Stories from Tuesday, May 1, 2018

James Eugene “Jim” Maynard, 84 of Belton, Mo., passed away Saturday, April 28, at his home in Belton. Jim was born Oct. 13, 1933, in Kansas City, Mo., the son of Joseph and Erma May (Story) Maynard. Jim was raised in Kansas City and graduated from Kansas City East High School with the Class of 1951. ...

Robert E. Ryan, 74, of Nevada, passed away Friday, April 27, at KU Medical Center in Kansas City, Kan. Bob was born March 11, 1944, in Paris, Ky., the son of Joseph Francis Sr. and Gertrude (Maher) Ryan. He moved to Colorado Springs, Colo., at an early age and during high school he worked at a potato chip factory. ...

Ground Up Boxing Gym’s Cole Winsworth emrged victorious in his weight class at the 2018 Golden Gloves Regional Championships, held April 19-21 in Kansas City. “It was awesome, it was amazing,” said an elated Rick Culler, Winsworth’s trainer and owner of Ground Up gym...

Last week was a busy one for the Nevada High School track-and-field team, having competed at the April 24 Monett Invitational — followed by a quick-turnaround, lacing them up two days later at the Mount Vernon H.S. Mountaineer Relays. Monett Invitational...

The Nevada Tiger tennis team concluded its regular-season slate Friday, with an emphatic 7-2 West Central Conference road victory over the Clinton Cardinals. The win improves Nevada to 11-2-1 overall, and 5-1 in WCC-play. “We finished our regular-season the same way we starte — with a win,” said an elated NHS head coach Clayton Wheeler, adding that his squad was “pumped” coming off its first-place showing in their previous outing at the Bolivar Invitational.”...

In a high-scoring baseball affair, the Sheldon Panthers defeated the Bronaugh Wildcats, 22-12 — Friday night in Sheldon. The regular-season finale — Golden Valley Vernon County Conference victory, moved Sheldon to 2-8 overall, and 2-3 in GVVC-play — while Bronaugh dropped to 0-9 overall, and 0-4 in GVVC-play...

A successful title defense came to fruition Saturday in Farmington (Mo.) as the Cottey Comets downed the No. 17 ranked St. Louis Community College Lady Archers, 4-1, to claim back-to-back NJCAA Division II Region 16 softball championships. Cottey’s remarkable level of success seemed almost unthinkable just two years ago, as the Comet softball program had concluded a three-year run from 2014-16 — 3-74 overall. Cottey now stands tall as repeat Region 16 champs...