Sports
A Victory for Both Schools in Route 60 Showdown
Town & Country Bank’s Route 60 Showdown games delivered moments of great basketball action and free giveaways for fans on both sides of the contest. In one of the most dramatic finishes of the season, the Mtn. Grove Lady Panthers defeated the Ava Lady Bears on Jan. 31 with a final score of 50 to…
Read MoreCoach Houk Gives Wrap-Up Of Bears’ Basketball Season
Nathan Houk, coach of the Ava Bears varsity basketball team, did a brief season wrap-up this week, emphasizing some of the highlights of the season. The Bears finished the year with a 16-10 record, finishing first in the Mansfield Tournament. The Bears lost the third-place game in the Conway Tournament to Warsaw in triple overtime,…
Read MoreAlumni Basketball Game Set For Saturday, March 23
The 7th annual Ava High School Alumni Basketball Game will be held on Saturday night, March 23, in the Ava High School gym. The women’s game will begin at 6 o’clock with the men’s game to follow at 7:30 p.m. Each player will pay a participation fee of $10 and will receive a commemorative T-shirt.…
Read MoreBears Fall to Blue Eye At Hollister Tuesday Night
Season Ends in First Round of District The 2012-13 basketball season officially ended for Ava High School Tuesday night when the Bears lost to Blue Eye in the first round of the Class 3, District 11 Tournament at Hollister High School. With the 48-34 loss, the Bears ended their season with an overall record of…
Read MoreBasketball Season Ends For Ava Lady Bears Monday Night
The Ava Lady Bears saw their 2012-13 basketball season come to an end Monday night, but not before another record was set. Junior guard Bailey Lee hit one 3-point basket in the first-round district game against Springfield Catholic, which makes her the new single season 3-point leader with 56. Lee surpasses the previous record of…
Read MoreBears, Lady Bears Will Complete Regular Basketball Seasons Tonight
The Ava Bears and Lady Bears will travel to Thayer tonight (Thursday) to wrap up the regular basketball season. The games will begin at 5 p.m. with a junior varsity boys’ game, followed by the varsity girls, and concluding with the varsity boys’ game. There will be no JV girls’ game at Thayer. This will…
Read MoreLady Bears Beat Norwood; Lose to Mtn. Grove in SCA
The Ava Lady Bears defeated Norwood in non-conference play here Monday night, 47-24. Last Thursday night the Ava girls suffered a disappointing one-point loss to Mtn. Grove in league play. The Lady Bears rallied back from a 17-point deficit on Thursday and had a chance to win the game, but lost in the final seconds,…
Read MoreGastineau Honored For Scoring Milestones
Ava senior Austin Gastineau was honored last Friday night for outstanding achievements during this basketball season. On Saturday, Jan. 26, during the Conway Tournament, Gastineau scored his 1,000th career point in the game with Warsaw. Also in that game, Gastineau set a new Ava High School single game scoring record with 55 points. That broke…
Read MoreDistrict Basketball Seedings Announced
The district basketball tournament will take on a different look for Ava teams this year. For the past several years Ava teams have played in the district tournament at Cabool. However, through a restructuring of the district format, Ava will travel to Hollister this year and compete with Class 3 schools in District 11. The…
Read MoreBears Drop SCA Contests To Cabool, Mtn. View-Liberty
The Ava Bears suffered a serious setback in conference play this week, dropping SCA games to Cabool and Mtn. View-Liberty. With the losses the Bears slipped from a 2-0 conference record to 2-2, and dropped to 12-9 overall. The Bears have three games remaining in the regular season – all three conference games and all…
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