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SAME FINISH, DIFFERENT YEAR

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HIGGINSVILLE – For the second straight season, the Excelsior Springs varsity girls basketball team took fifth at the Husker Classic. And for the second straight season, the Tigers edged a familiar foe to win the fifth-place game: Richmond.
OFTEN CALLED UPON as a scorer, Excelsior Springs senior Mallory Millsap takes on the job of protecting the ball as she is closely guarded by Richmond senior Jaedyn Lopez during the first half of the fifth-place game at the Husker Classic on Dec. 10 at Lafayette County of Higginsville. SHAWN RONEY | Staff

Burton takes 135 title at Steve Leslie Invitational

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PLEASANT HILL – The Tigers produced one champion, one runner-up, one third-place finisher and one fourthplace finisher in their first girls wrestling tournament this season. Junior Vada Burton pinned her way to the 135-pound title at the Steve Leslie Invitational Tournament, held Dec.

Two Tigers play all-star volleyball

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KANSAS CITY – The end of Excelsior Springs’ varsity volleyball season in October did not end the careers of seniors Kyli Crowley and Rylie Stottlemyre. Crowley and Stottlemyre were selected by the Greater Kansas City Volleyball Coaches Association to play for Team Missouri in the annual MO/KAN Small-Class All-Star match.
PHOTO COURTESY of Marcie Roberts EXCELSIOR SPRINGS volleyballers Rylie Stottlemyre and Kyli Crowley are among the participants in last month’s GKCVCA MO/KAN All-Star match.

Tigers start 1-3 in varsity girls hoops

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EXCELSIOR SPRINGS – Putting together four good quarters was an issue for the Tigers the first four games of the varsity girls basketball season. The Tigers dropped three of their first four, falling to Lafayette County of Higginsville, Richmond and Oak Grove, and defeating Lexington.
DUSTIN DANNER | Staff EXCELSIOR SPRINGS sophomore Baylee O’Dell competes for a loose ball with Richmond senior Emmalea Kilpatrick during the Tigers’ Dec. 1 home loss.
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