WARDSVILLE, Mo. (KMIZ) The 2023 Blair Oaks football team will look to be the first Falcon squad to ever win back-to-back state championships, after taking down Lamar in 2022’s title game. The Falcons return quite a bit of experience from that successful season, which the group feels may be getting overlooked. Head coach Ted LePage
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FULTON, Mo. (KMIZ) The first-ever William Woods football team now has a conference to reside in. The athletic department announced that the Owls will join the Heart of America Athletic Conference, as an associate member, ahead of the program’s inaugural season in 2024. The Owls will be a part of the south division, joining rival
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HALLSVILLE, Mo. (KMIZ) The Hallsville football team will look to clean out the bad taste that 2022’s district title loss to Bowling Green left in the group’s mouth headed into the 2023 season. Head coach Justin Conyers said his team knows that it will have tough opponents week-in and week-out in the coming weeks. Conyers
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Mizzou men’s golf will be searching for a new head coach ahead of the 2023-24 season. MU Athletics announced that head coach Mark Hankins resigned, on Sunday. Just minutes after MU’s announcement USC announced that it has hired Hankins’ as their new head coach. In a press release, Athletics Director Desiree Reed-Francois
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FENTON, Mo. (KMIZ) The Tolton girls soccer team won the Class 1 state championship on Saturday afternoon, with a 1-0 win against Villa Duchesne at Soccer Park in St. Louis. It’s the first state title in program history. The shutout win also solidifies a quite stat: the Trailblazers did not let up a single goal
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The 2023 Special Olympics Missouri (SOMO) State Summer Games continues in Columbia on Saturday with two events at Hickman High School. The three-day competition is set to bring more than 1,000 athletes, coaches, volunteers and others to the area. The organization kicked off an opening ceremony on Friday night at the Mizzou
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FENTON, Mo. (KMIZ) The Tolton girls soccer team is headed to the Class 1 state championship. The Trailblazers shutout Bishop LeBlond in a 1-0 semifinal win on Friday at Soccer Park in St. Louis. The last time the Blazers were in a state title game was in 2015, when the team fell just short with
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OZARK, Mo. (KMIZ) The St. Elizabeth baseball team is headed to its fifth-straight Class 1 state championship game, excluding the canceled 2020 season, after a 9-0 win against Cooter in the state semifinal on Monday. The Hornets came in as the defending state champions in Class 1, after beating Oran by seven runs in 2022.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Tolton girls soccer team officially has two more games standing between it and the program’s first-ever state championship. The Trailblazers topped Laquey, 4-0, in the state quarterfinals on Saturday afternoon. With the win, Tolton will head to St. Louis for Final Four action at World Wide Technology Soccer Park. The semifinals
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BOONVILLE, Mo. (KMIZ) The Helias girls soccer team won the Class 2, District 7 title in a 3-1 win against Southern Boone on Friday night. The victory featured two goals from the Crusaders’ Danielle Buker. Rae Bholken also knocked one in for Helias in the first half, as well. With the win, the Saders will
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Here are your local scores from Monday, May 15, 2023. You can watch the highlights in the video player above. HS SOCCER Hickman (2) Blue Springs South (3) FINAL Blue Springs (0) Rock Bridge (2) FINAL Battle (0) Grain Valley (8) FINAL Smith-Cotton (2) Fort Osage (1) FINAL Capital City (0) Washington
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) ABC 17 Sports Director Nathalie Jones brought on Special Olympics Missouri (SOMO) Director of Marketing and Communications Andrew Kauffman, as well as SOMO athlete and board member Anna McDaniel on this week’s edition of Sunday Sit-down. The trio talked all about the upcoming summer games, which runs June 2-4 in Columbia. The
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) D1Softball pegged Mizzou third baseman Kara Daly its its Player of the Week, on Tuesday, following her back-to-back walk off home runs against then-No. 12 Arkansas over the weekend. The Jefferson City native cranked home runs in the final frame of each of MU’s wins against the rival Razorbacks. Over those two
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Here are your local scores from Monday, May 8, 2023. You can watch the highlights in the video player above. HS GIRLS SOCCER Rolla (1) Rock Bridge (4) FINAL Battle (1) Capital City (7) FINAL – CMAC Championship Blair Oaks (0) Boonville (2) FINAL Fulton (0) Mexico (2) FINAL Hannibal (1) Hickman
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Mizzou baseball standout Luke Mann hauled in the weekly awards after his offensive explosion in the first week of May. The Southeastern Conference pegged Mann as Co-Conference Player of the Week and Collegiate Baseball Newspaper named the third baseman as one its national players of the week. Mann recorded a conference-best nine
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) ABC 17 Sports Director Nathalie Jones brought on Matt Michaels, the color commentator for Mizzou baseball, in this week’s edition of Sunday Sit-down. The two discussed the SEC Tournament picture for the Tigers, as the regular season continues to wind down. MU has two more conference series remaining in 2023, along with
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) For the sixth-straight time, the Columbia College softball team secured an AMC Championship with a 1-0, walk-off win on Friday afternoon. You can watch extended highlights of the Cougars’ win in the video player below. https://youtu.be/jdQYTWviI4U The title game was a pitchers’ duel from start to finish. The Cougars’ Ella Schouten finished
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Here are your local scores from Monday, May 1, 2023. You can watch the highlights in the video player above. HS GIRLS SOCCER Hickman (5) Battle (0) FINAL Smith-Cotton (0) Rock Bridge (2) FINAL St. Paul Lutheran (0) Tolton (7) FINAL Fulton (0) Hannibal (8) FINAL Moberly (2) Mexico (0) FINAL Owensville
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Mizzou men’s basketball team still has its point guard. Nick Honor announced that he will be returning to Columbia for another season on Saturday night. Honor transferred to MU from Clemson last season and was a part of a historic Tiger team, in head coach Dennis Gates’ first season at the
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) The Kansas City Chiefs traded up to pick up another target for MVP quarterback Patrick Mahomes on Friday night. SMU wide receiver Rashee Rice is officially a Chief. KC traded away picks No. 63, No. 122 and No. 249. The Chiefs gained pick No. 55, which was used for Rice, and
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