Dolores McGinley Findley, age 91 passed away December 29, 2024, surrounded by her loved ones in Grant City, Missouri.
Dolores McGinley Findley was born March 20, 1933 near Gentry, Missouri to William and Naomi McGinley. She accepted Christ as her personal savior at the age of 13, in a small country church and spent her life as an extension of the love of Christ in every person in her life.
She graduated from High School in Stanberry, Missouri in 1951. Later that year she married Richard (Dick) Findley, with whom she had 4 children: sons, David, Dallas and Dale and daughter Dawn. She spent most of her years on the farm and was a dedicated wife and mother, ensuring she raised her children to love the Lord and instilling the values of compassion, kindness and empathy. After Dick passed away she moved to town to retire. After several years she started traveling with her cherished companion Denzel Henry.
Together they shared a passion for travel and embarked on many adventures to the West. From tulip pastures blowing in the wind, to the sands of the West Coast. She embraced every moment this life had to offer her with a heart full of adventure and lungs full of laughter.
Dolores is preceded in death by her husband Dick (Richard) Findley, parents, twin sister Doris Parker, sisters; Katheryn Sorensen Riley and Ina McCann, daughters-in-law, Sandy Findley and Becky Findley, great-grandsons Riley Findley and Clayton Loubey.
Surviving are sons; David Findley of Grant City, MO, Dallas (Jackie) Findley of Gentry, MO, Dale (Patti) Findley of Albany, MO, daughter; Dawn (Tom) Givens of Dallas, TX, sister, Karen Woolsey of Grant City, MO, 6 grandsons and 6 granddaughters. She was also blessed by numerous great-grandchildren.
For anyone lucky enough to know her, we will always remember the deep belly laughs brought on by her sense of humor, the light in her eyes when surrounded by those she loved and the hands that were always there to lend help in time of need. While she was an angel among us, Heaven was waiting for her. We will forever be thankful for the time we had together and while there will be emptiness, we know every time the sun shines, the tulips blow or the cardinals sing- she’s here with us.
Funeral services will be 2:00 p.m. Thursday, January 2, 2025 at Prugh-Dunfee Funeral Home in Grant City, MO. Visitation will be 6:00-8:00 p.m. Wednesday, January 1, 2025 at the funeral home. Burial will be in the Knox Cemetery near Worth, MO. In lieu of flowers memorials may be made to the Knox Cemetery or Three Rivers Hospice.
Sunday, December 29, 2024
Saturday, December 28, 2024
Landon Preston Gets 11 Points, 11 Assists but Gilman City Runs Out of Time
Gilman City dug itself into a big hole, nearly got out of it, but ran out of time against a Class 3 Carrollton squad and fell 64-46 Friday at Trenton. Landon Preston did all he could for the Hawks, getting 11 points and 11 assists, and Camden Griffith had 21 points playing on the big stage.
In the early going, the Hawks went neck and neck with Carrollton, with Camden Griffith carrying the team on his shoulders and scoring all nine points in the period. But then Carrollton, who was not playing like many teams do right after coming back from the Christmas break, got a big scoring outburst from Kaine Gibson, who scored six points in the last 2:07, ran up a big rebounding margin, and took control of the game and led 17-9 after one.
The rebounding margin was 10-4 in Carrolton's favor, and it only grew in size during the second quarter. The Trojan lead grew to 21-9 early in the second and at that point, Gibson had 8 points and had either scored or assisted on 16 of their 21 points. Landon Preston sliced through the Carrollton press to make it 21-11, but then Gibson scored four straight and then Rodney Schuchmann drove down the right side of the baseline, scored a reverse layup, and converted a three point play to make it 28-11.
Gilman City attempted to rally, with Camden Griffith getting loose and scoring on a Preston assist after Dakota Puls got a steal and Preston added two free throws, but then Luke Backes got the hot hand for the Trojans, throwing up 11 points in the last 2:08 of the half, including a guarded three at the buzzer that made it 39-19.
It didn't help that the Hawks had ten turnovers by the half, but they proceeded to play their best half of the year, cutting their turnovers from 10 to 3 and cutting into their rebounding deficit, getting it down to -3 by the end of the game.
The Trojan lead grew to 22 twice in the early going as Grady Owen scored twice for the red shirts, but then Landon Preston got a quick outlet from Parker Virtue and converted, then got a steal and turned it into a free throw, and then Landon hit Parker Virtue inside after Bo Eads kept a possession alive with an offensive board to make it 43-26.
The Trojans used a three point play from Zach Samples to go back up 48-26, but then Camden Griffith scored from inside after Preston got him the ball, then Preston hit Bo Eads and then Jace Estrada in transition to make it 48-34 after three. By the end of the third, the turnover deficit was down to 11-9 and the rebounding deficit was down to -6.
Kaine Gibson's three point play made it 53-34 again with 6:54 left, but Griffith got the hot hand again and Landon Preston added a steal to cut it to 53-40, but then Carrollton went into their delay game and started feeding their big guys inside to push it back up as high as 22 again at 64-42. But Gilman City played hard until the end, getting inside looks from Camden Griffith and Parker Virtue down the stretch.
Camden Griffith had 21 points for the Hawks. Landon Preston had 11, Parker Virtue 8, and Dakota Meringa, Bo Eads, and Jace Estrada all had 2.
Camden Griffith had 7 rebounds. Landon Preston and Parker Virtue had 5 each, Jace Estrada and Bo Eads had 4, Kenyon Puls 3, and Dakota Meringa and Maverick Roberts had 1 each.
Landon Preston had 11 points to complete the double-double. Camden Griffith had 3, Parker Virtue 2, and Bo Eads and Dakota Meringa had 1 each.
Camden Griffith had 4 tips. Landon Preston had 2 and Parker Virtue had 1.
Landon Preston had 5 steals. Parker Virtue and Camden Griffith had 2 and Kenyon Puls and Alex Young had 1.
Leonard Eakes 1947-2024
March 31, 1947 Leonard was born to Raymond and Geraldine (Bogs) Eakes in Iowa City. He was the second born of eight.
He would make it to the eighth grade and he would be needed to help care for his family so to work he went. At 19 he purchased his first semi from Harold Wolfe. The first summer he pulled an asphalt tanker to pay for the truck.
In the 1970, he married Judy and Shannon and Angie were born to this marriage. Later the marriage had ended and he met Karen Blair at the Dinner Bell. He was working for Doug Hullinger at this time hauling grain. He would later buy another semi and go to work for Atlantic Carriers.
During his union with Karen he would take on the roll as Papa too. He would purchase 3 semis during his career with Atlantic of 33 years, where he was gone 5-6 days a week attending as many sheep shows, chicken shows, tinkering on vehicles and tractors, and any other events the kids wanted him to be at.
Leonard enjoyed working on his own semi in the road in front of the home he and Karen purchased in ‘91. He could diagnose the problems with your semi over a phone call also. Always willing to share a story and several cups of coffee with anyone. He was known in the family as the “baby hog” and loved a trip to get donuts or pizzas on Saturday nights with the kids. Leonard always had time for everyone and loved his family.
Survived by Karen Blair, step-daughter Diane Hamaker; Step-son: Todd (Lynn) Blair; grandkids Abbey Hoffman (Tim), Hunter Hamaker (Keesha), Cameron Hamaker, Jessica Blair; Daughters: Angie (Matt) Denney and son, Gabe (Ellie) Denney and Shannon Eakes and son, Brandon Eakes; Brothers: Jay and Todd and sister: Judy.
Memorial visitation was December 28, 2024 from 1-3 p.m. at Eagleville Community Church, Eagleville, MO.
Leonard has been cremated under the direction of Bethany Memorial Chapel.
Tributes may be left at www.bethanymemorialchapel.com.
He would make it to the eighth grade and he would be needed to help care for his family so to work he went. At 19 he purchased his first semi from Harold Wolfe. The first summer he pulled an asphalt tanker to pay for the truck.
In the 1970, he married Judy and Shannon and Angie were born to this marriage. Later the marriage had ended and he met Karen Blair at the Dinner Bell. He was working for Doug Hullinger at this time hauling grain. He would later buy another semi and go to work for Atlantic Carriers.
During his union with Karen he would take on the roll as Papa too. He would purchase 3 semis during his career with Atlantic of 33 years, where he was gone 5-6 days a week attending as many sheep shows, chicken shows, tinkering on vehicles and tractors, and any other events the kids wanted him to be at.
Leonard enjoyed working on his own semi in the road in front of the home he and Karen purchased in ‘91. He could diagnose the problems with your semi over a phone call also. Always willing to share a story and several cups of coffee with anyone. He was known in the family as the “baby hog” and loved a trip to get donuts or pizzas on Saturday nights with the kids. Leonard always had time for everyone and loved his family.
Survived by Karen Blair, step-daughter Diane Hamaker; Step-son: Todd (Lynn) Blair; grandkids Abbey Hoffman (Tim), Hunter Hamaker (Keesha), Cameron Hamaker, Jessica Blair; Daughters: Angie (Matt) Denney and son, Gabe (Ellie) Denney and Shannon Eakes and son, Brandon Eakes; Brothers: Jay and Todd and sister: Judy.
Memorial visitation was December 28, 2024 from 1-3 p.m. at Eagleville Community Church, Eagleville, MO.
Leonard has been cremated under the direction of Bethany Memorial Chapel.
Tributes may be left at www.bethanymemorialchapel.com.
Rita Schieber 1933-2024
Rita Marie Schieber, 91, passed away peacefully on Friday December 20, 2024 at Maryville Living Center with her family at her side.
Rita was born on December 17, 1933 to John and Nora Abels Zirfas in Clyde, MO. She graduated from Jefferson High School and then worked at the Printery House. She married John Gerald "Jerry" Schieber on May 4, 1957, at Conception Abbey Basilica and they shared 67 wonderful years together.
She was a homemaker and had a love of baking, gardening, playing cards, scrapbooking, crafts, and making quilts for all her family. She especially enjoyed attending all sports and activities of her children, grandchildren and great grandchildren. She also was a school cook for many years.
She was a member of St. Columba Church and St. Ann's Alter Society in Conception Jct., MO.
Preceding her in death were her parents, sisters, Alfreda Zirfas and Marian Mattson, brothers, Lawrence, Willie, Roger, Cleo and Jerry Zirfas; in-laws Joe Mattson, Delores Zirfas, Doris Zirfas, and Beth Leonardo; nephew, Todd Zirfas; great granddaughter Kayli Luke.
She is survived by her husband Jerry of the home, her children and grandchildren: Donna (Kevin) Barmann, Maryville, MO: Tara (Jesse) LeMar; Sharon (Hal) Dowis, Grant City, MO, Ashley Briner, Brett (Maddie) Dowis; Darrell (Sheila) Schieber, Conception, MO; Derrick Schieber, Darcy (Ethan) Richardson, Danae (Alex) Holtman; Randy (Debra) Schieber, Conception Jct. , MO: Logan (Tamra) Schieber, Shelbi (Curtis) Luke, Clayton (Kelly) Schieber; 15 great grandchildren, sisters-in-law Monica Zirfas, Carolyn Lewis and Alta Shineman, and numerous nieces and nephews.
Memorials can be made to St, Columba Catholic Church, Conception Abbey or Mosaic Life Care Hospice, Maryville.
A Parish rosary will be held at St. Columba Catholic Church Sunday December 29, 2024 at 5:00 pm. The family will receive friends following the rosary until 7 pm.
A memorial mass of Christian burial will be held at St. Columba Catholic Church at 10:30 am on Monday December 30, 2024 with burial at St. Columba Cemetery.
Arrangements have been entrusted to the Bram Funeral Home in Maryville, MO.
Rita was born on December 17, 1933 to John and Nora Abels Zirfas in Clyde, MO. She graduated from Jefferson High School and then worked at the Printery House. She married John Gerald "Jerry" Schieber on May 4, 1957, at Conception Abbey Basilica and they shared 67 wonderful years together.
She was a homemaker and had a love of baking, gardening, playing cards, scrapbooking, crafts, and making quilts for all her family. She especially enjoyed attending all sports and activities of her children, grandchildren and great grandchildren. She also was a school cook for many years.
She was a member of St. Columba Church and St. Ann's Alter Society in Conception Jct., MO.
Preceding her in death were her parents, sisters, Alfreda Zirfas and Marian Mattson, brothers, Lawrence, Willie, Roger, Cleo and Jerry Zirfas; in-laws Joe Mattson, Delores Zirfas, Doris Zirfas, and Beth Leonardo; nephew, Todd Zirfas; great granddaughter Kayli Luke.
She is survived by her husband Jerry of the home, her children and grandchildren: Donna (Kevin) Barmann, Maryville, MO: Tara (Jesse) LeMar; Sharon (Hal) Dowis, Grant City, MO, Ashley Briner, Brett (Maddie) Dowis; Darrell (Sheila) Schieber, Conception, MO; Derrick Schieber, Darcy (Ethan) Richardson, Danae (Alex) Holtman; Randy (Debra) Schieber, Conception Jct. , MO: Logan (Tamra) Schieber, Shelbi (Curtis) Luke, Clayton (Kelly) Schieber; 15 great grandchildren, sisters-in-law Monica Zirfas, Carolyn Lewis and Alta Shineman, and numerous nieces and nephews.
Memorials can be made to St, Columba Catholic Church, Conception Abbey or Mosaic Life Care Hospice, Maryville.
A Parish rosary will be held at St. Columba Catholic Church Sunday December 29, 2024 at 5:00 pm. The family will receive friends following the rosary until 7 pm.
A memorial mass of Christian burial will be held at St. Columba Catholic Church at 10:30 am on Monday December 30, 2024 with burial at St. Columba Cemetery.
Arrangements have been entrusted to the Bram Funeral Home in Maryville, MO.
Khloey Sperry Gets 16 Points, 20 Boards in Hawks Win
Khloey Sperry went beast mode Thursday afternoon, getting 16 points and 20 boards as Gilman City’s Hawks broke the .500 barrier with a 49-18 win over Hale. The Hawks got off to a bad start, getting a running clock loss to Princeton that jumpstarted the Blue Tigers’ season as well as a 51-22 loss to Northeast Nodaway. But they have been finding their footing lately getting impressive wins over Pattonsburg and now Hale. But the Hawks can’t get too comfortable, as they have to play Hale all over again in a few weeks as well as two suddenly solid teams in North Harrison and Tri-County.
The Hawks were ice cold against the Cardinals, but more than made up for it on the boards. They had 60 boards for the night, as Sperry, Alli Burke, Kelsey Sperry, and Colbi Webb were all willing to mix it up on the boards. Eventually, the shots started to fall enough for the Hawks to pull away.
Khloey Sperry opened the scoring for the Hawks early, and then Kelsey Sperry finally joined her with a putback to make it 4-0. Lainey Hawkins, sporting a dangerous left hand and the ability to drop a deep three, scored four points for the Cardinals to cut her team’s deficit to 7-4 before Colbi Webb came off the bench to score from inside to make it 9-4.
By that point, the rebounding margin for the Hawks was 15-5 in their favor, and finally the points started to come, starting with a quick outlet from Alli Burke to Avery Gregg to put the Hawks up 11-4 after one.
The teams traded scores early in the second quarter as the score remained at 13-6. But finally, the blue shirts flying to the glass, keeping possessions alive, and getting extra looks started to pay off as the Hawks were able to shake off the post-Christmas rust from their system. Burke hit Gregg for a midrange shot, then Avery got a steal and drive to make it 17-6. Khloey Sperry scored off a steal and then cleaned up off a miss in transition to make it 21-6. Burke hit a free throw and then Sperry posted up inside and scored to make it 24-6 at the half.
Hale tried to make a stand in the first part of the third quarter as Lainey Hawkins hit two guarded threes to cut the Cardinal deficit to 31-14. But then Shelby Gibson, who was hampered by foul trouble in the first half, finally managed to stay on the floor and get the hot hand for the Hawks. She knocked down a pair of inside shots to start a big run. Alli Burke scored off a drive, Khloey Sperry hit a free throw, and Gibson scored her sixth point of the quarter after Khloey Sperry kept a possession alive with an offensive board to make it 40-13 after three.
The Hawks got the game into running clock territory in the fourth as Khloey Sperry and Avery Gregg scored off steals and Shelby Gibson added a midrange shot from the right wing to make it 46-14.
Khloey Sperry had 16 points for the Hawks. Avery Gregg had 15, Shelby Gibson 8, Alli Burke 6, and Kelsey Sperry and Colbi Webb 2 each.
Khloey Sperry had 20 boards. Alli Burke had 12, Kelsey Sperry 10, Colbi Webb 8, Shelby Gibson 4, and Avery Gregg and Caitlynn Chalfant 3 each.
Avery Gregg had 6 assists. Alli Burke had 3, and Kelsey Sperry and Khloey Sperry 2 each.
Alli Burke had 4 tips. Kelsi Sperry and Khloey Sperry had 3, and Avery Gregg and Shelby Gibson had 1 each.
Avery Gregg and Khloey Sperry had 4 steals each. Alli Burke had 2, and Kelsey Sperry and Shelby Gibson had 1.
Avery Gregg and Alli Burke had 1 block each.
The Hawks were ice cold against the Cardinals, but more than made up for it on the boards. They had 60 boards for the night, as Sperry, Alli Burke, Kelsey Sperry, and Colbi Webb were all willing to mix it up on the boards. Eventually, the shots started to fall enough for the Hawks to pull away.
Khloey Sperry opened the scoring for the Hawks early, and then Kelsey Sperry finally joined her with a putback to make it 4-0. Lainey Hawkins, sporting a dangerous left hand and the ability to drop a deep three, scored four points for the Cardinals to cut her team’s deficit to 7-4 before Colbi Webb came off the bench to score from inside to make it 9-4.
By that point, the rebounding margin for the Hawks was 15-5 in their favor, and finally the points started to come, starting with a quick outlet from Alli Burke to Avery Gregg to put the Hawks up 11-4 after one.
The teams traded scores early in the second quarter as the score remained at 13-6. But finally, the blue shirts flying to the glass, keeping possessions alive, and getting extra looks started to pay off as the Hawks were able to shake off the post-Christmas rust from their system. Burke hit Gregg for a midrange shot, then Avery got a steal and drive to make it 17-6. Khloey Sperry scored off a steal and then cleaned up off a miss in transition to make it 21-6. Burke hit a free throw and then Sperry posted up inside and scored to make it 24-6 at the half.
Hale tried to make a stand in the first part of the third quarter as Lainey Hawkins hit two guarded threes to cut the Cardinal deficit to 31-14. But then Shelby Gibson, who was hampered by foul trouble in the first half, finally managed to stay on the floor and get the hot hand for the Hawks. She knocked down a pair of inside shots to start a big run. Alli Burke scored off a drive, Khloey Sperry hit a free throw, and Gibson scored her sixth point of the quarter after Khloey Sperry kept a possession alive with an offensive board to make it 40-13 after three.
The Hawks got the game into running clock territory in the fourth as Khloey Sperry and Avery Gregg scored off steals and Shelby Gibson added a midrange shot from the right wing to make it 46-14.
Khloey Sperry had 16 points for the Hawks. Avery Gregg had 15, Shelby Gibson 8, Alli Burke 6, and Kelsey Sperry and Colbi Webb 2 each.
Khloey Sperry had 20 boards. Alli Burke had 12, Kelsey Sperry 10, Colbi Webb 8, Shelby Gibson 4, and Avery Gregg and Caitlynn Chalfant 3 each.
Avery Gregg had 6 assists. Alli Burke had 3, and Kelsey Sperry and Khloey Sperry 2 each.
Alli Burke had 4 tips. Kelsi Sperry and Khloey Sperry had 3, and Avery Gregg and Shelby Gibson had 1 each.
Avery Gregg and Khloey Sperry had 4 steals each. Alli Burke had 2, and Kelsey Sperry and Shelby Gibson had 1.
Avery Gregg and Alli Burke had 1 block each.
Friday, December 27, 2024
Editorial -- Excessive Discipline at Northeast Nodaway
Normally, we let schools, including the board and administration, do their jobs. We recognize that it is a hard job and that they can’t please everyone. We believe in law and order and in discipline in schools. But every once in a while, a situation comes along in which the punishment is excessive and does not fit the act in question.
Last spring, NEN student Hadley DeFreece was suspended out of school for two days for being in possession of a vaping device. If the school had left it at that, we wouldn’t be writing this editorial. But then, the school proceeded to kick DeFreece off the Missouri A+ Program. Then, in fall of this year, the school proceeded to suspend her from the softball team for three games.
The parents appealed Hadley’s removal, and the school sent a denial email, which they never got. So they didn’t find out until this month. They appealed to the school board, which upheld the dismissal at their board meeting December 17th.
The Missouri A+ Program allows students at A+ Schools, of which Northeast Nodaway is a participant, to get substantial financial aid to high school graduates who attend participating public community colleges, vo-tech schools, or certain private two year vo-tech schools in Missouri in return for fulfilling certain requirements. We get that the program has (and should have) a Good Citizenship clause. But the school has discretion in how it can enforce it, given that there are two layers of appeal involved.
The act in question did not warrant a three game suspension from playing softball. The act not only served to punish Hadley, but the rest of the team as well. The softball team was clearly in shock at the act, starting off at 1-2 and barely won the third game. They were not themselves. After Hadley came back, the team went on to have a successful regular season, but got an early exit from the districts. The district the Bluejays played in was loaded, and any one of four other teams could have won that district. Stanberry, which won that district, finished third at state. But it didn’t help.
Like the A+ program, the MSHSAA Official Handbook has a Citizenship Clause. But it only covers acts which are charged or may be charged by law enforcement. The act in question is an infraction under Missouri Law, and authorities never saw fit to charge it. If charges are not filed, eligibility is contingent on school policies. The school had discretion in enforcing the citizenship policy. The punishments are excessive considering that the act in question is an infraction under Missouri law and only served to punish the rest of the team given that Hadley has always been in good standing with her teammates and coaches throughout her junior high and high school career.
But we are just talking sports. Far more important is the effect the school’s decision will have on Hadley DeFreece’s career. It will be a lot harder for her to pay for her college, graduate from school with manageable or no debt, and find a job which will allow her to live a higher standard of living that her parents.
If it had been a matter of using hard drugs such as methamphetamine or fentanyl, that would be different. Most Possession of Controlled Substance offenses are felonies, require monetary and/or surety bonds in the thousands, can result in imprisonment, and constitutes an automatic firing offense for most employers. But most employers don’t screen employees or prospective employees for smoking or vaping, both of which are legal for adults in Missouri. Why kick a student out of a program for something which most employers don’t care about when screening potential applicants?
If it had been a matter of repeated violations of school policy, that would be different. Like we said at the top of this piece, we are not against school discipline; we are against excessive discipline. Hadley DeFreece had never been in trouble at school for anything.
We are not encouraging anyone to start vaping. It is just as harmful as tobacco, with addiction, reduced lung function, decreased exercise capacity, and heart and respiratory issues. But our society does not view vaping or tobacco use in the same way as, say, hard drugs. School discipline policies should reflect that.
Many of the schools we cover are having trouble getting people to participate in sports this year. In basketball alone, Worth County is down to seven players on the girls side, tying a record low. Northeast Nodaway only has nine boys out for basketball. North Nodaway only has eight girls out for basketball. North Harrison only has six girls out for basketball. Two years ago, Northeast Nodaway would not have had a baseball team if Worth County had not joined it to form a baseball cooperative. It is hard enough for schools to get players to come out for sports and other school activities without excessively punishing those who do come out and who are willing to put in the time and effort to be the best they can possibly be.
Last spring, NEN student Hadley DeFreece was suspended out of school for two days for being in possession of a vaping device. If the school had left it at that, we wouldn’t be writing this editorial. But then, the school proceeded to kick DeFreece off the Missouri A+ Program. Then, in fall of this year, the school proceeded to suspend her from the softball team for three games.
The parents appealed Hadley’s removal, and the school sent a denial email, which they never got. So they didn’t find out until this month. They appealed to the school board, which upheld the dismissal at their board meeting December 17th.
The Missouri A+ Program allows students at A+ Schools, of which Northeast Nodaway is a participant, to get substantial financial aid to high school graduates who attend participating public community colleges, vo-tech schools, or certain private two year vo-tech schools in Missouri in return for fulfilling certain requirements. We get that the program has (and should have) a Good Citizenship clause. But the school has discretion in how it can enforce it, given that there are two layers of appeal involved.
The act in question did not warrant a three game suspension from playing softball. The act not only served to punish Hadley, but the rest of the team as well. The softball team was clearly in shock at the act, starting off at 1-2 and barely won the third game. They were not themselves. After Hadley came back, the team went on to have a successful regular season, but got an early exit from the districts. The district the Bluejays played in was loaded, and any one of four other teams could have won that district. Stanberry, which won that district, finished third at state. But it didn’t help.
Like the A+ program, the MSHSAA Official Handbook has a Citizenship Clause. But it only covers acts which are charged or may be charged by law enforcement. The act in question is an infraction under Missouri Law, and authorities never saw fit to charge it. If charges are not filed, eligibility is contingent on school policies. The school had discretion in enforcing the citizenship policy. The punishments are excessive considering that the act in question is an infraction under Missouri law and only served to punish the rest of the team given that Hadley has always been in good standing with her teammates and coaches throughout her junior high and high school career.
But we are just talking sports. Far more important is the effect the school’s decision will have on Hadley DeFreece’s career. It will be a lot harder for her to pay for her college, graduate from school with manageable or no debt, and find a job which will allow her to live a higher standard of living that her parents.
If it had been a matter of using hard drugs such as methamphetamine or fentanyl, that would be different. Most Possession of Controlled Substance offenses are felonies, require monetary and/or surety bonds in the thousands, can result in imprisonment, and constitutes an automatic firing offense for most employers. But most employers don’t screen employees or prospective employees for smoking or vaping, both of which are legal for adults in Missouri. Why kick a student out of a program for something which most employers don’t care about when screening potential applicants?
If it had been a matter of repeated violations of school policy, that would be different. Like we said at the top of this piece, we are not against school discipline; we are against excessive discipline. Hadley DeFreece had never been in trouble at school for anything.
We are not encouraging anyone to start vaping. It is just as harmful as tobacco, with addiction, reduced lung function, decreased exercise capacity, and heart and respiratory issues. But our society does not view vaping or tobacco use in the same way as, say, hard drugs. School discipline policies should reflect that.
Many of the schools we cover are having trouble getting people to participate in sports this year. In basketball alone, Worth County is down to seven players on the girls side, tying a record low. Northeast Nodaway only has nine boys out for basketball. North Nodaway only has eight girls out for basketball. North Harrison only has six girls out for basketball. Two years ago, Northeast Nodaway would not have had a baseball team if Worth County had not joined it to form a baseball cooperative. It is hard enough for schools to get players to come out for sports and other school activities without excessively punishing those who do come out and who are willing to put in the time and effort to be the best they can possibly be.
Thursday, December 26, 2024
1984 Football Mustangs Capped Off Impressive Three Year Run
Tim Coleman and the North Nodaway Mustangs capped off an impressive three year run forty years ago. Coleman had completely rewritten the passing record book at North Nodaway the previous two years. In 1982, the Mustangs made the playoffs for the first time ever. In 1983, the Mustangs won conference in football and basketball. And in 1984, the winning continued.
They started off in 1984 by beating West Nodaway 55-14. Jeff Blackford opened the game with an 80 yard kickoff return. Coleman threw for 213 yards of passing and ran for 106 more on 11 carries and added one touchdown, a 26 yard run. Blackford scored on two four yard runs. One of them was set up by a blocked punt by Coleman.
North Nodaway jumped out to a 28-0 lead in the second quarter. Steven Hughes hit Robbie Meyers twice for strikes of 51 and 63 yards, but North Nodaway maintained a 41-14 lead at the half.
Coleman threw strikes of 60, 66, and 35 yards to Curtis Morrison.
Rodney Vance scored on a six yard run set up by a pick from Joey Spalding. Vance had 10 carries for 67 yards and Blackford had 10 carries for 62 yards. Spalding caught three passes for 34 yards.
Charles Blake had 11 tackles and Curtis Morrison had 10 for the Mustangs.
In the second week, Rodney Vance had a big night with 124 yards on the ground and three touchdowns in the Mustangs 34-12 win over Fairfax. North Nodaway scored the first 28 points of the game. The game was tight at first, but Tim Coleman scored from nine yards out with 13 seconds left in the first half. The Mustangs were stymied by penalties, picking up 100 yards of penalties in the first half alone.
The game remained at 14-0 until the fourth quarter when Jeff Blackford scored from seven yards out and Vance scored twice. Chris Rosenbohm threw strikes of 10 yards to Ryan Rogers and 23 yards to Joe Gigliotti for the Bulldogs. Both Fairfax scores came in the last four minutes.
Jeff Blackford had 77 yards and Tim Coleman had 73. Coleman also had his second blocked punt in as many games. But Coleman had an off night throwing, only completing three of 13.
Helping folks cheer on the Mustangs was the band, which performed for the game against Craig. Members were Lonny Graves, Christy Sorenson, Pam Ashford, Sim White, John Turner, Tom Brand, Brian Florea, James Spalding, Kyle O’Riley, Robert Reynolds, Phillip Reynolds, Tom Hansen, James Huffman, Lynn Clements, Bret Wallace, Billy Pistole, Nicki Baldwin, Rebecca Curtis, Tiffany Uhlmann, Lori Thompson, Becky Lohman, Tina Heming, Laura Carmichael, and Lori Williams.
The band must have brought good luck for the Mustangs, who were much sharper against Craig, picking up a 50-6 win in their next game. Like the resurgent Shamrock girls basketball team or the NEN girls basketball team that is off to a good start, North Nodaway always had different people step up in 1984. This time, it was Jeff Blackford who stepped up, getting 121 yards and three touchdowns. Rodney Vance added 89 yards and three touchdowns, while Tim Coleman threw for 194 yards, ran for 88, and scored a 10 yard touchdown run.
Blackford had runs of 4, 17, and 6 yards. Vance had 2, 14, and 5 yards.
Charlie Blake had a big night defensively for the Mustangs, blocking a punt, getting two sacks, picked off a pass, and recovered a fumble for the Mustangs. It was North Nodaway’s third blocked punt in as many games.
Craig got its lone tally in the fourth when Troy DeLong recovered a fumble in the end zone.
The Mustangs scored their second straight 50 point game when they beat South Holt 50-12 in week 4. This time, it was Rodney Vance’s turn to shine as he had 10 carries for 112 yards. He had runs of 16, 49, and 8 yards. Tim Coleman was only 3 of 9 passing, but one of his passes was a 77 yard strike to Tony O’Riley. Jeff Blackford had a 1 yard touchdown run and kicked three extra points. Craig McIntyre had a 28-yard pick six. Rex Jackson and Virgil Carroll had South Holt’s two tallies.
The Hopkins Journal of September 26th did a feature on the Iron Horses of North Nodaway, also known as the linemen. They were Charlie Blake, Todd Gorman, Todd Stites, Craig McIntyre, and Kirby Morrison. They were so nicknamed by Earle Bennett, who was assistant to coach Marty Albertson and who was the line coach that year.
Jim Lohman wrote, in part, “If the quarterback drives a Cadillac, and the runningbacks drive Fords, then you’ll probably see Charlie Blake driving down the streets of Hopkins on a motor-scooter. This illustration goes to show that there is very little glory in being an offensive lineman. There is little action, except to beat your brains out on every play blocking for the runningbacks, or giving the quarterback enough time to get a pass off to a wide receiver. There are very few chances at even getting into the statistics book unless you’re lucky enough to pick up a fumble your own quarterback made and advance it for yardage. Being an offensive lineman is a plain vanilla life, it’s constant hitting, and when you’re not hitting, you’re being hit, and your only hope of accomplishment is being able to walk away.”
Lohman also noted that the Iron Horses enjoyed zipping down the streets of Hopkins on their motor scooters just as much as opening up holes for Vance, Blackford, and Coleman.
North Nodaway had a knack of nicknaming their linemen during the 1980’s; they nicknamed three of their linemen of 1988 and 1989 the “Fat Boys;” they were called on to come in for short yardage situations.
But North Nodaway met their match when Rock Port, the eventual state champions, invaded Hopkins and came away with the 33-0 win. Their two headed monster of Todd Irvine and Tim Minter, were the best backs in the area according to Worth County coach Rob Bowers, as quoted in the St. Joseph News-Press after the Tigers were dismantled by Rock Port. Irvine had 137 yards and four touchdowns and Tim Minter had 170 yards and one score.
Tim Coleman was a bright spot for North Nodaway, running for 87 yards and throwing for another 129.
But there was still football to be played and their Homecoming game against DeKalb was next. King candidates were Jeff Blackford, Kirby Morrison, Tim Coleman. Queen candidates were Lori Williams, Carla Scroggie, and Stacy Hurtado. Freshman attendants were Tracy Sorensen and Scott Swaney. Sophomore attendants were Karma Bovard and Tony O’Riley. Junior attendants were Rhonda Swaney and Curtis Morrison.
DeKalb was coming into the game on a high note following a double overtime win over West Nodaway the week before, but North Nodaway got back on the winning track 48-14 as Jeff Blackford had 108 yards in 11 carries and Rodney Vance had 11 carries for 78 yards. Blackford had three touchdowns and Vance two more. Kirby Morrison and Lori Williams were named Homecoming King and Queen.
DeKalb played North Nodaway tough for the first quarter, sacking Coleman twice. But North Nodaway was still able to get on the board and lead 6-0. DeKalb was able to move the ball through the air, throwing for over 100 yards. But Jeff Blackford ran for a three yard score, Rodney Vance ran for a 17 yard score, and Coleman got untracked, hitting Tony O’Riley for an 11 yard score to make it 27-0 at the half. Coleman would get untracked after the early going, throwing for 150.
Rodney Vance added a 13 yard score and Jeff Blackford added a 4 yard score in the third. Dave Chesnut recovered a pair of fumbles. Rick Baldwin added a score in the fourth.
North Nodaway had not beaten Tarkio in 19 years, but everything looked to change at Tarkio when the two 5-1 teams met. Jeff Blackford was carrying the team, scoring two touchdowns in the first quarter as North Nodaway raced to a 13-0 lead. Kevin Clark scored in the second for Tarkio to cut it to 13-6 at the half. But Tim Coleman was carrying the Mustangs defensively, picking off four passes that night. Coleman threw a strike to Joey Spalding in the second half.
But North Nodaway failed to convert a fourth and two inside the Indian 10 with time winding down in the fourth quarter and Tarkio took over on their own 10 with 59 seconds left. It only took Chris Hall, the Tarkio quarterback, two plays to cover the 90 yards needed to score and give the Indians the 21-19 win. Hall had victimized enemy teams all year, throwing for over 500 yards in one game. This is rare in 11 man games; now, in 8 man games, Gade Iddings and other Pattonsburg quarterbacks make throwing for 500 yards look like just another day at the office. It was one of many heartbreakers the Mustangs dropped to the Indians over the years during their 11 man days.
The Mustangs had a choice at this point with two tough teams coming up. Nodaway-Holt had lit up the conference the last three years and was still solid, and Mound City had shown a lot of improvement, up to 5-3 at that point. But Tim Coleman had a banner night, completing 17 passes for 316 yards. He threw touchdown strikes to Joey Spalding of 31 and 11 yards in a 39-24 win.
Nodaway-Holt scored first, but then Coleman went to the air with success. He added strikes to Jeff Blackford and Tony O’Riley for a total of four touchdown passes. Kirby Morrison had 9 tackles.
The Journal that week had a feature article about Erle Bennett, the assistant coach at North Nodaway. Wrote Jim Lohman, “Most of us know the stocky, red haired, blue-eyed assistant coach of the North Nodaway Mustangs. Of course we’re talking about Earle Bennett, assistant football coach and student teacher. Bennett is a native of Gallatin, where he played football for four years, but says that he didn’t play football at Northwest because of a knee injury. Bennett, after his graduation this year, wants to go on and coach high school football. He says that is all he wants. Really? Having spent many years hanging around high school football coaches as a journalist, it did not take long to notice something special about Bennett. In fact, it was at a recent junior varsity game where he was acting as head coach. The boys had life, he would not allow a person to take their interest from the game. Bennett’s plan of winning games is unique, which can also be translated exciting. High School football will not hold Bennett long if he can keep a fresh approach to the game.”
Although Lohman’s prediction for Bennett becoming either a college or NFL coach didn’t materialize, one prediction did come to pass. People still remember him favorably both at North Nodaway and Worth County, where he went afterwards. Although he didn’t win a lot of games at Worth County, he got the weight room built, which is still being used today, and which is instrumental in Worth County’s ability to reload every year. Bennett went on to become a successful coach at Centralia for many years.
North Nodaway closed out their season on a winning note, beating a tough Mound City squad 16-0. Tim Coleman hit Jeff Blackford for a 14 yard scoring pass and hit Joey Spalding for a two point conversion to make it 8-0 in the first quarter. Coleman dove into the end zone for a score in the fourth and hit Todd Gorman for a two point conversion to make it 16-0. It was set up when Todd Gorman picked off a pass at the Mustang 30 to kill a Panther drive that could have tied it. He was 15 of 29 for 207 yards for the night. For the rest of the night, both teams threatened to score at times, but neither one could push it over the line.
The Mustangs did not make the playoffs, but they were able to win seven games that year. It was the final game for Tim Coleman, Joey Spalding, Jeff Blackford, Tim Roush, Alan Roush, Rodney Vance, Todd Gorman, Charlie Blake, David Chesnut, and Kirby Morrison.
For the season, Rodney Vance had 105 carries for 698 yards. Jeff Blackford had 105 carries for 598 yards. Tim Coleman had 82 carries for 592 yards. Coleman 87 passes in 183 attempts for 1463 yards.
Curtis Morrison had 20 catches for 428 yards. Joey Spalding had 22 catches for 389 yards. Alan Roush had 7 catches for 51 yards. Tony O’Riley had 15 catches for 230 yards. Jeff Blackford had 13 catches for 220 yards. Rodney Vance had 9 catches for 84 yards. Tim Coleman was all-275 first team quarterback and linebacker. Rodney Vance and Jeff Blackford made the first team as backs. Blackford was also a first team defensive back and placekicker. Kirby Morrison was named as a first team interior lineman, and Craig McIntyre was named as a first team defensive lineman. Charlie Blake was an honorable mention linebacker and Joey Spalding received honorable mention as an end.
Team members were Charlie Blake, Rodney Vance, Kirby Morrison, David Chesnut, Jeff Blackford, Tim Coleman, Todd Gorman, Tim Roush, Joey Spalding, Mike Blackney, Rick Baldwin, Mike Spalding, Jon Pistole, Tony Volner, Dan Titus, Alan Roush, Brad Judd, Todd Roush, Rick Frampton, Jason Thompson, Brian Komers, Tom Blair, Mike Hutchinson, Craig McIntyre, Scott Swaney, Curtis Morrison, Todd Stites, Scott Clements, Scott King, David Roderick, Scott James, and Troy Dew.
Cheerleaders were Shelley McIntyre, Karma Bovard, Christy Sorensen, Diane Colville, and Tracy Sorensen.
They started off in 1984 by beating West Nodaway 55-14. Jeff Blackford opened the game with an 80 yard kickoff return. Coleman threw for 213 yards of passing and ran for 106 more on 11 carries and added one touchdown, a 26 yard run. Blackford scored on two four yard runs. One of them was set up by a blocked punt by Coleman.
North Nodaway jumped out to a 28-0 lead in the second quarter. Steven Hughes hit Robbie Meyers twice for strikes of 51 and 63 yards, but North Nodaway maintained a 41-14 lead at the half.
Coleman threw strikes of 60, 66, and 35 yards to Curtis Morrison.
Rodney Vance scored on a six yard run set up by a pick from Joey Spalding. Vance had 10 carries for 67 yards and Blackford had 10 carries for 62 yards. Spalding caught three passes for 34 yards.
Charles Blake had 11 tackles and Curtis Morrison had 10 for the Mustangs.
In the second week, Rodney Vance had a big night with 124 yards on the ground and three touchdowns in the Mustangs 34-12 win over Fairfax. North Nodaway scored the first 28 points of the game. The game was tight at first, but Tim Coleman scored from nine yards out with 13 seconds left in the first half. The Mustangs were stymied by penalties, picking up 100 yards of penalties in the first half alone.
The game remained at 14-0 until the fourth quarter when Jeff Blackford scored from seven yards out and Vance scored twice. Chris Rosenbohm threw strikes of 10 yards to Ryan Rogers and 23 yards to Joe Gigliotti for the Bulldogs. Both Fairfax scores came in the last four minutes.
Jeff Blackford had 77 yards and Tim Coleman had 73. Coleman also had his second blocked punt in as many games. But Coleman had an off night throwing, only completing three of 13.
Helping folks cheer on the Mustangs was the band, which performed for the game against Craig. Members were Lonny Graves, Christy Sorenson, Pam Ashford, Sim White, John Turner, Tom Brand, Brian Florea, James Spalding, Kyle O’Riley, Robert Reynolds, Phillip Reynolds, Tom Hansen, James Huffman, Lynn Clements, Bret Wallace, Billy Pistole, Nicki Baldwin, Rebecca Curtis, Tiffany Uhlmann, Lori Thompson, Becky Lohman, Tina Heming, Laura Carmichael, and Lori Williams.
The band must have brought good luck for the Mustangs, who were much sharper against Craig, picking up a 50-6 win in their next game. Like the resurgent Shamrock girls basketball team or the NEN girls basketball team that is off to a good start, North Nodaway always had different people step up in 1984. This time, it was Jeff Blackford who stepped up, getting 121 yards and three touchdowns. Rodney Vance added 89 yards and three touchdowns, while Tim Coleman threw for 194 yards, ran for 88, and scored a 10 yard touchdown run.
Blackford had runs of 4, 17, and 6 yards. Vance had 2, 14, and 5 yards.
Charlie Blake had a big night defensively for the Mustangs, blocking a punt, getting two sacks, picked off a pass, and recovered a fumble for the Mustangs. It was North Nodaway’s third blocked punt in as many games.
Craig got its lone tally in the fourth when Troy DeLong recovered a fumble in the end zone.
The Mustangs scored their second straight 50 point game when they beat South Holt 50-12 in week 4. This time, it was Rodney Vance’s turn to shine as he had 10 carries for 112 yards. He had runs of 16, 49, and 8 yards. Tim Coleman was only 3 of 9 passing, but one of his passes was a 77 yard strike to Tony O’Riley. Jeff Blackford had a 1 yard touchdown run and kicked three extra points. Craig McIntyre had a 28-yard pick six. Rex Jackson and Virgil Carroll had South Holt’s two tallies.
The Hopkins Journal of September 26th did a feature on the Iron Horses of North Nodaway, also known as the linemen. They were Charlie Blake, Todd Gorman, Todd Stites, Craig McIntyre, and Kirby Morrison. They were so nicknamed by Earle Bennett, who was assistant to coach Marty Albertson and who was the line coach that year.
Jim Lohman wrote, in part, “If the quarterback drives a Cadillac, and the runningbacks drive Fords, then you’ll probably see Charlie Blake driving down the streets of Hopkins on a motor-scooter. This illustration goes to show that there is very little glory in being an offensive lineman. There is little action, except to beat your brains out on every play blocking for the runningbacks, or giving the quarterback enough time to get a pass off to a wide receiver. There are very few chances at even getting into the statistics book unless you’re lucky enough to pick up a fumble your own quarterback made and advance it for yardage. Being an offensive lineman is a plain vanilla life, it’s constant hitting, and when you’re not hitting, you’re being hit, and your only hope of accomplishment is being able to walk away.”
Lohman also noted that the Iron Horses enjoyed zipping down the streets of Hopkins on their motor scooters just as much as opening up holes for Vance, Blackford, and Coleman.
North Nodaway had a knack of nicknaming their linemen during the 1980’s; they nicknamed three of their linemen of 1988 and 1989 the “Fat Boys;” they were called on to come in for short yardage situations.
But North Nodaway met their match when Rock Port, the eventual state champions, invaded Hopkins and came away with the 33-0 win. Their two headed monster of Todd Irvine and Tim Minter, were the best backs in the area according to Worth County coach Rob Bowers, as quoted in the St. Joseph News-Press after the Tigers were dismantled by Rock Port. Irvine had 137 yards and four touchdowns and Tim Minter had 170 yards and one score.
Tim Coleman was a bright spot for North Nodaway, running for 87 yards and throwing for another 129.
But there was still football to be played and their Homecoming game against DeKalb was next. King candidates were Jeff Blackford, Kirby Morrison, Tim Coleman. Queen candidates were Lori Williams, Carla Scroggie, and Stacy Hurtado. Freshman attendants were Tracy Sorensen and Scott Swaney. Sophomore attendants were Karma Bovard and Tony O’Riley. Junior attendants were Rhonda Swaney and Curtis Morrison.
DeKalb was coming into the game on a high note following a double overtime win over West Nodaway the week before, but North Nodaway got back on the winning track 48-14 as Jeff Blackford had 108 yards in 11 carries and Rodney Vance had 11 carries for 78 yards. Blackford had three touchdowns and Vance two more. Kirby Morrison and Lori Williams were named Homecoming King and Queen.
DeKalb played North Nodaway tough for the first quarter, sacking Coleman twice. But North Nodaway was still able to get on the board and lead 6-0. DeKalb was able to move the ball through the air, throwing for over 100 yards. But Jeff Blackford ran for a three yard score, Rodney Vance ran for a 17 yard score, and Coleman got untracked, hitting Tony O’Riley for an 11 yard score to make it 27-0 at the half. Coleman would get untracked after the early going, throwing for 150.
Rodney Vance added a 13 yard score and Jeff Blackford added a 4 yard score in the third. Dave Chesnut recovered a pair of fumbles. Rick Baldwin added a score in the fourth.
North Nodaway had not beaten Tarkio in 19 years, but everything looked to change at Tarkio when the two 5-1 teams met. Jeff Blackford was carrying the team, scoring two touchdowns in the first quarter as North Nodaway raced to a 13-0 lead. Kevin Clark scored in the second for Tarkio to cut it to 13-6 at the half. But Tim Coleman was carrying the Mustangs defensively, picking off four passes that night. Coleman threw a strike to Joey Spalding in the second half.
But North Nodaway failed to convert a fourth and two inside the Indian 10 with time winding down in the fourth quarter and Tarkio took over on their own 10 with 59 seconds left. It only took Chris Hall, the Tarkio quarterback, two plays to cover the 90 yards needed to score and give the Indians the 21-19 win. Hall had victimized enemy teams all year, throwing for over 500 yards in one game. This is rare in 11 man games; now, in 8 man games, Gade Iddings and other Pattonsburg quarterbacks make throwing for 500 yards look like just another day at the office. It was one of many heartbreakers the Mustangs dropped to the Indians over the years during their 11 man days.
The Mustangs had a choice at this point with two tough teams coming up. Nodaway-Holt had lit up the conference the last three years and was still solid, and Mound City had shown a lot of improvement, up to 5-3 at that point. But Tim Coleman had a banner night, completing 17 passes for 316 yards. He threw touchdown strikes to Joey Spalding of 31 and 11 yards in a 39-24 win.
Nodaway-Holt scored first, but then Coleman went to the air with success. He added strikes to Jeff Blackford and Tony O’Riley for a total of four touchdown passes. Kirby Morrison had 9 tackles.
The Journal that week had a feature article about Erle Bennett, the assistant coach at North Nodaway. Wrote Jim Lohman, “Most of us know the stocky, red haired, blue-eyed assistant coach of the North Nodaway Mustangs. Of course we’re talking about Earle Bennett, assistant football coach and student teacher. Bennett is a native of Gallatin, where he played football for four years, but says that he didn’t play football at Northwest because of a knee injury. Bennett, after his graduation this year, wants to go on and coach high school football. He says that is all he wants. Really? Having spent many years hanging around high school football coaches as a journalist, it did not take long to notice something special about Bennett. In fact, it was at a recent junior varsity game where he was acting as head coach. The boys had life, he would not allow a person to take their interest from the game. Bennett’s plan of winning games is unique, which can also be translated exciting. High School football will not hold Bennett long if he can keep a fresh approach to the game.”
Although Lohman’s prediction for Bennett becoming either a college or NFL coach didn’t materialize, one prediction did come to pass. People still remember him favorably both at North Nodaway and Worth County, where he went afterwards. Although he didn’t win a lot of games at Worth County, he got the weight room built, which is still being used today, and which is instrumental in Worth County’s ability to reload every year. Bennett went on to become a successful coach at Centralia for many years.
North Nodaway closed out their season on a winning note, beating a tough Mound City squad 16-0. Tim Coleman hit Jeff Blackford for a 14 yard scoring pass and hit Joey Spalding for a two point conversion to make it 8-0 in the first quarter. Coleman dove into the end zone for a score in the fourth and hit Todd Gorman for a two point conversion to make it 16-0. It was set up when Todd Gorman picked off a pass at the Mustang 30 to kill a Panther drive that could have tied it. He was 15 of 29 for 207 yards for the night. For the rest of the night, both teams threatened to score at times, but neither one could push it over the line.
The Mustangs did not make the playoffs, but they were able to win seven games that year. It was the final game for Tim Coleman, Joey Spalding, Jeff Blackford, Tim Roush, Alan Roush, Rodney Vance, Todd Gorman, Charlie Blake, David Chesnut, and Kirby Morrison.
For the season, Rodney Vance had 105 carries for 698 yards. Jeff Blackford had 105 carries for 598 yards. Tim Coleman had 82 carries for 592 yards. Coleman 87 passes in 183 attempts for 1463 yards.
Curtis Morrison had 20 catches for 428 yards. Joey Spalding had 22 catches for 389 yards. Alan Roush had 7 catches for 51 yards. Tony O’Riley had 15 catches for 230 yards. Jeff Blackford had 13 catches for 220 yards. Rodney Vance had 9 catches for 84 yards. Tim Coleman was all-275 first team quarterback and linebacker. Rodney Vance and Jeff Blackford made the first team as backs. Blackford was also a first team defensive back and placekicker. Kirby Morrison was named as a first team interior lineman, and Craig McIntyre was named as a first team defensive lineman. Charlie Blake was an honorable mention linebacker and Joey Spalding received honorable mention as an end.
Team members were Charlie Blake, Rodney Vance, Kirby Morrison, David Chesnut, Jeff Blackford, Tim Coleman, Todd Gorman, Tim Roush, Joey Spalding, Mike Blackney, Rick Baldwin, Mike Spalding, Jon Pistole, Tony Volner, Dan Titus, Alan Roush, Brad Judd, Todd Roush, Rick Frampton, Jason Thompson, Brian Komers, Tom Blair, Mike Hutchinson, Craig McIntyre, Scott Swaney, Curtis Morrison, Todd Stites, Scott Clements, Scott King, David Roderick, Scott James, and Troy Dew.
Cheerleaders were Shelley McIntyre, Karma Bovard, Christy Sorensen, Diane Colville, and Tracy Sorensen.
Robber Shot in Platte City in 1868
The February 13th, 1868 Grant City Star, then known as The Enterprise, reprinted the following story by the Commercial of Platte County regarding a shooting that took place in Platte City.
On Saturday night, around 10 o’clock, Charles M. Boyd, an attorney at law, aged 28 years, was killed under the following circumstances, as near as we have been able to ascertain at Platte City:
In the city, a man by the name of Boyd (no relation to Charles) keeps a dry goods store. He has been in the city but a few months, but shortly after he opened up there, he missed articles of merchandise and money, and mistrusting the clerk in his employ, discharged him and employed another. This did not remedy the evil, though, as the same thefts were still committed.
As he could account for the loss in no other way than that the clerk was dishonest, and a third clerk was employed. The last clerk and his employer, after studying the matter for several weeks, believing they had traced the thefts to C.M. Boyd, whose office was directly overhead, and where he roomed, concocted a scheme whereby to catch him if he was really the thief.
The clerk, being in the room of Charles Boyd during the afternoon, casually remarked that his employer was going to St. Joseph for a short time. This was understood between Joseph Boyd and his clerk, and on the night in question, the lights were put out and the store closed at the usual time, the clerk leaving.
The merchant had erected a sort of barricade near the door, and with a double barreled gun laid down to await developments. At the hour mentioned above, he was awakened from a partial sleep by the rattling of a kay to the door, which quietly entered and someone entered. He immediately aimed his gun in the direction of the door and fired, following which the person retreated and passing around the store, ascended two or three steps leading to the office above, where he stopped.
Within a minute or two, he returned and reentered the store again, when Mr. Boyd fired a second time at him. Hearing no cry from him, believing he might assail him, and having no revolver, he bethought him how he should escape and was seeking the rear door, when he observed the robber again going out and his hat fall off. He immediately started after him, and just as he arrived, observed him fall heavily, exclaiming as he fell, “Oh! Mac, Mac!”
Mr. Boyd immediately aroused the neighbors, who came with lanterns, when the robber was discovered to be no other than C.M. Boyd. The key which he had filed and fitted to the door was discovered on the sidewalk. He was buried on Sunday.
Yesterday, a search warrant, describing accurately sundry articles lost, was placed in the hands of the Sheriff, and on breaking into his trunk, the articles as described, comprising linen, handkerchiefs, prints, silks, ribbons, and other miscellaneous items were recovered, proving him to be undeniably guilty of the thefts.
What depravity induced him to commit the robbery cannot be surmised, as it is understood he had on deposit in a bank in this city the sum of $16,400, in the Platte City bank $4,000, and fifteen $500 7/30 bonds were found in his room.
The matter is undergoing investigation, and we are informed that the officers of the bank at Platte City think they will be able to trace the robbery which was committed on the bank about a year ago to him.
He was respectably connected, both in this and Platte City, and it is a blow that falls heavily on his relations.
On Saturday night, around 10 o’clock, Charles M. Boyd, an attorney at law, aged 28 years, was killed under the following circumstances, as near as we have been able to ascertain at Platte City:
In the city, a man by the name of Boyd (no relation to Charles) keeps a dry goods store. He has been in the city but a few months, but shortly after he opened up there, he missed articles of merchandise and money, and mistrusting the clerk in his employ, discharged him and employed another. This did not remedy the evil, though, as the same thefts were still committed.
As he could account for the loss in no other way than that the clerk was dishonest, and a third clerk was employed. The last clerk and his employer, after studying the matter for several weeks, believing they had traced the thefts to C.M. Boyd, whose office was directly overhead, and where he roomed, concocted a scheme whereby to catch him if he was really the thief.
The clerk, being in the room of Charles Boyd during the afternoon, casually remarked that his employer was going to St. Joseph for a short time. This was understood between Joseph Boyd and his clerk, and on the night in question, the lights were put out and the store closed at the usual time, the clerk leaving.
The merchant had erected a sort of barricade near the door, and with a double barreled gun laid down to await developments. At the hour mentioned above, he was awakened from a partial sleep by the rattling of a kay to the door, which quietly entered and someone entered. He immediately aimed his gun in the direction of the door and fired, following which the person retreated and passing around the store, ascended two or three steps leading to the office above, where he stopped.
Within a minute or two, he returned and reentered the store again, when Mr. Boyd fired a second time at him. Hearing no cry from him, believing he might assail him, and having no revolver, he bethought him how he should escape and was seeking the rear door, when he observed the robber again going out and his hat fall off. He immediately started after him, and just as he arrived, observed him fall heavily, exclaiming as he fell, “Oh! Mac, Mac!”
Mr. Boyd immediately aroused the neighbors, who came with lanterns, when the robber was discovered to be no other than C.M. Boyd. The key which he had filed and fitted to the door was discovered on the sidewalk. He was buried on Sunday.
Yesterday, a search warrant, describing accurately sundry articles lost, was placed in the hands of the Sheriff, and on breaking into his trunk, the articles as described, comprising linen, handkerchiefs, prints, silks, ribbons, and other miscellaneous items were recovered, proving him to be undeniably guilty of the thefts.
What depravity induced him to commit the robbery cannot be surmised, as it is understood he had on deposit in a bank in this city the sum of $16,400, in the Platte City bank $4,000, and fifteen $500 7/30 bonds were found in his room.
The matter is undergoing investigation, and we are informed that the officers of the bank at Platte City think they will be able to trace the robbery which was committed on the bank about a year ago to him.
He was respectably connected, both in this and Platte City, and it is a blow that falls heavily on his relations.
Wednesday, December 25, 2024
Air Northwest Redux, 40 Years After?
For the last two years, Northwest Missouri State’s football team had years that most teams would have been happy with, but the Bearcats were disappointed with. They went 7-4 and 6-5, missing out on the playoffs for the first time since 2003. As a result, they fired their football coach, Rich Wright. Wright had been a defensive mastermind, and his defenses were among the top of the MIAA, but his offense fell apart this year, getting negative rushing yardage in its first game of the year and falling flat at Bearcat Stadium in the last game against Pittsburg State.
The Bearcats have hired John McMenamin to revitalize the program. McMenamin had been on the national championship squads of 1998 and 1999 and threw for 473 yards in a game against Central once and threw for 6,225 yards in his career. Everywhere he went in both Division 2 and Division 1, his offenses were among the best in the country. He has proven himself as a recruiter as well, expanding the Wayne State roster from 55 to 120 players and turning that program around to win seven games, its first seven-win season in 11 years.
The Bearcats have the tools to get things turned around. A big area of concern this year was the quarterback position as both quarterbacks from last year graduated, but Chris Ruhnke was a bright spot for the Bearcats, completing 65% of his passes and showing a nice deep ball. One of his receivers, Luke Matthews, caught 38 passes for 727 yards, for 19.1 yards per catch, leading the conference. Will we see a return to the Air Northwest days? One of the best Bearcat football teams before the Mel Tjeerdsma era was the 1984 “Air Northwest” Bearcats forty years ago.
The coach of the 1984 Bearcats, Vern Thomsen, built his team around the passing game, but as the season progressed, he discovered that they had a pretty good running attack as well.
In their first game of the year, Northwest played Washburn, who was supposed to be really good that year. But after feeling out the Ichabods throughout the first quarter, Northwest erupted for 30 second half points for a 47-0 win. New quarterback Mark Thomsen (son of the coach) passed for 226 yards. Sylvester Butler had scores of 6 and 11 yards. Robert Wilson rushed for 70. Northwest racked up 469 yards of total offense.
The defense played well too, as Steve Savard ran back an interception for a score. John Malcuitt blocked a punt into the end zone for a safety. Kicker Pat Johnson boomed a 48 yard field goal.
In a game featuring two future Division 2 football powers, Northwest won its second game 26-0 over Grand Valley State and made the long road trip to Michigan worthwhile. They racked up 379 yards, including 215 on the ground. Thomsen ran in a three yard score. A botched Grand Valley punt led to a Pat Johnson field goal to make it 10-0 as time expired in the first half. Thompson ran in a one yard score in the third, Johnson kicked a 30 yard field goal, and Sylvester Butler ran in a score from six yards out set up by John Grispon’s pick. Northwest survived a 7 for 22 day from Thomsen.
Their third game was against Missouri Western. Like today, you can throw out the record book when these two teams play each other at anything. Northwest and Western were headed in opposite directions, with the Griffons at 0-1-1, but it was the Griffons who jumped ahead 6-3 behind the passing of their quarterback, Kevin Stephens. In came Mark Quinn to lead the Bearcats at quarterback, throwing 16 for 26 for 185 yards; with him at the helm, Northwest was seemingly in control at 17-6.
But special teams are just as important as offense and defense, as the 1984 Mizzou Tigers found out the hard way, when they let a 28-7 lead to Wisconsin slip away thanks in part to two blocked punts. A fumbled punt in the third quarter set up a Griffon score to cut it to 17-12, and then a pick at the Griffon 30 set up a 13 play drive that put Western in front 20-17 with 1:54 left in the third.
But then Quinn bounced right back and threw a 36 yard strike with 14:19 left in the fourth to regain the lead at 24-20. Then, Robert Wilson scored from four yards out to put the Bearcats in front 30-20 with 5:17 left.
But the Griffons were not done yet, going 67 yards in 10 plays and scoring with 1:48 left to cut it to 30-27. They recovered the onsides kick at their own 43, but could only get to the Bearcat 42 before time expired.
The next game, at Central Arkansas, was another cliffhanger. The Bearcats were seemingly in control after Mike Thomas, who had 20 carries for 115 yards, scored from 10 yards out. Mark Thomsen threw an 11 yard strike to Brian Shaw to cap a 16 play 98 yard drive in the second quarter. Robert Wilson rushed for 100 yards in 23 tries. After all the “Air Northwest” hype, the ground game was establishing itself as well. But after Central Arkansas scored on Jeff Fusilier’s 12 yard run with 4:58 left in the third quarter, the Bearcats had to cling by their fingernails and make a goal line stand to preserve the 14-7 win. Central Arkansas drove as far as the five to tie or win it, but then Northwest got a sack with 30 seconds left and recovered the ensuing fumble to win it to remain at 4-0.
The Bearcats beat winless Lincoln 34-19 as Air Northwest got back on track. Mark Thomsen had fumbled away a ball to kill a 79 yard drive early on and had gone 2 for 9 and a pick. But in stepped Brian Quinn, who completed six of nine passes for 113 yards including touchdown strikes to Brian Shaw and Steve Hansley. Robert Wilson, who had touchdown runs of 6 and 4 yards, added 90 yards on 22 carries. Lincoln had self-destructed with costly penalties. A missed field goal was wiped out by a roughing the kicker penalty, leading to one of Northwest’s scores, and a series of penalties that set up a first and 40 from their own five set up a fumble in the end zone recovered by Bearcat defensive end Tony Coleman.
The next game was at Central, and this was a wild game in which the Bearcats came out on top 35-34. It looked like Central was in control for much of the way after Randy Ellis ran back the opening kickoff 99 yards to the house, and they led most of the way. But Thomsen kept the Bearcats close, including a 79 yard pass to Hansley that tied it at 14 at one point. Robert Wilson, who had 15 carries for 108 yards for the Bearcats, rushed for a 65 yard score.
But the Bearcats trailed 28-20 at the half and needed a spark. They got it when Mark Thomsen threw a 49 yard strike to Steve Hansley to make it 28-26. They missed the two point conversion, and Steve Huff’s field goal put the Mules back up 31-26. But then Mike Thomas scored from two yards out to make it 32-31 and put the Bearcats in front for the first time all day.
Steve Huff kicked the Mules back in front 34-32, but Northwest got the ball back at its own 34 with 1:15 left. Thomsen went down with an injury in the fourth, but Brian Quinn marched the Bearcats down the field with a key strike to Hansley for 24 yards helping.
With five seconds left, it looked like the Mules had it won after Pat Johnson missed a 25 yard chip shot, but a costly roughing the kicker penalty gave the Bearcats new life with five seconds left. Johnson connected from 20 yards out to win the game.
The Bearcats then traveled to Central Oklahoma, where Quinn threw for three scores, including a 76 yard pass to Brian Shaw, that helped them win 28-16. At that point, they were up to 10th in the country.
The next game was a home game, a big relief after three tough road games. Southeast Missouri State, their next opponent, was winless. Sure enough, everything started off right for the Bearcats. Robert Wilson ran for a touchdown to make it 7-0. Southeast tied it at 7, but then Thomsen hit Steve Hansley with a 27 yard pass and added a quarterback sneak. Pat Johnson added a 25 yard field goal, and then Brian Quinn threw a strike to Hansley to make it 30-7.
The Bearcats were ranked eighth in the country at that point. But all of a sudden, disaster nearly struck as the game turned into an eight man track meet. It didn’t help that Northwest was flagged 14 times that game. Derrick Phillips hit Lorenzo Gathers with a nine yard strike, then Southeast recovered a successful onsides kick to set up a long pass to make it 30-21 before Northwest knew what hit them. Then, Southeast drew closer with another touchdown pass with 4:06 left to make it 30-28. With 30 seconds left, Northwest fumbled the ball away and Southeast turned to John Overby to try to win it from 57 yards out. But that kick was wide left and Northwest was still undefeated.
But the Bearcats righted the ship the next week and rose to 9-0 and fifth in the country with a 42-20 win over Northeast Missouri State (now Truman State). Brian Quinn threw for 333 yards, giving him 4,384 for his career, which was first at the time. He also became Northwest’s career leader in completions with 303 and touchdown passes with 34.
The game was not easy for the first two and a half quarters. The Bearcats nearly squandered a 14-0 second quarter lead, and the Bulldogs recovered two Bearcat fumbles deep in Northwest territory in the third trailing only 14-10. But after a pair of missed field goals, Northwest drove down and got a sneak from Quinn to make it 21-10. Kolb scored a field goal for the Bulldogs to make it 21-13, only for Quinn to hit Steve Hansley with a 17 yard scoring pass. A Bearcat fumble recovery set up a 33 yard strike from Quinn to Dan Anderson to make it 35-13.
The next game featured a game played in the bitter cold, with winds howling out of the north as high as 54 miles per hour. On the same day that Worth County lost 42-0 in Rock Port, Northwest had to play Rolla, a power running team build for these kinds of conditions. A win would give Northwest the MIAA title outright. They endured, somehow threw for 246 yards passing, and got the 14-6 win.
Brian Quinn had 17 of 29 in passing, and Dan Anderson had 8 catches for 109 yards.
Rolla actually led 6-0 after a fumbled punt snap in the first quarter gave them a short field at the Northwest 37. After they drove into the wind and scored, it looked like things might go the Miners way. But Northwest marched right back down the field, getting a six play 75 yard drive that cumulated in a throw from Quinn to Anderson from 10 yards out. Throwing into the wind, Quinn’s pass hung in the air forever before Anderson came away with it. Quinn later added a 1 yard touchdown run.
But the ride came to an end the next two games. Northwest traveled to Division I-AA Northern Iowa, and they were gashed by their rushing attack, led by Steve Harris, who ran for 275 yards that day. It was a close game for a while; Brian Quinn tied the game at 7-7 when he threw a strike to Steve Hansley for 40 yards. And Northwest cut it to 14-10 at the intermission after Pat Johnson’s 31 yard field goal with 51 seconds left in the half. But then UNI and Harris gashed the Bearcats early and often in the second half, coming away with a 48-10 win.
The Bearcats got their first ever playoff berth despite the loss. They traveled to UNO, but the Mavericks came away with a 28-15 win. Northwest threw three picks, lost two fumbles inside the UNO 10, and had two punts blocked. They trailed 11-9 at the half, only for UNO to take full advantage of the turnovers in the second half to break the game open.
Northwest had some impressive stats despite the loss. Quinn threw for 423 yards. Runningback Robert Wilson had 17 carries for 150 yards. But the world would have to wait 12 more years until Northwest would get their first ever playoff win, 22-21 over the same UNO team in the same facility in 1996.
The Bearcats have hired John McMenamin to revitalize the program. McMenamin had been on the national championship squads of 1998 and 1999 and threw for 473 yards in a game against Central once and threw for 6,225 yards in his career. Everywhere he went in both Division 2 and Division 1, his offenses were among the best in the country. He has proven himself as a recruiter as well, expanding the Wayne State roster from 55 to 120 players and turning that program around to win seven games, its first seven-win season in 11 years.
The Bearcats have the tools to get things turned around. A big area of concern this year was the quarterback position as both quarterbacks from last year graduated, but Chris Ruhnke was a bright spot for the Bearcats, completing 65% of his passes and showing a nice deep ball. One of his receivers, Luke Matthews, caught 38 passes for 727 yards, for 19.1 yards per catch, leading the conference. Will we see a return to the Air Northwest days? One of the best Bearcat football teams before the Mel Tjeerdsma era was the 1984 “Air Northwest” Bearcats forty years ago.
The coach of the 1984 Bearcats, Vern Thomsen, built his team around the passing game, but as the season progressed, he discovered that they had a pretty good running attack as well.
In their first game of the year, Northwest played Washburn, who was supposed to be really good that year. But after feeling out the Ichabods throughout the first quarter, Northwest erupted for 30 second half points for a 47-0 win. New quarterback Mark Thomsen (son of the coach) passed for 226 yards. Sylvester Butler had scores of 6 and 11 yards. Robert Wilson rushed for 70. Northwest racked up 469 yards of total offense.
The defense played well too, as Steve Savard ran back an interception for a score. John Malcuitt blocked a punt into the end zone for a safety. Kicker Pat Johnson boomed a 48 yard field goal.
In a game featuring two future Division 2 football powers, Northwest won its second game 26-0 over Grand Valley State and made the long road trip to Michigan worthwhile. They racked up 379 yards, including 215 on the ground. Thomsen ran in a three yard score. A botched Grand Valley punt led to a Pat Johnson field goal to make it 10-0 as time expired in the first half. Thompson ran in a one yard score in the third, Johnson kicked a 30 yard field goal, and Sylvester Butler ran in a score from six yards out set up by John Grispon’s pick. Northwest survived a 7 for 22 day from Thomsen.
Their third game was against Missouri Western. Like today, you can throw out the record book when these two teams play each other at anything. Northwest and Western were headed in opposite directions, with the Griffons at 0-1-1, but it was the Griffons who jumped ahead 6-3 behind the passing of their quarterback, Kevin Stephens. In came Mark Quinn to lead the Bearcats at quarterback, throwing 16 for 26 for 185 yards; with him at the helm, Northwest was seemingly in control at 17-6.
But special teams are just as important as offense and defense, as the 1984 Mizzou Tigers found out the hard way, when they let a 28-7 lead to Wisconsin slip away thanks in part to two blocked punts. A fumbled punt in the third quarter set up a Griffon score to cut it to 17-12, and then a pick at the Griffon 30 set up a 13 play drive that put Western in front 20-17 with 1:54 left in the third.
But then Quinn bounced right back and threw a 36 yard strike with 14:19 left in the fourth to regain the lead at 24-20. Then, Robert Wilson scored from four yards out to put the Bearcats in front 30-20 with 5:17 left.
But the Griffons were not done yet, going 67 yards in 10 plays and scoring with 1:48 left to cut it to 30-27. They recovered the onsides kick at their own 43, but could only get to the Bearcat 42 before time expired.
The next game, at Central Arkansas, was another cliffhanger. The Bearcats were seemingly in control after Mike Thomas, who had 20 carries for 115 yards, scored from 10 yards out. Mark Thomsen threw an 11 yard strike to Brian Shaw to cap a 16 play 98 yard drive in the second quarter. Robert Wilson rushed for 100 yards in 23 tries. After all the “Air Northwest” hype, the ground game was establishing itself as well. But after Central Arkansas scored on Jeff Fusilier’s 12 yard run with 4:58 left in the third quarter, the Bearcats had to cling by their fingernails and make a goal line stand to preserve the 14-7 win. Central Arkansas drove as far as the five to tie or win it, but then Northwest got a sack with 30 seconds left and recovered the ensuing fumble to win it to remain at 4-0.
The Bearcats beat winless Lincoln 34-19 as Air Northwest got back on track. Mark Thomsen had fumbled away a ball to kill a 79 yard drive early on and had gone 2 for 9 and a pick. But in stepped Brian Quinn, who completed six of nine passes for 113 yards including touchdown strikes to Brian Shaw and Steve Hansley. Robert Wilson, who had touchdown runs of 6 and 4 yards, added 90 yards on 22 carries. Lincoln had self-destructed with costly penalties. A missed field goal was wiped out by a roughing the kicker penalty, leading to one of Northwest’s scores, and a series of penalties that set up a first and 40 from their own five set up a fumble in the end zone recovered by Bearcat defensive end Tony Coleman.
The next game was at Central, and this was a wild game in which the Bearcats came out on top 35-34. It looked like Central was in control for much of the way after Randy Ellis ran back the opening kickoff 99 yards to the house, and they led most of the way. But Thomsen kept the Bearcats close, including a 79 yard pass to Hansley that tied it at 14 at one point. Robert Wilson, who had 15 carries for 108 yards for the Bearcats, rushed for a 65 yard score.
But the Bearcats trailed 28-20 at the half and needed a spark. They got it when Mark Thomsen threw a 49 yard strike to Steve Hansley to make it 28-26. They missed the two point conversion, and Steve Huff’s field goal put the Mules back up 31-26. But then Mike Thomas scored from two yards out to make it 32-31 and put the Bearcats in front for the first time all day.
Steve Huff kicked the Mules back in front 34-32, but Northwest got the ball back at its own 34 with 1:15 left. Thomsen went down with an injury in the fourth, but Brian Quinn marched the Bearcats down the field with a key strike to Hansley for 24 yards helping.
With five seconds left, it looked like the Mules had it won after Pat Johnson missed a 25 yard chip shot, but a costly roughing the kicker penalty gave the Bearcats new life with five seconds left. Johnson connected from 20 yards out to win the game.
The Bearcats then traveled to Central Oklahoma, where Quinn threw for three scores, including a 76 yard pass to Brian Shaw, that helped them win 28-16. At that point, they were up to 10th in the country.
The next game was a home game, a big relief after three tough road games. Southeast Missouri State, their next opponent, was winless. Sure enough, everything started off right for the Bearcats. Robert Wilson ran for a touchdown to make it 7-0. Southeast tied it at 7, but then Thomsen hit Steve Hansley with a 27 yard pass and added a quarterback sneak. Pat Johnson added a 25 yard field goal, and then Brian Quinn threw a strike to Hansley to make it 30-7.
The Bearcats were ranked eighth in the country at that point. But all of a sudden, disaster nearly struck as the game turned into an eight man track meet. It didn’t help that Northwest was flagged 14 times that game. Derrick Phillips hit Lorenzo Gathers with a nine yard strike, then Southeast recovered a successful onsides kick to set up a long pass to make it 30-21 before Northwest knew what hit them. Then, Southeast drew closer with another touchdown pass with 4:06 left to make it 30-28. With 30 seconds left, Northwest fumbled the ball away and Southeast turned to John Overby to try to win it from 57 yards out. But that kick was wide left and Northwest was still undefeated.
But the Bearcats righted the ship the next week and rose to 9-0 and fifth in the country with a 42-20 win over Northeast Missouri State (now Truman State). Brian Quinn threw for 333 yards, giving him 4,384 for his career, which was first at the time. He also became Northwest’s career leader in completions with 303 and touchdown passes with 34.
The game was not easy for the first two and a half quarters. The Bearcats nearly squandered a 14-0 second quarter lead, and the Bulldogs recovered two Bearcat fumbles deep in Northwest territory in the third trailing only 14-10. But after a pair of missed field goals, Northwest drove down and got a sneak from Quinn to make it 21-10. Kolb scored a field goal for the Bulldogs to make it 21-13, only for Quinn to hit Steve Hansley with a 17 yard scoring pass. A Bearcat fumble recovery set up a 33 yard strike from Quinn to Dan Anderson to make it 35-13.
The next game featured a game played in the bitter cold, with winds howling out of the north as high as 54 miles per hour. On the same day that Worth County lost 42-0 in Rock Port, Northwest had to play Rolla, a power running team build for these kinds of conditions. A win would give Northwest the MIAA title outright. They endured, somehow threw for 246 yards passing, and got the 14-6 win.
Brian Quinn had 17 of 29 in passing, and Dan Anderson had 8 catches for 109 yards.
Rolla actually led 6-0 after a fumbled punt snap in the first quarter gave them a short field at the Northwest 37. After they drove into the wind and scored, it looked like things might go the Miners way. But Northwest marched right back down the field, getting a six play 75 yard drive that cumulated in a throw from Quinn to Anderson from 10 yards out. Throwing into the wind, Quinn’s pass hung in the air forever before Anderson came away with it. Quinn later added a 1 yard touchdown run.
But the ride came to an end the next two games. Northwest traveled to Division I-AA Northern Iowa, and they were gashed by their rushing attack, led by Steve Harris, who ran for 275 yards that day. It was a close game for a while; Brian Quinn tied the game at 7-7 when he threw a strike to Steve Hansley for 40 yards. And Northwest cut it to 14-10 at the intermission after Pat Johnson’s 31 yard field goal with 51 seconds left in the half. But then UNI and Harris gashed the Bearcats early and often in the second half, coming away with a 48-10 win.
The Bearcats got their first ever playoff berth despite the loss. They traveled to UNO, but the Mavericks came away with a 28-15 win. Northwest threw three picks, lost two fumbles inside the UNO 10, and had two punts blocked. They trailed 11-9 at the half, only for UNO to take full advantage of the turnovers in the second half to break the game open.
Northwest had some impressive stats despite the loss. Quinn threw for 423 yards. Runningback Robert Wilson had 17 carries for 150 yards. But the world would have to wait 12 more years until Northwest would get their first ever playoff win, 22-21 over the same UNO team in the same facility in 1996.
Tiger Football to Mark 100th Anniversary
The Worth County football team will mark its 100th anniversary in 2025. There were two itinerations of the team. The first version was formed in the 1900's, when football was in its infancy. Back then, Grant City was known as the Bulldogs and had their peak year in 1908, when they won all seven games they played and shut everyone out according to the Worth County Chronicle. They beat Worth for the first time ever and they beat Albany twice. But a few years later, that team was disbanded.
When the football program was reformed under Leo Cox in 1925, the team was named the Tigers. The team was likely named after the two players on the 1908 team, "Dobby" Knoble and Grant Hastings, who went on to play for Mizzou. Several other players on the 1908 team went on to play college ball.
The late Wilbur Osborne recounted that Leo Cox had the tradition of having his players dress up in full pads and run from the school to the football field half a mile way at Kelso Park, where they played their home games and practiced. That tradition was continued by his successor, Glenn Marr, who coached the Tigers until he left in 1959. The goal was simple -- they may not be the biggest school or have the best athletes, especially with other seasoned programs in the mix. But nobody was going to outwork them or be in better shape. Those were two factors that coaches Cox and Marr could control.
The dividends didn't pay off immediately; it is frequently tough for an expansion team to find its footing. They were beaten 59-0 by King City and 50-0 by Albany in their first two games. But they got better every single time, and by November 20th, the Pepper Shakers Club, their student pep club, gave an elaborate pep rally for the game against New Hampton. T.H. Rowen scored for the Tigers only for New Hampton to tie it at 6 in the third quarter. But Rowen scored again late in the fourth quarter, and the Tigers had gotten their first ever win, 12-6.
Kelso Park went absolutely nuts after the win, and the correspondent to the Worth County Tribune wrote, “As this football season closes, the thought, ‘What has football meant to Grant City High School” presents itself. Looking back over the past games, Grant City has been defeated four times and won only the last game, but this was the first year and many of the opposing teams had years of experience. The boys have held their opponents score down to a lower mark each game than the one previous. This is very good – defeats, but each time, not so great as the one before, and then victory. Something greater, and of a more lasting quality, however, has been gained by football. The high school spirit it has brought has been worth more than thousands of victories. The school has backed the boys through all discouraging moments and when victory came – everyone went wild. Football has created a new feeling in the school standing back of them, all being brought closer under one great battle and a common cause. The boys have battled together, and why can’t they do it again in the basketball season with the school standing back of them?”
Area Courthouse, Police, and Crime Reports for December 25th, 2024
On December 16th, Joshua Green (38) of Hamburg pleaded guilty in Nodaway County Circuit Court to a charge of Failure to Register as Sex Offender (Felony). He was placed on five years probation by Judge Corey Herron.
On December 16th, Beau Bradshaw (56) of Republic (MO) pleaded guilty in Nodaway County Circuit Court to a charge of Possession of Controlled Substance (Felony). He was placed on five years probation by Judge Corey Herron.
On December 16th, Gentry County Prosecutor Jessica Jones filed charges against Christyan Gardner (23) of Guilford alleging Careless & Imprudent Driving (Accident), No Seat Belt, Vision Reducing Material on Windshield, and Leaving the Scene.
On December 16th, Gentry County Prosecutor Jessica Jones filed charges against Hubert Cook (42) of King City alleging Careless & Imprudent Driving (Accident), Leaving the Scene, No Insurance, and Littering.
On December 17th, Gail Lacox (56) of Coin pleaded guilty in Nodaway County Associate Circuit Court to a charge of DWI. He was placed on two years probation by Judge Robert Rice.
On December 17th, Tammy Blaney (45) of Guilford pleaded guilty in Nodaway County Associate Circuit Court to charges of Stealing and Property Damage. She was assessed $200 in fines and court costs by Judge Robert Rice.
On December 17th, Eric Clark (41) of Maryville failed to appear in Nodaway County Associate Circuit Court on charges of Driving While Revoked (Felony) and Tampering with Motor Vehicle (Felony). Two warrants were issued and bond was set at $200, cash only on each.
On December 17th, Nodaway County Prosecutor Tina Dieter filed charges against Jameson Shackelford (37) of Barnard alleging Fraudulent Use of a Credit Device (Felony). Bond was set at $500, cash only. An affidavit from the Maryville Police Department alleges that the victim left their credit card in a gas pump. The defendant allegedly stole it and ran up $2,538.20 in fraudulent charges.
On December 17th, the Missouri Attorney General’s Office announced it had joined a coalition of 11 states to sue BlackRock, State Street, and Vanguard alleging that they were illegally manipulating energy markets to squeeze out coal. Over several years, the defendants allegedly acquired substantial stockholdings in every significant publicly-held coal producer in the US, giving themselves power to control the policies of the coal companies. Using their combined influence over the coal markets, the defendants allegedly weaponized their shares to pressure coal companies to accommodate green energy goals. To achieve this, they allegedly pushed to reduce coal output by more than half by 2030. In so doing, the defendants allegedly constricted supply to increase prices, creating extraordinary revenue gains for themselves and causing inflation. Federal law prohibits a major shareholder or a group of shareholders from using their shares to lessen competition or engage in other anti-competitive schemes. Missouri is one of the states most dependent on coal for its energy needs in the country. It ranks fourth in in-state electricity generation from coal according to the US Energy Information Administration.
On December 18th, the Western Missouri US Attorney’s Office reported that Ignazio Medina (73) of Jefferson City was sentenced by Judge Stephen Bough to three months in prison without parole and fined $7,500 for a charge of Transporting Stolen Property. The defendant was a priest at St. Stanislaus Catholic Church in Wardsville (MO). He allegedly created a bank account that was not reported on the budget or annual report. Subsequently, the defendant allegedly embezzled $300,000 from the account, writing a $100,000 check to his sibling in Arizona and $200,000 to himself. Donors who had written checks to the account had intended for the money to be used for parish purposes.
On December 18th, Brian Osborn (28) of Waukee (IA) failed to appear in Harrison County Associate Circuit Court on a charge of Careless & Imprudent Driving (Accident). A warrant was issued and bond set at $1,500, cash only.
On December 18th, Bryan Carroll (65) of Stanberry pleaded guilty in Gentry County Associate Circuit Court to a charge of DWI. He was placed on two years probation by Judge Rebecca McGinley and assessed $415.50 in fees and costs. Defendant must not possess or consume alcoholic beverages, enter any place of business whose principal occupation is the sale or dispensing of alcohol, submit to blood, breath, or urine sampling by law enforcement, and complete SATOP within 90 days.
On December 18th, a police chase resulted in the arrest of Michael Parker (28) of Kansas City in Daviess County. He was charged with Resisting Arrest (Felony), Careless & Imprudent Driving, No Plates, Speeding, Failure to Stop, and No Insurance. He was charged under Valentine’s Law, which was passed last year by the legislature and which enhances penalties for resisting arrest. A driver who creates a substantial risk of injury faces a minimum of one year in jail without parole. A driver who causes physical injury faces a Class B felony. A driver who causes death may face a Class A felony.
On December 19th, Nodaway County Prosecutor Tina Dieter filed charges against Brittany Hicks (21) of Maryville alleging DWI.
On December 19th, Dillon Bennett (26) of Eagleville pleaded guilty in Harrison County Associate Circuit Court to a charge of Careless & Imprudent Driving (Accident). He was placed on six months probation and assessed $342.50 in fees and costs by Judge Jay Hemenway.
On December 19th, a power outage knocked out power to 1,332 customers in Andrew County. As of December 20th, service was restored.
On December 19th, Francis Bonor (56) of Eagleville had his probation revoked by Judge Steven Hudson in Harrison County Circuit Court due to picking up additional charges. He was sentenced to four years in the Missouri Department of Corrections with credit for 103 days served. He had been convicted of Burglary (Felony).
On December 19th, the Missouri State Highway Patrol reported that a 2007 GMC Envoy driven by an 18 year old teen from Bethany failed to stop at the intersection of Highway 6 and 31 near Clarksdale at around 3:45 pm and struck a westbound 2001 Dodge 1500, with the Envoy coming to rest on its top. A 37 year old passenger was killed, and a 15 year old girl and a 40 year old man sustained serious injuries. The driver of the Dodge was also seriously injured.
On December 19th, the Daviess County Sheriff’s Department reported there is a growing issue of dogs being abandoned within the county. Knowingly abandoning an animal without ensuring adequate care is a violation of Missouri law.
On December 20th, the Missouri State Highway Patrol reported that a 2012 Ford Focus driven by a Stanberry woman was westbound at 136 and Angel Street in Conception at around 12:03 am when she fell asleep, left the roadway, struck an embankment, and overturned. She received minor injuries.
On December 20th, the Missouri State Highway Patrol arrested Denny Wiley (36) of Stanberry in Gentry County on charges of No Plates and DWI.
On December 20th, Gentry County Prosecutor Jessica Jones filed charges against James Smith (44) of Albany alleging Driving While Suspended (Felony), Resisting Arrest (Felony), Possession of Methamphetamine (Felony), and Possession of Drug Paraphernalia. Bond was set at $5,000, cash or corporate surety.
On December 20th, Gentry County Prosecutor Jessica Jones filed charges against Tucker Craft (19) of Cameron alleging Harassment (Felony). Bond was set at $5,000, cash or corporate surety.
On December 20th, the Western Missouri US Attorney’s Office reported that Judge Howard Sachs sentenced Lance Berry (37) of Lawson to 17 years in prison for a charge of Distribution of Child Pornography. The defendant must also have 10 years supervised release following his incarceration and pay $33,000 to victims.
On December 21st, the Missouri State Highway Patrol arrested Wesley Mills (38) of Palatka (FL) in Harrison County on a charge of DWI (Felony).
Charges listed are merely allegations. Evidence in support of the charges must be presented before a court of competent jurisdiction whose duty it is to determine guilt or innocence. All defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty.
On December 16th, Beau Bradshaw (56) of Republic (MO) pleaded guilty in Nodaway County Circuit Court to a charge of Possession of Controlled Substance (Felony). He was placed on five years probation by Judge Corey Herron.
On December 16th, Gentry County Prosecutor Jessica Jones filed charges against Christyan Gardner (23) of Guilford alleging Careless & Imprudent Driving (Accident), No Seat Belt, Vision Reducing Material on Windshield, and Leaving the Scene.
On December 16th, Gentry County Prosecutor Jessica Jones filed charges against Hubert Cook (42) of King City alleging Careless & Imprudent Driving (Accident), Leaving the Scene, No Insurance, and Littering.
On December 17th, Gail Lacox (56) of Coin pleaded guilty in Nodaway County Associate Circuit Court to a charge of DWI. He was placed on two years probation by Judge Robert Rice.
On December 17th, Tammy Blaney (45) of Guilford pleaded guilty in Nodaway County Associate Circuit Court to charges of Stealing and Property Damage. She was assessed $200 in fines and court costs by Judge Robert Rice.
On December 17th, Eric Clark (41) of Maryville failed to appear in Nodaway County Associate Circuit Court on charges of Driving While Revoked (Felony) and Tampering with Motor Vehicle (Felony). Two warrants were issued and bond was set at $200, cash only on each.
On December 17th, Nodaway County Prosecutor Tina Dieter filed charges against Jameson Shackelford (37) of Barnard alleging Fraudulent Use of a Credit Device (Felony). Bond was set at $500, cash only. An affidavit from the Maryville Police Department alleges that the victim left their credit card in a gas pump. The defendant allegedly stole it and ran up $2,538.20 in fraudulent charges.
On December 17th, the Missouri Attorney General’s Office announced it had joined a coalition of 11 states to sue BlackRock, State Street, and Vanguard alleging that they were illegally manipulating energy markets to squeeze out coal. Over several years, the defendants allegedly acquired substantial stockholdings in every significant publicly-held coal producer in the US, giving themselves power to control the policies of the coal companies. Using their combined influence over the coal markets, the defendants allegedly weaponized their shares to pressure coal companies to accommodate green energy goals. To achieve this, they allegedly pushed to reduce coal output by more than half by 2030. In so doing, the defendants allegedly constricted supply to increase prices, creating extraordinary revenue gains for themselves and causing inflation. Federal law prohibits a major shareholder or a group of shareholders from using their shares to lessen competition or engage in other anti-competitive schemes. Missouri is one of the states most dependent on coal for its energy needs in the country. It ranks fourth in in-state electricity generation from coal according to the US Energy Information Administration.
On December 18th, the Western Missouri US Attorney’s Office reported that Ignazio Medina (73) of Jefferson City was sentenced by Judge Stephen Bough to three months in prison without parole and fined $7,500 for a charge of Transporting Stolen Property. The defendant was a priest at St. Stanislaus Catholic Church in Wardsville (MO). He allegedly created a bank account that was not reported on the budget or annual report. Subsequently, the defendant allegedly embezzled $300,000 from the account, writing a $100,000 check to his sibling in Arizona and $200,000 to himself. Donors who had written checks to the account had intended for the money to be used for parish purposes.
On December 18th, Brian Osborn (28) of Waukee (IA) failed to appear in Harrison County Associate Circuit Court on a charge of Careless & Imprudent Driving (Accident). A warrant was issued and bond set at $1,500, cash only.
On December 18th, Bryan Carroll (65) of Stanberry pleaded guilty in Gentry County Associate Circuit Court to a charge of DWI. He was placed on two years probation by Judge Rebecca McGinley and assessed $415.50 in fees and costs. Defendant must not possess or consume alcoholic beverages, enter any place of business whose principal occupation is the sale or dispensing of alcohol, submit to blood, breath, or urine sampling by law enforcement, and complete SATOP within 90 days.
On December 18th, a police chase resulted in the arrest of Michael Parker (28) of Kansas City in Daviess County. He was charged with Resisting Arrest (Felony), Careless & Imprudent Driving, No Plates, Speeding, Failure to Stop, and No Insurance. He was charged under Valentine’s Law, which was passed last year by the legislature and which enhances penalties for resisting arrest. A driver who creates a substantial risk of injury faces a minimum of one year in jail without parole. A driver who causes physical injury faces a Class B felony. A driver who causes death may face a Class A felony.
On December 19th, Nodaway County Prosecutor Tina Dieter filed charges against Brittany Hicks (21) of Maryville alleging DWI.
On December 19th, Dillon Bennett (26) of Eagleville pleaded guilty in Harrison County Associate Circuit Court to a charge of Careless & Imprudent Driving (Accident). He was placed on six months probation and assessed $342.50 in fees and costs by Judge Jay Hemenway.
On December 19th, a power outage knocked out power to 1,332 customers in Andrew County. As of December 20th, service was restored.
On December 19th, Francis Bonor (56) of Eagleville had his probation revoked by Judge Steven Hudson in Harrison County Circuit Court due to picking up additional charges. He was sentenced to four years in the Missouri Department of Corrections with credit for 103 days served. He had been convicted of Burglary (Felony).
On December 19th, the Missouri State Highway Patrol reported that a 2007 GMC Envoy driven by an 18 year old teen from Bethany failed to stop at the intersection of Highway 6 and 31 near Clarksdale at around 3:45 pm and struck a westbound 2001 Dodge 1500, with the Envoy coming to rest on its top. A 37 year old passenger was killed, and a 15 year old girl and a 40 year old man sustained serious injuries. The driver of the Dodge was also seriously injured.
On December 19th, the Daviess County Sheriff’s Department reported there is a growing issue of dogs being abandoned within the county. Knowingly abandoning an animal without ensuring adequate care is a violation of Missouri law.
On December 20th, the Missouri State Highway Patrol reported that a 2012 Ford Focus driven by a Stanberry woman was westbound at 136 and Angel Street in Conception at around 12:03 am when she fell asleep, left the roadway, struck an embankment, and overturned. She received minor injuries.
On December 20th, the Missouri State Highway Patrol arrested Denny Wiley (36) of Stanberry in Gentry County on charges of No Plates and DWI.
On December 20th, Gentry County Prosecutor Jessica Jones filed charges against James Smith (44) of Albany alleging Driving While Suspended (Felony), Resisting Arrest (Felony), Possession of Methamphetamine (Felony), and Possession of Drug Paraphernalia. Bond was set at $5,000, cash or corporate surety.
On December 20th, Gentry County Prosecutor Jessica Jones filed charges against Tucker Craft (19) of Cameron alleging Harassment (Felony). Bond was set at $5,000, cash or corporate surety.
On December 20th, the Western Missouri US Attorney’s Office reported that Judge Howard Sachs sentenced Lance Berry (37) of Lawson to 17 years in prison for a charge of Distribution of Child Pornography. The defendant must also have 10 years supervised release following his incarceration and pay $33,000 to victims.
On December 21st, the Missouri State Highway Patrol arrested Wesley Mills (38) of Palatka (FL) in Harrison County on a charge of DWI (Felony).
Charges listed are merely allegations. Evidence in support of the charges must be presented before a court of competent jurisdiction whose duty it is to determine guilt or innocence. All defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty.
Monday, December 23, 2024
1984 Tigers Last 11 Man Team to Clinch GRC
This year is the 40th anniversary of the last 11 man Worth County team to clinch the GRC. There were a lot of concerns coming into the season. One of its key players from the 1982 and 1983 campaigns, quarterback Chris Wilkinson, had moved. There was a coaching carousel at Worth County; since Bull Reece had retired at the end of the 1973 season, nobody had coached there for more than two years. They were under their sixth head coach in 11 years. Numbers were down, with as few players coming out as anyone could remember.
But the Tigers were not without assets. James Hardy had emerged as one of the top runningbacks of the GRC during 1983. David Cottrell was good for three or four yards a carry. Paul Sackett was one of the best tacklers the Tigers had ever produced, getting double figures in tackles every single game and being a force on the field even when everything else was going south. Kent Thompson was a breakaway threat at wide receiver.
The first sign that things might come together occurred on the first game of the season. Nodaway-Holt had Worth County’s number the last three years, but this time, Worth County turned the tables to win 16-6, taking their opening drive 45 yards down the field to score on Hardy’s eight yard run. That lead stood up until the third quarter when Paul Sackett blocked a Trojan punt and the Tigers scored a safety. Hardy ripped off a 17 yard run in the fourth quarter for a score and Cottrell added a two point conversion to make it 16-0. Shawn Skogland completed a pass to Jay Atkins with an eight yard pass and Nodaway-Holt nearly scored again, but time expired.
Worth County won its second game against an up and coming Hamilton team coached by Dave Fairchild 22-8. The next challenge would be against King City, who had started off 2-0 as well. They featured Shane Petty, the quarterback, who would go on to star for the Wildkats in both football and basketball. But Hardy ran for 178 yards and three scores in Worth County’s 30-6 win.
It started off as an even game before Hardy scored on a three yard run and ran in the extra points to make it 8-0. Hardy made it 14-0 on a three yard run, but then a flea flicker from Petty to David Eirsman cut it to 14-6 at the break.
But the third quarter belonged to the Tigers as they used two big plays to put the game away. Hardy ripped off a 49 yard run and Brian Sherer ran in the conversion, and then Vince Leeth threw a strike to Kent Thompson for 50 yards. King City snapped the ball out of the end zone for a safety.
Princeton came in winless, but had a dangerous weapon in David Smith, who could score anywhere on the field. James Hardy scored a two yard touchdown run and Vince Leeth ran in the extra points to make it 8-0 in the second quarter. But Smith ran back the ensuing kickoff 81 yards to cut it to 8-6, which was his second such runback that year. But then Kent Thompson got a pick six to make it 14-6, and like the last time, Worth County broke open the game in the third quarter. Hardy ripped off runs of 29 and 13, with Cottrell scoring both extra points to make it 30-14. Worth County continued to pull away for a 43-22 win.
The win led to a showdown with Maysville, also at 4-0 for the year. Worth County moved the ball up and down the field all night, and much of the game was played in Wolverine territory. The Tigers outgained Maysville 201-57 for the night. But every time they came close to scoring, a key penalty would set them back. Finally, with Worth Country driving in the fourth quarter, Maysville got a 57 yard pick six to score and beat the Tigers 7-0. It was their third pick six in two games; they had gotten two pick sixes against Petty and King City the week before.
The locker room was one of the saddest sights ever, with everyone in tears following the game. But there was still football to be played; if they won out, Worth County could still make the playoffs and could still clinch the title if Maysville were to falter in an always tough Grand River Conference.
Worth County went to tailender Stanberry next, but the Bulldogs had the Tigers in their sights as they had nearly beaten them last year before Worth County made a goal line stand at the 10 to win 7-6. Stanberry had picked this game for their Homecoming. This time, Vince Leeth threw a 12 yard strike to Kent Thompson and then James Hardy ripped off a 15 yard run in the third quarter to make it 12-0. But the rest of the game belonged to Stanberry as they used a six yard pass from Brad Summa to Kelly White to draw closer at 12-6 in the fourth. Stanberry got the ball back and threatened to tie or take the lead, but Worth County got a critical pick in the end zone to preserve the 12-6 win. But Maysville maintained their top spot in the conference by breaking up a 6-6 tie in the fourth quarter against Hamilton, using a series of Hornet turnovers to put it away 26-6. South Harrison was supposed to be the team to beat that year, but after they lost star quarterback Ted Monachino, Hamilton played spoiler and banished them from the ranks of the unbeaten the week before.
The game set up one of the hardest hitting games the Tigers played during their 11 man days. South Harrison, without Monachino, was still a force to be reckoned with and still had Larry Linthacum, who was a load to bring down at 6’7” as a receiver. They also had Jeff Shelby, who excelled as a runningback and stepped in at quarterback when Monachino went down. In the game, South Harrison turned the ball over seven times, while the Bulldogs gave as good as they got, knocking both quarterback Vince Leeth and runningback James Hardy out of the game. Worth County had a 6-0 lead at halftime behind Hardy’s touchdown run before Kent Thompson ran back the second half kick 75 yards for a score. Then, Worth County set up what was designed to be a short pass, but Thompson beat his man and took it to the house for 67 yards to make it 20-6.
But once again, South Harrison made it interesting by cutting it to 20-12 and then drove for a game-tying score late in the fourth quarter. Worth County had an apparent interception to kill the drive, only for the officials, in a controversial call, to wipe it off. South Harrison got as close as the Tiger 30, but the call didn’t matter as Brian Sherer picked off a pass to allow the Tigers to run out the clock. Maysville beat Stanberry 30-6 to stay on top.
Worth County next had to travel to Albany to play the Warriors. David Cottrell played the game of his life, getting 21 carries for 146 yards for the Tigers. James Hardy came back and had 14 carries for 58 yards. Vince Leeth came on strong as a third running threat that game. Leeth ran in a five yard score with 2:43 left in the first and Hardy added the two point conversion to make it 8-0. But Albany fought back, using a one yard sneak from Steve Griesinger with 49 seconds left in the first half and a conversion run from Brian Quinley tie it at 8-8. But Worth County went right back to work, using a nine yard run from Cottrell and a conversion run from Cottrell to make it 16-8. The defense did the rest, limiting Albany to 51 yards through the air, most of it on its scoring drive, and no back got more than 40 yards on the ground.
As the seconds were counting down, Albany Public Address Announcer Leon Messner had an announcement from Bethany — South Harrison had beaten Maysville 20-6, vaulting the Tigers into a tie for first place in the conference.
A strike from Jeff Shelby to Larry Linthacum gave the Bulldogs a 6-0 lead that would stand up at halftime. Then, Galen Gillespie ate Maysville alive, getting scores of one yard and a four yard sprint with 5:28 left in the game to put the game away.
The last thing that stood between Worth County and its first GRC title since 1967 was a rapidly improving Gallatin team, who had gotten off to a bad start but was coming on strong.
For three and a half quarters, Worth County looked like it had put the close game jitters in the past. James Hardy rushed for 131 yards and a score that night and broke the 1,000 yard barrier. Vince Leeth had an eight yard run with 1:49 left in the first to put the Tigers up 8-0 after Cottrell’s two point conversion. Hardy struck from eight yards out with 4:04 left in the half before Dennis Hacker threw a 9 yard pass to Craig Cummings to cut it to 16-6. But when Worth County made it 22-6 in the second half, it looked like they had it salted away.
But then Hardy broke his collarbone fighting for yardage and all of a sudden, a completely different Gallatin team came out on the field. Dennis Hacker completed long pass after long pass to 6’6” Syd Wybrew, cutting it to 22-14 and then 22-20 with 25 seconds left. Gallatin was a two point conversion away from tying it, only to have a dropped pass in the end zone. The score would not have counted; Gallatin was flagged for an ineligible man downfield. Worth County covered the ensuing onsides kick to preserve the win. They also made the playoffs.
Without Hardy against Rock Port, the Tigers played in one of the most bitterly cold games they had ever played in and fell 42-0 to Rock Port, the eventual state champions. They got one first down the whole game and Rock Port was a juggernaut, taking down even good teams by ridiculously lopsided scores.
But the Tigers were not without assets. James Hardy had emerged as one of the top runningbacks of the GRC during 1983. David Cottrell was good for three or four yards a carry. Paul Sackett was one of the best tacklers the Tigers had ever produced, getting double figures in tackles every single game and being a force on the field even when everything else was going south. Kent Thompson was a breakaway threat at wide receiver.
The first sign that things might come together occurred on the first game of the season. Nodaway-Holt had Worth County’s number the last three years, but this time, Worth County turned the tables to win 16-6, taking their opening drive 45 yards down the field to score on Hardy’s eight yard run. That lead stood up until the third quarter when Paul Sackett blocked a Trojan punt and the Tigers scored a safety. Hardy ripped off a 17 yard run in the fourth quarter for a score and Cottrell added a two point conversion to make it 16-0. Shawn Skogland completed a pass to Jay Atkins with an eight yard pass and Nodaway-Holt nearly scored again, but time expired.
Worth County won its second game against an up and coming Hamilton team coached by Dave Fairchild 22-8. The next challenge would be against King City, who had started off 2-0 as well. They featured Shane Petty, the quarterback, who would go on to star for the Wildkats in both football and basketball. But Hardy ran for 178 yards and three scores in Worth County’s 30-6 win.
It started off as an even game before Hardy scored on a three yard run and ran in the extra points to make it 8-0. Hardy made it 14-0 on a three yard run, but then a flea flicker from Petty to David Eirsman cut it to 14-6 at the break.
But the third quarter belonged to the Tigers as they used two big plays to put the game away. Hardy ripped off a 49 yard run and Brian Sherer ran in the conversion, and then Vince Leeth threw a strike to Kent Thompson for 50 yards. King City snapped the ball out of the end zone for a safety.
Princeton came in winless, but had a dangerous weapon in David Smith, who could score anywhere on the field. James Hardy scored a two yard touchdown run and Vince Leeth ran in the extra points to make it 8-0 in the second quarter. But Smith ran back the ensuing kickoff 81 yards to cut it to 8-6, which was his second such runback that year. But then Kent Thompson got a pick six to make it 14-6, and like the last time, Worth County broke open the game in the third quarter. Hardy ripped off runs of 29 and 13, with Cottrell scoring both extra points to make it 30-14. Worth County continued to pull away for a 43-22 win.
The win led to a showdown with Maysville, also at 4-0 for the year. Worth County moved the ball up and down the field all night, and much of the game was played in Wolverine territory. The Tigers outgained Maysville 201-57 for the night. But every time they came close to scoring, a key penalty would set them back. Finally, with Worth Country driving in the fourth quarter, Maysville got a 57 yard pick six to score and beat the Tigers 7-0. It was their third pick six in two games; they had gotten two pick sixes against Petty and King City the week before.
The locker room was one of the saddest sights ever, with everyone in tears following the game. But there was still football to be played; if they won out, Worth County could still make the playoffs and could still clinch the title if Maysville were to falter in an always tough Grand River Conference.
Worth County went to tailender Stanberry next, but the Bulldogs had the Tigers in their sights as they had nearly beaten them last year before Worth County made a goal line stand at the 10 to win 7-6. Stanberry had picked this game for their Homecoming. This time, Vince Leeth threw a 12 yard strike to Kent Thompson and then James Hardy ripped off a 15 yard run in the third quarter to make it 12-0. But the rest of the game belonged to Stanberry as they used a six yard pass from Brad Summa to Kelly White to draw closer at 12-6 in the fourth. Stanberry got the ball back and threatened to tie or take the lead, but Worth County got a critical pick in the end zone to preserve the 12-6 win. But Maysville maintained their top spot in the conference by breaking up a 6-6 tie in the fourth quarter against Hamilton, using a series of Hornet turnovers to put it away 26-6. South Harrison was supposed to be the team to beat that year, but after they lost star quarterback Ted Monachino, Hamilton played spoiler and banished them from the ranks of the unbeaten the week before.
The game set up one of the hardest hitting games the Tigers played during their 11 man days. South Harrison, without Monachino, was still a force to be reckoned with and still had Larry Linthacum, who was a load to bring down at 6’7” as a receiver. They also had Jeff Shelby, who excelled as a runningback and stepped in at quarterback when Monachino went down. In the game, South Harrison turned the ball over seven times, while the Bulldogs gave as good as they got, knocking both quarterback Vince Leeth and runningback James Hardy out of the game. Worth County had a 6-0 lead at halftime behind Hardy’s touchdown run before Kent Thompson ran back the second half kick 75 yards for a score. Then, Worth County set up what was designed to be a short pass, but Thompson beat his man and took it to the house for 67 yards to make it 20-6.
But once again, South Harrison made it interesting by cutting it to 20-12 and then drove for a game-tying score late in the fourth quarter. Worth County had an apparent interception to kill the drive, only for the officials, in a controversial call, to wipe it off. South Harrison got as close as the Tiger 30, but the call didn’t matter as Brian Sherer picked off a pass to allow the Tigers to run out the clock. Maysville beat Stanberry 30-6 to stay on top.
Worth County next had to travel to Albany to play the Warriors. David Cottrell played the game of his life, getting 21 carries for 146 yards for the Tigers. James Hardy came back and had 14 carries for 58 yards. Vince Leeth came on strong as a third running threat that game. Leeth ran in a five yard score with 2:43 left in the first and Hardy added the two point conversion to make it 8-0. But Albany fought back, using a one yard sneak from Steve Griesinger with 49 seconds left in the first half and a conversion run from Brian Quinley tie it at 8-8. But Worth County went right back to work, using a nine yard run from Cottrell and a conversion run from Cottrell to make it 16-8. The defense did the rest, limiting Albany to 51 yards through the air, most of it on its scoring drive, and no back got more than 40 yards on the ground.
As the seconds were counting down, Albany Public Address Announcer Leon Messner had an announcement from Bethany — South Harrison had beaten Maysville 20-6, vaulting the Tigers into a tie for first place in the conference.
A strike from Jeff Shelby to Larry Linthacum gave the Bulldogs a 6-0 lead that would stand up at halftime. Then, Galen Gillespie ate Maysville alive, getting scores of one yard and a four yard sprint with 5:28 left in the game to put the game away.
The last thing that stood between Worth County and its first GRC title since 1967 was a rapidly improving Gallatin team, who had gotten off to a bad start but was coming on strong.
For three and a half quarters, Worth County looked like it had put the close game jitters in the past. James Hardy rushed for 131 yards and a score that night and broke the 1,000 yard barrier. Vince Leeth had an eight yard run with 1:49 left in the first to put the Tigers up 8-0 after Cottrell’s two point conversion. Hardy struck from eight yards out with 4:04 left in the half before Dennis Hacker threw a 9 yard pass to Craig Cummings to cut it to 16-6. But when Worth County made it 22-6 in the second half, it looked like they had it salted away.
But then Hardy broke his collarbone fighting for yardage and all of a sudden, a completely different Gallatin team came out on the field. Dennis Hacker completed long pass after long pass to 6’6” Syd Wybrew, cutting it to 22-14 and then 22-20 with 25 seconds left. Gallatin was a two point conversion away from tying it, only to have a dropped pass in the end zone. The score would not have counted; Gallatin was flagged for an ineligible man downfield. Worth County covered the ensuing onsides kick to preserve the win. They also made the playoffs.
Without Hardy against Rock Port, the Tigers played in one of the most bitterly cold games they had ever played in and fell 42-0 to Rock Port, the eventual state champions. They got one first down the whole game and Rock Port was a juggernaut, taking down even good teams by ridiculously lopsided scores.
North Harrison Homecoming Candidates Named
Homecoming candidates have been named for the North Harrison Homecoming celebration, to be held January 24th against Worth County. Basketball candidates are Jaxcynn Hansel and Evan Schreiber. Softball/Football candidates are Kayka Wilson and Kayson Sims. Sophomore candidates are Lani Briggs and Lucian Sweeney. Junior candidates are Annabelle Owens and Andrew Craig. Senior candidates are Kenzie Milligan and Kolton Graham. Kindergarten attendants will be Kirkley Smith and Declan Irvin.
The school will hold dressup days during the week. The theme will be, “We’ve Got the Beat.” January 21st will be “The Lion Sleeps Tonight,” and students will wear pajamas. January 22nd will be “Party in the USA,” and students will wear patriotic gear. January 23rd will be “Should’ve Been a Cowboy,” and students will wear Western gear. January 24th will be, “We Will Rock You,” and students will wear green and white.
A junior high activity game night will be held January 23rd from 5:30 pm to 7 pm. There will be Glow in the Dark Volleyball, Dodgeball, and Cornhole. Pizza and ice cream will be served.
The coronation will follow the game. A semi-formal dance will be held after the coronation until 11:30 pm. Students must sign up out of school dates in the office by January 21st. Pizza and ice cream will be served.
The school will hold dressup days during the week. The theme will be, “We’ve Got the Beat.” January 21st will be “The Lion Sleeps Tonight,” and students will wear pajamas. January 22nd will be “Party in the USA,” and students will wear patriotic gear. January 23rd will be “Should’ve Been a Cowboy,” and students will wear Western gear. January 24th will be, “We Will Rock You,” and students will wear green and white.
A junior high activity game night will be held January 23rd from 5:30 pm to 7 pm. There will be Glow in the Dark Volleyball, Dodgeball, and Cornhole. Pizza and ice cream will be served.
The coronation will follow the game. A semi-formal dance will be held after the coronation until 11:30 pm. Students must sign up out of school dates in the office by January 21st. Pizza and ice cream will be served.
NEN to Solicit Bids for Banking Services
The Northeast Nodaway school board will request bids for banking services, Superintendent Brenda Dougan reported at the December 19th meeting of the school board. The school is required to rebid it every five years, with 25-26 being the next time. The board will approve bids at the March meeting. The board will also award the food service bid.
Board filing will continue until December 31st. Board members Karl Wilmes and Kenna Florea are up for reelection.
The CTA Christmas Party will be held on January 11th from 6 pm to 8 pm.
Bill filing for the 2025 legislative session has opened. Over 120 bills affecting public education have been filed.
The school is adding a service to their MoreNet subscription. There is a new cooperative, TEC, which is a managed service that does all the negotiation and processing of data privacy agreements with each vendor that uses or collects personally identifiable information. The cost is $520 per year.
Principal Heidi Beatty reported that for professional development day, K-3 teachers along with the Title Language Arts teacher, Interventionist, Elementary Special Ed teacher, and Beatty went to Jefferson for LETRS training.
Fourth through twelfth grade teachers met to analyze annual progress report and state assessment date. The ag teacher, music teacher, librarian, and PE teachers went to area schools to observe their content, while the Art teacher created new curriculum units.
All of the juniors and a majority of the seniors took the ASVAB test last month. 15 students out of 28 eligible received a reward incentive for their scores.
The PAT is currently serving 19 families in the district.
Mrs. Jenkins received a grant from the Gladys Rickard Trust. She will be purchasing a new kiln and accessories for the art room.
The board accepted the resignation of Sheldon Saxton as the varsity girls basketball coach and the hiring of Ike Werner to that position.
Board filing will continue until December 31st. Board members Karl Wilmes and Kenna Florea are up for reelection.
The CTA Christmas Party will be held on January 11th from 6 pm to 8 pm.
Bill filing for the 2025 legislative session has opened. Over 120 bills affecting public education have been filed.
The school is adding a service to their MoreNet subscription. There is a new cooperative, TEC, which is a managed service that does all the negotiation and processing of data privacy agreements with each vendor that uses or collects personally identifiable information. The cost is $520 per year.
Principal Heidi Beatty reported that for professional development day, K-3 teachers along with the Title Language Arts teacher, Interventionist, Elementary Special Ed teacher, and Beatty went to Jefferson for LETRS training.
Fourth through twelfth grade teachers met to analyze annual progress report and state assessment date. The ag teacher, music teacher, librarian, and PE teachers went to area schools to observe their content, while the Art teacher created new curriculum units.
All of the juniors and a majority of the seniors took the ASVAB test last month. 15 students out of 28 eligible received a reward incentive for their scores.
The PAT is currently serving 19 families in the district.
Mrs. Jenkins received a grant from the Gladys Rickard Trust. She will be purchasing a new kiln and accessories for the art room.
The board accepted the resignation of Sheldon Saxton as the varsity girls basketball coach and the hiring of Ike Werner to that position.
Saturday, December 21, 2024
Katelyn Jones Injures Knee in Panthers Loss; Alli Burke Sparks Hawks
The Pattonsburg Panthers were locked in a tight battle with Gilman City Tuesday, December 17th. They were trailing 30-24; the question was whether the Hawks would be able to hold their lead given they had fallen in brutal fashion to Northeast Nodaway the night before. Gilman City had opened a nine point lead before sharpshooter Addie Iddings hit a 3-pointer to cut it to 30-24. But all of a sudden, things changed in a heartbeat. Katelyn Jones was driving to the rim, trying to split two Hawk defenders, when her knee gave out and she injured it.
For the next few minutes, both teams were in shock at what just happened, and the play, which had been ragged for much of the night, was even more so. But all of a sudden, Khloey Sperry took over for Gilman City, hitting two free throws. Jayden Goble countered to make it 32-26, but Sperry got another offensive board, Colbi Webb came off the bench to knock down a baseline shot at the third quarter buzzer to make it 36-26, and then Webb scored four straight to start the fourth to make it 40-26. Free throws by Avery Gregg and a three point play by Sperry set up by a Gregg drive provided the dagger, putting the Hawks up 48-26; they would go on to win 49-28.
The first part of the game was back and fourth. Katelyn Jones scored all six points for the Panthers in the first quarter to give them a 6-5 lead late. But then Alli Burke, who had gone scoreless in the Northeast Nodaway game the night before, suddenly went off for the Hawks, shooting them into a lead they would not relinquish although the Panthers would keep it close until Jones' injury. Burke scored the next seven points for the Hawks, scoring from inside late in the first, knocking down a triple to start the second, and slashing and scoring to put the Hawks up 12-7.
Katelyn Jones twice cut the Panther deficit to two at 12-10 and 14-12. Addie Iddings, who has been getting better every single game, showed more aggression on defense and had four steals in the early going. But then Avery Gregg gave the Hawks some separation, knocking down a baseline shot and then adding a 3-pointer. Khloey Sperry got a pass from Shelby Gibson to make it 21-12.
The Panthers once again fought back, this time led by the supporting cast. Addie Iddings hit a 3-pointer after Jones kicked it out to her, Annabelle Gardner hit two free throws after Jones had pushed it up the floor, and then Kinsley Johnson scored four straight against the tough Hawk interior defense to cut the Panther deficit to 23-21 at the half.
Turnovers by the Panthers early in the second half sparked the Hawks; Avery Gregg converted off a Kelsey Sperry steal, finishing over Katelyn Jones. Alli Burke knocked down a three-pointer from the top of the key, and Gregg got a steal and fed Khloey Sperry to make it 30-21. But the Panthers were still in it after Iddings responded with a 3-pointer before Jones went down.
For Pattonsburg, Katelyn Jones had 11, Addie Iddings 6, Kinsley Johnson 5, and Annabelle Gardner, Jayden Goble, and Cheyenne Miller 2 each.
Kinsley Johnson had 3 blocks. Jayden Goble had 1.
Jayden Goble had 8 boards. Kinsley Johnson had 7, Katelyn Jones 6, Annabelle Gardner 4, Addie Iddings 3, and Kara Bernardino 1.
Katelyn Jones had 3 assists. Kinsley Johnson, Jayden Goble, and Addie Iddings had 2 and Annabelle Gardner and Cheyenne Miller 1.
Katelyn Jones and Addie Iddings had 5 tips. Jayden Goble had 3 and Cheyenne Miller and Kinsley Johnson had 1.
Addie Iddings had 6 steals. Annabelle Gardner had 3 and Jayden Goble and Katelyn Jones 2 each.
For Gilman City, although Alli Burke was the sparkplug they needed following the Northeast Nodaway game, Khloey Sperry has become their go-to player this year. A constant double-double threat, she went beast mode, putting up even better numbers following a tough game against the Bluejays the night before. She had 16 to lead the Hawks. Alli Burke had 12, Avery Gregg 11, Colbi Webb 6, Kelsey Sperry 2, and Emily Chalfant 2.
Khloey Sperry had 15 boards for the Hawks, who outrebounded Pattonsburg 43-29. Kelsey Sperry had 9, Alli Burke 7, Shelby Gibson 5, Avery Gregg 3, Emily Chalfant 2, Riah Crump 1, and Pyper Taggart 1.
Shelby Gibson and Kelsey Sperry had 5 assists for the Hawks. Avery Gregg had 4 and Khloey Sperry 2.
Shelby Gibson and Khloey Sperry had 5 tips each for the Hawks. Alli Burke had 3, Kelsey Sperry 2, and Avery Gregg 2.
Avery Gregg had 6 steals. Khloey Sperry had 3, Kelsey Sperry 2, and Shelby Gibson and Alli Burke 1 each.
Worth County Girls Skid Continues
After a promising 4-1 start, the Worth County girls have fallen on hard times as they dropped their third straight Tuesday to Albany 44-28. They struggled from the field, shooting 10 for 46, or 22%. They continued to struggle from the line, going 4 for 14.
Audrey Runde had 7 for the Tigers. Rylee Ruckman and Kristen Tracy had 6, Keira Hardy 4, Megan Tracy 3, and Kambree Briner 2.
Rylee Ruckman had 2 three-pointers for the Tigers and Audrey Runde and Keira Hardy 1.
Kristen Tracy did all she could for the Tigers in rebounding, getting 13 boards. Rylee Ruckman had 7, Megan Tracy 4, Kambree Briner and Audrey Runde 2, and Keira Hardy 1. Keira Hardy had 3 assists with Kambree Briner getting 2 and Audrey Runde 1. Megan Tracy had 4 steals. Audrey Runde and Keira Hardy 2 each and Rylee Ruckman 1. Kristen Tracy and Keira Hardy had 1 block each. The Tigers turned the ball over 15 times.
Both teams fell hard Friday to the perennial powerhouse Mount Ayr squad. The girls lost 58-17 and the boys lost 59-21.
Wyatt Maize Leads Four Shamrocks in Double Figures; Gavin Humphrey's 20 Not Enough for Panthers
North Harrison's boys got their third win of the year with a 61-43 win over Pattonsburg Friday, getting their second straight after facing a brutal start to the season. After an impressive win over North Nodaway to start the season, they played five tough teams in a row in Maysville, Trenton, Winston, St. Joseph Christian, and undefeated Princeton before finally snapping their losing streak the night before with a 61-27 win over Lamoni. Four Shamrocks reached double figures in the win. For Pattonsburg, Gavin Humphrey had 20 points and Drake Sperry went beast mode with 15 rebounds, but it was not enough for them to get their second win. They also got 11 points from Sperry and 8 from Collin Mason, but the focus will be to make all five people on the floor a threat to score.
Jensen Davis got the Shamrocks off to a fast start with two triples and a deep two, but the game was anything but easy as the two schools play football together and naturally wanted to beat each other. Evan Schreiber had the hot hand later in the quarter for North Harrison and Gage Fortner added a 3-pointer, but Gavin Humphrey got four in the quarter and Collin Mason had four as well as the Panthers kept their deficit at seven at 15-8 after one.
Drake Sperry came alive for Pattonsburg, keeping them in the game with his rebounding for much of the night and Reagan Coin came off the bench and got a couple of steals for them. Wyatt Maize got in foul trouble and Sperry's putback cut the Panther deficit to 20-13. But Maize came back in despite his three fouls and knocked down a backdoor look. Gavin Humphrey hit back to back jacks to cut the Panther deficit to as close as 23-19 with 1:48 left, but then Gage Fortner drove and scored and Wyatt Maize hit two free throws to keep the Shamrocks out of danger. Gage Fortner scored off a drive to make it 27-21 with 50 seconds left, but Andrew Craig scored from inside and Wyatt Maize shot over a screen for three to put the Shamrocks up double digits at 32-21 at the half.
Collin Mason got a putback to cut the Panther deficit to 32-23 to start the third, but then Dustin Hamilton drove the right baseline to set up Gage Fortner for three and Wyatt Maize got a fast break basket off a pass from Jensen Davis and ran over a kid passing behind the basket in the process; the kid brushed it off like it was no big deal after one of the Panther players helped him up. Drake Sperry drove and converted a three point play after a pass from Duke Hoover, but Fortner hit another three, Dustin Hamilton aired one out to Jensen Davis, and Evan Schreiber scored off a steal to make it 45-26.
But the Shamrocks have been streaky on the floor this year; they have made big runs only to turn around and give up big runs, only to turn around and right the ship. The Panthers finally found a fourth player to get into the scoring column as Brandon Heath, a promising freshman, scored off a pair of drives to spark the Panthers. Gavin Humphrey hit a free throw to cut it to 45-31 after three and then Drake Sperry scored off a Brandon Heath steal and Gavin Humphrey hit a guarded three to make it 47-37 with 5:37 left.
Just as it looked like the Panthers would make it interesting down the stretch, North Harrison righted the ship when Evan Schreiber drove and hit a pullup to stop the bleeding. He added a free throw to convert a three point play. Three straight Panther turnovers followed and Gage Fortner and Wyatt Maize converted on the other end. Wyatt Maize hit Jensen Davis for three and Jensen Davis hit Wyatt Maize in transition to put the game out of reach at 59-37 at the 3:29 mark.
For North Harrison, Wyatt Maize had 18, Jensen Davis 15, Gage Fortner 13, and Evan Schreiber 10. Andrew Craig added 5.
Dustin Hamilton and Owan Roberson had 1 block.
Andrew Craig had 9 boards. Wyatt Maize had 7, Gage Fortner and Jensen Davis 6, Evan Schreiber and Dustin Hamilton 4, Owan Roberson 3, and Ryker Fortner 1.
Wyatt Maize had 7 assists. Jensen Davis had 4, Gage Fortner and Dustin Hamilton 2 each, and Ryker Fortner 1.
Evan Schreiber and Jensen Davis had 4 tips each. Dustin Hamilton and Owan Roberson had 3 each, Wyatt Maize 2, and Andrew Craig and Gage Fortner 1 each.
Gage Fortner had 3 steals. Evan Schreiber had 2, and Jensen Davis, Wyatt Maize, and Dustin Hamilton had 1 each.
For Pattonsburg, Gavin Humphrey had 20, Drake Sperry 11, Collin Mason 8, and Brandon Heath 4.
Gavin Humphrey had 2 blocks and Duke Hoover 1.
Drake Sperry had 15 boards to complete a double-double. Duke Hoover had 8, Collin Mason and Gavin Humphrey 7 each, Brandon Heath 3, and Reagan Coin 1.
Gavin Humphrey and Brandon Heath had 2 assists. Duke Hoover, Reagan Coin, and Drake Sperry had 1.
Reagan Coin had 3 tips. Drake Sperry and Brandon Heath had 1.
Brandon Heath, Collin Mason, and Reagan Coin had 2 steals each. Gavin Humphrey had 1.
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