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By Jason Hoekema / [email protected] MOUNTAIN GROVE – Thursday, February 20, 2020, wasn’t the highlight of the Lady Bears’ regular season. It ended with a 70-43 victory for the Lady Eagles, who were hosted on Senior Night by the Lady Bears.  It was raining that evening – threes, of course – and Ava just couldn’t…

By Jason Hoekema Perhaps not the way anyone wished it would go considering it was senior night and the final game where Claire Fossett, Emaly Keyes, Eden Little and Sam Lawson would set foot on the home maple strips one last time.  In the end, Liberty–Mountain View’s Kinley Richards handed the Lady Bears their sixth…

By Jason Hoekema / [email protected] Borrowing the colloquial phrase “Don’t count your eggs before they hatch,” fit well with the Ava Bears’, 58-55, loss against the Liberty-Mountain View Eagles this past Friday.  One could look back to February 1st when the Bears topped the Eagles, 53-49, at the Mountain Grove tournament and say, “we can…

By Jason Hoekema The senior was at the helm, calling the snap on the year when Ava High School trampled their way through the SCA and marched on to the State Tournament for the first time in school history.  He amassed more than 1,400 rushing yards and averaged 13 yards per pass in his senior…