DONIPHAN - For a team averaging 49 points per game, the halftime scoreboard looked pretty good on homecoming night to the Doniphan Dons on the way to a 74-45 win over the Naylor Eagles. Doniphan needed just 2-1/2 minutes to build an 11-0 lead behind three consecutive 3-pointers from Ethan Jones and Tristian Bryant. The Dons led 22-9 after one quarter and 44-21 by the half...

Doniphan Donettes coach Adam Epps had been wanting to see how his team would respond in a close game. Thursday night at home against Koshkonong it couldn't have been any closer. Brooklynn Klepzig and Olivia Creutz each connected at the free throw line in the final 32 seconds of overtime to give the Donettes a 40-38 win over the Lady Blue Jays...

The Missouri Football Coaches Association recently announced selections for the 2019 all-district and all-region teams. In their second season of varsity play, Coach Jeremy Stout’s Dons had four players selected to the Class 3, District 1 all-district team...

NAYLOR - The Ozark Foothills Conference girls basketball race this season is definitely going to be different for the first time in five years. One night after the Naylor Eagles handed Neelyville its first league loss since 2015, the Doniphan Donettes made the conference chase even more interesting Friday with a tight 34-32 win at Naylor...

DONIPHAN - The Charleston Blue Jays made three of 10 shots from close range in the first quarter Tuesday night at Doniphan. And led 24-5 going into the second quarter on the way to a 68-37 win over the Dons. With four different players contributing, Charleston went 5-for-5 from 3-point range in the first 5-1/2 minutes to build a 20-3 lead...

It was quite a week for the youngest team in the 16-team lineup at the 63rd Annual Bloomfield Christmas Tournament and that was still with one game to go. The Doniphan Dons (6-5) were set to play Portageville Monday night (after an early P-N presstime due to the holiday) with a chance to bring home the fifth-place trophy...

Playing in the championship game at the Lady Royals Christmas Classic for the first time since 2006, the Doniphan Donettes showed Saturday night they weren’t going to be satisfied by just being there. The Donettes pushed the top-seeded Neelyville Lady Tigers hard before falling 54-45 in front of a full house at Twin Rivers High School...

BROSELEY - The Neelyville Lady Tigers have put plenty of championship hardware in the trophy case over the past decade from conference and district tournaments. But one somewhat elusive prize has been the first-place trophy from the Twin Rivers Lady Royals Christmas Classic...

BROSELEY - With both teams coming off exhausting down-to-the-wire losses in Friday's semifinals, Saturday's third place battle at the Lady Royals Christmas Classic could fittingly be called the 'survival of the fittest game.' New Madrid Co. Central took the third-place trophy and the unofficial title of fittest in running past the Naylor Eagles 49-29...

Through the first two days the average margin of victory at the Lady Royals Christmas Classic was somewhere close to 30 points. That changed quickly Friday in the semifinals of the fifth-place bracket. The Twin Rivers Royals and Kennett Indians both survived down-to-the-buzzer finished to earn another game in the 16-team tournament field...

The Neelyville Lady Tigers' seventh consecutive trip to the championship game at the Lady Royals Christmas Classic didn't lack for excitement. Fourth-seeded New Madrid County Central missed a potentially game-winning 3-pointer with three seconds left as the top-seeded Tigers preserved a second-half comeback for a 55-53 win...

The Kelly Hawks and East Carter Redbirds will meet Saturday in the consolation finals at the Twin Rivers Lady Royals Classic. Allison Owens scored 18 points and Allison Riley added 11 as Kelly led at the end of every quarter in defeating the Holcomb Hornets 50-37...

Never mind that the Doniphan Donettes were the higher seed Monday night in their quarterfinal matchup at the Lady Royals Christmas Classic. The Donettes came out flying light against the Dexter Bearcats. “They are hungry and they are believing,” said coach Adam Epps after his second-seeded Donettes advanced to the semifinals with a 54-24 win...