Local Sports Stories
The art of imperfection
By DAVE MATTER of the Tribune’s staff
Football looked effortless for Missouri the last two weeks as Gary Pinkel’s team left for dead overmatched teams from Southeast Missouri State and Nevada. As gaudy statistics and broken records collected like morning dew on Faurot Field, Missouri offensive players pondered fantasies of playing the perfect game.

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Hickman’s Cowan follows up perfect game with no-hitter
By the Tribune’s staff
Coming off a perfect game against Rock Bridge on Thursday, Taylor Cowan tossed a no-hitter yesterday to lead the Hickman softball team to a 6-0 victory at North Kansas City.

MU volleyball team finally playing home opener
By MATT NESTOR of the Tribune’s staff
Missouri sophomore outside hitter Julianna Klein looked around an almost-empty Hearnes Center before a recent practice and could already sense the anticipation surrounding today’s volleyball home opener.

Hickman football field renamed for local developer LeMone
By RUS BAER of the Tribune’s staff
During a ceremony before Friday night’s 34-9 homecoming football loss to Timberland, Hickman renamed its high school field Robert M. LeMone Field.

Getting set for state
By RUS BAER of the Tribune’s staff
The MSHSAA Swimming and Diving Championships won’t be held in St. Peters until November, but Rock Bridge and Hickman Coach John Hamilton is getting a good idea of how many hotel rooms he’ll need for his two teams after yesterday’s CoMo Invitational at the Mizzou Aquatics Center.

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TAKE 2: An alternative look at the day in sports
By JOE WALLJASPER
If you play basketball at Kansas State, not for nothing do you develop a little-brother complex about the University of Kansas. It’s the team you never beat.