Stories from Wednesday, December 10, 2014

Nevada Daily Mail One of the main goals of the Nevada Soroptimist is the support of women and children. In keeping with that goal, the local Soroptimist organization has adopted a new project of providing care bags and specially written books for children when they first enter the foster care system...

Nevada Daily Mail During the holiday season, organizations or public service departments often hold food drives or other fundraisers to help people of the community in need. Students of Nevada High School wanted to help a worthy cause in the community as well, but in a little different way...

Nevada Daily Mail After months of planning and hard work, Schell City and Vernon County celebrated their partnership and the completion of the water project with a certificate presentation at the Schell City water tower site, Dec. 9. "This has been a project that I've been pleased to see come to fruition," Louis East of the U.S. ...

The Sheldon Panthers boys basketball team fell to Golden City 47-43 in a Tuesday night home contest. The loss drops Tyler Judd's club to 1-2 overall, and 1-1 in Golden Valley conference play. The Panthers are next set to face Thomas Jefferson, in a road game Thursday night...

Nevada's eighth grade basketball girls slipped past Neosho 20-18 in overtime in the Tri-County Tournament, at Joplin North, Monday night. The Middle School Tigers were seeded sixth, surprising the higher seed Neosho team, which got the third slot. Next up is second seed Carthage for Nevada...

Playing in a consolation game at the Carthage tournament Saturday, the Nevada Tigers boys' basketball team battled back from an early deficit to defeat Seneca 37-29. The victory was the first of the season for Nevada, as they improve to 1-3. Nevada was in an offensive funk early, as they trailed 8-3 after the first quarter...

Nevada High School wrestlers took to the mat Dec. 5-6 in Pleasant Hill at the Steve Leslie Invitational. In total 12 schools participated in the event. Nevada Individual results 120 pounds: Clay Landoll finished 3-6, and placing eighth, scoring 28 team points...

Joplin ---- The No. 3 seed Nevada Middle School seventh-grade girls basketball team had an easy go of it Monday night in the opening round of the Tri-County tournament, blowing out sixth-seeded Carthage 41-8 . With the victory, Nevada improves to 12-1...

Nevada Daily Mail An off shooting night from Nevada perimeter players played a major factor in the team's 56-44 Tuesday night home loss to the Clinton Cardinals. However, a monster performance from center Clay Gayman kept Nevada within striking distance until about midway through the third quarter. Gayman finished with 17 points, 17 rebounds and a blocked shot...

Nevada Daily Mail With the score knotted 35-35 after three quarters, the Nevada Lady Tigers basketball team blew open the game with a 13-0 fourth quarter run, on their way to topping the Clinton Lady Cardinals 52-40 at Wynn Gym Tuesday night. The victory improves Nevada to 3-2 overall and 1-1 in West Central Conference play...