Blair Oaks starts baseball homestand with win vs. South Callaway
The Blair Oaks Falcons began their longest homestand of the season on the right foot. It took a few innings to get going, but the Falcons complemented their st…
The Blair Oaks Falcons began their longest homestand of the season on the right foot. It took a few innings to get going, but the Falcons complemented their st…
Not even the rain can slow down the Jefferson City girls soccer team’s start to the season. Well, maybe just a little. Mother Nature helped hold the Lady Jays …
There’s no rebuilding in the Blair Oaks boys golf program. The Falcons just reload. With three consecutive top-four finishes in Class 3, Blair Oaks returns two…
The Blair Oaks track and field season will end a week earlier this year, because the Class 3 track and field state championships are moving up to the same week…
The St. Elizabeth Hornets care much more about how they finish a baseball season than how they start it. After all, they have three recent state championships …
The Blair Oaks Falcons knew they strong pitching and strong defense. The remaining question mark entering the season rested with the offense. A run-rule victor…
The Blair Oaks Lady Falcons played 160 minutes of soccer this weekend. They trailed for a grand total of 18 seconds. For the second time in as many days, Blair…
Tonight, 68 teams will have their name announced during the NCAA Tournament men’s basketball selection show. No need for Missouri to tune in. The Tigers won’t …
The Blair Oaks girls soccer team began Year 2 with a win. Hattie Meldrum scored both goals in the second half, Kylie Hickman recorded a shutout and the Lady Fa…
The Blair Oaks baseball team won’t shy away from playing as many regular-season games as possible, and this season, those extra games may be a necessity. The F…
Even in its second season, the Blair Oaks girls soccer team is starting off with another “first.” The Lady Falcons begin the year by hosting a six-team shootou…
It will be a tough act for the Helias boys tennis team to follow. The Crusaders are coming off their best state finish, second place in Class 2, and are the re…
The Tipton Lady Cardinals and the Skyline Lady Tigers are going to show up today at Mizzou Arena, each with a target on their backs. Tipton has a target as the…
It was the perfect start for the Blair Oaks Falcons. They just weren’t able to maintain that pace for a full 32 minutes. The John Burroughs Bombers overcame th…
The Blair Oaks Falcons have grown up quite a bit this year. Featuring a young roster with two seniors, six juniors and seven sophomores, the Falcons dropped fo…
The Helias defense hasn’t taken any time off this postseason. For the second straight game, the Crusaders held their opponent to a season low in the scoring co…
The Helias Crusaders were not pleased with their offensive effort in the first 12 minutes of Thursday night’s postseason opener against the Pacific Indians. Bu…
The Blair Oaks Falcons had a lot of little runs Friday night, but they added up in a big way. The final run, a 7-0 edge in the last 90 seconds, allowed the Fal…
The Blair Oaks Falcons had a pair of decade-long droughts they have been wanting to end in boys wrestling: Win an individual state championship and finish in t…
The Blair Oaks Lady Falcons are climbing the ladder. In 2022, they had their first state wrestling qualifiers. Last season, they had their first state medalist…
It’s not the finish Eldon junior Jesiah Simmons wanted, but it’s also hard to complain about taking second place. Simmons dropped a 7-3 decision to St. Michael…
At the midway point, the numbers look good for the Blair Oaks Falcons. Four wrestlers are in the semifinals. Two more are in the bubble round. It all adds up t…
It wasn’t a perfect day for the Blair Oaks Lady Falcons, but it was a near-perfect start. All three Lady Falcons advanced into the top eight of their respectiv…
The Blair Oaks Falcons took 12 wrestlers to the Class 2 District 3 Tournament last weekend in Eldon. Nine of them finished in the top four of their respective …
The Blair Oaks Lady Falcons will have an edge today when they begin the Class 1 girls wrestling state championships at Mizzou Arena. Blair Oaks has three state…
The Blair Oaks Falcons began Saturday afternoon’s game on a 12-0 run. It was a distant memory when the final buzzer sounded. The Hallsville Indians charged the…
For the first few days after the Kansas City Chiefs’ Super Bowl win, Patrick Mahomes was the talk of the sports world. It was justified. He’s 28 years old, he …
When the Helias Crusaders got a second chance Tuesday night, they made sure not to waste the extra opportunity. Helias had 17 second-chance points, including t…
The Blair Oaks Lady Falcons needed a win Monday night, but more importantly, they needed to work out a few things on both ends of the floor. Checking both boxe…
The Jefferson City Jays have size and athleticism. There wasn’t much the Blair Oaks Falcons could do to combat either one of them Friday night. Jefferson City’…
Scoring by threes adds up a lot faster than scoring by twos. The Eldon Lady Mustangs won’t shy away from shooting 3-pointers, and Thursday night, they fired aw…
The Blair Oaks Falcons are trying to start a new streak. After suffering their first conference loss in nearly eight years, the Falcons responded Tuesday night…
The Helias Crusaders picked a bad time to be ice cold on offense. The Crusaders missed their first seven shots of the fourth quarter and committed six turnover…
Mike DeMilia has been wanting to host a varsity boys wrestling tournament at Blair Oaks for quite some time. It finally came to fruition Saturday. The Falcons …
In years past, the Fatima Comets have been more of an individual wrestling team, usually having a number of open weight classes in their lineup. They’ve plugge…
Alex Schonhardt understood the assignment. The Helias junior guard came off the bench in the final seconds of Thursday night’s game against the Jefferson City …
Tuesday night was all about the Blair Oaks seniors on the wrestling mat, and rightly so. In their only home regular-season dual night at Blair Oaks High School…
The turnovers piled up for the Calvary Lutheran Lady Lions, and the Belle Lady Tigers took advantage. Belle led wire-to-wire Monday night, forcing at least fiv…
Bunceton/Prairie Home was just too good Friday night. Shooting 50 percent from the floor and outrebounding your opponent by 18 tends to lead to a good night. “…
The Helias Crusaders brought the intensity to the court Tuesday night. The Crusaders took care of the basketball on offense and locked down on defense, grittin…
When I pulled up Twitter on Friday afternoon, I noticed a post from the St. Louis Cardinals. As I read the Cardinals had signed Matt Carpenter to a one-year co…
Getting their opponent into foul trouble helped the Blair Oaks Lady Falcons work their way back into Thursday night’s game. Then the Boonville Lady Pirates ret…
The Fatima Comets have already piled up plenty of wins this basketball season. They finally found their signature win Thursday night. Fatima defeated the Helia…
The Jamestown Lady Eagles came to play in the fourth quarter. Jamestown trailed by four points entering the final eight minutes of Saturday night’s championshi…
The Blair Oaks Falcons had a bad third quarter. Then they followed it up with a really good fourth quarter. “We were making shots in the fourth quarter,” Blair…
For the time being, the Helias Crusaders hold the bragging rights. Barely 24 hours after defeating the Capital City Cavaliers, Helias came away with this week’…
The Fatima Comets aren’t messing around. They’ve won 11 games in a row, and the biggest win during their streak has landed them back in the Joe Machens Great 8…
When the going got tough, the Helias Crusaders turned to their seniors. Kase Winegar and Blake Means combined to score 10 points in the final eight minutes Thu…
The Jefferson City Jays had their chances. The Ensworth School, Tenn., Tigers just tipped them away. Ensworth didn’t take its first lead until less than two mi…
It wasn’t always pretty, but the Fatima Comets accomplished their end goal: Advancing to the winner’s bracket of the Joe Machens Great 8 Classic. Fatima overca…