Sports

Norwood’s baseball team outscored two Summit Conference teams, 15-0, as the Pirates won a pair of contests last week.On Thursday, Norwood shutout rival Mansfield, 5-0, as Caden Black was dominant on the mound. He tossed seven scoreless innings and gave up six hits with three strikeouts.Carder Kelly...
The Norwood Lady Pirates’ softball team took on rival Mansfield last week and crushed the Lady Lions, 14-0.Norwood’s Maddie Campbell led the Lady Pirates with three RBIs and four runs scored. Katelynn Bennett added three hits, four RBIs and scored twice; Gunter had two hits and four RBIs; Addie...

Several Hartville Lady Eagles’ track and field athletes show off their medals from Strafford.

Hartville’s track and field team won several medals at the recent Strafford Invitational.Kinley Cryer led the Lady Eagles by winning the 800 meters with a time of 2:39.27.Meanwhile, the 4x200-meter relay team was second (1:56.13) and the 4x400 was third (4:37.47).Carlyn Cantrell was second place in...
Norwood’s track and field program had some success in the recent Mountain Grove Invitational and in the SBU Relays.On Saturday in Mountain Grove, the Pirates went to Mountain Grove and had a few top eight finishes.Jaycee Hall had a big day for the Lady Pirates as she was fourth in the 400 meters...

Mountain Grove senior Josiah Schott returns from an ACL injury and gets an RBI single in his first varsity at-bat this season against Cabool.

Though currently the Mountain Grove Panthers’ baseball team has a record four games under .500, they did get some encouragement last week when they lost a 2-1 class to West Plains.This is because those same Zizzers defeated district rival Logan-Rogersville one week earlier, 9-4.The Panthers led the...

Mountain Grove head baseball coach Jeff Richardson shakes hands with Houston head coach Brent Hall after the Panthers defeated the Tigers.

It may be true that the Mountain Grove Panthers’ baseball team has won just one time in its past seven games, but that one win was a special one.Mountain Grove’s new coach Jeff Richardson came over from Houston this season and likely had the Panthers’ match-up with the Tigers circled on his...

Mansfield’s Blake Henry heads for the finish line in a recent meet.

Mansfield’s track and field program continues to make noise this season as they have earned several top eight finishes in recent meets. Chadwick InvitationalThe Lady Lions won four events at the Chadwick Invitational.Faith Clark won the 800 meters (2:35.29) and 1,600 meters (5:41.43).Cali Lemons...
Mountain Grove’s boys and girls track and field team has continued to make revisions to their record books, especially in the recent Zizzer Relays at West Plains.At the Zizzer Relays , the 4x100-meter relay team had the eighth best time in school history at 44.94 seconds to place fifth. The team...
Norwood’s track and field team has excelled in meets held recently in the area with the help of the Lady Pirates’ Jayden Chambers and the Pirates’ Keller Bradshaw. Clever InvitationalIn the Clever Invitational, Jayden Chambers won the 400 meters with a time of 1:02.67 while teammate Kalie Chadwell...
The Norwood Pirates’ baseball team avenged a loss a week earlier to Hartville as they picked up a 6-5 win over the Eagles just six days later.Trailing 5-4 in the fifth inning, Pete McCune had an RBI single and Noah Drake scored on Caden Black’s ground-out and that was enough for the Pirates’ win....

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