Sports

Heavily-damaged by graduation after having five state medal-winners and a top-10 team finish at the state meet last May, Marceline High School’s girls’ track-and-field squad managed only a sixth-place team finish in its opening 2023 scoring meet – the Fayette Relays – last Thursday. The Lady Tigers, minus multiple- times state champion high jumper Ramzee Bruner and other standouts, did produce two event wins – both the 400- and 3,200-meters relays – on the Central Methodist University track.

Four outstanding Class 1 high school basketball players from Linn County or neighboring teams have been accorded All-State status for the 2022-23 season by the Missouri Basketball Coaches Association, the organization announced at mid-week last week. Of the four, only one is a senior this school year – Hayden Harms of Mendon: Northwestern.

The Missouri Department of Conservation has set several of the 2023 fall hunting seasons and most of them are pretty much the same as last year’s. Black bear and elk seasons have a limited number of permits available and these can be applied for in May.

COLUMBIA — Although the weather has been generally uncooperative for competition in the nearly two weeks since Missouri high school spring sports teams were permitted to start having games, matches and meets, both Marceline and Brookfield high school’s boys’ golf teams were able to get one tournament under their belts last week. On Monday, March 20, both participated in the Father Tolton Regional Invitational tournament at the Country Club of Missouri in Columbia with sharply-contrasting results.

Although the weather turned more sports-friendly at the start of this week, the first nine potential days of spring sports action for Marceline’s and Brookfield’s high school teams generated far more postponements and/or cancellations than they did competition.

En route to their undefeated Class 1 state championship, the 2022-23 Meadville High School basketball Lady Eagles shredded opponents with often-devastating defensive pressure that, over the course of their 31 victories in 31 tries, led to a couple of new state records as a team and nearly an individual state mark. With the MHS girls’ historic season now fully in the books, their start-tofinish perfection is only beginning to grow in stature.

Although they won’t know for certain where for a while yet, 2023 spring sports teams from Linn County and overlapping schools at least now know against whom they’ll compete in postseason action this May.