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Missouri coach Frank Haith gives instructions to the Tigers during their loss to Norfolk State in the NCAA Tournament.

By Adam Stillman

[email protected]

WARDSVILLE — Blair Oaks wants to be the best.

A season ago, the Blair Oaks girls track team came within two points of tying for the state team title.

Now the Lady Falcons are looking to achieve the ultimate goal and earn the state championship for the first time since 1999.

The quest starts with a meet at 4 p.m. today at Russellville.

“You certainly want to get first and in our history we’ve had a couple firsts, but you know (last year’s finish) gives us something to work on this year and a little bit of a goal,” Blair Oaks coach Marc Keys said.

“I think you have to (aim for first place) at this point in time. We got sec-ond last year, we return almost every one and we’ve added a few people. I think we’re looking pretty good.”

Blair Oaks returns senior Elizabeth Prenger and juniors Darian Werdehau-

Lady Falcons shooting for state crown

Please see Blair Oaks, p. 3

By Tom Rackers

[email protected]

The Helias Crusaders and Lady Cru-saders made some school track and field history last year by winning district team titles in the same season for the first time.

Now it’s time to clear another hurdle.“The first goal is always to win dis-

trict,” Helias coach Tom Emmel said as the Crusaders and Lady Crusaders get set for today’s traditional opening dual against Jefferson City at Adkins Stadium. “Then it’s to get as many out of sectionals and into the state meet.”

And that’s been difficult to clear.“We’ve done well in districts, but the

problem has become getting to state and then scoring points when we get there,” Emmel said. “It’s a bit of a mental hurdle, I think. Our kids are physically as talented as any of them, but it’s become a mental thing more than anything.

“You’re going to need that special per-son who is going to ignore the pressure or handle it.”

And you won’t know you have that

Helias teams hope to clear next hurdle

Please see Helias, p. 4

By Brent Foster

[email protected]

Jefferson City track coach Dan Ridge-way isn’t overthinking the start to the new season.

He understands the first step in a new season is rather simple. If you don’t have athletes who want to compete, success won’t come easy.

“We want to see who is going to com-pete,” Ridgeway said as the Jays and Lady Jays prepare to open the season this afternoon at Adkins Stadium against Helias.

“We’re trying to find kids who want to be varsity track athletes.”

The team has spent the first few weeks of practice looking for the right mix in anticipation of today’s 4 p.m. start. They ran time trials last week as final prepara-tion for the season.

“We’re just trying to decide who’s capable of doing what events,” Ridgeway said.

Ridgeway, entering his third season at Jefferson City, knows he has athletes

Jays, Lady Jays looking for competitors

Please see Track, p. 6

Stephen Brooks/News Tribune

Blair Oaks’ Jacob Koelling deals to the plate during the Falcons’ win over New Bloomfield on Monday at the Falcon Athletic Complex.

Forsee, others tried to keep Missouri

from leaving Big 12

COLUMBIA (AP) — Less than a year after leaving his job as president of the Univer-sity of Missouri, Gary Forsee was part of a group of Kansas City-area business leaders that tried unsuccessfully to keep school from leaving the Big 12 Conference for the SEC.

The group featured blue-chip members of the city’s business community, includ-ing Cerner Corp. CEO and Sporting Kansas City soccer team owner Neal Patterson and Hallmark president Don Hall Jr., the Columbia Daily Tribune reported. The contin-gent was concerned about the economic damage to their city from Missouri’s departure.

Forsee, a former Sprint Nextel CEO, left the univer-sity in January 2011 to care for his wife after she was diag-nosed with cancer. E-mails obtained by the Tribune show Forsee prepared a memo nine months later urging Missouri curators and chancellor Brady Deaton to remain in the Big 12. But Forsee’s appeal was never sent. One week later, Missouri announced it would move to the SEC in July 2012.

“I have written a 3-4 page response,” Forsee wrote to Patterson. “I’ll sleep on it...My sense is time is about up and I need to be clear. I have been trying not to meddle and they may have no choice...But if Big 12 got it close, no question what MU needs to do.”

Patterson, a graduate of Oklahoma State University and prominent booster, for-warded the e-mail to school president Burns Hargis and athletic director Mike Hold-er. Forsee declined a Tribune interview request.

But the newspaper’s review of more than 1,500 e-mails obtained from several Big 12 schools under state public records laws shows the former Missouri president at a mini-mum helped guide the Kansas City contingent’s unfruitful efforts.

Forsee coordinated his strategy with public relations executive Roshann Parris, whose clients at Parris Com-munications include Forsee’s former company, Sprint Nex-tel. Ultimately, “Gary elected not to engage on this issue, and never sent a memo,” Par-ris told the Tribune.

The e-mail review also found the Big 12 considered filing a lawsuit against the SEC in Boone County Circuit Court. A 12-page draft peti-tion obtained by the Tribune suggested the SEC illegally enticed Missouri to breach its contractual commitment to the Big 12.

The draft requested an injunction to bar the SEC from accepting Missouri before June 30, 2016, the final day of the current Big 12 member agreement.

Missouri held a pomp-filled ceremony Nov. 6 announcing its decision to join the SEC, less than two months after Texas A&M also said it was going to the SEC. The petition suggested Missouri’s departure jeopardized the Big 12’s repu-tation and value, given that television partners Fox Sports and ESPN, for instance, could void or renegotiate nine-figure deals if the Big 12 had fewer than 10 schools.

The Big 12 had since added Texas Christian University and West Virginia.

Missouri, in turn, settled the terms Feb. 28 of its depar-ture with the Big 12. The con-ference will withhold $12.4 million in revenue from Mis-souri in 2012.

Unsuccessfulmovement

Koelling allowsjust one hit over sixin Falcons’ victory

By Tom Rackers

[email protected]

WARDSVILLE — Jacob Koelling put up some strong numbers on the mound last season for the Blair Oaks Falcons.

An ERA of 1.44 in a team-high 432⁄3 innings probably should have resulted in better than a 4-4 record. The junior is off to a similar start this year, with a 1 in the win category.

Koelling threw six innings of one-hit ball Monday as the Falcons blanked the New Bloomfield Wildcats 5-0 in the season opener for both teams.

“What a performance for a first time out,” Blair Oaks coach Harv Antle said. “He was efficient, threw strikes, hit spots and kept his pitch count down.”

That just about covers it. Koelling threw just 75 pitches Monday, 58 for strikes. Thirteen of those strikes came on the first pitch to the 21 Wildcat bat-ters he faced.

“He emerged as a consistent starter last year, his record wasn’t indicative of how he pitched because he faced a lot of tough opponents,” Antle said. “He picked up right where he left off.”

The Wildcats are replacing a lot from last year’s Class 2 state champi-onship squad.

“I know we can play better than that,” New Bloomfield coach Brandon Talbot said. “If I had a team full of

Opening gem

Please see Falcons, p. 3

News Tribune file photo

Kaitlyn Brauner (11) is one of several players with varsity experience for the Helias girls soccer team.

Defense is the name of the game

for Helias girlssoccer team

By Tom Rackers

[email protected]

The game starts with defense for the Helias girls soccer team.

With their schedule, that’s the best way to go about it.

“One or two goals may be enough a lot of games,” Helias coach Chuck Register said as the Lady Crusaders prepared for tonight’s season-opener against the Waynesville Lady Tigers at the 179 Soccer Park.

“With the teams we’re going to play this season, we’ve got to be solid on the

Simpleplan

Please see Soccer, p. 3

Missouri’s Haith chosen USBWA coach of year

By the Associated Press

Missouri’s Frank Haith has received a bittersweet honor. Three days after the Tigers flopped in the NCAA tournament, he was chosen national coach of the year by the U.S. Basketball Writers Association.

The first-year coach said Monday it has been tough moving past the upset loss to No. 15 seed Norfolk State. Missouri won 30 games, won the Big 12 tournament and was a No. 2 seed in the West, and Haith hoped that disappointment from the abrupt exit wouldn’t totally overshadow the team’s accomplishments.

“It was a hard weekend, there’s no

doubt about it,” Haith said. “When you sit back and really look at big pic-ture, you have to say this team had a heck of a year. You can’t disregard the 34 games prior.

“Hats off to Norfolk State, they played a whale of a game. They banked 3s in, they made contested shots, they played incredible.”

Haith said his award was a team honor. Before the stunner, he said Missouri exceeded his expectations.

Known for putting teams away with lengthy runs during the regular season, Missouri treaded water in the finale. Haith said the team was healthy enough, but just didn’t exe-cute and ran into a team that could do no wrong.

Missouri appeared dangerous coming off its Big 12 tourney title.

“They had six points off of air balls — stickbacks — where they shot an air ball, made a layup and got fouled,” Haith said. “I mean, how many times does that happen? It’s pretty crazy.”

Entering its first season in the SEC, Missouri must replace senior starters Marcus Denmon, Kim English and Ricardo Ratliffe, plus backup cen-ter Steve Moore. Haith said his tight seven-man rotation worked because of teamwork.

“They had great chemistry, they trusted each other,” Haith said. “The intangibles are why they won. And we’ve got to make sure next year’s team can take that with them.”

Haith anticipates more depth than this season’s seven-man rota-

Bittersweet honor

Please see Haith, p. 4

Jefferson Cityopens year with win

CAMDENTON — The Jef-ferson City Lady Jays opened the soccer season in a win-ning fashion Monday night, topping the Camdenton Lady Lakers 2-1 in penalty kicks.

Ashley Clark got the Lady Jays on the board midway through the opening half. Camdenton tied it with a sec-ond-half goal and after a pair of scoreless overtime periods, the game went to penalty kicks.

Clark, Kaley Ruff, Courtney Kolb, Jade Connor and Kara Grunden scored in the pen-alty kick phase for the Lady Jays.

The Lady Jays are back in action next week at the Hazel-wood Classic. Jefferson City

Good start

Please see Area, p. 4

TodayWomen’sTennis

Lincoln vs.Evangel,

3 p.m.

PrepTrack

Blair Oaks atRussellville,

3 p.m.

Jays, Lady Jays vs.Helias,4 p.m.

GirlsSoccer

Helias vs.Waynesville,

6:45 p.m.

WednesdayCollege Softball

Lincoln vs.Rockhurst,

2 p.m.

Women’sTennis

Lincoln atTruman, 4 p.m.

BoysGolf

Blair Oaks at Eugene,4 p.m.

ThursdayBoysGolf

Jays atWaynesville,

4 p.m.

PrepTrack

Helias atUnion,4 p.m.

PrepBaseball

Jays vs.Centralia,

5 p.m.

Helias vs.Fatima,5 p.m.

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ESPN Men’s College Basketball NIT Quarterfinal -- Massachusetts at Drexel. (Live)

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NHLEASTERN CONFERENCE

Atlantic Division

GP W L OT Pts GF GA

x-N.Y. Rangers 72 45 20 7 97 199 160Pittsburgh 71 44 21 6 94 231 180

Philadelphia 72 42 22 8 92 231 204

New Jersey 73 41 27 5 87 200 191

N.Y. Islanders 72 29 32 11 69 169 216

Northeast Division

GP W L OT Pts GF GA

Boston 72 42 27 3 87 236 178

Ottawa 73 37 26 10 84 221 213

Buffalo 73 34 29 10 78 187 207

Toronto 73 32 33 8 72 208 227Montreal 73 28 32 13 69 191 203

Southeast Division

GP W L OT Pts GF GA

Florida 71 35 23 13 83 180 197

Washington 73 37 30 6 80 198 208

Winnipeg 72 34 30 8 76 192 203

Carolina 73 29 29 15 73 194 217

Tampa Bay 72 32 33 7 71 202 247

WESTERN CONFERENCECentral Division

GP W L OT Pts GF GA

x-St. Louis 73 46 19 8 100 189 142

Nashville 72 42 22 8 92 206 186

Detroit 73 44 25 4 92 224 179

Chicago 73 40 25 8 88 222 212

Columbus 72 23 42 7 53 166 231

Northwest Division

GP W L OT Pts GF GAVancouver 72 43 21 8 94 223 182

Colorado 74 39 30 5 83 194 195

Calgary 73 34 26 13 81 182 199

Minnesota 72 30 32 10 70 155 199

Edmonton 72 28 36 8 64 190 213

Pacific Division

GP W L OT Pts GF GA

Dallas 72 39 28 5 83 189 192

Phoenix 73 36 26 11 83 191 188

San Jose 71 36 25 10 82 194 181Los Angeles 72 35 25 12 82 167 158

Anaheim 73 30 32 11 71 180 203

NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime

loss.

x-clinched playoff spotSunday’s Games

Columbus 2, Calgary 1, SOPhoenix 3, Edmonton 2, SOPhiladelphia 3, Pittsburgh 2, OTChicago 5, Washington 2Nashville 3, Anaheim 1Carolina 4, Winnipeg 3

Monday’s GamesBoston 8, Toronto 0N.Y. Rangers 4, New Jersey 2Buffalo 7, Tampa Bay 3Washington 5, Detroit 3Minnesota 2, Vancouver 0Anaheim at San Jose, (n)

Today’s GamesN.Y. Islanders at Toronto, 6 p.m.Florida at Philadelphia, 6 p.m.Winnipeg at Pittsburgh, 6 p.m.Chicago at Columbus, 6 p.m.New Jersey at Ottawa, 6:30 p.m.Edmonton at Nashville, 7 p.m.Phoenix at Dallas, 7 p.m.Calgary at Colorado, 8 p.m.San Jose at Los Angeles, 9:30 p.m.

Wednesday’s GamesSt. Louis at Anaheim, 9 p.m.Montreal at Buffalo, 6 p.m.Florida at Carolina, 6 p.m.Detroit at N.Y. Rangers, 6:30 p.m.Vancouver at Chicago, 7 p.m.

NBAEASTERN CONFERENCE

Atlantic Division

W L Pct GB

Philadelphia 26 20 .565 —

Boston 24 21 .533 1 1/2

New York 21 24 .467 4 1/2

Toronto 15 30 .333 10 1/2New Jersey 15 32 .319 11 1/2

Southeast Division

W L Pct GB

Miami 33 11 .750 —

Orlando 29 18 .617 5 1/2

Atlanta 26 20 .565 8

Washington 10 34 .227 23

Charlotte 7 37 .159 26

Central Division

W L Pct GBChicago 38 10 .792 —Indiana 25 18 .581 10 1/2Milwaukee 20 24 .455 16Cleveland 17 26 .395 18 1/2Detroit 16 29 .356 20 1/2

WESTERN CONFERENCE

Southwest Division W L Pct GBSan Antonio 29 14 .674 —Memphis 25 18 .581 4Dallas 26 20 .565 4 1/2Houston 24 22 .522 6 1/2New Orleans 11 34 .244 19

Northwest Division W L Pct GBOklahoma City 34 11 .756 —Denver 25 20 .556 9

Utah 23 22 .511 11Minnesota 22 24 .478 12 1/2Portland 21 24 .467 13

Pacific Division W L Pct GBL.A. Lakers 28 17 .622 —L.A. Clippers 26 18 .591 1 1/2Phoenix 23 22 .511 5Golden State 18 24 .429 8 1/2Sacramento 16 29 .356 12

Sunday’s Games

Atlanta 103, Cleveland 87L.A. Clippers 87, Detroit 83, OTSacramento 115, Minnesota 99Memphis 97, Washington 92Miami 91, Orlando 81Phoenix 99, Houston 86Utah 103, L.A. Lakers 99Oklahoma City 111, Portland 95

Monday’s GamesPhiladelphia 105, Charlotte 80Boston 79, Atlanta 76Cleveland 105, New Jersey 100Chicago 85, Orlando 59Minnesota at Golden State, (n)Dallas at Denver, (n)

Today’s GamesL.A. Clippers at Indiana, 6 p.m.Phoenix at Miami, 6:30 p.m.Toronto at New York, 6:30 p.m.L.A. Lakers at Houston, 7 p.m.Oklahoma City at Utah, 8 p.m.Memphis at Sacramento, 9 p.m.Milwaukee at Portland, 9 p.m.

Wednesday’s GamesChicago at Toronto, 6 p.m.Phoenix at Orlando, 6 p.m.New York at Philadelphia, 6 p.m.Cleveland at Atlanta, 6:30 p.m.

Washington at New Jersey, 6:30 p.m.

L.A. Clippers at Oklahoma City, 7 p.m.

Golden State at New Orleans, 7 p.m.

Minnesota at San Antonio, 7:30 p.m.

Detroit at Denver, 8 p.m.

L.A. Lakers at Dallas, 8:30 p.m.

Men’s BasketballNCAA Tournament

FIRST ROUND

At UD Arena, Dayton, Ohio

Tuesday, March 13

Western Kentucky 59, Mississippi Valley State 58

BYU 78, Iona 72

Wednesday, March 14

Vermont 71, Lamar 59

South Florida 65, California 54

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EAST REGIONAL

Second Round

Thursday, March 15

At The CONSOL Energy Center, Pittsburgh

Kansas State 70, Southern Mississippi 64

Syracuse 72, UNC Asheville 65

Gonzaga 77, West Virginia 54

Ohio State 78, Loyola (Md.) 59

At The Pit, Albuquerque, N.M.

Wisconsin 73, Montana 49

Vanderbilt 79, Harvard 70

Friday, March 16

At Bridgestone Arena, Nashville, Tenn.

Cincinnati 65, Texas 59

Florida State 66, St. Bonaventure 63

Third Round

Saturday, March 17

At The CONSOL Energy Center, Pittsburgh

Syracuse 75, Kansas State 59

Ohio State 73, Gonzaga 66


Wisconsin 60, Vanderbilt 57

Sunday, March 18


Cincinnati 62, Florida State 56

At TD Garden, Boston

Regional Semifinals

Thursday, March 22

Syracuse (33-2) vs. Wisconsin (26-9), 6:15 p.m.

(CBS)

Ohio State (29-7) vs. Cincinnati (26-10), 8:45

p.m. (CBS)

Regional Championship

Saturday, March 24

Semifinal winners, TBA

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SOUTH REGIONAL

Second Round

Thursday, March 15

At The KFC Yum! Center, Louisville, Ky.

Kentucky 81, Western Kentucky 66

Iowa State 77, UConn 64


Baylor 68, South Dakota State 60

Colorado 68, UNLV 64

At The Rose Garden, Portland, Ore.

VCU 62, Wichita State 59

Indiana 79, New Mexico State 66

Friday, March 16

At Greensboro, N.C., Coliseum

Lehigh 75, Duke 70

Xavier 67, Notre Dame 63

Third Round

Saturday, March 17


Kentucky 87, Iowa State 71


Baylor 80, Colorado 63


Indiana 63, VCU 61

Sunday, March 18


Xavier 70, Lehigh 58

At The Georgia Dome, Atlanta

Regional Semifinals

Friday, March 23

Baylor (29-7) vs. Xavier (23-12), 6:15 p.m. (CBS)

Kentucky (34-2) vs. Indiana (27-8), 8:45 p.m. (CBS)


Sunday, March 25


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MIDWEST REGIONAL

Second Round

Friday, March 16


Creighton 58, Alabama 57

North Carolina 77, Vermont 58

At Nationwide Arena, Columbus, Ohio

N.C. State 79, San Diego State 65

Georgetown 74, Belmont 59


Ohio 65, Michigan 60

South Florida 58, Temple 44

At CenturyLink Center, Omaha, Neb.

Purdue 72, Saint Mary’s (Calif.) 69

Kansas 65, Detroit 50

Third Round

Sunday, March 18


North Carolina 87, Creighton 73


N.C. State 66, Georgetown 63


Ohio 62, South Florida 56


Kansas 63, Purdue 60

At Edward Jones Dome, St. Louis

Regional Semifinals

Friday, March 23

North Carolina (31-5) vs. Ohio (29-7), 6:47 p.m.

(TBS)

N.C. State (24-12) vs. Kansas (29-6), 9:17 p.m.

(TBS)


Sunday, March 25


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WEST REGIONAL

Second Round

Thursday, March 15


Murray State 58, Colorado State 41

Marquette 88, BYU 68


Louisville 69, Davidson 62

New Mexico 75, Long Beach State 68

Friday, March 16


Saint Louis 61, Memphis 54

Michigan State 89, LIU 67


Florida 71, Virginia 45

Norfolk State 86, Missouri 84

Third Round

Saturday, March 17


Marquette 62, Murray State 53


Louisville 59, New Mexico 56

Sunday, March 18


Michigan State 65, Saint Louis 61

At CenturyLink Center, Omaha, Neb.Florida 84, Norfolk State 50

At US Airways Center, PhoenixRegional SemifinalsThursday, March 22

Michigan State (29-7) vs. Louisville (28-9), 6:47 p.m. (TBS)

Marquette (27-7) vs. Florida (25-10), 9:17 p.m. (TBS)

Regional ChampionshipSaturday, March 24

Semifinal winners, TBA———

FINAL FOURAt The Superdome, New Orleans

National SemifinalsSaturday, March 31

South champion vs. West champion, 5 p.m.East champion vs. Midwest champion, 7:30 p.m.

National ChampionshipMonday, April 2

Semifinal winners, 8 p.m.

NITFirst Round

Tuesday, March 13UMass 101, Mississippi State 96, 2OTSeton Hall 63, Stony Brook 61Iowa 84, Dayton 75Tennessee 65, Savannah State 51Northwestern 76, Akron 74Middle Tennessee 86, Marshall 78Oregon 96, LSU 76Washington 82, Texas-Arlington 72Stanford 76, Cleveland State 65

Wednesday, March 14Minnesota 70, La Salle 61Drexel 81, UCF 56Northern Iowa 67, Saint Joseph’s 65Miami 66, Valparaiso 50Bucknell 65, Arizona 54Nevada 68, Oral Roberts 59Illinois State 96, Mississippi 93, OT

Second RoundFriday, March 16

Washington 76, Northwestern 55Saturday, March 17

UMass 77, Seton Hall 67Sunday, March 18

Drexel 65, Northern Iowa 63Nevada 75, Bucknell 67Oregon 108, Iowa 97

Monday, March 19Middle Tennessee 71, Tennessee 64Minnesota 78, Miami 60Stanford (22-11) vs. Illinois State (21-13), (n)

QuarterfinalsToday, March 20

UMass (23-10) at Drexel (29-6), 6 p.m.Oregon (24-9) at Washington (23-10), 8 p.m.

Wednesday, March 21Middle Tennessee (27-6) vs. Minnesota (21-14),

6:30 p.m.Nevada (28-6) vs. Stanford-Illinois State winner,

8 p.m.Semifinals

At Madison Square GardenTuesday, March 27

New YorkSemifinals, 6 and 8:30 p.m.

ChampionshipThursday, March 29

TBD, 6 p.m.

College Basketball InviteFirst Round

Tuesday, March 13TCU 83, Milwaukee 73Princeton 95, Evansville 86Washington State 89, San Francisco 75

Wednesday, March 14Pittsburgh 81, Wofford 63Penn 74, Quinnipiac 63Butler 75, Delaware 58Wyoming 78, North Dakota State 75Oregon State 80, Western Illinois 59

QuarterfinalsMonday, March 19

Pittsburgh 82, Princeton 61Butler 63, Penn 53TCU (18-14) at Oregon State (20-14), (n)Wyoming (21-11) at Washington State (16-16), (n)

SemifinalsWednesday, March 21

Pittsburgh (19-16) vs. Wyoming-Washington St. winner, TBA

Butler (22-14) vs. TCU-Oregon St. winner, TBAChampionship Series

(Best-of-3)Monday, March 26

Game 1, TBAWednesday, March 28

Game 2, TBAFriday, March 30

Game 3, TBA

CollegeInsider.com TourneyFirst Round

Tuesday, March 13Robert Morris 67, Indiana State 60Mercer 68, Tennessee State 60Old Dominion 68, Coastal Carolina 66Georgia State 74, Tennessee Tech 43Toledo 76, McNeese State 63Weber State 72, Utah Valley State 69

Wednesday March 14Manhattan 89, Albany (NY) 79Fairfield 68, Yale 56Oakland 86, Bowling Green 69Buffalo 78, American 61Drake 70, North Dakota 64Rice 68, Louisiana-Lafayette 63Idaho 86, UC Santa Barbara 83Utah State 75, CS Bakersfield 69Loyola Marymount 88, Cal State Fullerton 79

Thursday, March 15South Carolina-Upstate 73, Kent State 58

———Second Round

Saturday, March 17Robert Morris 69, Toledo 51Oakland 84, Buffalo 76Mercer 64, Georgia State 59Rice 74, Drake 68Utah State 76, Idaho 56

Sunday, March 18Old Dominion 65, South Carolina-Upstate 56Fairfield 69, Manhattan 57Loyola Marymount 72, Weber State 68

———Quarterfinals

Today, March 20Rice (19-15) at Oakland (19-15), 6 p.m.

Wednesday, March 21Robert Morris (26-10) at Fairfield (21-14) 6 p.m.Mercer (24-11) at Old Dominion (22-13) 6 p.m.Utah State (19-15) vs. Loyola Marymount (21-12),

TBANote: Future-round matchups are determined by

previous round results.

Women’s BasketballNCAA Tournament

DES MOINES REGIONAL

First Round

Saturday, March 17

At Allstate Arena, Rosemont, Ill.

Tennessee 72, UT Martin 49

DePaul 59, BYU 55

Sunday, March 18

At Stroh Center, Bowling Green, Ohio

Florida 70, Ohio State 65

Baylor 81, UC Santa Barbara 40

At Carmichael Arena, Chapel Hill, N.C.

Georgetown 61, Fresno State 56

Georgia Tech 76, Sacred Heart 50

At Jack Stephens Center, Little Rock, Ark.

Delaware 73, UALR 42

Kansas 57, Nebraska 49

Second Round

Monday, March 19

At Allstate Arena, Rosemont, Ill.

Tennessee 63, DePaul 48

Today, March 20

At Stroh Center, Bowling Green, Ohio

Baylor (35-0) vs. Florida (20-12), 6:05 p.m.

At Carmichael Arena, Chapel Hill, N.C.

Georgetown (23-8) vs. Georgia Tech (25-8), 6:15

p.m.

At Jack Stephens Center, Little Rock, Ark.

Kansas (20-12) vs. Delaware (31-1), 8:40 p.m.

FRESNO REGIONAL

First Round

Saturday, March 17

At Constant Convocation Center, Norfolk, Va.

West Virginia 68, Texas 55

Stanford 73, Hampton 51

At Mackey Arena, West Lafayette, Ind.

South Carolina 80, Eastern Michigan 48

Purdue 83, South Dakota State 68

Sunday, March 18

At Lloyd Noble Center, Norman, Okla.

St. John’s 69, Creighton 67

Oklahoma 88, Michigan 67

At Memorial Gymnasium, Nashville, Tenn.

Vanderbilt 60, Middle Tennessee 46

Duke 82, Samford 47

Second Round

Monday, March 19

At Constant Convocation Center, Norfolk, Va.

Stanford 72, West Virginia 55

At Mackey Arena, West Lafayette, Ind.

South Carolina 72, Purdue 61

Today, March 20

At Lloyd Noble Center, Norman, Okla.

St. John’s (23-9) vs. Oklahoma (21-12), 8:45 p.m.

At Memorial Gymnasium, Nashville, Tenn.

Vanderbilt (23-9) vs. Duke (25-5), 8:35 p.m.

RALEIGH REGIONAL

First Round

Saturday, March 17

At Reed Arena, College Station, Texas

Arkansas 72, Dayton 55

Texas A&M 69, Albany (NY) 47

At Comcast Center, College Park, Md.

Maryland 59, Navy 44

Louisville 67, Michigan State 55

Sunday, March 18

At Joyce Center, Notre Dame, Ind.

California 84, Iowa 74

Notre Dame 74, Liberty 43

At Donald L. Tucker Center, Tallahassee, Fla.

Marist 76, Georgia 70

St. Bonaventure 72, Florida Gulf Coast 65, OT

Second Round

Monday, March 19

At Reed Arena, College Station, Texas

Texas A&M 61, Arkansas 59

At Comcast Center, College Park, Md.

Maryland 72, Louisville 68

Today, March 20

At Joyce Center, Notre Dame, Ind.

California (25-9) vs. Notre Dame (31-3), 6:30 p.m.

At Donald L. Tucker Center, Tallahassee, Fla.

Marist (26-7) vs. St. Bonaventure (30-3), 6:10 p.m.

KINGSTON REGIONAL

First Round

Saturday, March 17

At Webster Bank Arena, Bridgeport, Conn.

Kansas State 67, Princeton 64

UConn 83, Prairie View 47

At McCarthey Athletic Center, Spokane, Wash.

Gonzaga 86, Rutgers 73

Miami 70, Idaho State 42

At Hilton Coliseum, Ames, Iowa

Kentucky 68, McNeese State 62

Green Bay 71, Iowa State 57

Sunday, March 18

At Maravich Center, Baton Rouge, La.

Penn State 85, UTEP 77

LSU 64, San Diego State 56

Second Round

Monday, March 19

At Webster Bank Arena, Bridgeport, Conn.

UConn 72, Kansas State 26

At McCarthey Athletic Center, Spokane, Wash.

Gonzaga 65, Miami 54

At Hilton Coliseum, Ames, Iowa

Kentucky 65, Green Bay 62

Today, March 20

At Maravich Center, Baton Rouge, La.

Penn State (25-6) vs. LSU (23-10), 8:40 p.m.

Major League BaseballSpring Training

AMERICAN LEAGUE

W L Pct

Detroit 12 2 .857

Oakland 14 4 .778

Toronto 13 4 .765

Boston 9 5 .643

Seattle 11 7 .611

Minnesota 11 8 .579

Kansas City 9 7 .563

Los Angeles 9 7 .563

New York 8 9 .471

Baltimore 6 7 .462

Cleveland 5 10 .333

Chicago 5 11 .313

Tampa Bay 4 10 .286

Texas 4 12 .250

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San Francisco 11 5 .688

Los Angeles 8 5 .615

St. Louis 8 6 .571

Colorado 9 7 .563

Houston 9 7 .563

San Diego 9 8 .529

Miami 7 7 .500

Philadelphia 8 9 .471

Cincinnati 8 10 .444

Milwaukee 7 9 .438

Chicago 8 11 .421

Pittsburgh 6 9 .400

Arizona 7 11 .389

Washington 5 8 .385

Atlanta 5 12 .294

New York 3 11 .214

NOTE: Split-squad games count in the standings;

games against non-major league teams do not.

Monday’s Games

St. Louis 4, Atlanta 3

Houston 7, Miami 4

Philadelphia 4, Detroit 3

Minnesota 8, Boston 4

Chicago Cubs 12, Seattle 7

Cleveland 4, L.A. Dodgers 3

Oakland 6, Arizona 5

Cincinnati 1, Chicago White Sox 0

Milwaukee 5, Texas 3

Colorado 4, L.A. Angels 3

Today’s Games

St. Louis vs. Houston at Kissimmee, Fla., 12:05

p.m.

L.A. Angels vs. Kansas City at Surprise, Ariz.,

3:05 p.m.

Atlanta vs. Detroit at Lakeland, Fla., 12:05 p.m.

Tampa Bay vs. Miami at Jupiter, Fla., 12:05 p.m.

Philadelphia vs. Baltimore at Sarasota, Fla., 12:05

p.m.

Seattle vs. Cincinnati at Goodyear, Ariz., 3:05 p.m.

Milwaukee vs. L.A. Dodgers at Glendale, Ariz.,

3:05 p.m.

Chicago Cubs (ss) vs. Oakland at Phoenix, 3:05

p.m.

Texas vs. Chicago Cubs (ss) at Mesa, Ariz., 3:05

p.m.

San Francisco vs. Arizona at Scottsdale, Ariz.,

3:10 p.m.

Washington vs. N.Y. Mets at Port St. Lucie, Fla.,

5:10 p.m.

Pittsburgh vs. N.Y. Yankees at Tampa, Fla., 6:05

p.m.

Toronto vs. Boston at Fort Myers, Fla., 6:05 p.m.

Colorado vs. San Diego at Peoria, Ariz., 9:05 p.m.

Wednesday’s Games

N.Y. Mets vs. St. Louis at Jupiter, Fla., 12:05 p.m.

Oakland vs. Kansas City at Surprise, Ariz., 3:05

p.m.

Toronto vs. Baltimore at Sarasota, Fla., 12:05 p.m.

N.Y. Yankees vs. Tampa Bay at Port Charlotte, Fla.,

12:05 p.m.

Atlanta vs. Washington at Viera, Fla., 12:05 p.m.

Boston vs. Pittsburgh at Bradenton, Fla., 12:05

p.m.

Minnesota vs. Detroit at Lakeland, Fla., 12:05 p.m.

San Francisco vs. Cleveland at Goodyear, Ariz.,

3:05 p.m.

San Diego vs. L.A. Dodgers at Glendale, Ariz.,

3:05 p.m.

Chicago White Sox vs. Seattle at Peoria, Ariz.,

3:05 p.m.

Milwaukee vs. Arizona at Scottsdale, Ariz., 3:10

p.m.

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Lynn, Motte (6), M.Boggs (7), Linebrink (8), Salas

(9) and Y.Molina, T.Cruz; Delgado, Teheran (6) and

McCann, C.Bethancourt. W—Lynn. L—Delgado.

Sv—Salas. HRs—St. Louis, Beltran (1), M.Carpenter

(1). Atlanta, McCann (1).

TransactionsBASEBALL

American League

CLEVELAND INDIANS—Acquired INF Davis

Stoneburner from Texas to complete an earlier trade

and assigned him to their minor league camp.

National League

PHILADELPHIA PHILLIES—Released RHP Joel

Pineiro.

BASKETBALL

National Basketball Association

NBA—Fined Houston F Patrick Patterson $25,000

for public criticism of NBA officiating on his Twitter

account.

HOUSTON ROCKETS—Waived G Derek Fisher.

SACRAMENTO KINGS—Waived F J.J. Hickson.

FOOTBALL

National Football League

ARIZONA CARDINALS—Released G Rex Hadnot

and WR Chansi Stuckey.

BUFFALO BILLS—Re-signed WR Derek Hagan.

CAROLINA PANTHERS—Signed RB Mike Tolbert

to a four-year contract.

CINCINNATI BENGALS—Signed CB Jason Allen.

Agreed to terms with S Reggie Nelson on a four-

year contract. Re-signed S Reggie Nelson and CB

Jason Allen.

CLEVELAND BROWNS—Announced K Phil Daw-

son signed his one-year tender as the team’s franchise

player.

DALLAS COWBOYS—Released G Kyle Kosier.

DENVER BRONCOS—Signed LB Joe Mays to a

three-year contract.

DETROIT LIONS—Re-signed P Ben Graham to a

one-year contract.

INDIANAPOLIS COLTS—Signed OL Mike McG-

lynn.

KANSAS CITY CHIEFS—Signed QB Brady Quinn

and OT Eric Winston.

MIAMI DOLPHINS—Signed QB David Garrard to a

one-year contract.

NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS—Signed DE Trevor

Scott and CB Marquice Cole.

NEW YORK GIANTS—Signed P Steve Weatherford

to a five-year contract.

NEW YORK JETS—Signed S LaRon Landry to a

one-year contract.

OAKLAND RAIDERS—Signed CB Shawntae Spen-

cer to a one-year contract.

PHILADELPHIA EAGLES—Signed G-C Mike Gib-

son to a two-year contract and C-G Steve Vallos to a

one-year contract.

SAN DIEGO CHARGERS—Agreed to terms with

TE Dante Rosario on a one-year contract.

ST. LOUIS RAMS—Signed C Scott Wells to a

four-year contract.

TAMPA BAY BUCCANEERS—Announced DL

Michael Bennett signed his tender offer.

HOCKEY

National Hockey League

BOSTON BRUINS—Agreed to terms with F Shawn

Thornton on a two-year contract.

CHICAGO BLACKHAWKS—Agreed to terms with F

Terry Broadhurst on a two-year contract.

COLUMBUS BLUE JACKETS—Added G Allen York

and D David Savard to the roster on emergency recall

from Springfield (AHL).

DETROIT RED WINGS—Reassigned RW Andrej

Nestrasil to Grand Rapids from Toledo (ECHL).

NEW JERSEY DEVILS—Signed G Scott Wedge-

wood.

TAMPA BAY LIGHTNING—Signed G Sebastien

Caron to a one-year contract and F Alex Killorn to

a two-year contract. Recalled F Pierre-Cedric Labrie

from Norfolf (AHL). Released F Bryan Brutlag.

SOCCER

Major League Soccer

SPORTING KANSAS CITY—Signed D Shawn

Singh.

COLLEGE

SOUTHEASTERN CONFERENCE—Promoted

Greg Sankey to executive associate commissioner

and COO.

COLLEGE OF CHARLESTON—Announced the

retirement of men’s basketball coach Bobby Cremins.

NEW MEXICO—Announced freshman basketball

G Dominique Dunning has been granted a release

to transfer.

ST. JOHN’S—Announced freshman F Moe Hark-

less will enter the NBA Draft.

TEXAS—Announced the resignation of women’s

basketball coach Gail Goestenkors.

Eugene edges California, 1-0

CALIFORNIA — C.J. O’Brien started the season in style Monday, throw-ing a perfect game as the Eugene Eagles blanked the California Pintos 1-0.

O’Brien struck out 10 in retiring all 21 Pinto batters he faced.

He also scored the game’s lone run. In the sixth inning, O’Brien led off with a single and was sac-rificed to second by Cody Shaw. Garrett Haslag then doubled O’Brien home.

Eugene, which won the JV game 12-0, will host Southern Boone today.

O’Brienthrows

perfect game

sen and Nicole Lueckenhoff from the 4x400-meter relay team that finished second at state, and Prenger, Werde-hausen and junior Tanya Neal from the 4x100 team that was fourth.

Those two events, along with the 4x800 relay, figure to be among the Lady Falcons’ strongest events.

“Our 4x800 relay I think is going to be better this year,” Keys said. “We got sixth place last year, but certainly from the expectations, we can poten-tially win that.

“Our 4x400 is going to be solid. We’ve had a little bit of change from last year with injuries and people graduat-ing, but we have the talent to do well there.”

Keys is so pleased with his group of sprinters he still hasn’t figured out who will run in those relays.

“I don’t know, which is a good thing,” he said. “There’s at least five, maybe six people potentially in the 4x800, cer-tainly everybody who returned from last year.

“In the 4x400 it’s pretty much going to be wide open. I could list seven or eight people that we would rotate in and see how the season progresses.

“We have a lot of really good sprinters. I think if you put them together in a relay, they’re going to be potentially getting points at state.

“I’m not sure I can say right now we have an individual sprinter that could score points at state, which is very difficult, but collectively as a group, I think our 4x100 and 4x200 will be very good.”

Keys believes he has a few individuals who could score some points in the state meet as well, starting with sopho-more Jessica Clark in the pole vault. Clark took second place in the state last season as a freshman.

“She’s certainly the favorite there,” Keys said.

Senior Emily Cumpton, who finished third in the 3,200-meter run last year, is a favor-ite in that race and the 1,600-meter run, while Prenger looks to be strong in the 800.

“(Prenger) had a good cross country season, almost all-state in cross country, and she’s more of a speed-oriented run-ner,” Keys said. “So you take that endurance with her speed and I think think she’s a poten-tial all-stater in the 800.”

Keys also believes Amy Dorge should be a top chal-lenger in the shot put and dis-

cus.“She had an ACL injury last

year in basketball, so she start-

ed her (track) season five weeks later than everyone,” Keys said. “This year she’s healthy and is going to have five more weeks of training. I think she’s a potential point-scorer at the state meet too.”

✩✩✩ON THE BOYS side, the Fal-

cons’ goals are more moderate after last season’s 29th-place finish at state.

“I think we’re looking at a district title, which will be dif-ficult,” Keys said. “We haven’t ever won a district title. But we have an awesome group of freshman boys I’m excited to see how they contribute in the sprints and sprint relays.”

In order for that to happen, Keys believes there a few key athletes who will need to step up. It starts with Ben Cooper, sixth in the 110-meter hurdles a year ago.

“I expect a repeat of that, maybe a little bit higher,” he said. “His 300 hurdles are going to get better. I think Ben will be a big component on some of the sprint relays too.”

The Falcons’ 4x800 relay team finished eighth at state.

“Hopefully we can get our 4x800 to move up to a little bit and score a few more points and try to get some points in the 4x400,” Keys said.

Also pertinent to Blair Oaks’

team success is Brett Voss, a junior who is strong in the 1,600-and 3,200-meter runs and a crucial part of the 4x800 team. Keys also expects big things out of Craig Clark in the discus.

“I think he’s going to be an all-stater and score some points there,” he said.

Blair Oaks has a talented group of freshmen sprinters Keys believes will make a quick impact on the varsity level.

As the season gets set to kick off today at Russellville, the Falcon and Lady Falcon teams are excited for it to get started.

“They’ve got a new track, a new facility,” Keys said. “To my knowledge this is the first time they’ve ever had a track meet, so we’re excited to be a part of that.”

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Blair Oaks’ Ben Cooper (left), competing in last year’s state meet, will be a force for the Falcons in the hurdles again this season.


Pole vaulter Jessica Clark is one of several state qualifiers returning for the Blair Oaks Lady Falcons.

Blair Oaks ScheduleHere is the schedule for the Blair Oaks track

and field teams. TBA — To Be Announced.

March 20 at Russellville, 4 p.m.

March 29 at Linn, 1 p.m.

April 3 at Fatima, 3 p.m.

April 5 at Versailles, 4 p.m.

April 14 Blair Oaks Relays, 10 a.m.

April 17 at Fatima, 2:30 p.m.

April 20 at Brookfield, 10 a.m.

April 26 at School of the Osage, 3:30 p.m.

May 1 at Tri-County Conference Meet, 4 p.m.

May 5 at Districts, 11 a.m.

May 12 at Sectionals, 11 a.m.

May 18-19 at State Meet, TBA

seniors, I’d be upset, but with a lot of sophomores, it’s a differ-ent story.”

The Falcons needed a strong performance on the mound because the offense had trou-ble getting much going against Wildcat starter Austin Pittman.

“It was our saving grace because it wasn’t an offensive explosion on our part by any means,” Antle said.

Pittman struck out five of the first 10 Blair Oaks hitters he faced, as only one Falcon hit the ball to the outfield in the first three innings.

“There were a couple of great pitching performances in this game,” Talbot said.

The Falcons broke on the board with three runs in the fourth. Kyler Maxey started the rally with a one-out single. An infield single from Tanner Kemna was followed by Adam Forck being hit by a pitch to load the bases.

Austin Kempker then drove in a run on a groundout before Brian Patten lined a two-run single to make it 3-0.

“We struggled to make good contact a lot of the time,” Antle said. “I think we got a little bet-ter as the game went along.”

The Falcons added a pair of insurance runs in the sixth without benefit of a hit. Kemp-ker led off with a walk and stole second and third. After a strikeout, Hayden Haney walked before Kendric Lock’s bunt brought home Kempker. Courtesy runner Beau Distler later scored on an error.

“(Pittman) hit did a good job of keeping us off-bal-ance,” Antle said. “We did just enough to put some runs on the board.”

New Bloomfield’s only hit was a two-out single by Bren-den Bailey in the first inning. Koelling didn’t walk a batter and struck out two batters in each inning except the sixth and finished with 11.

Adam Bax retired the side in order in the seventh to shut the door for the Falcons.

Pittman finished with a three-hitter, striking out seven while walking two.

“We were a little flat,” Talbot said. “We didn’t play that badly, we just made a couple of errors and didn’t hit the ball.”

Blair Oaks (1-0) will host Eldon in a Tri-County Confer-ence contest Friday. The var-sity game will start at 5 p.m.

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Falcons:Get win in

pitching duel

defensive end.”It helps the Lady Crusaders

return a lot of experience on the defensive end.

It starts with goalkeeper Liz Czarnecki, a junior, who was honorable mention all-state in Class 2 last season.

“She still wants to improve and that’s great,” Register said.

The senior duo of team cap-tains Madi Nichols and Alex Heislen will play the center of the field in front of Czarnecki. Haley Bax, a junior, will play the left side in the back, while sophomore Meghan Nappier will hold down the starting spot on the right side.

“It’s a strong group,” Regis-ter said. “They are all very good with the ball, they’ll be able to control it and just have to knock it out of there.”

Kelsey Chouinard and Whit-ley Malzner, both juniors, and sophomores Abby Rockers and Mackenzie Casten will be the main reserves in the back.

“We’re going to need all of them for depth because of our schedule,” Register said.

Kaitlin Brauner, Helias’ leading returning scorer who was second-team all-state last year, is playing in the midfield.

“Kaitlin can come from the middle to score, it’s one of her strengths,” Register said.

Brauner will be joined on the outside by senior Jenna Duncan.

Taylor Hagenhoff, a junior who was on the all-region squad last year, and sopho-more Becky Roberts will start in the middle.

Among the reserves on the midfield are senior Liz Loethen, juniors Kelsie Strope and Holly Hassler, sophomores Jordan Porie and Baylee Francka, and freshmen Maddie Lammers and Jane McCurren.

“There’s a lot of speed there,” Register said. “It’s a strong group that’s learning how to work together.”

Courtney Lock and Alexis Melcher, both seniors, will start at forwards.

The Lady Crusaders have been concentrating in practice on getting that needed goal or two.

“We are good from goal-keeper to the 18,” Register said. “But we have to learn to score. We’ve been working on that a lot and we’re going to keep working on that.”

Helias has taken advantage of the great spring weather to get in a lot of that work.

“We got a lot accomplished,” Register said, noting the team has had to practice only once inside.

“You can really tell the dif-ference because it gives you a chance to work on a full field and the space it provides. It’s been a great spring.”

So is the offensive work ahead of schedule?

“I’m hoping,” Register said. “We’ll have to wait and see.”

The offense should get a boost by the return of sopho-more midfielder Tiffany Weav-er, who will miss the first half of the season with a broken collarbone.

“By the end of the season, Tiffany could give us a fresh presence,” Register said.

Helias is looking to at least match its district tournament title run of last season.

“We have a chance to get at least that far again,” Register said. “You always strive for that as a goal, but that’s a couple of months away. We just want to improve.”

The Lady Crusaders will host the district tournament in mid-May and with a win, would then host the sectional game as well.

That run starts tonight against Waynesville, which beat Helias 1-0 last year.

“We need to get a win under our belts,” Register said.

The junior varsity game will start at 4:30 p.m., with the var-sity contest to follow around 6:15 p.m.

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Soccer: Weather helps preparationHelias Schedule

Here is the schedule for the Helias girls

soccer team. Games start at 6:45 p.m., except

where noted. TBA — To Be Announced.

March 20 Waynesville

March 26 Mexico

March 27 at Quincy (Ill.) Notre Dame, 6:15 p.m.

March 31 at Trinity Catholic, 1:45 p.m.

April 4 Rock Bridge

April 9 Kirksville, 5:45 p.m.

April 12 Hannibal

April 14 at Quincy (Ill.), 1 p.m.

April 17 Moberly

April 18 at Sedalia Smith-Cotton

April 20-21 Capital City Invitational, TBA

April 23 Fulton

April 27-28 at Hickman Tournament, TBA

April 30 at Warrensburg

May 2 Jefferson City

May 5 at St. Francis Borgia, 12:45 p.m.

May 7 Camdenton

May 8 at Rolla

May 9 at Hickman

May 14-19 Districts at Helias, TBA

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“We’ll find out in about two months,” Emmel said. “We’ve got some awfully talented kids who have the potential to do it. We’ve got some experienced kids who could do it, we’ve got some younger kids who could as well.”

Helias has been battling the injury bug in the preseason.

“It’s nothing major,” Emmel said. “Some of them didn’t do a very good job training over the winter and now they’re paying the price. We’ve spent a fortune in tape trying to stay healthy enough to practice.”

Part of the injury problem can be attributed to the great weather for practice.

“They’re itching to go and

that’s where the problems can come in because they don’t have the sufficient background to do it this year,” Emmel said.

✩✩✩ON THE BOYS side, the Cru-

saders return nine all-district and seven state qualifiers.

Emmel believes Helias will be solid in a lot of areas this season, especially field events.

“I think we could be really good in those events again,” he said.

Will Fife, a sophomore, qualified for state in the shot put last season. He will be joined in the throws by seniors Clayton Silvey, Vincent Phelps and Dennis Pilsudski. Silvey will also participate in the pole vault.

Among the Crusaders slat-ed to take part in the jumps

are seniors Logan Booth, Seth Caywood, Aaron Grimm and Nolan Rackers. Others include junior Griffin McCurren and sophomore Ryan Tannehill.

McCurren could fill a vari-ety of roles for the Crusaders this season.

“He’s the type of kid who can do whatever he wants in track,” Emmel said.

Michael McCoy leads a deep group of distance runners. The junior qualified for state in the 1,600-meter run last season.

“There are a lot of very good 1,600 runners in Class 3 and Michael deserves to be men-tioned among them,” Emmel said.

Others in that group include seniors Nick Veillios and Adam Stansfield, along with junior Vincent Altomari.

Alex Schweiss and Tanner Wolf will join fellow senior Caywood among the Helias sprint contingent.

Kyle Dorge, a senior, will lead the middle distance group.

✩✩✩THE LADY CRUSADERS

have 11 all-district performers and six state qualifiers return-ing among 55 girls out this sea-son.

Field events look to be strong on the girls side as well.

Jessica Twehous, a senior, is back in the throws after quali-fying for state in the discus last year. Casi Vaughan, a sopho-more, is back in the jumps after advancing to state in the long jump.

Emmel believes the throws for both the boys and girls will improve because of better coaching. He was in charge of the discus and shot put last year, but Mark Ordway and Lorenzo Williams have taken over those duties this year.

“They’re doing a great job,” Emmel said. “They are working hard and I think it will show up in better results this season.”

Bre Zanders, a junior, fig-ures to be strong in the throws in her first year on the varsity.

“She could threaten our records in both the shot and the discus,” Emmel said. “I think after the first couple of meets, she could really take off.”

Danica Shimkus is looking to have a strong senior season after battling injuries for much of last year.

“She was a hard-luck run-ner,” Emmel said. “She was try-ing to learn hurdles and she got hurt and never could recover.”

Shimkus will compete in the pole vault and sprints.

“She could be the one who could break through at state for us,” Emmel sad.

Another potential break-out performer is junior Joni Reinkemeyer in the distance events. She qualified for state in the 1,600 last year.

“She can do whatever she wants, when she comes out to the races, she’ll race,” Helias coach Margaret Shimkus said.

Other seniors poised to have good seasons include Chloe Armstrong (sprints), Kaylee Ferrier (throws), Nicole Lamb (sprints and relays) and Rebecca Colonius (sprints).

Other key contributors fig-ure to be juniors Kimie Duden-

hoeffer (jumps and relays) and Tori Matson (relays), along with sophomores Amanda Patino (distance events), Jessi-ca Van Eschen (high jump) and sophomore Katy Macy (relays, sprints).

Action begins at 4 p.m. today.

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Helias’ Jessica Twehous, a state qualifier in the discus last season, will look to build on that success this year.


Griffin McCurren will be a standout in the jumps for the Helias Crusaders this season.

Helias ScheduleHere is the schedule for the Helias track and

field teams. TBA — To Be Announced.

March 19 at Jefferson City, 3:30 p.m.

March 22 at Union, 4 p.m.

March 27 at Boonville, 4 p.m.

March 29 Rolla, 4 p.m.*

April 3 at Fulton, 4 p.m.

April 10 at Camdenton Laker Invitational, 4 p.m.

April 14 at Capital City Relays, 10 a.m.

April 17 at Osage Invitational, 3:30 p.m.

April 21 at Ron Whittaker Relays, 10 a.m.

April 24 at Hermann Invitational, 4 p.m.

April 27 at Warrior Invitational, 3:30 p.m.

May 5 at Rock Bridge Relays, noon

May 12 at Districts, TBA**

May 19 at Sectionals, TBA***

May 25-26 at State Meet, 11 a.m.

*At Thomas Jefferson Middle School.

**At St. Francis Borgia

***At Marshfield

tion. Forward Laurence Bowers returns from a knee injury that sidelined him all of last sea-son, after averaging 11.6 points and 6.1 rebounds in 2010-11, and guards Phil Pressey and Michael Dixon also are back.

Dixon was one of the nation’s top sixth men and got starter minutes.

Four transfers will be eligi-ble, 6-3 guard Keion Bell from Pepperdine, 6-4 guard Jabari Brown from Oregon, 6-5 guard Earnest Ross from Auburn and 6-9 forward Danny Feldman (Helias High School) from Columbia. Ryan Rosburg, a 6-10 center from Marquette High School in suburban St. Louis, has committed.

Haith said he has not been updated on the NCAA inves-tigation at Miami, his former team, which is targeted mostly at football but could include the basketball program.

“Obviously, I’ve got a muzzle in terms of what I can say, but I haven’t been able to say any-thing or know anything, to be honest with you,” Haith said. “When you see kids getting ineligible, just so you know, it doesn’t always mean that the coach is involved.

“So it can be a lot of differ-ent things. And they don’t voice whatever those things are. The speculation could be totally up to you all.”

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Haith:Still unsure about NCAA investigation

COLUMBIA (AP) — Mis-souri quarterback James Franklin will undergo surgery on his right shoulder and miss the rest of spring practice, but he’s expected to be ready for the start of the season.

The junior threw for 2,865 yards and 21 touchdowns and ran for 981 yards and 15 TDs as a first-year starter in 2011. Franklin was injured last Tues-day during practice when he jumped on a fumble at the end of a play and a defender landed on his outstretched throwing arm.

The surgery is set for Friday and a timetable for Franklin’s return will be determined fol-lowing the procedure.

The school had initially hoped Franklin would heal without surgery, but after fur-ther evaluation it was decided repairing the damage would be in his best interest long term.

Missouri’s spring game is April 14.

Redshirt freshman Corbin Berkstresser started in place of Franklin for the team’s first scrimmage Saturday and was 10-for-25 for 105 yards.

Tackle Elvis Fisher, tailback Henry Josey and wide receiver L’Damian Washington also were out due to injuries.

Missouri QB to have

surgery

opens Monday against Triad (Ill.), which won a state cham-pionship last season.

In Monday’s JV game, the Lady Jays were 2-0 winners. Maddie Hall and Amber Crumb scored for Jefferson City.

Boys GolfBlair Oaks takes secondLINN — Blair Oaks’ program

debut was a second-place fin-ish Monday in a quadrangular at Linn Country Club.

The Falcons finished at 175. Linn won the event with a 168. Fatima also totaled a 175, while Dixon finished with a 194.

Kory Franks of Blair Oaks was the medalist in the quad, carding a 1-over-par 36. Levi Elder and Dalton Peters added 46s for the Falcons, while Jor-dan Eichholz had a 47.

Blair Oaks is back in action Wednesday against Eugene at Redfield Golf Course.

BaseballBlair Oaks JV wins

WARDSVILLE — Blair Oaks blanked the New Bloomfield Wildcats 10-0 in six innings of junior varsity action Monday.

Austin Galbraith was the winning pitcher, working three scoreless innings.

Jays sophs, frosh winCOLUMBIA — The Jefferson

City sophomores and freshmen swept Hickman on Monday.

In the sophomore game, the Jays posted a 9-3 win.

Travis Burress had three hits, including two doubles, for the winners. Brenden Ogletree had a home run and Haden Miller chipped in with two hits. Haden Strobel got the win.

In the freshman game, the Jays rolled to a 14-0 win.

Travis Hennessey had two hits, including a home run, for the Jays, while Ripken Dodson had a single and a double. Brett Jaegers was the winner.

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Area: Blair Oaks golfers 2nd

To come up with free-agent signings

ST. LOUIS (AP) — When Jeff Fisher took the Ten-nessee Titans to the Super Bowl in 1999, Scott Wells was a Nashville high school player.

Wells was a Fisher fan then, and during eight NFL seasons the respect has grown. The new Rams new coach was a big enough draw in free agency the Pro Bowl center left the Green Bay Packers to join the rebuilding effort in St. Louis. The Packers were 15-1 last year, five more wins than the Rams’ total the last three seasons.

“Green Bay was definitely a player and that was a tough decision,” Wells said Monday. “But in the end I feel like St. Louis is the best fit for me right now. I think coach Fisher is going to step in and do an out-standing job.”

The 31-year-old Wells several times cited his respect and belief in Fisher, adding he’s received glowing reviews from several players who’ve played for Fisher. Wells has signed a four-year contract for a reported $24 million with $13 million guaranteed.

Defensive tackle Kendall Langford, who agreed to essentially the same terms Saturday, said the Fisher factor “put the icing on the cake.”

Langford said defensive coordinator Gregg Wil-

liams, who’s facing a suspension and fine for run-ning a bounty pool in New Orleans, also made a big impression. Langford said Williams’ status did not affect his decision.

“Everywhere the guy’s been, he’s been in the top 10, so you kind of know what you’re getting,” Lang-ford said. “His system works and he has a Super Bowl ring to prove it.”

The Rams’ lack of success was not a deterrent in negotiations for Wells. They were 2-14 last year, tied with the Colts for the worst record in the year, and haven’t had a winning season since 2003.

“I haven’t really thought about that part, I’m just excited about where it’s going,” Wells said. “I don’t think it’s important necessarily where the team has been in the past. They have a new coaching staff, they’ve got some new players and I’m excited to be a part of it.”

The Rams opened free agency by signing corner-back Cortland Finnegan to a five-year contract.

Choosing St. Louis brings Wells closer to his home in Nashville, which he said factored into the decision. He also visited the Titans and drew interest from sev-eral other teams.

Wells was generally considered the Packers’ top offensive lineman, and can add stability to a young,

developing unit that was dogged by injuries. Three starters, tackles Jason Smith and Rodger Saffold and guard Jacob Bell, ended the year on injured reserve.

Smith was the second overall pick in 2009 and Saf-fold was a second-rounder in 2010.

Instead of snapping to Aaron Rodgers, the NFL MVP last year, Wells will be working with Sam Brad-ford, the No. 1 overall pick in 2010. Wells said he’s got-ten a “welcoming text” from the quarterback.

“He’s excited to work with me, I’m excited to work with him, and we’re both really looking forward to getting this thing going,” Wells said.

The 26-year-old Langford was a four-year starter at end in the Dolphins’ 3-4 alignment, and Miami had one of the league’s best defenses against the run. Though his statistics are not eye-popping, with 7.5 sacks in four seasons and none in 2011, and just 15 tackles and five assists last year, the Rams envision Langford as a strong inside complement to young ends Chris Long and Robert Quinn.

St. Louis released two tackles, Fred Robbins and Justin Bannan, prior to free agency.

“I’ve got a lot left in the tank,” Langford said. “I’m a dominant run stopper and I want to elevate my game to the All-Pro level. I had quarterback hurries, I’ve just got to turn them into sacks.”

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who can compete well at a high level.

The Lady Jays won their 16th straight district title last year and have several state qualifiers back.

Sophomore Kezia Martin was second at state in the long jump and sixth in the triple jump, while senior Shelby Mustain scored points in the discus with a sixth-place fin-ish and also placed 11th in the shot put.

Other key returners include seniors Conradette King and Abby Baker, who competed in the 4x800-meter relay last year at state.

Senior Danielle Moore will compete in the sprints.

“She’s looked really strong for us so far,” Ridgeway said.

The Lady Jays finished in 22nd place at state last year with 14 points.

“Our depth is going to be our biggest strength on the girls side, as far as scoring points and hopefully scoring two people in every event,” Ridgeway said.

For the boys, it’s a similar

story. Ridgeway doesn’t believe his team has one person who singlehandedly can carry them to the state meet. But he’s pleased with the numbers he has in all the events.

Some key returners on the boy’s side include junior A.J. Miller and senior Devon Moore in the hurdles. Both qualified for the state meet last year.

Junior Joey Burkett returns in the pole vault. Burkett, who has verbally committed to play football at Missouri, was the only Jay to score points at state with a fourth-place finish.

Burkett might also compete in the discus this year or run in the relays.

“We know what we’ve got there,” Ridgeway said of Bur-kett.

Ridgeway said senior Kent Mastroianni could compete in more distance events this season. He qualified for state in the 4x800-meter relay with juniors Thomas LePage, Caleb Ruth and Noah Livingston.

“There’s not a Domenik Peterson out there that’s just going to win state in several events,” Ridgeway said about the former Jay who still holds

a pair of state-championship records. “But we’re going to have overall depth and score points in lots of events and be really competitive in the relays.”

Spring break may cause a few shakeups in the lineup for the first couple of meets. Mis-souri State High School Activi-ties Association rules mandate athletes must have 14 prac-tices prior to participating in events.

The only exception is for athletes who competed in bas-ketball or wrestling during the winter. Jefferson City’s spring break was last week.

“We’re going to be light-handed,” Ridgeway said. “We won’t have our full squad ready for (today), or even Friday and Saturday at Mizzou.”

While Ridgeway and his staff have spent the first few weeks of practice looking for competitors, time also has been spent on things that can’t be taken for granted in track, even simple things such as lin-ing up correctly.

“How you get into blocks? How you get out of the block? This is how you take your first

step. This is how you do a hand-off,” Ridgeway said. “It’s stuff that they’ve done for years, but it’s still back to the basics.”

Some highlights on the schedule include the Capital City Relays on April 14 and the Hickman Relays on April 24. Jefferson City hosts the district meet May 12.

But those meets are in the future. Right now, Ridgeway is interested in who is ready to compete today.

“We’ll know more after today,” he said.

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Track: Spring break affects early season schedule


Joey Burkett of Jefferson City, shown clearing the bar in the pole vault at last year’s state meet, leads the Jays into the season today.


Jefferson City’s Kezia Martin, shown competing in the long jump at last year’s state meet, is expected to be one of the top performers for the Lady Jays this season.

Jefferson City ScheduleHere is the schedule for the Jefferson City track

and field teams. TBA — To Be Announced.

March 20 vs. Helias, 4 p.m.

March 23-24 at MU Relays, TBA

March 27 vs. Hannibal, Waynesville, 4 p.m.

March 31 at Wentzville Invitational, TBA

April 4 at Ladies Night Out in Springfield, 4 p.m.*

April 5 at Hillcrest Relays, 4 p.m.**

April 14 Capital City Relays, 11 a.m.

April 20 at Waynesville Invitational, 4 p.m.

April 24 at Hickman Relays, 3 p.m.

April 27 at Lee’s Summit Relays, 3 p.m.**

April 28 at Parkway South Reeves Invite, 9 a.m.*

May 4 Hickman, 4 p.m.

May 12 Districts, 11 a.m.

May 19 at Sectionals, 11 a.m.***

May 25-26 at State Meet, 11 a.m.

*Girls only

**Boys only

***At West Plains

Tome will cover lengthy career,

including Cards’ big 2011 comeback

NEW YORK (AP) — Retired St. Louis Cardinals manager Tony La Russa is ready to look back on his amazing career.

It was announced Monday that “One Last Strike: Fifty Years in Baseball, Ten and a Half Games Back, and One Final Championship Season” is tentatively scheduled to come out this fall. The book will be co-written by Rick Hummel, a longtime reporter for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.

La Russa retired last fall after managing the Cardinals to a dramatic World Series title, when the team beat the Texas Rangers after coming within one strike of elimina-tion. During the regular sea-son, St. Louis rallied to make the playoffs despite having been 101⁄2 games behind.

“This is a story, not only of dramatic moments, but how those dramatic moments were produced,” La Russa said in a statement released by Mor-row. “This is a story about being 101⁄2 games out, a his-toric comeback and winning a World Series championship as an underdog. People ask me ‘How did you do it?’ This book will explain how.”

The 67-year-old La Russa spent more than 30 years as a manager, and his 2,728 wins is the third highest in major league history. His career included three World Series championships — two with St. Louis, one with the Oakland Athletics — and six league championships.

La Russa garners

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Beltran hitsfirst homer as

member of Cards

KISSIMMEE, Fla. (AP) — Carlos Beltran is more con-cerned with health than spring training stats.

Entering with a .190 average in eight exhibition games, Car-los Beltran hit his first home run for the St. Louis Cardinals, a leadoff drive off Julio Tehe-ran in the sixth inning dur-ing Monday’s 4-3 win over the Atlanta Braves.

Beltran, who signed as a free agent after splitting last year between the New York Mets and San Francisco Giants, also had a single. His home run went deep over the right-field fence.

“I think that was a pret-ty good indication of his strength,” Cardinals manager Mike Matheny said. “He wrist-ed that and it was a rocket. He’s getting close and that pretty good timing for us.”

St. Louis gave Beltran a $26-million, two-year contract fol-lowing the departure of Albert Pujols. The Cardinals are con-fident the switch-hitter can provide run production if his troublesome knees don’t side-track him.

“I’m just happy that I feel good physically,” Beltran said. “I haven’t been concentrating on results. I knew that would come. My focus is on staying healthy. I’ve been working hard and my knee feels good.”

A bout with the flu and a sore shoulder did keep Beltran out of a few games, cutting the at-bats he needs to get his tim-ing down.

“I don’t care who you are, you want to see hits as you get ready for the season,” Matheny said.

Cardinals starter Lance Lynn pitched four perfect innings, then allowed one run, two hits, a walk and a sacri-fice fly in the fifth. He is being prepared to join the rotation if Chris Carpenter isn’t ready to start the season.

“I thought he did a great job,” Matheny said. “His pitch count was exactly where we wanted it and he’ll be stronger the next time out.”

Lynn pitched three score-less innings in his first start

last Wednesday against the Houston Astros, allowing two hits and no walks while strik-ing out three.

“I was able to get louse quicker this time,” he said. “I didn’t get tired in the fifth inning. It was more that I rushed things out of the stretch.”

The 24-year-old had a 2.22 ERA in 16 regular-season relief appearances for St. Louis after being promoted from Triple-A Memphis, then had two wins and a 3.27 ERA during the postseason run.

Carpenter has been limited since March 3 because of a bulging disk in his neck. He threw batting practice for the first time since the injury Sun-day.

“It’s a luxury to have plenty of time to get ready this spring if they need me to start,” Lynn said. “I have a chance to work on all my pitches. If I’m in the bullpen, I’ll have three or four pitches to work with instead of two.”

Matt Carpenter hit a two-run homer in the fourth against Randall Delgado.

Brian McCann hit his first exhibition homer, a seventh-inning drive off Mitchell Boggs. Yadier Molina had two doubles and drove in a run for the Car-dinals.

Rookie right-handers Del-gado and Teheran, both rookie right-hander, are competing for the fifth spot in the Braves rotation. Delgado struck out five and walked three in five innings, while Teheran fanned four and gave up two walks in four innings.

“I’m getting better every start,” said Delgado, who regretted only on pitch. “I left the changeup up,” he said of Carpenter’s homer. “It tried to get too perfect.”

Teheran has allowed nine homers in 13 spring training innings, including six in one outing.

Notes: The designated hit-ter wasn’t used for the first time this spring training n a game involving the Cardi-nals or Braves. ... Kyle Lohse is scheduled to pitch for the Cardinals today as they stay in Kissimmee to play the Hous-ton Astros. He will be the first St. Louis pitcher to make his fourth start.

Big blast

Saban helped Missouri coach land first

job as head coach

By Brent Foster

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COLUMBIA — Missouri coach Gary Pinkel has talked in the past about how hard it can be for some-one to get an opportunity to move up in the coaching ranks.

He’s mentioned how there are numerous high school coaches who could be college coaches, and col-lege coaches who could coach in the NFL. But it often depends on a lucky break, or being in the right place at the right time.

Saturday against top-ranked Ala-bama (2:30 p.m. CBS-TV), the man who helped Pinkel get one of his first breaks in the business will be coaching on the opposite sideline.

It was Alabama’s Nick Saban who secured an interview for Gary Pin-kel at Toledo, where Pinkel got his

first head-coaching job.“It’s interesting, I do remember

being in the Kent State library one day talking to (Saban), we were talking about coaching in general,” Pinkel said. “You flip it so many years later … I’ve had a reasonable amount of success, and he’s had great success. It’s kind of funny if you go back and look at that, which I hardly ever do.”

Pinkel and Saban were team-mates at Kent State in the early 1970s. Saban is a year older than Pinkel and the two rarely hung out, but when Saban left Toledo after being the head coach for just one season, it was Pinkel he recom-mended for the job.

Pinkel, an assistant at Washing-ton at the time, had the break he was looking for.

He made the most of the oppor-tunity he had at Toledo. He led the Rockets to a 73-37-3 record in 10 seasons. In 1995, the Rockets went 11-0-1 and won the Mid-America Conference title.

“He was a good competitor,” Saban said of Pinkel. “We both became graduate assistants, (and) it was pretty evident he could be become a good coach.”

Please see Missouri, p. 8

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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 11, 2012 CINSIDE

SECTION

C2 Statistics

C6 Baseball

C8 College FB

FIRST AND 10The high school football season is winding down as Week 8 arrives.

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Hometown FavoritesJEFFERSON CITY 28, ROCKHURST

24 — Traditionally one of the best games in the state each year, this one doesn’t disappoint.

C.B.C. 35, HELIAS 14 — The trip home is already going to be plenty long, and the result will make it feel longer.

BLAIR OAKS 42, VERSAILLES 7 — The Falcons continue a trend of blowouts at the Falcon Athletic Complex.

ALABAMA 45, MISSOURI 10 — A national television audience will be surfing the dial for something else to watch before this one makes it to halftime.

NEBRASKA-KEARNEY 9, LINCOLN 6 — One of these 0-6 teams will get their first win of the season. Unfortunately, the Lopers get it, spoiling the Blue Tigers’ Homecoming.

TAMPA BAY 17, KANSAS CITY 10 — Chiefs fans will quickly realize not every-thing was Matt Cassel’s fault.

MIAMI 21, ST. LOUIS 20 — There are many who aren’t sold on the 3-2 Rams. Count me as one of them.

Tonight’s GamePITTSBURGH 24, TENNESSEE 7 —

Teams should have jumped on the Steel-ers when they got the chance, because now they’re alive and well.

Around the NFLATLANTA 27, OAKLAND 14 — It’s hard

to say an undefeated team is flying under the radar, but Atlanta is doing just that.

INDIANAPOLIS 31, NEW YORK JETS 13 — Forget about Sanchez or Tebow. The Jets need to go to third-stringer Greg McElroy, and fast.

CINCINNATI 17, CLEVELAND 7 — The league’s only winless team stays that way.

PHILADELPHIA 31, DETROIT 14 — A season that started with such promise continues to implode for the Lions.

BALTIMORE 22, DALLAS 12 — Maybe a week off has taught Cowboys quarter-back Tony Romo how to stop throwing the ball to the opposing team.

ARIZONA 21, BUFFALO 7 — After their surprising loss to the Rams, the Car-dinals get back in the win column.

NEW ENGLAND 32, SEATTLE 17 — The Seahawks shut down Cam Newton last week. It will be harder to do the same to Tom Brady.

SAN FRANCISCO 27, NEW YORK GIANTS 18 — In the rematch of last season’s NFC title game, it goes San Fran-cisco’s way this time.

MINNESOTA 24, WASHINGTON 14 — Do you think Redskins QB Robert Griffin III has learned his lesson about sliding yet?

HOUSTON 28, GREEN BAY 27 — In the week’s best game, the Texans manage to stay undefeated.

Monday Night’s GameDENVER 31, SAN DIEGO 28 — A key

early season game in the AFC West goes the Broncos’ way.

Even with the Missouri Tigers disappointing him last week, BRENT FOSTER still managed to hit on 15-of-19 picks (79 percent). That ups the staff’s season total to 70-of-107 (65 percent).

Tony Hawley

Helping Pinkel get his chance

AP

Missouri coach Gary Pinkel and the Tigers take on Alabama on Saturday. Alabama coach Nick Saban helped Pinkel land his first head-coaching job at Toledo.

InsideDefensive backs have been busy

in the Southeastern Conference this season as more teams are throwing the ball.

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Two down, one to go

AP

Cardinals starting pitcher Chris Carpenter hugs catcher Yadier Molina after Game 3 of the National League division series Wednes-day in Washington.

Carpenter pitches Cards past Nats 8-0

WASHINGTON (AP) — Set aside the high-pressure task of postseason pitching Chris Carpenter routinely masters for the St. Louis Cardinals and think about this:

Even the take-it-for-granted act of breathing feels odd on occasion now that he’s missing a rib and two neck muscles.

Taking the mound for only the fourth time in 2012 after complicated surgery to cure numbness on his right side, the 37-year-old Carpenter spoiled the return of postsea-son baseball to Washington by throwing scoreless ball into the sixth inning, and the defend-ing champion Cardinals beat the Nationals 8-0 Wednesday to take a 2-1 lead in their NL division series.

“To go from not being able to compete, and not only com-pete but help your team, to be

able to be in this situation,” Carpenter said, “it’s pretty cool.”

Rookie Pete Kozma deliv-ered a three-run homer, and a trio of relievers finished the shutout for the Cardinals, who can end the best-of-five series in today’s Game 4 at Washing-ton. Kyle Lohse will start for St. Louis. Ross Detwiler pitches for Washington, which is stick-ing to its long-stated plan of keeping Stephen Strasburg on the sideline the rest of the way.

“We’re not out of this, by a long shot,” Nationals manager Davey Johnson said. “Shoot, I’ve had my back to worse walls than this.”

With the exception of Ian Desmond — 3-for-4 Wednes-day, 7-for-12 in the series — the Nationals’ hitters are struggling mightily. They’ve scored a total of seven runs in the playoffs and went 0-or-8 with runners in scoring posi-

tion and left 11 men on base in Game 3.

Rookie phenom Bryce Harp-er’s woes, in particular, stand out: He went 0-for-5, dropping to 1-for-15. He went to the plate with an ash bat and no gloves in the first inning, tried wearing anti-glare tinted con-tact lenses on a sun-splashed afternoon — nothing helped.

“Nothing I can do,” the 19-year-old Harper said. “I just missed a couple.”

All in all, quite a damper on the day for a Nationals Park-record 45,017 red-wearing, towel-twirling fans witnessing the first major-league post-season game in the nation’s capital in 79 years. They didn’t have much to enjoy, in part because of the problems creat-ed by Nationals starter Edwin Jackson, who was on the Car-dinals’ championship team a year ago.

“I didn’t feel like I was out of Please see Cardinals, p. 6

One step

closer

Winning early

Garnering attention

Jays move into state soccer rankings at No. 9

Jefferson City’s win against C.B.C. has gotten the attention of soccer coaches across the state.

The Jays entered the Missouri State High School Soccer Coaches Association rankings this week at No. 9. The Jays (13-3) received 17 points and are two points behind Francis Howell.

It’s the first time Jefferson City has been ranked this season.

Southern Boone remains at No. 3 in Class 1. The Eagles are 17-2 on the sea-son and have been ranked third in each poll. Fatima (11-7) received one vote in Class 1.

Helias is receiving votes in the Class 2 poll. The Crusaders (7-6-1) dropped from eighth in the last poll.

For the complete poll see page C2.

SoftballSouth Callaway 4, Jefferson: Festus 2

FESTUS — South Callaway advanced to the Class 2 quarterfinals with a 4-2 win against Jefferson: Festus on Wednesday.

No game details were available.


St. Elizabeth advances to quarterfinals

ST. ELIZABETH — St. Eliz-abeth is another step closer to defending its Class 1 state softball championship.

The Lady Hornets defeated Montrose 7-0 in a sectional game on Wednesday night to advance to the state quarter-finals.

Not surprisingly, Missouri State commit Erin Struemph was dominant again. The senior hurler tossed a perfect game while striking out 18 hitters.Please see St. Elizabeth, p. 7

Fatima moves to quartefinals

HIGGINSVILLE — Fatima has made a habit of jumping on teams early this year. The Lady Comets continued that trend in Wednesday’s Class 2 sectional game at Lafayette County.

Fatima scored a pair of runs in the first inning on its way to a 3-1 victory.

The Lady Comets move

Please see Fatima, p. 7

Jeremy Jardine / News Tribune

Blair Oak’s Sara Jones is safe at second base as Sullivan’s Aubrey Daniel reaches for the ball during their Class 3 sectional game Wednesday at the Falcon Athletic Complex.

Streak of runs for Blair OaksLady Falcons advance to quarterfinals with 13-5 against Sullivan

By Adam Stillman

[email protected]

WARDSVILLE — To say the final score wasn’t indicative of how the game was played would be doing a disservice to the Blair Oaks’ offense.

The fact of the matter, though, is the Lady Falcons trailed by a run heading into the fifth inning.

Blair Oaks then scored 10 straight runs encompassing the last three

innings to defeat Sullivan 13-5 in a Class 3 sectional softball game Wednesday night at the Falcon Ath-letic Complex.

“It feels great, especially after a total team effort and team win there,” Blair Oaks coach Sharon Bus-chjost said. “We just continued and continued to put pressure on them and busted it open.”

Blair Oaks, playing as the visit-ing team, trailed 4-3 heading into the top of the fifth. Then the Lady Falcons offensive explosion started with a little bit of luck.

Jolie Duffner, a sophomore bat-ting in the No. 3 hole, led off the

inning by popping a foul ball up near the third-base dugout. The Sul-livan shortstop was in position to make the catch but had the ball pop out of her glove. Duffner made her pay by launching a solo home run over the fence in center field to knot the score at 4.

“She will make you pay even when you don’t make mistakes on the defensive end, just her bat alone. Jolie just absolutely ripped that one.”

The Lady Falcons then went ahead for good on another shot by a sophomore just three batters later.


Major League BaseballPlayoffs

WILD CARDFriday, Oct. 5

National League: St. Louis 6, Atlanta 3American League: Baltimore 5, Texas 1

DIVISION SERIESBest-of-5; x-if necessary

American LeagueDetroit 2, Oakland 1

Saturday, Oct. 6: Detroit 3, Oakland 1Sunday, Oct. 7: Detroit 5, Oakland 4Tuesday, Oct. 9: Oakland 2, Detroit 0Wednesday, Oct. 10: Detroit at Oakland (n)x-Today, Oct. 11: Detroit (Verlander 17-8) at Oak-

land (Parker 13-9), 8:37 p.m. (TNT)New York 2, Baltimore 1

Sunday, Oct. 7: New York 7, Baltimore 2Monday, Oct. 8: Baltimore 3, New York 2Wednesday, Oct. 10: New York 3, Baltimore 2,

12 inningsToday, Oct. 11: Baltimore (Saunders 9-13) at New

York (Hughes 16-13), 6:37 (TBS)x-Friday, Oct. 12: Baltimore at New York, 5:07 or

7:07 p.m. (TBS)National League

Cincinnati 2, San Francisco 2Saturday, Oct. 6: Cincinnati 5, San Francisco 2Sunday, Oct. 7: Cincinnati 9, San Francisco 0Tuesday, Oct. 9: San Francisco 2, Cincinnati 1,

10 inningsWednesday, Oct. 10: San Francisco 8, Cincinnati 3Today, Oct. 11: San Francisco (Cain 16-6) at Cincin-

nati (Latos 14-4), 12:07 (TBS)St. Louis 2, Washington 1

Sunday, Oct. 7: Washington 3, St. Louis 2Monday, Oct. 8: St. Louis 12, Washington 4Wednesday, Oct. 10: St. Louis 8, Washington 0Today, Oct. 11: St. Louis (Lohse 16-3) at Washing-

ton (Detwiler 10-8), 3:07. (TBS)x-Friday, Oct. 12: St. Louis at Washington, 7:37

p.m. (TBS)LEAGUE CHAMPIONSHIP SERIES

Best-of-7; x-if necessaryAmerican League

All games televised by TBSSaturday, Oct. 13: Oakland-Detroit winner at New

York OR Baltimore at Oakland-Detroit winnerSunday, Oct. 14: Oakland-Detroit winner at New

York OR Baltimore at Oakland-Detroit winnerTuesday, Oct. 16: New York at Oakland-Detroit win-

ner OR Oakland-Detroit winner at BaltimoreWednesday, Oct. 17: New York at Oakland-Detroit

winner OR Oakland-Detroit winner at Baltimorex-Thursday, Oct. 18: New York at Oakland-Detroit

winner OR Oakland-Detroit winner at Baltimorex-Saturday, Oct. 20: Oakland-Detroit winner at New

York OR Baltimore at Oakland-Detroit winnerx-Sunday, Oct. 21: Oakland-Detroit winner at New

York OR Baltimore at Oakland-Detroit winnerNational League

All games televised by FoxSunday, Oct. 14: Cincinnati-San Francisco win-

ner at Washington OR St. Louis at Cincinnati-San Francisco winner

Monday, Oct. 15: Cincinnati-San Francisco win-ner at Washington OR St. Louis at Cincinnati-San Francisco winner

Wednesday, Oct. 17: Washington at Cincinnati-San Francisco winner OR Cincinnati at St. Louis

Thursday, Oct. 18: Washington at Cincinnati-San Francisco winner OR Cincinnati at St. Louis

x-Friday, Oct. 19: Washington at Cincinnati-San Francisco winner OR Cincinnati at St. Louis

x-Sunday, Oct. 21: Cincinnati-San Francisco win-ner at Washington OR St. Louis at Cincinnati-San Francisco winner

x-Monday, Oct. 22: Cincinnati-San Francisco win-ner at Washington OR St. Louis at Cincinnati-San Francisco winner

WORLD SERIESBest-of-7; x-if necessary

All games televised by FoxWednesday, Oct. 24: at National League, (n)Thursday, Oct. 25: at National League, (n)Saturday, Oct. 27: at American League, (n)Sunday, Oct. 28: at American League, (n)x-Monday, Oct. 29: at American League, (n)x-Wednesday, Oct. 31: at National League, (n)x-Thursday, Nov. 1: at National League, (n)

Cardinals BoxCardinals 8, Nationals 0

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St. Louis 130 001 120 — 8Washington 000 000 000 — 0

E—Freese (1). DP—Washington 2. LOB—St. Louis 9, Washington 11. 2B—Beltran (1), Craig (2), Freese 2 (3), C.Carpenter (1), Desmond (1). HR—Kozma (1). S—Jay, Espinosa. SF—Descalso. IP H R ER BB SO St. LouisC.Carpen. W,1-0 5 2-3 7 0 0 2 2Rosenthal 1 1-3 0 0 0 0 1Salas 1 0 0 0 0 1J.Kelly 1 0 0 0 1 1 WashingtonE.Jackson L,0-1 5 8 4 4 1 4Stammen 1 1 1 1 0 2C.Garcia 1 2 1 1 2 2Mattheus 1 3 2 2 1 0Storen 1 0 0 0 0 1

HBP—by Stammen (Y.Molina).Umpires—Home, Joe West; First, Jim Joyce; Sec-

ond, Alfonso Marquez; Third, Ed Hickox; Right, Marvin Hudson; Left, Paul Emmel.

T—3:32. A—45,017 (41,487).

All-Time Postseason WinsAndy Pettitte 19John Smoltz 15Tom Glavine 14Roger Clemens 12Greg Maddux 11Curt Schilling 11Chris Carpenter 10Whitey Ford 10Dave Stewart 10David Wells 10Orlando Hernandez 9Catfish Hunter 9David Cone 8Orel Hershiser 8

Jim Palmer 8Mariano Rivera 8CC Sabathia 8

NFLAMERICAN CONFERENCE

East W L T Pct PF PANew England 3 2 0 .600 165 113N.Y. Jets 2 3 0 .400 98 132Miami 2 3 0 .400 103 103Buffalo 2 3 0 .400 118 176

South W L T Pct PF PAHouston 5 0 0 1.000 149 73Indianapolis 2 2 0 .500 91 110Jacksonville 1 4 0 .200 65 138Tennessee 1 4 0 .200 88 181

North W L T Pct PF PABaltimore 4 1 0 .800 130 89Cincinnati 3 2 0 .600 125 129Pittsburgh 2 2 0 .500 93 89Cleveland 0 5 0 .000 100 139

West W L T Pct PF PASan Diego 3 2 0 .600 124 102Denver 2 3 0 .400 135 114Oakland 1 3 0 .250 67 125Kansas City 1 4 0 .200 94 145

NATIONAL CONFERENCEEast

W L T Pct PF PAPhiladelphia 3 2 0 .600 80 99N.Y. Giants 3 2 0 .600 152 111Dallas 2 2 0 .500 65 88Washington 2 3 0 .400 140 147

South W L T Pct PF PAAtlanta 5 0 0 1.000 148 93Tampa Bay 1 3 0 .250 82 91Carolina 1 4 0 .200 92 125New Orleans 1 4 0 .200 141 154

North W L T Pct PF PAMinnesota 4 1 0 .800 120 79Chicago 4 1 0 .800 149 71Green Bay 2 3 0 .400 112 111Detroit 1 3 0 .250 100 114

West W L T Pct PF PAArizona 4 1 0 .800 94 78San Francisco 4 1 0 .800 149 68St. Louis 3 2 0 .600 96 94Seattle 3 2 0 .600 86 70

Thursday’s GameSt. Louis 17, Arizona 3

Sunday’s GamesBaltimore 9, Kansas City 6Atlanta 24, Washington 17Pittsburgh 16, Philadelphia 14Indianapolis 30, Green Bay 27N.Y. Giants 41, Cleveland 27Miami 17, Cincinnati 13Seattle 16, Carolina 12Chicago 41, Jacksonville 3San Francisco 45, Buffalo 3Minnesota 30, Tennessee 7New England 31, Denver 21New Orleans 31, San Diego 24Open: Dallas, Detroit, Oakland, Tampa Bay

Monday’s GameHouston 23, N.Y. Jets 17

Today, Oct. 11Pittsburgh at Tennessee, 7:20 p.m.

Sunday, Oct. 14St. Louis at Miami, noonKansas City at Tampa Bay, noonOakland at Atlanta, noonIndianapolis at N.Y. Jets, noonCincinnati at Cleveland, noonDetroit at Philadelphia, noonDallas at Baltimore, noonBuffalo at Arizona, 3:05 p.m.New England at Seattle, 3:05 p.m.N.Y. Giants at San Francisco, 3:25 p.m.Minnesota at Washington, 3:25 p.m.Green Bay at Houston, 7:20 p.m.Open: Carolina, Chicago, Jacksonville, New

OrleansMonday, Oct. 15

Denver at San Diego, 7:30 p.m.

College FootballToday’s Schedule

SOUTHW. Kentucky at Troy, 6:30 p.m.

SOUTHWESTUTEP at Tulsa, 7 p.m.

FAR WESTArizona St. at Colorado, 8 p.m.

Friday’s ScheduleMIDWEST

Navy at Cent. Michigan, 7 p.m.

Saturday’s ScheduleEAST

Louisville at Pittsburgh, 10 a.m.Kent St. at Army, 11 a.m.Duquesne at CCSU, 11 a.m.Butler at Marist, 11 a.m.Richmond at New Hampshire, 11 a.m.Brown at Princeton, 11 a.m.Syracuse at Rutgers, 11 a.m.Lafayette at Yale, 11 a.m.Monmouth (NJ) at Cornell, 11:30 a.m.St. Francis (Pa.) at Albany (NY), noonRobert Morris at Bryant, noonHoly Cross at Colgate, noonLehigh at Georgetown, noonColumbia at Penn, noonGeorgia St. at Rhode Island, noonTemple at UConn, noonSacred Heart at Dartmouth, 12:30 p.m.Bucknell at Harvard, 2:30 p.m.Maine at Towson, 6 p.m.

SOUTHAuburn at Mississippi, 11:21 a.m.Duke at Virginia Tech, 11:30 a.m.Jacksonville at Davidson, noonNorfolk St. at Hampton, noonNC Central at Morgan St., noonSMU at Tulane, noonVMI at Charleston Southern, 12:30 p.m.SC State at Delaware St., 12:30 p.m.Chattanooga at Furman, 12:30 p.m.Howard at NC A&T, 12:30 p.m.Alcorn St. at Alabama A&M, 1 p.m.Jackson St. at Alabama St., 1 p.m.Liberty at Presbyterian, 1 p.m.W. Carolina at The Citadel, 1 p.m.North Carolina at Miami, 1:30 p.m.Austin Peay at E. Kentucky, 2 p.m.Grambling St. at MVSU, 2 p.m.Appalachian St. at Samford, 2 p.m.Maryland at Virginia, 2 p.m.Stony Brook at Coastal Carolina, 2:30 p.m.William & Mary at James Madison, 2:30 p.m.Villanova at Old Dominion, 2:30 p.m.UT-Martin at Murray St., 3 p.m.Northwestern St. at SE Louisiana, 3 p.m.Memphis at East Carolina, 3:30 p.m.Boston College at Florida St., 4:30 p.m.Middle Tennessee at FIU, 5 p.m.Savannah St. at Florida A&M, 5 p.m.Mid-Am Nazarene at Gardner-Webb, 5 p.m.Wofford at Georgia Southern, 5 p.m.

Florida at Vanderbilt, 5 p.m.Texas Southern at Southern U., 5:30 p.m.Sam Houston St. at Nicholls St., 6 p.m.South Carolina at LSU, 7 p.m.FAU at Louisiana-Monroe, 7 p.m.Cent. Arkansas at McNeese St., 7 p.m.Southern Miss. at UCF, 7 p.m.Tennessee at Mississippi St., 8 p.m.Texas A&M vs. Louisiana Tech at Shreveport, La.,

8:15 p.m.MIDWEST

Kansas St. at Iowa St., 11 a.m.Iowa at Michigan St., 11 a.m.Northwestern at Minnesota, 11 a.m.Wisconsin at Purdue, 11 a.m.Morehead St. at Dayton, noonToledo at E. Michigan, noonYoungstown St. at Illinois St., 1 p.m.South Dakota at Missouri St., 1 p.m.Akron at Ohio, 1 p.m.Drake at Valparaiso, 1 p.m.Jacksonville St. at E. Illinois, 1:30 p.m.W. Michigan at Ball St., 2 p.m.N. Iowa at S. Illinois, 2 p.m.Miami (Ohio) at Bowling Green, 2:30 p.m.Oklahoma St. at Kansas, 2:30 p.m.Illinois at Michigan, 2:30 p.m.Alabama at Missouri, 2:30 p.m.Buffalo at N. Illinois, 2:30 p.m.Stanford at Notre Dame, 2:30 p.m.N. Arizona at North Dakota, 3 p.m.Indiana St. at N. Dakota St., 3:07 p.m.Fordham at Cincinnati, 6 p.m.W. Illinois at S. Dakota St., 6 p.m.Tennessee St. at SE Missouri, 6 p.m.Ohio St. at Indiana, 7 p.m.

SOUTHWESTUAB at Houston, 11 a.m.Texas vs. Oklahoma at Dallas, 11 a.m.UTSA at Rice, 2:30 p.m.West Virginia at Texas Tech, 2:30 p.m.Kentucky at Arkansas, 6 p.m.South Alabama at Arkansas St., 6 p.m.TCU at Baylor, 6 p.m.Idaho at Texas St., 6 p.m.McMurry at Lamar, 7 p.m.

FAR WESTUtah at UCLA, 2 p.m.Nevada at UNLV, 2 p.m.Oregon St. at BYU, 2:30 p.m.Fresno St. at Boise St., 2:30 p.m.S. Utah at Montana, 2:30 p.m.E. Washington at Montana St., 2:35 p.m.Utah St. at San Jose St., 3 p.m.Campbell at San Diego, 4 p.m.UC Davis at Idaho St., 5 p.m.Colorado St. at San Diego St., 5:30 p.m.Southern Cal at Washington, 6 p.m.Air Force at Wyoming, 6 p.m.N. Colorado at Cal Poly, 8:05 p.m.Weber St. at Sacramento St., 8:05 p.m.California at Washington St., 9:30 p.m.New Mexico at Hawaii, 10:59 p.m.

Prep SoftballClass 4 Sectionals

WEDNESDAY, OCT. 10Northwest: Cedar Hill 5, Central (Cape Girardeau)

4Eureka 7, Webster Groves 0Blue Springs South 7, Raymore-Peculiar 4Truman 5, Platte County 1St. Joseph’s Academy 13, Hazelwood West 3Francis Howell 4, Troy 0Hickman 8, Rolla 7Ozark 11, Webb City 2

Class 4 QuarterfinalsSATURDAY, OCT. 13

Northwest: Cedar Hill (15-11) vs. Eureka (19-1), TBA

Blue Springs South (19-13) vs. Truman (28-3), TBASt. Joseph’s Academy (15-8) vs. Francis Howell

(19-8), TBAHickman (20-7) vs. Ozark (25-6), TBA

Class 4 Final FourAT KILLIAN SOFTBALL COMPLEX, SPRINGFIELD

FRIDAY, OCT. 19Semifinals

TBD, 2 p.m.TBD, 2 p.m.

Third-place gameTBD, 7 p.m.

SATURDAY, OCT. 20Championship game

TBD, 4 p.m.

Class 3 SectionalsWEDNESDAY, OCT. 10

Festus 8, Central (Park Hills) 3John F. Kennedy 12, Lutheran South 5Grain Valley 6, Nevada 3Trenton 1, St. Joseph Benton 0St. Dominic 14, Trinity Catholic 4Centralia 1, Winfield 0Blair Oaks 13, Sullivan 5Monett 7, Bolivar 2


Festus (24-2) vs. John F. Kennedy (18-4), TBAGrain Valley (23-6) vs. Trenton (24-3), TBASt. Dominic (19-7) vs. Centralia (21-4), TBABlair Oaks (21-7) vs. Monett (23-5), TBA



TBD, 1 p.m.TBD, 1 p.m.



TBD, 2 p.m.


Kelly 12, Twin Rivers 1Hartville 6, Houston 2Fatima 3, Lafayette County 1Brookfield 13, Bishop LeBlond 2Pierce City 1, Lamar 0Pleasant Hope 11, Iberia 0South Callaway 4, Jefferson: Festus 2Palmyra 16, Elsberry 0


Kelly (21-4) vs. Hartville (19-5), TBAFatima (21-4) vs. Brookfield (24-5), TBAPierce City (19-6) vs. Pleasant Hope (25-2), TBASouth Callaway (19-8) vs. Palmyra (24-4)



TBD, 11 a.m.TBD, 11 a.m.



TBD, noon


Naylor 11 Dora 3Walnut Grove 6, Billings 0King City 10, DeKalb 0Stanberry 12, North Harrison 1St. Elizabeth 7, Montrose/Appleton City 0Silex/St. Alphonsus 6, Harrisburg 1Knox County 13, La Plata 0Northeast: Cairo 8, Meadville 4


Naylor (20-3) vs. Walnut Grove (16-8), TBAKing City (20-5) vs. Stanberry (19-7), TBASt. Elizabeth (20-4) vs. Silex/St. Alphonsus (21-1),

TBAKnox County (21-2) vs. Northeast: Cairo (20-6),

TBA



TBD, 10 a.m.TBD, 10 a.m.



TBD, 10 a.m.

Boys SoccerState Rankings

Here is the boys soccer poll from the Missouri State High School Soccer Coaches Association:

Class 3 Team Record Points1. Chaminade (8) 15-2-1 802. Lee’s Summit North 13-1-2 723. Marquette 12-1 474. C.B.C. 14-4-1 465. Francis Howell Central 11-1 396. Rockhurst 12-5-1 367. Kickapoo 13-2 318. Francis Howell 14-3 199. Jefferson City 13-3 1710. SLUH 10-4-3 16Others: Park Hill South (16-3) 12, Rock Bridge (11-5-1) 10, Lee’s Summit West (12-4-3) 6, Kirkwood (9-3-2) 4, DeSmet (7-3-3) 3, Joplin (16-1) 2.

Class 2Team Record Points1. St. Dominic (7) 13-3 972. Parkway Central (3) 12-4-1 893. Smithville 14-3 684. Rolla 14-3 545. Lutheran South 14-2-1 536. Borgia 5-2-1 487. Priory 7-8 298. Carthage 11-4 259. Cape Notre Dame 12-4 1610. Hannibal 14-5 13Others: Others-Cape Central (8-7) 12, Helias (7-6-1) 12, Sikeston (13-3) 11, Kearney (12-5-1) 10, Perryville (12-2) 10, Duchesne (7-9) 3.

Class 1Team Record Points1. Springfield Catholic (8) 15-3 1132. John Burroughs (4) 8-4-1 1063. Southern Boone 17-2 954. St. Pius X (Festus) 10-4 815. St. Paul Lutheran 15-1 766. Trinity 7-5 537. Principia 9-5 468. Summit Christian Academy 12-5 389. Bishop LeBlond 10-2 2210. Barstow 10-6 19Others: Kennedy (10-6) 9, St. Pius (KC) (8-8) 7, Whit-field (2-12-1) 3, Chillicothe (10-2) 1, Fatima (11-7) 1.

Major League SoccerEASTERN CONFERENCE

W L T Pts GF GAx-Sporting K.C. 17 7 8 59 40 26x-Chicago 17 10 5 56 45 39D.C. 16 10 6 54 49 40New York 15 9 8 53 54 46Houston 13 8 11 50 45 38Columbus 14 11 7 49 40 40Montreal 12 15 5 41 45 50Philadelphia 10 15 6 36 35 37New England 7 17 8 29 37 44Toronto FC 5 20 7 22 35 60

WESTERN CONFERENCE W L T Pts GF GAx-San Jose 19 6 7 64 69 40x-Real Salt Lake 17 11 4 55 46 35x-Seattle 14 7 10 52 48 31x-Los Angeles 15 12 5 50 56 45Vancouver 11 12 9 42 35 40FC Dallas 9 12 11 38 39 42Colorado 9 19 4 31 40 50Portland 7 16 9 30 32 55Chivas USA 7 17 8 29 22 54

NOTE: Three points for victory, one point for tie.x- clinched playoff berth

Wednesday, Oct. 17Real Salt Lake at Seattle FC, 10 p.m.

Saturday, Oct. 20Sporting Kansas City at New York, 6 p.m.Montreal at Toronto FC, 12:30 p.m.Chicago at New England, 6:30 p.m.Philadelphia at Houston, 6:30 p.m.Columbus at D.C. United, 6:30 p.m.Colorado at Chivas USA, 9:30 p.m.

Sunday, Oct. 21Los Angeles at San Jose, 6 p.m.Portland at Vancouver, 6 p.m.FC Dallas at Seattle FC, 8 p.m.

Wednesday, Oct. 24Philadelphia at Sporting Kansas City, 7:30 p.m.

Saturday, Oct. 27New York at Philadelphia, 12:30 p.m.New England at Montreal, 1 p.m.D.C. United at Chicago, 3 p.m.San Jose at Portland, 5:30 p.m.Vancouver at Real Salt Lake, 8 p.m.Houston at Colorado, 8 p.m.

Sunday, Oct. 28Toronto FC at Columbus, 3 p.m.Chivas USA at FC Dallas, 6 p.m.Seattle FC at Los Angeles, 8 p.m.

WNBAPlayoffs

x-if necessaryCONFERENCE SEMIFINALS

(Best-of-3)Eastern Conference

Connecticut 2, New York 0Thursday, Sept. 27: Connecticut 65, New York 60Saturday, Sept. 29: Connecticut 75, New York 62

Indiana 2, Atlanta 1Friday Sept. 28: Atlanta 75, Indiana 66Sunday, Sept. 30: Indiana 103, Atlanta 88Tuesday, Oct. 2: Indiana 75, Atlanta 64

Western ConferenceMinnesota 2, Seattle 1

Friday, Sept. 28: Minnesota 78, Seattle 70Sunday, Sept. 30: Seattle 86, Minnesota 79, 2OTTuesday, Oct. 2: Minnesota 73, Seattle 72

Los Angeles 2, San Antonio 0Thursday, Sept. 27: Los Angeles 93, San Antonio

86

Saturday, Sept. 29: Los Angeles 101, San Antonio 94

CONFERENCE FINALS(Best-of-3)

Eastern ConferenceConnecticut 1, Indiana 1

Friday, Oct. 5: Connecticut 76, Indiana 64Monday, Oct. 8: Indiana 78, Connecticut 76Today, Oct. 11: Indiana at Connecticut, 7:30 p.m.

Western ConferenceMinnesota 2, Los Angeles 0

Thursday, Oct. 4: Minnesota 94, Los Angeles 77Sunday, Oct. 7: Minnesota 80, Los Angeles 79

FINALS(Best-of-5)

Minnesota vs. Connecticut-Indiana winnerSunday, Oct. 14: Connecticut-Indiana winner at

Minnesota, 7 p.m.Wednesday, Oct. 17: Connecticut-Indiana winner at

Minnesota, 7 p.m.Friday, Oct. 19: Minnesota at Connecticut-Indiana

winner, 7 p.m.x-Sunday, Oct. 21: Minnesota at Connecticut-Indi-

ana winner, 7 p.m.x-Wednesday, Oct. 24: Connecticut-Indiana winner

at Minnesota, 7 p.m.


American LeagueCHICAGO WHITE SOX — Assigned INF Ray Olm-

edo outright to Charlotte. Olmedo chose to become a minor-league free agent.

KANSAS CITY ROYALS — Named Doug Henry bullpen coach.

TORONTO BLUE JAYS — Reinstated RHP Jesse Litsch from the 60-day DL, who refused outright assignment and elected to become a free agent.

National LeagueCINCINNATI REDS — Deactivated RHP Johnny

Cueto. Activated RHP Mike Leake.BASKETBALL

National Basketball AssociationCLEVELAND CAVALIERS — Waived G Kevin

Anderson and G/F Justin Holiday.PHILADELPHIA 76ERS — Waived F/C Mikki Moore

and G Xavier Silas.Chinese Basketball Association

QINGDAO DOUBLESTAR EAGLES — Signed G Tracy McGrady.

FOOTBALLNational Football League

CLEVELAND BROWNS — Released DL Marcus Benard from injured reserve. Released LB Benjamin Jacobs from the practice squad. Signed WR Rod Windsor to the practice squad.

GREEN BAY PACKERS — Placed RB Cedric Benson on injured reserve.

HOUSTON TEXANS — Released KR Trindon Hol-liday. Signed LB Barrett Rudd.

KANSAS CITY CHIEFS — Released CB Neiko Thorpe. Signed C Bryan Mattison.

MIAMI DOLPHINS — Signed LB Josh Kaddu from the practice squad. Signed DE Louis Nzegwu to the practice squad.

NEW YORK JETS — Placed LB Josh Mauga on injured reserve. Signed DL Daniel Muir.

WASHINGTON REDSKINS — Signed LB Mario Addison from the practice squad.

COLLEGEDELAWARE — Named Eric Ziady director of inter-

collegiate athletics and recreation services.OKLAHOMA—Announced the NCAA has declared

WR Jalen Saunders eligible to play for effective Saturday, Oct. 13.

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CollegeFootball

Lincoln vs. Neb.-Kearney,2 p.m.

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Henry named bullpen coach

KANSAS CITY (AP) — The Kansas City Royals have hired Doug Henry to be their bullpen coach next season.

Henry served as the interim bullpen coach the final two weeks of last sea-son. He takes over on a permanent basis for Steve Foster, who was appoint-ed the club’s minor league pitching coordinator and special assistant to general manager Dayton Moore.

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Jays, Rockhurst set to renew storied rivalry

By Brent Foster

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Rockhurst coach Tony Severino remembers the days when the Jefferson City-Rockhurst rivalry was the premier high school football game in the state of Missouri.

He also remembers the recent years when he had to explain to his players what the game against Jefferson City was all about.

But after last season’s 33-30 double-overtime win by Jefferson City, Severino didn’t have to tell his kids this year what it means when the two most successful programs in Missouri meet.

The Jays and Hawklets will meet for the 35th time Friday in Kansas City. Kick-off is set for 7:30 p.m.

“The coaches remembered the rival-ry, but the kids didn’t,” Severino said. “Our kids, they’d gotten used to the Blue Springs one, and every time we lined up to play Jefferson City, I kept telling them this is really the state rivalry, this is the biggest one.”

For a number of years, it was one-sided. The Hawklets won 13 straight from 1999-2010. None of the games were closer than seven points and only three were decided by single digits.

“I think it helps intensify the rivalry when both sides are playing and win-ning,” Jefferson City head coach Ted LeP-age said.

This year, it seems like old times. Both teams are state-ranked and have aspira-tions of making playoff runs.

The Jays (6-1, No. 7 in Class 6) come into the game trying to continue their strong offensive start to the season that has seen them average 35 points per game.

The Hawklets (5-2, No. 4 in Class 6) are just starting to find themselves. After

starting out the year 1-2, Rockhurst has reeled off four straight wins and finds itself where it usually does this time of year.

After falling to Bentonville (Ark.) and Blue Springs, the Hawklets have gone full speed ahead.

“It was a team that was growing,” Severino said. “We’ve finally gotten some offensive identity. The defense is playing up to the way we’re supposed to be. We’re exactly where I thought we’d be if I had to draw up a script.”

Rockhurst may have found its offen-sive identity, but they are still trying to figure out the situation at quarterback. Four different players took snaps under center for Rockhurst in last week’s win against Rock Bridge.

Ahmad Tyler will get the most snaps for the Hawklets.

“They don’t change their offense for their quarterback,” LePage said. “I think they feel very comfortable with any one of the guys out there. We’ve seen all four

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STATERANKINGSCLASS 6

Rank, team Rec. Pts. LW1. C.B.C. (14) 7-0 140 12. Blue Springs 6-1 117 23. Lafayette 7-0 103 34. Rockhurst 5-2 88 45. Francis Howell 7-0 87 56. Hickman 7-0 81 67. Jefferson City 6-1 63 78. Parkway South 7-0 38 --9. Raymore-Peculiar 5-2 26 810. Blue Springs South 4-3 14 10

Dropped out: DeSmet (4-3).Also receiving votes: DeSmet (4-3) 4, Rock

Bridge (4-3) 4, Eureka (5-2) 1.CLASS 5

Rank, team Rec. Pts. LW1. Lee’s Summit West (8) 7-0 134 T12 Kirkwood (6) 6-0 132 T13. Rockwood-Summit 6-1 106 34. Staley 5-2 94 45. Fort Osage 6-1 82 56. Parkway Central 7-0 66 67. Ozark 7-0 62 7T8. Webster Groves 4-2 29 10T8. Winnetonka 6-1 29 --10. Hazelwood East 4-3 15 8

Dropped out: Nixa (5-2).Also receiving votes: Nixa (5-2) 7, Jackson (5-1)

6, Parkview (6-1) 3.CLASS 4

Rank, team Rec. Pts. LW1. Webb City (14) 7-0 140 12. Savannah 7-0 126 23. Sikeston 7-0 102 44. Hannibal 7-0 93 55. St. Dominic 7-0 61 66. Sullivan 7-0 60 77. Harrisonville 5-2 50 38. Springfield Hillcrest 6-1 38 109. Helias 4-3 37 810. Miller Career Academy 7-0 31 9

Also receiving votes: St. Joseph Lafayette (6-1) 18, Carthage (5-2) 4, Excelsior Springs (6-1) 4, St. Clair (6-1) 1, Westminster (5-2) 1.

CLASS 3Rank, team Rec. Pts. LW1. John Burroughs (14) 6-0 140 12. Maryville 7-0 126 23. Cassville 7-0 110 34. Oak Grove 7-0 100 45. Hogan Prep 7-0 71 76. Ste. Genevieve 6-1 70 6T7. California 7-0 52 8T7. Centralia 6-1 52 59. Clinton 6-1 32 910. Park Hills Central 5-2 8 --

Dropped out: Soldan (4-3).Also receiving votes: Springfield Catholic (6-1) 5,

Soldan (4-3) 3, Duchesne (4-3) 1.CLASS 2

Rank, team Rec. Pts. LW1. Lafayette County (13) 7-0 139 12. Maplewood-R.H. (1) 6-1 108 23. Clark County 7-0 107 34. Mountain Grove 7-0 89 T45. Blair Oaks 6-1 86 T46. Caruthersville 5-1 59 67. Holden 5-2 52 88. Mountain View-Liberty 5-2 49 79. Strafford 7-0 29 1010. South Callaway 6-1 21 9

Also receiving votes: Lamar (5-2) 8, Lathrop (6-1) 7, Sarcoxie (7-0) 6, Brookfield (6-1) 2.

CLASS 1Rank, team Rec. Pts. LW1. Hamilton (14) 7-0 140 12. Tipton 7-0 122 33. Valle Catholic 6-1 114 44. Miller 7-0 96 55. Wellington-Napoleon 6-1 71 76. South Harrison 6-1 59 87. Westran 6-1 50 T108. Salisbury 6-1 45 2T9. Cass-Midway 6-1 25 9T9. Skyline 6-1 25 6

Dropped out: Drexel (6-1).Also receiving votes: Drexel (6-1) 11, Milan (6-0)

7, Portageville (7-0) 5.✩✩✩

Here is the News Tribune’s ballot:CLASS 6

1. C.B.C.; 2. Blue Springs; 3. Rockhurst; 4. Francis Howell; 5. HIckman; 6. Jefferson City; 7. Lafayette; 8. Parkway South; 9. Raymore-Peculiar; 10. Blue Springs South.

CLASS 51. Lee’s Summit West; 2. Kirkwood; 3. Staley; 4. Fort

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CLASS 41. Webb City; 2. Savannah; 3. Helias; 4. Hannibal;

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CLASS 31. John Burroughs; 2. Maryville; 3. Oak Grove; 4.

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CLASS 21. Lafayette County; 2. Maplewood-Richmond

Heights; 3. Caruthersville 4. Blair Oaks; 5. Mountain Grove; 6. Holden; 7. Lamar; 8. Mountain View-Liberty; 9. Clark County; 10. South Callaway.

CLASS 11. Hamilton; 2. Valle Catholic; 3. Tipton; 4. Welling-

ton-Napoleon; 5. Miller; 6. South Harrison; 7. Milan; 8. Westran; 9. Salisbury; 10. Skyline.


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“They try to put the ball behind them and let their running backs run to open daylight,” LePage said. “They’re very, very good at those two positions. They’re going to try and run the ball.”

While the Hawklets have run play-ers in and out of the lineup, it’s been more consistent for Jefferson City this season, which has gone all season with Thomas LePage at quarterback. LePage has thrown for more than 1,100 yards. Jefferson City has also had consistency at the running back position with John DeMent, Elijah Sherwood and Elijah Pittman, who have all rushed for at least 200 yards.

But Rockhurst has done well with their rotating lineup. It’s a little differ-ent look for a team that usually has multiple skill position players with Division I potential.

LePage said he thinks the way Rockhurst plays this year might actu-ally make them a more dangerous team.

“I think that makes them more dangerous because they don’t rely on one guy,” LePage said. “It’s a team effort. That’s one thing we noticed watching film right off the bat.”

Notes: Rockhurst leads the series 21-14. Jefferson City forced six turn-overs in last season’s victory ... Rock-hurst’s wins were against East St. Louis (Ill.) (20-12), Hutchinson (Kan.) (35-31), Blue Springs South (28-0), Liberty (30-0) and Rock Bridge (38-21). ... Jefferson City could be without receiver A.J. Miller who has a ham-string injury. LePage said if Miller can’t go, he expects Ripken Dodson and Rayshawn Williams to play an expanded role similar to last week’s game against Gateway Tech.

Continued from p. 3


Corbin Singer of Blair Oaks reaches out toward a Warsaw runner during last Friday’s game at the Falcon Athletic Complex.

Blair Oaks prepares to host Versailles

By Tony Hawley

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WARDSVILLE — If you think this week of the high school football season seems to have an odd feel to it, you’re not the only one.

That’s because this is the first year of a new playoff system in Missouri, and this would normally be the week where the postseason began.

But instead of the energy reach-ing a fever pitch this week, there’s still two more games to go before teams begin district play.

“It’s almost anticlimactic,” Blair Oaks coach Brad Drehle said. “Nor-mally at this time of year, we’re talk-ing about the preseason being over and this is the first game of districts and these are the ones that count. If you were 0-7 or you were 7-0, it didn’t matter. The idea was this week started the football season and let’s get to it.

“Now you’ve eliminated that part of the excitement, which I always thought was what made Missouri unique. Now we’ve got two more games and it’s more of the same thing. You’re still trying to jockey

into the right position in your dis-trict, but you kind of know what’s going to happen. It’s a matter of just continuing to execute and get better in expectation of that Week 10 game.”

And under the previous system, you knew who your next three opponents were going to be and could gameplan for them. But after the next two regular-season oppo-nents, things are up in the air.

“As coaches, we’re all control freaks,” Drehle said. “We want to know who we’re playing, what’s coming up, so you can set those routines and get all that stuff right in your mind.

“Now to look down the road, you look at the district (point stand-ings) and depending on wins and losses and who plays what teams, all that stuff you really don’t know can change things for you later.”

A few things the Falcons (6-1, 4-1 Tri-County Conference) do know is this week’s game is against the Ver-sailles Tigers (2-5, 1-4 Tri-County), it’s at 7 p.m. Friday at the Falcon Athletic Complex, and it’s Senior Night.

They also know they’re prepar-ing for a Versailles team that likes to run the ball.

“It’s a different run game than

what we’ve seen,” Drehle said. “But the good thing about our confer-ence is it prepares us because we see a lot of different things.

“Out of Hallsville we saw dou-ble-tight and running out of the I formation, and that’s probably who Versailles most looks like as far as their offensive scheme.

“... It’s a power run team and we’re going to have to match that physical play.”

Leading the way for the Tigers is junior Kyler Turpin, who’s averag-ing 115 yards rushing per game, as he’s carried the ball 110 times for 575 yards (5.2 avg.). Johnathan Cunningham, a sophomore, con-tributes 59 yards per game, as he averages 4.5 yards per carry.

“They’ve just got some really solid running backs,” Drehle said. “They’ve got a big offensive tackle, Wesley Davidson, who is 6-3, 280 pounds, so he’ll be bigger than any-body on the field. They do a lot of things running the football behind him.

“They’ve got a couple other nice linemen who do some good things for them. Those kids do a pretty good job of getting off the football and making things happen.”

On the defensive side of the ball, the Tigers operate out of a 3-3

front and junior Dodge Anderson is averaging 10 tackles per game, while senior Michael Harlin is close behind at 9.7.

Drehle said he’s got a pretty good idea of what to expect from the Tigers, but won’t be surprised if he sees something unique at game time.

“When people play us, what we watch on film and what we get are two different things,” he said.

But so far, the Falcons have done a good job with both halftime and in-game adjustments.

“A lot of that comes from your senior leadership and a lot of it is your coaches being able to com-municate with one another on the sideline,” he said. “... We’ve been fortunate enough to make some good adjustments, and a lot of that is your kids handling that.”

Notes: The teams have played four common opponents this sea-son, with Blair Oaks beating Halls-ville (34-14), Southern Boone (43-18), School of the Osage (62-13) and Warsaw (62-15). Out of that group, Versailles has only beaten Southern Boone (16-8). The Tigers have lost to Warsaw (44-43), Osage (47-24) and Hallsville (21-0). ... Last year, the Falcons squeezed out a 35-27 win against the Tigers at Versailles.

Time remains before things get serious

Jays: Hawklets share the carriesGAMESAROUNDAREACalifornia at Warsaw

Two steps remain for the Cali-fornia Pintos to win the Tri-Coun-ty Conference title.

The first will be Friday night, when the Pintos travel to Warsaw to the take on the Wildcats.

The Pintos (7-0, ranked No. 7 in Class 3) improved to 5-0 in conference play with a 61-12 win last Friday against School of the Osage in their final regular-sea-son home game.

California racked up 516 total yards in the victory, 458 coming on the ground.

Anthony Price had 11 car-ries for 166 yards and two touch-downs, while Seth Fairchild added 147 yards on the ground and three scores.

Warsaw (2-5 overall, 2-3 con-ference) fell 62-15 to Blair Oaks last Friday. It will be Senior Night for Warsaw.

Archie at Tipton

The Tipton Cardinals look to continue their unbeaten streak Friday night when they host the Archie Whirlwinds.

The Cardinals (7-0, ranked No. 2 in Class 1) won their 66th straight regular-season contest last Friday with a 55-17 disman-tling of the Cole Camp Bluebirds.

Tipton running back Dallas Peoples ran for 156 yards on 18 carries in the win.

Cardinal quarterback Riley Brandt finished with 100 yards and two touchdowns on eight carries. He also completed five passes for 147 yards.

Archie (3-4), also a Class 1 school, broke a two-game losing streak last week with a 35-9 vic-tory against Appleton City/Mon-trose.


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Senate scuttles nominee for economic directorBy David A. Lieb

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Senate Republicans have scuttled Gov. Jay Nixon’s nominee to direct the Missouri Department of Econom-ic Development, claiming he lacks the necessary experience despite an assurance from one of the state’s most prominent business groups.

The Senate Gubernatorial Appoint-ments Committee refused to vote Wednesday on confirming Jason Hall to head the department, and Senate President Pro Tem Rob Mayer said he has no intention of bringing Hall up for a vote before the deadline to confirm him expires.

Hall’s rejection could be more than just a symbolic setback for the

Democratic governor heading into a November election in which jobs and the economy figure to take top billing. It also could mean that Nixon will have to find a fourth economic development director as he begins his fourth year as governor.

Hall, 36, is an attorney who had served since 2009 as executive direc-tor of the Missouri Technology Corp.,

a state-created nonprofit organization that aids technology- and science-based businesses. Nixon announced on Dec. 30 that he was appointing Hall to replace department director David Kerr, who resigned. The gover-nor’s office said at the time that Hall had “overseen a transformation and rejuvenation” of the Missouri Tech-nology Corp.

“Jason Hall is exactly the type of bright, energetic leader we need to help create jobs and move Missouri’s economy forward,” Nixon said in announcing his appointment.

On Wednesday, Nixon spokesman Sam Murphey did not immediately address whether the governor would nominate someone new to lead the

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Quite a crowdMembers of the Host Lions Club, wearing yellow vests, volunteered their time to serve patrons at the 56th annual Ham and Bean lunch at Selinger Center.

Challenge to schools: Embracing digital textbooks

WASHINGTON (AP) — Are hardbound textbooks going the way of slide rules and typewriters in schools?

Education Secretary Arne Duncan and Federal Com-munications Commission chairman Julius Genachowski on Wednesday challenged schools and companies to get digital textbooks in students’ hands within five years. The Obama administration’s push comes two weeks after Apple

Inc. announced it would start to sell electronic versions of a few standard high-school books for use on its iPad tab-let.

Digital books are viewed as a way to provide interac-tive learning, potentially save money and get updated mate-rial faster to students.

Digital learning environ-ments have been embraced in Florida, Idaho, Utah, and

J-Mart’s lessons in businessJCHS class-turned-company

boasts commercial for its product

By Michelle Brooks

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A dance-off challenge wasn’t going so well until guys wearing the latest Jays fashions arrived on the scene.

That’s the plot for the first-ever video com-mercial produced by the Jefferson City High

School Entrepreneurship B class, which cre-ates, markets and sells a Jay product during the nine-week course.

The walls around Nathan Redcay’s class-room are covered with various red, black and gray T-shirts, sweatshirts, hoodies, koozies, water bottles, coffee mugs, backpacks and beanies from previous classes-turned-com-panies.

But J-Mart Apparel, this third-term class’ company, intends to outsell all predecessors, said president Haley Reed.

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Regina Roe holds up a pullover sweatshirt to see if it is her size as students sell them in the hallway before the start of class. Next to her are seniors Lorenzo Greene and Hannah Dahl, both students in the Entrepreneurship Class at Nichols Career Center.

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Today’s final arguments last chance to convince judge

By Bob Watson

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All that’s left is the arguing.After a national Republican expert

testified Wednesday that Missouri’s new congressional districts are “compact” as required by the state’s Constitution, and a St. Louis-based professor testified the new map hurts the St. Louis region, five lawyers get their final chance this morn-ing to tell Cole County Circuit Judge Dan Green why he should rule for or against Missouri’s new congressional map.

Lawmakers approved the new bound-aries last year, then had to override Gov. Jay Nixon’s veto to put the new map into law.

Green set aside three days this week to hear evidence in two cases challenging the map’s constitutionality, after the state Supreme Court two weeks ago ruled he should have listened to that evidence in December.

The main question Green must deter-mine is whether the new congressional map has districts “composed of contigu-ous territory as compact and nearly equal in population as may be,” as the Consti-tution mandates.

The Supreme Court said he must decide the answer by Friday.

Thomas Hofeller has studied and been involved in redistricting battles for more than 50 years — and currently serves as the Republican National Committee’s redistricting coordinator.

The only defense witness during the two days of hearings, he told Green Mis-souri’s map is one of the best in the nation for meeting a “compactness” standard.

If Green, or another Missouri court, invalidates the Legislature’s map because it isn’t compact, Hofeller said it would be the nation’s most compact map ever to be invalidated by a court.

That likely would mean “a tremen-dous number of congressional, legislative (and) local maps that would be redrawn across the country, probably throughout the whole decade,” he said.

But E. Terrence Jones, a University of Missouri-St. Louis political science professor, testified the lawmakers’ map didn’t do a good job of protecting the St. Louis area’s political and economic interests.

The region has had three congressio-nal districts for many years.

But with Missouri’s loss of one dis-trict after the 2010 U.S. Census, Jones noted, the eight counties and the City

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back Thomas LePage was at his best in Friday’s win against Gateway Tech.

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Blair OaksPlaying an unfamiliar

position didn’t stop the senior from making an impact all over the field last Friday in the Falcons’ 62-15 win over Warsaw.

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Helias receiver Cole Distler avoids a pair of would-be Rock Bridge tacklers during a game earlier this season in Columbia.

Area: South Callaway to host Tolton-Calvary on Friday

Helias travels to face top-ranked C.B.C.

By Tom Rackers

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The Helias Crusaders learned the lesson the hard way against Rock Bridge when the Bruins used their speed to score three touchdowns on plays of 50 yards or more.

Friday night, the Crusaders (4-3, ranked No. 9 in Class 4) will see how much they learned when they travel to St. Louis to take on the C.B.C. Cadets (7-0, ranked No. 1 in Class 6).

“Our defense is in for a challenge,” Helias coach Phil Pitts said. “Did we learn something about defending athletes in space? Did we learn things about controlling some speed?

“We’ve got to make them make the plays over and over and over again. We’ve talked about that and I think we’ve learned that lesson. We’ve got the opportunity to see if we have.”

Taking on the No. 1 team in the state’s biggest class can be a tall order for anyone. But Pitts stressed the Crusaders are relishing the chance, not dreading it.

“We’re excited about the oppor-tunity,” he said. “They’re as good as anybody in the state, they are worthy of everything they’ve gotten.”

C.B.C., who lost 40-37 to Blue Springs South in the Class 6 state title game last season, has won 30 of its last 32 games under head coach Scott Pingel, who was a three-time All-American receiver at Westminster in the late 1990s.

It doesn’t look like the Cadets, who have outscored their opponents by an average of 42.1-6.7 this season, have missed a step in their bid to return to the Edward Jones Dome.

“They replace good players with

good players,” Pitts said.C.B.C. quarterback Tyler Creath

has completed 108-of-163 passes for 1,499 yards and 20 touchdowns with just six interceptions to lead the Cadet offensive attack. Three receivers — Aarion Penton (28-419, 4 TDs), Corey Patterson (28-359, 3 TDs and Marcus Wheat (21-232, 5 TDs) — have more than 20 catches this season.

Penton (5-10, 175, sr.) has orally committed to play at the University of Missouri.

“There’s not one guy or one play we have to stop, it’s a lot of things,” Pitts said. “They’ve got big-play ath-letes all over the field. They can pour it on in bunches. We’re going to have to stay together, stay calm and exe-cute.”

Jonathan Parker (5-10, 170, sr.), who has agreed to play at Tulsa, leads the Cadets in rushing with 603 yards (6.4 avg.) and nine scores.

“He’s fast and elusive, he’s a big-play back,” Pitts said. “We have to do our best to keep him bottled in.”

The big plays aren’t limited to the offensive side. The Cadet defense has racked up 20 quarterback sacks and 12 interceptions this season.

“They can bend, but they want you to break,” Pitts said. “It’s an aggressive defense.”

The Helias offense figures to be bolstered by the return of receiver Anthony Woodruff. The senior has been in for just a handful of plays in the past four games with an ankle injury, but has practiced all week and is back at 100 percent.

“We have that big-play guy of our own, he’s proven that,” Pitts said.

Woodruff has 16 catches, six for touchdowns, and 312 yards this sea-son. He will only play on offense, along with kicking off and field goals.

Griff McCurren has provided a big-play presence in the run game recently for the Crusaders, picking up a combined 170 yards on the ground in the last two games.

He will start Friday night in place of Michael Tannehill, who will miss the game with an injured ankle. Gar-rett Buschjost will be the backup running back.

The final outcome could come down to how well the Crusaders han-dle adversity.

“There’s going to be some because they’ve got a lot of great players,” Pitts said. “Things aren’t going to go well for us all night, we have to be ready for that.

“We have to play our ballgame, take care of ourselves. We can’t worry about what they do well because they do everything well. We’re going to have to play our best game, but we’re ready to do that.”

Game time is 7 p.m.Notes: Helias linebacker Shane

Colonius will return after missing two games with an injured ankle. Starting cornerback Nick Haslag is out after suffering a concussion against MICDS. Trent Dudenhoeffer will start in Haslag’s place. ... This is Helias’ third game against a Class 6 school this season. “I don’t know if many teams play a tougher sched-ule than we do,” Pitts said. ... C.B.C. clinched the Metro Catholic Confer-ence title last week with a dominat-ing 49-12 victory over DeSmet. The Cadets will close the season with a game against Francis Howell (7-0, No. 5 in Class 6). ... It’s been decades since they’ve played, but C.B.C. holds a 5-2 advantage in the all-time series with Helias. Going way back, C.B.C. won both of the games it played against St. Peters High School, the predecessor to Helias.

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Tolton-Calvary at South Callaway

Tolton-Calvary broke into the varsity win column last week. Things figure to be a little tougher Friday night when it travels to Mokane to face South Callaway.

After allowing a total of 275 points in its first five games, Tolton-Calvary (1-5) got a great defensive effort last Friday afternoon in a 31-6 victory against Missouri Military Academy.

South Callaway (6-1, ranked No. 10 in Class 2) has rebounded from its only loss by posting two victories with a combined score of 96-6.

The Bulldogs routed Cuba 50-6 on the road last Friday night.

School of the Osage at Hallsville

The School of the Osage Indians rebounded nicely the last time they were beaten.

They’ll look to do it again Friday night when the travel to Hallsville for a Tri-County Confer-ence contest.

School of the Osage (4-3) bounced back from a 62-13 loss at Blair Oaks to beat Eldon 47-20. Last week, the Indians were held to less than 200 yards of total offense and fell 61-12 at Cali-fornia.

Hallsville (4-3) is coming off a 21-0 loss at Eldon. Dalton Lindsay had 114 of Hallsville’s 184 rushing yards in the contest.

Hallsville managed just 192 yards of total offense.

Eldon at Southern Boone

The Eldon Mustangs will look to ride the momentum of last Friday’s win over Halls-ville into this Friday night’s game at Southern Boone.

Eldon (4-3) blanked Hallsville 21-0 to lost its first shutout of the season. Hallsville managed just 192 yards of total offense.

Southern Boone (1-6) is still looking for its first Tri-County Conference victory after falling 16-8 at Versailles last week.

The Eagles finished with 197 yards of offense against the Tigers, all on the ground. Jeremy Hill finished with 99 yards on 25 carries for Southern Boone.

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Giants top Reds 8-3, tie NLDS at 2

CINCINNATI (AP) — Fac-ing elimination again, the San Francisco Giants came out swinging. They got a sav-ing relief appearance from Tim Lincecum, too.

Angel Pagan led off the game with a home run, Gregor Blanco and Pablo Sandoval connected later and the Giants beat the Cin-cinnati Reds 8-3 on Wednes-day, evening their NL divi-sion series at 2-all.

Lincecum, the two-time Cy Young winner relegated to the bullpen, also delivered. He entered in the fourth with the Giants ahead 3-2, struck out six while giving up just one run in 41⁄3 innings, and allowed his team to pull away.

“I knew he would play a huge role in this,” man-ager Bruce Bochy said. “And I know of other situations where starters have been in the ‘pen and really done a great job to help their team win. We knew Timmy would play a critical role in the series like he did tonight.”

The Giants can complete an unprecedented comeback today. No team has recov-ered from a 2-0 deficit in a best-of-five series by winning three on the road, according to STATS LLC.

“Thanks to the win today, there will be a tomorrow,” Pagan said. “And we are ready for that.”

Matt Cain, who lost the series opener and has yet to beat the Reds in three tries this season, will start Game 5

against Mat Latos.The Giants’ hitters

emerged from a series-long slump and extended Cin-cinnati’s playoff misery. The Reds haven’t won a post-season game at home in 17 years.

One thing in the Reds’ favor — they haven’t dropped three straight at home all sea-son.

“I’d like to think that we still have the advantage,” Reds outfielder Jay Bruce said. “We’re at home. I expect Mat to come up with a big game. I’m looking forward to it.”

The Reds were hoping to start ace Johnny Cueto, but had to drop him off the roster a few hours before Wednes-day’s first pitch because he was still bothered by a strained muscle in his right side. He won’t be available if Cincinnati wins Game 5 and reaches the NL champion-ship series.

The way the Giants have started hitting, that’s now in doubt.

San Francisco managed only four runs in the first three games of the series. The Giants avoided the sweep by pulling out a 2-1 win in 10 innings Tuesday night with the help of a passed ball and an error by third baseman Scott Rolen.

They broke out against Mike Leake, who replaced Cueto and had a rough time. Leake threw his first career complete game in San Fran-cisco on June 29 and was 3-0 career against the Giants.

Pagan homered on his second pitch of the game. Blanco hit a two-run shot in

the second. The Giants had another breakthrough in the fifth, when back-to-back doubles by Joaquin Arias and Pagan ended an 0-for-14 slump with runners in scoring position during the series.

Sandoval’s two-run shot in the seventh made it 8-3, matched the Giants’ season high for homers and drew loud boos from the crowd of 44,375 — the third-largest at Great American Ball Park. Fans quietly settled into their seats and used their white rally towels as lap warmers against the evening chill.

The Giants normally don’t hit many homers — only 103 during the season, fewest in the majors. They’re only the seventh team since 1900 to reach the playoffs after fin-ishing last in the majors in homers.

While the offense went to work, Lincecum bailed out the bullpen.

Bochy didn’t hesitate to put the guys he wanted on the mound, using four pitch-ers in the first four innings. Lincecum got the final out in the fourth and kept going, allowing only two hits in his second relief appearance of the series.

Lincecum threw 42 strikes out of 55 pitches and even batted twice — just like a starter.

Bochy decided to go with left-hander Barry Zito over Lincecum for Game 4, choos-ing the better pitcher down the stretch. Zito was left off the postseason roster when San Francisco won the World Series in 2010, but finished the regular season with seven straight wins.

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rhythm. I didn’t feel like I couldn’t throw strikes. I just missed across the plate with a couple of balls and it cost me,” Jackson said.

He gave up four consecutive hits in the second, the biggest being Koz-ma’s first-pitch homer into the first row in left off a 94 mph fastball to make it 4-0. Kozma took over as the Cardi-nals’ everyday shortstop in September, replacing injured All-Star Rafael Furcal, and only had 72 at-bats during the regu-lar season.

But he’s only the latest in a series of “Who’s that?” stars of this postseason.

With the Capitol Dome rising beyond left field, the crowd of today was ready to root, root, root for the home team, breaking into chants of “Let’s go, Nats!” after player introductions and again after a four-jet flyover. And, boy, did they boo — when Cardinals outfielder Jon Jay was announced as the game’s first batter, when first-base umpire Jim Joyce missed a call, when catcher Yadier Molina trotted to chat with Carpenter, even when Carpenter paused between pitches to tie his red-and-gray right shoe.

“Carp’s been a dominant pitcher his whole career. Big-game pitcher. He showed up,” Washington’s Jayson Werth said. “He pitched well today. We had him in some spots. We had him on the ropes a couple of times. We were just one bloop away from a totally different ballgame.”

The Cardinals won 10 fewer games

than the majors-best Nationals this season and finished second in the NL Central, nine games behind Cincinnati, sneaking into the postseason as the league’s second wild-card under this year’s new format. But the Cardinals become a different bunch in the high-pressure playoffs — no matter that slug-ger Albert Pujols and manager Tony La Russa are no longer around.

Carpenter still is, even though even he didn’t expect to be pitching this year when he encountered problems during spring training and needed what Cardi-nals manager Mike Matheny termed a “radical” operation in July to correct a nerve problem.

“Everyone had written him off, kind of,” Jay said. “It could have been a season-ending injury, where he could have just gone home and said, ‘See you later.’”

The top rib on Carpenter’s right side was removed, along with muscles that were constricting blood flow up there. After Wednesday’s game, he squeezed his big right hand with his left, explain-ing, “Basically, my nerves were getting squished down by all the scar tissue and all the muscles and everything. There wasn’t enough space.”

Still adjusting to the way breathing feels different, he returned Sept. 21, going 0-2 in three starts totaling 17 innings, so it wasn’t clear how he’d fare Wednesday.

Yeah, right. Carpenter allowed seven hits and

walked two across his 52⁄3 innings to improve to 10-2 over his career in the postseason. That includes a 4-0 mark

while helping another group of wild-card Cardinals take the title in the 2011 World Series, when he won Game 7 against Texas.

The 10 victories tie Carpenter for seventh-most, behind Andy Pettitte’s record 19.

“If the baseball world doesn’t know what an amazing competitor he is by now, they haven’t been paying any attention,” Cardinals left fielder Matt Holliday said.

Carpenter collected a pair of hits, including a double off the wall in the fifth that was about a foot or two away from being a homer. When he reached second base, he raised his right fist.

Earlier, Carpenter stepped to the plate for his first at-bat and chatted with umpire Joe West.

“I say hello to him. And he said hello back, and he talked about what a beau-tiful day it was to play a baseball game. And I was like, ‘You ain’t kidding,’” Car-penter recounted. “Beautiful weather. The crowd is going crazy. ... There’s no question you take time to reflect on that.”

Notes: Holliday fouled a ball off his left leg in the eighth, stayed in to deliver a two-run single, then left for a pinch runner. ... Lohse beat the Braves in the wild-card game. ... Detwiler will be making the first postseason appearance of his career. His last regular-season start also came against the Cardinals, and he went only 21⁄3 innings, giving up seven runs. ... Wednesday was the 88th anniversary of Washington’s only World Series championship, won by the Sena-tors on Oct. 10, 1924.

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Cardinals right fielder Carlos Beltran slides into home plate past Nationals catcher Kurt Suzuki during Game 3 of the National League division series Wednesday in Washington. The Cardinals took a 2-1 series lead with an 8-0 victory.

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Reds relief pitcher Sam LeCure delivers a pitch during Game 4 of the National Leauge division series against the Giants on Wednesday. LeCure, a former Helias Crusader, pitched 1

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26 testify against Lance Armstrong in doping case


Lance Armstrong said he wanted to see the names of his accusers. The U.S. Anti-Doping Agency gave him 26, including 11 former teammates.

The world’s most famous cyclist said he wanted to see the hard evidence he was a doper. The agency gave him that, too: About 200 pages filled with vivid details — from the hotel rooms riders transformed into make-shift blood-transfusion centers to the way Armstrong’s former wife rolled cortisone pills into foil and handed them out to all the cyclists.

In all, a USADA report released Wednesday gives the most detailed, unflinching por-trayal yet of Armstrong as a man who, day after day, week after week, year after year, spared no expense — financially, emotion-ally or physically — to win the seven Tour de France titles the anti-doping agency has ordered taken away.

It presents as matter-of-fact reality winning and doping went hand-in-hand in cycling and Armstrong was the focal point of a big operation, run-ning teams that were the best at getting it done without get-ting caught. Armstrong won the Tour as leader of the U.S. Postal Service team from 1999-2004 and again in 2005 with the Dis-covery Channel as the primary sponsor.

USADA said the path Arm-strong chose to pursue his goals “ran far outside the rules.”

It accuses him of depend-ing on performance-enhancing drugs to fuel his victories and “more ruthlessly, to expect and to require his teammates” do the same. Among the 11 for-mer teammates who testified against Armstrong are George Hincapie, Tyler Hamilton and Floyd Landis.

USADA Chief Executive Tra-vis Tygart said the cyclists were part of “the most sophisticated, professionalized and successful doping program that sport has ever seen.”

Armstrong did not fight the USADA charges, but insists he never cheated.

His attorney, Tim Herman, called the report “a one-sided hatchet job — a taxpayer funded tabloid piece rehashing old, dis-proved, unreliable allegations based largely on axe-grinders, serial perjurers, coerced tes-timony, sweetheart deals and threat-induced stories.”

Aware of the criticism his

agency has faced from Arm-strong and his legion of follow-ers, Tygart insisted his group handled this case under the same rules as any other. Arm-strong was given the chance to take his case to arbitration and declined, choosing in August to accept the sanctions instead, he noted.

“We focused solely on find-ing the truth without being influenced by celebrity or non-

c e l e b r i t y, threats, per-sonal attacks or political p r e s s u r e because that is what clean a t h l e t e s deserve and d e m a n d , ” Tygart said.

T h e report called the evidence “as strong or

stronger than any case brought in USADA’s 12 years of exis-tence.”

In a letter sent to USADA attorneys Tuesday, Herman dis-missed any evidence provided by Landis and Hamilton, say-ing the riders are “serial perjur-ers and have told diametrically contradictory stories under oath.”

The testimony of Hincapie, one of Armstrong’s closest and most loyal teammates through the years, was one of the report’s new revelations.

“I would have been much more comfortable talking only about myself, but understood that I was obligated to tell the truth about everything I knew. So that is what I did,” Hincapie said of his testimony to federal investigators and USADA.

His two-page statement did not mention Armstrong by name. Neither did statements from three other teammates-turned-witnesses, all of whom said this was a difficult-but-necessary process.

“I have failed and I have succeeded in one of the most humbling sports in the world,” Christian Vande Velde said. “And today is the most hum-bling moment of my life.”

Tygart said evidence from 26 people, including 15 riders with knowledge of the U.S. Postal Service team’s doping activities, provided material for the report. The agency also interviewed Frankie Andreu, Michael Barry, Tom Danielson, Levi Leiphe-imer, Stephen Swart, Jonathan Vaughters and David Zabriskie. Andreu’s wife, Betsy, was anoth-er key witness. She has been one of Armstrong’s most consis-tent and unapologetic critics.

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Ibanez homers twice, New York stings

Baltimore in 12th

NEW YORK (AP) — Raul Ibanez lined a tying home run while pinch-hitting for slump-ing Alex Rodriguez in the ninth inning, then hit a leadoff homer in the 12th, giving the New York Yankees a stunning 3-2 win over the Baltimore Orioles on Wednesday night for a 2-1 lead in their AL division series.

Batting for baseball’s highest-paid player, Ibanez homered to right-center with one out in the ninth inning off major-league saves leader Jim Johnson to tie it at 2. He connected on the first pitch from Brian Matusz in the 12th.

Ibanez became the first play-er to homer twice in a postsea-son game in which he didn’t start, STATS LLC said.

Phil Hughes will try to clinch it for the Yankees tonight in Game 4 of the best-of-five series. Joe Saunders will start for Baltimore.

Baltimore had won 16 straight extra-inning games, and had been 76-0 when lead-ing after seven, before the Yan-kees stung them.

“It was a great experience. We do it as a team. We stay after it,” Ibanez said. “I’m blessed to come up and have the opportu-nity like that. We do it together. it’s about a team and about win-ning.”

Ibanez got that chance after Yankees manager Joe Girardi made the decision to bat for Rodriguez — the first time A-Rod had ever been pinch-hit for in a postseason game, accord-ing to STATS.

Yankees fans had been call-ing this week for Girardi to get Rodriguez out of the No. 3 spot in the batting order. But Girardi was reluctant to move his fad-ing slugger down in the lineup.

Until he toook him all the way out.

“You have to make some decisions sometimes that are tough decisions. I just had a gut feeling,” Girardi said.

Rodriguez has 647 career home runs — he’s chasing the all-time record of 762 by Barry Bonds — but was just 1-for-12 with no RBI and seven strike-outs in this series when Girardi pulled him.

“He said, ‘Do what you got to do,’” Girardi said, recalled Rodriguez’s reaction.

“You’re going to be asked a lot of questions if it doesn’t work,” the manager said.

The brash, young Orioles appeared poised to move with-in a game of their first trip to the AL championship series since 1997.

But Ibanez hit a 1-0 pitch into the seats in the ninth, set-ting off a raucous celebration in what had been a demoralized Yankee Stadium crowd. Rodri-guez led the cheers, raising an arm in the dugout and high-fiv-ing injured star Mariano Rivera.

“He said great job. A-Rod is a great teammate and great team player,” Ibanez said. “He’s the first one on the top step con-gratulating you. It’s about win-ning. It’s about the Yankees and continuing.”

After their 10-game July lead was cut to zero in early Septem-ber, the Yankees repelled every Orioles charge. The teams were tied 10 times in the final month but New York won the division.

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Quinn prepares as Chiefs QB for Sunday

KANSAS CITY (AP) — It wasn’t long after Matt Cassel had sustained a concussion and Brady Quinn finished out a loss to the Ravens the Chiefs’ backup quarterback got in touch with an old friend.

It happened to be Char-lie Weis, his former coach at Notre Dame.

Quinn has kept in touch with Weis over the years, through all the ups and downs in both of their careers. Quinn has bounced around the NFL the past four seasons with little success, while Weis flamed out with the Fighting Irish and is now trying to resurrect Kan-sas.

Their conversations usually have nothing to do with foot-ball — might be to check in on each other’s family, or just to see how things are going, a couple of old chums with some history.

This one, though, was pure-ly about business.

“He just told me to be ready to go,” Quinn said.

Cassel has not been cleared by doctors to participate in practice this week, so the Chiefs are planning on Quinn to start Sunday at Tampa Bay. It will be the first time he’s started a game in the NFL since the 2009 season, when he was still with the Cleveland Browns.

Weis said he has a soft spot for both of the quarterbacks in Kansas City.

He helped tutor Cassel to the Pro Bowl a couple years ago as the offensive coordina-tor of the Chiefs, and he’s per-haps the biggest reason that Quinn developed into a first-round pick.

“I’m not rooting for one over the other. I’m a big Matt Cassel fan and I’m a big Brady Quinn fan,” Weis said. “As I told Brady, I talked to him the other night, I said, ‘Support Cassel as much as you can, and if they call your number be ready to go, and this is why you picked Kansas City.’”

Many people thought Quinn would be the top over-all pick of the 2007 draft after leading Notre Dame to a pair of BCS bowl games. He won

the Maxwell Award, given to the nation’s top player, and a slew of trophies awarded to the nation’s best quarterback.

JaMarcus Russell ultimately was picked first by the Oak-land Raiders, but Quinn was the second quarterback taken. He went at No. 22 overall to the Browns and their coach, Romeo Crennel.

“He was a good talent com-ing out, there’s no doubt about it. He had command of the offense he ran at Notre Dame, and the weapons he had with him,” said Crennel, now the coach of Kansas City.

“When he got to us, we didn’t have quite as many weapons as he had at Notre Dame, and learning a new system and not having the same weapons, he wasn’t quite as effective as he had been at Notre Dame. And then he got hurt, also, so that impacted his development.”

Quinn struggled to get past Derek Anderson to become the starter in Cleveland, but once he did, he showed signs of brilliance. Quinn threw for 304 yards and four touchdowns in a game against Detroit, for example, but had his 2009 sea-son cut short by a foot injury.

It’d be nearly three years before he started again.

He was traded to the Den-ver Broncos for Peyton Hil-lis, now his teammate on the Chiefs, and a couple of draft picks. He lost out on the start-ing job there to Kyle Orton, and Tim Tebow claimed the

backup job last season, leaving Quinn searching for a place to play in 2012.

He wound up reuniting with Crennel and offensive coordinator Brian Daboll, who had just been hired by the Chiefs and who worked with Quinn during his final season in Cleveland.

Now, it appears he’ll be pressed into duty against the Buccaneers.

“This league, if there’s one thing I’ve learned, you have to take things one game at a time,” Quinn said after prac-tice Wednesday, “and that’s how I’ve continued to prepare myself.”

Crennel hasn’t officially ruled out Cassel for Sunday’s game, but it’s a long shot at best he’ll play. Crennel said he only spent a short time at the practice facility Wednesday.

Cassel had been struggling mightily this season, complet-ing just more 58 percent of his passes for 173.6 yards per game. He’s also thrown nine interceptions against five touchdowns, and has been credited with five fumbles, giv-ing him 14 turnovers overall.

Only the Philadelphia Eagles have as many turnovers as a team.

So it’s possible Quinn would have gotten a chance at quar-terback even if Cassel had not been hurt. Now, the decision appears to have been taken out of Crennel’s hands.

Chiefs owner releases statement after recent firestorm

KANSAS CITY (AP) — Chiefs chairman Clark Hunt is coming to the defense of fans in Kansas City.

The chief executive and most visible individual in the ownership family issued a statement Wednesday in which he described Chiefs fans as “passionate, hardworking, loyal, educated football fans,” and said they are the “heart and soul of the Arrowhead experience.”

The fans have been the subject of national scrutiny this week after offensive lineman Eric Winston laid into a small percentage of them who cheered when quarterback Matt Cassel was injured in a 9-6 loss to Baltimore last Sunday. Cassel sustained a concussion in the fourth quarter.

“They know cheering an injury to anyone in any stadium is unacceptable,” Hunt said. “I want to make it perfectly clear: A small few who may have cheered when Matt went down do not accurately represent the best fans in the National Football League. Period.”

Winston’s diatribe, in which he called the segment of fans cheering Cassel’s injury “sick-ening,” quickly went viral. It was dissected on ESPN, and more mainstream television news programs such as “Good Morning America” and the “Today” show offered their take on it.

It hasn’t helped the Chiefs have scuffled to a 1-4 start.

“The majority of the Chiefs fans are not going to cheer a player getting hurt. I think the majority of Chiefs fans support the Chiefs. They want the chiefs to win,” coach Romeo Crennel said. “Are they frustrated? Yes, they’re frustrated, just like we’re frustrated.”

Winston said he’s received overwhelming support in the locker room, but acknowl-edged he was “naive” to think his comments would not gain traction nationally.

“If there was anything I could take back, and not even take back, just clarify more that I was speaking to the people who were cheer-ing and not the total fanbase. I realize how great the fans are here,” Winston said. “That’s the one thing I wish I was a little more clear about.”

Animosity has been building in Kansas City for years, both over the failure of the Roy-als to reach the playoffs since 1985 and the Chiefs to win a playoff game since 1993.

One group of tailgaters in a stadium park-ing lot last Sunday strung up a bed sheet carrying the message the Chiefs were an “embarrassment.” Prior to the game, an air-plane towed a banner paid for by fans asking general manager Scott Pioli gets fired.

“I’ve been here for eight years, so I know we have real good fans. That’s not a big ques-tion mark in my head,” said linebacker Der-rick Johnson, adding he stood by Winston’s comments.

“Playing against Kansas City and play-ing on Kansas City, we have great fans,” said Brady Quinn, who is expected to start in Cassel’s place Sunday at Tampa Bay.

Even now, it’s unclear exactly what the small percentage of Chiefs fans were applaud-ing: the injury to Cassel itself, the play that resulted in a first down, the moment Cassel finally got to his feet or when Quinn took over as quarterback.

Cassel had been struggling all season, and had thrown two interceptions in the game.

“We’re trying to make it better,” Crennel added. “I got up there a little earlier on Sun-day and (the fans) were there in their red, and they were ready to try to help their team, and the team played a competitive game. Was it perfect? It was not perfect. But it was a com-petitive game, and it kept the fans involved in the hopes they were able to pull out a victory.

“We have to continue to play like that,” Crennel said, “to keep the fans cheering for us and supportive of us the way they have been for a long time.”

Ready to

start

Hunt defends fans

The Lady Bulldogs will take on Palymyra in the quarterfinals Saturday at a time to be deter-mined.

VolleyballHelias Frosh win

The Helias freshman B team closed its season with a 25-9, 25-10 win against Cole Camp on Wednesday

Heather Perrey led the way with 14 service points, three aces and three kills. Alaina Valdes had seven assists while Hailey Mertens added six digs. Paige Prenger had five kills. Brooke Straub had 12 service points to go along with three aces and three kills.

The B team finished the sea-son with a 13-1-1 record.

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“It’s so impressive to do that on this level, especailly this far along in the playoffs,” St. Eliza-beth coach Peggy Wieberg said. “That’s just what we needed. She just set the tone for the game. They couldn’t catch up to her. Erin just knew she had her defense behind her and just went to work.”

After slugging out a 2-0 victory over Crocker in an 11-inning district title game on Monday, this game gave the Lady Hornets a chance to breathe.

“It’s (the playoffs) been pretty much as expected,” Wie-berg said. “Crocker was really a tough game. We knew if we could get out of districts we could learn a lot and be able to apply that.”

Kelly Heckemeyer collected three hits and tallied an RBI, Emma Kemna went 3-for-4 with an RBI and Megan Kemna went 2-for-4 with a run scored.

“We were really working recently on adjusting to differ-ent pitches that we knew we would see from here on out,” Wieberg said. “Just really good pitchers. We don’t want any of those 0-0, 11-inning games again.

“We only had three strike-outs. We were putting the ball into play. Good things happen when we put the ball in play. Make the other teams make the plays.”

St. Elizabeth (20-4) advanc-es to play at Silex (21-1) on Saturday at a time yet to be determined.

“Tonight was a nice little warmup for Saturday,” Wieberg said. “Playing Silex will be like playing Crocker again, it will be that tight of a game.”

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on to Saturday’s quarterfinal where they will play at Brook-field. First pitch is set for noon.

The Lady Comets took advantage of a pair of mistakes in the first inning by Lafayette County. The first two batters reached on an error. Katelyn Huhn followed that up with an

RBI hit to put Fatima up 2-0.“They made a mistake and

we took advantage of their mistakes, capitalizing on their mistakes,” Fatima coach Dana Scheppers said.

Huhn, who had two hits, was big on the mound.

She allowed just four hits and struck out seven while picking up the complete game

victory.“Katelyn pitched a heck of

a game and the defense was behind us the whole time,” Scheppers said.

Fatima is now 21-4 on the season. Brookfield enters Saturday’s contest with a 24-5 mark. The Lady Bulldogs defeated Bishop LeBlond 13-2 Wednesday.

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Blair Oaks: Plays at Monett on Saturday

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Ashley Forck unloaded on a three-run homer to right-center field, an opposite-field shot, to put Blair Oaks ahead 7-4.

“After I felt it off my bat I just knew it was going out,” Forck said. “It just felt good.”

Blair Oaks piled it on from there, scoring five runs in the sixth and adding another in the seventh.

Amy Dorge smacked an RBI triple to right, Paige Kleffner singled her in, Taylor Markway blooped an RBI single to center and Lauren Viessman slapped a two-run single through the hole on the right side to make the score 12-4. Kleffner added an RBI groundout in the final inning.

“When you get a team down a little defen-sively, and just down in spirit the score the way it is, the more you can add on and continue,” Buschjost said. “We tried to take advantage of that and I thought we did an outstanding job tonight. Not only the girls that were in the game as starters, but the bench was incredible tonight.”

Sullivan’s Emmie Blankenship capped the scoring with an RBI single in the bottom half of the frame.

Blankenship earlier staked Sullivan to a 2-0 lead with a two-run shot to left-center in the first. Blair Oaks then got on the board in the second by scoring a run on an error.

Forck then helped give Blair Oaks a brief lead with a two-out RBI single to left-center in the third. Her single tied the game at two, and another run came home to score on an errant throw by the Sullivan center fielder.

“I was just like, ‘We’ve got to get her bat in the lineup,’” Buschjost said. “And boy, did it shine tonight.”

Sullivan fought right back with two runs in the bottom of the third to regain the lead on RBI singles from Michala Martin and Sarah Messex.

The Lady Falcons’ Payton Staggs then slowed down the Sullivan offense, entering the game with a runner on first and nobody out in the bottom of the fourth with Blair Oaks trailing 4-3. The freshman picked up the win by tossing four innings and allowing just the inconsequential two-out run in the seventh while striking out three and giving up three hits.

“Just that calming presence a little bit,” Bus-chjost said of Staggs. “She will do that. She’s a confident pitcher and a competitive pitcher.”

Duffner and Dorge both went 3-for-4, Forck and Kleffner went 3-for-5 and Taylor Markway and Staggs both collected a pair of hits. Blair Oaks racked up 17 hits in the ball game.

Blair Oaks (21-7) advances to the state quar-terfinals to take on Monett (23-5), who defeated Bolivar 7-2 on Wednesday night. The quarterfi-nal game is set for Saturday in Monett at a time yet to be determined.

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Fatima: Brookfield is 21-4 this season

Minus Amendola, Rams need guys

to step up

ST. LOUIS (AP) — With prolific wide receiver Danny Amendola side-lined by a collarbone injury, the St. Louis Rams will probably need a group effort to make up the vol-ume for the next several weeks.

They’re doing their best to put a happy face on the situation. Amendola is among the NFL lead-ers with 32 receptions, and has nearly 40 percent of the Rams’ receptions on the year.

“Danny going down just opens the door,” quarterback Sam Bradford said Wednesday. “It gives an opportunity to some of our other receivers to step up and make plays.”

That includes rookies Chris Givens and Brian Quick. Steve Smith figures to get back into the mix this week at Miami after being inactive the last two games.

Smith, who has five catches with a 14-yard average, downplayed the opportunity.

“I’m just going to do my job, do what they ask of me,” Smith said. “I’m just coming in ready to work

every day.”Coach Jeff Fisher said

Smith took the hits “like a pro” and made contribu-tions on the scout team.

“He even continued with that today,” Fisher said. “Don’t expect him to like it, but he understood. He understands patience.

“ U n f o r t u n a t e l y , through injury he’s been given another opportu-nity.”

Amendola is eighth in the NFL in receptions, averaging 12.2 yards with two touchdowns, even though he was limited to a 44-yard grab before he got hurt in the second quarter last Thursday. He could be out six weeks with a col-larbone injury.

After practice Wednes-day, Fisher said only that Amendola did not partic-ipate. But on his weekly radio show earlier in the week, the coach said the injury was “rare and unique,” and added it was “probably better than a fracture of the collar-bone,” which would have sidelined Amendola 8 to 10 weeks or perhaps the rest of the season.

“The doctors did a great job with it on Friday, with the diagnosis,” Fisher said on his radio show. “The medical staff did an excel-lent job.”

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Rams wide receiver Danny Amendola and head coach Jeff Fisher talk prior to Thursday’s game against Arizona. With Amendola out, the Rams are hoping for more production from their receivers.

Group effort

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Chiefs quarterback Brady Quinn (9) calls out a play at the line of scrimmage during Sunday’s game against the Ravens in Kansas City. Quinn will likely start this week against Tampa Bay.

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Pinkel parlayed the success to Missouri where he’s 88-59 in now his 13th season.

Saban’s success has left him regarded as one of the top coach-es in college football. In one sea-son, Saban took Toledo from 6-5 to 9-2.

He spent four seasons as the Cleveland Browns’ defensive coordinator before going back to college where he was the head coach at Michigan State (1995-98) and LSU (2000-04), followed by a two-year stint in the NFL with the Miami Dolphins. He settled in at Alabama in 2007, where he

has won a pair of national titles and has his eyes on a third this season.

In his college career, 14 of his 16 teams reached bowl games.

“Nick’s a great competitor, very intense,” Pinkel said. “It doesn’t surprise me, I knew he’d be suc-cessful. He’s very smart, knows what he’s doing and he’s worked with some great people.”

The two said they still talk on occasion, but neither is big on talking about the past, and prefer to focus on their upcoming tasks.

“When we were young and playing together I think we were worried about the next game,” Saban said.

Saban played defensive back at Kent State and Pinkel was a wide receiver.

When asked if Saban ever cov-ered Pinkel in practice, Pinkel joked by saying they played most-ly zone coverage, and he didn’t want to make Saban upset before Saturday’s game.

But there was no joking about the door Saban opened for Pin-kel. When he took the Toledo job, he’d been an assistant at Wash-ington for 11 years, and he had his doubts his chance would come.

“Honestly in this business, maybe I’d have never gotten a shot,” Pinkel said.

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As quarterback play improves, SEC cornerbacks

getting lots of work


Pass defense quietly has played a major role in who wins the national title.

During the Southeastern Conference’s run of six consecutive championships, five of those champions ranked among the top two teams in the conference and the top four teams nationwide in pass efficiency defense.

The run-first SEC isn’t known for throwing the ball all over the field, though that is changing. But SEC quarterbacks are effective when they do throw.

South Carolina’s Connor Shaw and Alabama’s A.J. McCarron are two of the nation’s most efficient passers, and they could end up meeting in the SEC cham-pionship game.

Who wins the matchup — or even the chances of such a matchup occur-ring — likely depends on how well their respective teams defend the pass.

“I’ve always said I thought the thing that’s different about this league was the pass rushers and the cover guys,” Ala-bama coach Nick Saban said. “The com-bination of those things was a little better than other places. Everybody’s got good receivers. Everybody’s got good runners. There are lots of good quarterbacks. But I thought those two things were something that was a little better in this league.”

There’s no doubt SEC quarterback play has improved this year.

McCarron, Texas A&M’s Johnny Man-ziel and Georgia’s Aaron Murray all rank among the nation’s top 16 quarterbacks in passing efficiency. Shaw would rank second nationally in that category, but he’s one pass attempt shy of qualifying.

Even so, the conference race often comes down to which team has the best pass defense. Of the last six national champions that all came from the SEC, the only one that didn’t finish among the nation’s top four teams in pass efficiency defense was the Cam Newton-led 2010 Auburn squad that ranked ninth in the SEC and 76th nationally in that category.

That trend is unlikely to change this year.

Alabama topped the nation in pass efficiency defense while winning the national title last year and leads that category again this season. Just behind Alabama are Florida and LSU. Last year, the SEC had the nation’s top four teams in pass efficiency defense: Alabama, South Carolina, LSU and Georgia.

Part of the reason for that dominance is because the SEC annually features some of the nation’s top pass rushers. Even the SEC’s own defensive backs are quick to credit their linemen.

“They do a great job of pressuring the passer, which makes the quarterback make quicker decisions than he wants to (and) maybe throws a bad ball every once in a while,” LSU safety Eric Reid said. “I’ve caught a couple picks that seemed like punt returns just because of the quar-terback trying to get the ball off (under duress). So a lot of the credit - most of it - can probably go to the d-line.”

But the SEC also has produced plen-ty of NFL defensive backs during this dynasty.

The SEC had each of the last three winners of the Jim Thorpe Award given annually to the nation’s top defensive back: Tennessee’s Eric Berry in 2009, LSU’s Patrick Peterson in 2010 and LSU’s Morris Claiborne in 2011. Eight defensive backs from the SEC — the most of any conference — have been drafted in the first round over the last three years.

“Everybody in the SEC has athletes - especially in the secondary,” Mississippi State cornerback Johnthan Banks said. “All the teams are so athletic on offense, you’ve got to have guys who can match up, guys who can play anywhere on the field. That’s what you’ve got to have in

this league so you can be ready for any-thing.”

In the most recent draft, Claiborne, Alabama safety Mark Barron, South Caro-lina cornerback Stephon Gilmore and Alabama cornerback Dre Kirkpatrick were selected among the first 17 overall picks. LSU had to replace cornerback Tyrann Mathieu, a 2011 Heisman Trophy finalist removed from the Tigers’ 2012 roster for a violation of team rules.

Even after losing all those stars, the SEC still boasts some of the nation’s best defensive backs. Alabama cornerback Dee Milliner, Reid and Banks are regard-ed as potential first-round draft picks.

“I really think you’re going to get a lot of bigger, stronger, quicker DBs in the SEC,” Georgia linebacker Christian Rob-inson said. “Not that there’s not guys like that in the other conferences, but there’s going to be bigger numbers in the SEC. I think the type of receivers you go against on your own team is a factor. We had A.J. Green here pushing guys like (former star cornerback Brandon) Boykin.”

The connection between pass efficien-cy defense and SEC championships might seem odd for what’s generally a run-ori-ented league. Of the 14 teams in the SEC this year, only Arkansas, Kentucky and Tennessee have attempted more passes than carries. Overall, 30 percent of the Football Bowl Subdivision teams throw the ball more than they run it.

Although most SEC teams prefer to run the ball, this league does feature plenty of quality quarterbacks. The SEC has come a long way since last year, when the league didn’t have anyone ranked among the nation’s 20 most efficient passers. Ten-nessee coach Derek Dooley calls it “prob-ably as experienced and talented a group as they’ve had in the league in a while.”

The list of SEC quarterbacks includes at least three probable early-round draft picks in Arkansas’ Tyler Wilson, Tennes-see’s Tyler Bray and Georgia’s Aaron Mur-ray. But the quarterbacks enjoying the most team success don’t throw nearly as often as those guys. This is one league in which it isn’t a backhanded compli-ment to refer to a quarterback as a game manager.

Shaw averages fewer than 15 passes per game, but he completes more than three-quarters of his attempts. McCar-ron has thrown 12 touchdown passes without an interception. The SEC’s other two unbeaten quarterbacks are Florida’s Jeff Driskel and Mississippi State’s Tyler Russell, who have been picked off just once each.

In the SEC, it’s nice for a quarterback to be prolific, but it’s better that he be efficient.

And those defenses that do the best job of limiting that efficiency often end up celebrating in January.

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Florida safety Matt Elam (right) forces LSU wide receiver Odell Beckham Jr. to fumble the ball during Saturday’s game in Gainsville, Fla. Pass defenders are becoming one of the Southeastern Conference’s best kept secrets.

Playing the pass

Taking his chances

Missouri: Saban eyeing another national title

Weis trying to inject life into

struggling Jayhawks

LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — Charlie Weis has demonstrated a gambler’s mentality through his first five games at Kansas, a will-ingness to push his chips all-in if it means snatching a victory.

It was never as evident as last Saturday at Kansas State.

The Jayhawks pulled off an audacious faked field goal and faked punt in the first half and were within a touchdown at half-time, the score no doubt causing murmurs across the country.

The sixth-ranked Wildcats finally got on track in the second half, scoring four touchdowns in the third quarter to put the game away. But the fact Kansas had played the brawny Wildcats to a virtual stalemate through 30 minutes was a testament to Weis’ go-for-broke mentality.

“I’d rather go down swinging than not take a swing,” Weis said Tuesday while taking a break from preparation for next weekend’s game against Oklahoma State. “I’m not taking a third strike.”

That’s a departure in mentality from his predecessor, Turner Gill.

Gill was often criticized for being exceedingly cautious, wary of taking chances, even if it meant keeping a game close at the expense of playing for vic-tory. So while he played then-No. 9 Nebraska close in 2010, and nearly upset Baylor last season, he ultimately beat neither.

He only won five games over two seasons and was fired last December.

Weis is taking a far different approach.

“I’ve always had that in me, number one, and number two, I do believe when you go into a game, you as a coaching staff have to make a value judgment,” Weis said. “What do you think you’re going to have to do to give your team the best chance of win-ning?”

If that means calling for a punt fake at your own 29-yard line in the first quarter of a tied game, so be it. If that means calling for the field goal unit to throw the ball

downfield with the game still tied later in the first half, well, that’s exactly what Weis is going to do.

“It was kind of crazy there for a little while,” said the Wildcats’ Ty Zimmerman, who seemed both surprised and impressed by the Jayhawks’ cavalier approach last Saturday.

Weis said his willingness to take chances stems from his work under Bill Parcells and Bill Belichick in the NFL. Both of the coaches have been considered conservative in their game plans, but Weis said that perception is misguided — or just plain inac-curate.

“They might be conserva-tive in their normal offense and defense,” Weis said, “but when it comes down to taking a gamble, I don’t think I’ve ever seen anybody go for it on fourth down more than Bill Belichick in my life.”

Of course, the team Weis inher-ited this season has sometimes given him little choice.

The offense has struggled to score points through the first five weeks, and kicker Ron Doherty has missed five of 10 field-goal

attempts. So if the alternative to failing on fourth down is blow-ing a 40-yard kick, Weis is will-ing to take his chances with the offense.

The Jayhawks (1-4) have gone for it on fourth down 10 times the last three weeks, converting half of them — the same rate at which Doherty is making field goals.

“The most import thing is to try to win this week’s game,” Weis said, “and you have to do every-thing in your position to get your team ready to win this week’s game.”

That doesn’t mean mortgaging the future to win a few games in the present.

Weis called it a balancing act between taking chances to spring an upset and playing the kind of fundamentally sound football that he believes will yield success further down the road.

“You can’t ever sacrifice your current team for the sake of development,” he said, “but at the same time you have to do both simultaneously. They have to go hand in hand.”

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Kansas coach Charlie Weis looks on during a game earlier this season. The Jayhawks are 1-4 in Weis’ first season in Law-rence.

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In this Dec. 3, 2011, file photo, Georgia wide receiver Malcolm Mitchell tries to catch a pass as LSU defensive back Tharold Simon knocks the ball away. Last season, the SEC had the top four teams nationally in pass efficiency defense.

NEWSANDNOTESSEC, Big 12 discuss

future bowl game

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The Southeastern Conference and Big 12 held a meeting to work out the details of their joint bowl game, including a host city.

SEC spokesman Charles Bloom confirmed representatives of the two leagues, including SEC com-missioner Mike Slive and Big 12 chief Bob Bowlsby, met Wednes-day in Nashville. Bloom said they have made progress over the last month but didn’t elaborate.

The front-runners to host the Big 12-SEC game are believed to be the Cotton Bowl held at Dallas Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, Texas, and the Sugar Bowl in New Orleans. Groups from Atlanta, San Antonio and Houston also submitted requests for propos-als.

The two powerful leagues reached a five-year deal in May to pit their regular-season cham-pions against each other on New Year’s starting in 2014.

Texas, Ohio State schedule series

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Ohio

State and Texas have agreed to a home-and-home football series that will have the two teams play-ing in Austin, Texas, in 2022 and in Columbus in 2023.

It’s a continued response to major-college programs upgrad-ing their opponents to improve their strength of schedule in the new playoff system still being finalized.

The games will be played Sept. 17, 2022, in Texas Stadium and Sept. 16, 2023, in Ohio Stadium. The schools have met three times previously — a home-and-home arrangement in 2005 and 2006, and in the 2009 Fiesta Bowl — with Texas holding a 2-1 edge.

Ohio State AD Gene Smith said playing teams of Texas’ caliber “creates remarkable experiences for our players and fans.”

NCAA upholds Boise State

scholarship sanctions

BOISE, Idaho — The NCAA has rejected an appeal from Boise State and is standing by its deci-sion the football program must reduce the number of scholar-ships it hands out this season and the next.

The Division I Committee

on Infractions announced the decision Wednesday and in the process rejected an appeal filed by the school stemming from a broader package of sanctions handed down by the NCAA last year.

As part of the penalty pack-age, the NCAA ordered the foot-ball program to cut scholarships from 85 to 82 for the 2012-13 and 2013-14 academic years. The school had already self-imposed the scholarship reduction for last season.

Still, Boise State lawyers argued the scholarship sanction was excessive, especially when compared to past infraction cases investigated by the NCAA.

But NCAA officials denied the Boise State case has direct com-parison to any past cases.

“While past infractions cases and their respective penalties are part of the institutional memory of the Committee ... when it tai-lors the penalties in a case, they do not provide a ‘one-size-fits-all’ measure of whether a penalty is fair and appropriate,” the com-mittee said in its report.

“Each case — and the fairness of the penalties imposed in each case — ultimately stands on their own facts,” the report stated.

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for the title today at the Edward Jones Dome. Webb City is in the title game for the fourth time in five years, Helias for the third time in that span. The Cardinals are looking for their fourth title in that period, including their third straight, while Helias is searching for its first crown since 1998. Some may think it’s going to be blowout, I think Helias can keep it close, but ...

— WEBB CITY 27, HELIAS 21

Class 2 Championship GameA very talented senior class has led

Blair Oaks to the state championship game for the first time since the 2007 season. The Falcons have lived up to expectations this season to claim a spot this afternoon against the Tigers. Lamar is the defending state champion and employs a unique offensive style that could be difficult for Blair Oaks to slow down.

— LAMAR 35, BLAIR OAKS 21

Hometown FavoritesTEXAS A&M 36,

MISSOURI 30 — The up-and-down season for the Tigers ends with another down.

DENVER 37, KAN-SAS CITY 13 — Pey-ton Manning wanted nothing to do with joining the Chiefs in the off-season. Smart man.

ST. LOUIS 24, ARIZONA 20 — The

Cardinals can’t stop the run, so Stephen Jackson should get a pretty good work-out.

Sunday’s GamesCHICAGO 24, MINNESOTA 14 —

After Monday night’s disaster, the Bears bounce back and beat up the Vikings.

CINCINNATI 31, OAKLAND 16 — The Bengals continue to beat up on the AFC West.

CLEVELAND 16, PITTSBURGH 13 — The Steelers are down to No. 3 quar-terback Charlie Batch. At least you now know at least one NFL No. 3 quarter-back.

INDIANAPOLIS 35, BUFFALO 21 — Colts quarterback Andrew Luck is much better at home.

JACKSONVILLE 27, TENNESSEE 24 — Blaine Gabbert may have taken his last snap at quarterback for the Jaguars.

ATLANTA 35, TAMPA BAY 31 — The Bucs push the Falcons to the finish.

MIAMI 23, SEATTLE 21 — The cross country trip and an early start does in the Seahawks.

SAN DIEGO 27, BALTIMORE 23 — The Chargers have one more good effort in them.

NEW ORLEANS 34, SAN FRANCISCO 31 — The Saints win a shootout to climb back into the NFC playoff race.

GREEN BAY 26, NEW YORK GIANTS 23 — NBC has gotten a pretty good slate of Sunday-night games this season. ...

Monday Night’s GamePHILADELPHIA 19, CAROLINA 14

— Then there’s ESPN, which got stuck with this abomination.

Tom Rackers

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Helias linebacker Justus Schulte wraps up and takes down Quincy Notre Dame running back Nick Wei-man at the line of scrimmage during a September game at Adkins Stadium. Schulte has 202 total tack-les this season heading into today’s Class 4 state championship game against Webb City at the Edward Jones Dome.


Kaley Ruff of Jefferson City, shown here in a game last season, is one of two returning veteran players for the Lady Jays this season.

Missouri looks to slow ‘Johnny Football’

By Brent Foster

[email protected]

COLUMBIA — Heading into its first season in the Southeastern Conference, there were a lot of question marks sur-rounding Texas A&M.

It had a new head coach, a fresh-man quarterback and a conference full of powerhouse programs awaiting from a team that finished last year with a 7-6 record.

Enter Johnny Manziel.The freshman quarterback, who has

garnered the nickname “Johnny Foot-ball,” has catapulted himself into the Heisman Trophy discussion while creat-ing nightmares for opposing defenses.

Now the Tigers (5-6, 2-5 Southeastern Conference) will have to stop Manziel if they want to have a chance at reach-ing a bowl game for the eighth straight season.

“He’s a very, very impressive player,”

Tough task

Please see Tigers, p. 3


Blair Oaks running back Eli Roberts breaks through the line for a gain during a post-season game against Clark County earlier this month at the Falcon Athletic Complex. Roberts and Blair Oaks will meet Lamar this afternoon for the Class 2 state champion-ship at the Edward Jones Dome.

Lady Jays open today vs. Pacific

By Tom Rackers

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It’s a complete makeover for the Jefferson City Lady Jays.

The Lady Jays will have five new starters when they start the season this afternoon on the road against Pacific at the St. James Shootout.

“We know we’re young,” Jefferson City coach Shane Meyer said. “Even with some of our upperclassmen, when we get under the bright lights for our first game, it’s going to be a new experience.”

Jefferson City returns just two players with much varsity experience in junior forward Kezia Martin and sophomore guard Kaley Ruff.

“We’re going to rely on those two to lead the way, at least from an experience standpoint,” Meyer said.

At 5-10, Martin should pro-

vide matchup problems for the opposition.

“She can be a difference maker with her athleticism,” Meyer said. “There won’t be many kids this year who will be able to keep up with her. Out in space, Kezia will make things tough on the big player for the other team.

“I really think she’s going to have a good year.”

Meyer said Martin needs to slow down at times and let the game come to her.

“She’s still learning to play within herself a little bit,” Meyer said. “But we need her to cut it loose and get after it as well.”

The two will be joined in the starting lineup by fresh-man guard Megan Foster, junior guard Madison Hart and sophomore forward Sid-ney McMillan.

But with the up-tempo style Meyer wants to play this season, the reserves figure see

Totally new look

Please see Lady Jays, p. 3

By Tom Rackers

[email protected]

The Helias Crusaders know exactly what’s in front of them.

But to be the best, you might as well beat the best.

“I’m glad that we get the chance to play them, that our shot at winning a state title goes through Webb City,” Helias coach Phil Pitts said as the Crusaders prepared to face the Cardinals at 11 a.m. today at the Edward Jones Dome in St. Louis. “For this game, for us to feel like we’re the best team in the state, we have to beat Webb City and I’m glad they’re there.”

An argument could be made Webb City (ranked No. 1, 14-0) is the best team in the state, regardless of clas-sification. The Cardinals have won the last two Class 4 state football championships and currently are on a 44-game winning streak.

“Everybody knew Webb City was going to be in the title game again,” Pitts said.

Heliasset for

Webb City

Please see Helias, p. 4

By Tony Hawley

[email protected]

WARDSVILLE — When you’re playing in a state title game, you know your opponent is going to be very good.

And when that team is the defending state champion with several returning starters, it’s obvious they’re going to be a handful.

So the Lamar Tigers, who will meet Blair Oaks at 2:15 p.m. today at the Edward Jones Dome in St. Louis in the Class 2 championship game, will pose a tough task for the Falcons. But how tough?

“They’re big, they’re fast, they run a unique offense, they play lights-out on defense, they play extremely fast and aggressive,” Blair Oaks coach Brad Drehle said. “You’ve got to find a way to try to slow them down somewhat on offense and control field position and then find ways to score. It may be one of those things where it needs to become a track meet on offense for us to have a chance.

“They’re playing very well. I looked at some stats and they’re pretty gaudy. Their winning mar-gin since they started the playoffs is 65-12. That’s phenomenal.”

Today’s game could end up being a workout for the scoreboard operator. The Tigers (12-2) come into the game averaging 46.4 points per game, having outscored their opponents 650-179.

Blair Oaks facingbig test in Lamar


TodayPrep

FootballHelias vs. Webb City

in Class 4 state title gameat Edward Jones Dome,

11 a.m.(Fox Midwest Plus-TV,

KWOS 950-AM)

Blair Oaks vs. Lamarin Class 2 state title game at Edward Jones Dome,

2:15 p.m.(Fox Midwest Plus-TV,

KAT 94.3-FM)

GirlsBasketball

Lady Jays vs. Pacificat St. James Shootout,

12:30 p.m.

Women’sBasketball

Lincoln vs. Mo. Westernin LU Thanksgiving Classic,

4 p.m.

Missouri vs. Minnesotaat Cancun, Mexico,

5 p.m.(KTGR 100.5-FM)

CollegeFootball

Missouri at Texas A&M,6 p.m.

(ESPN2-TV,KCMQ 96.7-FM)

Men’sBasketballMissouri vs.

Va. Commonwealth6 p.m.

at Nassau, Bahamas(NBCSN-TV,

KWOS 950-AM)

SundayNo events scheduled

MondayMen’s

BasketballLincoln at Maryville,

7 p.m.

GirlsBasketball

Lady Jays vs. Rolla, 7:30 p.m.

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10:00

SPEED Formula One Racing Grand Prix of Brazil Qualifying. (Live)

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11:00

KMIZ College Football Michigan at Ohio State. (Live)

ESPN College Football Georgia Tech at Georgia. (Live)

ESPN2 College Football Rutgers at Pittsburgh. (Live)

FSXP College Football Alabama-Bir-mingham at Central Florida. (Live)

FX College Football Tulsa at SMU. (Live)

FXSP PLUS High School Football Class 4 State Championship -- Helias vs. Webb City. (Live)

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11:30

KZOU College Football Miami (Fla.) at Duke. (Live)

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1:30

KOMU College Football Grambling State vs. Southern. (Live)

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2:15

FXSP PLUS High School Football Class 2 State Championship -- Blair Oaks vs. Lamar. (Live)

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2:30

KMIZ College Football Florida at Florida State. (Live)

KQFX College Football Baylor vs. Texas Tech. (Live)

KRCG College Football Auburn at Ala-bama. (Live)

ESPN College Football Oklahoma State at Oklahoma. (Live)

ESPN2 College Football Wisconsin at Penn State. (Live)

FXSP College Football Tulane at Hous-ton. (Live)

NBCSN College Football Air Force at Fresno State. (Live)

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4:00

SHO Boxing Welterweights -- Ricky Hatton (45-2-0) vs. Vyacheslav Senchenko (32-1-0). (Live)

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5:30

KQFX College Football Stanford at UCLA. (Live)

FXSP PLUS High School Football Class 6 State Championship -- Blue Springs vs. Francis Howell. (Live)

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6:00

ESPN College Football South Carolina at Clemson. (Live)

ESPN2 College Football Missouri at Texas A&M. (Live)

NBCSN College Basketball Battle 4 Atlantis Third-Place Game -- Virginia Com-monwealth vs. Missouri. (Live)

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KMIZ College Football Notre Dame at Southern Cal. (Live)

FXSP College Volleyball Missouri Valley Conference Tournament Championship -- Creighton vs. Wichita State. (Live)

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8:00

WGN NBA Basketball Chicago Bulls at Milwaukee Bucks. (Live)

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NBCSN College Basketball Battle 4 Atlantis Championship -- Duke vs. Louisville. (Live)

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9:00

HBO Boxing Jr. Middleweights -- Keith Thurman (18-0-0) vs. Carlos Quintana (29-3-0). WBC Welterweight Title -- Roberto Guerrero (30-1-1) vs. Andre Berto (28-1-0). (Live)

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9:30

ESPN2 College Football Louisana Tech at San Jose State. (Live)

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10:00

ESPN2 College Basketball Las Vegas Invit. Championship -- Teams TBD. (Live)

NFLAMERICAN CONFERENCE

East W L T Pct PF PANew England 8 3 0 .727 407 244N.Y. Jets 4 7 0 .364 221 290Buffalo 4 6 0 .400 230 299Miami 4 6 0 .400 187 205

South W L T Pct PF PAHouston 10 1 0 .909 327 211Indianapolis 6 4 0 .600 210 260Tennessee 4 6 0 .400 219 311Jacksonville 1 9 0 .100 164 289

North W L T Pct PF PABaltimore 8 2 0 .800 267 206Pittsburgh 6 4 0 .600 217 190Cincinnati 5 5 0 .500 248 237Cleveland 2 8 0 .200 189 234

West W L T Pct PF PADenver 7 3 0 .700 301 212San Diego 4 6 0 .400 232 221Oakland 3 7 0 .300 208 322Kansas City 1 9 0 .100 152 284

NATIONAL CONFERENCEEast

W L T Pct PF PAN.Y. Giants 6 4 0 .600 267 216Washington 5 6 0 .455 295 285Dallas 5 6 0 .455 242 262Philadelphia 3 7 0 .300 162 252

South W L T Pct PF PAAtlanta 9 1 0 .900 270 193Tampa Bay 6 4 0 .600 287 230New Orleans 5 5 0 .500 287 273Carolina 2 8 0 .200 184 243

North W L T Pct PF PAGreen Bay 7 3 0 .700 263 207Chicago 7 3 0 .700 249 165Minnesota 6 4 0 .600 238 221Detroit 4 7 0 .364 267 280

West W L T Pct PF PASan Francisco 7 2 1 .750 245 134Seattle 6 4 0 .600 198 161Arizona 4 6 0 .400 163 196St. Louis 3 6 1 .350 174 237

Thursday’s Games

Houston 34, Detroit 31, OT

Washington 38, Dallas 31

New England 49, N.Y. Jets 19

Sunday’s Games

Denver at Kansas City, noon

St. Louis at Arizona, 3:25 p.m.

Minnesota at Chicago, noon

Oakland at Cincinnati, noon

Pittsburgh at Cleveland, noon

Buffalo at Indianapolis, noon

Tennessee at Jacksonville, noon

Atlanta at Tampa Bay, noon

Seattle at Miami, noon

Baltimore at San Diego, 3:05 p.m.

San Francisco at New Orleans, 3:25 p.m.

Green Bay at N.Y. Giants, 7:20 p.m.

Monday’s Game

Carolina at Philadelphia, 7:30 p.m.

NFL Game LinesSunday

FAVORITE OPEN TODAY O/U UNDERDOG

at Cincinnati 7.5 8.5 (50) Oakland

Pittsburgh Pk 1 (34.5) at Cleveland

at Indianapolis 3 3 (51) Buffalo

Denver 10 10.5 (44) at Kansas City

Tennessee 3 3.5 (44.5) at Jacksonville

at Chicago OFF OFF (OFF) Minnesota

Atlanta Pk 1 (50) at Tampa Bay

Seattle 3 3 (37.5) at Miami

Baltimore 2.5 1 (47) at San Diego

San Francisco 2 1 (49) at New Orleans

at Arizona 3 1.5 (37) St. Louis

at N.Y. Giants 2.5 2.5 (50.5) Green Bay

Monday

Carolina 1 2.5 (40.5) at Philadelphia

Off Key-Chicago QB questionable

College FootballTuesday’s Game

MIDWEST

Toledo 35, Akron 23

Thursday’s GamesSOUTH

Tuskegee 27, Alabama St. 25

SOUTHWEST

TCU 20, Texas 13

Friday’s GamesEAST

Syracuse 38, Temple 20Cent. Michigan 42, UMass 21

SOUTHEast Carolina 65, Marshall 59 (OT)

MIDWESTKent St. 28, Ohio 6Nebraska 13, Iowa 7N. Illinois 49, E. Michigan 7Ball St. 31, Miami (Ohio) 24Bowling Green 21, Buffalo 7West Virginia 31, Iowa St. 24Cincinnati 27, South Florida 10

SOUTHWESTLSU 20, Arkansas 13

FAR WESTUtah 42, Colorado 35Washington St. 31, Washington 28 (OT)Arizona St. at Arizona, (n)

Today’s ScheduleEAST

Rutgers at Pittsburgh, 11 a.m.

Wisconsin at Penn St., 2:30 p.m.

SOUTH

Georgia Tech at Georgia, 11 a.m.

UConn at Louisville, 11 a.m.

UAB at UCF, 11 a.m.

Virginia at Virginia Tech, 11 a.m.

Kentucky at Tennessee, 11:21 a.m.

Miami at Duke, 11:30 a.m.

North Texas at W. Kentucky, noon

Grambling St. vs. Southern U. at New Orleans,

1:30 p.m.

Boston College at NC State, 2 p.m.

Maryland at North Carolina, 2 p.m.

Auburn at Alabama, 2:30 p.m.

Florida at Florida St., 2:30 p.m.

Troy at Middle Tennessee, 2:30 p.m.

Vanderbilt at Wake Forest, 2:30 p.m.

Southern Miss. at Memphis, 3:30 p.m.

South Alabama at Louisiana-Lafayette, 4 p.m.

Louisiana-Monroe at FIU, 5 p.m.

South Carolina at Clemson, 6 p.m.

Mississippi St. at Mississippi, 6 p.m.

MIDWEST

Illinois at Northwestern, 11 a.m.

Michigan at Ohio St., 11 a.m.

Indiana at Purdue, 11 a.m.

Michigan St. at Minnesota, 2:30 p.m.

SOUTHWEST

Tulsa at SMU, 11 a.m.

Texas St. at UTSA, 1 p.m.

Texas Tech vs. Baylor at Arlington, Texas, 1:30 p.m.

Tulane at Houston, 2:30 p.m.

Oklahoma St. at Oklahoma, 2:30 p.m.

Missouri at Texas A&M, 6 p.m.

Rice at UTEP, 6 p.m.

FAR WEST

Idaho at Utah St., 2 p.m.

Air Force at Fresno St., 2:30 p.m.

BYU at New Mexico St., 2:30 p.m.

Oregon at Oregon St., 2:30 p.m.

San Diego St. at Wyoming, 2:30 p.m.

Stanford at UCLA, 5:30 p.m.

New Mexico at Colorado St., 6 p.m.

Notre Dame at Southern Cal, 7 p.m.

Louisiana Tech at San Jose St., 9:30 p.m.

UNLV at Hawaii, 10 p.m.

Today’s LinesFAVORITE OPEN TODAY O/U UNDERDOG

at Ohio St. 5 4 (55) Michigan

Vanderbilt 10 11 (46.5) at Wake Forest

at Louisville 13 11 (45.5) UConn

at Georgia 13 14 (64) Georgia Tech

at N. Carolina 22.5 24.5 (54) Maryland

at Virginia Tech 10.5 10 (49.5) Virginia

Michigan St. 8.5 8.5 (39.5) at Minnesota

Miami 5 6.5 (67) at Duke

at Nrthwstrn 18.5 19.5 (50.5) Illinois

at NC State 13.5 14 (56.5) Bost. Coll.

at Tennessee 15.5 13 (61) Kentucky

at Penn St. 2 2.5 (45) Wisconsin

at Pittsburgh 2 1.5 (43.5) Rutgers

at Purdue 5.5 5.5 (63) Indiana

Texas St. 2 1.5 (54.5) at UTSA

at Utah St. 39 38 (57.5) Idaho

San Diego St. 7 7.5 (55) at Wyoming

Baylor-y 2 3.5 (79) Texas Tech

at Alabama 33 33 (46.5) Auburn

at Mississippi 1.5 1.5 (54.5) Mississippi St.

Stanford Pk 2.5 (52) at UCLA

BYU 29.5 29 (48.5) at New Mex. St.

at Fresno St. 16.5 16.5 (60.5) Air Force

at Oklahoma 7.5 6.5 (72) Oklahoma St.

at Texas A&M 19 22 (61) Missouri

Oregon 11 9.5 (65.5) at Oregon St.

Tulsa 5.5 5 (52.5) at SMU

at Florida St. 8 7 (43.5) Florida

at San Jose St. 3 3.5 (75.5) La. Tech

at Memphis 3.5 4 (50.5) So. Miss.

at Houston 13.5 12.5 (68.5) Tulane

at Colorado St. 2.5 3.5 (54.5) New Mexico

at UTEP 2 1.5 (56.5) Rice

at Clemson 5 3.5 (62) South Carolina

at UCF 22 21.5 (58.5) UAB

Notre Dame 7 5.5 (46) at So. Cal

UNLV 4 3.5 (54) at Hawaii

at W. Kentucky 11 11.5 (51.5) North Texas

at Middle Tenn. 3 3 (69.5) Troy

at La.-Lafayette 18.5 18.5 (56) S. Alabama

Louisiana-Monroe 6 4 (61.5) at FIU

x-at Columbus, Ohio. y-at Arlington, Texas.

Division II PlayoffsSecond RoundToday, Nov. 24

West Texas A&M (10-2) at Ashland (11-0), 10 a.m.Indiana (Pa.) (11-1) at New Haven (10-0), 11 a.m.West Alabama (9-3) at Valdosta State (8-2), 11

a.m.Lenior-Rhyne (9-2) at Carson-Newman (8-2), 11

a.m.Shippensburg (11-1) at Winston-Salem (11-0),

noonNorthwest Missouri State (10-2) at Minnesota State

Mankato (11-0), noonMissouri Western State (11-1) at Henderson State

(10-0), noonIndianapolis (10-2) at Colorado State-Pueblo (11-

0), 1 p.m.Quarterfinals

Saturday, Dec. 1Shippensburg-Winston-Salem winner vs. Indiana

(Pa.)-New Haven winner, TBDIndianapolis-Colorado State-Pueblo winner vs. West

Texas A&M-Chadron State winner, TBDWest Alabama-Valdosta State winner vs. Lenior-

Rhyne-Carson-Newman winner, TBDNorthwest Missouri State-Minnesota State Mankato

winner vs. Missouri Western State-Henderson State winner, TBD

SemifinalsSaturday, Dec. 8

TBDChampionship

Saturday, Dec. 5At Braly Municipal Stadium

Florence, Ala.Semifinal winners, noon

NAIA PlayoffsQuarterfinals

Today, Nov. 24

St. Francis (Ind.) (9-2) at Marian (Ind.) (9-1), noon

Southern Oregon (9-2) at Morningside (Iowa) (11-

0), noon

Bethel (Tenn.) (9-3) at Missouri Valley (11-0), 1

p.m.

Cumberlands (Ky.) (10-1) at Saint Xavier (Ill.)

(10-1), 1 p.m.

Semifinals

Saturday, Dec. 1

TBA

Championship

Thursday, Dec. 13

At Barron Stadium

Rome, Ga.

6:30 p.m.

Prep FootballClass 6 Championship

TODAY, NOV 24

At Edward Jones Dome

Francis Howell (12-1) vs. Blue Springs (12-1),

5:30 p.m.

Class 5 ChampionshipFRIDAY, NOV. 23


Kirkwood 31, Fort Osage 7

Class 4 ChampionshipTODAY, NOV. 24


Webb City (14-0) vs. Helias (10-4), 11 a.m.



Maryville 38, John Burroughs 22

Class 2 ChampionshipTODAY, NOV. 24


Lamar (12-2) vs. Blair Oaks (13-1), 2:15 p.m.



Penney 60, Valle Catholic 34

NBAEASTERN CONFERENCE

Atlantic Division

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New York 8 3 .727 —

Brooklyn 7 4 .636 1

Philadelphia 7 5 .583 1 1/2

Boston 7 6 .538 2

Toronto 3 10 .231 6

Southeast Division

W L Pct GB

Miami 9 3 .750 —

Atlanta 7 4 .636 1 1/2

Charlotte 6 5 .545 2 1/2

Orlando 5 7 .417 4

Washington 0 10 .000 8

Central Division

W L Pct GB

Milwaukee 6 4 .600 —

Chicago 5 6 .455 1 1/2

Indiana 6 8 .429 2

Cleveland 3 9 .250 4

Detroit 3 10 .231 4 1/2

WESTERN CONFERENCE

Southwest Division

W L Pct GB

Memphis 9 2 .818 —

San Antonio 10 3 .769 —

Dallas 7 6 .538 3

Houston 6 7 .462 4

New Orleans 3 7 .300 5 1/2

Northwest Division

W L Pct GB

Oklahoma City 9 4 .692 —

Denver 6 6 .500 2 1/2

Utah 6 6 .500 2 1/2

Minnesota 5 5 .500 2 1/2

Portland 5 6 .455 3

Pacific Division

W L Pct GB

L.A. Clippers 8 4 .667 —

Golden State 7 5 .583 1

L.A. Lakers 6 7 .462 2 1/2

Phoenix 5 7 .417 3

Sacramento 3 8 .273 4 1/2Thursday’s Games

No games scheduledFriday’s Games

Atlanta 101, Charlotte 91Orlando 108, Cleveland 104Boston 108, Oklahoma City 100Brooklyn 86, L.A. Clippers 76Detroit 91, Toronto 90Houston 131, New York 103Memphis 106, L.A. Lakers 98San Antonio 104, Indiana 97Golden State at Denver, (n)New Orleans at Phoenix, (n)Sacramento at Utah, (n)Minnesota at Portland, (n)

Today’s GamesL.A. Clippers at Atlanta, 6 p.m.Oklahoma City at Philadelphia, 6 p.m.Charlotte at Washington, 6 p.m.Cleveland at Miami, 6:30 p.m.L.A. Lakers at Dallas, 7:30 p.m.Chicago at Milwaukee, 8 p.m.Utah at Sacramento, 9 p.m.Minnesota at Golden State, 9:30 p.m.

Sunday’s GamesDetroit at New York, noonSan Antonio at Toronto, noonPortland at Brooklyn, 2 p.m.Phoenix at Philadelphia, 5 p.m.Boston at Orlando, 5 p.m.New Orleans at Denver, 7 p.m.

College BasketballFriday’s Scores

EAST

Loyola (Md.) 58, Rhode Island 54, OT

Penn St. 60, Bucknell 57

Providence 66, Fairfield 47

SOUTH

Alabama 59, Charleston Southern 46

Florida 79, UCF 66

Georgia 54, ETSU 38

Kentucky 104, LIU Brooklyn 75

Mississippi 91, Lipscomb 45

NC A&T 85, Campbell 60

NC State 82, UNC Asheville 80

Virginia Tech 87, Appalachian St. 76

Wake Forest 63, William & Mary 57

Wofford 56, Hampton 51

MIDWEST

Michigan St. 70, Oakland 52

Ohio St. 91, UMKC 45

South Dakota 81, Culver-Stockton 73

SOUTHWEST

Fairleigh Dickinson 63, Delaware St. 62

Illinois St. 77, UAB 65

Northwestern 55, TCU 31

Prairie View 42, Navy 40

Rider 86, Jacksonville 71

FAR WEST

Arizona St. 83, Arkansas 68

Cincinnati 78, Iowa St. 70

Columbia 75, Wayland Baptist 63

Cornell 89, Presbyterian 55

Jacksonville St. 50, N. Arizona 48

Longwood 86, Florida A&M 83, OT

SC-Upstate 75, Utah Valley 50

Santa Clara 89, E. Washington 74

Utah 67, Cent. Michigan 51

TOURNAMENTS

Battle 4 Atlantis

Semifinal

Duke 67, VCU 58

Louisville 84, Missouri 61

Consolation Bracket

Minnesota 84, Memphis 75

Stanford 66, N. Iowa 50

Carrs/Safeway Great Alaska Shootout

Consolation Bracket

Alaska-Anchorage 66, UC Riverside 65

Loyola Marymount 78, Texas St. 63

DirecTV Classic

Semifinal

Pacific 76, Saint Mary’s (Cal) 66

Consolation Bracket

Xavier 69, Drexel 65

Joe Cipriano Nebraska Classic

First Round

Bethune-Cookman 93, Nebraska-Omaha 81

Valparaiso 67, Chicago St. 46

NIT Season Tipoff

Championship

Michigan 71, Kansas St. 57

Third Place

Pittsburgh 85, Delaware 59

Old Spice Classic

Semifinals

Davidson 63, West Virginia 60

Gonzaga 72, Oklahoma 47

Consolation Bracket

Clemson 69, UTEP 48

Marist 50, Vanderbilt 33

Battle 4 Atlantis BracketNOV. 22-24

AT NASSAU, BAHAMAS

THURSDAY, NOV. 22

First-Round Games

Missouri 78, Stanford 70

Duke 89, Minnesota 71

Virginia Commonwealth 78, Memphis 65

Louisville 51, Northern Iowa 46

FRIDAY, NOV. 23

Loser’s Bracket Semifinals

Minnesota 84, Memphis 75

Stanford 66, Northern Iowa 50

Winner’s Bracket Semifinals

Duke 67, Virginia Commonwealth 58

Louisville 84, Missouri 61

TODAY, NOV. 24

Seventh-Place Game

Memphis vs. Northern Iowa, noon (AXS-TV)

Fifth-Place Game

Minnesota vs. Stanford, 2:30 p.m. (AXS-TV)

Third-Place Game

Virginia Commonwealth vs. Missouri, 6 p.m.

(NBCSN-TV)

Championship Game

Duke vs. Louisville, 8:30 p.m. (NBCSN-TV)

Boys BasketballEugene Invitational

TUESDAY, NOV. 27

First-round games

No. 1 Eugene vs. No. 8 Calvary Lutheran, 4:30

p.m.

No. 4 Blair Oaks vs. No. 5 School of the Osage,

6 p.m.

No. 2 California vs. No. 7 Russellville, 7:30 p.m.

No. 3 Versailles vs. No. 6 St. Elizabeth, 9 p.m.

WEDNESDAY, NOV. 28

Loser’s bracket semifinals

California-Russellville loser vs. Versailles-St. Eliza-

beth loser, 6:30 p.m.

Eugene-Calvary Lutheran loser vs. Blair Oaks-

Osage loser, 8 p.m.

THURSDAY, NOV. 29

Winner’s bracket semifinals

Eugene-Calvary Lutheran winner vs. Blair Oaks-

School of the Osage winner, 6:30 p.m.

California-Russellville winner vs. Versailles-St.

Elizabeth winner, 8 p.m.

FRIDAY, NOV. 30

Fifth-place game

TBD, 6:30 p.m.

SATURDAY, DEC. 1

Third-place game

TBD, 1 p.m.

Championship game

TBD, 4 p.m.

Tipton TournamentMONDAY, NOV. 26

First-round games

No. 2 Macks Creek vs. No. 7 Bunceton, 6 p.m.

No. 3 Chamois vs. No. 6 Jamestown, 9 p.m.

TUESDAY, NOV. 27

First-round games

No. 4 Smithton vs. No. 5 Climax Springs, 6 p.m.

No. 1 Tipton vs. No. 8 Helias JV, 9 p.m.

WEDNESDAY, NOV. 28


Smithton-Climax Springs loser vs. Tipton-Helias

JV loser, 6 p.m.

Macks Creek-Bunceton loser vs. Chamois-James-

town loser, 9 p.m.

THURSDAY, NOV. 29


Smithton-Climax Springs winner vs. Tipton-Helias

JV winner, 6 p.m.

Macks Creek-Bunceton winner vs. Chamois-James-

town winner, 9 p.m.

FRIDAY, NOV. 30

Seventh-place game

TBD, 6 p.m.

Fifth-place game

TBD, 9 p.m.

SATURDAY, DEC. 1

Third-place game

TBD, 4:30 p.m.

Championship game

TBD, 7:30 p.m.

Girls BasketballEugene Invitational

MONDAY, NOV. 26

First-round games

No. 4 Boonville vs. No. 5 Eugene, 5 p.m.

No. 2 Russellville vs. No. 7 Versailles, 6:30 p.m.

No. 3 California vs. No. 6 Camdenton, 8 p.m.

WEDNESDAY, NOV. 28

Loser’s bracket semifinal

Russellville-Versailles loser vs. California-Camden-

ton loser, 5 p.m.

Winner’s bracket semifinal

No. 1 Blair Oaks vs. Boonville-Eugene winner,

8 p.m.

THURSDAY, NOV. 29

Winner’s bracket semifinal

Russellville-Versailles winner vs. California-Cam-

denton winner, 5 p.m.

FRIDAY, NOV. 30

Fifth-place game

Boonville-Eugene loser vs. TBD, 5 p.m.

Third-place game

TBD, 8 p.m.

SATURDAY, DEC. 1

Championship game

TBD, 2:30 p.m.

Tipton TournamentMONDAY, NOV. 26

First-round games

No. 3 Bunceton vs. No. 6 Climax Springs, 4:30 p.m.

No. 2 Macks Creek vs. No. 7 Helias JV, 7:30 p.m.

TUESDAY, NOV. 27

First-round games

No. 4 Tipton vs. No. 5 Smithton, 4:30 p.m.

No. 1 Chamois vs. No. 8 Jamestown, 7:30 p.m.

WEDNESDAY, NOV. 28


Tipton-Smithton loser vs. Chamois-Jamestown

loser, 4:30 p.m.

Bunceton-Climax Springs loser vs. Macks Creek-

Helias JV loser, 7:30 p.m.

THURSDAY, NOV. 29


Tipton-Smithton winner vs. Chamois-Jamestown

winner, 4:30 p.m.

Bunceton-Climax Springs winner vs. Macks Creek-

Helias JV winner, 7:30 p.m.

FRIDAY, NOV. 30

Seventh-place game

TBD, 4:30 p.m.

Fifth-place game

TBD, 7:30 p.m.

SATURDAY, DEC. 1

Third-place game

TBD, 3 p.m.

Championship game

TBD, 6 p.m.


National League

LOS ANGELES DODGERS — Agreed to terms

with INF Ozzie Martinez, OF Alfredo Silverio, RHP

Juan Abreu, LHP Kelvin De La Cruz, RHP Gregory

Infante, C Wilkin Castillo and INF Nick Evans on minor

league contracts.

FOOTBALL

National Football League

CHICAGO BEARS — Placed G Chilo Rachal on the

reserve/non-football injury list. Signed T G Chris Riley

from the practice squad.

INDIANAPOLIS COLTS — Signed G Justin Ander-

son to the practice squad.

NEW YORK GIANTS — Signed WR Dan DePalma

to the practice squad.

PHILADELPHIA EAGLES — Claimed WR Greg

Salas off waivers from New England. Released WR

Mardy Gilyard.

PITTSBURGH STEELERS — Released TE Jamie

McCoy and G Ryan Lee from the practice squad.

Signed RB Baron Batch and LB Marshall McFadden

to the practice squad.

SAN DIEGO CHARGERS — Placed OT Jared

Gaither on injured reserve.

TAMPA BAY BUCCANEERS — Signed WR David

Douglas from the practice squad. Placed WR Arrelious

Benn on injured reserve.

HOCKEY

National Hockey League

NHL — Announced the cancellation of All-Star

weekend and regular-season games through Dec. 14.

AREAMen’s Basketball

Cougars winCOLUMBIA — The

Columbia College Cou-gars posted a 90-51 win over Central Bible College in Friday’s game at the Quality Inn Thanksgiving Classic.

Zach Rockers (Helias High School) scored 14 points for Columbia (6-0).

The Cougars will play McPherson College at 1 p.m. today in the event.Women’s BasketballLady Cougars post win

PERU, Neb. — The Columbia College Lady Cougars rallied for an 80-69 win over Peru State on Friday.

Columbia trailed 42-36 at halftime, but came on strong after intermission.

Julie Teeple (Versailles High School) had 18 points and nine rebounds for the Lady Cougars (4-2).

WILDWOOD (AP) — St. Louis Cardinals third baseman David Freese is OK after crashing his SUV while trying to avoid a deer.

The accident happened Thursday afternoon in the St. Louis suburb of Wild-wood.

The 29-year-old MVP of the 2011 World Series crashed his black 2011 Range Rover into a tree but missed the deer.

Investigators said alco-hol was not a factor in the accident.

Freese in accident

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Missouri coach Gary Pinkel said. “I’ve watched a bunch of games on him, he’s athletic, he can throw the ball well. He’s accurate, he can throw off-balance, he’s creative. You watch film on him and you just wonder how he pulls it off, but he does.”

Kickoff at Kyle Field is set for 6 p.m. (ESPN2-TV).

Manziel has carried the Aggies (9-2, 5-2 SEC) with his arm and with his legs. He’s thrown for more than 3,000 yards and 21 touchdowns while rushing for 1,114 yards and 17 touchdowns.

So how does Missouri stop him?“You’ve just got to contain him and get

him in the backfield,” Missouri defensive tackle Kony Ealy said.

That’s easier said than done. Most teams haven’t gotten him in the backfield.

Manziel has had good numbers all sea-son, but he became a household name after he led the Aggies to a 29-24 upset at top-ranked Alabama on Nov. 10. He passed for 253 yards while running for 92. His signature play came in the first quar-ter of that game when he ran into his own lineman, bobbled the ball and regained his composure to find Ryan Swope in the end zone for a touchdown.

“I really can’t say I’ve seen a type of quarterback of this caliber,” Ealy said.

Manziel broke former Missouri quar-terback Brad Smith’s record for rushing yards by a freshman quarterback earlier this season. He also generates 378.3 yards of total offense. That’s more than 38 teams by himself.

It’s no wonder Texas A&M coach Kevin Sumlin wasn’t shy when asked this week

about his quarterback’s Heisman chanc-es.

“When you see his single-season num-bers, I don’t see how he couldn’t be in that

conversation,” Sumlin said.While there are no question marks sur-

rounding the Aggies quarterback, Missouri could be without starting quarterback James Franklin. He suffered a concussion in last Saturday’s loss to Syracuse.

Franklin is listed as questionable this week. On Monday, backup Corbin Berk-stresser said he is preparing as if he is the starting quarterback. Pinkel said Franklin threw some during Tuesday’s practice. He said Wednesday it likely would be a game-day decision.

“It’s all based on symptoms, it’s all based on him hitting criteria,” Pinkel said.

If the Tigers are without Franklin, it would be a blow to a team already facing a tough, uphill task against Texas A&M. Berkstresser has struggled while filling in for Franklin this season. He’s played in nine games, including three starts, and is completing just 48 percent of his passes for 783 yards.

As Missouri clings to the possibility of bowl eligibility, the Tigers must stop one of the nation’s most explosive quarter-backs in Manziel.

“This game is really important to us and we’re going to do our best to play well,” Pinkel said.

Notes: Because of conference realign-ment, this is the third straight year the Tigers have played at Kyle Field. Missouri defeated Texas A&M 30-9 in 2010 and 38-31 last season. The Tigers have won three straight overall in the series. ... The Aggies lead the all-time series 7-5. ... Sumlin has a policy in which first-year players are not allowed to speak to the media. Sumlin said that will be lifted for Manziel at some point next week.

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their fair share of time as well.“I have every intention to

play 10 kids,” Meyer said.Devon Stegeman and Ant-

wanette Talley, both guards, are the lone seniors on the squad. Other sophomores include guards Hannah Nikodym and Alli Haug, who is currently injured. Two other freshmen, Tayler LePage and Nicole Mar-tin, round out the squad.

“We’ve got the ability to be a little more flexible in player moves than in the past,” Meyer said.

Meyer doesn’t want the game speed to be limited to when Jefferson City is on the offensive end. To be successful, he said the Lady Jays will want to speed the game up on both ends of the floor.

“Last year, we just got back on defense and we were pretty passive,” he said. “We’re going to turn up the intensity. And with the type of team we have, that’s what we’re going to need to do.

“Getting into a half-court game is probably not going to suit us. We need a controlled type of chaos out there.”

This is the earliest the Lady Jays have started the basketball season in a long time.

“This is a good thing for us,” Meyer said. “We can drill and practice, but we need to see how it works against some-body else. We need to see how we read and react at a varsity game speed.”

Today’s 12:30 p.m. contest will be the first of four in eight days for Jefferson City, who will start the home slate Monday night against Rolla.

“Playing that much early will be a positive where we can get rolling right away,” Meyer said.

As always, the Lady Jays are playing a challenging sched-ule.

“There aren’t too many, and by too many I mean none, nights off,” Meyer said. “We’re going to have to be ready each night.”

Jefferson City will play in

three tournaments — the Kick-apoo Stephanie Phillips Clas-sic, the Rock Bridge Tourna-ment as well as the State Farm Holiday Hoops Invitational.

One game not on the sched-ule is the crosstown showdown against Helias.

“I’m 100 percent confident that it’s something we’re going to get worked out in the very near future,” Meyer said.

New to the program is assis-tant Patty Thorne, who has been a head coach at Boonville and Camdenton.

“It’s great to have another set of eyes from someone who has been a head coach,” Meyer said.

Jefferson City is ready to get going and face the challenges of a new season.

“We understand the big-gest goal right now is to get better every game, every prac-tice,” Meyer said. “It’s not state championship or bust. We’re going to keep plugging away, with some long-term goals looking to February and the district tournament.

“We want to build into mak-ing good things happen down the line.”

Continued from p. 1

Jefferson City ScheduleHere is the schedule for the Jefferson City girls

basketball team. TBA — To Be Announced.

Nov. 24 vs. Pacific, 12:30 p.m.*

Nov. 26 Rolla, 7:30 p.m.

Nov. 28 at Springfield Kickapoo, 6:30 p.m.

Dec. 2 vs. St. Joseph Academy, 4 p.m.**

Dec. 6-8 at Stephanie Phillips Classic, TBA***

Dec. 11 Springfield Glendale, 6:30 p.m.

Dec. 13 vs. West Plains, 5 p.m.****

Dec. 27-29 at State Farm Hoops Classic, TBA

Jan. 4 Notre Dame de Sion, 6:30 p.m.

Jan. 10 at Waynesville, 7:30 p.m.

Jan. 14 at Nixa, 6:30 p.m.

Jan. 17-19 at Rock Bridge Invitational, TBA

Jan. 25 Webster Groves, 6:30 p.m.

Jan. 29 at Ozark, 7:30 p.m.

Feb. 1 Springfield Parkview, 6:30 p.m.

Feb. 5 at Hickman, 6:30 p.m.

Feb. 7 at Rock Bridge, 7:30 p.m.

Feb. 12 Incarnate Word Academy, 6:30 p.m.

Feb. 19 at Parkway South, 7 p.m.

*At St. James Shootout

**At Norm Stewart Classic in Columbia

***At Springfield Kickapoo

****At Waynesville High School

Lady Jays: Speed up game

Tigers: Third consecutive season playing at Kyle Field

AP

Missouri guard Phil Pressey jumps over Louisville’s Wayne Blackshear during Friday night’s game at the Battle 4 Atlantis in Paradise Island, Bahamas.

Lincoln women top Harris-Stowe State

By Brent Foster

[email protected]

Some games are just dif-ficult to get up for.

Coming off the Thanksgiv-ing holiday, that was the situ-ation the Lincoln Blue Tigers found themselves in against Harris-Stowe on Friday.

The Blue Tigers had no trouble putting away the Lady Hornets in an 85-46 victory at Jason Gym in the LU Thanks-giving Classic.

But that doesn’t mean every-thing was perfect in the eyes of head coach Nicole Collier.

“We weren’t very disciplined as a team,” Collier said. “Over-all I was not happy with our performance.”

Lincoln committed 23 turn-overs and seemed to be both-ered by Harris-Stowe’s slow pace.

The Lady Hornets (1-6), who played with just six players, tried to slow the game down as

much as possible, often lulling Lincoln to sleep on defense.

It worked for most of the game before Lincoln decided to speed the game up with some full-court pressure.

“They walk the ball up the floor,” Collier said. “It’s hard to get your intensity level up, so I thought we struggled with that and ended up picking them up full court to kind of pick the game up a little bit.”

Collier added: “We didn’t dictate what they did, they dic-tated what we did. I thought that was our biggest challenge tonight.”

Despite some of Lincoln’s struggles, the outcome was never in doubt. The Blue Tigers

led 37-19 at halftime and wore down Harris-Stowe with their depth.

The Blue Tigers (3-1) shot better than 50 percent from the field in both halves and shot 56 percent from the field for the game.

Freddie Sims and Arriana Walker led the Blue Tigers with 13 points each. Courtney Coul-ter netted 12 points on four 3-pointers, while Jackeya Mitch-ell added 11.

“Courtney did a good job of coming in and knocking down shots when she was open,” Collier said. “That’s exactly what she was recruited for.”

Harris-Stowe, a National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics school, never threat-ened in the second half as it went nearly four minutes with-out scoring. By that point, Lin-coln led by 23 points.

Lincoln helped itself on the defensive side of the ball by forcing 25 turnovers, including 16 steals.

Harris-Stowe shot just 33 percent from the field and was just 8-of-22 from the foul line. Things were bad from the beginning, as Harris-Stowe received a technical before the game started for not having its starting lineup in the score-book prior to the start of the game.

Kayla Fisher led the Lady Hornets with 12 points.

“Defensively we gambled, and I’d like to see us be disci-plined and stay with our man and stay with our assignments,” Collier said. “In a game like this you can do that and see if you can get away with it.”

Things likely won’t be as easy for the Blue Tigers when they host Missouri Western State at 4 p.m. today. Missouri Western lost to Truman State 67-65 in Friday’s other game.

“I’d like to take care of the ball a lot better,” Collier said. “If we have 23 turnovers (today) then we’re going to be in for a long night.”

Truman plays Harris-Stowe at 2 p.m. to start today’s action.

Finding some things not to like


Lincoln’s Alicia Johnson grabs the pass just out of the reach of Shanique Buford of Harris-Stowe State during Friday night’s game in the LU Thanksgiving Classic at Jason Gym.

Lincoln 85,

Harris-Stowe 46HARRIS-STOWE (46)

Morris 3-6 0-2 6, Buford 3-8 3-7 9, Minner 2-6 4-7

10, Fisher 4-14 1-2 12, Vaugh 3-12 0-4 7, Phillips 1-2

0-0 2.Totals 33-59 11-20 46.

LINCOLN (85)

Booker 4-5 0-0 8, Johnson 3-7 2-2 8, Mitchell 5-8 0-

0 11, Sims 5-13, 1-2 13, Walker 5-6 3-4 13, Jefferson

2-4 0-2 5, Coulter 4-7 0-0 12, Neel 2-3 2-2 6, Rhoiney

1-4, 0-2 2, Price 2-2 3-4 7, Wright 0-0 0-2 6 Totals

33-59 11-20 85.

Harris-Stowe 19 27 — 46Lincoln 37 48 — 85

3-point goals—Harris-Stowe 6-16 (Minner 2-4,

Fisher 3-5, Vaugh 1-7). Lincoln 8-15 (Mitchell 1-2,

Sims 2-6, Jefferson 1-1, Coulter 4-6). Rebounds—

Harris-Stowe 23 (Morris 5), Lincoln 48 (Booker,

Johnson 8). Turnovers—Harris-Stowe 25, Lincoln

23. Total fouls—Harris-Stowe 15, Lincoln 18. Fouled

out—None. Technical fouls—Harris-Stowe, bench.

AP

Texas A&M quarterback Johnny Man-ziel watches from the bench during the third quarter of last Saturday’s game against Sam Houston State in College Station, Texas.

PARADISE ISLAND, Baha-mas (AP) — Luke Hancock scored 19 points and Russ Smith had 18 points and six steals and No. 2 Louisville looked more like itself with an 84-61 victory Friday night over No. 13 Missouri in the semifi-nals of the Battle 4 Atlantis.

The Cardinals had a rough-er-than-expected opening-round game, a 51-46 victory over Northern Iowa, and coach Rick Pitino looked and sound-ed upset after the game.

Louisville was back to being one of the better defensive teams in the nation against the Tigers, forcing 23 turnovers that the Cardinals turned into 31 points.

Missouri’s shooting per-centage (46.0) looked better than it was considering the Tigers (4-1) were able to get off 50 shots, 13 less than Louis-

ville, which shot 49.2 percent.Missouri will play VCU at 6

p.m. today.

Louisville downs MU

Louisville 84, MU 61MISSOURI (4-1)

Bowers 3-6 0-2 6, Oriakhi 7-11 1-5 15, Pressey

6-15 0-0 15, Bell 0-0 4-4 4, Ross 1-4 2-2 5, Criswell

4-5 1-2 9, Webster-Chan 2-6 1-2 6, Jankovic 0-3 1-2

1, Rosburg 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 23-50 10-19 61.

LOUISVILLE (5-0)

Blackshear 4-9 3-4 12, Behanan 6-8 1-3 13, Dieng

2-6 1-3 5, Smith 7-17 3-3 18, Siva 4-8 3-4 13, Ware

0-1 0-0 0, Hancock 6-9 2-3 19, Henderson 0-0 0-0 0,

Harrell 1-3 0-0 2, Price 0-0 0-0 0, Van Treese 1-2 0-0

2. Totals 31-63 13-20 84.

Halftime—Louisville 39-31. 3-Point Goals—Mis-

souri 5-15 (Pressey 3-6, Ross 1-3, Webster-Chan

1-4, Jankovic 0-2), Louisville 9-21 (Hancock 5-7, Siva

2-3, Blackshear 1-4, Smith 1-7). Fouled Out—None.

Rebounds—Missouri 37 (Oriakhi 8), Louisville 32

(Dieng, Smith 6). Assists—Missouri 13 (Pressey

7), Louisville 16 (Siva 6). Total Fouls—Missouri 17,

Louisville 17. A—3,153.

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Helias (No. 5, 10-4), how-ever, was one of a group of talented teams that figured to fight it out in the other half of the state bracket. The Crusad-ers, currently on a six-game winning streak, ended the reg-ular season at 5-4.

“I think during the season people may not have thought we were very good because of our losses, but now I think they realize we were working to get to this point,” Pitts said. “We’re battle-tested.”

The Crusaders came out on the short end of some of those battles — three of the losses were to Class 6-ranked schools Hickman, Rock Bridge and C.B.C. But the goal wasn’t an impressive regular-sea-son record, it was to be at the Edward Jones Dome today.

“Our schedule has gotten us ready for this,” Pitts said. “We know we’re a good team and we have a lot of confidence in ourselves.”

The Cardinals, who have won their games by an aver-age score of 45-9.5 this sea-son, have racked up more than 4.900 yards of offense.

The run game has account-ed for 4,251 of those yards. Phoenix Johnson (5-8, 190, sr.) leads the way with 1,334 yards (8.6 avg.) and 23 touchdowns.

“He’s a very quick back, but we’ve seen quick guys this season.” Pitts said. “His speed won’t have us off-guard, like I think it does with some of their other opponents.”

Cooper Smith (5-11, 185, sr.) is right behind Johnson with 1,038 yards (8.3) and 18 scores. Cardinal quarterback John Roderique (6-4, 195, sr.) has run for 675 yards (9.4) and 13 touchdowns.

The run game bears some similarities to Hannibal, Pitts said.

“Having played Hannibal twice, it’s a help,” Pitts said. “But they run it better than anybody in the state and they throw it better than Hannibal.

“They can beat you throwing the football if you let them.”

Roderique is 88-of-133 through the air for 1,565 yards and 19 touchdowns to just four interceptions. Tight end Kohl Slaughter (6-3, 215, sr.) leads the team with 34 receptions for 796 yards and nine touch-downs.

Pitts said the key to slowing down the Cardinals, who have just 12 total turnovers this sea-son, is to be patient and know your role on every play.

“They are equipped to keep executing and know eventu-ally, it’s going to work,” he said. “You have to be sound the entire ballgame because if you’re not for even one play, it can turn into a touchdown.”

Defensively, the Cardinals have not allowed more than 10 points in a game since giv-ing up 21 in a Sept. 21 contest against Nixa.

Senior inside linebacker Dalton Humphrey (5-11, 160) leads with 104 total tackles, followed by senior free safety Landon Baker (5-10, 165) with 85 and senior defensive end Jose Speer (6-3, 220) with 80.

“They are probably in the smaller half of who we’ve played this season when it comes to size on defense,” Pitts said. “But they really make up for it with speed and intensity.

“It’s a phenomenal group. They’re fast, they’re aggressive, they’re great tacklers.”

Helias will be without a pair of two-way starters on the line. Will Fife and Merlin Phelps both suffered season-ending knee injuries early in last Saturday’s semifinal win at Harrisonville.

“When you lose guys like Will Fife and Merlin Phelps, you need players to step in and play well to fill their shoes,” Pitts said. “Brody Buschjost and Colton Ferguson, guys who played JV but haven’t really seen much time at the varsity level on offense, really stepped in and played well.

“We weren’t hiding them, we did what we had planned and they performed well.”

Defensively, Blake Wilbers and Buschjost played well in extensive time on the line last

Saturday.“That just shows we’re not

about one group, one guy, one class,” Pitts said. “We’re a pro-gram.”

Michael Tannehill, who left last Saturday’s game with an injury as well, will play today at linebacker for the Crusad-ers. Starting cornerback Jordan Backes, who has missed most of the last two games with a concussion, has been cleared to play as well.

Webb City defeated Helias 63-21 in the sectional round of the playoffs last season.

“That’s not the same team we’re taking to the Dome,” Pitts said.

Pitts hopes this year’s edi-tion of the Crusaders has enjoyed this week and will play well today.

“I couldn’t be happier for the school, the program, the players,” he said. “We need to soak up this experience. Yes, it’s about a football game and winning a state title, but we need to enjoy everything that goes along with it.

“We’re proud of what we do and I’m glad people around the

state are going to get a chance to see us play.”

Notes: This is Helias’ third state championship game appearance in the past five seasons. Helias lost 41-34 to Webb City in 2008 and 27-13 to Kearney in 2009. Three current Crusaders — Anthony Wood-ruff, Justus Schulte and Cole Distler — dressed for the 2009 title game as freshmen. ... Pitts has now advanced to the state title game as a player, an assis-tant coach and a head coach at Helias. “This is probably the most sweet,” he said. ... Webb City has punted just 11 times this season. The Cardinals have kicked off 106 times.

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SEASONSTATISTICSHelias (10-4)

Helias Opponents

First Downs 236 175

Rushes-yards 478-2,358 528-2,305

Avg. yards per carry 4.9 4.4

Passing (C-A-I) 207-348-13 142-264-17

Passing yards 2,601 1,567

Totals yards 4,838 3,534

Punts-avg. 35-34.2 59-28.6

Fumbles-lost 20-9 27-11

Penalties-yards 61-491 97-734

Helias 126 157 59 82 7 — 433

Opponents 37 49 82 73 8 — 239

RUSHING Att. Yds. Avg. LG TDG. Buschjost 130 774 6.0 44 8Porter 147 526 3.6 30 8M. Tannehill 65 311 4.8 21 7G. McCurren 41 287 7.0 67 4Distler 20 108 5.4 22 1Schulte 8 66 8.3 31 3Tomblinson 10 58 5.8 12 0Rackers 14 55 3.9 13 0N. McCurren 12 44 3.7 10 0Faddoul 2 24 12.0 20 1T. Buschjost 1 1 1.0 1 0Winter 1 (-1) 0.0 0 0Team 10 (-86) 0 0 0

PASSING

Comp. Att. Pct. Yds. TD Int.

Porter 178 295 60.3 2,405 24 11

Distler 15 34 44.1 202 1 1

G. Buschjost 10 18 55.6 92 2 1

Faddoul 1 1 100.0 6 0 0

RECEIVING

No. Yds. Avg. TD

Distler 58 904 15.6 6

A. Woodruff 48 740 15.4 10

Hentges 38 383 10.1 6

R. Tannehill 14 147 10.5 1

Frank 8 117 14.6 1

M. Tannehill 6 61 10.2 0

Wildhaber 6 42 7.0 1

T. Buschjost 4 48 12.0 0

G. McCurren 4 45 11.3 0

G. Buschjost 4 36 9.0 2

Tomblinson 2 21 10.5 0

J. Woodruff 2 13 6.5 0

Hake 1 17 17.0 0

Schulte 1 17 17.0 0

Rackers 1 7 7.0 0

Schaumburg 1 6 6.0 0

C. McCollum 1 5 5.0 0

SCORINGTouchdowns

TD Rush. Rec. Ret. Pts.

G. Buschjost 10 8 2 0 60

A. Woodruff 10 0 10 0 60

Porter 8 8 0 0 48

*-Distler 7 1 6 0 46

M. Tannehill 7 7 0 0 42

Hentges 6 0 6 0 36

G. McCurren 4 4 0 0 24

Schulte 3 3 0 0 18

Faddoul 1 1 0 0 6

Frank 1 0 1 0 6

R. Tannehill 1 0 1 0 6

Wildhaber 1 0 1 0 6

*-Has two 2-point conversions.

Kicking

PAT FG Lg. Pts.

A. Woodruff 22-23 6-8 40 40

Szumigala 28-28 1-2 26 31

Tomblinson 2-3 0-0 -- 2

J. Woodruff 0-2 0-0 -- 0

PUNTING

No. Avg. Lg. Blk.

Szumigala 32 34.9 64 0

Distler 2 30.0 37 0

J. Woodruff 1 31.0 31 0

TACKLES

Sacks included in totals

solo asst. total

Schulte 97 105 202

M. Tannehill 53 49 102

Schepers 58 41 99

Ward 37 40 77

Phelps 36 37 73

Szumigala 46 26 72

Colonius 28 43 71

Fife 34 35 69

Hentges 28 31 59

Iven 21 32 53

Wildhaber 21 32 53

Dudenhoeffer 25 20 45

T. Buschjost 18 25 43

Rackers 16 26 42

Budd 18 17 35

Backes 21 11 32

Distler 13 18 31

Schaumburg 14 14 28

Davis 11 14 25

R. Tannehill 12 11 23

Lavery 12 10 22

Rhea 9 12 21

N. Haslag 10 8 18

B. Buschjost 8 9 17

Hirsch 6 7 13

Nice 5 7 12

Becker 0 11 11

G. Buschjost 7 4 11

Wilbers 4 6 10

INTERCEPTIONS

Distler 4, Backes 3, Colonius, Dudenhoeffer, Szu-

migala and Ward 2, T. Buschjost, Schaumburg, and

M. Tannehill 1.

SACKS

Hentges 6, Fife, Phelps, Schulte and Wildhaber 2,

B. Buschjost, Davis, Schepers, Sneller, Szumigala

and Ward 1.

TACKLES FOR LOSS

Ward 10, Schulte 9, M. Tannehill 5, Schepers 4,

Phelps 3, Backes, Davis, Fife, N. Haslag, Hentges,

Iven and Szumigala 2, G. Buschjost, T. Buschjost,

J. Haslag, Hirsch, Lesko, Nice, Rhea, Stone, R. Tan-

nehill and Wilbers 1.

RESULTS, SCHEDULE

Aug. 24 Harrisonville 38, Helias 37 OT

Aug. 31 Helias 35, Sedalia Smith-Cotton 6

Sept. 8 Helias 27, Quincy (Ill.) Notre Dame 0

Sept. 14 Hickman 21, Helias 14

Sept. 21 Helias 56, Vashon 24

Sept. 28 Rock Bridge 35, Helias 6

Oct. 6 Helias 59, MICDS 19

Oct. 12 C.B.C. 42, Helias 14

Oct. 20 Helias 31, Hannibal 18*

Oct. 25 Helias 54, Kirksville 7•

Oct. 31 Helias 38, St. Dominic 14•

Nov. 5 Helias 14, Hannibal 10•

Nov. 10 Helias 31, Clayton 8••

Nov. 17 Helias 17, Harrisonville 7•••

Nov. 24 Webb City••••

*Homecoming. •-Class 4 District 6 game. ••-Class 4

quarterfinal. •••-Class 4 semifinal.••••-Class 4 cham-

pionship.

Blair Oaks (13-1) Blair Oaks OpponentsFirst downs 179 144Rushes-yards 550-3,862 580-2,073Avg. yards per carry 7.0 3.6Passing (C-A-I) 121-224-12 113-253-27Passing yards 2,026 1,373Total yards 5,888 3,446Punts-yards 28-946 68-2,240Avg. yards per punt 33.8 32.9Fumbles-lost 29-12 26-16Penalties-yards 73-629 83-710

Blair Oaks 172 240 166 74 — 652Opponents 58 55 26 61 — 200

RUSHING Att. Yds. Avg. LG TDOtto 150 1,218 8.1 65 23Castillo 172 942 5.5 56 13Roberts 95 907 9.5 80 12Maasen 24 284 11.8 72 5Bischoff 15 153 10.2 34 2Jamerson 18 147 8.2 58 3Hair 24 114 4.8 32 0Wilde 10 40 4.0 14 0Falotico 8 35 4.4 11 0Schell 4 31 7.8 13 1Gaydos 5 29 5.8 9 0Stockman 5 17 3.4 15 1Bernskoetter 1 9 9.0 9 0Closser 1 -5 0.0 0 0Team 14 -39 0.0 0 0

PASSING Com. Att. Pct. Yds. TD Int.Castillo 98 186 52.7 1,710 21 11Hair 22 34 64.7 316 7 0Maasen 0 1 0.0 0 0 0Schell 0 3 0.0 0 0 1

RECEIVING No. Yds. Avg. TDMaasen 30 496 16.5 7Otto 23 557 24.2 6Bernskoetter 13 278 21.4 6Drehle 13 247 19.0 4Clutts 12 119 9.9 3Roberts 9 103 11.4 0Bischoff 5 81 16.2 1Jamerson 5 80 16.0 0Lock 5 37 7.4 0Holstein 2 34 17.0 0Rackers 2 12 6.0 0O. Luebbering 1 5 5.0 1Schell 1 4 4.0 0Closser 1 2 2.0 0Falotico 1 -3 0.0 0

SCORINGTouchdowns

TD Rush. Rec. Ret. Pts.Otto 31 23 6 2 202*Castillo 13 13 0 0 90**Maasen 13 5 7 1 80***Roberts 12 12 0 0 72Bernskoetter 7 0 6 1 42Drehle 5 0 4 1 30Jamerson 4 3 0 1 24Bischoff 3 2 1 0 22****Clutts 3 0 3 0 18Holstein 1 0 0 1 6O. Luebbering 1 0 1 0 6Schell 1 1 0 0 6Stockman 1 1 0 0 6Wilde 1 0 0 1 6Hair 0 0 0 0 2*****Fifer 0 0 0 0 2*******Has eight 2-point conversions. **Has six 2-point conversions. ***Has one 2-point conversion. ****Has two 2-point conversions. *****Has one two-point con-version. ******Recorded safety.

Kicking PAT FG Lg. Pts.Cooper 37-58 0-1 --- 37Schell 1-2 0-0 --- 1

PUNTING No. Yds. Avg. Lg. Blk.Castillo 13 437 33.6 60 0Maasen 11 403 36.6 57 1Hair 2 65 32.5 38 0Schell 2 41 20.5 39 0

TACKLESThrough 13 games

Sacks included in totals solo asst. totalRoberts 52 72 124Otto 48 70 118Castillo 27 44 71Koelling 27 43 70Bischoff 16 53 69Clutts 26 32 58Jamerson 21 37 58Maasen 33 22 55Haney 17 38 55Stockman 21 30 51Holstein 24 27 51Singer 15 36 51Fifer 14 34 48Lock 18 27 45Drehle 22 17 39Gaydos 13 25 38Bernskoetter 9 13 22Falotico 8 9 17Cumpton 5 7 12Glover 6 5 11Bisges 4 7 11

INTERCEPTIONSBernskoetter 5; Maasen 4; Clutts and Jamerson 2;

Bischoff, Bisges, Castillo, Closser, Cooper, Drehle, Haney, Otto, Roberts, Singer and Wilde 1.

SACKSKoelling and Otto 6; Roberts 4.5; Fifer and Singer 4;

Jamerson 2.5; Haney 2; Holstein 1.5; Bisges, Castillo and Drehle 1; Stockman .5.

TACKLES FOR LOSSOtto 16; Roberts 14; Bischoff and Haney 8; Gaydos

and Koelling 7; Holstein 6; Singer 5; Fifer and Stock-man 4; Clutts and Drehle 3; Berhorst, Castillo, Lock and Wilde 2; Cumpton, Falotico, Jamerson, Jurgens-meyer and Maasen 1.

RESULTS, SCHEDULEAug. 24 Blair Oaks 24, Moberly 14Aug. 31 Blair Oaks 59, Owensville 0Sept. 7 Blair Oaks 34, Hallsville 14Sept. 14 Blair Oaks 43, Southern Boone 18Sept. 21 Blair Oaks 62, School of the Osage 13Sept. 28 California 31, Blair Oaks 19Oct. 5 Blair Oaks 62, Warsaw 15•Oct. 12 Blair Oaks 55, Versailles 6Oct. 19 Blair Oaks 35, Eldon 6Oct. 25 Blair Oaks 68, Tolton/Calvary 13*Oct. 31 Blair Oaks 62, Montgomery County 14*Nov. 5 Blair Oaks 49, South Callaway 21*Nov. 10 Blair Oaks 34, Clark County 3**Nov. 17 Blair Oaks 46, Holden 32***Nov. 24 Lamar, 2:15 p.m.****•Homecoming. *District game. **State quarterfinal game. ***State semifinal game. ****State champion-ship game at Edward Jones Dome in St. Louis

Helias: Patience key on defense for the Crusaders

The Falcons (13-1), meanwhile, enter with an average of 46.8 points per contest, as they have an edge of 652-200 over their foes.

“They do some unique things,” Drehle said of Lamar. “Everything they do is a lit-tle bit different. They do that so you have to spend a lot of time preparing for them and what they’re hoping for is you don’t spend the time you need to offensively.”

The uniqueness starts with the Tigers’ offense.

“It’s a double-wing with two quarter-backs,” Drehle said. “What I see is a com-bination of three different offensive sets. It’s the double-wing like what we saw out of California, you’ve got a little bit of the single-wing action and misdirection, then you’ve got a little bit of Wing T.

“Because of that, it becomes a very unique animal. They thrive on is the fact that you’ve got to spend so much time preparing for their offense. Then they play extremely fast defensively and try to get the ball back and go score, go score, go score and run you off the field.”

To make things even more difficult, that odd offense operates out of a no-huddle attack.

“They two-platoon their offensive and defensive lines so those kids don’t have to play both ways,” Drehle said. “They feel like they gain an advantage because their kids are rested. We feel like we push the pace and we gain an advantage because we wear your kids down. So it’s going to become a battle of wills. Hopefully our kids are up for the challenge. I think they will be.”

The Tigers’ top two rushers are a pair of juniors, Jared Beshore (6-0, 185) and Levi Petersen (6-2, 190). Beshore has carried the ball 158 times for 1,946 yards (12.3 avg.) with 26 touchdowns, while Petersen has 219 carries for 1,883 yards (8.6 avg.) with 31 scores. The two have combined for a whopping 65 all-purpose touchdowns, as Peterson has 34 and Beshore has 31.

Lamar has completed just 18-of-32 passes for 309 yards all season.

Stopping the run-heavy attack boils down to one thing.

“You can’t look for the football, that’s the whole key,” Drehle said. “You have to read the linemen. They’re not going to pull a lineman just to pull him. If he’s pulling, the ball’s going.

“If you’re caught looking at what is going on in the backfield, those linemen are so big they get on to you and you can’t get off. We’ve got to read keys, we’ve got to play aggressively, we’ve got to try to neu-tralize the pull with the guards as best we can. Then we’ve got to tackle really well.

“... You’ve got to find a way to force the ball to come inside. Most of the time you want to spill it, spill it, spill it, then chase it and tackle it. With this offense, more of it is trying to funnel it inside where your kids can get on them. That’s a big task, because they’re so good at what they do.”

On the defensive side of the ball, Lamar is led by senior linebackers Chad Rice (6-

3, 170) and Jade Morgan (6-1, 195). Rice has a team-high 121 tackles to go with 41⁄2 sacks, while Morgan is close behind with 120 tackles that includes seven sacks. Junior defensive end Sam Bailey (6-5, 235) leads the squad with 71⁄2 sacks.

“They play a 4-3 front and it’s cover-zero — they’re man-to-man everywhere,” Drehle said. “They chase motion and they bring blitzes and their down kids are really quick and strong. They just keep bringing constant pressure and it works. At this level, the number of bodies they have and the ability to run them out on the field makes a difference.”

Another area where the Tigers are unique is on special teams.

“They spot-kick everything and they back their (coverage) kids up — they’ll be almost 20 yards deep as they come run-ning at the ball,” Drehle said. “They try to time it out and their kicker will kick it real-ly high, then he’ll kick it on the ground, he’ll kick it all over the place.

“Then it’s just a matter of being able to calm your nerves and handle the ball. We keep telling our kids, ‘All we want is the ball. Just fair-catch it. We don’t have to do anything fancy. They can’t hit you if you call for a fair catch, just relax and catch the ball.’ That’s easier said than done. You’re standing out there on a big stage, they’re running down your throat and all of a sudden, here’s the ball. You get caught watching them instead of focusing on your job.”

With the Tigers fully aware of all the distractions that come with a state title game, Drehle said he’s trying to make sure the Falcons treat today like any other game day.

“That’s absolutely the key,” he said. “That’s what you want to do and that’s what we tried to do last week (in a semi-final win at Holden). We wanted to make Saturday as much like the previous Satur-day and the previous game preparations.

“That last 31⁄2 hours prior to game time, we want to make it as normal as we pos-sibly can. We’re going to get up and eat breakfast and do all the things we normal-ly do, get to the stadium at the same time. Obviously there are other things that go into it (today) and your warmup is going to be different because of the format. But we want to try to make everything, from a mental-preparation standpoint, as close to what we do as we can.”

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Game 1Blair Oaks 24, Moberly 14

The Falcons needed a total team effort to open the season at home on a winning note, as they overcame injuries to three key contribu-tors against the Spartans.

But quarterback Daniel Castillo was able to carry the load, as he combined for 265 yards of offense — 116 rushing and 148 through the air.

“The thing I’ve told our kids is it’s courage. It takes a different kind of courage to hang in there and (play without those stars). That’s not easy to do and we found a way to do that. I felt like we beat a good Moberly football team.” — Blair Oaks coach Brad Drehle.

Game 2Blair Oaks 59, Owensville 0

The Falcons raced out to a 47-0 lead at half-time and cruised to a win over the Dutchmen on a rainy, sloppy night in Owensville.

Seven different Blair Oaks players had touch-downs — Derek Otto and Joey Bernskoetter had two each — while the Falcons racked up 429 yards of offense.

The defense preserved the shutout even though the Blair Oaks freshmen and soph-omores were playing against the Owensville starters in the fourth quarter.

“To see young kids step up and do it was nice. Our freshmen had to step up twice (in the final three minutes) against what was basically their varsity. It was nice to see them compete like that.” — Drehle.

Game 3Blair Oaks 34, Hallsville 14

Facing a suprising 14-13 deficit at home to a program in just its fifth year of varsity ball, the Falcons posted a shutout in the second half.

The Blair Oaks defense held the Indians to just 3 total yards after halftime and 168 for the game. One of the key plays was a fourth-quarter safety by Dalton Fifer that resulted in another Blair Oaks touchdown after the free kick.

“The safety was big. ... The momentum changed there. (Fifer) gave him a little twist stunt and he came free and was able to get (the quarterback). That was big for the defense to get that.” — Drehle.

Game 4Blair Oaks 43, Southern Boone 18

Otto took the opening kickoff back 95 yards for a touchdown and the Falcons were never seriously challenged after that.

Blair Oaks raced out to a 43-6 lead before the host Eagles were able to score a pair of touch-downs late against the Falcons’ reserves.

“To be honest with you, that’s the first time somebody’s kicked to us this year. It was great to see Derek have the opportunity to do it, he works hard and is one of our leaders.” — Drehle.

Game 5Blair Oaks 62, School of the Osage 13In what was supposed to be a hard-fought

contest, the play of the defense helped the Fal-cons record a blowout at home.

Osage quarterback Bo Dean came into the game averaging 398 yards of total offense, but the Falcons held him to just 162. Blair Oaks had five sacks, came up with two fumble recoveries and also had an interception.

“We’re certainly not used to that (lopsided final score). That’s something our kids and our coaches aren’t used to. Sometimes you stand over there on the sidelines and say, ‘What do you do?’” — Osage coach Dan Henderson.

Game 6California 31, Blair Oaks 19

It was a game of firsts — the first loss of the season for the Falcons and the first time Cali-fornia had beaten Blair Oaks since 2002.

A poor first half at Riley Field in California put the Falcons in a 24-6 hole, as they were outgained 257-34. But Blair Oaks flipped the script after intermission, outgaining California 134-69, and eventually closed the gap to five points before falling.

In what would become a major change the team would embrace the rest of the season, the Falcons went from lining up in the shotgun on every play to lining up under center, and it would jump-start the rushing game.

“Blair Oaks got the momentum and we couldn’t get it back for a while,. They’re a good football team. ... It was nice to get the big lead in the first half and it was nice our kids responded when they could have crumbled. (We) responded in the fourth quarter.” — California coach Marty Albertson.

Game 7Blair Oaks 62, Warsaw 15

With the emphasis on offense firmly cen-tered on the run game, the Falcons racked up 544 yards on the ground on their way to an astonishing 713 yards of total offense.

The Homecoming crowd got to see three Fal-cons run for 130 yards or more, as Castillo had 181, Ashton Maasen had 160 on just five carries, and Otto had 130.

The Wildcats led 15-12 after one quarter, but the Falcons ended with 50 unanswered points.

“We’re hoping that (the ground game) expands our playbook and makes us harder to defend, a little harder to prepare for.” — Drehle.

Game 8Blair Oaks 55, Versailles 6

A whopping eight different Falcons scored touchdowns as Blair Oaks cruised to a win at home over the Tigers.

Castillo led the way with three of them on

the ground, plus another two through the air. He completed 88 percent of his passes (14-of-16) for 241 yards and also led the team with 84 yards rushing on 10 carries.

“(Blair Oaks is) very hard to prepare for. When (Castillo) runs the option, they’re tough to stop because he is a solid, solid player. And they’ve got a good running back and they can sub a couple people in. ... They’re very physical and they expect to win. Coach Drehle does a real good job with them.” — Versailles coach Glen Lemmon.

Game 9Blair Oaks 35, Eldon 6

A three-pronged attack led the Falcons to a win on the road, as Blair Oaks had a trio of 100-yard rushers — Otto had 138, Eli Roberts had 108 and Castillo added 107.

The Falcons raced out to a 20-0 lead at half-time and gave up just one third-quarter score. Blair Oaks ended with a 399-132 in total yards.

“I thought our kids did a really good job handling themselves and running the football and being physical. As the game wore on, I think you saw our conditioning take effect. Derek, Eli and Daniel, that’s kind of the look we thought we’d be able to get to by the middle of the season (before injuries hampered them).” — Drehle.

Game 10Blair Oaks 68, Tolton/Calvary 13

The Falcons opened district play as the top seed and showed why, racing out to leads of 42-0 after one quarter and 62-0 at halftime on the way to an easy victory.

It eased the pain of playing without Castillo, who suffered a foot injury in practice and would miss two straight games. His replacement, Jor-dan Hair, passed for 44 yards and ran for 25 more while needing to play just one half.

For the second time this season, eight dif-ferent Falcons had touchdowns in a game, with Roberts and Otto scoring two apiece.

“They all did a good job. It’s one of those nights where hopefully your kids do what they’re supposed to — play fast and execute. We’ve got to take a step forward every time we get on the field at this time of year, and hopefully we were able to.” — Drehle.

Game 11Blair Oaks 62, Montgomery County 14In a district semifinal expected to closer than

it ended up, the Falcons amassed 499 yards of offense while ripping the Wildcats at home.

Blair Oaks scored 41 unanswered points to start the contest behind strong line play from Austin Wilbers, Tucker Berhorst, Nick Bax, Jacob Koelling, Hayden Haney, Zach Holstein and Dalton Fifer. Hair threw four TD passes, while Otto and Roberts scored three times each.

“There were several things that kind of fell into place for us. I was proud of what our kids were able to do. It was just a fun night.” — Dre-hle.

Game 12Blair Oaks 49, South Callaway 21

After the Bulldogs tied the district title game at 14 late in the first half, the home team responded with two scores in the final 31⁄2 min-utes before halftime to take control.

Otto racked up two touchdown runs, one touchdown reception and returned an inter-ception for a score to outscore South Callaway by himself. Castillo returned and threw two TD passes, and in what was becoming a common occurrence, Otto and Roberts surpassed the 100-yard plateau on the ground. Roberts led all players with 144, while Otto had 132.

“I think our offensive line did an outstanding job and Derek and Eli, what can you say about them? They ran hard. There were a lot of yards after contact. Those two kids flat got after it. They’re physical inside and that physical play wears on people after awhile.” — Drehle.

Game 13Blair Oaks 34, Clark County 3

Both teams had trouble finding their way onto the scoreboard until the Indians finally scored on their first field-goal attempt of the season, that coming with 4:12 before halftime. But the ensuing kickoff changed the complex-ion of the quarterfinal game.

Otto took the ball at the 10, advanced it to the 15, where Maasen took it on a reverse. He then took it the remaining 85 yards up the left sideline for a backbreaking score. That was the start of 34 unanswered points, with the Falcons getting 20 in the third quarter. Bernskoetter led the Falcon defense with three interceptions.

“I believe high school is about momentum. We had the momentum there — we’d never kicked a field goal all year. Being able to be up 3-0 and with both teams’ defenses playing very, very well was big. Then they come back and get the reverse — that’s high-school football.” — Clark County coach Quentin Hamner.

Game 14Blair Oaks 46, Holden 32

After four straight home games, the Falcons proved to be right at home at Holden.

Roberts and Otto combined for more than 400 all-purpose yards as the Falcons earned a spot in the state title game for the first time since 2007. Roberts racked up 219 yards rushing and receiving, while Otto had 110 yards rushing and a 74-yard touchdown catch.

Holden’s heralded running back, Max Mick-ey, became Missouri’s all-time leader in single-season rushing with 3,373 yards after he carried the ball for 140 yards on 27 carries. But it fell short of his average of 250 yards per game.

“I’m really excited. I’ve been wanting to do this since I was a little kid. I grew up watching all those Dome teams, it’s nice to be able to do it myself.” — Roberts

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Game 1Harrisonville 38, Helias 37 (OT)

It was No. 2 vs. No. 3 to start the season in Harrisonville. For this game, No. 3 was a little bit better.

Harrisonville recovered from a late Helias rally to send the game to overtime, then ran in a 2-point conversion to defeat Helias in the season opener between the highly ranked teams.

Helias senior receiver Anthony Woodruff showed a glimpse of things to come, hauling in seven passes for 208 yards and four touchdowns from quarterback Wyatt Por-ter.

“It was a great high-school football game. It was what you would expect from a game between the No, 2 and No. 3 teams in the state.” — Helias head coach Phil Pitts.

Game 2Helias 35, Sedalia S-C 6

After giving up 347 yards on the ground to Harrisonville, the Helias defense felt it had something to prove.

In a rainy contest at Seda-lia, the Crusaders made their point. Helias gave up just 152 total yards in a dominating vic-tory against Smith-Cotton.

On the offensive side, the Crusaders racked up 35 points and 288 total yards in the first half.

“We were a little embar-rassed with ourselves. We felt like we let down our entire team against Harrisonville and we wanted to make a stand.” — Helias linebacker Justus Schulte.

Game 3

Helias 27, Quincy N.D. 0In their home opener, the

Crusaders dominated the line of scrimmage on both sides of the ball in blanking the Raid-ers.

The Raiders entered the game averaging more than 270 yards on the ground, but were limited to 105 by the Crusad-ers.

On the other side of the ball, Helias ran for a then season-high 200 yards, led by Michael Tannehill’s 91.

“We got our tails whipped by Harrisonville in the run game two weeks ago and since then, we’ve been focusing on being physical and dominating on the line of scrimmage.” — Tan-nehill.

Game 4

Hickman 21, Helias 14The first of three games

against Class 6 schools for Helias ended with some con-troversy.

Game film showed Hickman had 12 players on the field for its final two defensive plays, the second of which was an interception in the end zone.

Trailing 14-0 early in the fourth quarter, Helias totaled 213 yards and two scores to tie it. After Hickman regained the lead with a touchdown, Helias drove inside the Kew-pie 1 before the interception ended it.

“(Silence)” — Pitts’ pub-lic comment after discovering Hickman’s 12-man formation after the game.

Game 5

Helias 56, Vashon 24In a game not as close as the

final score might indicate, the Crusaders ran their record to 3-1 with an easy victory against the Wolverines.

How easy? Up 56-6 at the half, the Crusader starters returned to the field after inter-mission without their pads.

In that first half, the Cru-saders had the ball eight times. And eight times, they found the end zone. Helias ran 47 plays on offense in the first two quarters and just one of those was on third down.

“There are a lot of things that can go wrong and a lot of things that need to go right for a football play to work. For us to get plays to work on eight scoring drives, that tells me that we were reading things well, we were blocking well. We were as efficient as we could play.” — Pitts.

Game 6Rock Bridge 35, Helias 6

Back on the road at Colum-bia, Helias was done in by a series of big plays by Rock Bridge.

Missing Woodruff and Tan-nehill due to injuries, the Cru-saders turned the ball over on five of six possessions in the middle of the game and couldn’t recover.

One bright spot in the game was the debut at running back by Griff McCurren, who fin-ished with 67 yards rushing, including a 43-yard sprint that was Helias’ longest of the sea-son at that point.

“To win a game against an opponent like Rock Bridge, you have to be able to control the game on offense. And we did not do that in any shape or form.” — Pitts.

Game 7Helias 59, MICDS 19

McCurren got his shot at running back because of inju-ries. He made the most of it in a big victory against the Rams, rushing for 103 yards and three touchdowns.

Those three scores keyed a 42-6 halftime advantage for the Crusaders, who finished with 510 total yards.

“I always thought it was a position I could play well. When the coaches gave me the chance, I was excited. I was running hard in practice, try-ing to give them something to look at.” — McCurren.

Game 8C.B.C. 42, Helias 14

Helias’ last of three games against Class 6 teams ended as the other two — with the Cru-saders on the losing end.

Up 21-7 at the half, the top-ranked Cadets used a pair of third-quarter touchdowns to pull away.

One positive? Garrett Bus-chjost made his debut at run-ning back for the Crusaders.

“We talk all the time about our schedule, about what our tough schedule can do for us. Now’s the time that tough schedule has to pay off. We play a much better schedule than a lot of the teams we could possibly be playing and it has to pay off for us because if it doesn’t, we’re not doing our jobs.” — Pitts.

Game 9Helias 31, Hannibal 18The Crusaders knew they

needed to beat the Pirates to have any chance at earning the No. 1 seed in the district.

At a minimum, they needed a 13-point victory to vault past St. Dominic for the No. 2 seed. The Crusaders accomplished that, but it still wasn’t enough to get to No. 1.

Hannibal led 12-10 at the half before Helias rallied. The Crusaders got second-half touchdowns from Buschjost and Distler to go along with a pair of Woodruff field goals.

“It wasn’t huge game adjust-ments, it was a matter of being more physical up front.” — Pitts.

Game 10Helias 54, Kirksville 7

Records were falling

throughout Helias’ district opening rout of the Tigers.

Five school marks fell in the game — Schulte set a career tackles mark, Cole Distler set a season receptions mark, Porter threw his 20th touchdown pass and his 136th completion and Helias threw for 2,158 yards for through the first 10 games.

“Records are important to our program. These kids put in a lot of time in our program and when they have a chance to set a record, we try to do everything we can to see that they get the opportunity to do it.” — Pitts.

Game 11Helias 38, St. Dominic 14

In the district semifinal, Helias did what it had done all season against overmatched opponents.

Score early and often, then cruise in the second half.

In a battle of Crusaders, Helias jumped out to a 38-0 halftime lead before settling for the 24-point victory. Helias scored on six of its seven first-half possessions.

“We did a great job of set-ting the tempo early. We let them know right away that we were there to play and to win.” — Pitts.

Game 12Helias 14, Hannibal 10There was no panic.Down 10-7 in the final

minute, Porter and Woodruff hooked up for 38-yard touch-down pass to lift the Crusad-ers past the Pirates for Helias’ sixth straight district title.

The loss ended Hannibal’s season at 10-2, with both loss-es coming to Helias.

“Big players need to make big plays.” — Woodruff.

Game 13Helias 31, Clayton 8

Buschjost had proven to be a potent weapon since being moved to running back prior to the C.B.C. game.

The junior exploded onto the scene in this quarterfinal contest at Adkins Stadium, rushing 34 times for 192 yards and a touchdown as the Cru-saders ground out a victory against the Greyhounds.

“I just went out there and did what I had to do.” — Bus-chjost.

Game 14Helias 17, Harrisonville 7

Helias felt it let the season opener slip away against Har-risonville.

That wasn’t going happen again, especially in a game as important as the semifinals.

The Crusaders converted a fourth-and-20 play in the first quarter for a 30-yard touch-down pass from Porter to Dis-tler, then added to that lead with a 40-yard field goal by Woodruff early in the third quarter.

Up 10-7, Helias iced the vic-tory in the final minute on a 9-yard run by Buschjost.

“I believe in this football team, in this program and the price that everyone has paid for us to get here. When you’re around a group of people you believe in, it’s easy to stay together and keep fighting hard to reach your goal.” — Pitts.


Helias senior Alex Frank carries the school flag as he and head coach Phil Pitts lead the team on the field prior to a game against Rock Bridge in Columbia.

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