Sports

15 wins and grinning

March 12, 2025

The Southwest girls basketball team enjoyed a rebounding season this year, winning nearly eight times as many games as last year.

Shortly into the second period of his 165-pound Class 2 championship match, Cassville junior Colten Roark hooked the leg of Hallsville’s Colt West and scored a reverse, and as his opponent attempted to stand up, Roark launched into a move he knows all too well.

Lady Tigers thankful for title opportunity

March 5, 2025

At the end of the 2022-2023 season, the prospect of the Exeter girls basketball team playing for a district championship was not on many’s minds — yet, 45 games removed from snapping a 60-game losing streak, that’s just what the Lady Tigers did on Saturday.

‘Cats sweep middle school Big 8

March 5, 2025

The seventh- and eighth-grade Cassville Middle School boys basketball teams each won first place in the Big 8 Conference.

LIVE UPDATES (Day 2): 2025 MSHSAA State Wrestling Championships

February 27, 2025

Six Cassville wrestlers left Missouri Arena with new hardware on Thursday, but none more special that the medal hanging from the neck of Colton Roark. At 165 pounds, Roark earned…

LIVE UPDATES (Day 1): 2025 MSHSAA State Wrestling Championships

February 26, 2025

Live results from the 2025 MSHSAA State Wrestling Championships at Mizzou Arena.

District hoops seeds settled

February 25, 2025

The Cassville boys and girls basketball teams head to the Class 4, District 12 tournaments March 3-8 in Monett, receiving their seeds last week.

Wheaton trimphs in Highway 86 rivalry

February 25, 2025

The Wheaton girls basketball team celebrated a 62-59 overtime victory over cross-county rival Exeter on Feb. 18.

Line ‘em up, let ‘em loose

February 25, 2025

The Cassville boys wrestling team made program history on Saturday, qualifying a record eight wrestlers for the Class 2 MSHSAA Wrestling Championships and winning a record three individual Class 2, District 3 titles.

February 19, 2025

A total of 34 teams took part in the Class 1, District 3 girls wrestling tournament in Nevada on Friday and Saturday, and out of the 10 Lady Wildcats competing, one locked in a qualification to the Class 1 State Wrestling Championships Feb. 26-27 at Mizzou Arena in Columbia.