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Mountain Grove’s golf team with a first place plaque after winning the tournament they hosted recently at Randel-Hinkle Golf Course.
The Mountain Grove golf team has experienced some success in recent events.A couple of weeks ago, the Panthers won the Mountain Grove Invitational with a team score of 326 as four of the five golfers shot in the 80s.Mason Henry led with an 80, Jack Tyrrell had an 81, Brady Harris an 82, Leedy...
Mountain Grove pitcher Payton O’Connor sends a pitch to the plate against Norwood.
The Mountain Grove Lady Panthers’ softball team won an extra-inning thriller with Norwood last week.Chloe Slagle would score from third base on a passed ball with two outs to give her team the 12-11 victory in the bottom of the eighth inning.This happened after a crazy seventh inning that saw...
Three Wright County track and field programs competed last week in the Fair Grove Relays and experienced some success.MansfieldThe Lions’ Kellen Campbell won the triple jump event after leaping 12.94 meters in Fair Grove. He was also sixth in the long jump (5.9 meters).Michael Ivey was fourth in...
Hartville’s Jace Hughes and Jesse Hughes with their medals from last week’s Mansfield Invitational played at Randel-Hinkle Golf Course in Mountain Grove.
The Hartville Eagles’ golf team combined to win three medals and earn a pair of top-six finishes at recent invitationals.At the Mansfield Invitational held at Randel-Hinkle Golf Course in Mountain Grove, the Eagles finished fourth with a 373.Jace Hughes won a fourth place medal as an individual...
The Mansfield Lady Lions’ softball team split a pair of Summit Conference contests last week, with their big win coming against Seymour, 17-7. Mansfield scored eight runs in the bottom of the sixth inning to pull away for the win.Mylee Sullivan and Cayley Young had big games with two RBIs and three...
Norwood’s baseball team traveled to Plato last week and left with a 14-2 win. Payton McCune had five RBIs; Pierce Lawson had three hits and four RBIs; and Carson Vaughan had two RBIs and scored three times. Black tossed three and two-thirds innings and gave up no earned runs on two hits with four...
The Mansfield Lions’ baseball team split their pair of Summit Conference games last week, with their win coming at Sparta, 3-2, in nine innings. Jaxon Clark hit the go-ahead RBI single to score Bryston Kingery in the top of the ninth. Clark then struck out two Trojans in Sparta’s last at-bat to...
The Mountain Grove Panthers’ baseball team managed to get just one win in last week’s Salem Tournament. Skip Thompson had a two-RBI double in the top of the ninth inning to lift his team over Cuba, 6-4.Eli Golden had a big day at the plate with three hits, two RBIs and one run scored; Thompson had...
In their lone contest due to the weather last week, the Hartville Eagles’ baseball team scored at least one run in five different innings during a 7-1 win over Marion C. Early.Gus sinning tossed a complete-game, one-hit gem as he gave up no earned runs with 13 strikeouts.At the plate, he had two...
Mountain Grove’s Kylie Roth and Cassidy Behrendsen during the 100 meters race at Saturday’s Mountain Grove Invitational. Roth won the race and finished the day with four gold medals.
Mountain Grove’s Panther track and field team won the recent SBU Bearcat Classic held in Bolivar.They had 52.5 team points to hold off Clever, who had 51. Only the top five places in each event received a medal.Andrew Whitson led Mountain Grove with a first place toss of 157’4” in the discus....