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Missouri cornerback Kevin Rutland, right, couldn’t catch up with Buffalo’s Ernest Jackson on a 32-yard TD pass on Sept. 20. Read the Article

Local Sports Stories
Turning the corners?
By DAVE MATTER of the Tribune’s staff
Missouri assistant football coach Cornell Ford spent one night of his team’s recent bye week addressing a booster club in St. Louis, and for a while, as he stood at the lectern answering questions - sometimes candidly, other times with careful diplomacy - Ford must have felt like his cornerbacks, ducking arrows from all angles.

Heck casts her lot with Evansville
By RUS BAER of the Tribune’s staff
One of the most dominating high school girls basketball players the area has seen has decided where she’ll be playing in college.

Hickman volleyball sleepwalks in loss
By MATT NESTOR of the Tribune’s staff
There was no smiling, no laughing. All the little things the Hickman volleyball players normally do to stay loose and relaxed during a match were missing.

Potter wields magic
By STEVE WALENTIK of the Tribune’s staff
Julia Potter strolled casually around the course yesterday at The Club at Old Hawthorne, conversing with her playing partners and soaking in the early autumn sun.

Cougars give Klein 101st win
By the Tribune’s staff
The Columbia College soccer team beat Westminster 5-1 on a night the school honored Coach John Klein.

Kinderknecht carries Bruins to big victory
By JOSH MOSLEY of the Tribune’s staff
Rock Bridge tennis Coach Ben Loeb didn’t watch too much of sophomore Kelsey Kinderknecht’s match yesterday. But from the way that she controlled the match, he really didn’t have to.

Centralia collects 12 hits in win
By the Tribune’s staff
Jordyn Tolliver went 3 for 3 with three doubles and pitched four innings to lead Centralia to a 9-6 home victory over Hallsville yesterday.

TAKE 2: An alternative look at the day in sports
By JOE WALLJASPER
This is the first and probably last edition of something I’ll call: Enough Already (Things I’ve Been Telling My Television For Weeks).

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