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Boonville senior Jackson Johns will lead the Pirates this coming Saturday in a Class 3 quarterfinal game against Reeds Springs at Gene Reagan Field in Boonville, starting at 1 p.m. The Pirates enter the game at 8-4 on the season while Reeds Springs is 9-2. Boonville advanced to the quarterfinal round by beating Moberly 28-13 for the district title last Friday in Moberly. The win was Boonville’s first district title in 11 years. The winner of Saturday’s game will advance to the semifinal round on Saturday, Nov. 26 against the winner of Sullivan or St. Charles West.

The New Franklin girls basketball team couldn’t have picked a better motto for the 2022-23 season. After finishing three games over .500 last year at 14-11 overall, the Lady Bulldogs also had a winning record in the Central Activities Conference at 6-4.

Boonville Pirates wrestling coach Justin Hahn knows what is in front of him this year after losing two state medalist-one of which was a state champion-for the 202223 season. Although Hahn will get a better feel of his team once the Boonville Pirates football team is done playing in the postseason, he knows right now 14 boys and eight girls will make up the team for the time being.

Attitude and effort. That’s how Boonville football coach Greg Hough described the Pirates Friday night after knocking off No.

The LSE Pirates wrestling team kicked off the 2022 season at home on Thursday with a five team meet against Eldon, Mexico, North Callaway and Warsaw at the Windsor gymnasium at Boonville High School. Although wrestling is new to a lot of wrestlers this season for LSE, head coach Christian Stock said he thought the team wrestled really well.