January 21, 2021
The SoBoCo Eagles baseball team had three players named to the first team Tri-County Conference All-Conference squad recently – including the conference’s Most Valuable Player Alex Anderson. The Eagles won the Tri-County with a perfect 7-0 record. Anderson led the team in pitching as well as being at the top of many offensive categories. Anderson
The high school fishing team competed in their last regular season tournament Sunday, May 22 at Stockton Lake. There were 166 teams entered. Southern Boone’s Blaine Sapp and Tanner Miller took 43rd and Owen Kemna and Austin Marren finished 115th. There was a storm that moved through the night before, and many believed that would
By Bruce Wallace To decide to work at one sport, while not playing another is a difficult challenge for any high school athlete. For Hannah Crow, that meant working out three days a week on her own last winter while her former teammates and friends battled their way to the Eagles girls’ basketball team’s first
by Bruce Wallace Thirteen years ago, in Tony Phillips’ first season as the Eagles head baseball coach, SoBoCo lost to Westran in the Class 2 district tournament. The only thing that is the same is that Westran is still playing Class 2 baseball. SoBoCo, now competing with Class 4 powers like Helias and Bolivar, has
When it is playoff time, a team simply needs to advance to the next round. Sometimes that is termed “Survive and advance to the next round.” The SoBoCo Eagles did exactly that on Monday as they held off an upset-minded Fulton team by a 2-1 score. The win puts the 20-2-1 Eagles into the district
The SoBoCo Eagles performed well where expected – and perhaps where they were a bit surprised on Saturday at the District track meet. The Eagles girls finished in second place and the boys in third as both teams will send a full group of athletes to Saturday’s Sectional meet. SoBoCo’s Hannah Crow dominated in the
The SoBoCo Eagles fell behind, then got the lead – then repeated that formula. But in the end, the Eagles took a wild 9-5 win over Moberly last Thursday. The Eagles, now 16-6, fell behind early but got a 5-run first inning, led by Sam Poole’s 2-run double. Trevor Garriott had a sacrifice fly and
When your leading golfer for the past three years has been sick then hurts his back on the second hole of Monday’s Sectional Golf Tournament, what does a coach do? He simply turns to another senior. Eagles senior golfer Jakob Warren stepped up in a huge way on Monday, shooting a 78 and lifted his
The SoBoCo Eagles soccer team saw one of their top playmakers go down and out for the season last week, but got another goal scorer returned to the lineup. Along with a pair of wins, the Eagles also got the nod as the No. 1 seed at next week’s District Tournament in Fulton. Eagles midfielder/forward
The SoBoCo Eagles baseball team scrimmaged a little last week and is getting ready for next Tuesday’s opener at home vs Centralia. Coach Tony Phillips says his depth in pitching will be an advantage for the Eagles. SoBoCo’s Alex Anderson, returning from an arm injury last season was on the mound with a strict pitch
