Following a 2019 sectionals loss to Potosi, just one game short of the state final four, Pleasant Hope softball coach Kevin McVey told his team he wanted the feeling of success and how fleeting it can be to stick with them.

Bolivar High School has been approved for full membership in the Ozark Conference for the 2021-22 school year, the district learned Thursday, March 12.

Bolivar R-1 officials have sent a letter to the Missouri State High School Activities Association, encouraging changes to the scorekeeping process for district basketball games after a controversial decision added 2 points to Bolivar opponent Logan-Rogersville’s score during halftime of the …

Last year, a full corps of returning midfielders helped lead Lady Liberator soccer to its fourth consecutive district championship.

Southwest Baptist University track and field claimed six individual first-place finishes  at the Great Lakes Valley Conference championship meet Saturday and Sunday, Feb. 29 through March 1.

For one quarter Friday, March 6, Bolivar High School boys basketball looked capable of avenging two 2019-20 losses to Logan-Rogersville and laying hands on a Class 4 District 11 championship. 

Southwest Baptist University men’s basketball coach Clark Sheehy is excited.

Twenty-five years after his father, a longtime coach, led his team to its only district championship basketball game of his tenure, Fair Play coach Deric Link strode off the court at Southwest Baptist University, hugged his family, and went to be with his players as they celebrated their own…

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As Liberator wrestling and the Bolivar community celebrated as the team booked its second consecutive trip to the Class 2 state wrestling tournament earlier this month, Bolivar coach Jeff Davis said he had to force a smile at times. 

Looking back at two consecutive state wrestling titles, a string of dominant high school and USA wrestling tournament wins, an undefeated 2018-19 season on the mat and an undefeated 2019-20 regular season on the gridiron, Hayden Burks’ overwhelming reflex is to credit his teammates. 

SBU women’s tennis picked up its second win of the year, taking a 4-1 victory over Southern Arkansas University on Saturday, Feb. 22.