Muddy River Sports
CHARLESTON, Ill. — All Saylor Barry wanted to see was the white flag raised. After scratching on her final two attempts Friday in the preliminaries of the long jump at the Class 1A girls state track and field championships, the Mendon Unity junior didn’t want to endure the added pressure of scratching on any of…
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — Chevie Sharpe made a haul at the Missouri Class 2 girls state track and field championships. The Highland junior finished the 1,600-meter run in 5 minutes, 15.8 seconds to set a school record and bring home a state championship. She finished fourth in the 400 and 800. North Platte’s Lindsay Ramsey…
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EDWARDSVILLE, Ill. — The Quincy High School boys tennis team finished second at the Class 2A Edwardsville Sectional after its doubles teams finished second and third, respectively. Edwardsville won the team title with the No. 1 doubles team of Schaefer Bates and Isaac Chelboun winning the championship and top-seeded Jess Hattrup winning the singles title.…
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CONCORD, Ill. — Abby Hagerbaumer and a late rally gave the Payson Seymour softball team a puncher’s chance, but Triopia’s Mylee Tracy had other plans. The two pitchers combined to give up just four hits in Saturday’s Class 1A Triopia Regional championship game, and Tracy escaped a seventh-inning jam to seal a 1-0 victory. Lucie…
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RIVERTON, Ill. — The Pittsfield baseball team couldn’t figure out how to make Pleasant Plains pitcher Seth Lowder regret making a mistake. Truth be told, Lowder rarely made a miscue. The senior right-hander handcuffed the Saukees throughout Saturday’s Class 2A Riverton Sectional championship, tossing a three-hit shutout as the Cardinals won 4-0 to repeat as…
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MACOMB, Ill. — The home-field advantage didn’t help the Macomb baseball team against the top-seeded team in the sub-sectional. Eureka scored five runs in the first inning Saturday and used a solid pitching effort from Cohen Alstat to beat the Bombers 7-2 in the championship game of the Class 2A Macomb Regional at Phil Bradley…
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Pair of QHS doubles teams punch tickets to Class 2A state tourney, will play in sectional semifinals
EDWARDSVILLE, Ill. — A pair of Quincy High School doubles teams potentially are on a championship collision course at the Class 2A Edwardsville boys tennis sectional — just like they were during the Western Big 6 Conference tournament last week at Moline. If that doesn’t come to fruition, both tandems are still headed to the…
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JACKSONVILLE, Ill. — Daniel Dyer and Alex Strong are getting the chance to outdo themselves. The Quincy Notre Dame boys tennis team’s No. 1 doubles tandem won a pair of matches Friday at the Class 1A Jacksonville Sectional to reach the semifinals and earn a spot in the state tournament, which begins May 29 in…
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — The state medal haul began in earnest Friday for the boys and girls track and field teams from Northeast Missouri. One individual won a state championship, while nine other individuals and two relay teams captured podium spots at the Class 1 and Class 2 state championships at Jefferson City High School’s…
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CARTHAGE, Ill. — The West Hancock softball team couldn’t figure out a way to generate any offense against Williamsville pitcher Izzy Nowack during Friday’s Class 2A Illini West Regional championship. Nowack struck out seven, walked one and allowed just three hits in the Bullets’ 3-0 victory. West Hancock’s Lakin Larson led off the fourth inning…
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CAMP POINT, Ill. — Havana pitcher Maddie Howerter made life difficult for the Camp Point Central softball team. Howerter allowed just four singles, struck out eight and shut out the Panthers as the Ducks won the Class 1A Camp Point Regional championship with a 5-0 victory Friday. Howerter impressively wriggled out of a jam in…
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IllinoisGirls SoccerClass 1A sectional at GreenvilleFriday, May 23Quincy Notre Dame 3, Alton Marquette 1 Saturday, May 24Springfield Sacred Heart-Griffin vs. Litchfield, 10 a.m. Tuesday, May 27Quincy Notre Dame vs Springfield Sacred Heart-Griffin/Litchfield winner, 4:30 p.m. SoftballClass 1A Concord (Triopia) RegionalSaturday, May 24Triopia vs. Payson Seymour, 10 a.m. Class 1A Camp Point Central RegionalFriday, May 23Havana…
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CHARLESTON, Ill. — Saylor Barry’s defense of her state long jump championship is right on track. The Mendon Unity junior topped the field in Thursday’s preliminary round with a leap of 5.50 meters (18 feet, .5 inches) at the Class 1A state track and field championships at O’Brien Stadium on the Eastern Illinois University campus.…
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WINCHESTER, Ill. — Liberty senior right-hander Jack Sparrow held Rushville-Industry scoreless for the first four innings and struck out 15 batters, but Rockets senior Macon Kessler tossed a three-hit shutout and struck out a career-high 16 batters in the Rockets’ 8-0 victory in the Class 1A Bluffs Regional semifinals. Muddy River Sports Writer Shane Hulsey…
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MARION, Ind. — A strong finish to the two-day heptathlon propelled Culver-Stockton College junior Delaney Straus to a seventh-place finish at the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) Outdoor Track and Field Championships at Indiana Wesleyan University. Straus, who earned All-America status with the top eight finish, ended the first four events on Wednesday in…
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MARION, Ind. — The Culver-Stockton College men’s track and field entries concluded their stay at the NAIA Outdoor Track and Field Championships Thursday afternoon at Indiana Wesleyan University in Marion, Ind. Junior Drew Mallett, competing in the decathlon for the second straight year, finished 14th. Mallett finished with 6,016 total points, well off his school…
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QUINCY — Carlos Fernandez scored a hole in one Thursday at Westview Golf Course in Quincy. Fernandez used a 5 wood to record his ace on the 95-yard fourth hole. Dave Boster witnessed the shot.
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QUINCY — John Wood Community College recently announced the appointment of Nick Pudlowski as the new head coach for its women’s volleyball team. Pudlowski has more than a decade of experience coaching teams at the club and high school levels in Quincy and St. Louis. Most recently, he coached with Club Four Volleyball in Quincy…
Read Full Article IllinoisGirls SoccerClass 1A sectional at GreenvilleFriday, May 23Alton Marquette vs. Quincy Notre Dame, 4:30 p.m. Saturday, May 24Springfield Sacred Heart-Griffin vs. Litchfield, 10 a.m. Tuesday, May 27Championship game, 4:30 p.m. SoftballClass 1A Concord (Triopia) RegionalSaturday, May 24Triopia vs. Payson Seymour, 10 a.m. Class 1A Camp Point Central RegionalFriday, May 23Havana vs. Camp Point Central, 4:30…
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PLEASANT PLAINS, Ill. — The Pittsfield boys track and field team puts its speed on display Wednesday at the Class 1A Pleasant Plains Sectional, while Brown County showcased its strength. The Saukees qualified for the state meet in two individual sprint events and two relays, while a pair of Hornets won the shot put and…
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RIVERTON, Ill. — Clayton Reinhardt gave the Pittsfield baseball team’s regional title hopes a jolt. It was more like a lightning bolt to right field. Reinhardt helped erase a three-run deficit with a five-run rally in the fifth inning, capped by his go-ahead, three-run home run as fourth-seeded Pittsfield beat seventh-seeded Williamsville 7-5 in Wednesday’s…
Read Full Article MACOMB, Ill. — The Macomb baseball team figured out how to wriggle out of a pair late-inning jams to maintain its lead and keep its season alive with a 5-2 victory over Illini West in the Wednesday’s semifinals of the Class 2A Macomb Regional at Phil Bradley Field. The fifth-seeded Bombers will face top-seeded Eureka…
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MONMOUTH, Ill. — The Macomb girls soccer team made history Wednesday night in dramatic fashion. Kate Stortzum scored off Kylie Robinson’s assist with eight minutes remaining in regulation to lift third-seeded Macomb to a 2-1 victory over seventh-seeded Beardstown in the championship game of the Class 1A Monmouth Regional at Pattee Field. It is the…
Read Full Article Missouri BaseballClass 5 district at St. DominicWednesday, May 21Wentzville Holt 13, Hannibal 2 Thursday, May 22Fort Zumwalt East vs. McCluer North, 3:30 p.m.Fort Zumwalt South vs. Warrenton, 1 p.m. Friday, May 23Wentzville Holt vs. St. Dominic/McCluer winner, 3:30 p.m.Fort Zumwalt East/McCluer North winner vs. Fort Zumwalt South/Warrenton winner, 1 p.m. Monday, May 26Championship game, 1…
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SEDALIA, Mo. — Skeeter Kroeger’s teammates on the Palmyra boys golf team greeted him coming off the green on his final hole of Tuesday’s second round of the Class 2 state championships and were curious if he had looked at the leaderboard. He hadn’t. “I was like, ‘Let me sign my scorecard first, and then…
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SEDALIA, Mo. — South Shelby boys golf coach Kevin Mitchell could tell the excitement of finishing second at the Class 2 state championships trumped the disappointment of finishing one stroke behind a heated rival. In time, the appreciation for all the Cardinals accomplished will only heighten. “They were really excited about what they did,” Mitchell…
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GRANITE CITY, Ill. — Ashley Walbring did everything she could to give the Quincy High School girls soccer team an opportunity to win its Class 3A regional semifinal Tuesday night. The senior goalkeeper even stopped a penalty kick. The one thing she couldn’t do was score. The Blue Devils’ biggest bugaboo all season — the…
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MACON, Mo. — The Palmyra baseball team’s first-inning hole proved too deep to climb out of. The Panthers surrendered four runs in the bottom of the first, including a leadoff home run to Kennon Isaacson, in a 6-1 loss to Macon in Tuesday’s Class 3 District 6 championship game. The Panthers’ lone run came in…
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QUEEN CITY, Mo. — Gage Brownell was the Canton baseball team’s kryptonite on Tuesday. Brownell, a junior right-handed pitcher for Schuyler County, tossed a one-hit complete game and struck out 15 batters in the Rams’ 3-1 victory over the Tigers in Tuesday’s Class 2 District 6 semifinal. The Tigers’ only hit came in the bottom…
Read Full Article Missouri BaseballClass 1 district at LaPlataTuesday, May 20Brashear/Novinger 8, North Shelby 4Atlanta 11, LaPlata 1 Wednesday, May 21Brashear/Novinger vs. Atlanta, 6 p.m. Class 2 district at LancasterTuesday, May 20Scotland County 5, Putnam County 0Schuyler County 3, Canton 1 Wednesday, May 21Scotland County vs. Schuyler County, 6 p.m. Class 3 district at MaconTuesday, May 19Macon 5,…
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