Stories from Thursday, January 24, 2013

Nevada Daily Mail Sheldon's basketball boys suffered a 61-53 setback in the opening round of the Osceola Invitational tournament Tuesday night. Sheldon pulled away in the second quarter, only to see Weaubleau tie the game in the third. Sheldon then managed just five points in the final period...

Nevada Daily Mail The Nevada Tigers basketball team rolled to a 75-22 victory over El Dorado Springs Tuesday night in the first round of the 88th annual Clinton basketball tournament. The Tigers, with the second seed behind Knob Noster, led the Bulldogs, 24-7, at the end of the first quarter on the way to their ninth victory in 15 games this season. All nine Nevada players in uniform scored, led by senior Silas Smith with 33 points, though he played only the first three quarters...

Nevada Daily Mail The Nevada seventh Grade team beat El Dorado Springs, 49-16, Tuesday. Hunter Mason led the offensive effort for Nevada with 15 points, while Braeden Hinton added nine. On the defensive side, Hinton had seven rebounds, three steals and one block...

Nevada Daily Mail The Nevada High School freshman boys' basketball squad traveled to Bolivar, Mo., and came up short by a final score of 39-34. Tigers head coach Kyle Talley said it took his squad "a quarter or so" to figure out how to combat Bolivar's 1-3-1 zone defense. Once they did, however, the Tigers came back from down 14 at the end of three quarters to pull within four with less than a minute, but that's as close as they got...

The Nevada boys' eighth grade basketball A team rolled 66-13 over El Dorado Springs. "We played exceptional defense, led by Myles McNeley and Tyler Ketterman, and had a very productive game offensively with everyone contributing, led by Matt Sommer and Cameron Diaz with 26 and 10 points, respectively," noted coach Tyson Beshore...

Rural volunteer firefighters are men who are willing to risk their lives out of a sense of responsibility to their neighbors, or as one chief describes them, "just a bunch of good old boys helping out good old boys." Using donated and often repaired equipment and depending on dues and fundraisers like the chicken and noodles lunch that raised $379 for radios and other equipment last Sunday in Sheldon, they eagerly load up and go anytime day or night that a call comes in from the area they cover or from a neighboring department that's overwhelmed.. ...

Nevada came away with a 3-1 mark, nearly sweeping all four dual meet scores, in the Joplin Quad Tuesday. Nevada topped Summit Prep, 109-12, Springfield Parkview, 99-37, and Lamar, 81-78, before narrowly losing to the hosts, 78-76. Placing for NHS were:...

It was a tough night for Sheldon's basketball girls as they ran into a Weaubleau team that went on an offensive blitz in each quarter, ultimately defeating the Lady Panthers, 74-11, in the first round of the Osceola Invitational tournament Tuesday night...

Nevada Daily Mail The Nevada Tigers wrestling team won three duals Tuesday night at Butler, defeating the Bears, 54-6, Wentworth Military, 48-30 and El Dorado Springs, 42-30, at Butler High School. Dayton Miller, Slade Stiles, Johnathan Ireland, Scott Swink and Colby Smith won matches against Butler wrestlers, while Miller, Stiles, Osburn, Ireland, Trey Pritchett and Sam Ellifrits won matches against Wentworth opponents. ...

Nevada Daily Mail Missouri law defines rural volunteer firefighters as public safety officers of the state. As specified in Chapter 320 of the Missouri Revised Statutes, they are "serving the State of Missouri in an official capacity as fire protection volunteers and are hereby declared public safety officers serving without wages, salaries or certain other employee-type fringe benefits."...

By Eric Wade Nevada Daily Mail "I told them, 'You're going to have to quit giving me gray hairs.'" Nevada Lady Tigers head basketball coach Brent Bartlett might have a few more gray hairs on his head after Wednesday night's contest in which his squad shut down the Carthage Lady Tigers with near-perfect efficiency in the first half, only to see their lead slip away in the fourth quarter...

Special to The Daily Mail "I left the TV on for the dog to watch," said Rev. Linda Pagel during the Martin Luther King Jr. Chapel Service held at Cottey College Monday evening. Pagel, pastor of Nevada's United Methodist Church and guest speaker at the event, said Martin Luther's dream was being celebrated "as we watched President Barack Obama take the oath of office for the second time."...

Nevada Daily Mail Friday's 2012 United Way Appreciation and Awards Luncheon recognized those who played an integral role in the group's success the past year. But more importantly, it gave those present the opportunity to celebrate the news that, after coming close the past several years to the goal of $112,000, this past campaign met that goal and exceeded it, finishing with $113,783.70...

Nevada Daily Mail According to a report from the Nevada Police Department, on Jan. 22, officers spotted a person driving a car that was reported stolen on the previous day. Officers Lukas Gibson and Patrick Deao stopped the car and when they approached the driver he fled on foot. ...

Chris Ensor and Emily Livengood of Nevada, Mo., and older brother, Rilen Carter Livengood and sister, Brooklynn Marie O'Connor, are proud to announce the birth of their son and baby brother, Axtin James Ensor. Axtin was born at 8:20 a.m., Wednesday, Dec. 26, 2012, at Nevada Regional Medical Center. He weighed 9 pounds, 9 ounces, and measured 20 and 1/2 inches...