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A group of St. James Tigers competed in the Waynesville Special Olympics April 18. They are (from left) Josh Shultz, Issac Bierman, Isiah Boulware, Eric Bierman, Daten Hamilton, Loralie Pulley, and Hadden Lewis.

   Tuesday, April 18, 7 St. James High School students attended the Special Olympics at the Waynesville High School. The students go to the Olympics to compete against other students in the area. 

The following students participated: Hadden Lewis, Loralie Pulley, Eric Bierman, Daten Hamilton, Josh Shultz, and Isiah Boulware. They teamed up with 

their school to compete for personal placement in events, and for those who did not place, trophies were awarded to all who participated. 

This annual event is hosted by Waynesville for the purpose of all students having a chance at competing in sports and feeling like a part of a team. This benefits students by letting them express what they enjoy doing, practice communication skills, and build on teamwork. This activity helps all students to feel accepted and included. 

 During the Olympics, there were 

many regular track and field events that took place. Some of the most common ones consisted of shot put with a softball, or jumping events like long jump. They also had some running events like the 100 meter dash, and a few others. 

Not every participant had to do every event, there were of course some people that did running only, some that did throwing only, and some that did a little bit of both if they wanted.

When interviewed about the experience, Bierman replied, “It went amazing, I had a lot of fun.” 

Emily Bullock Photo

The St. James Lady Tigers soccer team has struggled to find wins this season, but they earned their first win last week. The team (above) continues to battle tough area teams searching for more wins. Here, they line up prior to a home match against Laquey.

 The St. James girls soccer team had four games last week and got their first win of the 2023 season.  

  Monday they played in Pacific where they were missing half of their starting lineup and ended up taking a loss 9-0. 

  On Tuesday, they took on Laquey, another hard loss for the Lady Tigers. Livi Herron scored a goal,and the game ended 4-1. 

  Thursday's game against Owensville was canceled and will not be rescheduled. 

  When it got to Friday, the girls put their all into the game and took a huge win 3-1 against Dixon, one of the most physical teams. Livi Herron scored two goals and Alisa Bearman scored 1. 

  The Lady Tigers are currently in the Owensville Tournament. They played Sullivan Tuesday and will play Thursday against Owensville and will finish Friday playing Fatima.

Via St. James Men’s Golf Twitter

The St. James Tigers Men’s Golf team has been off to an eventful start. The varsity team won the St. James Classic April 12. Medalists were (from left) Coach Jim Engelbrecht, Isaiah Cairer, Jake Wilson, Jackson Marcee, Wilson McDaniel, Hunter Redburn, Coach Zane Gahr

 St. James Tigers Men’s Golf has had an amazing start to the 2023 season. 

  Their first golf meet was against Potosi. Both Varsity and JV won. Jackson Marcee was the meet medalist with a score of 40 strokes. 

On March 27, the Tigers received the Creek Cup after winning the Union Tournament. Marcee won 2nd, Wilson McDaniel won 4th, and Hunter Redburn won 5th. 

On April 3, the Tigers played a match against St. Clair. Both Varsity and JV won their match. Marcee and Ryan Spurgeon were meet medalist for varsity and JV.

On April 6, the Tigers won the Salem Invitational with a team score 

of 344. There were ten teams in attendance. McDaniel won 1st, Marcee won 5th, Redburn won 7th and Isaiah Cairer won 8th. 

 The Tiger Classic was held April 12. The Varsity team won the match and all 5 competing varsity players earned medals: Marcee was 2nd, McDaniels 3rd, Jake Wilson 6th, Redburn 8th, and Cairer 10th.   

On April 13,  the Tigers won their match against Sullivan and Pacific with a score of 179. Marcee was the meet medalist with a score of 39. Cairer was the runner up with a score of 43. 

Their next meet against Union on Wednesday, April 19. 

 This year's 2023 Tiger Baseball team had their Four Rivers Conference Varsity Tournament on April 17, 20, and 22. 

  In the tournament, they won one and lost two of their games.  They played against Union and lost (5-2), Hermann and lost (6-3), and won against New Haven (0-6). 

  According to Phelps County Focus, St. James was scheduled to play in the Linn Jamboree Tuesday then open the campaign against Union Friday at Sullivan as part of the Four Rivers Tournament.

  Coach Olivas responded by saying, “We all feel good about it.” 

  The primary three starting pitchers for St. James are senior left-hander Aiden Moffet, junior right-hander Aidan Stricklan, and junior right-hander Luca Giacolone. 

​​  When not pitching, Moffet is at first base. Also seeing time at first base will be junior James Perkins. 

  Senior Joey Ford is at second base. Battling for the shortstop position are freshman Cooper Schacht and sophomore Drake Plummer, and competing for time at third base are Giacolone and senior Aaron Skaggs.

  “We have emphasized contact,” Olivas said of his offense. “We have had hard contact in batting practice. Moffet has worked a lot and it’s showing. He’s hitting hard line drives.”

Becky Daniels Photo

The Lady Tiger Soccer Team went 1-1 in their home Jamboree on March 14. Mackenzie Carroll (number 25) settles the ball to pass it to Livi Herron (left) to start an offensive drive against Sullivan.

 March 14 marked the beginning of the St. James Ladies soccer 2023 season. They played in the jamboree against Sullivan and Belle High Schools on their home field where they earned victory over Belle 2-0 but lost against Sullivan 0-2. 

  Senior Livi Herron and Sophomore Haylee Carnessali scored 2 goals  in the game against Belle.   

  Emily Mueller, the head coach of the SJHS soccer team said, “I feel confident about my team. In spite of the fact that we are still a work in progress, all of our girls are committed, willing to listen, and doing their best on the field... It would have been better if we had communicated better and been more aggressive. However, [this was] the first time half of our girls have ever played a game. I think we did well.” 

  She spoke about the jamboree and said it went well and that she was looking forward to the coming season. 

  The SJHS played a hard game against Marshfield as they were only  down 2-0 by halftime. As they start the second half the Lady Tigers defense starts going down to Marshfield offense ending in an 8-0 mercy rule and sad loss.

  This is her first year as a soccer coach and she excitedly remarked, “I love coaching soccer... My passion for the game is something that I share with these girls and I have so much fun watching them all grow as players.” 

  This writer, who played forward in the game on Tuesday, said, “I personally love the game of soccer and love playing with this team and am excited for more victories with them!”

  The Lady Tigers will be back on the field Thursday, March 23, at Crocker. The game will begin at 5 p.m.

Emily Bullock Photo

The St. James High School Girls’ Basketball team won the district tournament February 27- March 4, earning them a spot in the state tournament. Emily Recker was named District Player of the Year.

The St. James High School Girls’ Basketball team won the district tournament, February 27 through March 4, earning them a spot in the state tournament.

  The girls earned a bye their first round of districts, then they played Cuba in the semi-finals and beat them by 56-21 before moving onto the championship against Salem and won by 57-49. 

  Kendall Costoplos and Emily Recker were First Team All-Conference, Livi Herron made Second Team All-Conference, and Lydia Kemnitzer  made Sixth Girl of the Year. 

  The girls had to make some adjustments after senior Aly Bullock graduated, lots of the girls had to step up and take on different roles within the team. 

  Throughout the season there were tons of injuries, they had several injured ankles, and Lydia Kemnitzer tore her ACL towards the end of the year which affected the girls with everybody's roles being switched again.

  The team has several seniors graduating this season, Livi Herron and Rylee Hancock and Tessa Crocker, all three of which fill big roles. Class 4 District 3 Coach of The Year Terry Wells states, “They’re great kids, I can't thank them enough for all the time and effort they gave me over the four years.” He hopes that next seasons’ team will be slightly different, but expects really good results. He plans to work on mental toughness, just overall defending better, and to find their identity in their defensive schemes.

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November 10th, 2022

By. Maddie Guccione

20882@stjschools.org

The Saint James football team went against the Principia School District’s football team. Principia is the boarding school in Town and County Missouri. Every year, without fail, we lose to them but this year something changed. Camren Pankey, tight end defense, gave the score 20-14, Camren explained that “We had to work hard, they’re a decent school”. Camren never gave up on our school's football team, and we can all agree we have bigger and better school pride. Although we had a great season, it came to an end. Hard work from the St James Tigers Football team, waiting for the next season!

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November 10th, 2022

By. Kori Jackson

20861@stjschools.org

As the basketball season is rolling in, Terry Wells was asked a few questions about their pre-season. This season they are working on a new offensive system. As they only have 15 students on this team when they generally have between 18 to 20, all grades 9th through 12th, they are committed and putting in all the work they can before their season starts! The basketball girls are having a soup scrimmage on November 18, at the middle school. The community is more than welcome to come. Followed by the first basketball game of the year on Saturday November 19.

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November 10th, 2022

By: Julia Jacobs 

20722@stjschools.org

Last month, Alexus Freeman broke the previous strikeout record of 139 and set a new record of 181. 

To Lexy, softball means getting to work as a team with her best friends and help the upcoming generation of softball players. Advice she has is “play multiple positions, don’t be stuck with just one, you never know when your opportunity is gonna come up for you to shine at a new position.”

Freeman has always shined on and off the field. It’s common knowledge that she will be a star on any team but she will always be a St. James Lady Tiger at heart. 

Kristin Lorts Photo

St. James Lady Tigers’ Golf Champs are (front row) Gracie Satterfield, Navy Setzer, (back row) Torie Hudson, Ella Philyaw, Ally Hartley, Cally Gibson, Jane Al-Ramahi, Audrey Mankin, and Lydia Kemnitzer.

October 26th, 2022

By. Maddie Guccione

20882@stjschools.org

The St. James Lady Tigers’ golf team had a successful 2022 season, ending it with a conference championship after being undefeated in their conference matches. 

  Sophomores Lydia Kemnitzer, Cally Gibson, and Ally Hartley and junior Gracie Satterfield all earned all-conference honors. 

  Following the season, the Lady Tigers competed in the district meet and almost earned a spot at state. 

  “We were one step away from having a girl actually win at districts to compete for state, and that was Cally GIbson,” Coach Kristen Lorts said. 

  Coach Lorts is proud of her team for winning postseason honors in only their second year of having a golf program. “Last year was our first year having girls’ golf at all. We made huge improvements last year…and I can’t wait to see how we do next year.”