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I want to say ‘Congratulations to the Cassville Wildcats’ for finishing second place in state in their class and for having an awesome season. I wish that I was familiar enough with all of the terms that I could give kudos to each individual team member and credit where credit is due, but I will leave that to my sports editor and my managing editor. What I do know is that it takes an entire team to accomplish what you have accomplished...

It was an offensive shootout at Memorial Stadium in Columbia Saturday, with the Cassville football team buried in a barrage of Bulldog points and falling in the state championship game, 49-28. The game started with a bang, as Odessa’s Bryley Ray took the opening kick 93 yards to paydirt to make the score 6-0 for the Bulldogs only 12 seconds in...

The Cassville football team received a police escort through Kid Kat Drive, the high school's circle drive and down Main Street Friday as they shipped off to face Odessa in the Class 3 state title game Saturday at 11 a.m.

No matter who wins the Cassville-Odessa Class 3 state championship football game Saturday, one state politician will come out ahead with a free barbecue lunch. The friendly wager was issued by State Rep. Glen Kolkmeyer, R-Odessa, to Scott Fitzpatrick, State Treasurer...

Only 48 minutes of Class 3 high school football remain in Missouri, and the Wildcats of Cassville plan to fight for each one as they battle Odessa Saturday in the Show-Me Bowl at Memorial Stadium and Farout Field at 11 a.m. The Wildcats (12-2) won a 13-0 contest over defending state champion Trinity Catholic to earn the right to be in the title tilt...

It was a day the more than 1,400 in attendance at Wildcat Stadium will not soon forget. Led by a monumental defensive effort, the Cassville football team punched its ticket to Columbia for its first chance at a state title in a decade with a 13-0 win over defending Class 3 titleholder Trinity Catholic...

With a state title berth secured, the Cassville football team turns its full attention to Odessa and the state title. However, Lance Parnell, Wildcats coach, often reminds his players of history. The first home game of each season is dedicated to a select group of Alumni ‘Cats, and more to the point, the team is asked to learn and grow from each game...

Former President Teddy Roosevelt once said, “Nobody cares how much you know until they know how much you care.” That quote spawned a style of management called servant leadership, where the leader’s main goal is the thriving of the company or organization...

The Cassville football team has one more week to play, as the Wildcats will try for its first state title in 10 years Saturday after defeating defending state champion Trinity Catholic, 13-0. The game centered around Cassville’s defense, which successfully held the Titans on three goal line stands and gave the offense positioning to take a second-half lead and hold on...

Two proud teams will clash on the gridiron in south Barry County, as Cassville (11-2) welcomes Trinity Catholic (9-3) to town for a Class 3 showdown Saturday at 1 p.m. The Wildcats enter the game riding the surge of a 35-28 win over Blair Oaks, and the Titans rolled to a 26-0 decision over St. Charles Lutheran...

The Wildcats never talked public about it, but they heard all the talk. The Cassville football team heard how the line was too weak, the team was too flawed, and it could not rise up to win the big game and could not get through its conference, district or even quarterfinal unscathed...

The basketball season for Cassville begins on Monday in the Marionville tournament. The Wildcats were shown respect with the No. 1 seed in the eight-team tournament field. Cassville opens play Monday at 6 p.m. against No. 8 Hurley. No. 4 Miller and No. 5 Marionville conclude the night with a 7:30 p.m. tip...

The final grouping of softball awards has been released, and the results were largely positive for the Cassville softball team. Kyren Postlewait landed First Team All-Conference, All-District and All-Region honors for her play this season. Gaining First Team All-District awards for Cassville was Postlewait. Teammates Emilee Mann picked up Second Team honors for her infield play, and Hallie Walker earned Second Team honors in the outfield division...

Hunters in Missouri harvested more than 88,000 deer in the opening weekend of the fall firearms season. The Missouri Department of Conservation says that of the 88,843 deer harvested, 51,086 were antlered bucks, 8,115 were button bucks, and 29,642 were does. The top Missouri counties for deer harvests last weekend were Franklin, Texas, and Callaway...

WARDSVILLE — Stock up the concession stand and fire up the lights because a Class 3 semifinal football is coming to Cassville next Saturday after the Wildcats knocked off Blair Oaks, the No. 1 ranked team in Missouri on Saturday, 35-28. Cassville will host Trinity Catholic, the defending Class 3 state champion. A start time has not been determined...

The Cassville football team received a police escort out of town Saturday morning, cheered on by fans braving the snowy weather at 7:15 a.m.

With just eight teams left in Class 3, all striving for the coveted title of state champion, the games, as well as the competition, just keep getting bigger. The mountain that Cassville (10-2) has placed before them is the tallest of the range in No. 1 Blair Oaks (12-0)...

Almost a full decade after its last state title, Cassville is once again lifting up hardware, and the mentality of winners seems to run strong through the Wildcat program. Cassville topped Seneca 30-20 Friday, and senior Bowen Preddy said one of the things that came to his mind after the win is how he was inspired to greatness so many years ago...

Seneca’s death-by-a-thousand-pin-pricks offense gave Cassville a scare early, but the Wildcats’ haymaker style ultimately knocked the Indians out of the playoffs, as Cassville earned a 30-20 win at Wildcat Stadium. Seneca started the game hot, breaking a 75-yard run on a drive taking 3:18 off the first-quarter clock and ending with a 1-yard quarterback sneak for the touchdown...

The Cassville Area Chamber of Commerce is hoping to help pack the stadium Friday for the Cassville football team's district championship game against Seneca at Wildcat Stadium. High school students who come to the gate behind the press box and show a school ID or incentive card will get into the game for free...

With each week that passes in the football season, teams get a chance to improve and show growth. Cassville will get a chance this week to not only attack those two goals, but also the opportunity to secure a district title on its home field. “This time of year, you are playing just to get one more week,” said Lance Parnell, Cassville coach. ...

Almost any coach of any high school sport will say it is hard to beat the same team twice, but that is a feat the Cassville football team performed on Friday, topping Monett 19-6 and moving on to host the district championship game this week. Lance Parnell, Cassville coach, said there were a lot of similarities between Friday’s win and the Week 3 win, a 21-14 contest where Monett had multiple shots at the end zone to possibly tie the game in the final seconds...

Cassville’s Sharayah Seymour, First Team; Landry Parnell, Second Team; and Olivia Holman, Honorable Mention, were named to the 2019 Big 8 All-Conference West Division team on Monday night. The complete list is as follows: First Team Haley Nash, Seneca...

The boys soccer season for Cassville came to a conclusion in the district semifinal last week with a 4-0 loss to Monett. “Monett is talented,” said Jake Forste, Cassville coach. “I think we made them settle for some shots they didn’t want to take, especially in the first half. It is hard to keep good teams down, and eventually, things open up, and they hit some shots.”...

The Southwest Cross Country team was well-represented at the 2019 Class 2 Cross Country meet at Gans Creek Cross Country Course in Columbia.

Purdy’s Joy Grace finished 86th in the 164-person field at the Class 1 state championship cross country meet at Gans Creek Cross Country Course in Columbia on Saturday.