Sports

For the third consecutive year, the Cassville wrestling program qualified for the state tournament in Columbia. This was by far the most difficult qualification year for Cassville, thanks in large part to a district tournament that featured five teams ranked in the top 10...

Only a handful of games remain on the regular season schedules for the small school basketball teams in the area. On Wednesday, Class 1 and Class 2 schools found out their district seed and first round opponents for the win-and-move-on tournament. For Class 2, District 12, a field where four of the eight teams are from the bi-county area, the action begins on Monday at Webb City High School...

For area teams, the season has been reduced to a series of win-and-advance games. That is the case for Exeter as it prepares for the Class 1, District 5 tournament On the boys’ side, the Tigers will have their work cut out for them. Golden City is the No. 1 seed, with Lockwood the No. 2. Everton gained the No. 3 slot, and Dadeville the No. 4. McAuley is the No. 5; followed by Sheldon, No. 6; Exeter, No. 7; and Bronaugh, No. 8...

Cassville senior Shannon Haney, sophomore Zach Coenen and junior Jacob Olbertz earned Academic All-State football honors this season for the Wildcats.

Basketball coaches often use the phrase that they need their teams to play for a full 32 minutes. In the span of seven days, the Cassville girls (4-13) have learned that lesson through experience. On Monday, the Lady Wildcats clung to a 2-point lead with 16 seconds remaining against Monett...

It was Nov. 9, 1997, a game that haunts Missouri football fans still to this very day. No. 1 Nebraska rolled into Columbia and was on the verge of being upset by the upstart Tigers when a ball was kicked by Cornhusker receiver Shevin Wiggins and caught by receiver Matt Davidson to send the game into overtime...

The Cassville High School Lady Cats volleyball team has announced seven players have earned Academic All-State for the 2018 season.

The Purdy volleyball team landed five players on the 2018 Volleyball Academic All-State team.

Excitement filled the air at Exeter High School as senior Julia Grant signed a national letter of intent binding her to Ottawa University in Ottawa, Kan., this fall. The senior, in front of friends, family and coaches, said this was a dream come true...

The majority of the time, when athletic players receive awards, it is based upon accomplishments on the field or court. However, fans and coaches must also keep in mind that the players that represent the area high schools are students first, and they must take care of classroom duties if they want to see the field of play athletically...

Purdy High School cross-country runner Brian Lyons soared to the state cross-country meet all four years of his high school career, placing third in his senior season.

Few names in the pint-sized Barry County town of Exeter brought as much pride to the residents of the community as Mason Lowe. Lowe was the typical All-American boy. He grew up in the small town, played sports at the high school and had a dream that burned inside of him that no amount of water could extinguish...

Two years ago, on a trip back from Texas, my father and I found ourselves in the town of Hugo, Okla. Hugo sits a stone’s throw from Texas and is notable for a couple of reasons. First, it is the winter home to two circuses. In fact, during the winter months, it had the highest concentration of elephants in North America...

It was a mixed bag of results for the Cassville basketball team in the Spokane tournament. On one hand, the team took a step forward by beating Reeds Spring for the first time in four tries in Barrett Milleson’s tenure as coach. On the other hand, the Wildcats fell to Class 2 Verona by a point, 57-56, and then struggled with the pressure applied by Blue Eye, 53-38, in the fourth-place game...

The wrestling season continues to be kind to Cassville, as the Wildcats earned some additional hardware recently. In the inaugural conference wrestling tournament on Friday, the Wildcats took eighth, and Gabe Hunter and Keaton Artherton were named Honorable Mention wrestlers...