ESPN came to Liberal High School on Thursday morning with gifts for Brooke Bearden. SportsCenter anchor John Anderson first gave her a softball, then a jersey ... Bearden's rehab continues at Cox Barton County Hospital in Lamar. "I was fearful when we came back home ... are we going to find the quality therapy she needs close to home," Buzzard ...

College Heights Christian School kept its volleyball season record unblemished ... Neosho and Carthage finished sixth through 10th. LAMAR, Mo. — Area runners fared well at the Lamar Invitational on Tuesday at Lamar Country Club. In the varsity boys ...

As the Missouri high school football season reaches the midway point tonight ... Spring 30-0 to avenge their only regular-season loss last season. Cassville and Lamar fell from the undefeated ranks last week on the road. Seneca defeated Cassville 28-21 ...

How long has it been since Monett beat Lamar in football? “I think I was 8-years-old,” said quarterback Karter Brink, who’s now a senior in high school. “My daughter wasn’t even born,” said head coach Derrek Uhl. “My daughter’s eight so she ...

A student took a replica gun to an Arlington high school Monday, police said. According to Police Chief Will Johnson, a student at Lamar High School overheard another student say that they had a gun in their backpack. Officers found the student ...

The Joplin softball team ... up the 15th annual Joplin High School Paige Neal/Christina Freeman Softball Tournament at the Joplin Athletic Complex. The Eagles, who went 0-3 in pool play on Friday, fell to Carthage 13-5 and Lamar 9-1. Joplin finished ...

The Missouri State High School Activities Association released its new football classifications ... also announced district assignments for volleyball, softball, boys soccer and girls tennis and classes for boys swimming. Class 4 District 11 — Joplin ...

In a final dress rehearsal before the regular season arrives next week, Webb City hosted Lamar, Seneca and Joplin for the annual prep football jamboree on Friday ... “I’ve had them for their whole high school careers and we want to do something special ...

That was the question posed to four school administrators Nathan Lamar, Jennifer DeStefano, Matthew Poska and Brooke Randall, who were interviewed in the high school’s auditorium ... process the interviews and make site visits. The timing for the ...

MaxPreps has named Webb City as Missouri’s most dominant high school football program during the last decade ... Rockhurst was selected fourth and Lamar was fifth. Rockhurst won the Class 6 title in ’10 and took second in both ’14 and ’18.