High School Sports

Tiger grapplers receive season awards (03/16/10)

Lady Hornets fall in Sectional game (03/10/10)
CLINTON, Mo. -- It's hard to beat the same team three times in one season. That old sports adage holds true for many teams -- especially at the high school level -- but the Montrose Lady Jays made that very task look easy as they took on the Lady Hornets of Hume in the Missouri State Sectional contest Tuesday night at Clinton High School...

Miller wins district tournament (03/09/10)

Rich Hill, Hume girls advance to district championship (03/05/10)
GOLDEN CITY, Mo. -- The Hume Lady Hornets and the Lady Tigers of Rich Hill each earned a trip to the Class 1 District 7 basketball tournament championship with strong victories in the tournament's semifinal round Wednesday night. In semifinal action at Golden City High School, the top-seeded Lady Hornets of Hume took on No. ...

Class 1 District 7 tournament under way (03/03/10)
GOLDEN CITY, Mo. -- The Class 1 District 7 girls' basketball tournament began Monday night and proved to be a successful night for a number of area schools. The Hume Lady Hornets, Bronaugh Lady Wildcats, Rich Hill Lady Tigers and Sheldon Lady Panthers all advanced out of first-round action...

Boys' All-District team announced (03/03/10)
With the Class 4, District 12 tournament completed and the Wildcats of Harrisonville, heading to the State Sectional game, the 2009-'10 boys' All District team selections have been announced. The district champion Wildcats and the Clinton Cardinals earned three spots, while the runner-up Webb City Cardinals earned two. Carl Junction occupied two All-District spots while the Tigers of Nevada earned one...

Lady Tigers fall to Webb City in district championship (03/02/10)
For the fourth straight year, the Nevada Lady Tigers varsity basketball team was forced to play the top-ranked team in the state for a chance at state playoff glory Saturday. For the previous three seasons leading up to this year, the Lady Tigers were forced to square off against the No. 1 team in either the district championship or state Sectional game and Saturday was no exception as they took on the Lady Cardinals of Webb City for the district championship...

Girls' All-District teams announced (03/02/10)
The 2009-'10 Class 4 District 12 girls' All-District teams have officially been announced. The district champion Webb City Lady Cardinals received three first-team and two second-team selections, as well as head coach Brad Shorter earning the coach's spot. Harrisonville earned two second-team spots, while Carl Junction and Nevada each earned a first-team and second-team selection...

Fort Scott boys win freshmen tourney title; girls second (02/27/10)

Nevada High School Wall of Fame inductees announced (02/27/10)
NEVADA, Mo. -- The Nevada High School Athletic Wall of Fame Committee has announced its newest class of inductees. The 2010-'11 class of inductees includes three teams, as well as three individual athletes. The 1975 Nevada Tigers football team went undefeated in conference play and throughout the regular season and suffered just one loss in a very close contest in which Columbia Rock Bridge defeated Nevada 10-0 for the state championship. ...

Fort Scott's Davis to wrestle for State title tonight (02/27/10)
Fort Scott High School senior Denzell Davis will be wrestling for the Class 4A State title at 119 pounds tonight as he won three matches by decision Friday at the Kansas Class 4A State Wrestling Tournament in Salina. Davis is one of five wrestlers from two area schools who are competing in State Wrestling Tournaments this weekend. ...

Lady Tigers advance to district championship (02/25/10)
"It was a hard-fought victory." There's no better description for the Nevada Lady Tigers' district tournament semifinal matchup against the Lady Wildcats of Harrisonville High School Wednesday night than those words out of the mouth of Lady Tigers head coach Brent Bartlett...

Nevada Area Multisport meeting times announced (02/24/10)
The Nevada Area Multisport organization is an organization that provides all interested participants a chance to get together with other people from all walks of life to run, walk or cycle on a once-weekly basis. The organization is free and open to the public and has been in existence for approximately a year...

Tigers fall in district opener at home (02/23/10)
"We didn't play like I thought we would play coming in." Nevada Tigers head coach John McNeley couldn't have summed up his team's performance much better as they opened the district tournament against the Cardinals of Clinton High School at Wynn Gymnasium Monday night...

Nevada Classic All-Tournament teams announced (02/23/10)
Now that the weather-delayed tournament has officially come to a close, the Nevada Classic All-Tournament teams have been announced. In the boys' division, Raymore-Peculiar's Cameron Coffman, Tony Jones and Josh Stockman joined Kansas City Central's Terrell Shears, Keyon Smith and Mikel Spearman to make up the All-Tournament squad...

Stiles, Brier earn state tournament medals (02/23/10)
COLUMBIA, Mo. -- At the beginning of the 2010 Missouri State Wrestling Championships at Mizzou Arena, the Nevada Tigers wrestling team had four wrestlers out of an active roster of just nine still in action. All four of those wrestlers showed just how they had made it into the top-16 competitors in their respective weight classes statewide through day one as three of the four won their opening round bouts...