Dan Lucy

SPRINGFIELD, Mo–In high school baseball Tuesday. The Class 4 sectional featuring Springfield Catholic and Eldon started in a light rain. The Irish would strike first Nic Ruter drives this deep to right center, Conner Fenske and Kennedy Brown both score and it’s 2-0. The offense keeps rolling, Rhett Layne sends this to left field, Ruter […]

SPRINGFIELD, Mo–Hello everyone, I’m Dan Lucy on the Ozarks First digital desk. The Missouri State Bears will open NCAA tournament play Friday night against the Arkansas Razorbacks. It’ll be the third meeting of the year between the two rivals. In our Bear Nation update. Missouri State and Arkansas split their season series with each team […]

SPRINGFIELD, Mo–Hello everyone, I’m Dan Lucy on the Ozarks First digital desk. The Missouri State baseball team hit the artifical turf diamond in Lawrence Thursday. Joey Hawkins team getting in a workout and getting a feel for the dimensions at Hoglund Ballpark. In our Bear Nation update. The home team Kansas Jayhawks won 42 games […]

SPRINGFIELD, Mo–Hello everyone, I’m Dan Lucy on the Ozarks First digital desk. Missouri State and Arkansas are renewing their rivalry in the NCAA regional. MoState will be trying to beat the Razorbacks for the second time this season. In our Bear Nation update. One big key to Missouri State’s success this season is the amount […]

ROGERSVILLE, Mo–In the Class 4 high school baseball quarterfinals, it’s not a best of three. So for Rogersville and Springfield Catholic is was winner advances to the semifinals. The Ir…

LAWRENCE, Kan–Missouri State versus Arkansas round three in the NCAA tournament. These two rivals are meeting for the third time this season. And for the seventh time in NCAA regional play. The two split the regular season series. And Missouri State owns a 4-3 NCAA series lead. In our Bear Nation update, MoState and Arkansas […]

SPRINGFIELD, Mo–Hello everyone, I’m Dan Lucy on the Ozarks First digital desk. Missouri State’s baseball season ended over the weekend at the NCAA Lawrence regional. MoState losing to both Arkansas and Northeastern. But there is some good news today about Missouri State baseball. In our Bear Nation update. Missouri State product Hayden Juenger made his […]

OZARK, Mo–The week-long high school state baseball championships started Monday afternoon in Ozark. In Class 2 the Miller Cardinals squared off with Faith Christian Academy out of the Kansas City area. Miller was making a return trip to state Final Four after winning it all a year ago. The Cardinals were looking for their fifth […]

SPRINGFIELD, Mo–Hello everyone, I’m Dan Lucy on the Ozarks First digital desk. The Springfield Cardinals started a six game series in Frisco, Texas Tuesday afternoon. The Baby Birds started this road trip on a five-game winning streak. In our Cardinals Nation update. Two Springfield Cardinals have been promoted. The first is Noah Mendlinger, the utility […]

FRISCO, Tex–Ryan Campos was red hot on “camp day” down in Texas. The Springfield Cardinals started a six game Texas League road series in Frisco Tuesday afternoon. And they did it without two of their players. Utility player Noah Mendlinger and pitcher Brandt Thompson were both promoted to Triple AAA Memphis. In our Cardinals Nation […]