Stories from Monday, September 9, 2002

Courthouse to be closed morning of Sept. 11 The Saline County Courthouse will be closed and the south side of the square will be the spot for a ceremony to be held Wednesday morning in remembrance of those who perished during the terrorism attacks on Sept. 11, 2001. The courthouse will remain closed until the end of the ceremony, which kicks off at 8:30 a.m. and will include students from most of Marshall's elementary schools...

SLATER - "The Purple Swarm is back!" declared junior Dustin Hays following Slater's 20-0 non-conference victory Friday over visiting Wentworth Military Academy (0-1). Hays had a point. The return of the "4-6" attack defense disrupted the Dragons' offense, which gained just 15 net yards and was dropped for 16 yards in losses on 30 running plays. Wentworth's top threat, senior halfback Rhett Seisener, was limited to eight yards on 16 carries...

FULTON -- "A thing long expected takes the form of the unexpected when at last it comes." When applied to Marshall senior Chandler Terry, the Fulton football team understands what Mark Twain meant. Terry, the NCMC's top returning running back, scored four touchdowns and rushed for 214 yards on 14 carries as the Owls won their season opener Friday, 34-14...

ST. CHARLES -- There may be a new man in charge, but Missouri Valley College's defense hits just as hard as ever. The "Orange Crunch" gang limited Lindenwood to 107 yards in total offense, forced eight turnovers and put the offensive unit in position to score three first-half touchdowns during a 28-13 Heart of America Conference victory over Lindenwood on Saturday in St. Charles...

There was a scramble near the top during the second week of the Democrat-News' Football Contest, but in the end there was only one perfect entry. Patti Rudd of Marshall avoided the tiebreaker fray by choosing all nine high school and college winners. She was among a handful to pick Tipton to end a two-year season-opening loss cycle to Santa Fe...

Matt Kenseth became the first four-time winner of the season on the NASCAR Winston Cup circuit Saturday, and Keith and Loreen Jacobs and Russell Bellamy of Marshall picked it for the Democrat-News' "The Race is On" contest. Unfortunately, none selected another top-three driver in the Chevy Monte Carlo race run over the weekend at Richmond International Speedway...

TIPTON -- Juniors Louis Suddarth and Garett Uptergrove combined for 194 rushing yards and six touchdowns Friday as Tipton handed visiting Santa Fe its worst loss of head coach Bill Fox's 12 years in charge, 56-0. "Turnaround is fair play," remarked Fox, whose squad defeated the playoff-bound Cardinals, 47-7, to begin the '01 season. "We've been doing this to people for years. We'll see how we handle it."...

The Missouri Valley College women's soccer team is still looking for its first victory of the season after dropping its home opener Saturday, a 2-1 non-conference loss to Bethel (Tenn.). "We're getting there," declared MVC head coach Derek Burton. "It was a game we could have won, for sure."...

SWEET SPRINGS -- The Saints didn't have a prayer at Sweet Springs Friday night. The Greyhounds stormed out to a 35-0 first-quarter lead and buried I-70 Conference rival St. Paul, 49-0. Senior Caleb Dohrman rushed for 209 yards and two touchdowns and senior Michael Johnson ran for another 137 yards and three TDs for the Blue and Gold...

Earl Edward Quinlan, 77, of Marshall, died Sept. 6, 2002, at Fitzgibbon Hospital in Marshall. Services were held at 10 a.m. Monday, Sept. 9, at St. Joseph Catholic Church in Pilot Grove. Father Tim Seifner officiated.

Nina Virginia Vonderahe, 78, of Holts Summit, formerly of Marshall, died Thursday, Sept. 5, 2002, at Villa Marie Skilled Care Center. Mass of Christian burial was held at 10 a.m. Monday, Sept. 9, at St. Joseph's Catholic Church in Salisbury. Father Philip M. Moriarty officiated...

An altercation over the weekend between two Missouri Valley College students sent one man to the hospital and could result in both being expelled. The Marshall Police Department reported Monday that it was contacted early Saturday morning by Missouri Valley College campus safety officers concerning a student who had been assaulted...

Visitors at Van Meter State Park Saturday afternoon traveled through prehistoric times to the age of the first Missourians. The Van Meter activities were all a part of recognizing September as archaeology month. Visitors watched a video produced by the Missouri Archaeology Society that explained how the first Native Americans found their way through glaciers into North America and how they colonized the continent. ...

As they continue to work toward building a farmer-owned and operated ethanol plant in the area, the Farmers Steering Committee for Ethanol based in Carrollton, and the Mid Missouri Energy group from Saline County have merged. The two groups met Wednesday of last week and, as expected, the Mid Missouri Energy group officially invited the farmers to become members of Mid Missouri Energy as they continue to work together to form a corn-processing ethanol facility in west central Missouri...

A steady crowd of folk music fans streamed through the Old Schoolhouse in Arrow Rock as a mix of musicians plucked strings on a variety of traditional instruments Saturday afternoon. Local musicians, and some from as far away as Minnesota, performed several times as visitors streamed through the historic building during the 16th annual Boone's Lick Country Folk Festival...

A pair of fatal crashes in Saline County claimed two lives over the weekend. The Missouri State Highway Patrol reported that the first crash occurred at 8:15 p.m. Friday on Missouri Highway 20 almost a mile west of Route Z. The report states that John O. Horton, 40, of rural Marshall was driving eastbound in a 2000 Ford F150 and lost control in curve. His truck left the right side of the roadway, overturned down an embankment and ejected Horton...

MALTA BEND -- The balls were leaving the park at a fast and furious pace during Friday's home-opening baseball game at Malta Bend. Both the Tigers and CAC rival Cairo hit three homers each before the unbeaten Bearcats pulled away at the end for an 18-9 victory. Senior Matt Wright smashed a pair of two-run dingers to give Cairo a 4-0 lead until the bottom of the third inning -- when seniors Nick Payne and David Myers and junior Jon Madison went yard on successive at-bats for Malta Bend...