Sports

SHARE OF THE TITLE Indirectly, Excelsior Springs can claim a share of Seattle’s latest Super Bowl title. As multiple media outlets recently reported, the Seahawks’ coaching staff includes Mack Brown, a metro area native who played college football at Baker University and coaches Seattle’s tight ends.

The afternoon of Feb. 7, Gaige Carr did something he’ll probably remember for years or decades after he graduates this spring from Excelsior Springs: He won his 100th career high school boys wrestling match.

To Excelsior Springs varsity boys basketball coach Ian Burch, the Tigers’ 58-39 loss Feb. 6 to visiting St.

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Cats go 3-1 in latest homestand

UNDEFEATED CHAMPION Nobody has defeated Cooper Collins this season in varsity boys wrestling. The Excelsior Springs senior was 22-0 entering Saturday’s Richmond Invitational, according to trackwrestling.

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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. Maybe having ice hockey franchises in warm-weather climates is O.K.

CONSISTENCY Analese Happy and Lillah Shue ended all of their wrestling matches at the Brookfield Girls Tournament the same way – with a win by pin. Happy went 4-0 to win the 105-pound division and help Excelsior Springs’ varsity squad take the team title at the Jan.