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Athletes entering grades 3 - 6 will have instruction from 8:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m. and athletes entering grades 7th and 8th will be from 10:00 a.m. - noon both days.
Registration for the Bloomfield Baseball Camp is only $25.
For more information contact Bloomfield High School Baseball Coach Tyler Trover by emailing him at ttrover@bps14.org or you may contact him at 573-276-7283.
Don't worry about the rain! They have an indoor facility to utilize just in case Mother Nature decides to water the grass!
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Fenton, Missouri – MaKayla Waldner may only be a sophomore at Dexter Senior High School, but she has accomplished more in two years than most do their entire high school athletic career. She once again will be headed to the Class 3 State Championship Track Meet on May 30th and 31st to compete in not just one event, but two events.
MaKayla finished first in the 300-meter hurdles setting another school record with a time of 45.55. At last year’s sectionals she set a school record beating an earlier record she held with a recorded time of 46.71. Prior to that record her sister Sammy, a Dexter graduate, held the 300-meter hurdles record.
Waldner also finished second in the 100-meter hurdles with a recorded time of 15.66. The top four finishers in each event qualify for the state tournament.
“I am very pleased with the outcome of my results, but there are still a few things I need to work on to be where I want to be at the state meet,” commented Waldner.
She also competed in the long jump placing 5th and the high jump placing 7th at sectionals.
In 2013 Waldner finished 3rd place in the 100-meter hurdles and 8th place in the 300-meter hurdles at the state level.
She will compete Friday and Saturday at Dwight T. Reed Stadium on the campus of Lincoln University in Jefferson City, Missouri.
Several other athletes from Dexter competed in the sectional, but were unable to qualify for state.
Taylor Ivy finished 7th place in triple jump with a personal best for her at 32.5 ¼.
The 4x800 team consisting of Melanie McKuin, Julia Hahn, Hailey Anderson and Kelsey Wood finished 6th with a recorded time of 10:34.19.
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Ste. Genevieve, Missouri – The Bernie Mule’s baseball season came to an end on Memorial Day with a loss of 11-2 to private school Valle Catholic in Ste. Genevieve, Missouri.
Bernie played well in the first four innings scoring two runs giving them the lead early; however the 5th inning became the Achilles heel of the Mules and they were plagued with errors. They tallied five errors. Valle Catholic was able to capitalize on their mistakes scoring eight runs.
“I told the kids we’ve played good defense all year and for one inning we just kind of lost it,” stated Bernie’s head coach Darrin Shipman. “I don’t know what happened. We misplayed several balls. They hit the ball hard, but we should have made several of those plays. We counted six plays we should have made and five that counted as errors in the book. Against a good team like Valle you just can’t do that. We haven’t all year, but we did today and it cost us.”
Valle Catholic earned four of its eleven hits scoring eight in the top of the 5th inning. Two of those hits were triples and another was a double.
The Warriors’ Dan Bergtholdt allowed only two runs, five hits and struck out three. He pitched the first five innings of the game.
“We knew their pitcher was good and threw it well,” continued Shipman. “We knew it was going to be a battle. We have won some low-scoring games during the regular season so we weren’t surprised it was low-scoring because the wind wasn’t blowing out like it was at Bernie the other day. I would take a 2-0 lead going into the 5th most days. We didn’t play good defense in the 5th and it cost us.”
Austin Beck helped put the Mules on the board first in the bottom of the third inning hitting a single allowing a runner to score.
“He has hit consistently (speaking of Beck) around .400 all year. He’s just a sophomore and has done a great job for us. We are proud of the way he has improved from last year to this year.”
Justin Stanfield earned an RBI off a single hit in the bottom of the fourth to give the Mules a 2-0 lead. After that it was all Warrior power.
Devin Trammell pitched an excellent game. Defensively the Mules had challenges. “We thought he pitched really well,” commented Shipman. “We think the game should have been a 2-1or 2-2 in the fifth if we had made all the plays. We thought his curve ball looked good today.”
B.J. Jennings relieved Trammell. Matt Vernon came in and pitched in the last two innings and did not allow one run.
“I know we are all hurting right now, but they can’t take away that we won all those games. (Bernie had an 18 game winning streak.) We won the Malden Tournament, we won the District Tournament and we won the Conference Tournament. We didn’t play well today, but we had a great season with great kids,” stated Coach Shipman. “What I am most proud of it our character! When we were doing well we never were ‘unclassy’ about it. Our kids were great kids and I am proud of them for that most of all.”
Bernie fans were great this year as well. The stands were packed at each game and many drove the two hours to support their team in Ste. Genevieve. They truly bleed blue in Bernie!
Bernie finished its season with a record of 20-4 and won 18 games in a row before their sectional loss. That speaks a lot about their commitment and reputation!
Final Score Valle Catholic 11 Bernie 2
Valle Catholic 0 0 0 0 8 3 0 - 11 11 2
Bernie 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 - 2 5 6
WP - Dan Bergtholdt - LP - Devin Trammell - HR - Bergtholdt (V). 3B - Evan Lauer (V), Justin Roth (V), Nolan Wood (V). 2B - Brad Freed (B), Connor Basler (V), Andrew Basler (V). Multiple hits - Bernie: Austin Beck 2-4. Valle Catholic: C. Basler 2-5, N. Wood 2-4, Tyler Shuh 2-4, J. Roth 2-4.
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Rockwood Summitt, Missouri - Class 3, District 1 Track and Field Sectionals will begin at the Rockwood Summitt High School on Saturday morning.
Six athletes from Dexter Senior High School have qualified and will compete in today's track and field competition.
Taylor Ivy will compete in the triple jump.
Melanie McKuin, Julia Hahn, Hailey Anderson, and Kelsi Wood will compete in the 4x800 relay. They are shown in the photo above.
MaKayla Waldner will compete in several events. She will begin with the high jump, long jump, 100 meter hurdles and finish with the 300 meter hurdles.
Good luck to all of the athletes competing today!
State Track and Field competition will be held on Friday, May 30th and Saturday, May 31st on the campus of Lincoln University in Jefferson City, Missouri.
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Bernie, Missouri – The Mules owned the Class 2, District 3 championship on Wednesday evening with their best performance of the season. They defeated the #2 ranked Chaffee Red Devils 22 – 10 in an amazing power hitting game.
“I tell my athletes all the time to stay in the strike zone,” stated Darrin Shipman, head coach of the Bernie Mules Baseball team. And that is exactly what they did with one hit after another.
The Mules collected 16 hits and earned 11 walks as they ended the game in the 5th inning on a mercy-rule. It was their first District Title since 2009.
Bernie had two extremely great innings. They earned 9 runs in both the 2nd and 4th innings to propel them into double figures to defeat Chaffee.
It was Devin Trammell who rallied the Mules early on with a three-run homer putting them on top 3-0. It wasn’t his only homer of the game. Trammell hit one more home run and completed the game with a total of five RBIs.
B.J. Jennings earned the win for the Mules. He allowed eight runs on five hits. Devin Trammell pitched the last two innings.
Cody Payne earned the loss for the Red Devils. They utilized four different pitchers in fiving innings.
Bernie extends their awesome winning streak to 18 games with a record of 20-3.
Bernie will play Valle Catholic in the Class 2 state sectional on Memorial Day at 4:30 p.m. in Ste. Genevieve. Valle Catholic is ranked #1 in the latest poll with Bernie ranked #6.
Final Score Bernie 22 Chaffee 10 (5 Innings)
Bernie 3 9 1 9 0 - 22 16 3
Chaffee 6 2 0 2 0 - 10 7 1
WP - B.J. Jennings. LP - Cody Payne. HR - Devin Trammell 2 (B). Jimmy Golden (C), Ryan Lohmann (C). 2B - Golden (C), Jordan Kinder (C), Austin Beck (B), Brad Freed (B), Justin Stanfield (B), Jace Burk (B). Multiple hits - Chaffee: Golden 2-3, Kinder 3-3; Bernie: Beck 3-4, Matt Vernon 3-4, Freed 3-5, Trammell 2-4, Jennings 3-4.
