Daily Scores

Tonight's action is now posted in each schools tab.

Both baseball teams were in action, with Blue Springs pulling out a late-inning win, while the eighth-ranked Jaguars lost to top-ranked Liberty. Also in action were the Blue Springs boys tennis team and the Blue Springs South girls soccer team.

Blue Springs boys tennis team takes third in own tournament

The Blue Springs boys tennis team earned a third place finish in its own tournament Friday with 21 team points.

Lee’s Summit West won the tournament with 29 points.

Max Martell had the top finish for the Wildcats, going 2-1 and taking second place in the ‘B’ singles division. Tyler Casey won in the ‘A’ division for singles and placed third, also with a 2-1 record.

Casey’s jump up from No. 4 last year to the top spot has been a work in progress, but Blue Springs head coach Jody McClain has liked his improvement.

“Tyler has played a lot of tough matches at No. 1 all year,” she said. “His mental game has gotten better. He’s willing to pay the price for not just sitting out there and trying to hit the winning shot.”

Chad Stohlman and Ashton Rhodes continued their strong season, taking third and going 2-1.

McClain has been preaching to the doubles teams all season to be aggressive at the net, and she’s seen Stohlman and Rhodes take that to heart.

“They played good teams from Barstow and Lee’s Summit West. I was very happy with them,” she said. “From the first of the season to now, they’ve changed quite a bit. They are serve and volleying more. Their net game has improved tremendously.”

Dan Noud and Andy Anderson made up the doubles team in the ‘A’ division and took seventh, going 1-2.

Blue Springs will now prepare for Platte County Monday and then its showdown with cross-town rival Blue Springs South Tuesday.

While the Wildcats can’t capture a conference title, McClain knows it still means a lot.

“It’s still big for us,” she said. “If the boys play at the top of their game we’ll be extremely competitive. There’s a lot of emotion. We have to play the ball and not worry about the school or the person.”

Blue Springs boys tennis team takes third in own tournament

The Blue Springs boys tennis team earned a third place finish in its own tournament Friday with 21 team points.

Lee’s Summit West won the tournament with 29 points.

Max Martell had the top finish for the Wildcats, going 2-1 and taking second place in the ‘B’ singles division. Tyler Casey won in the ‘A’ division for singles and placed third, also with a 2-1 record.

Casey’s jump up from No. 4 last year to the top spot has been a work in progress, but Blue Springs head coach Jody McClain has liked his improvement.

“Tyler has played a lot of tough matches at No. 1 all year,” she said. “His mental game has gotten better. He’s willing to pay the price for not just sitting out there and trying to hit the winning shot.”

Chad Stohlman and Ashton Rhodes continued their strong season, taking third and going 2-1.

McClain has been preaching to the doubles teams all season to be aggressive at the net, and she’s seen Stohlman and Rhodes take that to heart.

“They played good teams from Barstow and Lee’s Summit West. I was very happy with them,” she said. “From the first of the season to now, they’ve changed quite a bit. They are serve and volleying more. Their net game has improved tremendously.”

Dan Noud and Andy Anderson made up the doubles team in the ‘A’ division and took seventh, going 1-2.

Blue Springs will now prepare for Platte County Monday and then its showdown with cross-town rival Blue Springs South Tuesday.

While the Wildcats can’t capture a conference title, McClain knows it still means a lot.

“It’s still big for us,” she said. “If the boys play at the top of their game we’ll be extremely competitive. There’s a lot of emotion. We have to play the ball and not worry about the school or the person.”

Blue Springs track and field teams strong at Kirkwood Invite

Without Deiondre Hall on the track or in the field and a few others not running their normal events, the Blue Springs boys track and field team still managed a third place finish in the Kirkwood Invitational Saturday.

“We’re still holding out Deiondre (because of a hip injury) and we didn’t run Simon (Belete) in the distance runs, so I feel that showing was very strong. We got some good stuff out of it,” Wildcats head coach Joe Cusack said.

The Wildcats got two firsts, as the 3,200-meter relay team of James Barnett, Belete, Stephen Mugeche and Dominic Piccinini won with a time of 8 minutes, 5.23 seconds, a season best, and Mugeche also won the 3,200-meter run in a time of 9:36.

“We got great splits out of those guys,” Cusack said of the relay. “And Stephen had the race won handily. He’s doing great. Simon is our leader in that event but we’re trying to get two all-state guys in that event.”

Cusack was pleased with the showing all the relays put together, as the 1,600 relay took third and the 400 relay placed fourth with a time of 42.61.

“The 4x100 had a fantastic time. With Deiondre sitting out we still ran a 42.61,” Cusack said. “Two of the three that beat us are the top two teams in the state in Class 4. And the 4x400 continues to lower their time. We had three solid relay showings.”

Other strong individual performances were Erron Holley taking second in the 200, David Johnson finishing second in the discus, Chris Clark fourth in the 300-meter hurdles and Danny Thompson taking fourth in the pole vault.

The Wildcats will now get ready for the Suburban Big Six Conference meet starting with prelims Wednesday and finishing with finals Friday.

“I feel real good about where we are,” Cusack said. “We’re going to hold Deiondre out again until districts, but we’re going to try and win regardless of personnel. The conference has some solid teams.”

The Blue Springs girls team also had a strong showing at Kirkwood with five firsts and 11 top three finishes.

The Wildcats were dominant in the field events with Tyra Bickham taking first in the shot put with a throw of 40-1 and taking second in the discus. Megan Wright was strong once again in the pole vault by clearing 11 feet and taking first, Tyonna Snow won the long jump at 17-8.50 and Bri Starr won the triple jump by going 36-4.

Gabby Hall had the lone first on the track, winning the 200 with a time of 26.03.

Other top three finishes went to Lizzy Wendell placing second in the high jump and Cali Bissel earning third in the pole vault. Blue Springs also had two seconds in the relays – the 800 and 3,200 – while taking third in the 400 relay.

The girls team will also be at the conference meet starting Wednesday at Blue Springs South. 

Blue Springs South soccer splits a pair in Columbia Tournament

Mother Nature put a premature end to the Blue Springs South girls soccer teams stay in the Columbia Hickman Tournament this weekend, but the Jaguars managed a 1-1 record before lightning cancelled the remaining game Saturday afternoon.

After a last-minute goal by Troy led to a 2-1 defeat Friday night, South rebounded for a 6-1 win over Pembroke Hill Saturday.

"It was probably our best, most well-rounded game of the season," South head coach Todd Findley said. "We had beaten Pembroke Hill once this season, but I knew that they had many injured players back in the lineup. Goalkeeping, defense, midfield, possession and forwards attack all came together for us.

"Lexi Meyer and Jen Kaberline did a great job anchoring the middle of the defense."

The Jaguar offense was widespread, as five different players scored goals.

Beth Landon was the lone player to have two, while Emily Griffin, Jordan McNamara, Natalie Mandina and Grace Klausen all had one apiece.

"We have no one true goal scorer, it's always a team effort," Findley said. "The girls have such a great time playing together and they're bonding and learning to combine with one another. Of our seven goals (in the tournament), we had six different scorers and six players with assists."

The Jaguars took a tough loss Friday night against Troy. They took an early 1-0 lead in the 15th minute on a goal from Kelly Voigt.

Troy ended up tying things up 15 minutes later making it 1-1 at the half, although Findley said they should have had more than the one goal.

"It was a great first half for us," he said. "We had a lot of attack and possession but could only generate one goal out of it."

It looked as if the game was headed for overtime in the second half when Troy standout Hunter Wagoner found the back of the net in the 79th minute for the backbreaking game-winner.

"It (only scoring one in the first half) came back to haunt us when their all-state forward, Wagoner, got through our back line with one minute remaining to notch the victory," Findley said. "It was a hard loss after such a great start."

South is now 4-12 on the season and they will return to action Monday when they host Lee's Summit.

Blue Springs South boys track & field results

The results are now available for the Park Hill Invitational, where the Blue Springs South boys track and field team competed Thursday night. Final team scores were not available. Below are the highest finishers for the Jaguars in each event.

100-meter dash - Leland Anderson, 5th, 11.47
200 - Steven Sullivan, 2nd, 22.69
400 - Daulton Engman, 6th, 53.88
800-meter run - Connor Dillon, 5th, 2:12.69
1,600 - Brian Gordon, 7th, 4:54.26
3,200 - Mason Harwell, 3rd, 10:27.59
110-meter hurdles - Tyler Blair, 1st, 15.30 (Hunter Stoll, 2nd, 15.73)
300 hurdles - Ben Harvel, 1st, 39.99
4x100 - Blue Springs South, 1st, 43.59
4x400 - Blue Springs South, 5th, 3:38.37
4x800 - Blue Springs South, 1st, 8:16.82
Shot put - Cole West, 5th, 42 feet, 11 inches
Discus - Josh Watson, 2nd, 139-3
High jump - Syrell Fuel, 7th, 5-8
Long jump - Ben Harvel, 4th, 20-0.50
Triple jump - Tyler Blair, 5th, 38-9.50
Pole vault - Bryan Lushbough, 5th, 10 feet

Blue Springs South baseball scores

The Blue Springs South scores from last night and tonight are now located in the schools tab. The Jaguars, who are now in the latest state rankings at No. 8, bounced back from Wednesday's ugly loss to defeat Rockhurst Thursday.

They also put together a complete performance for a conference win over Lee's Summit North.