Sports

Marceline Track, Field Boys Fourth, Girls Sixth in Fayette Relays

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.

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Royals’ Offense Wobbles from 2023 Gate, Cardinals Come Out Swinging

The opening days of the 2023 Major League Baseball season provided contrasting, if not entirely unexpected, performances for Missouri’s teams. On the heels of a torrid offensive spring during exhibition play in Arizona, fans nudged toward cynicism by the club’s only-briefly-interrupted absence from serious, sustained postseason contention for more than 30 years likely expected the Kansas City Royals to have difficulty scoring runs when they returned to the cooler Midwest climes.

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OUTDOORS:

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.

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Marceline, Brookfield Golfers Tee Off for New Season

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.

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Rain, Cold Early Winners in County HS Baseball

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.

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Meadville Girls Set Defensive, Offensive State Marks in Earning State Crown

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.

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