Lady Tigers begin district play next Tuesday Continuing a solid season, Marceline High School’s basketball Lady Tigers made an extended bid to snare second place in the Lewis and Clark Conference behind state-ranked Schuyler County last week, but could not close the deal. Hosting veteran cage power Salisbury Feb.
Shooting issues continue to hold back girls as season winds down One maxim of sports is that, when a team or individual has postseason playoffs competition after its season schedule, the person or club wants to be performing at or close to its best when those championship-chasing playoffs arrive. As a very good regular season – their program’s best in a half-dozen years – reaches that juncture this week and into next, the Brookfield High School basketball Lady Bulldogs are in urgent, desperate search of that peak level.
Senior Citizens luncheon on Monday, February 20, 11:30 a.m. at the Baptist Church in Meadville.
CHILLICOTHE — Marceline High School’s wrestling squads wrapped up their 2022-23 regular seasons a week ago last night by winning three of their four matches in a double- dual with host Chillicothe and Centralia. The Tigers opened their evening with a close loss to Centralia’s topnotch squad, 40-37.
Emily Rose Hamilton, age 32 of Marceline, died Sunday, February 5, 2023 at her home. Emily was born on March 30, 1990 in Jacksonville, Florida to Regina Kay Hamilton and Jeffery Scott Burns.
CHILLICOTHE — The Brookfield High School wrestling Bulldogs’ 2022-23 regular season wrapped up in synch with the bulk of the campaign last Thursday, with a strong showing. The rugged light- and middleweight members of the BHS boys’ lineup won all except one bout – six of the 11 by fall – as the Bulldogs rolled over host Chillicothe 60-24 in their regular-season finale.
For more than 3-1/2 quarters last Friday at Kahoka, it appeared old shooting troubles would deny Brookfield High School’s basketball girls a 16th win of the 2022-23 season. Fortunately for the Lady Bulldogs, their best scorer found some late room and touch, sparking BHS to a 40-32 Clarence Cannon Conference victory over host Clark County.
Lady Eagles visited top-ranked Class 2 team Monday in duel of unbeatens Reaching a pair of personal career milestones helped pass the time last Friday as Meadville High School’s basketball Lady Eagles worked to prime themselves for this past Monday’s battle of undefeated teams. With senior Mallory Dennis and junior transfer Paige Carvajal newly- minted as 1,000-points scorers for their prep careers, the 22-0 MHS girls, ranked in the top echelon of Class 1 teams by the Missouri Basketball Coaches Association, traveled to St.