Columbia, Missouri - The Missouri State High School Activities Association (MSHSAA) Board of Directors approved new homes for their football and basketball state championships.
The Show-Me Showdown Basketball Final Four will relocate beginning with the 2017-2018 school year. MSHSAA announced on Friday a five-year contract to hold the event at the Missouri State University’s JQH Arena in Springfield.
Class 1, 2, and 3 semifinal games held on Thursday will be at the Hammons Student Center in Springfield.
The Show-Me Bowl Football finale for Classes 1 – 6 will be played at the Missouri State University’s Plaster Stadium in 2016. The games will then move to the University of Missouri’s Faurot Field in Columbia in 2017.
The high school state basketball championships have been held at the University of Missouri – Columbia while the football championships were played at the Edward Jones Dome in St. Louis.
"We appreciate the work that the cities put into this bid process and we have taken this process very seriously," MSHSAA Executive Director Kerwin Urhahn said in a press release. "We are especially humbled by the amount of community support the city of Springfield showed in putting together its bids. We have an obligation to our membership to find not only the best facilities to host our championships, but also the best support from the host site to serve our schools needs."
Dexter, Missouri - The Swing Pink Softball Tournament schedule has been released for the Saturday, April 9th fundraiser.
Twenty teams are slated to compete at five softball fields and is the largest Swing Pink Tournament since it began. Sixteen teams will play in two eight-team brackets. The other four teams will compete in a four-team pool play competition.
Teams competing in Bracket A are Dexter, Van Buren, Woodland, Greenville, New Madrid County Central, Senath-Hornersville, Naylor, and Holcomb.
Teams competing in Bracket B are West County, Winona, Southland, East Carter County, Neelyville, Advance, Clearwater, and Bernie.
Puxico, Bloomfield, Charleston, and Zalma will compete in Pool Play.
Bracket A
11:00 a.m. #1 Van Buren vs #8 Dexter Field A
11:00 a.m. #4 Woodland vs #5 Greenville Field B
11:00 a.m. #3 NMCC vs #6 Senath Field C
11:00 a.m. #2 Naylor vs #7 Holcomb Filed D
1st Place is slated for 7:00 p.m. on Field C
3rd Place is scheduled for 7:00 p.m. on Field D
5th Place is scheduled on Field A at 7:00 p.m.
7th Place is scheduled on Field B at 7:00 p.m.
Bracket B
9:00 a.m. #4 Southland vs #5 East Carter Field B
9:00 a.m. #3 Neelyville vs #6 Advance Field C
9:00 a.m. #2 Clearwater vs #7 Bernie Field D
1st Place is slated for 5:00 p.m. on Field C3rd Place is slated for 5:00 p.m. on Field D
5th Place is slated for 5:00 p.m. on Field A
7th Place is slated for 5:00 p.m. on Field B
In the four team pool, #2 Bloomfield will play #3 Charleston at 9:00 a.m. on Field G. #1 Puxico will play #4 Zalma at 11:00 a.m. on Field G. Bloomfield plays Zalma at 1:00 p.m. on Field D, Charleston will play Zalma at 5:00 p.m. on Field G and Puxico will play Bloomfield at 7:00 p.m. on Field G.
Home fries, hot dogs, hamburgers, cheeseburgers, pulled pork, nachos, chips, cookies, crackers, pickles, candy, popcorn, water, Powerade, soda, t-shirts and INFLATABLES for the kids will be available at the event. All proceeds on sales will be donated to 18ForeLife and St. Jude Children's Hospital.
Cape Girardeau, Missouri - The Dexter Bearcats boys tennis team improved their record to 2-1 with a 7-2 road victory over Cape Central on Thursday, March 31, 2016.
The tennis match was originally slated for Wednesday, but Mother Nature had some showers in store moving the match to Thursday.
Dexter won four of their six singles matches and all three of their doubles matches.
Final Score Dexter 7, Cape Central 2
SINGLES
No. 1 Ethan Flowers (D) defeated Caleb Ambler (C) 8-3
No. 2 Zach Potts (D) def. Bennett Kidd (C) 8-1
No. 3 Josh Kohlbaker (D) def. Zachary Brock (C) 8-1
No. 4 Noah Orr (C) def. Addison Moore (D) 8-4
No. 5 Justin Nguyen (C) def. Will Brehmer (D) 9-8 (7-3)
No. 6 Tyler Stevenson (D) def. Brad Orenstein 8-3
VARSITY DOUBLES
No. 1 Ethan Flower/Addison Moore (D) def. Caleb Ambler/ Bennett Kidd (C) 8-1
No. 2 Zach Potts/Josh Kohlbaker (D) def. Zachary Brock/Noah Orr (C) 8-1
No. 3 Will Brehmer/Tyler Stevenson (D) def. Justin Nguyen/Brad Orenstein (C) 8-2
Dexter, Missouri - The Dexter Bearcats boys tennis team defeated Notre Dame 8-1 on March 29, 2016.
Dexter won all three of their doubles matches and five of six singles matches.
SINGLES
No. 1 -- Ethan Flowers (D) def. Andrew West (ND) 8-1
No. 2 -- Zach Potts (D) def. Collin Smith (ND) 8-6
No. 3 -- Joshua Kohlbaker (D) def. James Stroup (ND) 8-2
No. 4 -- Garrett Hesselrode (ND) def. Will Brehmer (D) 8-6
No. 5 -- Tyler Stevenson (D) def. Sam Mocherman (ND) 8-1
No. 6 -- Jacob Crumley (D) def. Eli Oberle (ND) 8-1
No. 1 -- Potts/Kohlbaker (D) def. West/Smith (ND) 8-4
No. 2 -- Flowers/Crumley (D) def. Stroup/Hesselrode (ND) 8-1
No. 3 -- Brehmer/Stevenson (D) def. Mocherman/Oberle (ND) 8-1
Malden, Missouri - The Malden Invitational Baseball Tournament is scheduled for Friday, April 15th and Saturday, April 16th. Teams participating are Malden, Cooter, Scott City, Bernie, Portageville, Doniphan, Caruthersville, New Madrid County Central, and Bloomfield.
Friday April 15 Schedule for Field 1
10 AM NMCC vs. Caruthersville
12 PM Malden vs. Scott City
2 PM Bernie vs. Doniphan
4 PM Doniphan vs. Portageville
6 PM Malden vs. Cooter
Friday April 15 Schedule for Field 2
12 PM NMCC vs. Bloomfield
2 PM Caruthersville vs. Bloomfield
4 PM Scott City vs. Cooter
6 PM Portageville vs. Bernie
Brackets
Pool A
Malden
Cooter
Scott City
Pool B
Bernie
Portageville
Doniphan
Pool C
Caruthersville
NMCC
Bloomfield
All Teams will play 2 games on Friday – Pool Play.. Saturday Teams will be re-pooled after Friday’s results and play Pool Play in a Championship Bracket. Runners-up Bracket and Consolation Bracket..
Trophies will only be given to Teams in the Championship Pool.
