Clearwater

The Puxico Indians boys basketball could not have picked a much better way to open the season last Saturday — and the Indians sustained that momentum into Tuesday's home opener. Fresh off a trip to the Class 2 quarterfinals last season, the Indians drained a whopping 16 3-pointers and opened this season with a 69-65 win over the Chadwick Cardinals — the defending Class 1 state champions — on the second day of the Current River Challenge at Van Buren High School...

Several local players were represented when the SEMO North Conference recently released its all-conference squad. Two Dexter players — Kate Nichols and Cali White — earned first-team all-conference honors, while two Poplar Bluff players, Ireland Gowen and Morgan Cisne, were named second-team all-conference, as was Dexter’s Avery Riley...