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Since we’re halfway through baseball season, I thought I’d better do our basketball review before it gets totally lost. We’ll always remember this as the year of the ladies in the Ozarks as every state championship game features a team from SW Mo. The Nixa Lady Eagles, Exeter Lady Tigers, and Sparta Lady Trojans each bring home state titles with Sparta running the table at a perfect 31-0. Joining those three in the Show-Me Showdown finals were the Webb City Lady Cardinals & Skyline Lady Tigers who saw their quest to repeat as champs come up 1 point short. Columbia was crowded with Ozarks teams. The Bakersfield, Couch, and Fair Grove girls made the trip. As did the Chadwick, Laquey, Miller, and Blue Eye boys. The Blue & Gold was great. The Tournament of Champions was incredible. And we were treated to one of the best all around basketball seasons ever.
A couple of explanations before we continue. This year I’m naming a team & MVP for each class. I define MVP as the person who has the biggest impact on their team. In other words, take that player off the team and what is the effect? Player of the year is based solely on basketball accomplishments regardless of class. Who did the best relative to their competition. And game of the year means a game between two Ozarks teams. So you won’t see Central beating Rock Bridge listed. With that, here’s some notable moments from the 08-09 basketball season, our All-OzarksSports teams, and a list of seniors that we say ‘Good bye’ and ‘Thank you’ to.
Continue reading 2008-09 basketball year in review
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Spent the evening in Purdy taking in the girls first round games. Top seed Miller looked sluggish, but still defeated Greenfield handily 70-46 with Hannah Wilkerson scoring 32 points. Coach Brandon Weiss told me that on the ride to Purdy he suspected that the girls weren’t quite focused and that certainly appeared to be true. The result should serve to get them sharp for the next contest though.
That will be against fourth seed College Heights who came alive in the fourth period to beat Jasper 33-29. Down by 3 early in the quarter, the Lady Cougars closed the game on a 9-2 run to punch their ticket to the next round.
Continue reading 3/2/09 class 1, 2, & 3 district update
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CLASS 1
District 2 at Bakersfield
Eminence has already beaten Lesterville twice this year and stud Austin Brewer is now back. After scoring 12 points his first game back, can he get back to near full capacity?
- Eminence
- Lesterville
- Dora
- Bakersfield
- Bradleyville
- Bunker
- Lutie
Prediction: This looks pretty clear cut. Eminence hasn’t needed Brewer to beat Lesterville yet. They do even better with him.
District 5 at Bolivar
Continue reading Class 1, 2, & 3 boys district preview
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BASKETBALL
BOYS
Weaubleau Tournament
- Championship – Weaubleau 53, Wheatland 43
- Consolation – Halfway 64, NE Vernon County 57
Varsity
- Richland 71, Dixon 62
- Dixon: Jordan Durham – 25 pts
- Rogersville 66, Bolivar 54
- Bolivar: Preston Guiot – 30 pts, 4 3s
- Miller 68, Pierce City 51
- Miller: Justin Jack – 21 pts
- Pierce City: Dietrick Sooter – 20 pts
- Seneca 56, Cassville 41
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Fair Grove continues to roll despite being 2 players down as they win the big matchup with Skyline 68-54. The Lady Eagles ran up a 14 point lead at the half. Then held off a Skyline charge in the third period. The Lady Tigers closed the gap to 5 going into the final quarter, but Fair Grove outscored them by 9 down the stretch for the final margin. If any doubters were left, this recent stretch since the injuries in which they’ve beaten both Central and now Skyline should have converted them.
BASKETBALL
GIRLS
SWCL Tournament
- Sparta 67, Clever 59
- Sparta: Brooke Stevens – 19 pts
- Clever: Bridget Hanafin – 17 pts
- Blue Eye 69, Spokane 50
Continue reading 2/5/09 scores
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BASKETBALL
BOYS
Varsity
Joplin 61, Nixa 54
Hillcrest 56, Waynesville 42
Hillcrest: Derek Chaney – 19 pts
Summersville 100, Koshkonong 51
Summersville: Billy Cross – 28 pts, Waylon Tuttle – 26 pts, Scott Haynes – 22 pts
Blue Eye 77, Galena 55
Blue Eye: Logan Decker – 25 pts
Junior varsity
Waynesville 41, Hillcrest 27
GIRLS
Varsity
Houston 56, Cabool 41
Mansfield 50, Liberty 41
Crane 50, Billings 38
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Branson hits the century mark in an easy win tonight. Reeds Spring’s Jake Marty lead all scorers with 30 points. But Mike Wiebe had 24 and Tate Unruh 23 as the Pirates breeze 100-70. Stoutland did them four better though as the Tigers beat Iberia 104-63. Dadeville continues to look impressive as both Brock Toler and Dakota Webb get double doubles in the Bearcats 70-25 win over Walnut Grove. And Joplin gets a buzzer beating 3 from Derek Stokes to down Parkview 39-36.
In the closest game of the night the Hartville Lady Eagles come from 5 down to start the fourth to win 41-39. Maggie Arnall had 20 for Hartville.
And the best individual performance of the night goes to Dietrick Sooter for his 50 point outburst including 11 longballs in the Eagles 82-47 win over Greenfield. Brother Wayne Sooter kicked in 20 points and 3 threes of his own.
BASKETBALL
BOYS
Continue reading 2/3/09 scores
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