From staff reports
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Seven area players, including two from Webb City, earned all-state basketball honors.
The team, released today, was selected by the Missouri Sportswriters and Sportscasters Association.
Webb City’s Landon Zerkel, 6-foot-2 senior, was named to the Class 4 first team, and Kaitlin Jaeger, the Cardinals’ 6-0 freshman, is on the girls second team.
The Cardinals finished third in the boys state tournament, and the girls team lost to eventual champion Bolivar in the quarterfinal round. In the final state poll, the Cardinal boys were third, and the girls were eighth.
Kara Rosebrough, 5-9 senior from Pierce City, is a member of the Class 3 girls second team, and Hannah Wilkerson, 5-7 sophomore from Miller, is a first-team selection in Class 2.
Whitney Edie, 6-1 junior from Exeter, is on the Class 1 girls first team. The boys second team includes Garrett Gladden, 6-5 junior from Everton, and Clinton Irwin, 6-2 senior from Hume.
Exeter finished seventh in the final state poll after losing to state runnerup Delta in the quarterfinal round.
Three Ozark Conference players are included on the Class 5 all-state teams. Kickapoo’s Dusty Allen, 6-5 senior, is on the boys first team, and Waynesville’s Dominique Long, 6-5 senior, is on the second team. Katie Pritchard, 5-8 senior from Waynesville, made the girls second team.
Aurora wound up 10th in the final Class 3 girls poll after winning its first-round state game by one point on a late free throw and losing its quarterfinal contest by a point on a late charity.
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