November 2024

Brookfield, Meadville, Northwestern Start Cage Season Tonight

Coming off seasons which ranged from outstanding to much-improved to winless, basketball programs around and bordering Linn County commence new campaigns either tonight or early this coming week.New head coaches occupy the end of the bench at every county (or nearby) high school except Mendon: Northwestern, where Lucas Hart (boys) and Blake Burns (girls) are back.Brookfield’s girls now are led by long-time Salisbury girls’ assistant Wiley Potter, Marceline’s boys – after a winless 2023-24 – by Derrick Holt, Meadville’s girls by Shawn Kiel after Steve Carvajal’s departure to Tipton, Linn County R-1’s boys by Cooper Ballinger, and Macon County R-4/Bucklin’s girls by Andy Busick of the MCR4 faculty.Brookfield, where Dray Starzl starts a third year in charge of the Bulldogs as the unretired (from coaching) Potter serves as a head coach for the first time, Meadville, and Northwestern will be the first county program’s to tip off 2024-25, the first two doing so at home tonight at 6 o’clock and the Mendon school’s squads visiting Orrick at the same hour.BHS will welcome Westran as the ’Dogs seem to elevate above last winter’s 9-17 mark and the Lady Bulldogs chase improvement from an 8-18 campaign.Meadville, its girls’ overwhelming ways of the past two seasons presumably now only a memory through graduation and the geographic shift of Carvajal and now-junior daughter Madison, will host Glasgow this evening.Eagles coach Ryan Young has a couple of key performers – highly-experienced juniors Mason Dennis and Donivan Schreckhise – back from last year’s 15-12 outfit.

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OUTDOORS: Early Youth Deer Season Harvest Up

One of the seven firearms deer seasons the Missouri Department of Conservation is offering to Missouri hunters this fall was an “early” youth season for young hunters ages 6-15 years.Those youngsters were pretty successful with a statewide harvest of 13,910, up from last year’s 11,531, although still far below the 18,272 checked in in 2019, the best year in the last 11.The weather during the 2-day season Nov.

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Brookfield’s Sharp Finishes Two for Two at State

COLUMBIA — Although soft, wet course conditions slowed nearly everyone in last Saturday’s 2024 Missouri Cross-Country Running Championships considerably, Brookfield High School senior Samantha “Sam” Sharp didn’t let that complication keep her from earning her second top-5 state-meet finish in as many tries.Prevented by injuries from competing at state as a freshman and junior, the Lady Bulldog ran the softened, potentially-slipper Gans Creek Cross-County Course route somewhat more tentatively as a precaution against a final disappointment in her last prep race, yet still took fifth place in the high school Class 2 girls’ competition.Sharp’s finishing time of 19:51 left her six seconds behind the fourth-place runner, Emma Hunt of Pierce City, but both were well behind surprise state champion Addison Smith, a sophomore from Lexington, who was clocked in 19:15, 11-plus seconds ahead of the runnerup.

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