BROOKFIELD — Having entered this final week of the regular season on a modest, but school-record, 3-games winning streak after last Thursday’s scheduled clash with Salisbury was canceled, due to rain and a too-wet field, the Brookfield High School baseball Bulldogs will commence postseason play in the 5-teams Class 3 District 16 Tournament as the No. 4 seed.
MARCELINE — Thanks to a couple of big innings last Saturday, Marceline High School’s baseball Tigers earned a crack this past Monday at gaining a half-share of the 2022 Lewis and Clark Conference championship in only the third year of the MHS program’s existence.
Eleven months after the NCAA lifted most of its restrictions against athletes cashing in on their fame, college sports leaders are trying to send a warning to schools and boosters it believes have crossed a line: There are still rules here and they will be enforced.
The four small-school high school baseball programs in or overlapping Linn County will begin their district tournaments this Friday at two sites. The Meadville, Linn County R-1, and Bucklin/Macon County R-4 squads will be involved in the Class 1 District 14 tourney which Green City will host.
HUNTSVILLE — Given strong arguments by both Harrisburg and Schuyler County all afternoon and evening long, the determined Marceline High School track-and-field Lady Tigers refused to be denied this past Monday.
Marceline High School football Tigers 2-ways standout Hunter Nelson signed late last month to accept a scholarship offer to play the sport at Iowa’s Graceland University. Joining him for the signing ceremony at the MHS gym were his parents Debbie and Robert. A 2022 All-State running back and multiple times all-Lewis and Clark Conference and all-district honoree at both running back and linebacker, as well as Academic All-State in football and a multi-times state wrestling tournament qualifier, Nelson finished his gridiron career at Marceline with 3,371 rushing yards, 4th-most all-time in MHS history, and a 6.2 yards per carry career average. He scored 45 touchdowns and gained 3,599 all-purpose yards. On defense, he was part of 308 total tackles in his career, according to MHS head coach Mark Ross. (PHOTO SUPPLIED/courtesy of Mark Ross)
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Yadier Molina wasn't going to let an illness that kept the Cardinals catcher out of the previous day's lineup also keep him from walking onto the field with Adam Wainwright for the 310th time on Wednesday.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The Chiefs placed an unrestricted free-agent tender on defensive end Melvin Ingram and traded for Houston cornerback Lonnie Johnson on Monday, hoping to add two more pieces to a defense that was revamped during the NFL draft.
As I write this column in the second week of Missouri’s 3-week spring turkey season, harvest success across the state appears to have slowed markedly since opening weekend, with inclement cold weather a big factor
GLASGOW — Having led three times, only to be overtaken once and caught twice more, the Brookfield High School baseball Bulldogs manufactured a go-ahead run with the middle of their lineup in the top of the seventh inning and turned a game-ending double play to notch their third victory in a row last Monday, nipping the pesky Glasgow Yellowjackets 9-8 in non-conference play.