The 2018 Southwest Conference all-conference football team has been released and the Ash Grove Pirates placed five players, with Draven Zeigler being named twice.
A great season has come to end for the Willard high school volleyball team, as they fell in three sets to St. Teresa’s Academy in Cape Girardeau on Saturday, Nov. 3.
For some teams a bye week comes at a bad time, for others they use it to their advantage, for Willard it was the latter, as the Tiger squad ran all over the Waynesville Tigers in the Class 5, District 5 playoffs in Willard on Nov. 2.
The Class 4 District 11 soccer tournament was supposed to end with a showdown between top-seeded Republic and #2 seed Carthage. Instead, Joplin knocked off Springfield Central for the district title, after those two teams pulled big upsets in the semifinal round.
Three weeks made a huge difference for the Republic football team in its rematch with Carthage. After staying in the game against state-ranked Carthage at home during Week 8, Republic fell behind and never seriously challenged in a 49-10 loss in the district semifinals.
Two Republic softball players earned spots on the all-state team as selected by Missouri’s high school softball coaches. Kaitlyn Ragsdale is an infielder on the first team, and Julia Higgins is a catcher on the second team.
The Lady Tigers traveled to Clever on Oct. 22, to take part in the Class 2, District 10 tournament. Ash Grove entered the tournament as the fourth seed but lost to fifth seeded New Covenant Academy in straight sets, 19-25 and 18-25. Strafford ending up winning the district tournament.
