Softball
9/6 scores
Sunday, September 7th, 2008Some good action from Saturday, including the New Covenant soccer team’s ‘revenge’ tour hitting a snag in Cassville as they fell to the Wildcats 3-2. I talked with a couple of Cassville’s soccer players Friday night at the Mt. Vernon/Cassville football game. And while neither seemed upset about the ‘revenge’ comment published in the News-Leader, [...]
Other Friday action
Saturday, September 6th, 2008I know some people may be shocked to hear this. But (brace yourself) there are sports other than football played on Fridays in the fall. For instance, softball, where Ash Grove beat Miller 7 to 5 last night. Shelly Wilson had 3 hits to lead the Pirates. Boy’s swimming and diving also. Why yesterday Kickapoo [...]
9/2 scores
Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008Volleyball opened up and took center stage last night. State ranked Rogersville opened their season with a straight set 25-22, 29-27 win over Kickapoo. Callie Carroll and Sarah Powell combined for 23 digs for the Wildcats as they showed a strong defensive effort. Soccer also had a soggy opening night. A trio of one goal [...]
8/28 scores
Friday, August 29th, 2008Softball scores from the area yesterday. Including all the scores from the JSA Paige Neal/Christina Freeman Memorial Tournament in Joplin where Webb City won a pair 7-1 over Neosho and 5-3 over Raymore-Peculiar.
SOFTBALL
JSA Paige Neal/Christina Freeman Memorial Tournament - Joplin
Webb City 7, Neosho 1
Webb City 5, Ray-Pec 3
Park Hills South 4, Joplin 1
Blue Springs [...]
Tuesday night scores
Wednesday, August 27th, 2008A few scores from last night, and a big announcement. MSHSAA announced that Springfield will host the state softball championship in 2010 & 2011. Here’s a short article on the announcement from the News-Leader. Speaking of softball…
SOFTBALL
Republic 10, Cassville 0
Joplin 6, Neosho 5
McDonald County 10, Aurora 0
Morrisville 17, Marionville 1
Weaubleau 5, Leeton [...]
And they’re off!
Tuesday, August 26th, 2008The school sports year officially kicked off yesterday with some softball and tennis. Here’s the scores.
SOFTBALL
Wheatland 5, Dadeville 2
Camdenton 5, Dixon 0
Skyline 8, Weaubleau 7
Skyline: Emily Reyes - 4 for 4, Kara Glor - 4 for 5
Nixa 10, Parkview 0
Nixa: Hallie Petersen & Jamie Penick - combined no-hitter; Nikki Cox - 4 hits; Courtney [...]
Morrisville coaching news
Saturday, April 19th, 2008In a Morrisville school board meeting held Thursday night, former girls softball and basketball coach Melody Stewart (Campbell) was offered her coaching position back. No word as of yet if she has accepted. Also, an unconfirmed report says that the school superintendent, Ron McIntire, resigned at the board meeting possibly in connection with [...]
Webb City coaching change official
Thursday, March 27th, 2008As we reported Tuesday, Walter Resa is stepping down as head basketball coach at Webb City. He will instead serve as an assistant to new head coach Brad Shorter who is coming over from Carl Junction. Resa will continue as the head softball coach. You can read the full story in the [...]
More coaching chaos
Tuesday, March 25th, 2008Tonight I received an unconfirmed report from a very reliable source that Webb City head girls basketball coach Walter Resa has stepped down after a fine year that ended in the state quarterfinals with a loss to eventual state champion Bolivar. Taking his place will be the head girls basketball coach from rival Carl [...]