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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March 25, 2008
Webb City duo among 7 area all-staters
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Outlaws open season Thursday on the road
Chris Oldner takes a cut during the Joplin Outlaws practice Tuesday afternoon. The Outlaws open their season on Thursday night at Rossville and play seven road games before their home opener on June 5.
The Joplin Outlaws and new coach Rob Vessell have set some lofty goals for the 2012 baseball season.
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- Five sign to join Missouri Southern women's track team
- Whisner ignites Joplin Miners past Webb City
- Venus Williams joins Serena on sideline in Paris
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- Vengels sixth in heptathlon; PSU picks up two seventh-place finishes
- Ethan Cordray signs with Pittsburg State
- Lions, Gorillas begin competition in outdoor track and field championship
- Three finalists named for PSU head baseball coach position
- Lions qualify 10, PSU 15 for Division II outdoor track meet
- Missouri Southern Sports
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Area athletes turn shine at state meet
Webb City's Jarvis Jones takes sixth in the 200.
- Cleo Elbert steps down at Thomas Jefferson
- Frontenac wins first state baseball title
- Joplin's Jeremy Lynn takes fifth at state tennis
- Frontenac advances at state baseball
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