Stories from Saturday, February 17, 2018

Last year’s matwarming queen Jaiden Cherry crowns the 2018 courtwarming queen Kaitlyn Hogan while escort Matt Thompson looks on.

In Thursday night prep hoops action, the Hume Hornets and Lady Hornets were swept by the Whirlwind of Archie — in a pair of non-conference road contests. In the girls contest, Archie opened on a 13-4 run, and increased its advantage to 27-12 at the break. The Whirlwind then outscored Hume 11-8 in the third, taking a commanding 38-20 lead en route to the comfortable 47-33 victory...

The Nevada Lady Tigers cruised to an impressive 55-44 victory over the Center High School Lady Yellowjackets, on Courtwarming Night, Friday at Wynn Gym. The victory improves Nevada to 15-8 overall and 6-4 in West Central Conference-play, as the Lady Tigers extend their win streak to four games. Meanwhile,

Nevada High senior Adam Guenther and junior Caleb Longobardi, had their fantastic wrestling seasons come to a close in the opening rounds of the Missouri Class 2 Wrestling Championships. Longobardi was eliminated from competition on the opening day Thursday. ...

Friday night’s 66-44 rout of the Center High Yellowjackets delivered the Nevada Tigers basketball program its first West Central Conference championship. The Senior Night victory at Wynn Gym improved the Tigers to 20-3 overall and 10-0 in WCC-play, while eliminating from contention the second-place, defending conference champion Yellowjackets...