It was signing day Wednesday at Webb City High School.
Zoey Ward (left) is the first Esports Cardinal to sign a letter of intent. She’s going to compete with Crowder College.
Louden Bolinger (center) is signing for track and field at Iowa State University.
And Mason Young will play baseball at Missouri Southern State University.
Parents behind the signees are Christine Ward, Brett and Jordan Bolinger, and Mandy and Brent Young.
The Webb City girls cross country team placed sixth Saturday in the MSHSAA Class 5 Championships at Columbia.
Senior Arceli Perez led the team by placing 14 individually, with a time of 18.25.6. The winning time was 17:36.4.
Other team members were: senior Olivia Klotz, 28th; sophomore Tatum Buster, 33rd; senior Alexis Shuster, 49th; senior Emma McKinzie, 89th; freshman Ellie Formena, 147th, and freshman Catalina Solis, 153rd.
Webb City, one of the smallest teams in Class 5, scored 172 points, which was 15 points better than seventh-place Nixa.
Junior Aaron Dawson led the Webb City boys, who were competing individually. He ran the 5K Gans Creek course with a time of 15:59.1.
Also running were: senior James Baldassaro, 74th; sophomore Oscar Antillon, 84th, and junior James Dalrymple, 101st.
Webb City wrestling coach Dallas Smith is being inducted into the Ouachita Wrestling Hall of Fame for becoming the program’s first national champion. Smith was a four-time NCAA All American and in 2015 won the national championship at 184 pounds.
Ouachita Baptist University is located in Arkadelphia, Ark.
Smith is in his third year as wrestling head coach for Webb City.
The season will get underway with the Neosho Lady Scramble on Saturday, Nov. 21.
The boys’ schedule will start Dec. 3 at Nevada.
Girls and boys matches against Carthage will be here on Dec. 10, and the Frontenac boys will be here on Dec. 15.
The Webb City girls basketball season will start Tuesday with a jamboree in the Cardinal Dome.
Visiting teams will be Carl Junction, Neosho and Aurora.
The Lady Cardinals will open their regular schedule on Nov. 24 at Springfield Catholic.
Rogers Heritage will be here on Tuesday, Dec. 1. That will be the only chance for fans to see the girls at home before the Christmas break.
The boys, meanwhile, will host a jamboree Thursday, Nov. 19, against Neosho and MacDonald County. Their regular schedule will begin Dec. 7 at the Carthage Invitational.
Their Dec. 18 game against Shiloh Christian will be their only home game before Christmas.
