A two-time state qualifier and a player who just missed making it to state two straight years return to headline the St. James High School golf team this spring.
Head coach Marty Hauck is hoping a young pitching staff will eventually anchor a much-improved unit for the St. James High School baseball team this spring.
Sore toe or not, Rachel Connell is an all-state player.
Despite missing several games in the middle of the season due to toe surgery Connell, a 5-11 junior guard for the St. James High School girls’ basketball team, was selected to the Missouri Basketball Coaches Association (MBCA) Girls’ Class 4 All-State Team, it was announced this week.
It’s the second straight season Connell has been selected to the all-state squad. The Missouri Sportswriters/Sportscasters Association all-state teams are scheduled to be announced in a couple of weeks.
With a 30-goal scorer, a couple of steady goal-keepers and improved depth the St. James High School girls’ soccer team seem to be prepared to make a run at a strong spring campaign.
Sign-ups for men's softball and summer league sports have begun.
Missouri health officials kicked off fishing season by publishing the 25th annual guide to the safest way to handle and eat fish caught in Missouri waters.
In recent years the Missouri S&T football team has made its reputation with a high-flying offensive machine.
Stepping into that cockpit as new Miner head coach is a man who has made his reputation on defense.
David Brown, an assistant coach at the NCAA Division I level, has been named new football head coach for Missouri S&T, the university announced Monday afternoon.
The league champion St. James High School boys’ basketball team had two players named to the All-Four Rivers Conference First Team and another selected honorable mention.
The St. James High School girls’ basketball team was able to survive a 12-point halftime deficit and rally past West Plains in Missouri Class 4 Sectional action earlier in the week.
The St. James girls' basketball team, as well as the St. James Cheerleaders, enjoyed several pep rallies and a dinner Friday before heading to Quarterfinals against Webb City in Springfield, Mo.
Ken Block and Alex Gelsomino of the Monster World Rally Team have claimed their fifth consecutive 100 Acre Wood Rally win. Block drove the Open Class Ford Fiesta to victory despite having a tough first day and starting the second leg over a minute behind rally leader, Travis Pastrana.
The first fish at Maramec Spring Park during the 2010 Missouri trout season was turned in by one of the youngest anglers who was lining the stream.
Quarterfinals
Saturday, March 6
Girls
Class 4
St. James (25-3) vs. Webb City (27-1)Gape Gir. Notre Dame (24-4) vs. Borgia (22-6)
Miller (19-6) vs. St. Dominic (22-3)
O’Hara (22-6) vs. Staley (19-7)
Okay, so the Webb City Cardinals are real, real good.
But the St. James Lady Tigers ain’t bad, either.
Lady Tiger head coach Brad Conway says his squad must remember both of those facts.
The St. James High School girls’ basketball team will take on an opponent considered one of the nation’s best Saturday, when the Lady Tigers meet Webb City for a second straight year in Missouri Class 4 Quarterfinal action.
St. James faces Webb City at 1 p.m. Saturday at the Hammons Student Center on the campus of Missouri State University in Springfield.
Scenes from Maramec Spring Park in St. James at the opening day of trout season March 1.
The St. James High School boys’ basketball team ran into a hot host team in the first round of district tournament action Tuesday, Feb. 23.
The St. James Lady Tigers were named district champions after defeating Owensville Feb. 26.
The St. James School District's attendance numbers for Boys & Girls Town of Missouri's St. James campus are no longer counted for the Missouri State High School Activities Association (MSHSAA).
Wednesday, March 3
Sectionals
Girls
Class 4
St. James 41, West Plains 40
Webb City 60, Republic 34
Cape Gir. Notre Dame 73, Farmington 62
St. Francis Borgia 53, St. Louis Notre Dame 34
Miller Career Academy 45, MICDS 43
St. Dominic 51, Moberly 47
O’Hara 30, Pleasant Hill 23
Staley 48, Benton 42
If someone’s going to take the game-winning shot, it might as well be a Bowen.
It’s in the bloodlines.
Senior guard Jordan Bowen hit the biggest shot of her life on Wednesday, draining a 18-footer off the right baseline to give the St. James High School girls’ basketball team a 41-40 victory over West Plains in Missouri Class 4 Sectional action at Lebanon High School.
St. James, 25-3 and ranked No. 3 in this week’s Missouri Class 4 state poll, now braces for a rematch with the state’s top-ranked team, Webb City, in quarterfinal action at 1 p.m. Saturday at the Hammons Student Center on the campus of Missouri State in Springfield.
Webb City (27-1) advanced to the quarterfinals by blasting Republic 60-34 in sectional action on Wednesday.
It was Webb City that knocked St. James out of the state playoffs in last year’s quarterfinals at the Hammons Student Center.
