Archive for February, 2008
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Monday, February 25th, 2008Boys action primarily tonight across the state. We get a semi-final rematch of Clever-Sparta in class 2 district 11 Thursday night. Top seed Clever crushed New Covenant 72-27 & Sparta eased past Crane 68-54. We should find out exactly what Clever is made out of with this one. On the girls [...]
Class 3 district 12 breakdown
Monday, February 25th, 2008George at Barry County Sports posted an excellent detailed breakdown of the girls side of class 3 district 12 today. If you’re a fan of the teams involved or just a stats junkie you need to give it a read. It can be found here. And if you like that, check out his class 2 district 12 boys & [...]
Top junior football players
Monday, February 25th, 2008MoSports released their list of the top football players in the class of 2009 today. The Ozarks had several representatives listed below. You can read the entire listing here.
Name
School
Height/Weight
Position
Jerome Davis
McAuley
5-10 / 195
DL
Trey Derryberry
Carthage
5-11 / 170
QB
Jacob Eckman
Thayer
6-1 / 185
DE
Tyler Evans
Strafford
6-7 / 275
DL
Andy Flett
Salem
6-3 / 320
OL
Chris Greene
Republic
6-3 / 240
DL
Brock Hallman
Nixa
6-2 / 265
DL
Preston Henry
Marionville
6-1 / 217
DE
Cody Holland
Neosho
6-5 [...]
Review of class 4 & 5 predictions
Monday, February 25th, 2008As we pause for one day to take a breath before launching into all the basketball madness that is about to ensue, I, your fearless prognosticator, am going to see how I did predicting the class 4 & 5 district results a few weeks ago. It may be scary, but I’m not afraid to examine my own failures. [...]
2/23 district report
Sunday, February 24th, 2008It’s all districts or better from here on out & lots of action from yesterday to talk about. Bolivar wins the huge rematch with Marshfield & ends the Lady Jays undefeated season in convincing fashion 65-55. The biggest difference versus the match-up earlier in the year was that Bolivar got balanced scoring in the second [...]
2/22 scores & district report
Friday, February 22nd, 2008Kickapoo failed to defend the home court as both girls & boys teams were defeated by Ozark for their respective district championships. The Lady Tigers led by Courtney Gimlin’s 22 points & Bri Anton’s 20 downed the #1 seed Lady Chiefs 49-36. While the Chiefs surrendered a 19 point 3rd quarter lead when the Tigers went on runs [...]
2/21 scores & district report
Friday, February 22nd, 2008Stop me if you’ve heard this one before. Weather caused many postponements. The only district action came out of Kickapoo where #1 Ozark & #2 Kickapoo are now set for the final. The Chiefs held off a surge by the 3rd seeded Eagles then pulled away to win 50-36. While Ozark took down 5th seeded Parkview [...]
District play rescheduling
Thursday, February 21st, 2008The weather played havoc with the district playoffs tonight as well as other games. As far as I know, the class 5 district 12 games at Kickapoo were still played. Here’s the latest updated schedule for districts.
Class 4 District 9 - Bolivar
The girls championship game has been rescheduled for Saturday at 2:30. The boys championship is still on [...]
2/20 scores & district report
Thursday, February 21st, 20084 district finals set last night. All end up with a #1 vs #2 match-up. At Union, the Salem girls see their season end with a 54-41 loss to Sullivan. In class 5 girls, district 11 gets the Waynesville-Central #1 vs #2 game. The Lady Tigers down Hillcrest & Central sends Glendale home for the season. District [...]
Missouri state basketball rankings 2-20
Wednesday, February 20th, 2008Final regular season rankings for classes 4 & 5. Waynesville boys & Republic girls fall out. While Laquey & Fair Play boys climb in.
BOYS
Class 5
1. Raytown 24-0
2. McCluer North 20-4
3. Parkway South 24-2
4. Webster Groves 23-3
5. Kickapoo 22-4
6. Fort Zumwalt South 22-3
7. Rock Bridge 22-2
8. Gateway 21-4
9. Lee’s Summit West 17-6
10. Troy 19-7
Class 4
1. St. [...]