IT’S HOMECOMING FRIDAY IN TIGER TOWN, BUT THIS YEAR, IT’S NOT YOUR NORMAL HOMECOMING DAY, THANKS TO THIS COVID PANDEMIC THAT’S NOT GOING AWAY….
NO PARADE, NO DANCE, NO FESTIVAL OF NATIONS, LIMITED ATTENDANCE, BUT THERE WILL BE A GAME, AND A QUEEN WILL BE CROWNED….WE VISIT WITH TIGER COACH JOE HAYNES COMING UP..

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ON THE SOCCER PITCH:
NIXA SPOILED THE HOME COOKIN’ AT WAYNESVILLE, BLANKING THE TIGERS 3-0 AT THE ANDERSON SOCCER FIELD AT TIGER PRIDE PARK…

OTHER SCORES INVOLVING O.C. TEAMS..
BRANSON SHUTS OUT CAMDENTON 4-0..
OSAGE GOT BY LEBANON 4-2..
OZARK BLANKS PARKVIEW 8-0…

FROM THE FRISCO, WILLARD CAME TO LAQUEY AND SHUT OUT THE HORNETS, 6-0….

ON THE VOLLEYBALL COURTS:
WAYNESVILLE TOOK THE LONG AND WINDING ROAD TO WEST PLAINS AND WERE SWEPT IN 3 BY THE LADY ZIZZERS….
KICKAPOO SWEEPS LEBANON 3-0….

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SOFTBALL

WAYNESVILLE WENT TO SPRINGFIELD TO MEET GLENDALE AND THE LADY FALCONS TAKE THE OZARK CONFERENCE TILT, 4-2…
THIS WAS A TOUGH LOSS…BELLE PONDROM THREW A GREAT GAME, ALLOWING JUST 2 HITS….COACH ROCHELLE MAUBAUCH SAID SHE COMMANDED HER POSITION..
STRANDED RUNNERS ARE A TEAMS WORST ENEMY AND THE LADY TIGERS LEFT TOO MANY ON AND IT COST THEM….THEIR OFFENSE STARTED UP IN THE FIRST BUT THE COACH SAID IT JUST DIED AND THEY COULD NOT GET IT GOING AGAIN.
THERE’S NO LACK OF CONFIDENCE ON THE COACHES PART… MAUBAUCH SAID “When these girls realize what I already know – look out.”

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OTHER OZARK CONFERENCE GAMES.
LEBANON 12-7 OVER WEST PLAINS
ROLLA 13-3 OVER CAMDENTON

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CROCKER SPANKS NEWBURG 17-1 IN 4 INNINGS AT NEWBURG..
ELAINA FOSTER TWIRLED A ONE HITTER…..
CORA TWYMAN HAD NEWBURGS ONLY HIT AND DROVE IN THE LADY WOLVES ONLY RUN…
A LOT OF RBI’S FOR THE LADY LIONS..
MEGAN BECKER DROVE IN 4, ASHYLNN WORSTELL AND LAINEY CONNELL EACH HAD 3..
FOSTER, EMMA ROUTH, ABBY HELTON AND CADEY HUEY EACH DROVE IN 1..FOSTER ENDED WITH A 3-3 DAY AT THE PLATE, WORSTELL WAS 2-2…

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THE IBERIA LADY RANGERS HOSTED DIXON AND SHUT OUT THEIR VISITORS 10-0 BEHIND THE 3 HIT SHUT OUT FROM HAILEY WHITTLE….
DIXON’S EMMA THILTGEN DOUBLED, TRISTEN LIPSCOMB AND ANNA MOORE BOTH SINGLED BUT THAT WAS IT FOR DIXON….
MACI HOLTSCLAW TAKES THE LOSS SURRENDERING 13 HITS AND 10 EARNED RUNS…LANEY HALLEY HOMERED AND MORGAN LUTTRELL STROKED A 2 RUN DOUBLE TO GET THE SCORING GOING, AND THE LADY RANGERS DIDN’T LOOK BACK.
IBERIA WENT DEEP 3 TIMES..AFTER HALLEY’S FIRST INNING DINGER, EMMA RAY HOMERED IN THE 2ND, ALYSSA PERRY HIT ONE IN THE 4TH….
RAY, WHITTLE, PERRY, LUTTRELL, AND HARPER ROLLINS ALL COLLECTED MULTIPLE HITS FOR IBERIA\.
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THE VIENNA EAGLES TASTED THEIR FIRST DEFEAT OF THE SEASON, A 10-3 SETBACK AT RUSSELLVILLE YESTERDAY….
MOLLY OTTO WAS 3-3 FOR VIENNA, INCLUDING HER THIRD HOME RUN OF THE SEASON, AND KARISSA FEELER HAD 2 HITS FOR VIENNA.
ALICIA LONG TOOK THE LOSS…SHE GAVE UP 4 EARNED RUNS ON 8 HITS AND WALKED 3… VIENNA WILL GO TO THE RICHLAND TOURNAMENT ON SATURDAY.

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BASEBALL

IBERIA 17-1 OVER CROCKER
BASEBALL AT HOOPER FIELD YESTERDAY AND THE HOME TOWN RANGERS JUMPED ON NEIGHBOR CROCKER FOR 5 IN THE FIRST, 5 MORE IN THE 2ND, AND TACKED ON 7 IN THE 3RD AND THIS WAS OVER IN 3, 17-1…….CROCKER GOT THEIR ONLY RUN IN THE 3RD, BUT IT WAS NOT ENOUGH TO EXTEND THE GAME.
THE RANGERS BANGED OUT 17 HITS, LED BY WADE BOND AND MICHAEL McDOWELL WITH 3 EACH..BOND DROVE IN 4 RUNS, McDOWELL HAD 3 RBI’S..JAKE WHITTLE, LOGAN SEEL,
HAYDEN LUTTRELL, AND HAIDEN MARTIN ALL COLLECTED 2 HITS…WHITTLE AND SEEL BOTH TRIPLED…
SEEL DROVE IN 2, LUTTRELL, MARTIN, EVAN RIEMENSNIDER, AND WINNING PITCHER HUNTER PIGGOT ALL DROVE IN RUNS FOR THE RANGERS…

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MACKS CREEK OPENED POOL PLAY OF THE CONWAY FALL CLASSIC ON THURSDAY NIGHT WITH A DOUBLE-HEADER AGAINST THE HARTVILLE EAGLES AND THE DORA FALCONS AT HARTVILLE

WON THE FIRST IN 3 INNINGS, 20-2.
ETHAN ENGLISH COLLECTED AN RBI SINGLE IN THE FIRST FOR THE PIRATES FOR THEIR ONLY HIT IN THE GAME.

THE DORA FALCONS CAME AWAY WITH A 6-2 VICTORY IN THE 2ND GAME.
AN ERROR PLATED THE PIRATES FIRST RUN IN THE 2ND THAT TIED THE GAME AT 1 EACH.
A TREVOR SMITH DOUBLE IN THE 3RD AND COURTESY RUNNER OLIVER SANCHEZ SCORED ON A BALK.
THAT WOULD BE THE EXTENT OF THE MACKS CREEK RUNS….
GRANT ENGLISH STARTED AND WORKED ALL SIX INNINGS. HE WAS TOUCHED FOR SIX RUNS, ONLY ONE EARNED, ON SEVEN HITS WHILE STRIKING OUT NINE AND WALKING ONE.

“I thought we did alright with these two games today,” SAID MACKS CREEK COACH JASON TRUSTY, “we are still working to make adjustments on the offensive and defensive side of things but we were able to put some runs on the board today, something that we haven’t been able to do much of this Fall.”
THE PIRATES RETURN TO CONWAY ON SATURDAY FOR A 5TH PLACE GAME.

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ON THE GOLF COURSE, THE GLENDALE LADY FALCONS WON THE MSU RELAYS UPSETTING THE PREVIOUSLY UNBEATEN SPRINGFIELD CATHOLIC FIGHTIN’ IRISH BY ONE STROKE, 329-330 AT THE BILL AND PAYNE STEWART GOLF COURSE IN THE QUEEN CITY YESTERDAY…CATHOLIC BEAT GLENDALE EARLIER IN THE WEEK BY 3 STROKES….ROLLA FINSHED 3RD..
THE WAYNESVILLE LADY TIGERS WERE 14TH…
CATHOLIC HAD THE TOP 2 MEDALISTS….
REAGAN ZIBILSKI CARDED A 70…2 STROKES BACK WAS TEAMMATE, LYLA LOUDERBAUGH…. – 72 – CATHOLIC
ABBY HOBBS OF ROLLA WAS 3RD WITH A 77.

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DISTRICT ASSIGNMENTS FOR THE FALL SPORTS OF TENNIS SWIMMING WRAP UP OUR RUN THRU THE ASSIGNMENTS FOR THIS FALL SEASON…THE DISTRICT ASSIGNMENTS WERE DELAYED THIS YEAR ALLOWING SOME SCHOOLS TO OPT OUT DUE TO COVID CONCERNS.

SO FAR THIS WEEK, WE FEATURED 6 WITH THE 7TH TODAY..
THAT’S TENNIS..WAYNESVILLE WILL JOIN UP WITH SPRINGFIELD CENTRAL, NIXA, OZARK, SPRINGFIELD CATHOLIC AND KICKAPOO..
KICKAPOO HOSTS, PROBABLY AT THE COOPER COMPLEX.

IN SWIMMING TO MAKE THE POST SEASON, IT’S DONE BY TIMES IN EVENTS THROUGOUT THE SEASON..THE BEST TIMES IN EACH EVENT MAKES THE STATE MEET…

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TONIGHT IS HOMECOMING AT WAYNESVILLE WITH THE TIGERS HOSTING THE HILLCREST HORNETS…
MARV LUTEN TALKED TO COACH JOE HAYNES ABOUT IT.

 

PRE GAME AT 6:45, IT’S A 7PM KICKOFF ON 102.3 FM…
OTHER THAN FOOTBALL, TODAY HAS BASEBALL, SOFTBALL, VOLLEYBALL, SOCCER, TENNIS AND GOLF ON TAP..
BASEBALL TODAY SEES CROCKER AT PLATO….DIXON, IBERIA, AND NEWBURG START PLAY IN THE VIENNA TOURNAMENT…
MANSFIELD COMES TO LICKING….

SOFTBALL SEES DIXON AND IBERIA IN THE VERSAILLES TOURNAMENT….STOUTLAND GOES TO WEAUBLEAU…

VOLLEYBALL SEES LICKING AT PLATO..

SOCCER HAS LAQUEY AT CROCKED AND IBERIA AT RICHLAND..

TENNIS TODAY HAS WAYNESVILLE’S JV TEAM AT LEABNON’S TOURNAMENT..

GOLF HAS ROLLA AND CROCKER AT WAYNESVILLE….