Softball

North Callaway 13 Van-Far 1 in five innings in Kingdom City

North Callaway (3-2, 1-0 EMO) won its home opener and Eastern Missouri Conference opener against Van-Far (0-4, 0-1 EMO) on Thursday. The Thunderbirds finished with nine hits while Megan Schmidt pitched a no-hitter with 14 strikeouts, one walk and one unearned run. Kymorie Myers led the North Callaway offense by going 2-for-4 with five RBIs, three runs and a double, Liv Knoepflein was 3-for-3 with four RBIs and three doubles and Mady Gordon was 3-for-4 two runs.

Carly Hunn scored Van-Far's only run in the third innings after she was walked to lead off the inning and rounded the bases on three passed balls. 

North Callaway plays at Russellville (0-1) at 5 p.m. Monday while Van-Far hosts a triangular Saturday against Palmyra (1-3) and Jamestown (2-0) at 9 a.m. and 1 p.m. for its first home games of the season.

Centralia 15 Battle 5 in Columbia

Centralia won its fourth straight game while scoring at least nine runs in that stretch with a 15-5 win at Battle on Thursday in Columbia. The Lady Panthers finished with 17 hits and had nine combined RBIs from Nos. 2-4 hitters Ealynne Bostick, Cora King and Kassena Ridgel. Ridgel went 4-for-5 with four RBIs and a triple, King had three RBIs and Bostick finished 2-for-2 with two RBIs. Raleigh Dutton added two RBIs. Jaylynn Brown struck out 11 in five no-hit innings with one walk.

Centralia (1-0 CCC) plays at Clarence Cannon Conference foe and Class 2 state champion Highland (3-2) at 6:45 p.m. Tuesday.

Paris 8 Cairo 7 in Paris

Paris (3-0) stayed undefeated on Thursday while beating the same team it did last year in the Class 1 state quarterfinals. The Lady Coyotes defeated Cairo (2-1) 8-7 despite allowing all seven runs in the final three innings. The 8-5 Paris lead after six innings held thanks partly to the efforts of Katie Cummins (3-for-4 with two RBIs) and Adelynn Thomas (three-RBI home run). Thomas crushed her home run in a four-run fifth inning, and Cummins had the game-winning RBI single in the sixth inning.

Each team finished with five errors, and Ava Crain ended up allowing six unearned runs for Paris with 11 hits and five strikeouts.

Paris plays at Wellsville-Middletown (0-1) at 5 p.m. Monday.

Boys soccer

Fulton 3 Mexico 2 in Fulton

In its first game away from Chris Hotop Field this season, Mexico lost 3-2 at North Central Missouri Conference rival and Class 2 District 4 foe Fulton on Thursday. It is the Bulldogs' first loss of the season. Alex Rodriguez continued his scoring streak with a penalty kick conversion in the first half, and Angel Muralles had a goal in the second half for his fourth goal in two games.

Mexico hosts conference foe Marshall (4-0) at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday.

Missouri Military Academy 5 Moberly 3 in Mexico

Missouri Military Academy's first win was a crucial one as it defeated Class 2 District 4 foe Moberly (2-2) 5-3 at home on Thursday. All-stater Fernando Puebla led the Colonels (1-1) with four goals, John Shadonix had one goal, Emilio Perez had one assist and the goalkeeper Bours had three saves.

MMA hosts Eugene (0-2) at 5 p.m. Tuesday.

Volleyball

Eldon 3 Centralia 1 in Centralia (11-25, 25-18, 8-24, 10-25)

Centralia (0-2) lost its second match of the season on Thursday at home to Eldon (1-1) after dropping a home match two days prior. 

Centralia plays at Tipton (4-1) at 7 p.m. Monday.

Fall baseball

Community R-6 25 Macon County with Bucklin 6 in New Cambria

Community R-6 (2-1) kept piling it on on Thursday until it won 25-6 at Macon County with Bucklin (0-2). The Trojans scored their most runs ever in their four fall seasons and the most runs since they beat Madison 26-2 in the 2023 spring season. 

Cooper Rohan led the offense by going 5-for-5 with six RBIs, four runs and a double as the Trojans took advantage of 14 walks and seven hit by pitches, according to head coach Chris Elliersieck. Kaiden Erdel was hit by three pitches, and the Trojans finished with 11 hits. Carter Schafer went 3-for-3 with four RBIs, four runs and two doubles, and Lane Carter, Nik Crider and Matthew Utterback each had two RBIs.

Houston Hogan pitched the majority of the game with 88 pitches in four innings, and Crider threw seven pitches after him and recorded two strikeouts and one groundout. 

Community plays at Calvary Lutheran (2-0) at 5 p.m. Friday.