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With inclement weather closing school last Tuesday, the Lady Tigers had to postpone their contest with Marionville by a day, taking on the state ranked Lady Comets on a Wednesday evening at Stockton High School. Marionville entered the game as the 8th ranked Class 2 team in Missouri, adding incentive for a possible upset by the Lady Tigers.

California Lady Pintos basketball started the new calendar year in style with a pair of home wins last week.

PERU — Just one day after players on the Maconaquah girls basketball team purposely fouled Caston freshman point guard Madi Douglass because they wanted her to shoot free throws, Douglass

It wasn’t quite the finish the Fatima Lady Comets hoped for. But the Staley Falcons had a lot to do with that. “That’s an athletic team, they’re way bigger than we are, quick, they are going to win a pile of basketball games,” Fatima coach Matt Baker said Friday night after the Lady Comets dropped a 57-37 decision to the Falcons in the title game of the Jefferson Bank Holiday Hoops Classic at Capital City High School.

A total of 24 Jefferson City-area players were selected to the 2023 Missouri High School Fastpitch Coaches Association all-state softball team, which was released earlier this week.

It has been a good fall sports season for Jefferson City area high school teams. I mean, really, really good.

SPRINGFIELD — The Fatima Lady Comets came back from a nine-run deficit to win last year’s state championship. So when they faced a two-run deficit against the St. Francis Borgia Lady Knights, the Lady Comets acted like they had been there before and handled it like a walk in the park. Fatima only trailed for a few minutes Friday, scoring 12 unanswered runs and cruising to a 12-2 victory in five innings to claim its second straight Class 3 state title at Killian Softball Complex.

Here are capsule looks at Fatima, Oak Grove, St. Francis Borgia and Winfield, who are competing in the Class 3 softball Final Four in Springfield.

The reigning Class 3 state champion Fatima Lady Comets enter the Final Four, which begins at 11 a.m. today with a matchup against the fifth-ranked Oak Grove Panthers at Killian Softball Complex in Springfield, as the hunted team. The top-ranked Lady Comets have known they are the team to beat all season, but it has shown no sign of slowing them down.

If the Fatima Lady Comets have shown anything this season, it’s they are capable of finding power hitting anywhere in their lineup, Nos. 1-9. It was Kristen Robertson’s time to shine Tuesday night. The junior third baseman drove the first pitch she saw in the bottom of the fourth inning over the left-field fence for a three-run home run. That blast was the difference in a 4-1 victory against the Blair Oaks Lady Falcons in the Class 3 District 5 Tournament championship game at Southern Boone ...