Nothing went right for the Nevada Tiger football team Friday night. Three touchdowns nullified by holding penalties, combined with five turnovers, added up to a 42-20 Big 8 West division road loss to the McDonald County Mustangs. A key ingredient to the Mustangs’ success was their ground-attack, with senior tailback Oakley Roessler dicing the Nevada defense to the tune of 220 yards and five touchdowns...

It was a busy past several days on the court for Golden Valley Vernon County Conference members Hume Lady Hornets, Northeast Vernon County Lady Knights, Sheldon Lady Panthers, and the Bronaugh Lady Wildcats. Hume opened play at the Sept. 13 Ballard High School triangular with a convincing two-set (25-16, 25-10) victory over host Ballard. ...

The Nevada Lady Tiger volleyball team bounced back from four losses over the weekend at the Pittsburg (Kan.) varsity tourney — dispatching the visiting Clinton Lady Cardinals in a two-set victory Tuesday night at Wynn Gym. The Lady Tigers dominated the first set, coasting to a 25-11 triumph. The second set was much tighter, with Nevada prevailing 25-22 in the non-conference matchup...

Nevada High School’s Lady Tiger golf team hit the links for Monday’s Carthage Invitational, placing eighth at the eight-team event held at Carthage Golf Course. Nevada was without its top golfer Grace Palmer, as the senior was out with an illness, according to head coach Brian Leonard. Nevada was also without freshman Lexi Gray, who Leonard said was out with a knee injury...

After opening the season with three consecutive 9-0 victories, the Nevada Lady Tiger tennis team was upended 5-4 in a Big 8 Conference road match Sept. 13 at the Mount Vernon Lady Mountaineers. The Nevada High Netters (4-1) then rebounded with a 7-2 non-conference road victory on Monday over Carl Junction...

The Nevada Tiger gridders secured their first victory of the season on Homecoming Night Friday at Logan Field, leveling the visiting East Newton High School Patriots, 64-20. Ty Thomas’ monster first half performance lifted the Tigers to an insurmountable 50-6 halftime advantage, as the sophomore signal-caller racked up four total touchdowns, rushing for three and throwing for one...

The Nevada Lady Tiger middle school seventh and eighth-grade volleyball teams wrapped a busy week Thursday, with a trio of road victories over Butler Junior High. The Lady Tiger eighth-A-team bested Butler in the opening set 25-19. With Nevada on the ropes trailing Butler 24-16 in the second set, Lydia Ast breathed new life into the Lady Tigers with eight consecutive service points, knotting the contest at 24-apiece...

Wes Beachler’s Nevada Tiger gridders are in prime position to nab their first victory of the 2018 campaign as they host the hapless East Newton High School Patriots tonight at Logan Field. East Newton, a Big 8 Conference West Division foe, enters having been outscored 106-8 through the first three weeks of the season...

The Nevada Lady Tiger cross country team blazed to a strong second-place showing at Tuesday’s Bolivar Invitational, while the Tiger boys finished fourth. The 14-team event, held on the campus of Southwest Baptist University, featured 179 student-athletes in the boys division and 83 on the girls’ side...

MANHATTAN, Kan., — The Cottey Comet spikers moved to 5-4 overall on the season courtesy of Tuesday’s four-set road victory over Manhattan (Kan.) Christian College. Two of Cottey’s five wins have come against MCC, as they previously defeated them in a neutral-site five-set match, Aug. 31 in a Ankeny, Iowa...

It was a tough weekend on the court for the Cottey Comet volleyball team, dropping three of four matches at the Oklahoma Wesleyan University Tournament in Bartlesville. Cottey opened Friday with a four-set 25-21, 18-25, 9-25, 14-25 loss to Sterling (Kan.) College...

Competing in their second event of the season, the Nevada Lady Tiger golf team placed fifth at the six-team Webb City Invitational — held Tuesday at Briarbrook Country Club. The 18-hole, par-72 event was won by Carthage High School. For the Lady Tigers, senior Grace Palmer placed seventh out of 49 prep competitors, carding a 25-over-par 97. Fellow Lady Tiger senior Kaitlyn Vincent fired a 36-over-par 108, for a 13th-place finish...

Nevada Tiger sophomore swim sensation Ben Hines swept to gold medal finishes in the 50 and 100-yard freestyles, while the Nevada High swim team placed ninth at the 23-school Ozark Invitational — held Saturday at Springfield’s Foster Natatorium. Kansas City-area Park Hill South High School emerged from the ultra-competitive event with a first-place team finish...

t’s been a roller-coaster week for the Nevada Lady Tiger softball team. Nevada kicked things off Monday with a convincing 15-0, three-inning, run-rule victory over visiting Butler High School, as junior hurler Maggie Leisure spun a no-hitter. The Lady Tigers then returned to Bushwhacker Field Tuesday and were upended, 13-6, by Big 8 Conference cross-division foe Logan-Rogersville Lady Wildcats...

Eric Cameron’s blueprint for building the Cottey Comet golf program from the ground floor up is well underway. Cameron is looking to immediately turn around a fledgling program, as the first-year head coach is Cottey’s third coaching hire in just two years of the program’s existence...

The Nevada Youth Football League is hosting Carl Junction today at Logan Field. The Nevada sixth-graders are slated to take the field first, with kickoff set for 1 p.m. This will be followed by the fifth-grade contest, with kickoff set for 2 p.m. The fourth-graders will then hit the gridiron for their 4 p.m. contest. The third-grade game caps the days festivities, and is set for for a 5 p.m. kickoff...

The storyline for the Nevada Tigers in week three was much the same as it had been in weeks one and two — critical turnovers culminating in a rain soaked 35-12 defeat Friday night at Big 8 Conference foe Seneca Indians. The first quarter featured both teams turning the ball over on downs multiple times. ...

After a delayed start to the season, the Nevada Lady Tiger golf team kicked off its 2018 campaign at Wednesday’s Joplin Lady Eagle Invitational — placing fifth at the eight-team 18-hole Schifferdecker Golf Course prep event. For Nevada, senior Grace Palmer placed 10th, carding a 35-over-par 106. Fellow Lady Tiger senior Kaitlynn Vincent finished in 13th-place, with a 42-over-par 113...

The Nevada Lady Tigers hot start to the volleyball season continued Thursday night, with a convincing two-set non-conference victory over the visiting Bolivar Lady Liberators. Nevada (4-0, 1-0 Big 8) breezed to a 25-16 first-set victory. Nevada’s size, power and superior athleticism continued to overwhelm the Lady Liberators in the second set, with the Lady Tigers prevailing, 25-15...

Non-conference foes when they met a season ago, the Nevada Tigers nearly sprang a season-opening road upset of the Seneca Indians, relinquishing a second-half lead en route to a 28-20 loss. A year later the two squads are Big 8 Conference West division rivals. ...

A robust field of cars took center stage on Military Appreciation Night, Sept. 1 at Historic Nevada Speedway. On an evening in which several new faces made headway, it was a familiar name crossing the finish line while the checkered flag was being waved in Mini Stock feature — as local legend Foxie Sumner claimed his track-leading 10th victory of the season...

The Cottey Comet volleyball team went 3-1 at the season-opening Spikefest Tournament, Aug. 31-Sept. 1 in Akeny, Iowa. Cottey kicked off the tournament with a trio of victories, advancing to the title match, where they fell to Maranatha (Wisc.) Baptist College in three sets — 22-25, 20-25, 10-25...

It’s been an exceptional start to the season for the Nevada Lady Tigers, who improved to 3-0 after flattening its competition at Tuesday’s Fort Scott (Kan.) High School volleyball triangular. Nevada opened with a decisive two-set (25-17, 25-17) victory over Anderson (Kan.) County. ...

The Hume Lady Hornets are off to a terrific start to the volleyball season, opening their 2018 campaign Tuesday with a clean sweep at the four-team Drexel Lady Bobcat quadrangular. Hume opened with a three-set victory over Ballard, as the Lady Hornets took the first and third sets. ...

Nevada High’s Calli Beshore picked up pretty much where she left off last season, as the junior cross country star earned a gold medal at the season opening Southwest Cross Country Coaches Association Richard Clark/SBU Bearcat Invitational — held Saturday on the campus of Southwest Baptist University in Bolivar...