Sports
Wildcats reflect on year of leadership, growth
Defense has been the ticket all season for Cassville, allowing less than 50 points per game on average, but the train line came to a stop last week against an Aurora team with a hot second half of shooting.
Jig On the Water: Trout Tips from Tim
The water is running just a bit over 200 CFS as of Sunday, and that is high, but very fishable. Bigger streamers, woollybuggers, heaiver nymphs work well right now, as do san juan worms, glo-balls, mega worms, mop flies.
Wheaton grows with size challenge
[email protected] The tallest Wheaton girls basketball player this season was only 5-4, but the Lady Bulldogs did not let age or size challenges squash their growth on the court this season. Finishing at 5-22, Wheaton Coach Jessica Dermott said a squad of only seven players, three of whom were freshmen, met many individual goals and continued to improve through the season.
Scoreboard, March 8
All local basketball teams’ seasons ended in the last two weeks. Exeter’s boys and girls fell in the opening rounds of the Class 1, District 4 tournaments.
PHOTO GALLERY: Cassville girls v Aurora (District Semi), 3/2/23
Scenes from the Cassville girls basketball district semifinal against Aurora.
Party on, girls
The Cassville girls wrestling team was easy to spot at the MSHSAA Wrestling Championships — just look for the girls in party hats and novelty sunglasses. The Lady Wildcats entered state with high expectations, ranked No.
Making a STATE-ment
The Cassville boys wrestling team took a record number of members to the Class 2 MSHSAA Wrestling Championships Wednesday and Thursday, and they have returned with a record number of medals.
All in the family
Prep athletics coaches commonly call their team a family, but the Cassville wrestling program is taking the mantra a little more literally. A total of eleven boys and girls wrestlers qualified for the 2023 MSHSAA Wrestling Championships, and more than half are related.
