With the regular season being over here is my awards for the area: Player of the year: Chase Branham Coach(es) of the year: John Schaefer + Mitch Mchenry Team of the year: Logan-Rogersville All area 1st team: Chase Branham Reese Kimrey Titus Moore Kyrese Simpson Adam Mcknight

It has been obvious for a while now that Rogersville is the best team in class 4, congratulations to them on winning the state championship. Also a good reminder that the mbca poll isn’t very accurate and shouldn’t be taken seriously

All area 2nd team: Kylan Pickren Joelle Rover Elijah Nabors Marcus Moore Jayven Jones Honorable mentions: Sutton Shook Jack Sutherland Brayden Rubidoux Brock Thompson Will Winn Ty Kellis Colt Mccoy Keiran Govan Brody Blades Hendrix Haymes Sylijah Davis Ryder Rowden

Since it hasn’t been revealed yet, here’s how I would seed Class 6 district 5 1. Kickapoo 2. Glendale 3. Nixa 4. Ozark 5. Republic 6. Branson 7. Neosho 8. Joplin

Bad couple of losses for Nixa, but I would still expect them to play in the district championship. Think this loss takes them out of the 2 seed but who knows. Would love to know what Blansit drew up in the huddle because I do not believe it was for McKnight to take a fadeaway 3

With roughly a week left in the season, here are my area power rankings: 1. Rogersville 2. Kickapoo 3. Nixa 4. Hillcrest 5. Glendale 6. Ozark 7. Catholic 8. Parkview 9. Central 10. Willard

Class 6 5v6 tomorrow night… 🍿 (Nixa is definitely ranked too high but it will be fun regardless) And Rogersville not being the class 4 favorite is criminal, definitely taking them to win the championship as of now.

MSHSAA finally making common sense decisions… maybe things are getting better

4. From what I saw this weekend + leading up to it, Rogersville and Kickapoo are clearly a level above the rest of the local teams. I would be shocked if either team loses before the Quarterfinal game.

They got some favorable treatment. This is not to diminish anything they did but to just stay in reality. 3. The local coaches couldn’t have been better. Schaffer gave all of those teams hell on defense and McHenry managed to keep it close while at a severe physical disadvantage

Final thoughts from the TOC: 1. Rogersville and Kickapoo both very impressive. Gave us 3 competitive games each and regardless of how you view the outside teams this performance was special. 2. The officials definitely had some home bias, neither team was “robbed” of any wins.

Area power rankings to start off the new year 1. Rogersville 2. Kickapoo 3. Nixa 4. Hillcrest 5. Willard 6. Glendale 7. Republic 8. Ozark 9. Catholic 10. Central

Day 1 thoughts: Parkview is the most disappointing team I’ve seen in a while Keiran Govan deserves his flowers Willard vs Rep is probably best game of the whole tournament (if we get it)

Blue and Gold starting tomorrow, I figured I’d leak the script

These class 6 rankings are very interesting, can’t wait to see how it plays out

Initial reactions: - Blue bracket looks more interesting from top to bottom. - Would be shocked to see anyone but Rogersville and Nixa holding up the trophies

Jamboree’s in play this week seems like a good time for my first area power rankings for the 25-26 season 1. Kickapoo 2. Rogersville 3. Glendale 4. Nixa 5. Hillcrest 6. Ozark 7. Republic 8. Parkview 9. Willard 10. Catholic

Joplin allowed 3 runs through 3 games. A phenomenal display of pitching and fielding got them here

The Joplin eagles have won the district championship. After a 14-16 regular season, they were a bullet train in the postseason. Extremely impressive showing in a district including Nixa Kickapoo and Glendale. Stories like this is what makes baseball so great.

Nixa gets one back. 3-1 headed to the 7th