Stories from Tuesday, September 19, 2017

Janice Lee Munsterman, 75, of Nevada, passed away Sunday, Sept. 17, at Nevada Nursing and Rehab. Janice was born Dec. 29, 1941, in Nevada, the daughter of Roy and Ruby (Summers) Marple. She attended school in Hume and in Pittsburg, Kan., where she was on the debate team and a majorette in the marching band. She was a lifelong Nevada resident. Janice worked at Nellie Don Clothing, Ben Franklin and Robertson’s...

The Nevada Tigers C-football team was defeated by Smith-Cotton High School, 37-28 Monday night in Sedalia. On its first possession of the game, after a long Kaden Denney kick return helped set the Tigers up with a first and goal, Nevada was unable to score, turning the ball on downs...

The Nevada Middle School seventh and eighth-grade volleyball teams hosted Joplin South on Monday night, falling in three of its four matches. The Nevada eighth-grade A-team suffered a three-set defeat. After prevailing in the first set 26-24, the Lady Tigers fell in the second set 25-15 and, the decisive third set, 15-5...

The Nevada Lady Tiger volleyball team competed in its first varsity tournament of the season, Saturday in Pittsburg, Kan., winning two of five matches. The Lady Tigers opened play with a dominant two-set victory over Baxter Springs (Kan.) 25-21 and 25-9...

After a half-dozen road matches to open its season, the Cottey Comets volleyball team made its long awaited home debut on Friday, falling to MCC-Longview in three sets. The Comets then returned to Hinkhouse Center on Saturday afternoon, notching a three-set victory over Barclay (Kan.) College...

The Nevada Tiger swim team was busy last week, placing runner-up at Tuesday’s Seymour meet; followed by a fourth-place finish at Thursday’s Webb City-hosted Red Bird Invitational. Seymour meet Held at the Seymour YMCA, Nevada freshman Ben Hines collected a pair of first-place finishes. ...

In a non-conference road game on Monday, the Nevada Lady Tigers fell to Carthage 6-4. Nevada (7-8 overall) jumped on top with a run in the first, and then padded its lead to 4-0 courtesy of Maggie Leisure’s second inning three-run blast. Carthage, however, was able to dig out of its early hole, with three runs in the third and three in the fourth to go on top by the final 6-4 margin. Leisure, who also started for Nevada, scattered seven hits over six innings of work...

The Nevada Tiger youth football teams, grades third through sixth were in action Saturday at Logan Field, splitting four contests with the visiting Carthage Blue. In the sixth-grade matchup, Nevada prevailed 52-46 in a double overtime thriller. The fifth-grade Tigers were bested 30-8; the fourth-grade Tigers fell 22-6; while the third-grade Tigers emerged with an 18-14 victory...

Jim Arthur, age 69, passed away on Friday, Sept. 15, at his mountain home outside of Cassville, Mo., surrounded by the love of family and friends. He was born the eldest son of Lt. Col. James K. and Wanda (Phipps) Arthur on Feb. 22, 1948. The family moved to Nevada in 1948. ...

For the first time in more than two decades, the roar of airplanes woke Nevada up for an airshow Saturday morning. “It was huge,” Sharon Kegler said. Kegler, the human resources director for Nevada, said the airshow went better than anticipated. The airshow opened with John Hall from Sky Dive Kansas City parachuting into the airport carrying a large US flag while the National Anthem played...