Sports

Marceline Football Trio First-Team All-L&C

Nine Marceline High School football players received some level of all-Lewis and Clark Conference recognition in the voting by conference head coaches, results of which were announced recently. Three Tigers – seniors Tanner Sayre and Ryder Gooch and junior Caleb Stallo received enough support to net first-team berths – Sayre on the offensive line, R.

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Mizzou Slips by Southern Indiana by Six in Gates’ Debut

COLUMBIA (AP) — Returnee Kobe Brown scored 20 points to lead six players in double figures, and added 14 rebounds and Missouri opened the season under new coach Dennis Gates by holding off Southern Indiana 97-91 last Monday night. Gates picks up his first win at Missouri after a successful three-year run at Cleveland State. The Tigers are coming off a 12-21 record and 11th-place finish in the Southeastern Conference.

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Alvarez Blasts Astros, Baker to Series Title

HOUSTON (AP) — Yordan Alvarez hit a moon shot that sent Space City into a frenzy, and the Houston Astros to their second World Series title. While the stain on Houston's first championship might never completely fade, Alvarez's majestic three-run homer helped fashion a fresh crown for the Astros -- and the first for Dusty Baker as manager -- in a 4-1 win over the Philadelphia Phillies in Game 6 on Saturday night.

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Sam Sharp Starts Own State Portfolio

COLUMBIA — Delayed a year by injury, but not derailed, sophomore Samantha “Sam” Sharp of Brookfield High School began carving her own chapter of state-level distance-running excellence into BHS history last Saturday when she joined older sister Alexandra in being a top-5 finisher in the Missouri State High School Activities Association Class 2 Championships in cross-country running. Prevented by a lingering midseason injury that worsened during the district state-qualifying race from joining “Alex” in her last of four medal-earning state showings last fall, “Sam” navigated her sophomore season without recurrence of the injury and, despite much less off-season training than she otherwise would have done as the leg injury didn’t fully heal until early last summer, capped it with a fifthplace time of 20:04 in last weekend’s state race at the Gans Creek Cross-Country Running Course, southeast of Columbia.

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