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While their male counterparts were extending and enhancing their program’s long and outstanding tradition of state-level success last weekend with two individual state champions, three other medal-earners, and a third-place team finish, Brookfield High School’s fledgling Lady Bulldogs wrestling program was initiating its own budding tradition of mat excellence. Having qualified three wrestlers – its most ever, for the single-classification girls’ state tournament at Columbia, two of them – BHS senior Oscarina Jackson (right and in action photo) and freshman Riley Howell (left) – earned state medals. Howell captured fifth place in the 159-pounds weight division and Jackson sixth at 174. Jackson made her second appearance in the state tourney where, last year, then-teammate Zoey Chrisman earned Brookfield’s first girls’ wrestling state medal when she took fifth place in her division (174). (Jackson action photo by Martin Cupp/LCL; posed photo by Paul Sturm/LCL)

The area’s Swan Lake National Wildlife Refuge will reopen to the public next Saturday, March 5. The refuge is closed each year from late October to the first Saturday in March to provide undisturbed habitat for migrating and wintering waterfowl, the primary purpose for its construction many years ago.

MARCELINE — Borrowing from their school’s successful football heritage, which a number of them have helped sustain, the Marceline High School basketball Tigers utilized a stonewall defense to extend their 2021-22 season last Monday.

MEADVILLE — It was an all-Linn County affair when the Class 1 District 12 high school basketball tournament’s girls’ champion was decided Thursday night, thanks to Monday night triumphs by the replenished host and Linn County’s Lady Mustangs.

COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — Kennedy Chandler scored 23 points to lead No.

COLUMBIA — Finishing with a fantastic flourish behind individual champions Jaden Abongo and Peyton Parn, the Brookfield High School Bulldogs earned third place in the final Class 1 team standings at last week’s 2022 MSHSAA Wrestling Championships at the University of Missouri’s Mizzou Arena.

The action carries a bit outside of the circle as sophomore Colton Parn of the Brookfield High School wrestling Bulldogs, left, controls North Callaway’s Blake Whipple during Parn’s opening-round 12-3 major decision last Thursday in the Class 1 state tournament at Columbia. The Bulldog went on to finish fourth in the 145-pounds division. (Martin Cupp/LCL PHOTO)

Although he’s the one actually lying on the mat, senior Hunter Nelson of the Marceline High School wrestling Tigers actually has control and is scoring near-fall points against Ethan Jackson of Cape Girardeau: Notre Dame during their first-round bout in the 182-pounds weight division of the Class 1 state tournament last Thursday. Nelson, expected to be a strong contender for another state medal and possibly battle for the state title, sustained an apparent head injury in his quarterfinal bout and had to withdraw from the competition after a 33-5 season. (Martin Cupp/LCL PHOTO)

Marceline High School Tiger Canaan Wright (nearest camera) brings Payton Arnold of Knob Noster crashing to the mat during their first-round bout in the Class 1 segment of the 2022 MSHSAA Wrestling Championships at Columbia last Thursday. Wright defeated Arnold by fall in 2:14 and went on to earn the sixth-place medal in the 126-pounds weight division. (Martin Cupp/LCL PHOTO)