WATERLOO — No stage is too big for Mia Miller.
"I'm just so proud of them, I think they were just so ready to go," East softball coach Natalie Peters said.
“I think after this game, we know exactly what we're capable of,” East's Tyce Watson said. “We’re going to come back swinging.”
In its first season in Class 3A, Freeburg (31-3) advanced to play in the Waterloo Sectional final.
LADUE — Henry Cordes was looking for something different after spending his life on the diamond.
Class 4 and Class 3 games take place Wednesday and Thursday, while Class 6 and 5 games will be played Friday and Saturday.
"I hit it hard, but he made the play. Kudos to him," Father McGivney junior shortstop Drew Kleinheider said.
“This is like the best day ever,” Eureka senior midfielder Kylee Pickens said.
Fort Zumwalt South (18-5), the three-time defending Class 3 state champion, will face Summit (12-9-1) in a state semifinal at 1:30 p.m. Friday at Soccer Park.
A pair of Southwestern Conference rivals returned home from Charleston with boys track and field team state championships.
MICDS senior co-captain Willy Carpenter said: “Having been a captain last year and falling short, to come back and actually bring it home brings me to tears.”
The Greyhounds won their first championship last season and didn't take long to earn a repeat.
“It is a lot of pressure, but if you stay true to who you are, it will happen,” Ritter coach Tiffany Spain said.
“The message this whole year is they have to rise and do Ladue track and field,” Ladue coach Nick Buckvar said.
The Lancers denied the Jaguars their first final four berth
ST. PETERS — There’s a reason Fort Zumwalt South baseball coach Bill Friedel bats senior Jacksen Tankersley in the third spot in the lineup.
Eureka (19-3) will meet Blue Springs South (16-4-1) at 7 p.m. Friday in the Class 4 semifinals at Soccer Park in Fenton.
Webster Groves senior pitcher Jackson Torbit has faced defending state champions in two consecutive games.
Triad (20-4-1), which has not lost in 15 matches, advanced to face Pleasant Plains (26-1) or Chatham Glenwood (16-6-1) in the Triad Super-Sectional at 6 p.m. Tuesday.
“I think that was the best goal I scored all year,” Marquette sophomore Kade McSpadden said.
Waterloo senior Raelyn Melching said: "As the game went on, we just kept coming up with big hits at key times."
The Rams defeated Platte County 5-1 in the Class 2 title match at Cooper Tennis Complex in Springfield.
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"It’s great to get a goal, but it’s amazing to see a teammate’s face when you give that goal to them,” Ava Goldson said.
The Pioneers (23-10) will play in the Class 3 state semifinals at 7 p.m. Wednesday in Ozark.
The ice bath was shocking for coach Michael Kraatz after MICDS secured its spot in the Class 4 semifinal round for the first time since 2016.
Missouri's boys team tennis state tournament features Francis Howell and John Burroughs in Class 3, MICDS and Westminster in Class 2 and Clayton in Class 1.
Paul Halfacre recaps and talks with MICDS players after the Rams defeated Park Hills Central in a Class 4 quarterfinal game
The Missouri Class 4 and 5 boys' and girls' state championship meets kick off this weekend, with the boys' Illinois Class 1A, 2A, and 3A preliminary meets following suit.
We're getting to the heart of the postseason. In Missouri, Class 1, 2, 3 and 4 kick off the quarterfinal contests on Thursday before Class 5 and 6 end the weekend with their quarterfinals.
Chase Milburn picks up his first complete-game shutout as Edwardsville squeezes past Collinsville in a Class 4A Edwardsville Regional semifinal game.
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LADUE — Henry Cordes was looking for something different after spending his life on the diamond.
Class 4 and Class 3 games take place Wednesday and Thursday, while Class 6 and 5 games will be played Friday and Saturday.
"I hit it hard, but he made the play. Kudos to him," Father McGivney junior shortstop Drew Kleinheider said.
The Lancers denied the Jaguars their first final four berth
Fort Zumwalt South (18-5), the three-time defending Class 3 state champion, will face Summit (12-9-1) in a state semifinal at 1:30 p.m. Friday at Soccer Park.
Eureka (19-3) will meet Blue Springs South (16-4-1) at 7 p.m. Friday in the Class 4 semifinals at Soccer Park in Fenton.
Triad (20-4-1), which has not lost in 15 matches, advanced to face Pleasant Plains (26-1) or Chatham Glenwood (16-6-1) in the Triad Super-Sectional at 6 p.m. Tuesday.
COLLINSVILLE — Edwardsville High goalkeeper Genny Burroughs did her part on Tuesday night, coming up with a pair of stops to begin the penalty-kick shootout.
After guiding Vashon to unparalleled success, coach Tony Irons has stepped away from the basketball program and will assume the head coaching duties at Mineral Area College.
St. Mary's junior guard Zyree Collins is the Post-Dispatch All-Metro boys basketball player of the year.
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Nassir Binion scored a career-high 25 points and had seven rebounds to lead the Wolverines' Class 4 boys basketball conquest.
"He needed to see them as much as they needed to see him," Incarnate Word president Sharon Gerken said of Dan Rolfes' campus visit.
A 1979 St. Joseph's grad, Julie Matheny began as an assistant in 1992 and took over as head coach in 1999 of the Angels girls basketball program.
The girls basketball coach, who suffered a heart attack at the state tournament, will undergo outpatient physical therapy.
Incarnate Word Academy junior point guard Nevaeh Caffey is the Post-Dispatch All-Metro girls basketball player of the year.
Eureka senior Haiden Schoessel is the Post-Dispatch All-Metro girls swimmer of the year.
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St. Mary's junior guard Zyree Collins is the Post-Dispatch All-Metro boys basketball player of the year.
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