Missouri’s 3-week spring turkey season ended last Sunday and hunters this year used unusually cold and dry weather to spend more time in the woods. The result was the most turkeys checked in since more than 38,000 were taken in 2020.
Sharp advances to this week’s sectional meet in four events, others in three UNIONVILLE — Scoring in 11 events – all except one of them races and including two points maxouts and a third double-dip, Brookfield High School’s track-and-field Lady Hornets finished second in the team standings and advanced to this week’s state-qualifying sectional meet in nine events as they competed in last Saturday’s Class 2 District 3 meet at the Putnam County High School facility. Distance runners Samantha Sharp and Clara Hoyt swept first and second places, respectively, in both the 1,600- and 3,200-meters runs, providing 36 of the Lady Bulldogs’ 95 team points, which trailed only Ewing: Highland’s 101.
Behind a hefty haul from the relay races and middle- and long-distance races, Brookfield High School’s track-and-field Lady Bulldogs – in what they’d love to be a precursor to their return visit this weekend – came away from last Friday’s Marcus Hounsom Relays at Unionville as champions of the girls’ division by a sizable margin. The BHS girls took first place in the 400-, 800-, and 1,600-meters relays and the 400-, 1,600-, and 3,200-meters runs, while also claiming a second, two thirds, a fourth, sixth, and seventh spot from that same group of events.
The 2023 spring turkey season is now into the second of its three weeks and several turkey hunters have already taken one gobbler and are working on getting the second and last one of this year’s season. The season got off to a slow start, as the weather at times has been unseasonably cold, but I have reports that gobblers are gobbling more now than they were at first.
A relatively-heavy week of play to start getting sharpened for next week’s district tournament saw Marceline High School’s golf Tigers win a 5-schools match at the district-tourney site last Friday after besting two foes in a triple-dual to start last week and then taking seventh place among 12 varsity teams in a mixed-formats tournament at Kirksville.
A relatively-heavy week of play to start getting sharpened for next week’s district tournament saw Marceline High School’s golf Tigers win a 5-schools match at the district-tourney site last Friday after besting two foes in a triple-dual to start last week and then taking seventh place among 12 varsity teams in a mixed-formats tournament at Kirksville. Both of the county’s golf teams are spending this week practicing in preparation for next Monday’s scheduled state-qualifying district tourneys.
Selected K-State edge passrusher, KC resident; state’s MLB teams muddle on With a huge crowd cheering them on as owner Clark Hunt announced the choice, the Kansas City Chiefs figuratively plucked one out of their crowd to start their selections in the 2023 National Football League Draft last Thursday night. Having decided, as they watched the first two-thirds of the opening round play out that they had little to gain by making a trade up or down with their first-round pick, the Super Bowl champions tabbed Kansas Citian Felix Anudike-Uzomah, an edge defensive lineman out of Kansas State University, to join their latest title defense.
With sophomore distance runner Samantha “Sam” Sharp and their four relay-race units shouldering the largest load, Brookfield High School’s track-and-field Lady Bulldogs captured the championships of their two in-county meets last week. After prevailing with a 20-points cushion over South Shelby in Marceline’s Derek Becker Relays a week ago yesterday, the Lady ’Dogs battled with Palmyra for the biggest bone in BHS’ annual Gary Ewing Invitational meet last Friday.
Spring weather hasn’t been conducive to fishing so far this year, but some die-hard anglers already have been trying for that “big one” and two were successful in landing new state records during March. With the record blue sucker caught in January, this brings the new records for 2023 up to three.
Despite posting two of the three-best individual scores, the Marceline High School golf Tigers couldn’t successfully defend their team crown in the Lewis and Clark Conference Championships last Thursday in the face of superiority quality and depth from Salisbury. Tiger Lance O’Dell fired an 18-holes round of 78 to be tournament runnerup and teammate Braden Lichtenberg’s 81 was the next-best score, but MHS’ next-two-best rounds were in the middle 90s.