February 2023

BHS Cagers Had Tough Week in Conference Play

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.

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EMILY ROSE HAMILTON

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.

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Wrestling Bulldogs Close Regular Season with Dominant Win

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.

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Double Milestones as Meadville Girls Motor On

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.

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