On a drizzling, misty night the top-seeded Fair Grove soccer team and second-seeded New Covenant went through two halves without scoring. In the overtime period, however, the Eagles caught a break when New Covenant was charged with a penalty.

The Skyline football team easily won its first game of the Class 1, District 2 tournament 62-12 over Ash Grove on Friday, Oct. 26. The Tigers scored a touchdown just 17 seconds into the first quarter, and they never gave up their lead throughout the rest of the match.

Fair Grove’s football team moved to 9-1 on the year with a 46-6 shellacking of seventh-seeded Willow Springs Friday night at Fair Grove. The second-seeded Eagles led 24-0 at the quarter and 32-0 at the half.

Buffalo coach Ed Phillips has been right about a lot of things this year, but no “righter” than last week when he said School of the Osage was a lot better than its 1-8 record showed. 

Buffalo’s girls cross country team had a good year, winning several meets, but came up short in the Class 3, District 6 meet Oct. 27 at Hollister. The team finished fourth, but they needed to place in the top two to advance to the state cross country meet.

In what was a great basketball ... er, rather football ... game Friday night, Skyline racked up 64 points in a 64-44 win over Warsaw in the last regular season game of the year. The second-seeded Tigers will host seventh-seeded Ash Grove this Friday in the opening round of the Class 1, Distr…

Buffalo’s volleyball team finished in second place in the newly formed Ozark Mountain Conference, barely behind champion El Dorado Springs. The Lady Bison’s season ended Monday night, however, with a loss to California in the opening round of the district tournament.

The Fair Grove Eagles had to travel two hours into Arkansas to find an opponent Friday night, but it was worth it as the Eagles shut out Yellville-Summit 40-0.

Buffalo’s girls cross country team continued to be impressive, winning the Reeds Spring meet on Oct. 18. They accomplished this despite Reeds Spring switching girls and boys start times 12 minutes before the race.

In March the Buffalo Parks Advisory Committee proposed a nine-hole disc golf course at the city park. The course was readily approved and installed. Like Alderman Scott Decker assured the board, the baskets are spread across the hilly park and have a small enough footprint to not disrupt oth…

Skyline’s volleyball team is fourth-seeded in the Class 2, District 12 Tournament that starts Monday, Oct. 22 at Stockton.

El Dorado Springs (7-1) continues moving forward as the Dogs held off Skyline 28-24, Friday Oct. 12 on homecoming night. The Bulldogs are enjoying the best season of the Coach Derek Scroggins era as they continue to hold on to second place in the district standings, which would give them a h…

The Buffalo Lady Bison golf team wrapped up its season on Monday, Oct. 1 at the district tournament, which was held in Eldon. The Lady Bison highlights from the season were as follows:

Buffalo’s volleyball team swept Bolivar on Oct. 9 by defeating the varsity, junior varsity and freshman teams. The Lady Bison lost the first set of the varsity match 23-25, but came right back to win the next two, 25-13, 25-15.

Bode Abraham intercepted a pass and returned it 40 yards down the sideline for a touchdown to put Buffalo ahead for good as the Bison held off previously undefeated Fair Grove 29-22 Friday night.

Emily Rice started out the game with a single in the top of the first inning, but that was the only hit allowed by Bolivar pitcher Katie Brooks as the Lady Liberators shut out the Lady Bison 11-0 in the opening round of the Class 3, District 11 softball tournament Wednesday at Rogersville.

Following a tight opening quarter, Strafford shifted to high gear and rolled past Skyline 38-14 Friday night in a Mid-Lakes Conference football game at Urbana. The Indians are now 6-1 overall and 2-1 in conference and will play at Forsyth this Friday in their final conference game. 

Fair Grove’s volleyball team had a great week last week, defeating Bolivar and arch rival Strafford, then finishing third in the Willard Tournament. As a result, the Lady Eagles now have a 23-4-2 record.

Fair Grove’s state-ranked football team traveled to Butler Friday night and led 40-0 at the half. The Eagles cruised to a 46-6 win, improving their record to 7-0 overall and 4-0 in the Mid-Lakes Conference. They won the conference championship with a victory over Strafford last week.

Fair Grove’s boys soccer team has an outstanding 13-5-1 record this year and has been breaking individual records at the same time. Senior Maicol Newkirk has set a Fair Grove career record with 97 goals, and also has the single season record of 34 goals this year.

It’s district tournament time for softball, and sixth-seeded Buffalo begins play today (Wednesday) against third-seeded Bolivar at Logan-Rogersville High School. It’s a tough district in that none of the six teams had losing records, at least at the time of the seeding meeting.

Despite not having anybody in the top five, Buffalo’s girls cross country team won second place at the Buffalo Invitational Thursday. That’s because the Lady Bison captured seven of the next nine places at the meet, which was won by Hollister.

An 11-yard pass from quarterback Trevor Russell to Jaytin DeFreece with 15 seconds left in the game enabled Skyline to defeat Lighthouse Christian 28-20 in a home game Friday night. 

Skyline’s volleyball team had won five straight games and was 10-4 on the year, but then they ran into an even hotter Fair Grove team on Sept. 25. The result was a 25-18, 25-11 win for the home Lady Eagles.

In what was mostly a defensive battle, the Fair Grove Eagles managed to edge rival Strafford 17-14 Friday night to win the Mid-Lakes Conference championship in front of an overflow crowd. They were both 5-0 going into the contest, with Fair Grove being 3-0 in league play and Strafford 2-0.

Buffalo’s softball team continues to play .500 ball, but lost two of three games last week. 

Buffalo’s volleyball team had a difficult week, going 1-4-1 and seeing its record drop to 9-8-3 in the process.

Skyline’s football team had to go into overtime Friday night to defeat previously unbeaten Summit Christian Academy 30-28 at Lee’s Summit. Following the victory, both teams are 4-1 on the season, and Skyline is 2-1 in the Mid-Lakes Conference.

The biggest game of the year so far will take place Friday at Fair Grove when the Eagles will host their biggest rival, the Strafford Indians. Both teams are 5-0 and undefeated in Mid-Lake Conference play. 

Buffalo’s volleyball team split a couple of Ozark Mountain Conference games last week, losing at Butler on Sept. 18 and defeating Sherwood at home on Sept. 20. The Lady Bison are now 8-4-2 overall and 3-1 in conference play.

Buffalo’s football team, which has scored at least 20 points in every game, has really ramped it up the last two weeks, averaging nearly 50 points per outing. On Friday the Bison swamped Warsaw 51-12 after racing to a 28-0 halftime lead.

Buffalo’s softball team whacked 26 hits and scored 33 runs last week in defeating Seymour 15-0 and Halfway 18-6. With these wins, the Lady Bison evened their record at 6-6.