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The West Plains boys wrestling team is a mostly a scrappy mix of emerging, young talent and a genuine star in senior Colten McGuire.    A couple of weeks ago, McGuire counted his 100th career win. Since then, he has racked up enough wins to make him the winningest Zizzer wrestler in the...
Howell County News/ Kacey Blunk
The Mountain View-Birch Tree Liberty High School Cheerleading Squad has been preparing to compete in their second GameDay State Competition. The squad will travel to Drury University in Springfield on Feb. 23 where they will perform a band dance, timeout cheer, and fight song dance. The entire...
photo by Sue Fiorino
The Lady Zizzer swim team was able to hold off Carl Junction by a slim eight points to clinch the first-ever Ozark Mountain Conference Championship title for girls swimming last week in Springfield.   West Plains won four of the twelve events. Audrey Land placed first in diving with a new...
Howell County News - Shawana Cox
The Lady Bears recently claimed a third place win at the Lady Tiger Invitational tournament, making their season record 13-7.   The week of games began on Monday, Jan. 27 as the Lady Bears traveled to Norwood to take on the Lady Pirates. The Lady Bears came up short losing to the Lady Pirates...
Howell County News - Shawana Cox
The Willow Springs Bears missed the Championship trophy in the Sparta Trojan Invitational by only two points this past week, coming away with second place.   On Tuesday, Jan. 28 the Bears took on the host team, Sparta, and won in one of the closest games they've had all season, 43-42. The...
photo by Patty Ingalls
Zizzer Wrestling wrapped up the regular season this week with matches at home against Hillcrest and on the road at the St. Clair Tournament on January Saturday, January 25.   In girls’ competition, Ashley Nix pinned her opponent at the West Plains match and went 1-3 on Saturday for a 4th...
courtesy of Patty Ingalls Photography
The West Plains girls swim team will enter the last two weeks of the regular season, also known as “championship season,” on a roll after high finishes in the last three meets.   The Lady Zizzers won the Poplar Bluff Dual meet on January 14 by winning 10 of the 11 events. Penelope Autry,...

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