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Missouri volleyball players celebrate after winning a point in the second game of last night’s 25-8, 25-21, 25-22 victory over Southern Illinois-Edwardsville at the Hearnes Center.
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Local Sports Stories
Edwards fourth in damage-control effort
By STEVE WALENTIK
of the Tribune’s staff
KANSAS CITY, Kan. - Carl Edwards avoided the wall that got in the way of him winning a year ago when NASCAR’s Nationwide Series raced at Kansas Speedway.
Lincoln is land of the losses
By DAVE MATTER
of the Tribune’s staff
A grainy compilation of video highlights from Missouri’s 1978 victory at Nebraska has been circulating around the Internet the last few weeks. Lasting 6 minutes and 4 seconds, the collection of nostalgia includes one signature moment. It arrives at the 4:39 mark.
MU volleyball team survives lapses against SIUE
By MATT NESTOR
of the Tribune’s staff
Call it the Lei Wang workout.
Line your volleyball team up against an up-and-coming opponent such as SIU-Edwardsville then spend your time scrambling to keep the ball in play.
The belated ball-carrier
By RUS BAER
of the Tribune’s staff
Through its first four games, the Hickman football team had started three different running backs.
Friday night on Faurot Field, Josh Williams took his turn in the Hickman backfield as the Kewpies’ fourth starter in five games.
An amateur in name only
By JOE WALLJASPER
Tribune sports editor
University of Missouri senior Peter Malnati’s amateur status prevented him from collecting the $7,000 prize for winning the Missouri Open yesterday at The Club at Old Hawthorne. Instead, he settled for two crystal cups as the top amateur and overall player at the event.
Hickman softball team places fifth
By SAM MILES of the Tribune's staff
For a number of reasons, the first 3½ innings of yesterday’s Hickman’s 8-2 victory over Boonville in the fifth-place game in the Kewpie Classic will never be aired on ESPN Classic. A lack of effort was not one of those.
Smallmouth
group has high hopes for state
By SPENCER E. TURNER Special to the Tribune
I recently attended a meeting of the Missouri Smallmouth Alliance’s blue ribbon advisory panel.
Ups and downs
By BILL CLARK Special to the Tribune
The "ups" and "downs" of bird watching will soon be with us.
The "up" is the brown creeper. The "down" is the nuthatch. Both are small birds that are found in mature woodlands, often coming to your yard feeders.
TAKE 2: An alternative look at the day at
sports
By JOE WALLJASPER
When I last wrote about severed fingers — as they related to my former junior high shop teacher and Chicago Cubs catcher Koyie Hill — the response was amazing.
AREA SCENE
MU cross country teams finish strong
The Missouri cross country men’s team finished 11th in the Gold-division 8-kilometer race at Minnesota’s Roy Griak Invitational in Minneapolis.
AREA ROUNDUP
Bruins run to second place in Springfield
By the Tribune’s staff
The Rock Bridge boys and girls cross country teams each placed second in the 21-team Richard Clark Invitational yesterday in Springfield.
