A very interesting evening of girls basketball last night. Conway already had a couple of good wins on the year. Now they’ve added a great win as they knocked off Fair Grove 47-44. Parkview continues to impress as they win over MacDonald County 73-52 behind Emily Akin’s 25 points. New Covenant’s Charlotte Vernier had the [...]
Now most of you know that Joboo loves me some small school ball. And that I keep an eye out for up & coming talent. With that in mind, I headed to Sarcoxie last night to catch the Everton Lady Tigers and Jessica Holland. She of the triple double to start the season. I arrived [...]
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 [...]
The Missouri Basketball Coaches Association released their All-State teams yesterday. 26 girls and 15 boys from the Ozarks were selected. The Sparta girls garnered the most selections with three, Kayla Coffer, Brooke Stevens, and Tashina Tennis. The girls teams from Webb City, Nixa, and Exeter had two selections each. And Nixa’s Jim Middleton, Skyline’s Kevin [...]
3:55 PM – Sparta brings it home. Sparta 56, Canton 49. The scoring was cranked up in the second half as Canton’s Tori Niemann, who set out most of the first half with two fouls, scored 18 points to finish with 21. But Sparta was equal to task as they built their lead to as [...]
2:15 PM – Sparta doesn’t let it stay close, comes out firing in the third period hitting 5 3s to push the lead to as much as 19, then maintained the rest of the way to win 59-38 over Couch. Kayla Coffer gets 21 and Brooke Stevens 17 for the Lady Trojans. Sparta shot 63.2% [...]
CLASS 1
BOYS
Three Rivers CC, Poplar Bluff – Scott County Central 87, Eminence 58
State Fair CC, Sedalia – Chadwick 61, Thomas Jefferson 42
GIRLS
Three Rivers CC, Poplar Bluff – Bakersfield 56, Delta 52
State Fair CC, Sedalia – Exeter 40, Montrose 33
Fourteen Ozarks teams remain alive in the smaller classes on the road to Columbia. By Saturday evening that number will be at least 12, and most likely less. Here’s a quick look at each matchup and what to expect. Except for class 3 games at Springfield, all boys games are at 1 PM, and all [...]
I’m finally recovered from my lovely tour of Ozarks gyms and starting to feel myself again. Just in time for tonight’s action in classes 2 & 3. We started the night with the possibility of three Ozarks teams advancing to Columbia in both class 2 boys & girls. That’s already been rendered impossible as Thayer [...]
Already a number one seed has fallen. Rogersville takes it to top seed West Plains at Marshfield and gets the upset 55-51 in overtime. The Lady Wildcats will next face the host Lady Jays of Marshfield who knocked off Bolivar 61-45.
And the 5s have it at Lebanon with both of the bottom seeds winning to [...]