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The Cassville boys track team had solid showing at the East Newton and Nixa meets last week. The highlight for the Wildcats was a team third place at East Newton. Results are as follows: First place • Long jump: Austin Wilson, 20-1.25 • 400-meter: Austin Wilson, 51.37...

It was not the most ideal way to start a game. Cassville pitcher Jarrod Wallace watched East Newton’s Hunter Liveoak take his second pitch of the game to the wall for a double, but the hit settled the Wildcat hurler down, and the offense did the rest in a 10-2 victory over the Patriots on Monday...

Mother Nature finally cooperated with the Cassville girls track team, allowing the Lady Wildcats to get in two meets last week. On Thursday, Cassville took fourth at East Newton, and on April 10, finished 10th at Nixa. Result are as follows: First place...

The excitement of a first-inning two-run home run by Sol Rainey was short lived for the Cassville baseball team in a 7-2 loss at Purdy Thursday. The Wildcats, 2-5 on the season, while young, had a team meeting after the game where the players challenged each other to be better...

They are often one of the most visible, but less discussed, aspects of almost any sporting event — the cheerleaders. Nevertheless, no game is complete without their ability to make fans stand up and cheer their team on to victory. For four years, Purdy senior Emma Mareth has poured her efforts and talent into leading the cheer squad at Purdy High School. ...

The Purdy baseball team is starting to get hot. After a slow start to the season, the Eagles have ripped of four-straight victories, including a 7-2 statement win over Cassville on Thursday. “We’re not anywhere near where we are capable of playing,” said Joshua Hughes, Purdy coach. ...

There is an emerging baseball force in Barry County that has to be accounted for. Long dormant, but now coming back to relevance, the Exeter boys baseball team has started to roar again, and other teams are taking note. The Tigers are off to a 6-3 start to the season and have shown an offensive potency unparalleled by others, scoring 32, 20, 16 and 12 runs in four of their wins...

After being delayed almost a week, the Ice Box Relays finally went on Thursday in Aurora. Cassville’s girls finished third, and the boys took fourth. Results for both teams are as follows: First place • Shot put: Audra Brooks, 35-6 • Javelin: Josi Rose, 104-2...

The Cassville middle school track program had a standout day at the McDonald County track meet last Tuesday. In the seventh grade division, the 4x200 relay team of Jacob Martinez, Andrew Taylor, Jadon Ewing and Peter Littlefield took first. Cassville earned second in the 4x100 relay Martinez, Taylor, Ewing and Littlefield; and Littlfield in the high jump. Dallas Johnson earned third in the pole vault and Jadon Ewing was third in the high jump...

The Cassville junior varsity soccer team defeated Parkview, 8-0, on Thursday. Scoring for the Lady Wildcats was as follows: Brianna Hemphill, 2; Jamie Watts, 2; Jaz Aguirre, 2; Kamryn Jaques, 1; and Bayla Osborne, 1.

Cassville senior Dylan Garner finished 14th individually in the 30-team Missouri State University Relay Golf Tourney last week in Springfield. Garner, who competed against 150 other individuals, had the third-best round of any Class 3 golfer. Issac Dodson recorded his best score of the season, and Payton Varner made his varsity debut, according to coach Jay Rogers...

The slow, steady drip of post season basketball awards finally concluded with the release of the Missouri Basketball Coaches Association All-State lists. Among the rosters of the most talented hoopsters in the state were two natives from Purdy in Layne Skiles and Colt Keeling...

In 2017, a group was formed to help restore, educate, and advance the game of basketball in the Four-State area. The group, which included several area coaches is called 4-States Basketball Coaches Association or 4SBCA. With a full year of organization under their belt, the group has released its 2018 list of All-Region players...

It has been almost a week and a half since the Cassville baseball team has taken the field for a competitive game. Mother Nature has wreaked havoc on the Wildcats’ schedule, forcing three game postponements already for a team that just wants, and needs, to go out and chew up innings...

Southwest Middle School held its first-ever Invitational Track Meet on March 23.

On Thursday at the Bird Dog Classic tournament in Carl Junction, senior Dylan Garner took first place in a field of 20 teams and nearly 100 golfers. As a team, Cassville finished in the middle of the pack in 10th. Also competing were Issac Dodson, Austin Wilson and Shannon Haney...

Some of the best small-school basketball in southwest Missouri can be found here in Barry and Lawrence counties. A bulk of the schools are part of the Ozark 7 Conference, which night in and night out has some great basketball. This year, the league sent a team to the final four and now, the time has come to award and name its best players...

With nine returning letter winners, the Cassville girls track team has a small, but talented nucleus. Returning for Cassville are: Audra Brooks, Catie Edmondson, Nefertiti Gautney, Opal Gouvion, Brianna Hemphill, Parker Marple, Alondra Miller, Kennedy Parnell and Josi Rose...

In their first taste of varsity action this season, the Wildcats track team competed at McDonald County on Thursday. “We are a very young team, and we have a lot of growing left to do,” said Clay Weldy, Cassville track coach. “I was pleased with some of our older guys who got personal record in events [Austin Wilson in Long Jump and Skyler Wolf in shot put]. Overall, our kids competed well, but we saw a lot of things that we can improve on.”...

When Joshua Hughes, Purdy baseball coach, smiles while talking about his baseball team, fans know that he has high expectations. On Saturday, Purdy went 1-1 with a 11-9 loss to Monett and a 19-0 win over Spokane, and the coach was not pleased. “I was talking with [Monett Coach] Michael Calhoun before our game and we both felt that defense would be our strong suit and it would be a low-scoring affair,” Hughes said. ...

It is a rare feat these days — not just in education, but especially in coaching — to see a teacher remain with the same school for 20 or more years. Yet Chris Shore, Cassville girls basketball coach, has decided that 22 years at the helm of the Lady Wildcats is enough...

Cassville Coach Clay Weldy and the Wildcats track team open their season on Thursday at McDonald County. The Wildcats return 12 participants from last year’s squad, including Austin Wilson, who won the conference meet in the 400-meter and was a state qualifier in the same event...

Graduating five seniors and four starters from a season ago, Kenny Ferguson, Southwest baseball coach was not sure how his squad would respond. Ferguson said the issues were easy to spot, but the solutions were not as easy to implement. “We finished 8-10 last year and lost in the first round of districts to McAuley Catholic, 8-1,” Ferguson said. ...