Postgame Interview: Owen Bane, Sr., P/2B/RF

Platte County senior Owen Bane pitched 4 1/3 scoreless innings and earned the win in a 9-3 victory over Chaminade in the Class 5 state third-place game Saturday at U.S. Baseball Park in Ozark.

Platte County comes up short in repeat bid, still collects 3rd state trophy in 5-year span

OZARK, Mo. — Overcast skies and intermittent drizzling rain served as an appropriate backdrop for a consolation opportunity. Yet, Platte County provided some final shine to another memorable season with a 9-3 victory over Chaminade in the Class 5 state third-place game Saturday afternoon at U.S. Baseball Park despite the melancholy weather. With star senior […]

Benninghoff, Wagner post top-10 finishes in hurdle events but miss state podium

After heavy rains Friday completely altered the format, the Class 5 MSHSAA Track and Field Championships proved more unforgiving than usual. Platte County senior Adi Benninghoff and junior Maggie Wagner just missed all-state honors in what ended up timed finals across two heats with their races occurring on either side of another lengthy weather delay […]

Platte County’s historically accomplished senior class goes out on difficult note

An accomplished era came to an unfitting and truly unexpected conclusion this past weekend. Inclement weather and delays hampered the Class 5 MSHSAA Track and Field Championships with nearly all of Friday’s competition eventually canceled, forcing an abbreviated and reformatted schedule for Saturday at Jefferson City High School. Almost all preliminaries were nixed in favor […]

Benninghoff finally, officially takes down school record that stood for 43 years

LEE’S SUMMIT, Mo. — Platte County cleared new bars and quickly negotiated literal hurdles in Saturday’s Class 5 Sectional 4 meet. In the end, only of three returning state qualifiers earned a repeat trip with senior Adi Benninghoff removing any potential future asterisk with an emphatic school record while winning the 100-meter hurdles race in […]