Whether you have shot six aces or none in your golf career, the 2021 Jeff Post Memorial Hole-in-One Contest is ready for area players to give their best shot. After a one-year hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the event, organized by the Nevada Griffons and supported by more than 40 sponsors, is back for its second year and offering a top prize of $1 million to anyone who hits a hole-in-one at the finals on Sunday...

Winning can sometimes be painful. But it always feels better than losing. The Nevada Griffons learned that lesson Monday night at Joe Becker Stadium, where they sustained several hit batsmen — three in one inning, specifically — en route to a much-needed 8-0 victory over the hosting Joplin Outlaws...

The Nevada Griffons visited the Hawkeye State this past weekend with their sights set on ending a three-game MINK losing streak and moving up the league standings. They may have snapped the skid in Iowa, at least, but upon returning to Missouri the Griffons were 6-10 and still in last place in the South Division...

Although the Nevada Griffons lost their third straight MINK League contest Thursday night at Lyons Stadium, 15-7 to the Sedalia Bombers, it was not for lack of opportunity. The offense out-hit the competition 13-11 and loaded the bases in three consecutive innings, Jesse Fonteboa hit his second home run of the season and finished a triple shy of the cycle, and heading into the final frame it was a one-run ballgame...

Nevada's Owen Swearingen scored a pair of birdies and a tie for 41st place out of a field of 52 at the American Junior Golf Association's Hale Irwin tournament this week on the Walnut Creek Golf Preserve in Westminster, Colo. Fresh off his second-place finish in the MSHSAA Class 3 state championship, the incoming Nevada High School senior shot a combined 54-hole score of 239 (+23), highlighted by a birdie on the second hole he played (the par-4 no. ...

An estimated 30 ballplayers ages 9-14 participated in Friday's session of the Nevada Griffons Youth Baseball Camp at Lyons Stadium.

Rob Manfred isn’t the only baseball commissioner hearing it from his players and coaches these days. After the Nevada Griffons lost 14-9 to the Sedalia Bombers Tuesday night at Lyons Stadium, MINK League commissioner Ron Rodriguez got a phone call from the home team’s skipper, Jason Jacome...

Nevada Griffons player/coach Aaron Hassell (left) instructs Brady Haynes (right) on his throw to Corbin Haynes on day one of the team's Youth Baseball Camp Thursday at Lyons Stadium (ages 5-8)...

With the Kansas City Monarchs in town for a non-league game, Monday night was supposed to be an off day for the Nevada Griffons pitchers. Turns out, Nevada head coach Jason Jacome may have found some new arms to add to his rotation or bring on in relief when the Griffons return to MINK League action...

The Nevada Griffons’ three most recent ballgames featured a little bit of everything: the end of a winning streak, extra innings, even a couple of player ejections. When it was all said and done, Nevada found itself back to .500 with a 5-5 record. GRIFFONS 2, MUDCATS 7 (FRIDAY)...

BRONAUGH — Boys and girls basketball teams from five area high schools participated in the inaugural Wildcat Shootout Friday inside the gymnasium of host Bronaugh. Scrimmages between Bronaugh, Hume, Lockwood, Exeter, and Northeast (Arma) took place from 8 a.m. ...

The Missouri Sports Hall of Fame named Nevada High School senior swimmer Ben Hines, junior golfer Owen Swearingen, and junior tennis player Evan Rea as finalists for this year’s Sports Commission Awards. At a ceremony to take place between 6-8:15 p.m. Tuesday, June 22, at the Ozark Empire Fairgrounds, the multiple-time MSHSAA Class 1 state champion Hines — who will swim for the University of Alabama starting in the fall — Swearingen — who placed second at the Class 3 state golf tournament this past spring — and Rea — who qualified for the Class 1 state tennis championship — will be in the running along with five other athletes in their respective sports for the awards, which honor the top high schoolers in southwest Missouri athletics...

Niles was nails, Beiter came up big, and the Griffons got their first Gatorade shower of the season. That was the story, in short, Tuesday night at Lyons Stadium, where Nevada’s summer collegiate baseball team evened its early-season record to .500 with a thrilling 4-3 walk-off victory over the first-place Joplin Outlaws...

Isn’t having an above-.500 record grand? It certainly was for the Nevada Griffons on the road in Jefferson City Wednesday night, when slugger Alec Telles belted his third home run of the season, a go-ahead grand slam in the seventh inning that carried the team to a 5-2 victory over the Renegades. The win marked Nevada’s third in a row and improved its record to 4-3 — good enough for second place in the South Division of the MINK League...

Nevada golfer Emree Cameron finished in the middle of the pack — tied for it, in fact — at the American Junior Golf Association’s Shreveport Junior Championship tournament this week in Shreveport. Cameron, who qualified for the event after playing last week in the Westrock Coffee Junior Championship (her first AJGA event), shot a combined three-round score of 229 (13-over-par) at the Southern Trace Country Club. It was good enough for a tie with Lucy Smith for 13th place out of a field of 26...

Richard Kiel has heard all the Aussie cracks. There isn’t one that can’t be answered with a fastball. “I’m used to that over here. I love it. I mean, honestly, that gets me pumped up. So, keep them coming,” said the smiling Nevada Griffons pitcher, a native of Melbourne, Australia, after throwing eight innings to lead his team to a 10-2 win over the Jefferson City Renegades Monday evening at Lyons Stadium. ...

It is still early in the Nevada Griffons’ season, but according to first-year head coach Jason Jacome the team is finding its chemistry, establishing a rotation, and solidifying the lineup. After Sunday’s home opener against Chillicothe, the Griffons also may have identified their new top rival in the MINK League...

The Cottey College softball team continues to rack in awards after wrapping the most successful season in program history. The National Fastpitch Coaches Association on Monday revealed its 37 NAIA All-Americans, including on the second team Cottey sophomore infielder Aryana Palencia...

The Nevada Griffons lost their season opener on the road Thursday, falling 9-3 to the Jefferson City Renegades. After needing 10 innings to beat Sedalia in its first game of the season, the home team made sure to put away Nevada early in game no. 2 — jumping out to a four-run lead after a first-inning three-run homer off the bat of Andrew Paten...

The Cottey College basketball team added four more players for next season, including one who will pull double duty as a member of the Comets volleyball squad. Dylan Cantu, out of Robert Vela High School in Edinburg, Tex., was the first of the four to sign her national letter of intent, agreeing to play both basketball and volleyball at Cottey...

At a potluck dinner Wednesday evening inside the First Christian Church Community Building, local media, host families, and members of the Nevada Griffons board got their first look at the players who will sport the red, white, and blue in 2021. Sunday night at Lyons Stadium, for the first time since 2019, fans will get their turn to meet the newest Griffons...

After shooting a 73 (+1) to win the qualifier of the Westrock Coffee Junior Championship at the Hot Springs Country Club in Arkansas, earning her first appearance in an American Junior Golf Association Open, Nevada’s Emree Cameron tied for 18th in the tournament this past weekend with a three-round score of 237 (+21)...

When David Hawks was a student at Nevada High School, he always took the long way to the wrestling room. He could have cut through Wynn Gymnasium, of course, but that was where John McNeley, the boys head hoops coach at the time, was conducting his practices...

Coaches in the Golden Valley Vernon County Conference recently released their all-conference baseball teams, highlighted by four Hume Hornets making the first team. Logan Brooks, Peyton McFrederick, Blake Steuck, and Beriah Morrison, all from Hume, made first-team all-conference. They were joined by Bronaugh’s Gavin Cox, Sheldon’s Isaac Hall, and Montrose’s Owen Westhusing, Dawson Fennewald, and Connor Leonard...