By Lizzy Dameron
The Madison Lady Panthers senior night was scheduled for October 7, 2025 versus Macon R-II junior varsity. This game was to celebrate the two seniors: Avery Carr and Melena Bollman. Avery Carr has been an asset for infield during her time at second base, making crucial plays for the Lady Panthers, and has been a great start to our offense being lead-off hitter. Melena has been a leader during her time in the outfield, shouting her famous words, “I’m a stud!” after catching a fly-out. She has helped our line-up continue through when being the last to the plate. These two players will be missed after the season is over.
The game finished with the Lady Panthers trailing Macon 12-14. Although they lost, the girls put up a great fight playing two extra tied innings. After the game the juniors, sophomores, freshman, managers, and coaches lined up to create a tunnel for the seniors and their families to walk through. Avery Carr was escorted by her parents Jamie and Daniel Carr. During her years at Madison she has participated in athletics such as softball, basketball, track, and trap. Melena Bollman was escorted by Amber and Tyler Reynolds, and her sister Erika. Like her other senior, she has been involved in many athletics like softball, basketball, track, and trap.
By Wyatt Tooley
This year’s traction team has gone to the normal conference held every year at The Stony Creek Inn at Columbia. The conference is normally two and a half days long and has over 100 students all across Missouri come together and stop distracted driving and has a reunion every march.
The traction members include Mason Million, Wyatt Buck, Wyatt Tooley, Toby Wolf, Jazlyn Johnston, Sienna Brush, Emma Craig and Lizzy Dameron. Those are all of the members of traction and only a select few didn’t make it.
The Traction Reunion is to show what the schools decided to do to keep roads safe and what was improved, as well as promote safety areas including seatbelt and turn signal usage and adhering to road signs. The Traction team will also sponsor school bus evacuation safety and guest speaker, Skylar Gray, come who will share her story about distracted driving and distracted drivers.
By Ethan Million
Now that the trap season is over we can say that it was a great success. The top 10 shooters made it to Area competition which was held on September 23, at Prairie Grove. The team placed 7th at the Area competition ending the competition with a total of 210. The team members who competed at Area are: Ethan Million, John McNamara, Jacob Fish, Tanner Wood, Lizzy Dameron, Avery Carr, Carson Chick, Michael Winn, Mason Million, Skylar Woody. The top 5 scores advanced to districts on October 4th where they placed 13th with the score of 434. The following members ended wrapped up the season at the district competition with their final score:
Tanner Wood - 96/100
Mason Million - 95/100
Jacob Fish - 87/100
Avery Carr - 81/100
John McNamara - 75/100.
We will be looking forward to next season's Trap team and competittion;
however, we will miss seniors Tanner Wood, Michael Winn, Carson Chick, Melena Bollman, and Avery Carr.