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New year awaits ES girls

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Excelsior Springs varsity girls basketball coach JD Biermann and his Tigers can start looking to the 2025 portion of their schedule. The Tigers wrapped 2024 with two recent games – a 48-38 Dec.

Work schedule change brings a mixed blessing

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to PRO High heat, drop kicks, random observations and points that amuse are all part of the wide, wide world of sports at the community and national levels. I received a sports-related mixed blessing recently.
Work schedule change brings a mixed blessing

Kinder sees ‘lot of growth’ in ’Cats

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Orrick’s varsity girls basketball team “showed a lot of growth and got better” during last week’s I-70 Conference Tournament, according to coach Jonathan Kinder. The Bearcats turned that growth into a seventh-place finish.

Boys hoopsters continue pursuing first victory

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Excelsior Springs continues to pursue its first win this season in varsity boys basketball. Following Tuesday’s home loss to Truman, an Independence-based school, the Tigers were 0-6 entering Thursday’s road meeting with Raytown South.
OWEN O’DELL (left), an Excelsior Springs sophomore, looks to dribble past Richmond’s Dryden Hendrix during the Husker Classic. SHAWN RONEY | Staff

Grapplers set to compete at LS tourney

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The first tournament of the varsity boys wrestling season awaits Excelsior Springs coach Cody Beck and his Tigers. Excelsior Springs is scheduled to grapple this weekend at the Lee’s Summit Holiday Tournament.

ES girls go 0-3 at Husker Classic

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Excelsior Springs varsity girls basketball coach JD Biermann and his Tigers were looking to reverse course Thursday. The girls were slated to face Van Horn that night.

Biermann tests skills at nationals

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An Excelsior Springs High School senior has taken his golf game to the national level. That young man is Landon Biermann, who played at the Hurricane Junior Golf Tour 16-18 National Championships.
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