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C1D2: Oran secures another shot at district gold (5/14/24)BELL CITY, Mo. — For the 13th consecutive season, Oran will compete for a district championship. A 6-2 victory over the Advance Hornets (4-15) in the MSHSAA Class 1, District 2 semifinal on Monday, May 13, furthered the Eagles' (16-9) streak of dominance rarely seen in high school sports...
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C1Q1: Softball super stars, super teams set to collide (5/14/24)The anticipation of Indiana Fever guard Caitlin Clark’s professional debut on Tuesday had basketball fans, regardless of gender, having heart palpitations with excitement across the nation.
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Carlton dazzles, Advance softball reclaims district gold in steady fight (5/8/24)With a district championship trophy and a spot in the state quarterfinals on the line, Addison Carlton and her Advance Hornets didn’t disappoint. Opening the game with three runs in the first and some late insurance, the top-seeded Hornets dismantled the Oran Eagles en route to a 6-1 win and some long-awaited hardware...
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Hamlin pushing fundamentals as Hornets enter postseason (5/3/24)One might think that you would be hard-pressed to find much room for improvement in the scorching-hot Advance/Bell City softball squad this spring, however, veteran Hornet coach James Hamlin is still seeing areas he wants his players to improve upon as they enter postseason play today.
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Roper, Advance/Bell City SB close out regular season in strong fashion (5/1/24)There can’t possibly be a more potent or intimidating softball squad entering the MSHSAA postseason than Advance/Bell City.
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Carlton leading surging Advance/Bell City SB as postseason nears (4/29/24)The Advance/Bell City softball squad hasn’t advanced out of the MSHSAA Class 1 District 2 Tournament since 2021, but it very well may have the all-around balance to do so this season.
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BREAKING: Semoball Awards winter sports finalists announced (4/24/24)The Semoball Awards finalists for fall sports were announced Wednesday morning on a selection show broadcast live on SEMO ESPN Radio and streamed on the Semoball.com Facebook page. The finalists were selected by a sports panel made up of representatives from the Southeast Missourian, Standard Democrat, Dexter Statesman, Daily American Republic and Delta Dunklin Democrat...
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Portal, not so much NIL, having major impact on juco hoops (4/23/24)There has been no shortage of stories published regarding the implementation of the new NIL (Name, Image, and Likeness) philosophy within intercollegiate athletics over the past couple of seasons. However, recently-hired Gulf State Community College men’s basketball coach, and Advance native, Lane Below, said in his four years of coaching at the junior college level, the NIL isn’t a major issue.
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Today's moment has been years in the making for mature, driven Lane Below (4/22/24)In 2009, most teenagers were obsessed with Miley Cyrus, beginning to get into Taylor Swift and Facebook (before the old farts ruined it), and spent hours honing their sports skills, not necessarily on the diamonds and courts across America, but in front of their TV screens playing Wii Sports. People who knew Lane Below could see even then, as a seventh grader at Advance Junior High, that he was different.