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Friday, March 21, 2014
2014 SPRING SPORTS PREVIEW
North Nodaway baseball
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The 2014 North Nodaway Mustangs baseball team roster includes: front row, from left — Takoda Adamson, Fred Rios, Daytona Lutz, August Hoepker, Dakota Smyser and Jordan Snyder; second — Devin Brown, Koby Reynolds, Peyton Coleman and Wyatt Tate; third — Keegan King, James Leach, Wilke Walker, Ty Cowan and Ben Hart.
Mustangs ready to play By JASON LAWRENCE Sports editor
Editor’s note: The Daily Forum will be previewing every high school team in Nodaway County as the spring sports season approaches. This is another installment of a series that will be published over the course of the next several weeks. The North Nodaway baseball team is enthusiastic about getting started on its inaugural campaign. Head coach Andrew Webster said he has a mix of new players and ones with some summer league experience, but that he can’t wait to see what happens when the games start. “We have a lot of new baseball players mixed in with some players with summer league experience,” Webster said. “It is our goal to get the athletes to work together and improve daily. I want us to reach our potential as a team. We want to compete in every game with great effort and see what happens.” The Mustangs have a young lineup with three freshman and three sophomores in the starting lineup.
Webster will look to Koby Reynolds on the mound with senior Devin Brown as his battery-mate. Ben Hart, August Hoepker, Dakota Smyser and Peyton Coleman will make up the infield with Wyatt Tate, Fred Rios and James Leach forming the outfield corps. “We are a young team, but an enthusiastic one,” Webster said. “We are learning a lot right now and making strides in player development. I am very much looking forward to the season.” Webster, who will be assisted by Drew Bulbolka and Chris Schoning, added that Northeast Nodaway and South Nodaway should have an upperhand this season in the newly-formed Northwest Missouri Baseball Conference, since the Bluejays and Longhorns have been playing baseball for a number of years. “I would think that it would give them an edge at least in experience,” he said. “The rest of us North Nodaway, West Nodaway, and Tarkio/Fairfax are all brand new to high school baseball, so it will be fun to see how it all plays out.” North Nodaway opens the season on Thursday, March 27 at South Nodaway.
Maryville Daily Forum
Cats put on offensive display KANSAS CITY, Mo. — With a two game total of 29 hits and 25 runs, the Northwest softball team defeated Rockhurst 13-1 in game one, then 12-7 in game two on Wednesday. The bats were out early for the Bearcats, who scored five runs in the top of the first inning, in game one. Northwest and Rockhurst both plated one run in the second inning. The Bearcats then put up six runs on four hits in the top of the third inning to take a 12-1 lead before adding one more in the fifth inning. Abbie Vitosh silenced the Rockhurst bats and went the distance for the win on her way to her fourth complete game of the season. Vitosh walked only one, while giving up five hits and allowing only one run and striking out a season-high seven batters. Torri Blythe went 4-for-4 with an RBI while scoring three times in the contest. Kristin Uthe went 3-for-3 with four RBIs as she hit her second long ball of the season over the left-center field fence. Northwest picked up in game two where it left off in game one, getting on the board in the first inning with two runs. The Hawklets plated one run in the bot-
tom of the first and then tied the game up at 2-2 with a run in the second. Baylee Scarbrough singled in Stephanie Mark in the third inning to take back the lead, 3-2. A three-run homer by Rockhurst in the bottom half of the third put the Hawklets up 5-3. The bats came back alive for the Bearcats in the fifth inning as they drove in four runs, and then again in the seventh when they added five runs. Rockhurst could only manage two runs in the bottom of the seventh as Sarah Baldwin got the win in the 12-7 victory. Chantel Adams was 3-for-5 in game two, scoring twice and driving in two runs while hitting her fifth home run of the season. Adams currently leads the Bearcats with 19 runs driven in this season. Baldwin moves her season record to 5-4 as she collected her fourth complete game of the season. Head Coach Ryan Anderson’s team will head to St. Joseph for the Missouri Western Classic this weekend. The Bearcats will play five games in three days beginning on Friday when they take on Concordia-St. Paul in a 10 a.m. start.
Northwest women’s tennis grabs back-to-back victories JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — The Northwest Missouri State women’s tennis team made it back to back victories in as many days as they defeated Missouri Western 8-1 on Tuesday, then took down Lincoln Wednesday, 9-0. Northwest took all three matches in the doubles competition and then took five out of six matches during singles play to claim
the 8-1 victory over Missouri Western. The Bearcats made it a clean sweep of Lincoln Wednesday winning all three doubles matches and all six singles matches for the 9-0 win. Northwest will head to Tahlequah, Okla. to take on Northeastern Oklahoma State Friday with the first match scheduled for a 3:30 p.m. start.
Gadbois having breakout sophomore season for Mizzou COLUMBIA, Mo. — Missouri redshirtsophomore Taylor Gadbois, of Maryville, is having a break out season through five weeks of play. Gadbois is hitting .473 so far this season, which ranks third in the SEC, after hitting just .103 last season as a redshirt-freshman. She is also on an all-time, program-best 19-game hitting streak, which surpassed the
18-game streak of Mizzou three-time AllAmerican Rhea Taylor, set in 2010. Gadbois is also second in the SEC in steals with 21 and has five multi-run games this season and had three multi-hit games in her five games last week. The slap-hitter also recorded her first career extra-base hit on March 14, hitting a double in a 2-for-4 performance against No. 9 Kentucky.
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