In a race to see who is the most charitable of them all, local high school coaches are competing to see who can sponsor the most Backpack Buddies children.
The MIAA selected Phil Laurie to replace St. Joseph native Bill Lowe, who announced his retirement this week, as the conference’s director of football officials.
Bryce McCrary made his decision a little later than most, but the recent Lafayette-graduate’s headed to Northwest Missouri State next year to play baseball on scholarship.
MARYVILLE, Mo. — Anyone who watched Northwest Missouri State head athletic trainer David “D.C.” Colt fidget alongside head basketball coach Steve Tappmeyer on the bench during games knows he was a Bearcat to the core.
But after 27 years, Colt, who also holds the title of assistant professor, has taken wings to become a Falcon at Air Force Academy.
Who needs $4-a-gallon gasoline? Jessica Ball, a St. Joseph 14-year-old, gets a trip to Akron, Ohio, thanks to a car running on “renewable” energy.
She’ll compete in the annual World Championship finals of the Soap Box Derby next week.
It’s the culmination of three years of work for Jessica, who will be a freshman at Benton High School next month.
ST. LOUIS — On Friday, Brad Nurski literally lost his driver; Saturday, he figuratively lost his putter.
The latter proved far more damaging to his chances at the Missouri Amateur Championship at the WingHaven Country Club.
ST. LOUIS — Brad Nurski survived the first-round of match play Thursday at WingHaven Country Club. But now he finds himself with a familiar opponent for today’s round-of-32 matchup in the 101st Missouri Amateur
Championship.
The St. Joseph native tees off at 7:54 a.m., against Darren Lundgren of Grover, Mo. The two were paired during the first two rounds of stroke play; plus Nurski knows Lundgren beat Vincent Kurth 7-and-6 today in their first-round match.
Division I college basketball or professional baseball? That’s the choice Benton graduate Johnny Coy has faced since Major League Baseball’s first-year player draft earlier this month. But the Philadelphia Phillies, who picked Coy in the seventh round, tried this week to make that choice somewhat easier.