Sports

IT’S FOOTBALL SEASON – Photo is of the 1937 El Dorado Springs Bulldogs Football Team – The club won the West Central Conference Championship that same year. Glad our student athletes don’t wear leather helmets these days. The Bulldogs kick off the 2019 season this Friday (8/30) as they travel to take on the Pembroke

Bowfin (Amia calva) are bony fishes related to gars in the infraclass Holostei. Common names include mudfish, mud pike, dogfish, griddle, grinnel, swamp trout and choupique. They are regarded as taxonomic relicts, being the sole surviving species of the order Amiiformes which dates from the Jurassic to the Eocene, persisting to the present.

Bryce Wosoba, son of Aaron and Stacy Wosoba, El Dorado Springs and a member of Cedar County 4-H, represented the state of Missouri at the 2019 National 4-H Shooting Sports Championships in June as a member of the state Recurve Archery Team. The team took home daily awards in each event and as a team.

The scheduled Red Black football scrimmage Saturday evening was a wash, literally. It and the softball scrimmage were rained out. Head Football Coach Kelley Beckner told the Sun his team would conduct the scrimmage Monday evening, Aug. 19. He thought the softball team would scrimmage Wednesday evening.

Q. So you’re the new baseball coach? Yes, sir, and assistant boys’ basketball coach. Q. Where do you come here from? I have spent the last four years at Greenfield as the head baseball coach, assistant basketball and football coach, Athletic Director, and History teacher. Prior to that I was the head basketball coach for

Q. Welcome to El Dorado Springs. Thank you. Q. Where are you coming here from? Fayette, MO. Q. That’s up north of the Missouri River, isn’t it? North of the river. About 30 minutes from Columbia. Q. How long have you been a wrestling coach? This is my first year as a head wrestling coach.

OZARK MOUNTAIN NATIONALS – This past weekend several hundred martial arts competitors gathered in Springfield, Missouri for the annual OZARK MOUNTAIN NATIONALS Karate Tournament. One of those competitors was Addison Taylor representing El Dorado Springs Karate Club and Team VDK Elite. Addison completed in a very large group of Intermediate 10 – 11 Youth. Addison

by Grandmaster J. Thomas, Kyoshi Kansas City was this years host city for the annual gathering of the masters at the United States Martial Arts Hall of Fame Banquet and Induction Ceremony. Many of the who’s who in Martial Arts was present for honoring those that have made a positive difference in the sport of

By Richard Gardner On Saturday July 27, we hosted our annual adult-youth golf tournament at Gene Pray Memorial Golf Course. This is a fun tournament for the kids and the adults and is well attended. This year we had 21 teams entered (19 teams played) and there was a lot of good scores and great

ECS VOLLEYBALL AWARD WINNERS – ECS Principal and head volleyball coach, Mrs. Kelly Bryson, presented varsity volleyball awards to her Lady Buffalos; Pictured from left to right: Isabelle Bryson, received the Hustle Award; Jordanne Steuck, was named Most Valuable Player, Mrs. Bryson, Hailey Krehbiel, Slam Champ Award, and Abigail Reasoner,  Buffalo Award.