May 7, 2010

 No-hitter for Branson’s Townsend (Base­ball roundup)
COCPrepSports.com Staff  
  BRAN­SON — Timmy Townsend no-hit Forsyth and went 4-for-4 in Branson’s 17–0 win on Thurs­day.
  The Pirates improved to 18–4.
Neosho downs Mt. Ver­non
  Anthony Hen­drix, AJ Enloe and Jared Brown all had two hits to power Neosho past Mt. Ver­non 13–6.
  Scott Pogue was the win­ning pitcher.

 

• 

 

---

 Nixa beats Carl Junc­tion (Soc­cer roundup)
COCPrepSports.com Staff
  Nixa shut out Carl Junc­tion 4–0 behind goalie Lexi Stag­ner on Thurs­day.
  The Lady Eagles received assists from Ash­lyn Robil­lard, Own Goal, Lau­ren Moats and Kristin Miller. Mad­die Chan­dler and Kelsey Haist had assists.  
  Nixa is 13–5.

• 

 

---

Nixa sec­ond at con­fer­ence tour­ney (Ten­nis roundup)
COCPrepSports.com Staff 
  BRAN­SON — Nixa fin­ished as runner-up at the Cen­tral Ozark Con­fer­ence Large Schools Divi­sion Ten­nis Tour­na­ment on Wednes­day. The Car­di­nals were one-half point behind first-place Webb City.
  The Eagles’ Devin McDow­ell was the No. 2 sin­gles champ. Josh Dou­blin and Con­nor Bur­ton were sec­ond at No. 5 and No. 6 sin­gles. Char­lie Fen­wick and Brad Barn­hardt, along with Dou­blin and Bur­ton, were sec­ond at No. 2 and No. 3 dou­bles.
Lib­er­a­tors beat Bran­son
  Boli­var downed Bran­son 6–3 on Thurs­day to improve its dual record to 12–3.
  Alex Tal­ley was a win­ner in sin­gles and dou­bles play.
Neosho blanks Mon­ett
  Neosho shut out Mon­ett 9–0 to up its dual record to 8–5.
  The Wild­cats’ Matt Gar­rity was an 8–0 No. 2 sin­gles win­ner, as was Gar­rity and Bo Mahr at No. 1 dou­bles and Joey Cum­ming and Evan Clark at No. 2 doubles.

• 

 

---

May 6, 2010

 Neosho pro­motes Schoonover
COCPrepSports.com Staff
  NEOSHO — Neosho ele­vated assis­tant Jared Schoonover to become its new head foot­ball coach on Tues­day.
  Schoonover replaces Shawn Flan­ni­gan, who is bound for Rogers (Ark.). Schoonover han­dled the play-calling duties for a Wild­cats offense last sea­son that aver­aged 38 points a night.
  Schoonover pre­vi­ously coached five years at Ben­tonville (Ark.).
  Neosho has won back-to-back dis­trict championships.

• 

 

---

Branson’s Rollins qual­i­fies for state (Golf roundup)
COCPrepSports.com Staff
  OZARK — Branson’s Jimmy Rollins earned a berth in the Class 4 State Golf Tour­na­ment by fin­ish­ing fifth in dis­trict action at Mill­wood Coun­try Club on Tues­day.
  Rollins posted a 77.
  Ozark fin­ished third in the team stand­ings with a 317. Bran­son was fifth with a 343.
Hol­lis­ter to send two to state
  At Moun­tain Grove, Hollister’s Casey Williams and Anthony Schreier earned berths at the Class 2 State Golf Tour­na­ment on Tues­day.
  In dis­trict action at Moun­tain Grove, Williams carded an 83 and Schreier a 96.

• 

 

---

Boli­var takes COC Small Schools Divi­sion title (Ten­nis roundup)
COCPrepSports.com Staff
  Boli­var cap­tured the Cen­tral Ozark Con­fer­ence Small Schools Divi­sion cham­pi­onship for the first time on Wednes­day.
  The Lib­er­a­tors totaled 21 points, while runner-up Spring­field Catholic had 17 , third-place Rogersville had 15 and fourth-place Reeds Spring had one.
   Trevor Sparks, Eli Samek and Aric Gooch all won sin­gles cham­pi­onships for Boli­var. Aug­gie New­berry, Kyle Shoe­maker and Kyle Bolton each took sec­ond. In dou­bles, Bolton/Gooch claimed a first and and Shoemaker/Samek took a sec­ond.
  On Tues­day, Boli­var edged Spring­fiedl Green­wood 5–4.
  Kyle Bolton won his sin­gles match 9–8 (7−2).
  Boli­var improved to 11–3.

• 

 

---

May 4, 2010

 Bran­son wins at Hill­crest (Base­ball roundup)
COCPrepSports.com Staff  
  SPRING­FIELD — Branson’s Timmy Townsend had four RBIs to power the Pirates past Spring­field Hill­crest 12–6 on Mon­day.
  Tee Helsel had three hits and Hay­den Thull two for the Cen­tral Ozark Con­fer­ence Large Schools Divi­sion champs.
  Bran­son plated nine runs in the sec­ond inning while improv­ing to 16–4.

• 

 

---

Ozark takes both 4 x 200 relays (Track roundup)
COCPrepSports.com Staff  
   BRAN­SON — Ozark swept the 4 x 200 relay at the Super Con­fer­ence Track Meet on Fri­day.
  The meet was halted after 14 events due to rain and light­ning.
  Ozark won the boys 4 x 200 relay (1:32) and the girls 4 x 200 relay (1:51). The boys 4 x 200 relay was made up of Hunter Tremain, Tyler Cal­houn, Eric Lueb­bert and Sky­lar Ver­futh. The girls 4 x 200 relay included Lau­ren Bos­t­ian, Stormie Carter, Syd­ney Potts and Saman­tha Dex­ter. The Lady Tigers’ Ellie Schmidly took first in the 100 hur­dles (17.52) and Josie Dyke was first in the 100 (12.97).
  Host Bran­son received firsts from Cameron Chancey in the 110 hur­dles (15.12) and Michael Dap­prich in the dis­cus (130−2).
  Bolivar’s girls 4 x 800 relay (10:09) that included Delaney Peter­son, Amanda Light­foot, Ash­ley Law­son and Rachel Schrader was vic­to­ri­ous.
  Nixa’s Steven Hynds was first in the shot put (49−8.75).

• 

 

---

Lady Lib­er­a­tors vic­to­ri­ous (Soc­cer roundup)
COCPrepSports.com Staff 
  Boli­var edged Spring­field Green­wood 4–1 in soc­cer action on Monday.

• 

 

---

Nixa, Neosho tum­ble (Ten­nis roundup)
COCPrepSports.com Staff
  Nixa fell to Spring­field Glen­dale 7–2, while Neosho lost 7–2 to Thomas Jef­fer­son on Mon­day.
  The Eagles’ Brad Barn­hardt was an 8–1 sin­gles win­ner and Josh Dou­blin and Char­lie Fen­wick teamed for an 8–5 dou­bles vic­tory.
  Neosho’s Evan Clark was an 8–1 sin­gles win­ner and Jere­miah Jen­nings was an 8–2 sin­gles winners.

• 

 

---

February 17, 2010

 

• 

 

---

January 2, 2010

Pirates, Tigers Blue & Gold cham­pi­ons again
COCPrepSports.com
  Bran­son three-peated and Ozark repeated as cham­pi­ons at the 64^th Annual Blue & Gold Tour­na­ment on Wednes­day.
  The No. 2 seeded Pirates downed top-seeded Nixa 66–51 in the Blue Divi­sion title tilt. Avery Ding­man scored a game-high 24 points, Sam Pugh posted 16 points and eight assists and Dana Thomas had 11 points. Nixa was led by Kameron Bundy’s 10 points.
  The No. 1 seeded Tigers beat No. 2 seed Spring­field Hill­crest 65–58 in the Gold Divi­sion cham­pi­onship game. Seth Arnold fired in 17 points, Thomas Ligion added 16 and Isa­iah Mon­roe con­tributed 15.
  The COC has had at least one cham­pion at the Blue & Gold Tour­na­ment the past 15 years.

• 

 

---

January 3, 2010

Carthage 2–1 at tour­ney
COCPrepSports.com Staff
   NEOSHO — Desmond Buerge col­lected 17 points and nine rebounds to help Carthage past Mor­ril­ton, Ark., 57–50, at the Neosho Hol­i­day Tour­na­ment.
  The Tigers broke a 34-all tie by scor­ing 23 points in the fourth quar­ter.
  Lane Stephens added 12 points for the win­ners and Cody Caster had 11. Caster had four steals.
  Carthage beta McDon­ald County 52–36. Keith Lawrie net­ted 16 points and Stephens had 15.
  The Tigers lost to Van Buren (Ark.) 57–41. Caster col­lected 10 points and seven boards. Carthage outscored Van Buren 23–22 in the sec­ond half, but was down by 17 at halftime.

• 

 

---

January 6, 2010

Carthage splits with Ozark, Willard
COCPrepSports.com Staff
  CARTHAGE –  Ozark defeated Carthage 56–7 and Carthage downed Willard 51–27 in a Cen­tral Ozark Con­fer­ence Large Schools Divi­sion double-dual on Tues­day.
  For Carthage, 119-pounder Tommy Fea­gans and and 140-pounder Harold Cooper were two-time win­ners. Fea­gans, who is ranked third in Class 3 by MissouriWrestling.com, recorded a 14–5 major deci­sion over Ozark’s Dmitry Loftis, who is ranked third at 112. Fea­gans is 16–1. Cooper improved to 13–10 by beat­ing Ozark’s Levi Tucker 9–8 and post­ing a major deci­sion over Willard’s Codey White.
  A cou­ple other pre­mier matchups occured at 112 and 160. Ozark’s Colton How­ell, ranked sec­ond at 103, moved up a weight class and beat Carthage’s Nate Kelly 12–4. Kelly is 15–4. At 160, Ozark’s Zeb Spicer, who is ranked sec­ond at 152, moved up to beat Carthage’s Seth Golay 3–2. Golay is 18–4.

• 

 

---

January 7, 2010

Webb City’s Steever, John­son claim four firsts
COCPrepSports.comStaff
  WEBB CITY — Webb City’s swim team beat Spring­field Hill­crest 108–59, downed Carthage 106–62 and lost to Nixa 97–83 in duals action on Tues­day.
  The Lady Car­di­nals received firsts in all three duals from Ash­ley John­son in the 200 freestyle (2:09.47) and 500 freestyle (5:31.22), Brit­tany Steever in the 50 freestyle (26.69) and 100 but­ter­fly (1:11.12), Erica Logal in the 100 breast­stroke (1:16.89) and Steever, John­son, Olivia Weaver and Logal in the 400 relay (4:17.82) and 200 med­ley relay (2:09.28).
  Nixa’s Anna Brink was first in the 200 indi­vid­ual med­ley (2:23.93) and 100 freestyle (57.53), as was Marisa Fra­zier in the 100 back­stroke (1:09.42), Aubrie Led­ford in the 1-meter div­ing (144.45 points) and Brink, Led­ford, Frankie Lef­fert and Rachel Sav­age in the 200 relay (1:58.05).

• 

 

---

January 11, 2010

Lady ‘Jays com­plete come­back (Girls bas­ket­ball roundup)
COCPrepSports.com Staff
  MARSH­FIELD — Marsh­field ral­lied from a 10-point deficit to hit the game-winning shot with five sec­onds to play and beat Pleas­ant Hope 49–48 on Mon­day.
  Marsh­field, which is 8–5 and was sec­ond at the Pink & White Tour­na­ment, trav­els to Reeds Spring in the Cen­tral Ozark Con­fer­ence Small Schools Divi­sion opener for both teams on Tues­day.
  In other games on Mon­day:
  — Hol­lis­ter received 21 points from Jae­Lynn Elli­son in its 66–57 tri­umph over Forsyth.
  The Lady Tigers received 16 points apiece from Cas­san­dra Kim­brough and Lainie Bishop.
  Hol­lis­ter is 7–4 and begins con­fer­ence play on Thurs­day at Spring­field Catholic.
  — Webb City opened con­fer­ence play by down­ing Neosho 65–21.
  Kaitlin Jaeger and Kyn­dal Clark both net­ted 16 points for the Lady Cards.
  — Spring­field Catholic beat Aurora 71–45 to improve its record for 4–6.

• 

 

---

January 13, 2010

Ding­man, Pirates beat Ozark (Boys bas­ket­ball roundup)
COCPrepSports.com Staff
  BRAN­SON — Avery Ding­man over­came foul trou­bles to score a game-high 29 points in Branson’s 73–60 Cen­tral Ozark Con­fer­ence Large Schools Divi­sion win over Ozark on Tues­day.
  Ding­man, who had four fouls, hit four 3-pointers, includ­ing a pair of first-quarter treys that helped the Pirates (13−1 over­all and 1–1 in the COC) break out to a 23–8 lead. Tee Helsel added 17 points while also hit­ting four 3s and Dana Thomas col­lected 15 points and nine rebounds.
  Ozark received a com­bined 45 points from its back­court of Seth Arnold and Isa­iah Mon­roe. Arnold had 15 of his 26 points in the sec­ond half. Mon­roe had 19 points.
  The Tigers were minus cen­ter Tom Ligion, who sat out the con­test due to a staph infec­tion.
  In other games on Tues­day:
   — Neosho edged COC Large Schools Divi­sion foe Repub­lic 58–56 in over­time.
  Corey Cran­dall topped the Wild­cats with 20 points, while Michael Lowe had 15 and Jake Mid­dle­ton 10.
  — Reeds Spring ral­lied for a 52–47 tri­umph over Spring­field Catholic in a matchup of COC Small Schools Divi­sion mem­bers.
  The Wolves (6−4 and 1–0) erupted for 25 points in the third quar­ter, after trail­ing 22–10 at half­time. Ben Selby had a team-high 15 points.
  The loss halted Catholic’s five-game win­ning streak. The Irish (7−4 and 0–1) received 14 points apiece from Jack Wolf and Chad McBride.
  — At Nixa, Nixa downed Carthage 57–40 in a COC Large Schools Divi­sion matchup.
  The Eagles received 13 points from Seth Mat­lock and 10 from Zac Hill while improv­ing to 14–1 over­all and 2–0 in con­fer­ence play. They outscored the Tigers 20–2 from the free-throw line.
  Nixa led 15–3 after the first quar­ter. Carthage actu­ally outscored the hosts 24–22 over the sec­ond and third quar­ters.
  Carthage received a dozen points from Keith Lawrie, 11 from Cody Caster and 10 from Lane Stephens. 
  Nixa hosts Kansas City Prep Hogan at 1:30 p.m. on Saturday.

• 

 

---

Webb City grap­plers edge Carthage (Wrestling roundup)
COCPrepSports.com Staff
  CARTHAGE — Webb City beat Carthage 42–30 in a Cen­tral Ozark Con­fer­ence Large Schools Divi­sion dual on Tues­day.
  In a matchup of ranked wrestlers at 112 pounds, the Tigers’ Nate Kel­ley improved to 20–5 by beat­ing Cody Jolly 8–6 in over­time.
Webb City 42, Carthage 30
(Carthage wrestler listed first)
  103–Gage Gartner–9–(9–16) lost by fall in 1:04 to Bray­den Goff; 112–Nate Kelly–11–(20–5) won by over­time deci­sion 8–6 over Cody Jolly; 119–Trevor Fea­gans (22–1) won by fall in 1:00 over Lan­don Baker; 125–Kyle Shaner (16–13) lost by deci­sion 9–11 to Zack Kirk; 130–Logan Bryan (15–11) lost by fall in 5:37 to Patrick Grigsby; 135–Dylan Mel­lies (8–11) lost by fall in 4:56 to Justin Landes; 140–Harold Cooper (18–11) lost by deci­sion 6–9 to Richard Rodgers; 145–Arnold Her­rera (17–11) won by fall in 5:11 over Dal­ton Humphrey; 152–Larry Swine­hart (13–8) won by fall in 1:09 over Breck Mitchell; 160–Seth Golay (23–5) won by fall in 5:57 over Casey Craig; 171–forfeit to Chris Hensley; 189–Nelson Hor­ton (13–11) won by deci­sion 9–3 over Nick Lovejoy; 215–Matt Sel­sor (0–6) lost by fall in 0:11 to Justin Jacks; 285–Erick Var­gas (11–15) lost by fall in 3:39 to Taven Meis­ter.
  Else­where on Tues­day:
  — Ozark rolled to a pair of dual wins at home.
  The Tigers gained a 68–0 win over Bran­son and a 75–0 tri­umph over Spring­field Kick­apoo.

• 

 

---

 Hol­lis­ter cap­tures eighth win (Girls bas­ket­ball roundup)
COCPrepSports.com Staff
  MANS­FIELD — Hol­lis­ter was 22-of-25 on its free-throw attempts while win­ning at Mans­field 64–57 on Tues­day.
  The Lady Tigers (8−4) had four play­ers in dou­ble fig­ures. Jae­Lynn Elli­son net­ted 16 points, Lainie Bishop 15, Cas­san­dra Kim­r­bough a dozen and Becca Felks 10.
  In other games on Tues­day:
  — Marsh­field dou­bled up Reeds Spring 56–28 in a Cen­tral Ozark Con­fer­ence Small Schools Divi­sion con­test.
  The Lady ‘Jays are 9–5 over­all and 1–0 in the COC.

• 

 

---

January 16, 2010

Repub­lic downs Blue Jays (Boys bas­ket­ball roundup)
COCPrepSports.com Staff
  REPUB­LIC — Nick Yocum led four Repub­lic play­ers in dou­ble fig­ures on Fri­day as the Tigers beat Marsh­field 69–59.
  Repub­lic also received 14 points from Josh Mor­row, 11 from Dylan Fletcher and nine from Kevin Stander.
  Else­where on Fri­day:
  —  Bran­son moved to 14–1 by edg­ing Boli­var 65–59.
  Avery Ding­man col­lected 22 points, four steals and three blocks to lead the Pirates. Dana Thomas con­tributed 11 points and eight boards, Chris Odgen had 12 points and Sam Pugh 11.
  On Thurs­day:
  — Rogersville upped its record in the Cen­tral Ozark Con­fer­ence Small Schools Divi­sion to 3–0 by down­ing Marsh­field 67–55.

• 

 

---

Ozark cruises by 30 (Girls bas­ket­ball roundup)
COCPrepSports.com Staff
  NEOSHO — Neosho nipped Carl Junc­tion 42–40 on Fri­day.
  The Lady Wild­cats (3−10) were led by Chanoah Turney’s 13 points.
  On Thurs­day:
  — Ozark claimed a 57–27 win over Marsh­field on Thurs­day.
  — Spring­field Catholic beat Hol­lis­ter 59–38 in a matchup of Cen­tral Ozark Con­fer­ence Small Schools Divi­sion foes.
  Lainie Bishop had nine points and Kelsey Kapella and Becca Felks both had eight for the Lady Tigers.

• 

 

---

January 18, 2010

Eagles beat top-ranked Hogan Prep
COCPrepSports.com Staff
  NIXA — Zac Hill’s 17 points helped power Nixa past Hogan Prep, ranked No. 1 in Class 3, by a 75–65 count on Sat­ur­day.
  Austin Rud­der net­ted four treys in his 15-point effort, Jor­dan Keeney scored 12 points and Seth Mat­lock and Ben Fisher had 10 apiece.
  The 15–1 Eagles vis­its Spring­field Kick­apoo on Tuesday. 

• 

 

---

January 21, 2010

Peltier attends USA Youth National Team try­outs
COCPrepSports.com Staff
  Nixa sopho­more Regan Peltier attended the USA Vol­ley­ball High Per­for­mance Indoor eval­u­a­tions in Col­orado Springs, Co., as an invited train­ing mem­ber Dec. 26-Jan. 1.
  Play­ers were invited to the try­outs in prepa­ra­tion for the U.S. Girls Youth Train­ing Team’s trip to the NORCECA Girls Youth Con­ti­nen­tal Cham­pi­onship April 3–11 in Guatemala. 
  Pel­ter emerged as a first-alternate at mid­dle blocker for the 12-person team. 

• 

 

---

January 20, 2010

17–0 run lifts Nixa to 17–1 (Boys bas­ket­ball roundup)
COCPrepSports.com Staff
   SPRING­FIELD — A rocky start on Tues­day couldn’t keep Nixa from its 17^th win of the sea­son, a 72–60 tri­umph over Spring­field Kick­apoo.
  The Eagles trailed 10–2, but responded to a time­out by reel­ing off 17 unan­swered points.
  Nixa improved to 17–1. 
  Else­where on Tues­day:
  — At Repub­lic, Kevin Stander’s 21 points helped Repub­lic beat Way­nesville 72–57 on Tues­day.
  Jonathon Combs added 16 points, Nick Yocum had 15, Dylan Fletcher con­tributed nine and Josh Mor­row eight for the Tigers.
  Repub­lic led through­out, post­ing 21 points in the first quar­ter en route to gain­ing a 37–22 half­time advan­tage.
  — Neosho lost to Joplin 63–46.
  Corey Crandall’s 14 points paced the Wild­cats.
  —  Reeds Spring ral­lied from an eight-point half­time deficit to knock off Ava 68–61.
  The Wolves (7−5) erupted for 25 points in the third quar­ter. 
  Ben Selby topped the win­ners with 24 points, while Alex Engish had 18 and Chris Jones posted 16 points and seven blocks.

• 

 

---

Carthage falls to Neosho (Wrestling roundup)
COCPrepSports.com Staff
  CARTHAGE — Neosho downed Carthage 58–12 in a Cen­tral Ozark Con­fer­ence Large Schools Divi­sion dual on Tues­day.
  At 119 pounds, the Tigers’ Trevor Fea­gans won 4–3 over the Wild­cats’ Trevor Hughes. Fea­gans, who improved to 24–1, is ranked third in Class 3 at 119 by MissouriWrestling.com. Hughes is ranked sec­ond.
  At 112, Neosho’s Joe Barnes nipped Carthage’s Nate Kelly 2–1. Barnes is ranked fourth and Kelly, who is 21–6, sev­enth.
  Carthage dual record is 3–6.
Neosho 58, Carthage 12
(Carthage wrestler listed first)
  103–Gage Gart­ner (9–18) lost by fall in 2:32 to Nate Rodriguez; 112–Nate Kelly (21–6) lost by deci­sion 2–1 to Joe Barnes; 119–Trevor Fea­gans (24−1) won by deci­sion 4–3 over Trevor Hughes; 125–Kyle Shaner (17–14) lost by tech­ni­cal fall 18–3 to Carter Boatright; 130–Logan Bryan (16–12) lost by fall in 1:06 to Jared Brock ; 135–Seth Beck­ner (8–5) won by fall in 2:22 over Ty Bennett; 140–Harold Cooper (19–12) lost by fall in 4:40 to Payne Hatter; 145–Arnold Her­rera (17–13) lost by major deci­sion 14–5 to Ethan Pogue; 152–Larry Swine­hart (15–8) won by deci­sion 4–0 over Paul Carey; 160–Carthage for­feit to Dal­las Smith; 171–Carthage for­feit to Blake Stauffer; 189–Nelson Hor­ton (14–12) lost by major deci­sion 11–2 to Matt Millard; 215–Carthage for­feit to Riley Plew; 285–Erick Var­gas (12–16) lost by fall in 4:34 to George McKinney.

• 

 

---

January 21, 2010

Wolves win sec­ond straight (Boys bas­ket­ball roundup)
COCPrepSports.com Staff
  BUF­FALO — Reeds Spring won for the sec­ond time in as many nights on Wednes­day, pick­ing up a 57–47 Cen­tral Ozark Con­fer­ence Small Schools Divi­sion win at Buf­falo.
  The game was orig­i­nally sched­uled for two weeks ago, but was post­poned due to icy roads.
  The Wolves (8−5 over­all and 2–0 in the COC Small Schools Divi­sion) were led by Alex English’s game-high 16 points. Ben Selby and Chris Jones both added 11. 

• 

 

---

January 22, 2010

Lady Car­di­nals No. 1 in Class 5
COCPrepSports.com Staff
  Webb City’s girls bas­ket­ball team is atop this week’s Class 4 poll in this Mis­souri Sports­writ­ers and Sports­cast­ers Association’s state rank­ings.
  The Lady Car­di­nals are 15–1. 
  In Class 5, Nixa is 13–2 and ranked No. 2. 
  The Lady Car­di­nals and Lady Eagles will meet Feb. 12 at Nixa.
  The Cen­tral Ozark Con­fer­ence Large Schools Divi­sion is rep­re­sented in the boys poll by Bran­son and Nixa. The Pirates are 15–1 and ranked No. 5 in Class 5 and the Eagles are 16–1 record and ranked No. 8 in Class 5.

• 

 

---

January 23, 2010

Neosho knocks off Mt. Ver­non (Boys bas­ket­ball roundup)
COCPrepSports.com
  NEOSHO — Neosho downed non-conference foe Mt. Ver­non 53–45 on Fri­day.
  The Wild­cats were led by Corey Crandall’s 16 points, Michael Lowe’s 15 and Alex Wise’s 10.
  Else­where on Fri­day:
  — Spring­field Catholic fell to host Spokane 59–41 in a semi­fi­nal at the Spokane Tour­na­ment.
  Jack Wolf had 10 points for the Irish.
  — Repub­lic edged Reeds Spring 56–53.
  Josh Morrow’s 21 points and Kevin Stander’s 20 paced the Tigers. The Wolves received 15 points from Kyle Fleck and 10 apiece from Mar­cus John­son and Chris Jones.
  — Bran­son downed Webb City 70–55 in second-round action at the Webb City Clas­sic.
  — Nixa downed Rogersville 64–39 behind Ben Fisher’s 19 points.
  — Carthage’s Keith Lawrie net­ted 25 points to lead the Tigers past Aurora 64–55.
  Lawrie was 10-of-17 from the field and 5-of-6 at the free-throw line. Lane Stephens added 14 points and Ethan Wig­gins nine for the winners. 

• 

 

---

January 24, 2010

Wolf, Irish take third at Spokane Tour­na­ment (Boys bas­ket­ball roundup)
COCPrepSports.com Staff
  SPOKANE — Sopho­more Jack Wolf col­lected 21 points and nine rebounds to lead Spring­field Catholic past Cassville 49–44 in the third-place game at the Spokane Tour­na­ment on Sat­ur­day.
  The Irish (10−5) hit 13-of-16 free-throw attempts in the fourth quar­ter.
  Else­where on Sat­ur­day:
  — At the Webb City Clas­sic, Bran­son beat Lin­coln Prep 74–57.
  The Pirates, ranked No. 5 in Class 5, improved to 17–2. 

• 

 

---

January 25, 2010

 Neosho wins COC Large Schools Divi­sion title (Wrestling)
COCPrepSports.com Staff
  NIXA — Neosho had eight indi­vid­ual cham­pi­ons while rolling to the team cham­pi­onship at the Cen­tral Ozark Con­fer­ence Large Schools Divi­sion Tour­na­ment on Sat­ur­day.
  The Wild­cats’ Blake Stauf­fer, ranked No. 1 in Class 3 at 171 pounds, improved to 43–0.

TEAM SCORES

1. Neosho 353, 2. Ozark 294, 3. Webb City 163, 4. Carthage 159, 5. Nixa 140.5, 6. Willard 132.5, 7. Repub­lic 107.5, 8. Bran­son 106

INDI­VID­UAL RESULTS

103 POUNDS

1^st Place Match — Nate Rodriguez of Neosho won by deci­sion over Colton How­ell of Ozark 6–4.

3^rd Place Match — Bray­den Goff of Webb City won by pin over Gage Gart­ner of Carthage in 0:39.

5^th Place Match — Aus­ton Fin­ley of Nixa won by pin over Tan­ner Willis of Repub­lic in 2:49.

7^th Place Match — Daniel Berg­land of Bran­son received a bye.

112 POUNDS

1^st Place Match — Dmitry Loftis of Ozark won by deci­sion over Nate Kelly of Carthage 11–6.

3^rd Place Match — Joe Barnes of Neosho won by pin over Caleb Shuck of Willard in 3:28.

5^th Place Match — Travis Thomas of Repub­lic received a bye.

119 POUNDS
1^st Place Match — Trevor Fea­gans of Carthage won by deci­sion over Andy Cauble of Nixa 10–8.

3^rd Place Match — Grant God­frey of Ozark won by pin over Lan­don Baker of Webb City in 3:30.

5^th Place Match — Tan­ner Schaack of Neosho won by major deci­sion over Kyle Camp­bell of Repub­lic 13–4.

7^th Place Match — Kevin Hunn of Bran­son received a bye.

125 POUNDS

1^st Place Match — Carter Boa­tright of Neosho won by pin over Zack Kirk of Webb City in 2:32.

3^rd Place Match — Tyler Ussery of Ozark won by pin over Mar­shall Phe­lan of Nixa in 5:23.

5^th Place Match — Luis Mar­tinez of Carthage won by pin over Dil­lon McClarnon of Repub­lic in 1:15.

7^th Place Match — Jor­dan Quail of Bran­son received a bye.

130 POUNDS

1^st Place Match — Jared Brock of Neosho won by deci­sion over Patrick Grigsby of Webb City 1–0.

3^rd Place Match — Sam Evans of Nixa won by deci­sion over Dustin MClin­tock of Ozark 4–2.

5^th Place Match — Mason Clark of Willard won by pin over Logan Bryan of Carthage in 5:57.

7^th Place Match — Matt Foraker of Bran­son received a bye.

135 POUNDS

1^st Place Match — Dylan May of Ozark won by pin over Justin Lan­des of Webb City in 1:20.

3^rd Place Match — Ty Ben­nett of Neosho won by pin over Michael Cuth­bert­son of Bran­son in 4:58.

5^th Place Match — Jake Pritch­ett of Nixa won by pin over Seth Beck­ner of Carthage in 3:09.

7^th Place Match — Steeler Seaburn of Willard won by tech fall over Jeff Maez of Repub­lic in 0:00 15–0.

140 POUNDS

1^st Place Match — Payne Hat­ter of Neosho won by pin over Richard Rodgers of Webb City in 2:25.

3^rd Place Match — Harold Cooper of Carthage won by deci­sion over Josh Shock­ney of Ozark 6–4.

5^th Place Match — Evan Rot­ton of Nixa won by deci­sion over Kyler Castillo of Bran­son 5–1.

7^th Place Match — Chance Mor­lan of Repub­lic received a bye.

145 POUNDS

1^st Place Match — Ethan Pogue of Neosho won by pin over Arnold Her­rera of Carthage in 4:51.

3^rd Place Match — Kerik Crouse of Repub­lic won by pin over Tyler David of Bran­son in 2:26.

5^th Place Match — Levi Tucker of Ozark won by major deci­sion over Jeremy Liss of Nixa 13–4.

7^th Place Match — Dal­ton Humphrey of Webb City received a bye.

152 POUNDS

1^st Place Match – Tay­lor Ball of Willard won by deci­sion over Zeb Spicer of Ozark 8–6.

3^rd Place Match – Daniel Barnes of Bran­son won by deci­sion over Larry Swine­hart of Carthage 6–3.

5^th Place Match — Nick Rapp of Nixa won by injury default over Zac Minor of Republic.

7^th Place Match — Breck Mitchell of Webb City received a bye.

160 PONUDS

1^st Place Match — Dal­las Smith of Neosho won by deci­sion over Jon Inman of Bran­son 11–4.

3^rd Place Match — Cody Lind­say of Ozark won by deci­sion over Jake Laswell of Repub­lic 5–0.

5^th Place Match — Con­ner Hunt of Nixa received a bye.

171 POUNDS

1^st Place Match — Blake Stauf­fer of Neosho won by major deci­sion over Tim Allen of Ozark 15–5.

3^rd Place Match — Parker Odell of Bran­son won by deci­sion over Gar­rett Fletchall of Willard 9–6.

5^th Place Match — Con­ner Spuhl of Repub­lic won by tech fall over Aaron Pavlowski of Nixa in 0:00 20–5.

189 POUNDS

1^st Place Match — Trent Hosick of Ozark won by deci­sion over Matt Mil­lard of Neosho 3–1.

3^rd Place Match — Nick Love­joy of Webb City won by deci­sion over Nel­son Hor­ton of Carthage 5–4.

5^th Place Match — Jesse Ruark of Willard won by major deci­sion over Hay­den Puck­ett of Repub­lic 14–4.

215 POUNDS

1^st Place Match — Joel Wyman of Willard won by deci­sion over Riley Plew of Neosho 4–2.

3^rd Place Match — Willy Gray of Ozark won by deci­sion over Jake Med­ford of Nixa 11–6.

5^th Place Match — Taven Meis­ter of Webb City won by pin over Tyler King of Repub­lic in 0:28.

285 POUNDS

1^st Place Match — George McK­in­ney of Neosho won by pin over Chris­t­ian Adams of Willard in 0:54.

3^rd Place Match — Austin Don­nelly of Ozark won by deci­sion over Erick Var­gas of Carthage 4–3.

5^th Place Match — Lance Gre­gory of Repub­lic won by pin over Ace Pel­ham of Webb City in 2:26.

7^th Place Match — Travis Cur­bow of Nixa received a bye.

• 

 

---

Reeds Spring wins COC Small Schools Divi­sion title (Wrestling)
COCPrepSports.com Staff
  BUF­FALO — Reeds Spring totaled 252 points to win the Cen­tral Ozark Con­fer­ence Small Schools Divi­sion cham­pi­onship on Sat­ur­day.

TEAM SCORES
1. Reeds Spring 252, 2. Boli­var 198, 3. Rogersville 158.5, 4. Marsh­field 106, 5. Buf­falo 105.

INDI­VID­UAL RESULTS

103 POUNDS

1^st place — Joe God­sey (Reeds Spring) Inj Def Sam Hughes (Bolivar)

3^rd place — Sean McCorkle (Marsh­field) WBF Levi Boyd (Buf­falo) 1:05

112 POUNDS

1^st place —Ty Balty (Rogersville) WBF Danny Robb (Reeds Spring) 5:55

3^rd place —Jacob Mil­li­gan (Marsh­field) WBF Cheyenne Hitch­cock (Buf­falo) 1:10

119 POUNDS

1^st place —Eric Hughes (Boli­var) Inj Def Billy Hesik Reeds Spring

3^rd place —Nick Fran­ci­av­iglia (Rogersville) Mdec James McCul­lough (Marsh­field) 13–0

125 POUNDS

1^st place — Austin Ran­dle (Reeds Spring) dec Jesse Sher­man (Boli­var) 10–4

3^rd place —Brian Dicky (Rogersville) WBF Elliot Cor­dova (Marsh­field) 2:49

130 POUNDS

1^st place — Sam Zim­mer (Rogersville) TFALL Corey Barnes (Boli­var) 15–0

3^rd place — Rusty Ran­dle (Reeds Spring) dec Jared Jones (Marsh­field) 9–8

135 POUNDS

1^st place — Steven Morey (Reeds Spring) WBF Jor­dan Grim (Marsh­field) 3:22

3^rd place — Jacob Miles (Boli­var) win by forfeit   

140 POUNDS

1^st place — Tyler White (Reeds Spring) WBF Chris Min­ear (Buf­falo) 1:56

3^rd place — Jer­im­iah Robi­son (Marsh­field) win by forfeit

145 POUNDS

1^st place — Ethan Grinder (Reeds Spring) dec (Aaron Allen Boli­var) 5:08

3^rd place — William Schweg­man (Buf­falo) dec Shae Junte (Marsh­field) 8–5

152 POUNDS

1^st place — Lee White (Reeds Spring) WBF Jared Har­rill (Boli­var) 1:32

3^rd place — Ryan Cleous (Rogersville) TFALL Willie Abele (Buf­falo) 16–0

160 POUNDS

1^st place — Josh Mof­fett (Boli­var) dec Joe Zim­mer (Rogersville) 5–1

3^rd place — Ian Tay­lor (Buf­falo) WBF Danny Poe (Marsh­field) 5:05

171 POUNDS

1^st place — Tay­lor DiTrol­lirol­lio (Rogersville) dec Tan­ner Har­ris (Buf­falo) 9–6

3^rd place — Harly Starky (Boli­var) WBF Der­rick Hill (Reeds Spring) 3:14

189 POUNDS

1^st place — Dal­ton Sharp (Boli­var) dec Tyler Miller (Reeds Spring) 11–8

3^rd place — Pre­ston Jones (Logan-Rogersville) WBF Con­ner Bentick (Marsh­field) 0:42

215 POUNDS

1^st place — Gareth Behr (Boli­var) TFALL Der­rick Har­ris (Buf­falo) 18–2

3^rd place — Justin Mes­sager (Logan-Rogersville) dec Zac Elling­wood (Reeds Spring) 6–2

275 POUNDS

1^st place — Kale Crosby (Reeds Spring) WBF Aaron Stan­dler (Buf­falo) 2:28

3^rd place — Jesse Brown (Boli­var) WBF Justin Huff (Rogersville) :25

• 

 

---

Webb City downs Spring­field Catholic (Girls bas­ket­ball roundup)
COCPrepSports.com Staff
  WEBB CITY — Webb City upped its record to 16–1 by beat­ing Spring­field Catholic 76–61 on Mon­day.
  The Lady Irish fell to 5–7.
  Else­where on Mon­day:
  — Hol­lis­ter fell to Ash Grove 73–63.
  The Lady Tigers received 20 points from Lainie Bishop, 12 from Kelsey Kapella, 11 from Becca Felks and 10 from Jae­Lynn Ellison. 

• 

 

---

Irish fall to Straf­ford (Boys bas­ket­ball)
COCPrepSports.com Staff
   CON­WAY — Spring­field Catholic suf­fered a 63–47 loss to Straf­ford in first-round action at the Con­way Tour­na­ment on Mon­day.
  The Irish (10−6) were led by Jack Wolf’s 13 points. Bran­don Kratz and Mitchell Richard­son both had seven.
  Else­where on Mon­day:
  — Carthage wal­loped Stock­ton 82–34 in the first round of the Nevada Clas­sic.
  The Tigers (12−7) shot 55 per­cent from the field and hit eight 3-pointers. Desmond Buerge had a trio of treys in his 19-point effort. Keith Lawrie and Ethan Wig­gin both had 10 points and Cody Caster posted eight points and nine rebounds.

• 

 

---

January 26, 2010

Lady Jays improve to 11–6 (Girls bas­ket­ball roundup)
COCPrepSports.com Staff
  MARSH­FIELD — Marsh­field ran away from Mor­risville 70–46 on Tues­day.
  With the win, the Lady Jays improved to 11–6.
  Else­where on Tues­day:
  — Reeds Spring fell to Ava 56–24 in first-round action at the Reeds Spring Invi­ta­tional.
  The Lady Wolves’ Tawni Free­man scored 11 points. 

• 

 

---

Carthage falls to KC Cen­tral (Boys bas­ket­ball)
COCPrepSports.com Staff
   NEVADA — Carthage lost to Kansas City Cen­tral 77–59 at the Nevada Tour­na­ment on Tues­day.
  Cen­tral shot 64 per­cent from the field.
  The Tigers were led by Keith Lawrie’s 16 points and Cody Caster’s 13. 
Else­where on Tues­day:
  — The three­some of Alex Wise, Michael Lowe and Corey Cran­dall pow­ered Neosho past Spring­field Parkview 79–68 on Tues­day.
  Wise net­ted 24 points and Lowe and Cran­dall both poured in 23.
  Neosho is 11–8, the most wins for the pro­gram since the 2004-’05 season.

• 

 

---

January 27, 2010

Lady Car­di­nals remain No. 1, Nixa stays at No. 2
COCPrepSports.com Staff
  Webb City’s girls bas­ket­ball team is still atop the Mis­souri Sports­writ­ers and Sports­cast­ers Association’s Class 4 state rank­ings.
  The Lady Car­di­nals are 15–1 enter­ing their trip Fri­day to Bran­son.
  In the Class 5 poll, Nixa is No. 2. The Lady Eagles are 15–2.
  On the boys side, Bran­son is No. 4 and Nixa No. 6 in the Class 5 rank­ings. The Pirates are 17–2 and the Eagles 17–1. 

• 

 

---

Luko among nation’s top shoot­ers (Girls bas­ket­ball alumni)
COCPrepSports.com Staff
  Nixa grad Ash­ley Luko is ranked sec­ond in NAIA D-I in 3-point field-goal per­cent­age. Despite a recent 2-of-8 slump beyond the arc, the Evan­gel guard is 33-of-64 on her 3-point attempts (.515). 
  Luko is aver­ag­ing 13.8 points a game.
  Other COC alumni far­ing well at the col­lege level include:
  — Nixa grad Mor­gan Smith is aver­ag­ing 16.8 points a game as a fresh­man for­ward at Col­lege of the Ozarks. 
  Smith, who also played at Marsh­field, is shoot­ing 52 per­cent from the field and has posted double-figure scor­ing in 17 of 19 games.
  — Boli­var grad Casey Gar­ri­son tops Mis­o­suri State with a 19.1 scor­ing aver­age, 109 assists and an aver­age of 36.4 min­utes played.
  — Marsh­field grad Lacey Boshe has had norms of 9.9 points and 3.8 rebounds for the Lady Bears.
  — Hol­lis­ter grad Bre­anna Daniels is aver­ag­ing 12.1 points and 4.2 rebounds a game as a sopho­more for­ward at Tru­man State.
  — Marsh­field grad Kayla Mes­sick tops C of O with 53 assists and has hit 25 3-pointers while aver­ag­ing 5.3 points a game.
  — Willard grad Megan Jew­ell has also hit 25 treys for C of O while aver­ag­ing 5.4 points a game.
  (Let us know of other COC alumni play­ing at the col­lege level in any sport by e-mailing us at admin@cocprepsports.com)

• 

 

---

February 1, 2010

Eagles take two in one day
COCPrepSports.com Staff
  NIXA — After hav­ing the sec­ond round of the Nixa Invi­ta­tional on Fri­day post­poned due to snow, the tourney’s four teams played two games on Sat­ur­day and the host Eagles emerged as cham­pi­ons.
  Nixa edged Mt. Ver­non 46–44 in semi­fi­nal action. The Eagles hit all eight of their free-throw attempts to seal their win.
  In the cham­pi­onship game, Nixa downed Kansas City O’Hara, ranked No. 2 in Class 4, 72–45. The Eagles scored 26 points in the first quar­ter and 25 in the fourth quar­ter.
  Ben Fisher had a team-high 15 points, while Zac Hill had 14, Kameron Bundy 11 and Jalen Nor­man 10.
  Nixa is 20–1 enter­ing its home game on Fri­day with Republic.

• 

 

---

Bade’s explo­sion lifts Catholic (Girls bas­ket­ball roundup)
COCPrepSports.com 
  SPRING­FIELD — Bekah Bade broke loose for 27 second-half points en route to a 33-point per­for­mance in Spring­field Catholic’s 64–58 win over Sey­mour on Mon­day.
  Bade net­ted 19 points in the third quar­ter alone. She fin­ished with eight 3-pointers.
  Danielle Lampe added 13 points for the Lady Irish.
  Else­where on Mon­day:
  — Nixa downed Marsh­field 65–28.
  The Lady ‘Jays fell to 11–7, while the Lady Eagles improved to 16–2.
  Marsh­field returns to Cen­tral Ozark Con­fer­ence Small Schools Divi­sion play on Tues­day by meet­ing Buf­falo.
  — Neosho lost to Nevada 56–46.
  The Lady Wild­cats received 14 points from Ash­ley Gillion and 10 from Mor­gan Rath­man.

• 

 

---

No. 1-ranked Fea­gans improves to 32–1 (Wrestling roundup)
COCPrepSports.com Staff
  GRAND­VIEW – Carthage went 4–1 at the Grand­view Duals and had four wrestlers go 5–0 on Sat­ur­day.
  Trevor Fea­gans, ranked No. 1 at 119 pounds in Class 3 by MissouriWrestling.com, recorded a pair of pins while upping his record to 32–1.
  The Tigers’ Gage Gart­ner (103 pounds), Nate Kelly (112) and Larry Swine­hart (152) also all went 5–0.
  Carthage beat Tru­man 53–21, lost to Lee’s Sum­mit 47–27, edged Grand­view 47–30, downed Poplar Bluff 51–24 and nipped Sta­ley 33–27.
Indi­vid­ual Results
103–Gage Gart­ner (15−21)
  Won by fall in 1:13 over Nick Polfer–Truman; won by fall in 0:20 over Thomas Fiegner–Lee’s Summit; won by for­feit over Grandview; won by fall in 0:48 over Colby Blatz–Poplar Bluff; won by for­feit over Sta­ley
112–Nate Kelly (29−7) 
  Won by major deci­sion 12–0 over Dar­ring White–Truman; won by fall in 1:12 over Der­rick Herrman–Lee’s Summit; won by for­feit over Grandview; won by for­feit over Poplar Bluff; won by deci­sion 6–2 over Aaron Engle–Staley
119–Trevor Fea­gans (32−1)
  Won by major deci­sion 10–0 over A.J. Jones–Truman; won by fall in 0:29 over Andrew Smith–Lee’s Summit; won by fall in 1:24 over George Palomeres–Grandview; won by for­feit over Poplar Bluff; won by deci­sion 9–3 over Trevor Engle–Staley
125–Taylor Bogle (5−5)
  Won by for­feit over Truman; lost by tech­ni­cal fall 20–5 to Jesse Morris–Lee’s Summit; won by major deci­sion 13–0 over Dylan Carr–Grandview; won by deci­sion 4–3 over Ethan Swingle–Poplar Bluff; lost by deci­sion 4–1 to Jeremy Goss–Staley
130–Logan Bryan (21−16)
  Won by for­feit over Truman; lost by fall in 0:53 to Spencer Courier–Lee’s Summit; won by fall in 5:05 over Kam­ron Tomlinson–Grandview; won by fall in 3:33 over Kaleb Barton–Poplar Bluff; won by for­feit over Sta­ley
135–Seth Beck­ner (13−10)
  Won by deci­sion 8–2 over Turner Madick–Truman; lost by deci­sion 11–4 to John Williams–Lee’s Summit; won by for­feit over Grandview; won by fall in 1:21 over Matt Dobbs–Poplar Bluff; won by fall in 1:28 over David Montoya–Staley
140–Harold Cooper (24−17)
  Won by fall in 3:24 over Jor­dan Fears–Truman; won by fall in 1:38 over Alex Swartz–Lee’s Summit; won by for­feit over Grandview; lost by deci­sion 3–1 to Storm McClure–Poplar Bluff; lost by deci­sion 4–1 to Tommy Elsrode–Staley
145–OPEN
152–Larry Swine­hart (21−11)
  Won by fall in 1:10 over Neil Young–Truman; won by deci­sion 3–1 over Chris Lattner–Lee’s Summit; won by deci­sion 4–0 over Nate Kessinger–Grandview; won by fall in 2:53 over J. Darby Smothers–Poplar Bluff; won by deci­sion 4–1 over Frank Tamburello–Staley
160-Seth Golay (26−8) 
  Lost by deci­sion 3–1 to Gar­rett Garman–Truman; lost by deci­sion 5–3 to Justin Bruce–Lee’s Summit; won by major deci­sion 9–0 over Quentin Neal–Grandview; won by fall in 3:50 over Eric Ramos–Poplar Bluff; lost by deci­sion 3–1 to Patrick Rhoads–Staley
171–Nelson Hor­ton (16−19)
  Won by for­feit over Truman; lost by fall in 5:59 to Josh Howard–Lee’s Summit; lost by fall in 5:24 to Joseph Obasi–Grandview; lost by deci­sion 3–1 to Chance Berry–Poplar Bluff; lost by fall in 0:45 to Kaleb Sweet–Staley
189–OPEN
215–OPEN
285–Erick Var­gas (16−21)
  Won by fall in 1:11 over Mike Alexander–Truman; lost by fall in 3:27 to Sean Williams–Lee’s Summit; lost by fall in 4:05 to Xavier Williams–Grandview; won by for­feit over Poplar Bluff; won by for­feit over Staley

 

• 

 

---

February 2, 2010

Neosho gains 12^th vic­tory (Boys bas­ket­ball roundup)
COCPrepSports.com
  MIAMI, Okla. — Neosho improved to 12–8 by win­ning at Miami 57–33 on Tues­day.
  The Wild­cats were led by the 1–2 punch of Alex Wise and Michael Lowe. Wise had 17 points and Lowe 15.
  Else­where on Tues­day:
  — Republic’s Kevin Stander scored 21 points in the Tigers’ 45–31 tri­umph over Spring­field Cen­tral.
  Josh Mor­row added 11 points for the win­ners and Jon Combs had nine.
  — Bran­son rolled past Reeds Spring 58–46.
  Tee Helsel scored a team-high 12 points, Chris Ogden accounted for 11, Dana Thomas col­lected nine points and four steals and Matt Koomen con­tributed eight points.
  The Pirates are 18–2.

• 

 

---

 Lady ‘Jays go to 2–0 in league play (Girls bas­ket­ball)
COCPrepSports.com Staff  
  MARSH­FIELD — Marsh­field remained unde­feated in Cen­tral Ozark Con­fer­ence Small Schools Divi­sion play by down­ing Buf­falo 39–25 on Tues­day.
  The Lady ‘Jays improved to 12–7 over­all and 2–0 in con­fer­ence play.

• 

 

---

Adams star­ring again for Lions (Boys bas­ket­ball alumni)
COCPrepSports.com Staff
  Carthage grad Jason Adams is fol­low­ing up his ban­ner fresh­man sea­son at Mis­souri South­ern State by shin­ing as a sopho­more.
  Adams is aver­ag­ing a team-high 18.1 points and 7.1 rebounds a game. In MIAA play, his norms are 19.1 points and 7.8 rebounds. He’s started all 20 of the Lions’ games and is shoot­ing 46 per­cent from the field.
  Adams, who was the MIAA Fresh­man of the Year last season, scored seven points in a season-opening exhi­bi­tion game against Illi­nois.
  Mis­souri South­ern State is 12–8.
  Among other COC alumni shin­ing on the hard­wood are:
  — Bran­son grad Mike Wiebe tops Col­lege of the Ozarks with a 14.7 scor­ing aver­age while shoot­ing 47 per­cent from the field. He’s also aver­ag­ing 4.1 rebounds a game.
  The fresh­man guard had 16 points and six boards in the Bob­cats’ 75–73 win over defend­ing NAIA D-II national cham­pion Okla­homa Wes­leyan on Tues­day.
  — Ozark grad Tyler Oak­ley has started all 20 games for Cen­tral Mis­souri State, which is 19–1 and ranked No. 3 in NCAA D-II.
  Oak­ley is aver­ag­ing 2.5 points and 3.5 rebounds a game. 

• 

 

---

February 5, 2010

Mis­souri South­ern State reels in four COC recruits
COCPrepSports.com Staff
  JOPLIIN — Webb City’s Brax­ton Baker and Bart Starkey and Neosho’s Matt Bridges and Addi­son Rain­wa­ter will next be team­mates.
  They all signed let­ters of intent ear­lier this week to con­tinue their grid­iron careers at Mis­souri South­ern State. Baker is a run­ning back, Bridges a cen­ter and Rain­wa­ter and Starkey are line­back­ers.
  Also, Webb City defen­sive back Boo Rodgers signed with South­ern Illinois-Carbondale.

• 

 

---

Lady Irish win con­fer­ence tus­sle (Girls bas­ket­ball roundup)
COCPrepSports.com Staff
SPRING­FIELD — Spring­field Catholic moved to 2–0 in the Cen­tral Ozark Con­fer­ence Small Schools Divi­sion by beat­ing Rogersville 60–43 on Thurs­day.
  The Lady Irish are 10–8 over­all.
  Else­where on Thurs­day:
  — Nixa downed Bran­son 51–34 in a COC Large Schools Divi­sion bat­tle.
  — Repub­lic beat Carthage 55–45 in another COC Large Schools Divi­sion contest.

 

• 

 

---

Foot­ball sched­ules filled
COCPrepSports.com Staff
  Cen­tral Ozark Con­fer­ence foot­ball teams who have released their 2010 sched­ules are Bran­son, Carthage, Hol­lis­ter, Nixa and Reeds Spring.
Bran­son
  Week 1 — Carthage; Week 2 — Cassville; Week 3 — @ Webb City; Week 4 — @ Repub­lic; Week 5 — @ Willard; Week 6 — Ozark; Week 7 — Neosho; Week 8 — Spring­field Parkview; Week 9 — @ Spring­field Kick­apoo; Week 10 — @ Nixa
Carthage
  Week 1 — @ Bran­son; Week 2 — Ozark; Week 2  — @ Willard: Week 4 — @ Nixa; Week 4 — Neosho; Week 6 — @ imag­ine Col­lege Col­lege Prep Char­ter; Week 7 — Repub­lic; Week 8 — Webb City; Week 9 — @ Carl Junc­tion: Week 10 — McDon­ald County
Hol­lis­ter
  Week 1 — @ Marsh­field; Week 2 — Buf­falo; Week 3 — @ Spring­field Catholic; Week 4 — Boli­var; Week 5 — @ Reeds Spring; Week 6 — Rogersville; Week 7 — @ Stock­ton; Week 8 — Straf­ford; Week 9 — Fair Grove; Week 10 — @ Ash Grove
Nixa
  Week 1 — Cam­den­ton; Week 2 — @ Repub­lic; Week 3 — @ Mon­ett; Week 4 — Carthage; Week 5 — @ Webb City; Week 6 — @ Neosho; Week 7 — Spring­field Kick­apoo; Week 8 — @ Ozark; Week 9 — Willard; Week 10 — Bran­son
Reeds Spring
  Week 1 — @ Wil­low Springs; Week 2 — Boli­var; Week 3 — @ Rogersville; Week 4 — Fair Grove; Week 5 — Hol­lis­ter; Week 6 — @ Buf­falo; Week 7 — Marsh­field; Week 8 — Aurora; Week 9 — @ Mt. Ver­non; Week 10 — @ Spring­field Catholic
 

• 

 

---

Carthage’s Kelly beats top-ranked foe by 13–0 count (Wrestling roundup)
COCPrepSports.com Staff
   SENECA — Seneca downed Carthage 52–16 on Thurs­day, but the Tigers’ Nate Kelly posted a win over Tate Smith, ranked No. 1 in Class 1 at 112 pounds.
  Kelly, ranked fourth in Class 3, won by a major deci­sion 13–0 to improve to 30–7.
  Carthage fresh­man Trevor Fea­gans, ranked No. 1 in Class 3 at 119, upped his record to 34–1 by pin­ning Trevor Sill in 4:34.
  Seneca is ranked No. 1 in Class 1.
Seneca 52, Carthage 16
  103 — Gage Gart­ner (15–22) lost by fall in 0:57 to Blake Byrne; 112 — Nate Kelly (30–7) won by major deci­sion 13–0 over Tate Smith; 119 — Trevor Fea­gans (34–1) won by fall in 4:34 over Trevor Sill; 125 — Tay­lor Bogle (5–6) lost by fall in 1:34 to Col­bey Skaggs–ranked 1st130 — Logan Bryan (21–17) lost by fall in 1:41 to Nathan Fortner; 135 — Seth Beck­ner (13–11) lost by fall in 3:03 to Josh Mullin; 140 — Harold Cooper (24–18) lost by deci­sion 2–0 to Dil­lon Webb; 145 — Larry Swine­hart (21–12) lost by deci­sion 5–3 to David Diaz; 152 — Arnold Her­rera (19–16) lost by deci­sion 4–1 to Jake Rhoads; 160 — Seth Golay (27–8) won by forfeit; 171 — for­feit to Josh Butler; 189 — Nel­son Hor­ton (16–20) lost by major deci­sion 12–3 to Dal­ton Cummings; 215 — for­feit to Jacoby Hymer; 285 — Erick Var­gas (16–22) lost by deci­sion 4–0 to Der­rick Hopper.

• 

 

---

Neosho knocks off Ozark (Boys bas­ket­ball roundup)
COCPrepSports.com Staff
   NEOSHO — Alex Wise poured in 21 points and hit two free throws with 2 sec­onds to play while lead­ing Neosho past Ozark 56–55 in a Cen­tral Ozark Con­fer­ence Large Schools Divi­sion thriller on Fri­day.
  Wise swished 10-of-11 free-throw attempts in the fourth quar­ter alone. His win­ning free throws came after the Tigers’ Isa­iah Mon­roe made two free throws with 10 sec­onds left.
  Ozark led 51–42 with 4:35 to play.
  The Wild­cats received 14 points from Corey Cran­dall and 10 from Michael Lowe. Ozark was led by Austin Holtzclaw’s 18 points, Dylan Hord’s 13 and Monroe’s 10.
  Neosho improved to 13–8 over­all and 2–1 in con­fer­ence play. The loss dropped Ozark to 18–4 and 1–2. 
  Else­where on Fri­day:
  — At Marsh­field, Utah Find­ley and Jared Green­lee were a dynamic duo in Marshfield’s 63–61 over­time win over Spring­field Catholic in a COC Small Schools Divi­sion clash on Fri­day.
  Find­ley scored a game-high 28 points and Green­leee net­ted 24.
  Catholic received 20 points from Jack Wolf and nine from Jeff White.
  — Reeds Spring won at Forsyth 59–48, thanks to a 15–0 third-quarter run.
  The Wolves trailed 23–15 at inter­mis­sion after scor­ing just two points in the sec­ond quar­ter. They responded by scor­ing 20 in the third period and 24 in the final stanza.
  Reeds Spring hit 16-of-19 free-throw attempts.
  Alex Eng­lish topped the win­ners with 13 points, all of them com­ing in the sec­ond half. Chris Jones con­tributed a dozen, Mar­cus John­son scored 11, Johnny Willis chipped in with 10 and Ben Selby had nine.
 

 

• 

 

---

February 8, 2010

 Pirates gain 20^th vic­tory
COCPrepSports.com Staff
  BRAN­SON — A 25-point third quar­ter trig­gered Branson’s 74–47 win over Webb City in Cen­tral Ozark Con­fer­ence Large Schools Divi­sion play on Sat­ur­day.
  The Pirates had scored only 30 points in the first half and held just a six-point lead at inter­mis­sion.
  Avery Ding­man topped the win­ners with 18 points, while Sam Pugh net­ted 16, Tee Helsel fired in 15 and Dana Thomas con­tributed 14 points and 12 rebounds.
  Webb City received 15 points from Phillip Donna and a dozen from Austin Daniels.
  Bran­son improved to 20–2 over­all and 2–1 in con­fer­ence play. Webb City fell to 10–12 and 0–4.

• 

 

---

February 9, 2010

Spring­field Catholic edges Boli­var (Boys bas­ket­ball roundup)
COCPrepSports.com Staff
   SPRING­FIELD — Spring­field Catholic upped its record to 2–2 in the Cen­tral Ozark Con­fer­ence Small Schools Divi­sion by nos­ing past Boli­var 52–47 on Tues­day.
  The Irish were paced by Jef­frey White’s 13 points and Mitchell Richardson’s 10 points and six rebounds.
  Bolivar’s Pre­ston Guiot scored 18 points and Dal­ton Kel­ley 13.
  Catholic improved to 12–8 over­all.
  Else­hwere on Tues­day:
  — Willard downed Neosho 73–66 in a COC Large Schools Divi­sion tus­sle.
  The Wild­cats’ Alex Wise scored 21 points, Mar­cus Mid­dle­ton added a dozen, Michael Lowe net­ted 11 and Corey Cran­dall had 10.
  Neosho fell to 13–9 over­all and 2–2 in the COC. Willard is 13–9 over­all and 4–0 in con­fer­ence play.
  — Bran­son for­ward Dana Thomas had his sec­ond straight double-double to help the Pirates past Repub­lic 57–45 in a bat­tle of COC Large Schools Divi­sion ranked teams.
  Bran­son (21−2 over­all and 3–1 in the COC) is ranked No. 4 in Class 4 and Repub­lic (14−6 and 1–3) is No. 8 in Class 4.
  Thomas col­lected 12 points and 11 rebounds. Avery Ding­man topped the Pirates with 15 points and just missed a double-double, grab­bing nine boards. Tee Helsel con­tributed 11 points, Chris Ogden had nine and Sam Pugh dished out seven assists.
  Republic’s Kevin Stander fired in a game-high 20 points and Nick Yocum chipped in 11.
  — Nixa downed Ozark 68–47 to improve to 22–1 over­all and 4–0 in the COC Large Schools Divi­sion.
  The Eagles jumped out to a 15–0 lead.

• 

 

---

Lady Cards have two 3-time win­ners (Swim­ming)
COCPrepSports.com Staff
  WEBB CITY — Webb City’s Erica Logal and Ash­ley John­son claimed three firsts while help­ing the Lady Car­di­nals cap­ture third place at the Cen­tral Ozark Con­fer­ence Swim Meet on Fri­day.
  Logal won the 100 breast­stroke (1:13.31) and 200 freestyle (2:20.03) and teamed with John­son, Caitlin Isaac and Brit­tany Steever to win the 200 med­ley relay (2:03.45). John­son won the 200 indi­vid­ual med­ley (2:24.52) and 500 freestyle (5:36.87). Her mar­gin of vic­tory in the 500 freestyle was 51 sec­onds.
  Nixa, which won the team title, received firsts from Anna Brinck in the 100 freestyle (56.12) and its 200 freestyle relay (1:50.38). Brinck beat Steever by a tenth of a sec­ond.
  Runner-up Ozark saw Ash­ley Short take first in the 100 but­ter­fly (1:06.73) and 100 back­stroke (1:11.26) and its 400 freestyle relay claim gold (4:21.30).
  Marshfield’s Jes­sica Stepp was the 1-meter div­ing champ (334.95 points).
  John­son set two meet records, while Logal, Brinck and Nixa’s 200 freestyle relay also estab­lished new meet marks.

• 

 

---

February 12, 2010

Nixa’s Keeney among those to sign let­ters of intent
COCPrepSports.com Staff
  Nixa’s Jor­dan Keeney will con­tinue his foot­ball career at Cen­tral Mis­souri State, after sign­ing a let­ter of intent with the Mules.
  Keeney, the Cen­tral Ozark Con­fer­ence Large Schools Divi­sion Offen­sive Player of the Year last fall, is expected to stay at run­ning back for Cen­tral Mis­souri State.
  The Eagles’ Skyler Brown, an offen­sive line­man, signed with Ottawa (Kan.).
  Ozark’s Tom Ligion signed with Arkansas State’s track team and hopes to com­pete in the decathalon.
  The Tigers’ Keaton Pat­ter­son, a line­backer, signed to play foot­ball at South­west Bap­tist.
  Carthage’s Trevor Hole signed with Evan­gel and plans to play foot­ball and com­pete in track. 

• 

 

---

Bade, Lady Irish beat Buf­falo (Girls bas­ket­ball roundup)
COCPrepSports.com Staff
  SPRING­FIELD — Bekah Bade scored 22 points to help Spring­field Catholic past Buf­falo 53–36 in Cen­tral Ozark Con­fer­ence Small Schools Divi­sion action on Thurs­day.
  The Lady Irish were also led by Danielle Lampe’s 10 points.
  Buf­falo received 12 points apiece from Brit­tany Glass­cock and Jor­dan David­son.
  Else­where on Thurs­day:
  — Hol­lis­ter downed Reeds Spring 57–41.
  The Lady Tigers’ Lainie Bishop net­ted 20 points, while Cas­san­dra Kim­brough added a dozen and Jae­Lynn Elli­son had 11.
  Reeds Spring’s Tawni Free­man scored a game-high 22 points.
  — Marsh­field bounced back from a loss to Boli­var to beat Rogersville 50–39.
  The Lady Jays are 13–8 over­all and 3–1 in the COC Small Schools Division.

• 

 

---

Pirates, Lady Eagles named No. 1 seeds
COCPrepSports.com Staff
  SPRING­FIELD — A pair of Cen­tral Ozark Con­fer­ence Large Schools Divi­sion teams, Branson’s boys and Nixa’s girls, were awarded top seeds at the Class 5 Dis­trict 11 seed­ings meet­ing on Fri­day.
  On the boys side, the Pirates were named No. 1 for the sec­ond straight sea­son. They won last year’s dis­trict cham­pi­onship and are 21–2 enter­ing their home con­est with Neosho on Fri­day.
  The rest of the field includes No. 2 Nixa, No. 3 Spring­field Parkview, No. 4 Ozark, No. 5 Spring­field Kick­apoo and No. 6 Spring­field Glen­dale.
  First-round games will include Parkview-Glendale and Ozark-Kickapoo. Bran­son and Nixa will receive a first-round bye.
  On the girls side, Nixa was also named No. 1 for a sec­ond straight sea­son. The Lady Eagles (19−1 enter­ing Friday’s shodown with COC rival Webb City) won last year’s dis­trict title en route to a state cham­pi­onship.
  The rest of the field is made up of No. 2 Kick­apoo, No. 3 Parkview, No. 4 Glen­dale, No. 5 Ozark and No. 6 Bran­son.
  First-round games will be Branson-Parkview and Ozark-Glendale. Nixa and Kick­apoo get a first-round bye.
  The dis­trict will be held Feb. 22–27 at Parkview. The cham­pi­onship games will not be held on the same night, as they were last year at Ozark. The girls title game will be Feb. 26 and the boys finale is set for Feb. 27.

• 

 

---

February 13, 2010

Lady Irish go to 3–0 in con­fer­ence play (Girls bas­ket­ball roundup)
COCPrepSports.com Staff
  REEDS SPRING — Spring­field Catholic remained unde­feated in Cen­tral Ozark Con­fer­ence Small Schools Divi­sion play by beat­ing Reeds Spring 51–39 on Fri­day.
  The Lady Irish improved to 11–8 over­all and 3–0 in league action.
  Else­where on Fri­day:
  — Bran­son beat up on Neosho 58–24.
  Michaela Dap­prich had a game-high 13 points for the Lady Pirates, while Kristina Dodd and Ruby Stevens both had 11 and Cai­lynn Hayter nine. Dodd was given a game ball after­ward in recog­ni­tion of reach­ing the 1,000-point mile­stone ear­lier in the week against Willard. 

• 

 

---

Willard remains per­fect in COC play
COCPrepSports.com Staff
  REPUB­LIC — Willard over­came a 31-point effort by Republic’s Kevin Stander to down the host Tigers 65–56 on Fri­day.
  Willard upped its record to 14–9 over­all and 5–0 in the COC Large Schools Divi­sion. Skyler Fra­zier topped the win­ners with 18 points and Tim Huskisson added 10.
  In addi­tion to Stander’s 31, Repub­lic received nine from Dylan Fletcher.
  Else­where on Fri­day:
  — Marsh­field was a 72–45 win­ner over Hol­lis­ter in a COC Small Schools Divi­sion matchup.
  Seth Martin’s 15 points and Josh Fletcher’s 14 led Hol­lis­ter.
  — Spring­field Catholic over­came a slow start to knock off Buf­falo 45–35.
  The Irish fell behind 9–0, before gain­ing a 21–20 half­time lead.
  Catholic (13−8 over­all and 3–2 in the COC Small Schools Divi­sion) was paced by Jack Wolf and his 13 points.
  The Bison’s Jor­dan Hen­der­son had eight points in the first quar­ter and fin­ished with a dozen.
  — Reeds Spring bounced back from an over­time loss to Rogersville ear­lier in the week by win­ning at Boli­var 69–59.
  The Wolves (11−9 over­all and 3–1 in the COC Small Schools Divi­sion) hit 14-of-17 free-throws in the fourth quar­ter.  
  Boli­var led 21–13, but Reeds Spring scored 25 points in the sec­ond quar­ter to gain con­trol and had 24 in the fourth quar­ter.  
  Ben Selby led the Wolves with 21 points, Jack McCoy and Chris Jones both con­tributed 14 and Kyle Fleck con­tributed eight.  
  The Lib­er­a­tors’ Dal­ton Kelly net­ted 22 points and Pre­son Guiot 17.
  — Bran­son gained win No. 22 by out­las­ing Neosho 76–66.
  The Pirates’ Avery Ding­man had a team-high 22 points, Dana Thomas had 16 and Tee Helsel 15.
  Neosho’s Michael Lowe hit six 3-pointers in his 26-point outing. 

• 

 

---

February 15, 2010

Lady Tigers awarded first and sec­ond seeds
COCPrepSports.com Staff
  CARTHAGE — The Willard and Carthage girls bas­ket­ball teams were named the first and sec­ond seeds in Class Class 5 Dis­trict 12, to be played Feb. 22–27 at Carthage.
  The rest of the seeds include No. 3 Spring­field Hill­crest, No. 4 Spring­field Cen­tral, No. 5 Joplin and No. 6 Neosho.
  Willard and Carthage will receive fist-round byes. First-round games on Feb. 23 will include Central-Joplin and Neosho-Hillcrest.
  On the boys side, COC mem­bers Neosho and Carthage were tabbed the four and five seeds and will meet each other in a first-round game on Feb. 22.
  The rest of the seeds are No. 1 Hill­crest, No. 2 Joplin, No. 3 Willard and No. 6 Cen­tral. Willard and Cen­tral will also face off on Feb. 22.

 

• 

 

---

February 16, 2010

COC to be rep­re­sented at state by 17 dis­trict champs
COCPrepSports.com Staff
  The Cen­tral Ozark Large Schools Divi­sion is send­ing 56 state-qualifiers to the Class 3 State Wrestling Tour­na­ment this week in Colum­bia and the Small Schools Divi­sion will have 19 state-qualifiers at the Class 2 State Wrestling Tour­na­ment.
  The COC Large Schools Divi­sion and Small Schools Divi­sion had a com­bined 17 dis­trict cham­pi­ons crowned this past week­end. Ozark, Willard and Boli­var all had three first-place fin­ish­ers.
  Ozark’s Chass 3 Dis­trict 3 champs include 130-pound sopho­more Colton How­ell (44−1), 112-pound sopho­more Dmitry Loftis (38−6) and 145-pound junior Tren­ton Pat­ter­son (34−8). The Tigers have a state-qualifier at all 14 weight classes.
  Willard’s Class 3 Dis­trict 3 champs are 152-pound senior Tay­lor Ball (27−3), 215-pound senior Joel Wyman (40−1) and 285-pound sopho­more Chris­t­ian Adams (30−9). The Tigers have five state-qualifiers.
  Bolivar’s Class 2 Dis­trict 3 champs are 119-pound senior Eric Hughes (38−1), 160-pound senior Joshua Mof­fett (42−6) and 171-pound senior Kyle Walker (32−10). The Lib­er­a­tors have five state-qualifiers.
  Carthage has a pair of Class 3 Dis­trict 4 champs, 112-pound junior Nate Kelly (35−7) and 119-pound fresh­man Tyler Fea­gans (39−1). The Tigers have four state-qualifiers.
  Reeds Spring has two Class 2 Dis­trict 3 champs, 135-pound sopho­more Steven Morey (40−0) and 285-pound senior Kale Crosby (38−1). The Wolves have seven state-qualifiers.
  Neosho has one Class 3 Dis­trict 4 champ, 171-pound junior Blake Stauf­fer (48−1). The Wild­cats have 13 state-qualifiers.
  Rogersville has one Class 2 Dis­trict 3 champ, 130-pound senior Sam Zim­mer (44−2). He is a two-time state cham­pion. The Wild­cats have four state-qualifiers.
  Nixa has seven state-qualifiers, Webb City has five, while Bran­son and Buf­falo both have three and Repub­lic has one 

• 

 

---

Lady Pirates tie record for wins (Girls bas­ket­ball roundup)
COCPrepSports.com Staff
   CARTHAGE — Bran­son matched its school record for single-season wins by gain­ing its 19^th win on Tues­day, a 50–46 tri­umph over Carthage.
  The Lady Pirates (19−6 over­all and 4–3 in the Cen­tral Ozark Con­fer­ence Large Schools Divi­sion) join three other Bran­son teams with 19 wins.
  Michaela Dap­prich topped the win­ners with 23 points, while Ruby Stevens had nine and Kristina Dodd eight.
  Else­where on Tues­day:
  — Marsh­field downed Hol­lis­ter 57–47 in a Cen­tral Ozark Con­fer­ence Small Schools Divi­sion game.
  The Lady Jays upped their over­all record to 14–9 and their con­fer­ence mark to 4–2.

• 

 

---

February 21, 2010

Five COC wrestlers crowned state cham­pi­ons
COCPrepSports.com Staff  
  COLUM­BIA — The Cen­tral Ozark Con­fer­ence pro­duced a hand­ful of state cham­pi­ons, with Neosho hav­ing a trio of champs, at the MSH­SAA State Wrestling Tour­na­ment on Sat­ur­day.
  Class 3 fea­tured a pair of All-COC finals.
  At 112, Neosho’s Joe Barnes edged Carthage’s Nate Kel­ley 3–1. Barnes fin­ishes with a 43–7 record. At 119, Neosho’s Trevor Hughes downed Carthage’s Trevor Fea­gans 5–1. Hughes ends with a 36–6 mark. 
  Ozark’s Dylan May claimed the 135-pound title by pin­ning Kearney’s Tan­ner Min­der in 4:55. May fin­ishes with a 30–4 record. Neosho’s Blake Stauf­fer was a dom­i­nat­ing 171-pound state cham­pion. His clos­est match at state was an 11–4 vic­tory. Staffer ends with a 52–1 mark.
  Class 3 state runners-up included Neosho 103-pounder Nate Rodriguez (48−6), Neosho 130-pounder Jared Brock (30−10), Ozark 152-pounder Zeb Spicer (38−7) and Willard 215-pounder Joel Wyman (43−2).
  In Class 2, Rogersville senior Sam Zim­mer three-peated as a state cham­pion en route to win­ning the 130-pound title. He scored a 3–1 deci­sion over Pleas­ant Hill’s Joshua Hast­ings in the final to up his record to 46–2.
  Class 2 state runners-up were Boli­var 119-pounder Eric Hughes (41−2) and Reeds Spring 135-pounder Steven Morey (43−1).

• 

 

---

February 24, 2010

Lady Wild­cats drop first-round game (Girls bas­ket­ball roundup)  
COCPrepSports.com Staff  
  CARTHAGE — Neosho’s sea­son came to an end as the Lady Wild­cats fell to Spring­field Hill­crest 61–31 in a Class 5 Dis­trict 12 first-round game on Tues­day.
  Shea Wyatt’s nine points topped Neosho.
  In the district’s other opening-round game, Spring­field Cen­tral edged Joplin 65–57.
  In semi­fi­nal play on Thurs­day, top-seeded Willard will meet Cen­tral and second-seeded Carthage will play Hillcrest.

• 

 

---

February 26, 2010

Four COC teams to play for dis­trict titles
COCPrepSports.com Staff
  Bran­son, Nixa, Repub­lic and Reeds Spring will square off on Sat­ur­day for dis­trict titles after all four posted semi­fi­nal wins on Thurs­day.
  In Class 5 Dis­trict 11 at Spring­field Parkview, the Pirates whipped Spring­field Kick­apoo 73–41 and the Eagles out­lasted Spring­field Parkview 60–48.  
  Bran­son received 23 points and 13 rebounds from Dana Thomas and 18 points from Tee Helsel.
  Bran­son and Nixa will tan­gle at 6 p.m. on Sat­ur­day.
  In Class 4 Dis­trict 11 at Repub­lic, the host Tigers whipped McDon­ald County 65–30 and the Wolves slipped past Cassville 62–54.
  Ben Selby’s 19 points paced Reeds Spring.
  Repub­lic and Reeds Spring will meet on Sat­ur­day at 2 p.m.

• 

 

---

February 28, 2010

Lady Irish advance to semi­fi­nals (Girls bas­ket­ball roundup)
COCPrepSports.com Staff
  FAIR GROVE — Spring­field Catholic made it to the semi­fi­nal round in Class 3 Dis­trict 11 action by down­ing fel­low Cen­tral Ozark Con­fer­ence Small Schools Divi­sion foe Hol­lis­ter 55–44 in a first-round game on Sat­ur­day.
  The Lady Irish received 18 points from Danielle Lampe and 16 from Bekah Bade.
  Hollister’s Cas­san­dra Kim­brough scored 19 points.
  Catholic will meet Fair Grove in a semi­fi­nal on Wednes­day.

 

• 

 

---

Nixa, Repub­lic cap­ture dis­trict titles (Boys bas­ket­ball roundup)
COCPrepSports.com Staff
  SPRING­FIELD — Nixa claimed the Class 5 Dis­trict 11 cham­pi­onship by beat­ing Bran­son 62–47 in an all-Central Ozark Con­fer­ence Large Schools Divi­sion final on Sat­ur­day.
  For Bran­son (24−4), the 47 points is a season-low.
  Nixa’s defense held the Pirates to 22 second-half points.
  Zac Hill topped the Eagles with 18 points. Avery Ding­man paced Bran­son with 21.
  Else­where on Sat­ur­day:
  — Repub­lic came back to win the Class 4 Dis­trict 11 cham­pi­onship in its 43–33 tri­umph over fel­low Cen­tral Ozark Con­fer­ence Small Schools Divi­sion mem­ber Reeds Spring.  
  The Tigers trailed 25–14 in the third quar­ter, before turn­ing the game around. Nic Yocum trig­gered the win­ners’ rally, scor­ing all 15 of his points in the sec­ond half.
  Reeds Spring received 16 points from Ben Selby. The Wolves scored 13 second-half points.

• 

 

---

March 1, 2010

Lady Car­di­nals’ Jaeger COC Large Schools Divi­sion Player of the Year  
COCPrepSports.com Staff
  Webb City junior Kaitlin Jaeger has been named the Cen­tral Ozark Con­fer­ence Large Schools Divi­sion Player of the Year in a vote of league coaches.
  Jaeger is joined on the All-COC First-Team by team­mates Hai­ley Roderique and Kyn­dal Clark, along with Nixa’s Bethany Fun­der­burke and Emily Walker.
  The Second-Team is made up of Willard’s Sam­mie Gath­er­cole, Nixa’s Randa Raper, Republic’s Kayce Duvall, Ozark’s Melanie Williams and Branson’s Kristina Dodd.
  Hon­or­able men­tion recog­ni­tion goes to Branson’s Cai­lynn Hayter, Webb City’s Scharenda Camp­bell, Carthage’s Kaylee Mor­gan and Ozark’s Han­nah Gomez.

 

• 

 

---

March 3, 2010

Irish move into semi­fi­nals (Boys bas­ket­ball roundup)
COCPrepSports.com Staff
  FAIR GROVE — Jeff White broke loose for a 19-point effort in Spring­field Catholic’s 56–53 first-round Class 3 Dis­trict 11 tri­umph over Con­way on Tues­day.
  The third-seeded Irish received 11 points apiece from Chad McBride and Mitchell Richard­son.
  Catholic advances to meet second-seeded Fair Grove in a semi­fi­nal on Thurs­day at 7:30 p.m. The other semi­fi­nal pits Straf­ford against Seymour.

• 

 

---

March 9, 2010

Spring­field Catholic claims dis­trict title
COCPrepSports.com Staff
  FAIR GROVE — Bekah Bade net­ted four 3-pointers and 29 points to power Spring­field Catholic past Blue Eye 63–55 in the Class 3 Dis­trict 11 cham­pi­onship game on Sat­ur­day.
  The Lady Irish move on to meet Mt. Ver­non in Sec­tion­als on Wednesday. 

• 

 

---

March 24, 2010

Wild­cats win opener
COCPrepSports.com Staff
  NEOSHO — Neosho’s boys ten­nis team debuted by edg­ing Mt. Ver­non 5–4 on Tues­day.
Sin­gles:
#1 Bo Mahr def. Jor­dan Davis 8–4
#2 Matt Gar­rity def. Heath Braf­ford 8–4
#3 Joey Cum­ming lost to Jarod Davis 6–8
#4 Evan Clark lost to Dal­ton Brown 6–8
#5 Mike Kramer def. Brock Beke­meier 9–7
#6 Jere­miah Jen­nings lost to Brett Dor­rance 8–9 (3−7)
Dou­bles:
#1 Mahr/Garrity def. Jor­dan Davis/Jarod Davis 8–2
#2 Cumming/Clark lost to Brafford/Bekemeier 8–9 (6−8)
#3 Kramer/Jennings def. Zach Roach/Brown 8–1

 

• 

 

---

Neosho base­ball team drops debut
COCPrepSports.com Staff
  NEOSHO — Neosho’s base­ball team fell to Rogers (Ark.) Her­itage 12–0 on Friday.

• 

 

---

Bran­son nips Carthage
COCPrepSports.com Staff
  BRAN­SON — Bran­son edged Carthage 5–4 in a Cen­tral Ozark Con­fer­ence Large Schools Divi­sion dual on Tues­day.

 Sin­gles (Carthage play­ers listed first)

 1. Jor­dan Ward def. Nathan Con­nell          8–1

2. Tim Dan­nels lost to Adam Blunk            6–8

3. Ryne Cough­lin lost to Anthony Civiello    5–8

4. Reg­gie Lash­ley def. Chase Apple­gate     8–6

5. Jus­tus Steven­son lost to Ryan Gdovin     4–8

6. Josh Pat­ton lost to Josh Far­ley               4–8

 Dou­bles

 1. Ward/Coughlin def. Connell/Civiello       9–7

2. Dannels/Lashley def. Blunk/Applegate    8–6

3. Stevenson/Jon Batch­e­lor lost to Farley/Gdovin 5–8

• 

 

---

March 25, 2010

 Pirates tame Tigers
COCPrepSports.com Staff
  BRAN­SON — Tee Helsel and Tay­lor Tanker­sly both home­red in Branson’s 17–6, five-inning rout of Carthage on Wednes­day.
  Timmy Townsend was 4-for-5 and Mike Comp­ton 3-for-3.
   Brian Pos­ton was 3-for-3 for Carthage.
  CARTHAGE (ab-r-h-bi) — Cossey cf 2−1−1−0, Pos­ton c 3−2−3−0, Fierro 1b 3−0−2−2, Gar­ber dh 3−1−0−1, Collins 3b 2−0−0−0, Sny­der p 2−0−0−0, Wig­gin lf 3−0−2−1, Bur­gin rf 2−0−0−0, Bridges ss 2−2−1−0.
  BRAN­SON — Boyd 3b 2−4−1−0, Townsend 2b 5−2−4−3, Helsel ss 3−3−3−5, Comp­ton 1b 3−1−3−2, Shields c 4−1−2−0, John­ston cf 3−2−1−1, Tanker­sly dh 4−1−1−2, Thull lf 1−1−0−0, Stevens rf 3−1−1−0, O’Dell rf 1−1−1−0.
Carthage 310 02 — 6 9 0
Bran­son 323 36 — 17 17 2
  WP — Frans. LP — Snyder.

• 

 

---

Tigers win tri­an­gu­lar
COCPrepSports.com Staff
  HOL­LIS­TER — Hol­lis­ter totaled a 188 at Hol­i­day Hills Golf Course while win­ning a tri­an­gu­lar on Tues­day.
  Forsyth was sec­ond with a 217 and Sey­mour third with a 232.
  Casey Williams and Anthony Schreier both carded a 43 for Hollister.

• 

 

---

Wolves claim first win
COCPrepSports.com Staff
  FORSYTH — Reeds Spring ripped Spokane 13–4 on Wednes­day.
  The Wolves received two hits apiece from Lucas McDan­nold, Johnny Davis, Riker Dou­glas, Chris Jones, Kyle Fleck, Josh Cherry. McDan­nold had three RBIs and two stolen bases. Dou­glas and Cherry both had two RBIs.
  Jones was the win­ning pitcher, strik­ing out 11 in six innings. 

• 

 

---

March 27, 2010

Carthage net­ters pre­vail
COCPrepSports.com Staff
  CARTHAGE — Carthage edged Ozark 5–4 in a Cen­tral Ozark Con­fer­ence Large Schools Divi­sion ten­nis match on Fri­day.
Sin­gles results (Carthage play­ers listed first)
1.       Jor­dan Ward def. Chris­t­ian Dyer 8–2
2.       Tim Dan­nels def.  Zach Deckard 8–0
3.       Ryne Cough­lin def. Chris Thomas  9–8 (7−3)
4.       Reg­gie Lash­ley lost to Chan­dler Mer­cer 5–8
5.       Jus­tus Steven­son lost to Andrew York 5–8
6.       Josh Pat­ton lost to Dylan Knuck­olls 4–8 
Dou­bles results 
1.       Ward/Coughlin def. Dyer/Thomas 8–2
2.       Dannels/Lashley def. Deckard/Mercer 8–3
3.       Stevenson/Jon Batch­e­lor lost to York/Knuckolls 4–8

 

• 

 

---

March 29, 2010

Reeds Spring improves to 3–1
COCPrepSports.com Staff
  CLEVER — Reeds Spring’s base­ball team took third place at the Right Off Bat Tour­na­ment by edg­ing Mount Ver­non 9–6 on Sat­ur­day.
  Wes DeWilde deliv­ered a two-out, two-run triple in the fourth inning to cap his four-RBI performance. Riker Dou­glas and Eddie Blan­chard both rapped out three hits.
  Win­ning pitcher Johnny Davis struck out eight..
  The Wolves (3−1) downed Mar­i­onville 18–8 on Friday. DeWilde, Blan­chard and Chris Jones all had three hits and two RBIs. Johnathan Knit­tle was 4-for-4 with two RBIs and two runs scored and Kyle Fleck home­red.  Dil­lion Dean notched his first var­sity win.

• 

 

---

Nixa wins its season-opener
COCPrepSports.com Staff
  NIXA — Nixa’s soc­cer team debuted with a 3–0 tri­umph over Lebanon on Fri­day.
  Lau­ren Moats recorded two goals and Court­ney Frerichs had one. Kesley Bartell con­tributed a pair of assists and Rachel Mur­phy one. Kristin Miller posted the shutout. 

• 

 

---

 Neosho posts a pair of wins
COCPrepSports.com Staff
  NEOSHO — Neosho’s base­ball team upped its record to 2–1 by down­ing Rogersville 5–4 and whip­ping Cassville 17–2 last week.

• 

 

---

March 30, 2010

Carthage, Neosho, Catholic, Bran­son tri­umph (Ten­nis roundup)
COCPrepSports.com Staff
  CARTHAGE — Carthage’s net­ters shut out Repub­lic 9–0 on Mon­day.
Sin­gles (Carthage player listed first) 
No.1  Jor­dan Ward def.Cody Eck­er­son 8–3
No.2  Tim Dan­nels def.  Tay­lor Jenk­ins 8–4
No.3  Ryne Cough­lin def. Dylan Hop­kins 8–0
No. 4 Reg­gie Lash­ley def. Hunter Hayes 8–0
No. 5 Jus­tus Steven­son def. Blake Eck­er­son 8–4
No. 6 Jon Batch­e­lor def. Josef Bart­tels 8–2
Dou­bles 
No. 1  Ward/Coughlin def. C. Eckerson/Jenkins 8–3
No. 2 Dannels/Lashley def. Hayes/Hopkins 8–2
No. 3 Stevenson/Josh Pat­ton def. B.Eckerson/Barttels 8–0

Neosho 9–0 win­ner
  NEOSHO — Neosho’s ten­nis team improved to 2–0 with an 8–1 win over Spring­field Parkview on Mon­day.
Sin­gles (Neosho player listed first)
#1 Bo Mahr def. Tom Funk 8–1
#2 Matt Gar­rity def. Blake McIn­tosh 8–1
#3 Joey Cum­ming lost to Zach Tay­lor 6–8
#4 Mike Kramer def. Andy Cor­bett 8–6
#5 Evan Clark def. Ray Horn­back 8–6
#6 Jere­miah Jen­nings def. Mike Duff 9–7
Dou­bles
#1 Mahr/Garrity def. Funk/McIntosh 9–8 (10−8)
#2 Cumming/Clark def. Taylor/Hornback 8–3
#3 Kramer/Jennings def. Van de Velde/Corbett 8–4

Bran­son knocks off Rogersville
  BRAN­SON — Bran­son beat Rogersville 7–2, the first time the Pirates have beaten the Wild­cats.
  Adam Blunk, Ryan Gdovin and Josh Far­ley were sin­gles and dou­bles win­ners for Branson.

Catholic downs Wolves
  BRAN­SON WEST — Spring­field Catholic beat Reeds Spring 8–1.
Sin­gles
1.  Chris Schultz (RS) def. Con­ner Dahlberg (SC) 8–2
2. Derek Myers (SC) def Shea Smith (RS) 8–3
3. Alex Spiva (SC) def Matt Palikij (RS) 8–1
4. Thomas Diebold (SC) def Corey Blum (RS) 8–1
5. Max Jer­sak (SC) def Zach Pietz (RS) 8–1
6. Matt Oelschaeger (SC) def Keith Hoff­man (RS) 8–1
Dou­bles
1. Dahlber & Myers (SC) def Schultz & Smith (RS) 8–2
2. Spiva & Diebold (SC) def Blum & Pietz (RS) 8–1
3. Jer­sak & Oelschaeger (SC) def Palikij & Hoff­man (RS) 8–1

• 

 

---

Hat trick for Nixa’s Moats (Soc­cer roundup)
COCPrepSports.com Staff 
  NIXA — Nixa blanked Spring­field Cen­tral 8–0 on Mon­day, as Lau­ren Moats recorded a hat trick.
  The Lady Eagles received one goal apiece from Kesley Bar­tel, Kelsey Haist, Rachel Mur­phy and Chan­dler Mad­die. Mur­phy, Chan­dler, Court­ney Frerichs and Ash­lyn Robil­lard all had assists.

Ozark pre­vails
  Ozark edged Boli­var 3–1.

 

• 

 

---

Bran­son remains unde­feated (Base­ball roundup)
COCPrepSports.com Staff
  BRAN­SON —  Mike Comp­ton was the win­ning pitcher and had a pair of two-run dou­bles in Branson’s 5–2 win over Cam­den­ton on Mon­day.
  The Pirates improved to 5–0.

Reeds Spring improves to 3–1

  FORSYTH — Reeds Spring took third place at the Right Off Bat Tour­na­ment by edg­ing Mount Ver­non 9–6 on Sat­ur­day.
  Wes DeWilde deliv­ered a two-out, two-run triple in the fourth inning to cap his four-RBI per­for­mance. Riker Dou­glas and Eddie Blan­chard both rapped out three hits.
  Win­ning pitcher Johnny Davis struck out eight. The Wolves are 3–1.

• 

 

---

March 31, 2010

Neosho net­ters improve to 3–0 (Ten­nis roundup)
COCPrepSports.com Staff
NEOSHO — Neosho’s ten­nis team remained per­fect by blank­ing Repub­lic 9–0 on Tues­day.
  The Wild­cats are 3–0.
Sin­gles
#1 Bo Mahr def. Cody Eck­er­son 8–3
#2 Matt Gar­rity def. Tay­lor Jenk­ins 8–3
#3 Joey Cum­ming def. Dylan Hop­kins 8–2
#4 Mike Kramer def. Charles Hayes 8–5
#5 Evan Clark def. Blake Eck­er­son 8–2
#6 Jere­miah Jen­nings def. Josef Bart­tels 8–0
Dou­bles
#1 Mahr/Garrity def. C. Eckerson/Jenkins 8–2
#2 Cumming/Clark def. Hopkins/Hayes 8–2
#3 Kramer/Jennings def. B. Eckerson/Barttels 8–6

Eagles sweep Rogersville
  ROGERSVILLE — Nixa blanked Rogersville by a 9–0 count on Tuesday.

  Win­ners for the Eagles included Sam Gard­ner, Devin McDow­ell, Blake McDow­ell, Charie Fen­wick, Brad Barn­hardt and Josh Dou­blin. Fen­wick won at No. 4 sin­gles by an 8–0 count. Blake McDow­ell lost only one game at No. 3 singles.

Reeds Spring falls to Parkview
  SPRING­FIELD — Reeds Spring was shut out by Spring­field Parkview 9–0 on Tues­day.
Sin­gles
1. Thomas Funk ℗ def. Chris Schultz (RS) 8–6
2. Blake McIn­tosh ℗ def Shea Smith (RS) 8–0
3. Zach Tay­lor ℗ def Matt Palikij (RS) 8–2
4. Andy Cor­bett ℗ def Corey Blum (RS) 8–2
5. Ari Brown ℗ def Zach Pietz (RS) 8–1
6. Ray Horn­back ℗ def Keith Hoff­man (RS) 8–2
Dou­bles
1. Funk & McIn­tosh ℗ def Schultz & Smith (RS) 8–3
2. Brown & Cor­bett ℗ def Blum & Pietz (RS) 8–4
3. Tay­lor & Horn­back ℗ def Palikij & Sam McEwen (RS) 8–2

• 

 

---

 Parkview out­lasts Nixa (Soc­cer roundup)
COCPrepSports.com Staff
  SPRING­FIELD — Nixa’s girls soc­cer team lost 1–0 on penalty kicks to Spring­field Parkview on Tues­day.
  The teams were score­less through reg­u­la­tion and two 10-minute over­times, before Parkview con­verted on all five of its penalty kicks and Nixa con­verted on four.

• 

 

---

April 6, 2010

Nixa’s Miller up shutout streak to four (Soc­cer roundup)
COCPrepSports.com Staff
  NIXA — Kristin Miller posted her fourth straight shutout to lead Nixa’s soc­cer team past Cam­den­ton 1–0 on Monday.

  Lau­ren Moats had the lone goal and was assisted by Shelby Zielke.

  Nixa is 3–1.

Boli­var downs Marsh­field
  Boli­var beat Marsh­field 3–1 to improve to 3–0.
  The Lady Lib­er­a­tors also own an 8–0 win over Bran­son adn a 4–1 win over Willard.

• 

 

---

Car­di­nals edge Eagles
 COCPrepSports.com Staff
  Nixa’s ten­nis team dropped a 5–4 deci­sion to Webb City.
Sin­gles
Gard­ner, Sam (12) L 0–8
McDow­ell, Devin (12) L 5–8
McDow­ell, Blake (11) L 3–8
Fen­wick, Char­lie (11) L 5–8
Barn­hardt, Brad (10) W 8–0
Dou­blin, Josh (10) W 8–0
Dou­bles
Gardner/B. McDow­ell W 8–8 (7−4)
D. McDowell/Barnhardt L 5–8
Fenwick/Doublin W 8–0

• 

 

---

April 7, 2010

Bran­son improves to 6–1 (Base­ball roundup)
COCPrepSports.com Staff
  BOLI­VAR — Timmy Townsend struck out 10 to power Branson’s base­ball team to an 8–4 tri­umph over Boli­var on Mon­day.
  Townsend blanked the Lib­er­a­tors over the final six innings. Hay­den Thull had a two-run sin­gle and Tee Helsel was 2-for-4 for the Pirates. Bolivar’s Tyler Welch was also 2–4.
  Bran­son improved to 6–1.

Rogersville beats Buf­falo
  In a Cen­tral Ozark Con­fer­ence Small Schools Divi­sion game, Rogersville downed Buf­falo 15–3.

• 

 

---

Neosho girls take Carthage team title
COCPrepSports.com Staff
  CARTHAGE — Neosho won the girls team title by 82 points at the Carthage Invi­ta­tional on Tues­day.
  Carthage’s boys won the 4 x 800 relay (8:30), its girls won the 4 x 100 relay (52.5), Ste­fan Stokes won the 110 hur­dles (16.4), Evans Adams won the 400 (51.24) and Billy Mendell won the 3,200 (10:19).
  Neosho’s girls took the 4x 400 relay (4:16), 4 x 800 relay (10:26), while Mor­gan Rathamn won the 100 (12.72), 200 (26.65) and 400 (1:02.43), Jes­sica Jack­son won the 800 (2:20.99) and 1,600 (5:16), Court­ney Wood won the 3,200 (11:46), Jayde Thomas won the 300 hur­dles (49.56), Chet Hall won the 300 hur­dles (43.68), Mar­cus Mid­dle­ton won the shot put (48−8) and Emily Paulis won the triple jump (34−2.5).
  Firsts for Webb City included its boys 4 x 100 relay (44.93), girls 4 x 200 relay (1:51.75), boys 4 x 200 relay (1:33.21), Katie Box in the 100 hur­dles (15.8), Slade Byford in the triple jump (40−7.5) and Boo Rodgers in the high jump (6−2).

• 

 

---

 Reeds Spring falls to Forsyth
COCPrepSports.com Staff
  FORSYTH — Reeds Spring’s lone win in its 8–1 loss to Forsyth came at No. 1 sin­gles, where Chris Schultz picked up a 9–8 (8−6) win.
Sin­gles
  No. 1 — Schultz (RS) def. Lean (F) 9–8 (8−6); No. 2 — Hedgepeth (F) def. Smith (RS) 8–0; No. 3 — Black­burn (F) def. Palikij (RS) 8–0; No. 4 — Jo. Borges (F) def. Blum (RS) 8–0; No. 5 — Ja. Borges (F) def. Pietz (RS) 8–0; No. 6 — Owens (F) def. Hoff­man (RS) 8–0.
Dou­bles
  No. 1 — Blackburn-Lean (F) def. Smith-Blum (RS) 8–2; No. 2 — Hedgepeth-Jo. Borges (F) def. Schultz-Hoffman (RS) 8–0; No. 3 — Ja. Borges-Owens (F) def. Pilikij-McEwen (RS) 8–1.

• 

 

---

April 8, 2010

Eagles blank Pirates (Ten­nis roundup)
COCPrepSports.com Staff
  NIXA — Nixa breezed to a 9–0 win over Bran­son on Tues­day.
  The Eagles won 72 of the 97 games.
Sin­gles (Nixa play­ers listed)
  Gard­ner W 8–1; B. McDow­ell W 8–6; B. McDow­ell W 8–0; Fen­wick W 8–2; Barn­hardt W 8–4; Dou­blin W 8–4.
Dou­bles
  Gardner-B. McDow­ell (N) W 8–1; D. McDowell-Barnhardt W 8–4; Fenwick-Doublin W 8–5.

Neosho downs Carthage
  Neosho edged Carthage 6–3.
Sin­gles (Neosho play­ers listed first)
  #1 Bo Mahr lost to Jor­dan Ward 1–8; #2 Matt Gar­rity def. Tim Dan­nels 8–2; #3 Joey Cum­ming def. Ryne Cough­lin 9–7; #4 Mike Kramer def. Reg­gie Lash­ley 9–8 (11–9); #5 Evan Clark def. Josh Pat­ton 8–2; #6 Jere­miah Jen­nings def. Jon Batch­e­lor 8–0
Dou­bles
  #1 Mahr/Garrity def. Ward/Coughlin 9–8 (7–2); #2 Cumming/Clark lost to Dannels/Lashley 6–8; #3 Kramer/Jennings lost to Stevenson/Jacob Kunard 4–8.

• 

 

---

Nixa wins by shutout (Soc­cer roundup)
COCPrepSports.com Staff
  BRAN­SON — Nixa rolled to a 7–0 win over Bran­son on Tues­day. 
  Kristin Miller and Lexi Stag­ner shared time at goal­keeper for the Lady Eagles. Rachel Mur­phy recorded two goals, while Ash­lyn Robil­lard, Lau­ren Moats, Jor­dyn Hoskins, Kelsey Bartell and Kelsey Haist all had one. Haist, Shelby Zielke, Court­ney Frerichs and Miller all had an assist.
  Nixa improved to 4–1.
  The Lady Eagles won the jayvee match 8–0. Haylee Wag­ner had a hat trick. 

• 

 

---

Reeds Spring edges Marsh­field (Base­ball roundup)
COCPrepSports.com Staff
  REEDS SPRING — Win­ning pitcher Johnny Davis struck out seven in Reeds Spring’s 5–3 Cen­tral Ozark Con­fer­ence Small Schools Divi­sion win over Marsh­field on Tues­day.  
  Riker Dou­glas, Wes DeWilde and Kyle Fleck all had two hits for the Wolves.

 

• 

 

---

April 9, 2010

Nixa net­ters roll (Ten­nis roundup)
COCPrepSports.com Staff
  NIXA — Nixa’s ten­nis team breezed to a 9–0 win over Way­nesville on Thurs­day. The Eagles won three tie-breaker matches.
Sin­gles
  No. 1 — Sam Gard­ner W 8–8 (7−3); No. 2 — Char­lie Fen­wick W 8–6; No. 3 — Brad Barn­hardt W 8–3; No. 4 — Josh Dou­blin W 8–0; No. 5 — Con­nor Bur­ton W 8–4; No. 6 — Kyle Thurston W 8–8 (9−7).
Dou­bles
  No. 1 —  Gardner-Barnhardt W 8–6; Fenwick-Doublin W 8–1; Burton-Thurston W 8–8 (7−5).

• 

 

---

Bran­son beats Reeds Spring (Base­ball roundup)
COCPrepSports.com Staff
  REEDS SPRING — Chase Shields and Parker O’Dell home­red to sup­port Mike Compton’s one-hitter as Branson’s base­ball team downed ripped Reeds Spring 10–1 on Thurs­day.
  Compton’s only mis­cue was a solo homer by Wolves catcher Eddie Blan­chard. Comp­ton struck out 10.
  Shields, Timmy Townsend and Tee Helsel all had two hits.

 

• 

 

---

April 12, 2010

Nixa falls in Red & Blue finale (Base­ball roundup)
COCPrepSports.com Staff
  SPRING­FIELD — Nixa’s base­ball team lost 5–2 to Green­wood (Ark.) in the Blue Divi­sion cham­pi­onship game at the Red & Blue Tour­na­ment on Sat­ur­day.
  The Eagles fell to 7–2. Green­wood, ranked No. 1 in Class AAAAA in Arkansas, is 17–0.
  Nixa totaled 36 runs in pool play wins over Moun­tain Home, Spring­field Hill­crest and Neosho. Sopho­more Dean Deetz pitched a no-hitter in his first var­sity start while beat­ing Hillcrest. 

Pirates whip Odessa
  At Bran­son on Fri­day, the Pirates clob­bered Odessa 12–7.
  Mike Comp­ton banged out three dou­bles and a triple and Tee Helsel had three hits for the Pirates.
  

• 

 

---

Lady Eagles improve to 7–1 (Soc­cer roundup)
COCPrepSports.com Staff
  NIXA — Nixa’s soc­cer team col­lected a trio of wins over the week­end while upping its record to 7–1. The Lady Eagles beat Har­ri­son (Ark.) 7–1, shut out Rogersville 4–0 and edged Dubourg 2–1 in penalty-kicks.
  Rachel Mur­phy and Owen Goal both had two goals and one assists ver­sus Har­ri­son. Mur­phy also had a goal against Dubourg. Lau­ren Moats, Jo Pavlowsky, Brit­tany Kirk­patrick and Kelsey Bartell scored oppo­site Rogersville.
  Nixa hosts Spring­field Kick­apoo on Monday.

• 

 

---

Lady Wolves win Aurora Relays (Track roundup)
COCPrepSports.com Staff
  AURORA — Reeds Spring’s girls track team cap­tured first place at the Aurora Relays on Thurs­day.
  The Lady Wolves received firsts from Abbey Ver­non in the 400 (1:04.48), Shan­non Allen in the 200 (28.19), Casey Williams in the dis­cus (89−1) and Krys­tal Stump in the 100 hur­dles (17.08). Stump was sec­ond in the 300 hur­dles (52.58).
  Thirds for the Lady Wolves included Allen in the 400 (1:06.88), Saman­tha Akromis in the 800 (2:43) and high jump (4−8), Williams in the shot put (27−8), Alexis Haynes in the 100 (13.55), Schmidt in the 3,200 (13:10) and Sabra Boes, Haynes, Allen and Ver­non in the 4 x 100 relay (50.51).
  The Wolves’ first-place fin­ish­ers weer Dominic Smith in the 100 (11.79) and 200 (23.7), Zach Branch in the 400 (52.9), Ben Selby in the 800 (2:02), Dylan Weber in the 110 hur­dles (16.59) and Selby, Aaron All­phin, Austin Burke and Branch in the 4 x 400 relay (3:27). Weber was runner-up in the 300 hur­dles (44.03).
 

• 

 

---

April 14, 2010

Bran­son wins at Neosho (Base­ball roundup)
COCPrepSports.com Staff
  NEOSHO — Paul Stevens went 2-for-2 and had three RBIs in Branson’s 10–5 Cen­tral Ozark Con­fer­ence Large Schools Divi­sion win over Neosho on Tues­day.
  The Pirates’ Isaac John­son, Timmy Townsend and Tee Helsel also all had two hits.
  Townsend was the win­ning pitcher.
  Neosho’s Blake Henry home­red while going 2-for-3. Jacob Rick­man was also 2-for-3. 

• 

 

---

Nixa shuts out Willard (Soc­cer roundup)
COCPrepSports.com Staff  
  NIXA — Kristin Miller and Lexi Stag­ner com­bined for a shutout in Nixa’s 2–0 Cen­tral Ozark Con­fer­ence Large Schools Divi­sion win over Willard on Tues­day.
  The Lady Eagles’ Laruen Moats and Rachel Mur­phy recorded goals. Kelsey Haist and Mad­die Chan­dler pro­vided assists.
  Nixa is 8–2.
  The Lady Eagles’ jayvee won 6–1 to improve to 5−0−1.
Lady Irish edge Bolivar
  In a Cen­tral Ozark Con­fer­ence Small Schools Divi­sion match, Spring­field Catholic beat Boli­var 1–0.

 

• 

 

---

Williams’ 82 leads Hol­lis­ter (Golf roundup)
COCPrepSports.com Staff
  BOLI­VAR — Hollister’s Casey Williams carded an 82 at the Boli­var Invi­ta­tional on Mon­day. 
  The Tigers’ team score was 4–3.

• 

 

---

Reeds Spring 4 x 400 relay wins (Track roundup)
COCPrepSports.com Staff  
  NIXA — Reeds Spring’s 4 x 400 relay of Sam Akromis, Cheyenne Ran­dle, Shan­non Allen and Abbey Ver­non took first (4:15) to high­light the Lady Wolves’ show­ing at the Nixa Relays on Tues­day.
  Krys­tal Stump was third in the 100 hur­dles (17.3).
  The Wolves’ Ben Selby was first in the 800 (2:01). He ran the open­ing leg on the 4 x 200 relay that was sec­ond (1:34.9). Dom­inc Smith was third in the 200 (24.1), as was Reeds Spring’s 4 x 400 relay (3:44).

• 

 

---

April 16, 2010

Knob Noster’s Phillips to join Pirates
COCPrepSports.com Staff
  BRAN­SON — Bran­son has hired Knob Nos­ter head foot­ball coach Ed Phillips as an assis­tant coach and weight train­ing teacher.
  Phillips, a Buf­falo grad, pre­vi­ously coached at Lock­wood. He replaces Ron Mar­tin, who resigned after 24 sea­sons with the Pirates.
  “Ed pos­sesses the kind of char­ac­ter that is going to make him a great fit in the Bran­son com­mu­nity and the Bran­son school dis­trict,” ath­letic direc­tor Tony Berry said.

• 

 

---

April 17, 2010

Eagles beat Repub­lic, Mon­ett (Ten­nis roundup)
COCPrepSports.com Staff
  NIXA — Nixa’s ten­nis team claimed an 8–1 tri­umph over Repub­lic on Thurs­day.
  The Eagles swept dou­bles play, win­ning by an 8–0 count in each match. Josh Dou­blin, Char­lie Fen­wick, Blake McDow­ell and Brad Barn­hardt all won in sin­gles and dou­bles.
  The Eagles shut out Mon­ett 9–0 on Wednes­day. They lost only five games in sin­gles play.
Neosho falls to Ozark
  At Ozark on Thurs­day, Neosho dropped a 7–2 deci­sion to the Tigers.
  The Wild­cats’ Matt Gar­rity won 8–1 at No. 2 sin­gles and teamed with Bo Mahr for a 9–7 win at No. 1 doubles. Neosho fell to 5–2 over­all and 2–2  in the Cen­tral Ozark Con­fer­ence Large Schools Division.

• 

 

---

Nixa ups record to 9–2 (Soc­cer roundup)

COCPrepSports.com Staff
  NIXA — Kristin Miller posted a shutout in the Nixa soc­cer team’s 3–0 vic­tory over Boli­var on Thurs­day.
  Lau­ren Moats, Kelsey Haist and Kelsey Bartell col­lected goals for the 9–2 Lady Eagles. Moats had two assists.

 

• 

 

---

Barns, Neosho pull out dra­matic win (Base­ball roundup)
COCPrepSports.com Staff
  NEOSHO — Jacob Barns drove in Jacob Rick­man on a walk-off RBI-single to lift Neosho’s base­ball team to a 4–3 Cen­tral Ozark Con­fer­ence Large Schools Divi­sion win over Carthage on Thurs­day.
  The Wild­cats also had a walk-off COC win ear­lier this sea­son over Willard.
Pirates down Repub­lic

  Mike Comp­ton threw a four-hitter while strik­ing out wight and Timmy Townsend hit a three-run homer in Branson’s 5–2 win over Repub­lic.
  Tyler King home­red for the Tigers.Branson is 10–3 over­all and 2–0 in the COC Large Schools Divi­sion.
Reeds Spring beats Catholic
  Johnny Davis fired a two-hitter in Reeds Spring’s 11–1 Cen­tral Ozark Con­fer­ence Small Schools Divi­sion tri­umph over Spring­field Catholic.
  The Wolves’ Chris Jones and Wes DeWilde both went 3-for-3.
Marsh­field wins at Hol­lister
  Marsh­field out­lasted Hol­lis­ter 12–6 in a COC Small Schools Divi­sion contest.

• 

 

---

 Host Lib­er­a­tors runner-up at own relays (Boys track roundup)
COCPrepSports.com Staff
  BOLI­VAR — Boli­var totaled 115 points while being edged by Cam­den­ton by five points for the team title at the Boli­var Relays on Thurs­day.
  Boli­var received sec­onds from Manny Ofori-Yeboah in the 110 hur­dles (15.9) and Ryan Kutju in the 300 hur­dles (42.51) and its 4 x 200 relay (1:34.98). The Lib­er­a­tors’ Mitchell Waters was third in the 400 (53.22), as was Ofori-Yeboah in the high jump (5−10), Jake Hart­ley i the shot put (42−1), Jacob Jones in the 800 (2:05) and Gar­rett Evans in the 1,600 (4:55) and its 4 x 400 relay (3:37).
  Branson’s Josh Mor­gan took first in the pole vault (15−0), as did Keaton Knud­son in the triple jump (4−0.75). The Pirates’ Joe Vu was sec­ond in the long jump (19−8.5), as was Johnny Onoh in the shot put (42−4).
  Republic’s Jacob Cooper was third in the 100 (11.73).
  Buffalo’s Justin Sim­mons was sec­ond in the 400 (52.95), as was the Bison’s 4 x 400 relay (3:33) and 4 x 800 relay (8:47).

 

• 

 

---

Repub­lic takes team title (Girls track roundup)
COCPrepSports.com Staff
  BOLI­VAR — Republic’s girls track team claimed the Boli­var Relays cham­pi­onship on Thurs­day.
  Republic’s Sharla Friend took first in the high jump (5−3). The Lady Tigers’ Hai­ley Willis was sec­ond in the 1,600 (5:45), as was Alex Botkin in the 100 hur­dles (17.19) and 300 hur­dles (49.66), Jeanna Beck in the dis­cus (105−11), Clarissa Watkins in the 100 (13.65) and Miranda Cun­ning­ham in the pole vault (8−6). Their 4 x 800 relay (11:00) was third.
  Host Boli­var received firsts from Rachel Schrader in the 3,200 (11:50) and its 4 x 800 relay (10:36.32). The Lady Lib­er­a­tors’ 4 x 400 relay (4:25.72) fin­ished sec­ond. Their 4 x 100 relay was third (54.3), as was their 4 x 200 relay (1:55.20), Eliz­a­beth Whar­ton in the pole vault (8−6) and Ash­ley Payne in the 100 hur­dles (17.31).
  Firsts for Bran­son included Gabby Rud­dick in the 400 (1:03), Michaela Dap­prich in the dis­cus (119−5) and Shelby Shields in the pole vault (9−0). Rud­dick was sec­ond in the high jump (5−2) and Dap­prich was sec­ond in the shot put (35−5). The Lady Pirates’ Bri­anna Winn was third in the long jump (14−10.25) and triple jump (31−1.75)
  Marshfield’s Jes­sica Stepp cap­tured first in the long jump (16−8.75). The Lady Jays’ 4 x 400 relay (4:26.08) was third.
  Buf­falo was led by Brit­tany Glass­cock, who was sec­ond in the triple jump (31−11.25).

 

• 

 

---

April 22, 2010

Neosho edges Carthage (Ten­nis roundup)
COCPrepSports.com Staff
  NEOSHO — Matt Gar­rity and Mike Kramer won in both sin­gles and dou­bles play to power Neosho past Carthage 5–4 in Cen­tral Ozark Con­fer­ence Large Schools Divi­sion action on Mon­day.
  Gar­rity won at No. 2 sin­gles over Tim Daniels 8–4 and teamed with Bo Mahr for an 8–5 win at No. 1 dou­bles over Jor­dan Ward and Ryne Cough­lin. Kramer pre­vailed 8–6 over Reg­gie Lash­ley at No. 4 sin­gles and com­bined with Jere­miah Jen­nings for an 8–3 win at No. 3 dou­bles.
  On Tues­day, the Wild­cats downed Bran­son 7–2.
  Mahr, Gar­rity, Joey Cum­ming and Evan Clark were sin­gles and dou­bles win­ners.
  Neosho improved to 7–2 over­all and 4–2 in the COC Large Schools Divi­sion.
Nixa whips Hill­crest
  On Mon­day, Nixa picked up an 8–1 win over Spring­field Hill­crest.
  Brad Barn­hardt and Josh Dou­blin were both 8–0 sin­gles win­ners. Devin McDow­ell won a 7–4 tiebreaker at No. 2 sin­gles. The Eagles swept dou­bles play, win­ning 8–2 in all three matches.
  On Tues­day, Nixa shut out Reeds Spring 9–0.
  Dou­blin and McDow­ell won their sin­gles matches by an 8–0 count. Dou­blin teamed with Char­lie Fen­wick to win 8–0 at No. 2 dou­bles.
  The Eagles lost only 13 games.
Lib­er­a­tors win fifth in a row
  Boli­var ran its win­ning streak to five by beat­ing Clin­ton 7–2. The Lib­er­a­tors improved to 8–2.
  Trevor Sparks, Kyle Shoe­maker and Eli Samek won in both sin­gles and dou­bles.
  Sparks and Aug­gie New­berry are 10–2 at No. 1 dou­bles. Samek and Shoe­maker are 8–2 at No. 2 dou­bles.

• 

 

---

 Nixa splits matches (Soc­cer roundup)
COCPrepSpors.com Staff  
  SPRING­FIELD — Nixa lost 3–2 to Spring­field Glen­dale on Mon­day, before bounc­ing back for an 8–0 tri­umph over Neosho on Tues­day.  
  Jo Pavlowsky and Kesley Bartell scored ver­sus Glen­dale. Lau­ren Moats pro­vided an assist.
  Moats posted two goals and two assists against Neosho. Bartell, Mad­die Chan­dler and Court­ney Frerichs each had a goal and an assist.
  Nixa is 10–3.

• 

 

---

Repub­lic edges Boli­var (Base­ball roundup)
COCPrepSports.com Staff
  BOLI­VAR – Aug­gie Elivo had two hits and three RBIs to lead Repub­lic past Boli­var 7–6 on Mon­day.
  Bolivar’s Seth Hop­wood col­lected three hits and two RBIs and Bray­den Berg was 2-for-2 with a pair of RBIs.
  The Lib­er­a­tors (10−5) trailed 5–0, but cut Republic’s lead to one run by scor­ing three times in the sev­enth inning. They had two baserun­ners as Republic’s Tyler King closed the game by retir­ing the final bat­ter on a ground­out.
Pirates 3–0 in COC play
  At Bran­son on Mon­day, the Pirates cruised to a 12–2, six-inning win over Webb City in Cen­tral Ozark Con­fer­ence Large Schools Divi­sion action.
  Tee Helsel col­lected two home runs and six RBIs and Timmy Townsend had a three-run triple.
  Townsend was the win­ning pitcher, strik­ing out five and walk­ing no one while toss­ing a four-hitter.
  The Pirates are 11–3 over­all and 3–0 in con­fer­ence play.
Reeds Springs shuts out Hol­lis­ter
  At Hol­lis­ter on Mon­day, Reeds Spring’s Chris Jones fired a three-hitter in the Wolves’ 13–0, five-inning COC Small Schools Divi­sion win.
  Jones struck out five and walked one.
  Reeds Spring is 10–5 and Hol­lis­ter 1–9.

 

• 

 

---

April 24, 2010

Nixa’s Peltier to play in Guatemala
COCPrepSports.com Staff
  NIXA — Nixa mid­dle blocker Regan Peltier will play for the U.S. Girls Youth National Team (U-18) against teams from Canada, Jamaica and the Domini­can Repub­lic in pool play of the NORCECA Con­ti­nen­tal Cham­pi­onships in Guatemala begin­ning on Tuesday.

 

• 

 

---

April 27, 2010

Neosho net­ters pre­vail (Ten­nis roundup)
COCPrepSports.com Staff
  NEOSHO —   Neosho fell to 7–3 by los­ing 6–3 to Joplin on Mon­day.
Sin­gles:
#1 Bo Mahr lost to Alec Belden 2–8
#2 Matt Gar­rity def. Zach Cox 8–3
#3 Joey Cum­ming lost to Cody Maples 6–8
#4 Mike Kramer lost to Colby Rit­ter 3–8
#5 Evan Clark lost to Dhaval Patel 7–9
#6 Jere­miah Jen­nings def. Richard Perry 8–3
Dou­bles:
#1 Mahr/Garrity def. Belden/Maples 8–4
#2 Cumming/Clark lost to Cox/Perry 5–8
#3 Kramer/Jennings lost to Ritter/Patel 3–8 
Pirates shut out Reeds Spring
At Bran­son West, Bran­son lost only 10 games while win­ning 9–0 over Reeds Spring.
 

• 

 

---

April 28, 2010

Webb City beats Neosho (Ten­nis roundup)
COCPrepSports.com Staff
  NEOSHO — Webb City downed Neosho 8–1 in a Cen­tral Ozark Con­fer­ence Large Schools Divi­sion match on Tues­day.
  The Car­di­nals took three matches by two games and swept the dou­bles com­pe­ti­tion.
  Neosho fell to 7–4 over­all and 4–3 in con­fer­ence play.
Sin­gles
#1 Bo Mahr lost to Ryan Miller 1–8
#2 Matt Gar­rity lost to Caleb Shoe­make 2–8
#3 Joey Cum­ming lost to Chase Dil­worth 1–8
#4 Mike Kramer lost to Matt Reynold 8–10  
#5 Evan Clark lost to Ethan Replogle 4–8
#6 Jere­miah Jen­nings def. Bran­don Schultz 8–6
Dou­bles
#1 Mahr/Garrity lost to R.Miller/Shoemake 7–9
#2 Cumming/Clark lost to Dilworth/Schultz 3–8
#3 Kramer/Jennings lost to Reynold/Replogle 4–8

 

• 

 

---

Hat trick for Moats in Nixa win (Soc­cer roundup)
COCPrepSports.com Staff
  NIXA — Lau­ren Moats col­lected a hat trick in Nixa’s 8–0 Cen­tral Ozark Con­fer­ence Large Schools Divi­sion tri­umph over Carthage on Tues­day.
  Brit­tany Kirk­patrick added two goals and Court­ney Frerichs, Jor­dyn Hoskins and Kesley Haist each had one. Kelsey Bartell had three assists, while Haist, Ash­lyn Robil­lard, Haylee Wag­ner and Tatum Mangum all had one.
  Kristin Miller posted the shutout as Nixa’s goalkep­per.
  Nixa is 11–3.
Rogersville beats Bolivar
  Rogersville recorded a 5–1 win over Bol­li­var on Tuesday.

• 

 

---

Neosho knocks off Repub­lic (Base­ball roundup)
COCPrepSports.com Staff
  NEOSHO — Alex Wise rapped out three hits to lead Neosho past Repub­lic 6–4 in Cen­tral Ozark Con­fer­ence Large Schools Divi­sion action on Tues­day.
  The win keeps the Wild­cats one game behind Bran­son for first place in the con­fer­ence.  
  Tyler King suf­fered the loss while allow­ing two earned runs.
Bran­son ral­lies past Willard
  At Bran­son, the Pirates pounded out 14 hits to beat Willard 11–3.
  Willard led 2–0 after two innings.
  Timmy Townsend was 3-for-5, while Tee Helsel, Mike Comp­ton, Chase Shields and Joe Keller all had two hits.
  Comp­ton was the win­ning pitcher, strik­ing out seven in six innings.
  Devin Phillips had an RBI-double for Willard and Tyler Hamp­ton con­tributed an RBI-single.
  Bran­son is 14–4 over­all and 5–0 in the COC Large Schools Division.

 

• 

 

---

May 3, 2010

Boli­var claims Willard Tour­na­ment title (Soc­cer roundup)
COCPrepSports.com Staff
  WILLARD — Boli­var defeated Willard twice en route to win­ning the Willard Tour­na­ment title over the week­end.
  The Lady Lib­er­a­tors beat the Lady Tigers by counts of 3–1 and 4–1. Ear­lier, they knocked off Marsh­field 5–0.
Nixa downs Way­nesville
  Nixa beat non-conference foe Way­nesville 1–0 on Fri­day.
 

• 

 

---

Bran­son clinches con­fer­ence cham­pi­onship (Base­ball roundup)
COCPrepSports.com Staff
  CARTHAGE — The com­bi­na­tion of Branson’s 23–12 win over Carthage and Neosho’s 4–3 set­back to Nixa on Thurs­day allowed the Pirates to cap­ture the Cen­tral Ozark Con­fer­ence Large Schools Divi­sion cham­pi­onship.
  Bran­son, 6–0 in con­fer­ence play, has at least a two-game lead on the rest of the con­fer­ence with only a home date against Ozark to play on Tues­day.
  Isaac John­ston was 4-for-5 and home­red for the Pirates. Brian Pos­ton home­red for Carthage.
  Nixa ral­lied to beat Neosho by scor­ing two runs in the sev­enth inning. 

• 

 

---