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BROOKFIELD — A final-snap, option-play keeper by Brookfield Bulldogs junior quarterback Colton Parn after a great fake of a “dive play” handoff allowed the host ’Dogs to nip rival Marceline 30-29 in overtime in repeated come-from-behind fashion last Friday night at Burlington Field in a tremendous, back-and-forth Class 1 District 6 playoffs quarterfinal battle. “When it’s these two towns, it’s anything but a regular game,” Cory Luke, second-year Brookfield head coach, admits.

PLATTE CITY — Led, as expected, by Brookfield sophomore Samantha “Sam” Sharp, but also featuring four other top-20 finishers, six high school cross country runners have qualified for this Saturday’s Class 1 or 2 state meets at Columbia.

SPRINGFIELD — Like gathering, growing storm clouds, the Marceline High School softball Lady Tigers kept creating good scoring chances inning after inning in their Class 2 state tournament semifinal game against the Eugene Lady Eagles last Friday at midday, only to be unable to snap a 1-1 tie which had been in place since the first inning. However, though, a cloudburst came – not out of left field, but out of the left-handed batter’s box, complete with loud thunder and lightning.

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Only two more days remain in Missouri’s 2022 fall firearms turkey season, but there’s plenty more hunting coming up as the North Zone duck season opens today and will run for 60 days, ending Dec. 27.

Their offense coming off a horrid performance in a narrow Homecoming win over woeful Vanderbilt, the University of Missouri football Tigers will compete for the Mayor's Cup in Columbia, S.C. this Saturday, visiting the No.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The Kansas City Chiefs were staring at an early 10-point hole, on the road and against one of the best defenses in the NFL, yet managed to not only turn things around but roar to a 44-23 victory over the San Francisco 49ers on Sunday.