While Major League Baseball was getting its new season underway late last week with improved ingame pace of play, the pace of high school baseball action also picked up in the county, even if results were not that favorable for the Brookfield and Marceline teams. Brookfield did outlast Carrollton 14-13 at home last Thursday, three days after its delayed season opener saw it drop a 12-3 decision to visiting Ewing: Highland.
Marceline High School’s golf Tigers had mixed results from their first dual-match action of 2023 last week, while Brookfield’s Bulldogs came up empty in two outings. After being without its top two players as it fell decisively to both host Macon and Kirksville March 27, with its normal quintet, Marceline recovered to tie Moberly and defeat New Bloomfield in action at Moberly’s Heritage Hills course last Thursday.
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.
Mother Nature was nearly batting 1.000 against Linn County’s high school baseball teams entering this week, allowing only one of about a dozen slated games to occur in the first nine playing dates of the 2023 season. The exception to the inclement weather and too-soggy field conditions was the Marceline Tigers’ home game against Glasgow last Friday, which the hosts dropped, 12-3.
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.
As the new Major League Baseball season dawns at home for the Kansas City Royals and St. Louis Cardinals tomorrow afternoon, as it looks like the weather will allow, it finds them in familiar, if dissimilar, situations.
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.
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.