Stories from Saturday, April 3, 2021

The Sheldon High School baseball team is in full rebuild mode after winning the Class 1 District 7 tournament in 2019 and the Class 1 District 8 bracket in 2018. The Panthers are 0-2 on the young season and have already been outscored 53-6. Their problem has been pitching. Inexperience on the mound has led to inconsistency around the strike zone...

Due to low participation numbers for their own squad, members of the Bronaugh High School softball team will play at nearby Liberal for the 2021 season. Bailey Cliffman, Josie Banes, Emma Morris, Gretchen Banes and Julia Brundrige from Bronaugh will share the dugout with Liberal’s Gracie Bott, Kaylee Wallace, Keirstyn Larson, Kyla Porter, Ellaina LaNear, Laney Simpson, Abby Barton, Rylie Stanfield of Liberal...

Fans of Northeast Vernon County High School spring sports will have one team to cheer for this year: the Lady Knights on the softball diamond. Fortunately for them, they’ve already been able to celebrate a win. NEVC snuck past Lakeland 11-8 in late March, to go with losses against Hume and Humansville on the young season...

The Bronaugh High School baseball team may have entered this season without winning a game in nearly five years, but that didn’t stop kids from wanting to play. The Wildcats saw 21 players sign up to play ball this spring, and the results have already come. Bronaugh snapped that pesky 36-game losing skid with a 31-run win over Sheldon in its season opener...

Despite being without multiple starters for much of March, the Cottey College softball team has refused to lose. At least, the Comets have refused to lose enough games to knock them out of first place in the Association of Independent Institutions conference...

Sometimes improvement comes after a year. Sometimes it comes overnight. So far this spring, for the Nevada High School boys tennis team, it’s been a little of both. Junior Evan Rea was the Big 8 Conference champion at No. 5 singles two years ago, and only got better after his sophomore campaign (like those of most every other spring athlete in Missouri) was lost to the COVID-19 pandemic...

It wasn’t on his home course, but in the season opener this week Nevada High School junior Owen Swearingen made Frank E. Peters Municipal look like a miniature golf course that he designed for his own back yard. His 1-under par performance, which was good enough to win by three strokes a triangular against Butler and El Dorado Springs, was just the kind of start longtime NHS golf coach Brian Leonard was looking for to tee off the 2021 season...

Although not all the games have been pretty, the Nevada High School baseball team is perfect so far the season. The Tigers cruised through the Stockton Tournament with wins (including two shutouts) over New Covenant Academy, Stockton, and Butler, before being challenged by — but eventually overcoming — Smith-Cotton and Carthage at Lyons Stadium...

About one month before the 2021 track and field season began, the Missouri State High School Activities Association dropped a bomb on its coaches and athletes. A bomb that, technically, hailed all the way from Europe. While time on the track this year will continue to be counted in seconds and minutes, distances in the field events will no longer be officially measured in imperial units of inches and feet. Instead, everyone will switch to the metric system...

On Tuesday, April 6, voters will turn up to the polls to decide which candidates will fill two open positions on the Nevada City Council. The Nevada Daily Mail posed questions to each candidate and their answers follow: Lyndon Eberhard Give us your brief background (occupation, education, family, etc.)...