FOOTBALL

IT’S BACK TO BACK TRIPS TO GLENDALE FOR THE WAYNESVILLE TIGERS AS DISTRICTS BEGIN THIS FRIDAY NIGHT….THE TIGERS WERE HAMMERED BY THE FALCONS 57-20 LAST FRIDAY AND WE VISIT WITH COACH JOE HAYNES COMING UP…

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VOLLEYBALL DISTRICTS.
CLASS 5 DISTRICT 10 AT GLENDALE, TOP SEED SPRINGFIELD CENTRAL ELIMINATED THE WAYNESVILLE LADY TIGERS IN A 3 GAME SWEEP……LEBANON OUTLASTED GLENDALE 3-1 SETTING UP THE FINALS TOMORROW, TUESDAY AT 6….CENTRAL AND LEBANON AT GLENDALE..

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THE CLASS 2 DISTRICT 8 TOURNAMENT AT DIXON SAW CONWAY SWEEP BY DIXON 3 GAMES TO NONE IN ONE SEMI FINAL….THE OTHER, STEELVILLE SWEPT BELLE 3-0……CONWAY AND STEELVILLE THIS AFTERNOON AT 5:30 FOR THE DISTRICT 8 CHAMPIONSHIP….

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AT THE CLASS 2, DISTRICT 9 TOURNAMENT AT HOUSTON SATURDAY, TOP SEED LICKING SWEPT THAYER IN 3 STRAIGHT…MTN. VIEW LIBERTY UPSET 2ND SEED HOUSTON 3 GAMES TO 1 AND MOVE RIGHT TO FACE LICKING THIS EVENING AT 6…..

SATURDAY AT CABOOL, 5TH SEED EMINENCE ELIMINATED PLATO IN 3 STRAIGHT….AS A MATTER OF FACT, ALL 3 MATCHES WERE 3 GAME SWEEPS WITH 2ND SEED SUMMERSVILLE ENDING THE SEASON FOR KOSHKONONG AND 3RD SEED CABOOL ELIMINATING COUCH…
SEMI’S TODAY…TOP SEED WINONA GETS EMINENCE AT 5..SUMMERSVILLE AND CABOOL AT 6:30….FINALS TOMORROW….

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SOFTBALL QUARTERS IN CLASS 1 ON SATURDAY AND THE FINALS ARE NOW SET FOR ALL CLASSES….
SATURDAY, EAST CARTER ELIMINATES LEETON…..MAYSVILLE ADVANCED WITH A WIN OVER PATTONSBURG..
ST. ELIZABETH MOVED RIGHT WITH A 7-3 OVER SILEX AND LaPLATA KNOCKS OUT ATLANTA…

FINALS START ON THURSDAY AT THE KILLIAN COMPLEX IN SPRINGFIELD…

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SOCCER FROM THE WEEKEND…
DIXON WAS A 5-4 OVERTIME WINNER OVER STOVER FRIDAY…
SMITHTON CAME TO IBERIA AND SHUT OUT THE RANGERS, 4-0……

SATURDAY, WAYNESVILLE DROPPED AN OVERTIME MATCH TO CAMDENTON, 5-4 AT THE LAKE…

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SATURDAY, HERMITAGE HOSTED THE MISSOURI MIDDLE SCHOOL CROSS COUNTRY STATE CHAMPIONSHIPS AND A FRISCO LEAGUER IS A STATE CHAMP, ANOTHER AN ALL STATER….
THE MEET WAS RUN AT LUCAS OIL SPEEDWAY AND 89 SCHOOLS FROM ACROSS THE STATE PARTICIPATED…
MALLORY SHAW OF STOUTLAND WON THE MEET AND TOOK HOME THE STATE TITLE…DIXON’S BELL MAGNER FINISHED 22ND AND MADE ALL STATE STATUS AS THEY MEDALED THE TOP 25……
CONGRATS TO FUTURE HIGH SCHOOL CROSS COUNTRY RUNNERS, MALLORY SHAW AND BELL MAGNER….

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FRIDAY NIGHT UNDER THE LIGHTS HAVE NOT BEEN KIND TO THE WAYNESVILLE TIGERS, ESPECIALLY AGAINST ROLLA, WEST PLAINS AND GLENDALE THE LAST 3 WEEKS…THE TURBO CLOCK HAS BEEN TURNED ON IN EACH GAME AND FRIDAY WAS NO DIFFERENT IN THE TIGERS 57-20 LOSS TO GLENDALE….
THE TIGER HEAD COACH SPELLS IT OUT.

WITH ROLLA’S WIN OVER CAMDENTON, MEANING THEY TOOK OUT WAYNESVILLE, LEBANON AND CAMDENTON IN STRAIGHT WEEKS, THE BULLDOGS MOVED INTO THE 3RD SEED, CAMDENTON 4TH. BOTH WILL HOST ON FRIDAY AND WE’LL HAVE MORE ON THAT LATER THIS WEEK..

TODAY…

FOOTBALL HAS THE JV TIGERS HOSTING GLENDALE.
THE 9TH GRADERS HIT THE ROAD FOR THIER LAST GAMES OF THE SEASON…..

SOCCER TODAY, DIXON AT NEW COVENANT….CALVARY LUTHERAN AT IBERIA

CROSS COUNTRY, PLATO’S AT AVA……

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The St. Louis Cardinals plan to hire Oliver Marmol as their new manager, confirming an earlier report.
A PRESS CONFERENCE IS APPARENTLY COMING THIS MORNING….

Marmol, 35, served as St. Louis’ bench coach the past two seasons and is extremely well-regarded within the organization. He was the favorite from the start of the search, and is well-immersed in the culture of the organization, having worked his way up since being drafted by St. Louis in 2007.

Marmol will be the youngest active manager in Major League Baseball and the youngest to manage any team on Opening Day since Eric Wedge with Cleveland in 2003. He will be the youngest to manage the Cardinals since Marty Marion in 1951 and is younger than eight Cardinals’ players who appeared in a game this past season, including Yadier Molina and Adam Wainwright.

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The Tennessee Titans wanted to start games faster and score more points early.
They did just that against the Kansas City Chiefs.
The Titans scored on their first five possessions and led 27-0 at halftime on their way to routing the Chiefs on Sunday, 27-3…..

Ryan Tannehill threw for 270 yards and a touchdown, and he also ran for a score as the Titans won for the fifth time in six games.
”We wanted to get going early and score points early,” Tannehill said of a team with only 20 points scored in the first quarter this season.

The Titans (5-2) also won their second game in six days over teams that played for the AFC championship in January.

They edged Buffalo 34-31 on Monday night and followed that by simply dominating the two-time defending AFC champs as Tennessee kept scoring.

”They made more plays than what we did, particularly on the first few series there,” Chiefs coach Andy Reid said. ”I’ve seen our guys do it and make the plays. We’re just not doing it right now.”

This was the first time Patrick Mahomes had trailed by 27 at halftime and the third-largest halftime deficit for the Chiefs since 1991. It was the worst since the Chiefs trailed Pittsburgh 29-0 at the half on Oct. 2, 2016, and only the eighth time in franchise history that Kansas City had trailed by 27 or more at the half.

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