Last week was one of mixed blessings for Meadville High School’s basketball teams. The Eagles picked up a pair of wins – the second an unexpectedly-narrow one – to get within a game of the .500 mark after a long midseason slump, but the Lady Eagles came up short in their battle with La Plata for the Tri-County Conference title.
COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — Javon Pickett and Ronnie DeGray III each scored 14 points as Missouri’s Tigers beat Mississippi 74-68 on Saturday night.
NEW YORK (AP) — The final blow has been dealt to an on-time start to spring training, with Major League Baseball making a new offer last Saturday that the players' association received as only scant progress in the drawn-out labor talks.
The Los Angeles Rams and Cincinnati Bengals got to the Super Bowl with help from a couple of coaching decisions by their conference title game opponents that backfired. If the Super Bowl comes down to a crucial fourthdown choice by Rams coach Sean McVay or Bengals counterpart Zac Taylor, history shows the may opt for the conservative path.
For Missouri hunters and trappers there’s always a “down time” between the end of a year’s hunting and trapping seasons and the beginning of another year’s. That time is coming up real soon, as the ending of rabbit and squirrel seasons for 2021-22 is Monday (Feb. 15) and trapping seasons are partly closed, with only otter and muskrat seasons still open until next weekend (Feb. 20), and beaver and nutria seasons closing on March 31.
The closing stretch of the 2021-22 high school basketball season for Marceline’s and Brookfield’s varsity squads continued to be a challenging one this past Tuesday. All four teams sustained double-digits losses in conference contests – BHS at South Shelby and MHS at Salisbury – that extended their lean harvest from the final month of the regular season.
Brookfield High School will have participants in Missouri’s girls wrestling state tournament this coming week, thanks to the performance’s of this trio at Wentzville last weekend. Oscarina Jackson, left, a 2021 state tournament qualifier, not only won her way back to state, but will go as a 174-pounds division district champion. Riley Howell, right, also earned a district championship, prevailing at 159 pounds. The third Lady Bulldog headed to the Feb. 17-19 state tourney at the University of Missouri-Columbia’s Mizzou Arena is Mya Sackrey, who captured third place at 130 pounds by winning her last four bouts after a championship-quarterfinals loss. Jackson heads to state with a 28-1 record, Howell a 34-4 mark, and Sackrey at 27-5. Marceline again will send one girl to state – 100-pounder Maddie Dauber (16-2), who was runnerup in her division at district last Saturday and Sunday. (PHOTO SUPPLIED/Nile Thudium)
The early-week high school basketball results for Linn County’s Class 1 schools, as well as its adjacent or overlapping school districts, were largely lackluster, but with one exception (among those games for which results were known).
NASHVILLE (AP) — Scotty Pippen Jr. scored 19 points, Quentin Millora-Brown and Jordan Wright each recorded a double-double and Vanderbilt pulled away from Missouri near the end for a 70-62 win on Tuesday night.
Joe Burrow got to the Super Bowl faster than any other No. 1 pick quarterback.