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Silver Knights Scrimmage River

The Knights got their pre-season underway with a scrimmage against River in Hannibal on Tuesday, November 26. With only one senior, Brady Strode, the Silver Knights looked good for early season action with several Knight players hitting the scoring column. Fresh off the football field, Brady ...

Valley Girls Basketball Returns Three Starters

Valley High School lost All-State player Winer Higgins from last season to graduation, but Head Coach Tommy Shannon believes his three returning starters will pick up the pieces and give fans something to cheer about. Higgins and junior returnee Laken Dawson gave the Lumberjills a nice ...

Hundred Basketball Returns All Five Starters

The 2024-25 Hundred High School Boys Basketball Team is loaded with experience and ready to kick off the season with all five starters from last year's team that finished 8-14. With a roster of 14 Coach Nathan Huggins is excited with what he has seen so far. Assisting Huggins will be Joe ...

The Press Box: Chaos Explained

With the chaos surrounding the Class A Volleyball and Cheer post season this year, I thought I would take a swing at sorting out some facts and explaining just what happened, or in TCHS’s case, what didn’t happen. For those of you that do not know Tyler Consolidated was prohibited from ...

Blue Eagles Have High Expectations for the Season

Magnolia under Coach Dave Tallman will be looking to improve on last season’s 10-13 record. Tallman has been around Blue Eagle Basketball since 1979 when he coached the freshman team. Under his leadership as head coach the school has won three state championships. Lost to graduation from ...

Paden City High School Holds Meet the Team Night

The Paden City Wildcats held their “Meet the Team” night on November 21 for all winter sports. All Middle and High School teams were introduced as well as the pep band and cheerleaders. Taking the floor with their coaches were the varsity boys and girls basketball teams, the middle and high ...

The Press Box: Time Vs. Tyson

Talk about crazy! Be careful what you say you might lose an ear. If I had been Jake Paul that would have been a concern. But then again Jake Paul never let Tyson get that close to him as the 27 year old Paul proved that youth was too much for the old man to handle. I have watched boxing ever ...

River’s Coach Mark Romick

The River Pilots boys’ basketball season begins on December 3rd against Buckeye Local, a worthy adversary on the basketball court. Coach Mark Romick is optimistic his team will be ready to take on the Buckeye team. Last year the Pilots finished the season with a 13 and 10 season. That was ...

Lady Wildcat Basketball Practice Begins

Paden City Wildcat Girls basketball got underway with eight players and four of five starters returning from last year's squad. Although the numbers are small they have a strong nucleus returning with Seniors Kim Burch and Brook Gray leading the way. Head Coach Josh Fulks and Coach Hannah ...

Blue Eagles Looking To Be Much Improved

The Magnolia Lady Blue Eagles under head coach Kasey Sapp struggled for most of the season last year with inexperience, but played competitive most of the season against a tough schedule despite finding wins hard to come by. Coach Sapp is hoping for a much improved team as the 2024-25 season ...