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The inside game helped Excelsior Springs get its first two wins this season in varsity girls basketball. By scoring in the paint, the Tigers edged Lexington 4542 Dec.

Turnovers hurt Excelsior Springs in its 61-37 seasonopening loss to Lafayette County of Higginsville in varsity girls basketball. Lafayette County’s three-point shooting and inside scoring didn’t help either.

For the first half, Excelsior Springs senior Jake Zapata and his fellow Tigers kept their varsity boys basketball season opener with Kansas City East close. The Bears, however, pulled away the second half, handing the Tigers a 58-37 defeat Nov.

Lilly Smith, Haylee Ray, Lilly Goetz, Analese Happy and Bristol Sharp returned to Excelsior Springs from the Lathrop Turkey Break Invitational as champions. Smith won the 235-pound title at the Nov.

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Two Excelsior Springs High School alumni, now members of the University of Central Missouri (UCM) men’s wrestling team, picked up medals at the Kaufman Brand Bayly UCM Open. Damon Ashworth, a 2021 graduate, was the 184-pound elite champion at the Nov.

Excelsior Springs varsity boys basketball coach Ian Burch and his Tigers have reasons for optimism this season. “We are looking to improve on what we began building with the culture of our program last year,” Burch said.

It’s showtime for Excelsior Springs varsity girls basketball, according to coach JD Biermann. “We have goals of creating an intense and relentless style of basketball for our fans to see,” Biermann said.

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Based on his preseason turnout, Excelsior Springs varsity coach Cody Beck probably won’t have to worry about having open weight classes this boys wrestling season. At press time, there were 37 boys out for wrestling.