PARIS — Competing in a scramble-format tournament last Friday to stay sharp prior to this past Monday’s district tournament, Marceline High School’s golf Tigers came up two stroke shy of claiming the team title in the Paris Scramble Tournament, MHS coach Michael Severa reports.
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Anyone anticipating a return to normalcy in the Kentucky Derby got a dose of crazy on Saturday when an 80-1 shot came charging up the rail to win at Churchill Downs.
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.
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.