Area Sports
PHS girls win Bowling Green cross country meet
by Mark Cheffey The PHS cross country teams prepared for this Saturday’s district meet by competing at the same venue in Bowling Green. Running on the Pike County Fair Grounds course, the Palmyra girls took first place out of 10 teams. “We did well,” said Coach Nicholas Koetters, whose team scored 93 points to edge…
Read MoreThree PHS girls golfers compete at state
Palmyra High School had three compete in the MSHSAA Class 1 State Girls Golf Tournament held at the Paradise Point Golf Course in Smithville, Oct. 19-20. Mallory Comstock, a junior, led Palmyra with a 208, good enough to place 20th out of 76 golfers at the two-round event. Mallory Sublette, a sophomore shot a 220…
Read MoreFour Lady Panthers make All-CCC softball squad
Four Lady Panthers were named to the 2020 Clarence Cannon Conference All-Conference Softball team. Abbey Redd made the first team, while Jazlin Gottman and Sophie Hoerr received second team honors and Hailey Kroeger an honorable mention selection. Redd, a sophomore infielder, batted .400 with four doubles, three triples and 28 runs scored. She also lead…
Read MorePanthers out-race SCA 42-35
by Mark Cheffey The top-ranked Panthers showed the rest of the state what they were made of with a 42-35 over Summit Christian Academy in Chillicothe Saturday afternoon. With their scheduled game at South Shelby canceled due to COVID-19, the Panthers went further west down U.S. 36 to play a high-flying Class 3 team from…
Read MorePalmyra to host Centralia for CCC championship
The Panthers home football game Friday against Centralia is for the Clarence Cannon Conference championship. It’s also a battle of state titan unbeatens as Palmyra comes in as the top ranked Class 2 team in the state at 8-9, to play the Class 3 fifth-ranked team at 7-0. Both are 4-0 in the conference after…
Read MoreLady Panthers fall to Monroe City, 11-3, in district championship game
by Mark Cheffey The PHS softball team’s hopes of a another district title pretty much blew away in the wind Saturday in Monroe City. Top-seeded Monroe City hit three home runs that were enhanced by a strong wind to right field, on their way to an 11-3 district championship win over the third-seeded Lady Panthers.…
Read MoreThree PHS girls golfers qualify for state tourney
by Mark Cheffey The PHS girls golfers fell just short of qualifying for state as a team, but three individual members did punch their ticket to the event. Mallory Subette, Mallory Comstock and Kylie Begley, placed high enough at the Class 1 District 1 tournament in Columbia last Monday, to compete at state Monday and…
Read MorePHS tennis pair competes at state tournament
The PHS tennis team’s state qualifying doubles pair of Katy Rindom and Maura Gottman competed in Springfield Friday. As Palmyra’s No. 1 doubles pair, Rindom and Gottman lost their first-round match Friday afternoon, 6-3, 6-3, to Hailey Colley and Avery Surber, of Westminster Christian Academy. They then lost their second match to Megan Gullette and…
Read MorePHS CC teams compete at Centralia
The PHS cross country teams competed at a meet in Centralia last Tuesday. The girls finished third out of five teams while the boys team came in sixth out of six. “We ran well at the meet,” said Coach Nicholas Koetters, noting the girls lost to two of the two Class 3 teams in…
Read MorePanthers roll through Cougars 47-6
by Mark Cheffey The PHS varsity football got its offense rolling again for a 47-6 win at home over Highland Friday. A week after slipping by Clark County 15-14, the Panthers (7-0) got four touchdowns from Hayes Miller while quarterback Brody Lehenbauer threw five scoring passes and ran for another to go to 4-0 in…
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