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Mizzou’s Thomas throws no-hitter as Tigers split doubleheader

Leave a Comment Posted by on May 5, 2013

By Karl Roskamp

With 1,540 people packed into University Field and many more watching the nationally-televised game, Chelsea Thomas pitched a no-hitter to lead No. 11 Missouri to a 2-0 victory in game one against No. 4 Tennessee.

“It’s pretty crazy.  It was a really fun night.  I’ll remember this night for a while,” Thomas said.

The game was her first solo no-hitter of the season and the eleventh of her career. The caliber of competition makes the performance even more special according to coach Ehren Earleywine.

“It’s as good as I can remember because Tennessee lights it up offensively,” he said.  “It was in front of a nice crowd, and it was an important game.  I thought it was extraordinary.”

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Mizzou wrestlers marches away with MAC title; looks ahead to nationals

Leave a Comment Posted by on March 18, 2013

by Peter Terpstra

The Missouri wrestling squad has won two conference championships in two years. It might have been the Tigers’ first time finishing first in the Mid-American Conference, but as KBIA’s Peter Terpstra shows, Missouri grabbed a title away from a team who hasn’t stepped off of the podium since 2001.

Ten Missouri wrestlers qualified for the 2013 NCAA Championships, which start Thursday in Des Moines, Iowa. Eight received automatic bids and two received at-large bids. Alan Waters (125) and Dom Bradley (HWT) are No. 1 seeds.

Here are the wrestlers who made the tournament and their first round matches:

125- No. 1 Alan Waters (29-0) vs. David Thorn, Minnesota, (13-10)
133- No. 6 Nathan McCormick vs. Erik Spjut, Virginia Tech, (17-10)
141- Nicholas Hucke (13-13) vs. No. 3 Michael Mangram, Oregon State, (36-4)
149- Drake Houdashelt (28-9) vs. No. 11 Andrew Alton, Penn State, (26-4)
157- Kyle Bradley (26-13) vs. No. 4 James Green, Nebraska, (20-4)
165- Zach Toal (22-16) vs. Ryan Leblanc, Indiana, (22-8)
174- Todd Porter (31-10) vs. No. 2 Mathew Brown, Penn State, (25-4)
184- No. 11 Mike Larson (27-10) vs. Ophir Bernstein, Brown, (24-9)
197- No. 12 Brent Haynes (31-8) vs. Jackson Hein, Wisconsin, (20-10)
285- No. 1 Dom Bradley (35-1) vs. Stryker Lane, Cornell, (20-10)

Information from MUTigers.com was used in this report.

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Mizzou baseball team tries to dig out of all that snow

Leave a Comment Posted by on February 28, 2013

By Zach Garcia

Members of the University of Missouri baseball team spent part of this week trying to clear snow from Simmons Field in hopes of getting in the three-game series with Northwestern. But after many hours on the field and barely making a bent in the amount of snow, the series was canceled, with no plans to reschedule the games.

Missouri’s home field is covered under more than foot of snow, which fell during the two large winter storms that hit the Columbia area in the past week. The team joined members of the Mizzou athletics facilities operations department in helping to begin clearing snow from the field on Wednesday, but about two hours of work only amounted to clearing a small portion of center field.

Missouri head coach Tim Jamieson said Wednesday that the field may be playable by the beginning of next week, keeping hope alive for scheduled games against Eastern Michigan on March 5 and 6.

Missouri has opened the season with an 0-6 record following two rough weekends on the road against Southern Mississippi and Memphis.

 

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Missouri’s Christine Flores drafted by the Phoenix Mercury in the WNBA

Leave a Comment Posted by on April 26, 2012

Basketball Career Isn’t Over for Flores

By Lauren Delany

Many college basketball players aspire to have the opportunity to take their game to the next level. For Missouri senior forward Christine Flores, these hoop dreams became a reality.

On Monday, April 16, Flores was drafted by the Phoenix Mercury in the WNBA.

“Well I was really nervous, I actually didn’t know how much of a possibility it was for me to be drafted, so for me to see my name on the TV and my agent be able to call me and just hear the words come out of his mouth, saying ‘You’ve been drafted’, it was a dream come true, and I had no words for it at all”, Flores said about her draft experience.

Christine Flores Over the Years: a look at several statistics from her career

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New courts, new direction for Mizzou tennis

Leave a Comment Posted by on April 14, 2012

By Alex Silverman

The Missouri athletics department unveiled a new outdoor tennis facility Tuesday at the Green Tennis Center.  The new courts are just the latest change for the tennis team, which has seen a major overhaul in the past year.

The team beat Kansas Friday, 4-3. The Tigers face Kansas State on Sunday, April 15 at noon at the Mizzou Tennis Complex.

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VIDEO: Anderson discusses Phil Pressey

Leave a Comment Posted by on December 12, 2010

Phil Pressey played perhaps his best game with Mizzou in Saturday’s 70-55 win over Presbyterian, racking up nine assists with two steals and no turnovers in 23 minutes of play. After Saturday’s game, Mike Anderson spoke to the media about his freshman point guard:

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VIDEO: Ricardo Ratliffe talks free throws, big-game atmosphere

Leave a Comment Posted by on December 9, 2010

Ricardo Ratliffe releases a free throw with six seconds remaining in the second half. Ratliffe hit one of his two free throws to tie the game at 72. (Photo by JJ Stankevitz)

Lost in the shuffle of Marcus Denmon’s heroics were Ricardo Ratliffe’s free throws near the end of regulation in Mizzou’s 85-82 win over Vanderbilt Wednesday night. Trailing 72-71 with six seconds remaining, Ratliffe stepped to the line and missed the first of two free throws. Vandberbilt called a timeout—either to set up their strategy and/or ice Ratliffe—after Ratliffe’s miss, setting up the the biggest shot on the biggest stage Ratliffe likely has ever had in his basketball career.

He stepped up and sank the free throw to tie the game at 72. After Vanderbilt’s Brad Tinsley missed an open look as time expired, the game went into overtime and Mizzou went on to win.

Ratliffe didn’t let his relative inexperience playing on such a high-profile stage get to him. Coach Mike Anderson always likes to say that veteran teams have “been through the wars.” Ratliffe, at least at the Division I level, has barely been through basic training.

But his usual calm, cool demeanor won out Wednesday night, and it afforded Mizzou another chance to beat Vanderbilt—of which the Tigers took advantage.

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VIDEO: Pinkel urges fans to travel to Tempe

1 Comment Posted by on December 6, 2010

Mizzou fans aren’t exactly the most well-regarded group in the college football bowl community.

With Sunday’s announcement that Mizzou will face Iowa Dec. 28 in the Insight Bowl in Tempe, Ariz., Gary Pinkel has now led Mizzou to six consecutive bowl appearances and seven in the last eight years. However, over the last few years, Mizzou fans have developed a stigma that is well-known within bowl selection committees: Tiger fans don’t travel well.

Mizzou was passed over in favor of Big 12 teams with worse records or lower rankings in 2007 (Kansas went to the Orange Bowl, Mizzou the Cotton Bowl), 2008 (Nebraska went to the Gator Bowl, Mizzou the Alamo Bowl), and 2009 (Iowa State went to the Insight Bowl, Mizzou the Texas Bowl). While bowl officials can hem and haw all they want about the selection process, that Mizzou has a stigma of not selling tickets certainly played a role in those decisions.

In 2010, though, the Insight Bowl selected Mizzou instead of the guaranteed ticket sales of Nebraska, bumping the Cornhuskers to the Holiday Bowl. The Insight Bowl—which significantly increased its payout this year and moved from the NFL Network to ESPN—in a way challenged Mizzou fans to get out to its game. “Hey, we chose you over Nebraska, so you guys better show up.”

The only way for Mizzou to rid itself of that nasty stigma is to sell out ticket allotments for bowl games. The Insight Bowl would be a good start.

Gary Pinkel echoed a challenge for Mizzou fans to get to Tempe for the game at Sunday’s bowl announcement press conference at Mizzou Arena:

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Floor-level highlights: Mizzou’s furious second-half comeback falls short

1 Comment Posted by on December 1, 2010

After finding themselves down by as much as 18 in the first half, Mizzou stormed to grasp a lead late in the second half against Georgetown Tuesday night in Kansas City. Unfortunately for the Tigers, they couldn’t hold that lead, and a few mistakes late allowed Georgetown to force overtime on Chris Wright’s backbreaking three-pointer with 0.3 seconds remaining.

While the outcome didn’t favor Mizzou, the atmosphere at Sprint Center was that of an intense late-season conference game or an NCAA Tournament game. And, on the floor, Mizzou and Georgetown produced what may go down as the best college basketball game of the 2010-2011 regular season, even with four months of games still to be played.

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Dixon: “I guess everybody gets a night like they got tonight”

Leave a Comment Posted by on December 1, 2010

While there were plenty of things Mizzou could’ve done to beat Georgetown Tuesday in Kansas City, the Hoyas’ unprecedented ability to make shots and free throws was something about which Mizzou couldn’t do much.

Georgetown shot 56.5 percent (39/69) from the field, including 46.9 (15/32) on three-pointers. While the Hoyas cooled off in the second half (42.9 field goal percentage), the team shot 71.4 percent in the first half to storm to an early lead that sat at 18 with just under eight minutes to go before halftime.

After forcing overtime on Chris Wright’s improbable three-pointer, Georgetown picked up its hot shooting as Jason Clark hit three three-pointers in extra time to key Georgetown’s win.

And all through the Hoyas’ great shooting was a perfect performance from the free throw line, as Georgetown players made all 18 free throws they took in the game.

Mizzou played its best offensive game of the year, but it wasn’t enough to win. While Georgetown’s ability to hit shot after shot was a big reason why, a missed free throw by Michael Dixon down the stretch kept Georgetown within three, setting up Wright for his game-tying three-pointer.

Despite other things that could’ve been done to minimize Dixon’s missed free throw—Laurence Bowers previously missed two free throws, Dixon committed a foul, and Mizzou’s inability to control a rebound that led to Georgetown getting the ball back and Wright hitting his shot—the sophomore point guard put responsibility for the loss on himself:

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