SPRINGFIELD — Some “on the fly” in-season schedule adjustments that reacted to the early-season’s growing reality of the potential high ceiling the 2022-23 Meadville High School basketball Lady Eagles could have bore their intended fruit. Adding games against then-undefeated and Class 2 No.
ST. JOSEPH — Regardless of the quality of their team, the location, or their head coach, for more than a quarter- century, whenever CHS’ basketball Lady Hornets have lined up against St.
Northwestern hosted a Quad Quiz Bowl event on Feb. 28.
Missouri’s annual paddlefish (spoonbill) snagging season will open next week on Wednesday, March 15, and will run through April 30 on all popular snagging waters in the state. Missouri’s in-state spoonbill snagging “hotspots” are Lake of the Ozarks, Harry S. Truman Reservoir, Table Rock Lake and their tributaries A longer season is permitted for snagging in the Mississippi River and will run March 15 through May 15, plus an additional fall season Sept. 15-Dec. 15.
ST. JOSEPH — Having hung within single digits of long-time dominator St.
Linn County-based teams nearly swept all of the five spots on the recently-announced all-Tri-County Conference girls’ basketball team for the 2022-23 season. Among the 10 players from Meadville, Linn County R-1, or Bucklin/Macon County R-4 to the all-league squads were girls’ topteam picks Korrie Holcer and Madison and Paige Carvajal of state semifinalist Meadville and Linn County R-1 senior Morgan Livingston.
ST. JOSEPH — After testing – with some positive feedback – some additional flavoring through the first half of their Class 4 District 16 Tournament semifinal game against Maryville last Thursday, head coach Darren Smith of the second-seeded Chillicothe High School basketball Lady Hornets had lower-profile members of his squad serve a proven-favorite, basic dish in the second half and got the desired result.
In a flashback to the mid-1990s, when a junior-laden squad charged its way into the ranks of the final four Class 1 teams playing and, after finishing fourth, the bulk of that squad returned to win it all the next year, the 2022-23 Meadville High School Lady Eagles – keyed by a dynamic trio of non-senior guards – will be in Springfield tomorrow and Friday as participants in the Class 1 state tournament semifinals and finals. The 29-0, state-records- setting Meadville girls will meet Leeton’s Lady Bulldogs (26-3) in the semifinals at 6 p.m.
With a modest, but worthwhile and admirable, positive achievement – a 10th-consecutive winning season for their program – in the balance, Chillicothe High School’s basketball Hornets reacted sturdily and successfully to the threat to that goal in their postseason opener Feb. 27.
Just as Major League Baseball splits focus to both continuation of spring training for the bulk of the players and the start of the World Baseball Classic, interest in men’s college basketball becomes laser-focused on this week’s remaining conference tournaments and this coming Sunday’s announcement of NCAA Tournament team selections, pairings, and regional assignments.