Photos: Platte County 9, Chaminade 3
Platte County defeated Chaminade 9-3 in Saturday’s Class 5 state third-place game at U.S. Baseball Park in Ozark.
Photos: Willard 10, Platte County 0, 5 innings
Willard beat Platte County 10-0 in five innings in Friday night’s Class 5 state semifinal at Ozark Mountain Sports Complex in Ozark.
Platte County goes distance again to earn 3rd trip to Class 5 semifinals in past 5 seasons
Platte County knows more not only about navigating the totality of the new best-of-three state quarterfinal series than any other team in Missouri but also have the desired positive results to along with the high-pressure scenarios. This year might have played out differently, but the Pirates earned another opportunity to play for a Class 5 […]
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 […]
Photos: Class 5 MSHSAA Track and Field Championships
Platte County competed in the Class 5 MSHSAA Track and Field Championships on Friday and Saturday at Jefferson City High School in Jefferson City.
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 […]
Photos: Class 5 Sectional 4 (girls)
Platte County competed in the Class 5 Sectional 4 meet Saturday at Lee’s Summit North High School in Lee’s Summit.
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 […]
Christopher weathers unique drama, heads back to state in 4 events for 2nd straight year
LEE’S SUMMIT, Mo. — Ty Christopher eventually became a state qualifier in four events for a second straight season but not without surviving the tests of a far-from-ordinary series of circumstances. Platte County’s star senior’s races included two false starts and a disqualification, and he didn’t totally avoid the drama and accompanying swings in emotion […]
Photos: Class 5 Sectional 4 (boys)
Platte County competed in the Class 5 Sectional 4 meet Saturday at Lee’s Summit North High School in Lee’s Summit.