Sports

Shooting issues continue to hold back girls as season winds down One maxim of sports is that, when a team or individual has postseason playoffs competition after its season schedule, the person or club wants to be performing at or close to its best when those championship-chasing playoffs arrive. As a very good regular season – their program’s best in a half-dozen years – reaches that juncture this week and into next, the Brookfield High School basketball Lady Bulldogs are in urgent, desperate search of that peak level.

Lady Tigers begin district play next Tuesday Continuing a solid season, Marceline High School’s basketball Lady Tigers made an extended bid to snare second place in the Lewis and Clark Conference behind state-ranked Schuyler County last week, but could not close the deal. Hosting veteran cage power Salisbury Feb.

Missouri fishing got off to a great start on Jan. 15 when Travis Uebinger of Auxvasse reeled in a whopper blue sucker from the Osage River that was subsequently certified as a new state record for that species.

Closing in on a statistical state record with, effectively, one hurdle to clear to “run the table” during their 2022-23 regular season, the Meadville High School basketball Lady Eagles hosted Class 2 state-ranked Schuyler County Monday at the beginning of the closing week of the regular campaign, while also looking ahead to hosting the Class 1 District 12 tournament next week as the postseason commences. Last week, the MHS girls advanced to 24-0 with a showdown, 49-43 road victory over the top-ranked (by the Missouri Basketball Coaches Association) Class 2 team in the state, previously-undefeated St.

Higginsville’s Lafayette County High School will be the scene of the 15-schools Class 1 District 3 boys’ high school wrestling tournament this Friday and Saturday with both the Brookfield Bulldogs and Marceline Tigers squads expected to fare very well. Individually, the top four finishers in each of the 14 weight divisions will advance to next Wednesday’s and Thursday’s state tournament at the University of Missouri’s Mizzou Arena in Columbia.

CHILLICOTHE — Marceline High School’s wrestling squads wrapped up their 2022-23 regular seasons a week ago last night by winning three of their four matches in a double- dual with host Chillicothe and Centralia. The Tigers opened their evening with a close loss to Centralia’s topnotch squad, 40-37.

The Chillicothe Elks Gun and Knife Outdoor Show will be held this coming Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, Feb. 10-12, at their fine facility on Ryan Lane in southeast Chillicothe.

Similar scores marked L&C, non-league wins last week With strong closes, Marceline High School’s basketball Lady Tigers posted both Lewis and Clark Conference and non-conference victories last week. In league play last Thursday at Huntsville, after having a 6-points halftime advantage dwindle to a lone tally after three quarters, the Lady Tigers got what they needed – a final stanza similar, in terms of points production, to what carried them to victory two nights earlier at home against Novinger.

Lady Eagles visited top-ranked Class 2 team Monday in duel of unbeatens Reaching a pair of personal career milestones helped pass the time last Friday as Meadville High School’s basketball Lady Eagles worked to prime themselves for this past Monday’s battle of undefeated teams. With senior Mallory Dennis and junior transfer Paige Carvajal newly- minted as 1,000-points scorers for their prep careers, the 22-0 MHS girls, ranked in the top echelon of Class 1 teams by the Missouri Basketball Coaches Association, traveled to St.

For more than 3-1/2 quarters last Friday at Kahoka, it appeared old shooting troubles would deny Brookfield High School’s basketball girls a 16th win of the 2022-23 season. Fortunately for the Lady Bulldogs, their best scorer found some late room and touch, sparking BHS to a 40-32 Clarence Cannon Conference victory over host Clark County.