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For the second week in a row, it was smooth sailing for the Cassville football team, as the Wildcats (6-1) dispatched Nevada Friday, 42-14.  Cassville started the game with DJ White taking the kickoff to the 39-yard line. After one short play, White reeled in a 24-yard reception from Deven Bates, then Bowen Preddy broke free for a 33-yard touchdown run only 1:09 into the game. ...

Professional Bull Riders (PBR) will announce on Monday the launch of The Mason Lowe Scholarship, in memory of Mason Lowe, a PBR athlete from Exeter who died following a bull riding accident in January. PBR also announced the Mason Lowe Award for the high-marked ride of the Unleash The Beast regular season. ...

Fresh off a convincing win over McDonald County, the Cassville football team (5-1) welcomes Nevada to town on Friday. Despite the Tigers’ 0-6 record, Cassville Coach Lance Parnell is not letting his team lose focus. “The last three weeks have been about being mentally sharp, as well as physically sharp,” Parnell said. “Nevada is a single-wing team that is good at misdirection and getting backers to move their eyes and lose the ball. We can’t afford to look past them, and we must do our jobs.”...

The Cassville football team put a slow start against East Newton in Week 5 behind them and came out fully swinging Friday to earn a 48-6 win over McDonald County on the road. Fans, coaches and players could point to any number of factors that contributed to the turnaround, but offensive lineman Nate Boley pointed to one specific new thing the team did during the week — a pancake contest...

At first glance, a 3-14 record may not be something to brag about. However, when it comes to Cassville volleyball, the three wins is something that the team has worked hard this season to achieve. Hit hard by graduation, Coach Briana Kleine set out to essentially rebuild her roster this season...

One thing Coach Lori Videmsheck will never do is sugar coat situations to her Cassville softball team. Coach V, as she is known, huddled her team around after a 16-10 loss to Aurora on Thursday and was honest in her assessment — the team has to become smarter in the way it plays the game...

Big 8 Conference Standings West East Nevada at Cassville East Newton at Monett Aurora at Hollister McDonald County at Lamar Logan-Rogersville at Springfield Catholic Marshfield at Aurora Mt. Vernon at Seneca St. Michael the Archangel at Pierce City Monett at Seneca, 35-28...

The Cassville football team trampled the Mustangs of McDonald County Friday, scoring 34 first-half points en route to a 48-6 win.  The Mustangs started the game with a pair of first downs, converting on thirds through the air. A third conversion was completed, however, a holding call brought the ball back, and a Cassville sack forced a punt. ...

Even though the exact language used was not recorded, Cassville Coach Lance Parnell got the message across to his team that he was not pleased with his club’s first-half performance against East Newton on Friday. “East Newton played hard, and they just beat us in the first half,” Parnell said. “This is Big 8 football, and you cannot take any one or any game for granted.”...

Lance Parnell, Cassville football coach, regularly says every game in the Big 8 is tough, and his Wildcats take the season week by week, game by game, making sure to be prepared for each opponent. Friday’s contest with East Newton, a 21-7 win for Cassville (4-1), served to prove Parnell’s phrase, as the Patriots are rejuvenating their program and gave Cassville a tougher matchup than what the team may have expected...

The Cassville High School cheerleaders and stunt team will be performing in the Citrus Bowl in Orlando on Jan. 1, 2020. The teams invited to perform in the pre-game performance are trophy winners from Universal Cheerleaders Association (UCA), Universal Dance Association (UDA), National Cheerleaders Association (NCA) and National Dance Alliance (NDA) summer camps, brands under the Varsity Spirit umbrella...

Southwest volleyball has three important special events upcoming: Pink Out, Volleyfest and Senior Night. On Thursday, the Lady Trojans will face Wheaton in their 10th annual Pink Out game celebrating breast cancer awareness. A “C” game starts at 5 p.m. with junior varsity, and varsity will follow...

West East Monett at Seneca Springfield Catholic at Aurora Cassville at McDonald County Lamar at East Newton Mt. Vernon at Logan-Rogersville Marshfield at Nevada Hollister at Reeds Spring Marionville at Pierce City Logan-Rogersville at Monett, 14-46 East Newton at Cassville, 7-21...

Cassville escaped a scare at Homecoming on Friday, but the Wildcats rallied in the second half to come away with a 21-7 win over an inspired East Newton team. The first half favored East Newton, as the Wildcats (4-1) struggled to stop the Patriots at key points defensively and equally struggled to move the ball offensively. ...

Last week’s loss is nothing that Cassville Head Coach Lance Parnell, nor his team, wants to dwell upon. The Wildcats were stunned, 28-21, by the Indians in a game where Parnell said Seneca did not expose weak areas of his team — they just dominated the line of scrimmage...

It had been 721 days since the Cassville football team lost a regular season game, and if history is any indication, the Wildcats should be wary in the future of Earl Campbell Stadium and Tom Hodge Field in Seneca. The last Cassville regular-season loss came in Seneca, a 33-14 defeat on Sept. 29, 2017. The Wildcats bested the Indians at home last year, 62-27, during of an undefeated regular season, then beat the Indians again in the playoffs, 35-29...

In today’s win-now culture, it can be difficult for coaches to get athletes to buy in to a program and help raise it to prominence. This season, the Cassville soccer team is off to a 3-8 start. While no one is particularly happy about that beginning, the Wildcats continue to look at the bigger picture, that lumps taken now will turn into triumphs later down the road...

West East Logan-Rogersville at Monett East Newton at Cassville Aurora at Mt. Vernon Marshfield at Hollister Seneca at Lamar McDonald County at Nevada Reeds Spring at Springfield Catholic Pierce City at Forsyth Lamar at Monett, 7-28 Cassville at Seneca, 21-28...

By Kyle Troutman editor@monett-times.com A back-and-forth game featuring five lead changes and plagued by penalties wound up with Cassville falling on the road to Seneca, 28-21 Seneca started the contest with a decisive drive, going 80 yards and overcoming a fourth-and-2 en route to a 14-yard passing touchdown through traffic. ...

At the rate the Wildcat football team is going, Head Coach Lance Parnell may contemplate taking up another hobby. The latest round of stressful events came as Parnell’s Wildcats held off a late Monett rally in a 21-14 Barry County Brawl win Friday. “I told the radio station after the game that the final 1:03 of regulation aged me about 10 years,” Parnell said. ...

Friday the 13th provided a late scare for the Cassville football team, but by the night’s end, the Wildcats proudly stood tall and slammed the door shut on a last-minute Monett comeback attempt. The contest started out as a defensive chess match, but the lack of scoring in the opening minutes gave way to a frantic final quarter that saw the cubs take three shots in the end zone in an attempt to tie the game in the final seconds...

Alan Spencer, former Purdy athletic director and Monett coach, will be recognized as part of the 2019 Missouri Elite 11 which honors former high school and college standouts, as well as those who have made positive contributions to the game of football in the Show-Me State...

West East Lamar at Monett Cassville at Seneca Logan-Rogersville at Aurora Hollister at McDonald County Springfield Catholic at Marshfield Mt. Vernon at Reeds Spring Nevada at East Newton Ash Grove at Pierce City Monett at Cassville, 14-21 Aurora at Lamar, 21-48...