SportsZone Football Friday Week 5 scores and highlights
Scores from Week 5 of Mid-Missouri high school football, led by the ABC 17 SportsZone Game of the Week, Smith-Cotton at Hickman:
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SportsZone Football Friday game of the week preview: Smith-Cotton at Hickman
COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Hickman and Smith-Cotton will do battle in Week 5 of the high school football season, as both squads look for their first win of the year, on Friday night. The Kewpies and the Tigers are our KZOU game of the week. You can watch the game live on KZOU over the air
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Battle’s Ojo wins Week 4 SportsZone Football Friday play of the week
COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Battle’s Samson Ojo is our Week 4 SportsZone Football Friday player of the week winners! You can watch the play in the video player above. Up next – the Spartans hit the road to face Kapuan Mt. Carmel in Kansas on Friday at 7 p.m.
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SportsZone Football Friday play of the week nominees 2023: week 4
COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Congratulations to our Week 4 SportsZone Football Friday Play of the Week Nominees! You can watch the nominees in the video player above and then vote for your favorite play here. Nominee No. 1: Southern Boone’s Chase Morris plows through multiple defenders on his way in for six, courtesy of a pass
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Hickman vs. Battle: SportsZone Football Friday game of the week
Watch a livestream of the game in the web player above. COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) For the first time in their head coaching careers, Battle’s Matt Herman will host Hickman’s Cedric Alvis in a cross-town rivalry game on Friday night at 7 p.m. The Spartans and the Kewpies are our KZOU game of the week. You
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Helias’ French wins Week 3 SportsZone Football Friday play of the week
COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Helias Catholic’s Mason French is our Week 3 SportsZone Football Friday player of the week winners! You can watch the play in the video player above. Up next – the Crusaders hit the road to face Cardinal Ritter in St. Louis on Friday at 7 p.m.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Congratulations to our Week 3 SportsZone Football Friday Play of the Week Nominees! You can watch the nominees in the video player above and then vote for your favorite play here. Nominee No. 1: Hickman’s Tionne Milo sheds a tackle on the way in for a touchdown, courtesy of a dime from
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SportsZone Football Friday game of the week preview: Helias at Battle
Watch a livestream of the game here in a web player that will be posted at kickoff. COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Battle Spartans are still searching for their first win of the Matthew Herman era, and will look to make that happen in a home opener against Helias. The two teams will meet Friday in
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Boonville’s Bishop, Griffin win Week 2 SZFF play of the week
BOONVILLE, Mo. (KMIZ) Boonville’s Evan Bishop and Blake Griffin are our Week 2 SportsZone Football Friday player of the week winners! You can watch the play in the video player above. Up next – the Pirates will host the Hallsville Indians on Friday night at 7 p.m.
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SportsZone Football Friday game of the week preview: Smith-Cotton at Rock Bridge
Watch a livestream of the game in the webplayer above. COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Rock Bridge Bruins and Smith-Cotton Tigers are still in search of their first 2023 wins after suffering losses in week one. The two teams will meet Friday in our SportsZone Football Friday game of the week. Starting year two under head
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Moberly’s Engel, St. Clair win Week 1 SZFF play of the week
MOBERLY, Mo. (KMIZ) Moberly’s Jackson Engel and Gage St. Clair are our Week 6 SportsZone Football Friday player of the week winners! You can watch the play in the video player above. Up next – Moberly will take a road trip to Osage for week two of the high school football season. Kickoff is at
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SportsZone Football Friday play of the week nominees 2023: Week 1
COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Congratulations to our Week 1 SportsZone Football Friday Play of the Week Nominees! You can watch the nominees in the video player above and then vote for your favorite play here. Nominee No. 1: Centralia’s Beau Hatton evades multiple defenders on his way in for a touchdown, courtesy of a pass from
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SportsZone Football Friday 2023: Week 1 scores and highlights
Here are the scores from Week 1 of area high school football.
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SportsZone Football Friday game of the week preview: Park Hill South at Rock Bridge
Watch a livestream of the game in the webplayer above. COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Rock Bridge football team will open up the season at home on Friday night, as the Park Hill South Panthers will make the trip to Columbia. Kickoff of the 2023 season will mark year two under Bruins head coach Matt Perkins
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Majority of local football teams push back kickoff due to heat
COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Rock Bridge Bruins announced that Friday night’s season opener against Park Hill South will now be played at 8 p.m. due to the excessive heat lingering over Mid-Missouri. Many other schools announced the same change for Friday. You can find a full list of adjusted kickoff times below. Park Hill South
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Sunday Sit-down with KTGR’s Andy Humphrey
COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) ABC 17 Sports Director Nathalie Jones brought on KTGR’s Andy Humphrey in this week’s edition of Sunday Sit-down. You can watch their full conversation in the video player above.
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Jamborees mark the unofficial start to high school football
COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The high school football season unofficially kicked off in Missouri on Friday night, as teams across the state participated in jamborees. The season will officially kick off for week one on Aug. 25. You can watch the highlights from Friday’s jamborees in the video player above.
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Fulton Hornets working to flip the script and bring back winning culture
FULTON, Mo. (KMIZ) Dana Chambers is entering his third season at the helm of the Fulton Hornets. Ahead of the 2023 season, Chambers said he’s changing some things to try to bring a winning culture back to the program. “Our four things that we’re going to focus on this year are accountability, leadership, determination and
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‘Battle is a special place’: Matthew Herman returns to Battle football as head coach
COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Battle High School is familiar ground for Columbia-native Matthew Herman. He’s taking over the same program that gave him his coaching start in 2013, in hopes to bring stability to the Spartan program. Herman is the third head football coach that Battle has seen in four years. The program first started with
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Southern Boone bringing ‘competitive nature’ into year two under Mark Ross
ASHLAND, Mo. (KMIZ) Southern Boone football coach Mark Ross has had a full offseason to prepare for the 2023 season, unlike in his first year in Ashland. He said his team is bringing a natural competitiveness to the upcoming season, from top to bottom. The former Marceline head coach was hired in May of 2022,
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