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 [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
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
Seneca: Toby Roelfsema – 28 pts, [...]
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 [...]
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
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 [...]