The ultimate two days of the Highland Boys And Women Varsity Basketball Event are set to happen Friday and Saturday in Lewis County. Comfort video games are on faucet this night whereas the title video games will happen Saturday at Highland Excessive Faculty in Ewing, Missouri.
The 4th-seeded Cougars of HHS will face 2nd-seeded Kirksville within the Boys Championship at 7:30 p.m. Macon and Scotland County will vye for the Women Championship at 6:00 p.m.
WGEM’s Garrett Tiehes caught up with Highland Athletic Director Ben Buening to get a scouting report on Saturday’s video games in addition to an outline on how the tourney has operated this week within the wake of all of the COVID-19 well being and security pointers in place.
The highest-seeded Palmyra Panthers shall be in motion this night at Highland within the tourney’s third place recreation. PHS will tip-off in opposition to Third-seeded Macon. Panthers head coach Ryan Wooden hopes his squad will be capable of bounce again from Thursday’s heartbreaking 49-48 loss in opposition to Highland in a giant means with the assistance, and management, of gamers like senior Abe Haerr. We’ll have an replace.
Lastly, in Main League Baseball information and notes, former LA Dodgers supervisor Tommy Lasorda handed means on Thursday. The Corridor Of Fame skipper lead the Dodgers to 2 World Sequence Championships throughout his 20 years within the dugout with the Nationwide League franchise. Lasorda spent greater than 7 many years as part of the Dodgers group in varied capacities. The Norristown, Pennsylvania native was inducted into the Baseball Corridor of Fame in Cooperstown, New York as a supervisor in 1997. In line with his household in California, Lasorda had a sudden cardiopulmonary arrest at his dwelling Thursday night.
Thomas (Tommy) Charles Lasorda was 93 years previous.
