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The Warrenton boys’ soccer team is going to work hard to be just that – a team – this season under new coach Jake Brown.
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By Jim Faasen, Correspondent
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8/31/26
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Prior to the season opening with a dual at Fort Zumwalt South on September 1, Warrenton junior golfer Makayla Mellegaard feels like she’s already learned so much.
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By Jim Faasen, Correspondent
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8/31/26
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The Wright City girls volleyball team showed flashes of brilliance during the 2025 season. And, with just one senior lost from that team, the Wildcats – under the direction of new coach Gabby Vogt – are seeking more than just flashes.
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By Jim Faasen, Correspondent
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8/30/26
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The Warrenton girls’ volleyball team is trying hard to earn an ‘A.C.E.’ before a single ball is served to begin the 2026 season.
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By Jim Faasen, Correspondent
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8/29/26
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Warrenton ran away with the 34-7 win over visiting Wright City after scoring on the team’s first two drives of the game.
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By Jim Faasen, Correspondent
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8/28/26
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As a freshman, Warrenton cross country runner Landon Neace performed well, making it all the way to the Class 4 state championship race at Gans Creek in Columbia.
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By Jim Faasen, Correspondent
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8/28/26
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As the lone senior on a team of seven cross country runners, Sophie Bennett is the elder stateswoman for the Warrenton girls this season.
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By Jim Faasen, Correspondent
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8/28/26
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Last season, the Wright City softball team averaged 6.2 runs per game. After losing half its lineup to graduation, that number may be hard to reach, but that doesn’t mean the Wildcats aren’t aiming high in 2026; they'll have to adjust their approach.
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By Jim Faasen, Correspondent
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8/28/26
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The Warrenton football team can’t cut any corners this season. That’s the message that senior lineman Marcus Greene imparted after the team went 7-4 and won an opening-round district game, but then suffered heavy graduation losses.
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By Jim Faasen, Correspondent
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8/27/26
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Things will be different this year for the Wright City football team. The great thing for the Wildcats, coming off a 7-4 finish and a district playoff win a season ago, is that they won’t be that different.
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By Jim Faasen, Correspondent
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8/27/26
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Coming off a one-win season a year ago, the only way to go is up for the Warrenton softball team.
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By Jim Faasen, Correspondent
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8/26/26
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The future is now for the Wright City girls’ golf team. That statement is doubly true because the team’s top golfer, senior Morgan Nute, returns for a final season of high school golf after having placed third at the Class 2 state tournament as a junior.
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By Jim Faasen, Correspondent
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8/26/26
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While the Wright City boys’ soccer team won just five games last season, everyone involved with the Wildcats heading into 2026 is hoping for much bigger numbers.
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By Jim Faasen, Correspondent
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8/26/26
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Liberty Christian junior James Guinn is the August Athlete of the Month sponsored by America's Heartland Packing.
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8/24/26
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After earning a top-four finish in the Division I tournament of the Missouri Christian Schools Athletic Association (MCSAA) state volleyball tournament in Joplin one season ago, its second top finish in as many seasons of playing in the MCSAA’s highest division, the Liberty Christian volleyball team returns with high hopes for 2026.
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By Jim Faasen, Correspondent
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8/22/26
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Liberty Christian senior midfielder/back Cole Nelsen is a driven man headed into the 2026 soccer season.
That’s because Nelsen remembers just how difficult the feeling of back-to-back losses …
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By Jim Faasen, Correspondent
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8/21/26
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The Eagles have so much talent between some new faces and a core group of runners who helped the school win the Missouri Christian Schools Athletic Association (MCSAA) track title this spring that a very serious goal is on the lips of all involved headed into the season.
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By Jim Faasen, Correspondent
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8/20/26
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With a heat index easily in the triple digits as practice began, Wright City senior pitcher/outfielder Ava Swaringen chose to focus on the process Monday rather than dwell on the heat.
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By Jim Faasen, Correspondent
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8/12/26
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The new Wright City volleyball coach is not only excited to take the reins of a Wildcats’ program that finished 15-10-2 and won an Eastern Missouri Conference championship under Coach Shannon Bunch, but she’s also going to get to reacquaint herself with some familiar faces in doing so.
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By Jim Faasen, Correspondent
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8/9/26
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The July Athlete of the Month sponsored America's Heartland Packing is Marli Burkhardt.
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7/21/26
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Ada Ferrell, an incoming Wright City High School senior, will be competing in the National High School Finals Rodeo July 19-25 in Lincoln, Neb., against riders representing all 50 states, Canada, …
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7/17/26
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Alliana Schone, who will be a junior at Wright City this fall, has enjoyed a career that has gone from what was thought to be a potentially career-threatening injury to, later this month, what will be her second Junior Olympics gymnastics competition when she competes between July 29 and August 8 in Des Moines, Iowa.
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By Jim Faasen, Correspondent
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7/10/26
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During the last day of the annual National Cheerleading Association (NCA) summer camp in early June, Warrenton’s Jocelyn Potter had a specific goal in mind.
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6/29/26
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Grade: Senior
Favorite athlete /team: Yadier Molina/ St. Louis Cardinals
Pregame music choice: I really listen to anything, usually either rap or country …
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By Jim Faasen, Correspondent
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6/22/26
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Warrenton resident Nevaeh Caffey, who graduated high school from Incarnate Word Academy, has transferred from the University of Indiana to the University of Missouri to play for Coach Kellie Harper. Being closer to home is a reason Caffey cited for making the move.
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By Jim Faasen, Correspondent
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6/19/26
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