The first and fourth innings proved valuable to the Maryville Spoofhounds in their 8-4 victory over the Richmond Spartans May 21 at Richmond to advance on from the Class 3 state sectionals. With just a 6-10 season record the Hounds don’t have the recent history of a state-worthy baseball team but did not let that hinder them at this point in the season.
“We talked early about not getting good practices and that leading to mistakes in the game and since we’ve started doing the right things in practice, we’ve turned ourselves around,” said Maryville Head Coach Matt Houchin. “We’re putting the ball in play, we’re making plays behind our pitchers, our pitchers are feeling confident and overall, these boys just don’t quit and they just keep fighting.”
For many, this was not their first tour of duty at a Class 1 State Track meet. Most are coming back for a second, third and even fourth time. For those newbies, the experience was unreal with state-wide talents proving to be top-notch and worthy of state-wide recognition. Here is a recap of the Nodaway County representatives at the May 17-18 Class 1 and 2 State Track Meet held at Lincoln University in Jefferson City.
Shanna Welch, triple jump
Megan Rosenbohm gets up in the triple jump event where she placed fourth with a jump of 34-01 at the May 17-18 Class 1 Track Meet at Jefferson City. Rosenbohm also earned a medal in the long jump, taking second. The four other medals for Nodaway County came from Jefferson/South Nodaway’s Shanna Welch with fifth in the triple, Sage DeLong of Northeast Nodaway with a fifth place finish in the 100-meter dash, Emily Cordell of West Nodaway with a fifth place finish in the 400-meter dash and North Nodaway’s
MHS girls win districts for seventh straight year,
Maryville athletes took part in the district track meet May 11 at Excelsior Springs. For complete results of the athletes who qualified for the May 18 sectionals, look to the bottom of the page.
Baylee Scarbrough throws the discus during the district event, taking second with a throw of 109-02.
Athletic Director Mel Tjeerdsma, right, shakes hands with Michael Smith during the formal introduction for Smith, welcoming him back to the Bearcat athletics family. Smith was selected to be the seventh head women’s basketball coach at Northwest, replacing Mark Kellogg.
Smith comes to Northwest after five years as the head coach of Truman State. Smith was a graduate assistant for the Bearcats for two years in 1996-98 under the late Wayne Winstead, Northwest’s all-time winningest women’s basketball coach.
Nodaway County tracksters compete in meet, several advance on to sectionals
Class 1 Nodaway County teams participated in the district track meet May 7 at Albany. For complete results of the area athletes who qualified for the May 11 sectionals, look to the bottom of the page.
Northeast Nodaway’s Sage DeLong sprints down the track in his heat of the 100-meter dash. In the finals, DeLong placed second with a time of 11.59.
Defensive midfielder Chelsea Byland heads the ball down to start a Maryville attacking play in the second half. The Hounds would defeat Savannah 10-0 at Savannah May 7.
It didn’t happen until the bottom of the sixth, but the Maryville Spoofhounds JV baseball team put away three runs on two separate hits to secure the South Nodaway Tournament trophy April 27, defeating host South Nodaway/Jefferson, 3-0. The two teams met after Maryville defeated Northeast Nodaway 4-3 and South Nodaway defeated Southwest Ludow 11-0.
“It was a little disappointing to have to settle for second place. It was our goal to walk away with first,” said South Nodaway
Ben Goecken serves the ball against LeBlond’s Nolan Nadolski. Goecken, being the only varsity member available to play for Maryville, lost to Nadolski in a tie-breaking round, 8-8 and 6-8.
Maryville High hosted surrounding schools April 30 in the Maryville Relays. For results of Maryville athletes who finished in the top five look to the bottom of the page.
Maryville’s Mikaila Wallace takes the baton from Jessa Stiens during the girls 800-meter relay. The relay team, also made up of Abby Hayes and Jennifer Gullion, placed first with a time of 1:48.03.
