caleb Stallo received enough support to net first-team berths – Sayre on the offensive line, R.

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Around Linn County

Tell Us What You Are Thankful For The past couple of years headlines have been heavy with news that put pressure on families - pandemic, inflation, drought and other crisis. That’s why the Linn County Leader is turning to its readers to provide some lighter reading for the holidays.

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Sam Sharp Starts Own State Portfolio

COLUMBIA — Delayed a year by injury, but not derailed, sophomore Samantha “Sam” Sharp of Brookfield High School began carving her own chapter of state-level distance-running excellence into BHS history last Saturday when she joined older sister Alexandra in being a top-5 finisher in the Missouri State High School Activities Association Class 2 Championships in cross-country running. Prevented by a lingering midseason injury that worsened during the district state-qualifying race from joining “Alex” in her last of four medal-earning state showings last fall, “Sam” navigated her sophomore season without recurrence of the injury and, despite much less off-season training than she otherwise would have done as the leg injury didn’t fully heal until early last summer, capped it with a fifthplace time of 20:04 in last weekend’s state race at the Gans Creek Cross-Country Running Course, southeast of Columbia.

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