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Get your act together, Mother Nature!

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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. Thanks, Mother Nature! You’ve made it so easy to cover spring sports with your recent changes in the weather! Sarcasm intended.
IT’S HARDLY ideal prep spring sports weather when a baserunner has to slide while snowflakes are falling. But such is March in Missouri. SHAWN RONEY | Staff

Tourney marks farewell for Beck, seniors

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For Excelsior Springs seniors Cooper Collins, Gaige Carr and Cooper Lester, wrestling at the Class 2 state boys tournament was a farewell. It also was a farewell for Cody Beck, their coach.
CARSON VANDOREMALEN (from left), Gage Carr and Lilly Goetz display their medals from state wrestling. SHAWN RONEY | Staff

Goetz gets back to work after medal-winning campaign

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Lilly Goetz isn’t resting long after her medal-winning season of high school girls wrestling. The Excelsior Springs sophomore, who placed sixth at Class 1 state competition, plans to prepare for the 202627 campaign by wrestling in offseason tournaments.

EXCELSIOR SPRINGS SPORTS NOTEBOOK

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A win over Odessa in varsity boys basketball eluded Excelsior Springs this season. Excelsior Springs went 0-3 against the Bulldogs, losing twice to them during the regular season and once during the postseason.
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