Whitney Barnes

A year ago, the Marshall Owls overcame an early deficit to swat the Chillicothe Hornets 19-13 on Cecil Naylor Field in the season opener.This year, however, the Owls’ defense struggled to stop the rushing attack of the Hornets — mainly senior tailback Silas Midgyett.The 5-11, 200-pound scatback darted through holes and broke numerous tackles, en route to a 200-yard rushing night that included two touchdown runs in Chillicothe’s 40-6 victory on Bob Fairchild Field.“I felt like our guys competed in the first half as best they could.

It wasn’t the result she wanted, but new Marshall Lady Owls’ volleyball head coach Madison Kisner saw some positives in her team’s straight-set loss to Sacred Heart to begin the season Monday night.The Lady Owls dropped the three-setter 25-11, 25-23, 25-13.“The energy was probably my favorite part,” Kisner said.

During one morning and afternoon of softball action at the Marshall High School Sports Complex, the Lady Owls accumulated as many victories as they did in all of last season when they were 2-18.The Lady Owls opened the six-team event with a 15-0 victory over Slater, lost 9-1 to Carrollton and rebounded to throttle Knob Noster 10-1 to claim third place.Marshall 15, Slater 0Senior Riley Wilkinson stymied Slater bats.

It was a great way to open the 2024 soccer season for Justin Van Winkle’s Marshall Owls last weekend at the Smith-Cotton Shootout at Liberty Park in Sedalia.The Owls opened their portion of the event with a dominating 6-0 shutout victory over the Sacred Heart Gremlins last Friday and followed that with a 2-0 triumph over the host Smith-Cotton Tigers Saturday.Marshall 6, Sacred Heart 0Marshall scored five of its six goals in the first half versus the Gremlins, including a first-half hat trick by junior Nicholas Tsurkan.The dominance started early for the Owls as junior Danis Alvarez netted the first goal of the season off an assist from Tsurkan in the third minute.Just five minutes later, Tsurkan scored his first goal off a feed from junior Ivan Argueta.In the 16th minute, Argueta netted his first goal of the season off an assist from Danis Alvarez.In the 27th and 36th minutes, Tsurkan finished off his hat trick by scoring off assists from sophomore Josiah Garcia-Ramos and Jonathan Quintana, respectively.The Owls still were dominant in the second half, but they only netted one more goal — as junior Oduver Alvarez scored in the 65th minute.

The Missouri Valley College athletic department recently announced the coaching staff for the 2024-25 men’s wrestling season.