Zalma

BENTON, Mo. — It was a great day to be a Dexter Bearcat and Lady Bearcat. Both the Dexter boys and girls track teams earned first-place honors at the Johnny Merrick Invitational at Thomas W. Kelly High School, Thursday, in Benton. On the boys' side, Dexter edged Scott City by two points, 105-103. Kennett finished in third with 86 points...

Chaffee head baseball coach Brian Horrell got 6 1/3 innings from senior starting pitcher Alec Brown, who only gave up two earned runs, striking out 12 batters and scattering five hits, shutting down East Prairie Monday, 6-2. Brown was very solid in his start, throwing 70 of his 106 pitches for strikes...

Following a year of missing out on gathering with friends and family due to the COVID pandemic, everyone, including sports fans, is anxious to spend time with those closest to us once again.

The Zalma baseball team won their season opener Monday at home off of a Trey Clark walk-off single in the bottom of the seventh, beating Puxico 4-3. Clark recorded two RBIs in the game, but none was as important as the one in the seventh. Nate Ware started on the mound for the Bulldogs, throwing 4 1/3 innings, striking out 10 Indians...

Zalma, a town of 93, brought a handful of high school runners to compete among 16 teams in the Notre Dame Frozen Invitational on Saturday at Notre Dame High School. Despite being outnumbered by every single school in the competition, the Bulldogs didn’t let that dwarf their confidence.

ZALMA – With the game, and its season, hanging in the balance for Leopold’s boy’s basketball squad, junior point guard Caleb Schaab found himself in the paint with a Delta player driving hard toward the basket.

High School boys and girls basketball district tournaments are finally upon us. Fans, players, and coaches have had to endure a strange, but sometimes fun, basketball season, which was filled with many postponements and/or cancellations due to Covid-19, as well as the weather. However, we can say that the 2020-2021 season has been one of the more entertaining ones in recent years.

The seedings have been released for the Class 1-3 boys and girls district basketball tournaments. Postseason play begins Feb. 20 for schools in Class 1-3. Higher seeds are slated to host quarterfinals and semifinals. Some districts will also have the highest remaining seed host their district championship. Other districts have elected to designate a neutral host site for their district final...

Camden Conner scored a team-high 20 points and Mark Panagos added 18 points to lead Scott City past Delta in the second round of the Scott-Mississippi Conference Tournament at Oran Tuesday. The duo scored 16 points between them in the third quarter, outscoring the entire Delta squad by five in the quarter...

In the opening round of the MVC Tournament Monday, Meadow Heights led from the opening tip, outscoring Marquand (0-7) 55 to 17 at halftime, and continued their assault toward the century mark, beating the Tigers, 100-31. The Panthers stretched their lead to 57 points by the end of the third quarter...

Coach Darrin Scott might've seen his team lose a very tough matchup in the Hall of Fame Classic Saturday to the #1 team in Class 5 Cardinal Ritter Lions but he can't say his team didn't compete. His team was very much in the game, even tied with the highly touted Lions at halftime...