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Kewpies, Bruins to close season

Weather permitting, the Rock Bridge and Hickman baseball teams will close out the regular season tonight on Simmons Field.

The two Columbia teams will celebrate senior night, with first pitch scheduled for 6 p.m.

Hickman, the top seed in the Class 4 District 10 Tournament that begins Monday, will bring an 18-5 record into game. Rock Bridge, the district’s third seed, is 10-13.

 

Indians finish off Spartans

The Hallsville baseball team scored nine runs in the fifth inning to end a 10-0 run-rule victory over host Moberly. The game was for third-place in the Fulton Tournament and was a make-up from Friday, when it got rained out.

Austin Church pitched five shutout innings, striking out nine, and also had a hand in Hallsville’s nine-run fifth. Church had two hits and drove in three runs in the inning. Zach Koeneke also had two hits in the fifth. In all, the Indians (10-7) scored nine runs on six hits, four walks and three errors to finish off Moberly (10-11).

 

Banks’ horse wins $100K stakes race

Lord Carmen, a 7-year-old thoroughbred owned by Columbia’s J. David Banks, won the $100,000 James B. Tafel Illinois Stakes on May 3 at Arlington Park in Chicago.

Going off at odds of 8-to-1, Lord Carmen finished 2 lengths ahead of favorite Fort Prado.

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