June 2024

MARCELINE — While the Marceline High School track-and-field season ended a couple of weeks ago with uncharacteristically-limited representation in the Class 2 state championships meet – only one boy (senior hurdler Hudson Schmitt) and one girl (sophomore middle-distance runner Emery Dodd), several Marceline middle schoolers displayed potential for future years, should they continue on with the sport as they move into high school in the next couple of years, results shared through the season by boys’ head coach Dan White and girls’ head coach Todd Lowther suggest.Through more than a half-dozen meets of varying sizes and highlighted by sweeping the team championships of the April 15 Brookfield Invitational and taking second place in each gender division of their own home meet on April 10, Marceline had 36 event victories from seven individuals (not counting relay-team members) – five girls and two boys – and three relay groups.Most of the event victors did so multiple times and, perhaps most impressively, the MMS Lady Tigers’ 800- and 1,600-meters relay groups (individual members are not listed in the reported results, so how many different athletes were involved cannot be definitively related in this article) won every time out except in the 800 at the Kirksville Relays on May 1, when it took second.Solo-event champions for the black-and-gold included Ella Moseley (100 meters, 200, high jump), Gentry Burns (long jump twice, 200 meters), LeeAnna Haslett (triple jump twice, high hurdles), Raegan Duey (pole vault), Katey Kussman (800), Gaven Schreiner (1,600 four times, pole vault three times), and Owen Thornberg (200, long jump, high jump).Marceline competitors took second places 52 times, including the aforementioned winners recording many of them.

As the Major League Baseball season curved from its traditional opening third toward its lengthy heart with the passage of the Memorial Day holiday Monday, for Missouri’s teams, it did so with a mutual positivity not seen in nearly a decade.Although the boys in blue followed their 6-games winning streak last week with three losses in a row to begin this week, those waiting for the Kansas City Royals to fade away likely have been dissuaded and now consider the club legitimate contenders for American League postseason play, although an injury to either Bobby Witt, Jr., or Salvador Perez still might derail them, were one to occur.Much less cemented into playoffs contention, but at least revived from their horrid start, the St.