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With his thoughts geared only toward a third district championship in four years of high school baseball, Savannah's star pitcher found a way to out-do himself.  ... Read more
Matthew McCullough had plenty of nerves to shake off as he walked to the mound.  ... Read more
CAMERON, Mo. — A decade after establishing a girls soccer program, Maryville finally has a banner to hang up.  ... Read more
Jeff White made a third return to Cameron's football team this past fall. The former Dragons assistant hopes this one has a little more staying power.  ... Read more
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Blake McFadden added a save to a stalwart afternoon at the plate as Savannah held off a late Lafayette rally in the Class 3 District 16 semifinals.  ... Read more
Savannah’s Brock Baade avenged a rare loss on his way to the state tennis championships.  ... Read more
Hamilton’s Shawn Cook was an unlikely all-state candidate after he sat in a tie for 45th place after Day 1 of the Class 2 Missouri State Golf Championships.  ... Read more
Chillicothe nearly escaped Savannah’s offensive assault on goal in the first half of the Class 2 District 16 title game.  ... Read more
WATHENA, Kan. — Early miscues and the absence of a clutch hit cost Riverside in their Regional Championship game against Wellsville Tuesday night.  ... Read more
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Lafayette's been on the other side of this equation before.  ... Read more
Bishop LeBlond didn’t waste time pouncing on Lathrop’s mistakes in the semifinals of the Class 2 District 16 tournament.  ... Read more
A reigning top-10 state finisher, Ryan Hand will have to raise his game to enter that club this year.  ... Read more
Catching Ryan Hand alone on the golf course during a high school golf event is quite the rarity.  ... Read more
Matt Reid/St. Joseph News-Press
Brent Bush doesn’t jump from event to event like many elite track and field athletes. He just jumps.  ... Read more
Gallatin’s girls 4x800-meter relay team expected to be good this season.  ... Read more
Caleb Myers took the hill a little later than expected Saturday afternoon at Griffon Spring Sports Complex, but the delayed in start did little to throw off the Lathrop sophomore.  ... Read more
RICHMOND, Mo. — Hanna Miller is on a mission.  ... Read more
Even without a team score, Southwest Livingston proved hard to ignore during Saturday’s Class 1 Sectional 3 meet in Marshall, Mo.  ... Read more
Morning rain saturated St. Joseph on Saturday, causing some jumbling of the day's first-round district baseball tournament schedules.  ... Read more
Savannah scored a pair of first-half goals to upset Lafayette 2-1 on Saturday in the Class 2 District 16 tournament’s first round.  ... Read more
During his run quarterbacking the Auburn football team to the BCS Championship, Cam Newton drank Cammy-Cam juice — a mixture of Gatorade with sugar added.  ... Read more
A lot of top high school athletes blast onto the scene immediately, making waves their first year and never looking back.  ... Read more
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Maryville’s Ben Goecken stayed calm throughout his No. 4 singles match against Lafayette’s Caleb Bates on Tuesday.  ... Read more
SAVANNAH, Mo. — Savannah broke out on offense just in time to wrap up a title.  ... Read more
Holly Wilmarth received the evening off, not made to run the 300-meter hurdles Tuesday.  ... Read more
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This time last year, Kylynn Sisk was laying in a hospital bed at Saint Luke’s Hospital in Kansas City waiting for doctors to decide how to treat his broken right pelvis.  ... Read more
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It may be time for Chad Ness to ditch the starting blocks for good.  ... Read more
GRANT CITY, Mo. — One interior wall of the press box at Worth County’s Frank B. Matteson Memorial Field is adorned with images of past Tigers athletes that went on to compete at the collegiate level.  ... Read more
Princeton’s Preston Berwanger had a hand in four first-place finishes.  ... Read more

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