With all the buzz around nixa I’m surprised they didn’t bring a bigger crowd.

Pick 6

Southern Boone at Boonville
Blair Oaks at California
Maryville at St. Pius X KC
Park Hills Central at St. Dominic

All on the same page.

Where's everyone gonna be or who you gonna be watching on the ol TV?

OK I lied................one more pretty stacked looking week ergo another 24 games:

Bentonville (AR) at Lee's Summit North
Blue Springs at Staley
Cameron at Chillicothe
Crest Ridge at Cole Camp
Harrisonville at Warrensburg
KC Central at Pleasant Hope
Lathrop at Skyline
Lawson at Penney
Liberty North at Lee's Summit
Lincoln at Holden
Maryville at St. Pius X (NWCMO Game of the Week)
Maysville at Putnam County
Nixa at Carthage (Out of Region Game of the Week)
Nodaway Valley at Platte Valley (8-Man Game of the Week)
Oak Grove at Odessa
Oak Park at Smithville
Raytown South at Winnetonka
Scotland County at South Harrison
St. Joseph Central at North Kansas City
St. Michael at Pembroke Hill
Washburn Rural (KS) at Platte County
William Chrisman at Van Horn
Windsor at Tipton
St. Joseph Benton at University Academy (Saturday)

Per MSHSAA these should be accurate ergo the deadline for entries is 7 PM FRIDAY. As there is a Saturday game look for weekly and overall stats that afternoon once the final is known and verified. GOOD LUCK everyone! Already heading into mid-regular season!

Pirates will be playing for their first win against West Plains this millennium.

Past matchups:

2002
West Plains(3-4) @ Branson(6-1)
Score: West Plains 46-7 over Branson

2003
Branson(4-3) @ West Plains(3-4)
Score: West Plains 21-7 over Branson

2024
West Plains(2-1) @ Branson(3-0)

Our weekly opportunity for @COCguy to tell us how awesome his picks are

• Ozark @ Webb
• Kickapoo @ REPMO
• Glendale @ Joplin
• Nixa @ Carthage
• Lebanon @ Willard
• Waynesville @ Neosho

Kirksville @ Moberly NP1
Hallsville @ Macon NP2
Salisbury @ Harrisburg NP3

10:00 Pressbox Show NP1

1. Nixa @ Carthage
2. Mt Vernon @ East Newton
3. West Plains @ Branson (not sure if this will be competitive, but a branson win would more than likely guarantee a piece of OMC Title)
4. Liberty(Mtn View) @ Ava
5. Sarcoxie @ Stockton
6. Lathrop @ Skyline
7. Miller @ Diamond
8. Kickapoo @ Republic
9. Pierce City @ Ash Grove
10. Helias Catholic @ Camdenton
11. Capital City @ Rock Bridge
12. Smith-Cotton @ Jefferson City
13. Southern Boone @ Boonville
14. Marceline @ Milan
15. Linn @ Missouri Military Academy
16. Eldon @ Osage
17. Windsor @ Tipton
18. Cuba @ Jefferson(Festus)

Only 9 area games this week. Had to supplement from other areas of the state to get more games that I though either were going to be or at least had the potential of being competitive. I’m sure some games I left out will prove to be competitive but who knows. Couldn’t even find any Northern Arkansas games that I thought would be good.

What the heck is going on there?
Harrisonville's running back (from Adrian) had 3 carries for 81 yards 1 reception 46 yards 2 touchdowns when he went down in 2nd quarter.

They eked out an OT win over Hville and got turbo'd in their other 2 games.

RECORDS
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CARTHAGE (6-2, 2-1 COC, 0-0 COC WEST)
GLENDALE (4-2-1, 2-0 COC, 0-0 COC EAST)

Troy inducted 12 athletes/coaches into their Hall of Fame last night with a banquet. This was the initial group and was made up of men and women from various sports. The men who were honored from basketball were Hunter Beckman, Bob Hall, and Carter Creech. Hunter was All-State 2 years, scored over 2000 points, played at Memphis State where he averaged 25ppg his senior year, and was drafted by the Cincinnati Royals. Carter was All-state 2 years, scored over 1800 points and was Southern Methodist captain his senior year. Bob Hall scored over a 1000 points, played at Moberly J.C.. Bob has been the voice of the "Trojans" for over 40 years and has supported the athletic programs in many ways for 50 years. The last person inducted was Coach Mitch Wilkins. Mitch won 498 games in his 23 years at Troy and took Troy to 4 final fours. All of this years inductees were pre-1993.

Top 5 in Each Class (Calpreps Ratings)

Class 1

• 1. St. Vincent
• 2. Marionville
• 3. Tipton
• 4. Adrian
• 5. Milan

Class 2

• 1. Lamar
• 2. Valle
• 3. Bowling Green
• 4. South Shelby
• 5. Ava

Class 3

• 1. Seneca
• 2. Blair Oaks
• 3. Borgia
• 4. Mt. Vernon
• 5. Maryville

Class 4

• 1. Lutheran North
• 2. Kearney
• 3. Smithville
• 4. Hannibal
• 5. Warrenton

Class 5

• 1. Ritter
• 2. Platte County
• 3. Helias
• 4. Eureka
• 5. St. Pius X

Class 6

• 1. Lee’s Summit North
• 2. Nixa
• 3. Liberty North
• 4. CBC
• 5. Rockhurst

As ive said, I am now located in the middle of the state so following the Tri-county and CMAC conferences just make the most sense for me and I wanted to get your thoughts.

Blair Oaks (2-1) at California (1-2) - BO by as many as they want.....50 in the first quarter?

Boonville (3-0) vs Southern Boone (3-0) - The real question here is why does Boone County and Southern Boone both end with an E but Boonville doesn't have an E???

Eldon (3-0) at Osage (2-1) - This one probably won't be close. The records are a little deceiving if you look at the schedules.

Hallsville (0-3) at Macon (0-3) Out of Conference - Both played Palmyra, Hallsville was competitive and Macon was not. Give me Hallsville

Hannibal (1-2) at Fulton (0-3) Fulton will be in conference next year - Oof sorry Fulton...

Donald Trump was asked today if he would commit to prioritizing legislation to make childcare affordable, and if so, what specific legislation he would advance.

This is an unedited transcript of his response:

Well, I would do that, and we're sitting down, and I was, somebody, we had Senator Marco Rubio, and my daughter Ivanka was so, uh, impactful on that issue. It's a very important issue. But I think when you talk about the kind of numbers that I'm talking about, that, because, look, child care is child care is. Couldn't, you know, there's something, you have to have it – in this country you have to have it.

But when you talk about those numbers compared to the kind of numbers that I'm talking about by taxing foreign nations at levels that they're not used to — but they'll get used to it very quickly – and it's not gonna stop them from doing business with us, but they'll have a very substantial tax when they send product into our country. Uh, those numbers are so much bigger than any numbers that we're talking about, including child care, that it's going to take care.

We're gonna have - I, I look forward to having no deficits within a fairly short period of time, coupled with, uh, the reductions that I told you about on waste and fraud and all of the other things that are going on in our country, because I have to stay with child care. I want to stay with child care, but those numbers are small relative to the kind of economic numbers that I'm talking about, including growth, but growth also headed up by what the plan is that I just, uh, that I just told you about.

We're gonna be taking in trillions of dollars, and as much as child care, uh, is talked about as being expensive, it's, relatively speaking, not very expensive compared to the kind of numbers we'll be taking in. We're going to make this into an incredible country that can afford to take care of its people, and then we'll worry about the rest of the world. Let's help other people, but we're going to take care of our country first. This is about America first. It's about Make America Great Again, we have to do it because right now we're a failing nation, so we'll take care of it. Thank you. Very good question. Thank you.

All ABC is saying in response to alleged collusion between their staff and the Harris campaign is that “ ABC News followed the agreed upon conditions for the debate”

Bad enough that ABC would do it,,,but for Harris to be a part of cheating just reaks of being a true democrat

I wonder if that is still going strong.

Is it time to fire Coach Ryan McFarland?

But toots will come crying anyway.

Trying to remember the name of an exceptional basketball player that played for New Madrid Indians in probably the 1970s. He was a black player, big, probably a forward or center. We think he was known my three names, Example: Ray Don Smith. He was a very well known in his time. Thanks for any help you can give us.

I guess that whoopin he put on his girlfriend isn’t near as important when you need a running back for a few weeks

Not getting better.

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