The LSE Pirates seventh grade football team recorded its third straight shutout and improved to 3-0 on the season by beating the Southern Boone Eagles 30-0 Tuesday night in the home opener at Gene Reagan Field. As for the LSE Pirates eighth grade football team, they suffered their first loss of the season after two straight ties by losing to the Eagles 22-6.
The Jamestown girls’ softball team avenged an earlier loss by one run by beating the Pilot Grove Lady Tigers 4-3 Tuesday night in Jamestown. The Lady Tigers, 6-7 on the season, led off the game with two runs in the top half of the first only to have Jamestown rally back with one run in each of the third and fourth innings of play to tie the game at 2-all.
The Ss. Peter & Paul girls eighth grade volleyball team suffered its first loss of the season Tuesday night on the road by losing to Our Lady of Lourdes in Columbia in two straight sets 20-25 and 22-25.
The Boonville Pirates JV football team picked up its third straight win Monday night in Ashland by beating the Southern Boone Eagles 30-26. The Pirates, 3-1 on the season, opened the game with a 24-6 halftime lead against the Eagles but had it cut to just four points in the third quarter after Southern Boone scored two touchdowns to make it 24-20.
With close to 250 runners battling the heat and the difficult course Tuesday during the annual Boonville Cross-Country Meet at Kemper Park, it came as a surprise that the girls would be the talk of the meet both at the middle school and high school level.
New Franklin girls softball team scored two runs in the first inning and never looked back, beating the Glasgow Lady Yellowjackets Tuesday night in CAC action in New Franklin 4-0. The Lady Bulldogs, 9-5 overall and 4-0 in the CAC, also outhit Glasgow 6-0 with a no-hit bid by sophomore Brynn Belstle, who struck out 17 batters in seven innings.
Boonville girls’ softball coach Christie Zoeller said errors took the Lady Pirates completely out of the game Tuesday night in a 15-7 loss to the Battle Spartans. While dropping to 8-10 on the season, Zoeller said the team committed a total of nine errors and there is simply no way to come back from that.
The Boonville Lady Pirates volleyball team is getting closer to putting it all together. Although the Lady Pirates fell in three sets on the road against the Fatima Comets Tuesday night 21-25, 2426 and 21-25, head coach Brittney Lowe said the girls did a lot of things right as a team and fought hard.
positive direction and string hits together and good things will come for us.” Fulton led from the first inning on against Boonville while putting up one run in the first, one again in the second, two in the third, one in the fifth and two in the sixth to extend the lead to 7-0. Meanwhile, in the top half of the seventh, Boonville scored its only run to avoid the shutout.
The Pilot Grove baseball team broke a 1-1 tie after 2 ½ by outscoring Jamestown 8-6 for the rest of the game for a 9-7 win Tuesday night in Jamestown. The Tigers, improving to 9-1 on the season, scored three runs in the third and five again in the fifth to lead the Eagles 9-5 after five.