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)
Unusually at different sites, the Brookfield and Marceline girls’ respective 2021- 22 high school basketball seasons reached the same denouement Saturday evening, not unexpectedly. With the first-round games (quarterfinals) of the geographically-scattered Class 3 District 16 tournament dispersed to multiple sites with the higher-seeded squads hosting, Brookfield’s Lady Bulldogs fell to host and No.
Freshman 138-pounder Devan Parn of Brookfield High School uses his head to help drive an opponent to the mat for a takedown during the Class 1 state tournament at Columbia last week. Parn earned fifth place. (Martin Cupp/LCL PHOTO)
COLUMBIA — Had Marceline High School boys’ head coach Andrew Stewart been given a guarantee last Wednesday that his Tigers would bring home four medals from the 2022 MSHSAA Wrestling Championships – including a runnerup and two third-place honors, while he might have been hopeful of more, he’d likely have felt good in accepting that as the outcome.
JUPITER, Fla. (AP) — With perhaps a week left to salvage opening day, union head Tony Clark attended negotiations on Monday for the first time since Major League Baseball's lockout began, accompanied by New York Mets stars Max Scherzer, Francisco Lindor and Brandon Nimmo.
COLUMBIA — Senior Oscarina Jackson and freshman Riley Howell battled their way to 2022 MSHSAA Wrestling Championships medals last week. Each reached the fifth-place bout in the single-classification, double-elimination tournament, with Howell capping her initial state appearance with an 8-3 winning decision over Cosette Jorgensen of Independence: William Chrisman in that final bout.
MEADVILLE — While the host school’s top-seeded squads sat out with byes, Saturday’s six games saw the higher seeds win, all but two by double-figures margins. The competitive contests, unsurprisingly, were the clashes between the Nos.
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Sophomore 138-pounder Conner Quinn of the Marceline High School wrestling Tigers has Riley Humphrey of North Callaway prone during the Tiger’s 8-0 major-decision victory in last Thursday’s first round of the Class 1 state tournament at Columbia Quinn went on to finish third. (Martin Cupp/ LCL PHOTO)
Freshman Drew Griffin of the Marceline High School Tigers tries to make Hamilton’s Alex Martin do a wheelbarrow walk during their Class 1 106-pounds third-place bout at the 2022 MSHSAA Wrestling Championships at Columbia last Saturday afternoon. Griffin won the bout by 12-2 major decision to end the season 35-3. (Martin Cupp/LCL PHOTO)