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Above, Brock Christopher (34) is swarmed by teammates after intercepting a Robert Griffin pass with 1:40 left to preserve No. 14 Missouri’s 31-28 victory over Baylor yesterday in Waco, Texas.
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Local Sports Stories
Begrudgingly yours
By STEVE WALENTIK
of the Tribune’s staff
WACO, Texas - Hospitality has long been in abundance here in central Texas, and the Baylor football team has been as welcoming to visitors as any group over at least the past decade.
One play separates good team from bad
By JOE WALLJASPER
Tribune sports editor
WACO, Texas - Amid notebook pages full of chicken scratches denoting all the particulars of a game full of ebbs and flows, one phrase is jotted down in reasonably legible handwriting: We’ll see what they’re made of.
Rock Bridge runners
advance to state meet
By the Tribune’s staff
Rock Bridge advanced its boys and girls teams to the MSHSAA Cross Country Championships with top-four finishes during yesterday’s Class 4 sectional at Ha Ha Tonka State Park in Camdenton.
Cougars win 600th
By SAM MILES
of the Tribune’s staff
From the start, Coach Bob Burchard and his Columbia College men’s basketball team had their 600th win in program history in the
bag
Missouri goes back on the attack
By TIM DAVIS
of the Tribune’s staff
Coming off consecutive losses, the Missouri volleyball team turned its focus to playing more aggressively.
PREP NOTES
Rock Bridge returner ends up losing kidney
By RUS BAER
of the Tribune’s staff
A Rock Bridge football player seriously injured during last Friday’s loss to Blue Springs South returned home this week after having surgery to remove a kidney.
TAKE 2: an alternative look at the day in
sports
By JOE WALLJASPER
he right slogan can perfectly capture a product. When that product is the professional baseball team of a perpetually frustrated, often inebriated and slightly undereducated fan base, then what better choice than, “Why Can’t Us?”
AREA ROUNDUP
MU men fifth at Big 12s
By the Tribune’s staff
The Missouri men’s cross country team placed fifth yesterday at the Big 12 cross country championships in Ames, Iowa.
Bruins fourth at swim invite
By the Tribune’s staff
Rock Bridge finished fourth and Hickman was seventh at the Springfield Invitational won by
Rockhurst.
