Area Sports

The PHS varsity baseball team remained winless to start the season with a 12-6 loss at Elsberry last Tuesday. The Panthers were also supposed to play Canton Thursday, but the game was rained out. Elsberry out-hit the Panthers 13-9 in handing Palmyra its third-straight loss. Palmyra scored a run in the top of the first…

The Marion County R-II baseball team opened the season with a 2-0 home win over Knox County last Monday behind the impressive pitching of Cooper Stotts. The senior left-hander did not allow a hit over 5.2 innings while striking out 15 and walking just three in earning the mound victory. Meanwhile, the Mustangs scored two…

Palmyra High School’s three-time state champion wrestler, Collin Arch, is the recipient of prestigious post-season honors. The junior  was named the Missouri Wrestling Association’s Class 1 State and District Wrestler of the year. He also received academic all-state honors for his classroom performance off the matt. “Collin is a hard nose kid that does things…

by Mark Cheffey The PHS varsity baseball team got off to a tough start losing both games at a cluster at Southern Boone Saturday. The Panthers fell to the host team, 13-3, and Fulton, 10-2, both larger Class 4 schools. Despite the scores, Coach Mark Loman found it a positive in that it was good…

by Mark Cheffey Five-time state champion Delaney  Straus will highlight a 2022 Marion County R-II girls track and field season as the senior finishes out her stellar athletic career. She and fellow state qualifier, Halle Keilholz, a senior, will lead a group that also includes sophomores, Shayleigh Whetstone and Savanna Worrell; and freshmen, Samantha Kindhard…

by Mark Cheffey The Marion County R-II baseball team has its sights set on winning districts this season. With his team coming off of a 9-6 season, Coach Henry Whetson said the Mustangs have  goals of playing fundamentally sound defense and offense with the hope a group of seven returning starters can lead the team…

by Mark Cheffey A strong nucleus of returning starters join a group of players hoping to earn starting spots and playing time during Coach Mark Loman’s final season as PHS baseball coach Loman has one more shot to add to his impressive 20-year tenure at Palmyra that includes 12 district titles and nine conference championships…

by Mark Cheffey Many of the athletes who went to state last year are coming back for the 2022 PHS girls track and field season, and that’s just fine to new coach, Macy Bross. “I’m really excited,” said Bross who has some young athletic talent joining the returning veterans for what she hopes will be…

by Mark Cheffey The PHS boys track and field team has one state medalist and two qualifiers returning this year to join a larger squad under the leadership of new head coach Nick Powell. “We have a lot of depth,” said Powell who has 28 athletes out for the team, including nine freshmen. “I know…

The PHS Lady Panthers were named to the 2021-2022 Clarence Cannon Conference All-Conference Girls Basketball team as chosen by the coaches. Candra King, a sophomore, made the first team, while freshmen, Clare Williams and Sydney Compton, made the second team. Miranda Patterson, a South Shelby junior, and Lexi Miller, a Macon senior, were named Co-Conference…