Sports

Only one event win between two schools in Cannon, L&C meets last week With only one event win and two second places between them, Marceline’s and Brookfield’s high school track-and-field teams had only scant individual or collective success in the May 1 conference meets in the respective leagues they’ll be departing after next school year. The best event outcome was the victory by Marceline’s girls’ 3,200-meter relay group (individual names not available) in 11:05.

With the Brookfield Bulldogs having entered this final week of the 2023 high school baseball regular season having established a new high-water mark for wins in their third-year program and with a chance to produce their first-ever winning season, the prep teams in or bordering Linn County end the week transitioning to the postseason and hoping to extend their diamond exploits into another week. Hosting (in a site switch) struggling Novinger Monday and Princeton yesterday, the 8-8 ’Dogs had a chance to ensure that inaugural winning mark before their rematch with April 19 1-0 conqueror Jamesport: Tri-County/ Gallatin at Trenton next Monday at 6 p.m.

Lady Tigers to Saturday’s sectional meet in five events, Tigers in four UNIONVILLE — With a pair of event triumphs mixed in, nine Marceline High School track-and-field entries in last Saturday’s Class 2 District 3 meet at Putnam County High School extended their 2023 season by at least a week. Tigers Connor Ratliff and Caleb Stallo were the winners of the javelin throw and 110-meters high hurdles race, respectively, to pace the MHS district showing.

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.

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.