Stories from Saturday, September 7, 2019

Nevada High's Lady Tiger volleyball team secured a season-opening two-set victory over host Mount Vernon Thursday night. Nevada (1-0, 1-0, Big 8) edged Mount Vernon by identical 25-23 scores in both sets. Stat leaders for the Lady Tigers included Lindey Smith, 12 assists; Lani Coonrod, 10 digs and two aces; Stacy Pennington, nine digs, five kills; and Julia Cassidy with a half-dozen kills...

The Sheldon Lady Panther volleyball team registered their first victory of the season, dispatching archrival Bronaugh Lady Wildcats in straight sets Thursday. Sheldon (1-1) took the first set against host-Bronaugh 25-19, and then swept to victory with a dominant 25-13 second-set triumph...

After a convincing season-opening victory on Tuesday, the Nevada Lady Tiger softball team returned to the diamond Thursday — falling to Reeds Spring, 6-2. The Big 8 Conference road loss moves the Lady Tigers to 1-1 in conference-play. Reeds Spring struck first, pushing across three in the first. After tacking on a run in the fourth, and two more in the sixth, Mount Vernon led 6-0...

The Cottey Comet volleyball team collected its first victories of the season last weekend in Manhattan (Kan.) at the Thunder Invitation Tournament. Cottey (3-3) first edged Central Christian College of Kansas in a five-set thriller, then dropped their second match of the day, falling to host Manhattan Christian College in four...

Youth division Top 5: Mallory Crews/Brian Henderson, Madison Meek/Brian Henderson, Madison Meek/Mallory Crews, Mallory Crews/Teresa Klumpp, Madison Meek/Kenny Maffie. Open division Top 5: Michael Johns/Brian Henderson, Roger Hines/ Teresa Klumpp, Brian Henderson/Roger Hines, Diana Adell/Brian Henderson, Jonathan Westhoff/Brian Henderson...

Emree Cameron, at the top of her game, will look to ride a recent wave of momentum all the way to famed Augusta National Golf Club. Cameron, a Nevada Middle School seventh-grader, competes tomorrow at the Drive, Chip, and Putt Regional Finals just outside of Denver. ...

The Affordable Care Act (ACA), also known as Obamacare, initially mandated Medicaid expansion for every state, requiring each to expand Medicaid coverage to include those people with incomes of up to 133 percent of poverty levels. A 2012 Supreme Court ruling, however, made Medicaid expansion optional. Missouri joins 13 other states that have not yet expanded Medicaid...

An inability to prevent the big play again proved costly for the Nevada Tigers as they fell, 43-22, to the No. 4 ranked Mount Vernon Mountaineers Friday night in Mount Vernon. Nevada was held to a three-and-out on the game's opening series, then quickly yielded two big plays netting 47 yards, setting up the Mountaineers deep in Nevada territory...