Sports

According to a recent NPR article, pickleball is one of America’s fastest growing sports with nearly 5 million people now playing. Erin Flehmer and Caleb Reynolds, Cassville High School coaches and physical education instructors, have started a CHS Pickleball Club that encourages students to meet after school in the winter months and before school this spring to learn more about this rapidly growing sport.

It was a steady pace for Jolie Evans and a half-mile gallop for Caleb Leach that helped the pair place in the top 25 at the Class 3 MSHSAA State XC Championships on Saturday. Leach finished in 12th place with a time of 16:56.90, and Evans took 19th in the race with a time of 20:14.30.

A momentum swing Cassville’s way at the restart of the rain-postponed district semifinal on Saturday gave the Wildcats a steady boost for three quarters of play, but the turnover bug bit hard and ended the team’s season with a 14-7 loss to Reeds Spring.

The Cassville football team was giving Reeds Spring all it could handle on Friday amid turbulent weather and, ultimately, a delay and postponement just as the Wildcats nearly scored.

It was one of the most backand- forth district quarterfinal games in recent memory, and the Cassville football team wrestled its way to a 24-21 win over Aurora on Friday, setting up a district semifinal contest this week at No. 1 Reeds Spring.

Passing Bodee Rose, sophomore 59 C, 126 A, 1,162 Y, 10 TD, 6 INT Rushing Trey Wilson, senior 85 A, 631 Y, 11 TD Bodee Rose, sophomore 104 A, 610 Y, 4 TD Bryson Jacobson, junior 42 A, 255 Y, 4 TD Jake Anthonysz, senior 8 A, 35 Y, 1 TD Team rushing 1,597 Y, 20 TD Receiving Garrett Ewing, junior 24 C, 524 Y, 5 TD Trey Wilson, senior 12 C, 283 Y, 4 TD Riley Ruark, senior 2 C, 82 Y, 1 TD Hernan Hernandez, senior 7 C, 127 Y, 0 TD Team receiving 23 C, 918 Y, 10 TD Defense Keaton Shellenberger, senior 22 S, 25 A, 1 TFL Garrett Ewing, junior 24 S, 21 A, 1.5 TFL Bryson Jacobson, junior 32 S, 33 A, 4.5 TFL, 2 SK, 2 FR Riley Ruark, senior 17 S, 6 A, 2 TFL Canyon King, sophomore 21 S, 42 A, 2 TFL, 1 SK Ethan Lamborn, senior 19 S, 19 A, 5.5 TFL, 2.5 SK, 1 FF Nic Fierro, senior 9 S, 21 A, 0.5 TFL DJ Glidewell, senior 25 S, 24 A, 3.5 TFL, 1 FF Kicking Peter Littlefield, senior 28/28 XP, 3/6 FG .

The Southwest volleyball team may not have seen big numbers in the win column this season, but the Lady Trojans’ improvements over their 34 games are quantifiable, and the future is promising. Steve Voyak, Southwest volleyball coach, said at 2-30-2, the team struggled to reach all its goals, but the team’s improvement could be tracks through its stats.