COLUMBIA – For the first time in many, many years, the University of Missouri-Columbia Department of Athletics’ spring promotional “caravan” tour – expanded this year to at least 24 separate events – will include a visit to Chillicothe on May 18.
I hope all area turkey hunters have done their scouting and found some gobbling turkeys that could be huntable, because Missouri’s annual spring turkey season opens a half-hour before sunrise Monday.
LANCASTER — Even with an efficient, “small-ball” start which gave them a quick lead, things didn’t look promising for the Marceline High School baseball Tigers after one inning Monday. Host Schuyler County countered the MHS run constructed on Wyatt Molloy’s game-starting single, two steals, and a run-scoring groundout by Nathan Cupp by getting its first four batters aboard safely and, with the aid of a couple of MHS miscues, hanging a 5-spot on the scoreboard as it batted around in its opening frame.
The BKN (Brunswick-Keytesville-Northwestern) Thunder high school baseball team on Tuesday followed up on the Carroll-Livingston Activity Association Tournament title it earned with two wins Monday by shutting out the Southwest Livingston/Tina-Avalon co-op squad 4-0 at Ludlow.
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Alyssa Nakken was hard at work in the batting cage, just a few steps from the dugout, when suddenly the call came: The San Francisco Giants needed her to coach at first base. She quickly pulled off her sweatshirt, grabbed
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Clayton Kershaw took a perfect game through seven innings for the Los Angeles Dodgers in his season debut, dominating the Minnesota Twins with 13 strikeouts in 21 batters on Wednesday.
ST. LOUIS (AP) — The Kansas City Royals’ Wednesday game at St.
CHILLICOTHE — Having previously excelled individually with two victories and one runnerup finish in races two, four and eight times as long, Brookfield High School senior star Alexandra “Alex” Sharp was only one single trip around the Jerry Litton Memorial Stadium II all-weather track away from gaining the distinction of being the 14-schools meet’s top female individual points scorer in last Friday’s Chillicothe Joe Shy Relays track-and-field meet, but she’d need help from three teammates to make that last circuit pay off
For the second year in a row, the Missouri National Archery in the Schools Program (MoNASP) state tournament exceeded expectations. Held in Branson, Missouri and hosted by the Missouri Conservation Heritage Foundation (MCHF), the tournament drew a crowd of over 10,000 people with approximately 4,500 student competitors. The excitement in the convention center, pouring out of the thousands of young shooters, was electric.
KANSAS CITY — On a Friday afternoon not particularly well-suited for golf, Marceline High School’s golf Tigers made the most of their opportunity to play at a metropolitan Kansas City course. Facing Kansas City: Park Hill’s junior-varsity lineup in an 18-holes match at the par-72 Tiffany Greens course, the Tigers continued their early-season success by shooting a low-4 score of 355, edging the Class 5 foe’s second-stringers by 12 strokes.