Advance

Class and district assignments have been released for boys and girls basketball in the Missouri Bootheel for the 2018-19 season. Clarkton, Delta, Delta C-7, Gideon, North Pemiscot, Richland, Risco, Scott County Central, and Southland will compete in Class 1, District 1. See teams in all Class 1 districts here: Class 1 Districts...

Before the season began, Erin Hoffman had a plan. The past two years the Advance volleyball coach had seen her team fall in the state sectional round, so going into the 2018 campaign, Hoffman wanted a multitude of attacking options she could rely upon...

It was a combination that had worked all season, and with a state championship on the line, Advance volleyball turned to it once more. Senior Addie Curtis set the ball, Roz Schrader jumped above the net and the Hornets bench rose to their feet in anticipation. Schrader smacked the ball off the outstretched fingers of the Calvary Lutheran block and onto the other side of the court...

It wasn't the best start, but that didn't matter. The Advance volleyball team won its opening set by the thinnest of margins —two points — and then proceeded to win each of the next five sets by five points or more to go a perfect 6-0 in pool play at the Class 1 final four Friday morning at the Show Me Center in Cape Girardeau...

ADVANCE, Mo. -- It took Addie Curtis all of two practices to figure out this Advance volleyball team was special. That's when the senior setter came home with a simple message for her parents: the Hornets were going to the final four. It didn't matter that Advance hadn't gone to state since 1983 or that the last two seasons had ended at the sectional round...

HOLCOMB, Mo. -- Advance volleyball coach Erin Hoffman entered Saturday's Class 1 state playoff matches a bit nervous. For the Hornets to reach the final four, they had to beat two teams for a third time this season. Turns out, she had nothing to worry about...

Prior to the start of Saturday's Class 1 District 1 and Class 3 District 1 cross country district championship meets, runners and coaches looked calm and collected. Members of the Dexter boys team threw a Frisbee back and forth near the starting line. The Herculaneum Bearcats crowded around their food and water table while the girls tied blue ribbons into their braids. If teams weren't walking the course at Notre Dame Regional High School, they were huddled together underneath their tents...

OAK RIDGE, Mo. -- Addie Curtis is bringing home the Class 1 District 3 championship plaque, literally. The Advance volleyball senior has a tradition. Every time the Hornets win a plaque, she sleeps with it that night. "It's good luck," Curtis said. She's had plenty of practice...

Jackson senior Kennedy Bauer was the first runner to cross the finish line at the Class 4 District 1 cross country Tournament on Saturday at the Jackson City Park to earn the individual district championship and helped lead the Indians to second place...