Two of the four Linn County smaller high school baseball teams which commenced postseason play in their respective district tournaments last weekend posted victories that extended their seasons into at least the early part of this week.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The Kansas City Royals fired hitting coach Terry Bradshaw and promoted Alex Zumwalt to fill his role Monday in a shakeup of the coaching staff that they hope will wake up one of the worst offenses in the majors this season.
Barring intervening health or other problems, Linn County’s Class 1 high schools are set to have nine entries in this Friday’s and Saturday’s Class 1 Track-and-Field State Championships at Jefferson City High School’s “Pete” Adkins Stadium.
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Albert Pujols had an absolute blast.
PHOENIX (AP) — Luka Doncic scored 35 points, Spencer Dinwiddie added 30 and the Dallas Mavericks stunned the top-seeded Phoenix Suns with a 123-90 Game 7 blowout Sunday night, advancing to the Western Conference finals for the first time since 2011.
All good things come to an end, it is said, and so it did last Saturday for the Brookfield High School baseball Bulldogs and their late-season surge toward a .500 record in only their second season of existence.
MONROE CITY — With only minimal exceptions, Brookfield and Marceline high school trackand-field athletes involved in last Saturday’s state-meet-winnowing Class 2 sectional meet at Monroe City into only a rest stop on their way to Jefferson City.
From Russell Wilson playing his first game as a Bronco in Seattle to Doug Pederson vs. Carson Wentz, the NFL schedule is filled with spicy matchups from the outset. Too bad we have to wait four months for it all to begin. And it should begin with a bang. The Seahawks prospered like never before with Wilson as their quarterback for the last decade, including a Super Bowl title and another they should have had if not for some, uh, curious play calls in the 2015 game. They rewarded Wilson's desire to go elsewhere with a monster trade in this offseason and he landed in Denver. Now he lands in Seattle in Week 1 as an opponent. From Russell Wilson playing his first game as a Bronco in Seattle to Doug Pederson vs. Carson Wentz, the NFL schedule is filled with spicy matchups from the outset. Too bad we have to wait four months for it all to begin.
MOBERLY — In a sensational, welltimed show of skill, four Marceline High School golf Tigers shot 18-holes rounds of 84 or lower in the Class 1 District 2 tournament last Monday, placing them all among the 8-best individual rounds and powering the Tigers to the team championship and one of the district’s two team berths in this coming Monday’s and Tuesday’s Class 1 State Championships tournament near Springfield.
RICHMOND — As looked likely, the season for the Brookfield High School Bulldogs golf team reached its conclusion last Monday. Competing in the state-qualifying Class 2 District 4 tournament at Richmond’s Shirkey Golf Course, Brookfield – with only the minimum four golfers needed to produce a team score entered – generated a score of 518, last in the field of 12 teams entered (not all schools had enough players for a team score).