Stories from Tuesday, August 31, 2021

This past weekend at the Nevada Speedway was busier than most, with weekly races taking place on Saturday night and a two-hour enduro race filling up the afternoon on Sunday. Among the highlights from Saturday: Scott Mohlfeld (no. 6m) won yet another checkered flag in the Outlaw 4-Cylinders event — his 12th of the year. The points-leader now has a perfect 1,200 points as the race season heads into its final month...

The Cottey College volleyball team opened its season in the Little Apple this past weekend, winning one of four matches. The Comets got things started Friday at the Thunder Invitational in Manhattan, Kan., with a 3-0 sweep (25-11, 25-15, 25-13) of the Tigers of Central Christian College...

It’s one thing to take a four-run lead on Webb City. It’s another thing to finish the job. The Nevada High School softball team found that out the hard way Monday afternoon at Barnes Field, where the Lady Cardinals, in their first game since finishing runner-up at the MSHSAA Class 4 state championship last fall, clawed their way back from an early deficit against the Lady Tigers — courtesy of an RBI ground-out and three-run homer by junior Kirstin Buck — to win their home opener 5-4 on a walk-off single.. ...

Kevin Thomas was joined by several others Monday afternoon and walked down Austin Boulevard in Nevada, Mo., in a show of support for the 13 United States military service members killed in Afghanistan recently. Thomas said that while he is not a veteran, he has several family members in the military and is simply doing this as a show of support for the troops that have been lost...

Sheryl Renee (Goatley) Knoll, 46, of El Dorado Springs, Mo., passed away Aug. 25, 2021. She was born in Ottawa, Kan., on Nov. 25, 1974, to Rev. Don and Rebecca Goatley. She graduated from Osborne High School in Osborne, Kan., in 1993 and Pratt Community College in Pratt, Kan., in 1995 with an Associates Degree in Business...

LaDonna “Sam” Marie Holding, 56, passed away at her home in Nevada, Mo., on Friday, Aug. 27, 2021. Sam was born on Nov. 18, 1964, in Nevada, to Larry Thomas and Patricia Louise (Smotherman) Holding. Sam was a member of St. Mary’s Catholic Church in Nevada. Her hobbies were cross stitching, genealogy and photography...

Patrick Darin Ogle, 64, Nevada, Mo., passed away on Saturday, Aug. 28, 2021, at Nevada Regional Medical Center, in Nevada. A memorial service will be held at 1:30 p.m., Friday, Sept. 3, 2021, at Ferry Funeral Home in Nevada. View obituary and send condolences online at www.ferryfuneralhome.com...