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Jacob Bright is chalking up the honors on playing fields and in the classroom. Bright plays football and baseball at Excelsior Springs High School, where he carries a 3.975 grade point average.

The Tigers are sending off one of their top varsity baseball players to continue his career in college. Lucas Dillman, who graduated this spring from Excelsior Springs, has signed to play baseball at Crowder College, a Neosho-based junior college that competes in the National Junior College Athletic Association South Central District.

Some Excelsior Springs softball players are honing their skills together during their high school offseason with a local club team. The team, the Cyclones, primarily plays in the Kansas City metro area.

Training for and running a marathon is a complex, rigorous task. It takes many hours of dedication to prepare your body for 26.2 miles.

In late May, Excelsior Springs put a formal finishing touch on its varsity girls soccer season with an end-of-season banquet at the high school. The event came less than two weeks after Excelsior Springs’ final game – an 8-0 loss to St.

The Excelsior Springs High School class of 2023 is sending another student athlete off to college. Dalton Layton, who graduated in May, has signed a national letter of intent to continue his education and compete in track and field at Rockhurst University in Kansas City.

When Orrick began its first summer 8-man football camp for the junior high and varsity programs Monday on the school practice field, Tucker Greer was thrilled to put on a helmet and shoulder pads and engage in some limited hitting.

Kaelan Bedford isn’t resting after helping Excelsior Springs secure a historic third-place finish in the Class 4 state baseball tournament. Bedford, who finished his first year of high school this spring, provided the bases-loaded, walk-off single to right field in the bottom of the seventh inning that gave the Tigers a 6-5 win over Fulton in the Class 4 third-place game June 1 at Sky Bacon Stadium in Ozark.

OZARK – Excelsior Springs was among a handful of baseball teams to finish this season on a winning note. The Tigers capped their season with 6-5 victory over Fulton on June 1 at Sky Bacon Stadium in the third-place game of the Class 4 state tournament, with Kaelan Bedford providing the game-winning hit in the bottom of the seventh inning.