From staff reports
Meet the Lions
scheduled Monday
Missouri Southern’s basketball programs will host their annual Meet the Lions Night on Monday at the Leggett & Platt Athletic Center.
Festivities start at 5:30 p.m. with free hot dogs and soft drinks and a pumpkin patch for kids.
Both teams will conduct 20-minute scrimmages — the women at approximately 6:10 p.m. and the men one hour later.
Schedule cards and team posters will be handed out free of charge, and players will be available to sign autographs when their team is not scrimmaging.
All-star softball
game set Monday
CARTHAGE, Mo. — The Carthage Sports World All-Star Classic III will be held for Missouri area senior softball players at 4:30 p.m. on Monday at the Carthage Fair Acres Complex.
There is no admission charge. Donations will be taken to help with the Hannah Smallwood Scholarship, according to Carthage High School coach Gordon Godfrey.
Godfrey said 29 players representing 11 schools are expected for the nine-inning event.
Kirk Harryman, Joplin head coach, will coach the White Team. Lamar’s Tim Timmons will be in charge of the Blue. Timmons assists Harvey Fry in softball and Thad Lundine in baseball at Lamar High School.
Carthage’s Larry Fullerton will be in charge of the officials, Godfrey said. Officials also donate their services.
Details: Godfrey, (417) 214-2378.
Tiebreakers decide
USTA competition
Joplin High School senior John Lazenby and top-seeded Chase Tomlins were ousted in third-set tiebreakers Saturday in the second round of the 18-and-under boys USTA Missouri Valley Futures.
The 32-field tournament opened Friday at Millennium Tennis & Fitness Club and will wrap up with the 1:30 p.m. championship today.
Lazenby, the current Class 2 state singles champion who plays No. 1 for the Eagles, lost a 10-5 tiebreaker and the match to the fifth-seeded Cameron Schoenhofer. The Bixby, Okla., player dropped the first set 6-4 and won the second 6-2.
Unseeded Max Helgeson from Overland Park, Kan., upset Tomlins, from Tulsa, Okla., 5-7, 6-1, 10-7.
Other area players who were defeated in the opening round were Spenser Newman and Cody Maples from Joplin and Jordan Ward from Carthage.
