Sports

Whether fans, players or coaches are ready, the fall season is here and unofficially kicks off for several teams in the form of preseason jamborees. While technically considered a practice session, the jamboree format allows teams to face other schools in a live-game format...

A new sport, a new team and a new challenge await Cassville girls golf and Coach Jay Rogers. Rogers has never been one to back down from a challenge, and when the district saw that there was enough play interest to form a girls golf team, he signed on to be its coach...

Not many individuals can lay claim to the title of World Champion, but not many people have the dedication and love of horses as Stan Patton. Patton, who owns a farm just north of Purdy, partnered with Jane Rogers, of Monett, on three Buckskin horses...

For the second time in Southwest trap team history, a National Championship trophy has made its home in Washburn. The Trojans’ first national championship came to the high school team in 2009. Now, nine years later, it is the junior high program that brought home the AIM Grand National Title, held annually at the World Shooting Complex in Sparta, Ill...

There is no need to remind Cassville Football Coach Lance Parnell about the upcoming season. Parnell and his coaching staff began preparing for the 2018 slate when the 7-4 2017 season ended with a loss to Reeds Spring. A new year, with an expanded conference, has not changed Parnell’s expectations, and he has impressed upon his Wildcats that he expects nothing but their best...

Hoping that the third year is the charm, Cassville Soccer Coach Jake Forste is excited for the season. A senior dominated team means the Wildcats will have the ability to start nine seniors with multiple years of varsity experience under their belt...

The Monett WaterThrashers swim team will wrap up its season this weekend by hosting the Tri-State Swim Conference A Championships at the Monett Area YMCA. According to Charles LaGarce, head coach, 50 of the 123 Monett swimmers participated last weekend in the Conference B championships in Siloam Springs, Ark. Twenty advanced to the finals, and many scored times high enough to qualify them for this weekend’s event...

The Cassville school district finalized its coaching hires for the 2018-2019 school year. The district has hired some new faces, and it welcomes two new varsity programs to its offering list in girls golf and girls soccer. According to Doug Martin, Cassville athletic director, the district polled its student body and found there was sufficient interest for a girls golf team...

The action on the turf at Missouri Southern State University’s Fred G. Hughes Stadium in Joplin will soon be larger than life. The Missouri Southern Foundation Thursday announced that construction has commenced on a new videoboard for the stadium – a privately funded project that will result in one of the three largest of its kind in all of NCAA Division II Athletics...

Mason Hendrix was throwing his weight around at practice for the Wildcats last week.