February 2024

As the 2023-24 high school basketball regular season draws to a close this week, some final touches were being put on season-long achievements by some teams and one squads achieved a simple, but relieving, goal.To no one’s surprise, the powerhouse Meadville Lady Eagles officially completed another Tri-County Conference crown when they bested Green City in a make-up game this past Monday.On the same evening and the same court, MHS was denied a share of the TCC boys’ title when Asher Buggs-Tipton and the Gophers wrapped up their own unbeaten run through the loop.Elsewhere, Linn County’s boys used a late-arranged game to avert a likely-winless season, topping Madison 52-31 on the road.On other fronts, the Carroll-Livingston Activity Association Tournament involving Mendon: Northwestern played itself out and Bucklin/Macon County R-4 .Recapping the recent play (not encompassing the CLAA Tournament, which is reviewed elsewhere in this edition), beginning this past Monday and working backwards…MONDAY(G) Meadville 81, Green City 45(B) Green City 75, Meadville 56MEADVILLE — Matching 31-points nights from All-Staters Korrie Holcer and Madison Carvajal accounted for over 75% of the Lady Eagles’ scoring before the Eagles (12-10, 6-2 conf.) were overwhelmed in the first half to douse their title aspirations.The MHS girls (24-0, 8-0 conf.) also had 11 rebounds from sophomore Kinlee Fletcher in their league finale.Green City’s Gophers pumped in 44 points in the opening half, although the Meadville boys gamely tried to keep pace with 30 of their own.

By PAUL STURMLCL Sports Editorpsturm@cherryroad.comPostseason high school basketball begins for the various Linn County teams this coming week with a long-term stay expected for one and the possibility of season-salvaging heroics for a few others.With a change in Missouri State High School Activities Association district- and state-tournament hosting approaches, fans of the team with the projected longest trip through the postseason presumably won’t have to even leave town until it’s nearly over.To accommodate alterations in classification assignments made a number of years ago, resulting in some schools having its teams in different districts or classes, MSHSAA this year has not only specified that, on the district-play level, will only girls’ games be played on certain nights (Monday, Wednesday, Friday this year) and the boys’ on the alternating nights or days (Tuesday, Thursday, Saturdays), but also has used that development to, in many – but not all – cases, have a district tournament’s girls’ games be hosted by one school and the boys’ by another.Looking beyond district play, MSHSAA also is initiating a new approach to game hosting for the first two rounds of the state tournaments.Rather than larger-school, usually-neutral sites able to accommodate fans from potentially four separate schools (when girls’ and boys’ sectional games were played on the same night and the same for the quarterfinals), girls’ sectional games this season will be played on Monday of the week after district play (Feb.

With four girls already assured of being there, about a dozen Marceline High School male wrestlers will be in action in their home surroundings tonight and tomorrow, hoping to join them in competing in next Wednesday’s and Thursday’s Class 1 state tournament at Mizzou Arena in Columbia.Already qualified for the distaff state competition from MHS are District 2 runnersup Peyton Weese and Madison Teeter and fourth-place district-tourney finishers Alyssa Hicks and Jada Taylor.Weese won three of her four 140-pounds bouts at St.

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