PRESS-NEWS JOURNAL, CANTON, MO.
First Place
This the NEMO Stixx baseball team. Pictured from
left to right are Drew Begley, Lance Logsdon, Jase
Wallingford, Noah Mencer, and Nolan Wosman. On
the back row includes Coach Doug Kroeger, Brady
Nierman, Zeb Riney, Nick Edwards, Jacob Kroeger,
Josh Hodde, Parker Wallace, and Coach Jason Wall-
ingford.
Team wins Iowa baseball tourney
The NEMO Stixx recent-
ly competed in a USSSA
9U baseball tournament in
Cedar Rapids Iowa, where
they won first place by
going undefeated and out-
scoring their opponents 67
to 12.
The team consists boys
from around the area, in-
cluding five different
towns. Team members are
Drew Begley, Jase Wall-
ingford, Noah Mencer, No-
Results listed from
3on-3 tournament
The winners of an April
25 3-on-3 basketball toura-
ment have been announced.
The annual toumament was
recently held in Canton.
Ages 4 - 6 Coed - Five
teams were in the bracket
First .- Fruit Loops
- Ursa, Ill.; second - Mo-
Tiger Girls - Canton; third
Plunkett #'2 - Palmyra;
fourth - Tigers - Palmyra;
and Sportsmanship - Plun-
kett #2
Ages 7 - 8 Girls - Five
teams and ages 7 - 8 Boys
- Four teams: first - Li'l
Cougars #2.- Canton; Li'l
Panthers Golden, Ill.;
second - Li'l Rascals
Carthage, Ill. Li'l Tigers
- Canton; third - Jammers
- Quincy, ; Who's Man's
That - Quincy; fourth -
Hoopsters - Quincy; first
Choice Physical Therapy -
Quincy, and Sportsmanship
- Hoopsters; First Choice
Physical Therapy.
Ages - 9 - 10 Girls -
Eleven teams; 9 - 10 Boys-
13 teams:first - DA Dallas
Cowgirls, Monroe City;
Sweet & Sour - Quincy;
second - Red TWisters
Bethel; Mama's Boys -
Mendon, Ill.; third - Hoops
Kahoka; Knox Co. Red
Wild - Knox City; fourth
Highland gets
ready for
their prom
Highland High School
junior and senior prom will
be held in Quincy,/tt Oak-
ley Lindsey Center.
Prom attenders who
would like pictures taken
are encouraged to be at the
Quincy Riverfront by 5:30
p.m.
Doors to Oakley Lind-
sey Center open at 6:00
p.m. for the public Prom-
enade begins at 7:00 p.m.
and king and queen corna-
tion is at 8 p.m.
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lan Wosman, Brady Nier-
man, Jacob Kroeger all of
Palmyra.
Other members are
Lance Logsdon of Canton,
Zeb Riney of Clark Coun-
ty, Nick Edwards of Knox
County, Josh Hodde and
Parker Wallace of Van-Far.
Coaches are Jason Wall-
ingford and Coach Doug
Kroeger.
uth News
THURSDAY, MAY 7, 2009 ' PAGE 14
Ellison signs to play basketball
with Culw.00:r-Stockton College
Dan Steinbeck
PNJ Editor
A Highland multi-
sport player signed a letter
of intent April 30 to play
basketball at Culver-Stock-
ton College.
Kyle Ellison, who has
played football, baseball,
and basketball at Highland
singed his letter of intent to
play for John Windham's
Culver-Stockton basketball
Wildcats.
"The reason I chose
Culver-Stockton was be-
cause I just felt at home
there. I have grown up
going to basketball camps
there since I was 9 or 10
years old.
"Also, ever since Coach
Windham and Coach Mc-
Shea took jobs at Culver,
they have made me feel a
part of the team.
"I am looking forward
to being a wildcat and play-
ing with someone of my
former teammates in Nick
O'Brien and Andy Anders
and all the rest of the play-
ers in the Culver-Stockton
program."
The team also includes
Canton brothers Jordan and
- Lady Panthers - Golden,
IlL; Red Birds - Quincy, II1.,
Sportsmanship Hoops Phi
Slamma Jamma - Quincy.
Ages 11 - 12 Girls-
seven teams; 11 - 12 Boys
- 17 teams: first - Canton
Lady Tigers - Canton; P-
Ridge - Durham; second
- Swish Cheeze - Quincy,
; Canton Tigers - Canton;
third - Aces With Attitude
- Quincy; Hannibal Pirates
Red - Hannibal; fourth -
Lady Cougars - Canton; LITTLE COUGARS PLACE FIRST - These Little Cou-
Eagles - Liberty, Ill.; and
S ..... gars 2nd grade girls basketball team from Highland
portsmansmp - KocKets Elementa ............
., .. . ry cnool recently won first place at me
anton, HanmDa] tlrateS ment in Can
- " ' -CCAA 3-on-3 tourna " ton, Mo. held April
Black -Hannibal
25, 2009. Left to right are Kaitlin Benson, Kennedy
Ages 13 - 14 Girls - Flanagan, Samantha Smyser and Aubry Ebeling.
Five teams; 13- 14 Boys
- 10 teams: first - Merrill
Lynch - Quincy; Blue Crew
- Quincy; second - Fish on
Fire - Mendon; Quincy
Devils - Quincy; third -
The Ballaz - Kahoka; That
Terrible Team - Quincy;
fourth - Lady's - Augusta,
Ill.; Delphi - Philadelphia
and Sportsmanship - La-
dy's- Augusta, IlL; Bulls
- Kirksville
Ages 15- 16 Boys
- Seventeams: first - Char-
gers - Carthage, Ill.; second
-Fade Away- Quincy;third FIRST PLACE WINNERS - The Canton Lady Tigers
- Houston Rockets - Can- won first place in the 11 - 12 Age Division at the CCAA
ton; fourth - Predators - 3-on-3 Basketball Tournament held April 25, 2009.
Canton and Sportsmanship Pictured left to right are Kailee Gaither, Brittney Ber-
- Chargers. horst, Cassie Allen and Allison Phillips.
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NEW RECRUIT - Kyle Ellison, front and center, smiles
after he signed his letter of intent to play for Culver-
Stockton basketball. Besides Ellison are his par-
ents Marjorie and Kevin Ellison. Standing are John
Windha, Culver's basketball coach and Clyde Rosen-
crans, Highland's basketball coach.
Drew Ayers. ball season, Ellison was
Windham, in a TV second team all Clarence
interview, said Ellison Cannon Conference.
worked out at a camp last Ellison led the High-
year. land Cougars in scoring
"He works hard, and .this yearwith 15 points per
plays hard. That's what game average, had an av-
we're looking for," Wind- erage of three assists, and
ham said. nearly two steals a game.
In the 2008-09 basket-
Ten Rivers Chapter of Lewis County
Ten Rivers Chapter of Lewis County Pheasants
Forever chapter will be distributing food plot
seed May 10, 2009 at the courthouse in Monti-
cello Mo., from 11 a.m. till 2 p.m. or until they
run out. Seed is distributed free of charge to peo-
ple interested in developing food plots to benefit
wildlife habitat.
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Lewis County Graduates
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In appreoiation of the great team effort
You do have a choice.
Camon High R-4 Smokebusters team and Diane Jorgensen, Sarah Mueller,
mentors receive recognition and appreciation by Alma Hopkins, University
of MO Family & Community Medicine, Brooke Gipson, Randolph County
Health Department, sponsors of Project Smokebusters, for their dedication
and advocacy efforts for tobacco free environments.
