Southwest R-V School District

HUMPHRIES and LLEWELLEN LEAD TRACK AT PIERCE CITY: Led by Senior Robert Humphries and Freshman Bryar Llewellen, the Trojans track team amassed 60 team points and earned medals in four events at Pierce City Tuesday night. Robert won the mile (4:44 PR) and 2-mile (10:31) and then anchored the 4x400 relay for the first time this season to a 4:39 second-place finish 1 second behind Lamar. Bryar was second in the 800 (2:09 PR) and the mile (4:59 PR) and ran the third leg of the 4x400. Other highlights: - Senior Juliauna Sierra was 4th in the 400 in 1:18.10; - Sophomore Vic Tellez earned medals in two relays and scored in the open 800; - Sophomore Tobi Smith anchored the 4x800 relay to a PR of 9:46 and 3rd place finish and ran a PR of 11:57 in the 2-mile and placed 4th; - Senior Kameron Kelley (2:38 split) and Lane Hendrix (2:28 split) earned medals as part of the 4x800 relay; - Junior Braydan Rose started the 4x400 relay and was 4th in the 200 at 25.14. The team travels to East Newton on Thursday night.

SOFTBALL UPDATE: Recap Video from the Varsity Game: https://youtu.be/BoWnr-dGenA?si=n7_a1AUPRlnCyN1A. The Lady Trojans traveled to Crane last night and took both (varsity and JV) games from the Lady Pirates! The Lady Trojans scored early and often and got out of tough situations on defense. We had great pitching performances from all 3 of our pitchers. Kaleigh Tull started the varsity game and pitched 5 innings, giving up only 4 hits, zero walks, and had 5 strikeouts. Jacee Durossette completed the game and gets the save. The Lady Trojans were tough outs at the plate. Addison Keates and Kaleigh Tull went 2 for 4 at the plate. Jacee Durossette goes 2 for 5 and has an RBI. Riley Flippo goes 2 for 3 with 2 RBIs. Piper King goes 1 for 4 but has a clutch 2 RBIs. Giving the Lady Trojans the 8-5 victory. Addy Payne pitches a complete 3 inning JV game, serving up 8 strikeouts! And the Lady Trojans keep the bats hot! Emma Outhouse, Abby Callison, and Bri Hoover each get a hit. Both Callison and Hoover's hits result in an RBI and Becca Swanepoel's heads up baserunning puts the Lady Trojans in the lead. Reliable defense and pitching bring home the victory. The Lady Trojans have home games against Clever tonight and Jasper Thursday!

BASEBALL UPDATE: Baseball has hit a bit of a slide losing our last 3 of 4 games. We dropped the first one to Purdy 12-11, we lead most of the game until the 7th when they came back to win the game. Some highlights of the game Tristan Morgan led the team in hits with 3. Logan Gregory, Braden Garcia, and Wyatt Taft all had two hits a piece. Wyatt, Charlie Pippin, Morgan and Trey Ray all had 2 runs batted in as well. The next day we played Exeter where we lost 6-3. As a team we only mustard 5 hits lead by Wyatt taft with 2. Tyler Meek pitched 4 innings in relief allowing 1 run. Meek, Garcia and Taft accounted for 1 run batted in each. Friday last week we played Billings where we were down late in the ball game and ended up walking it off to win 4-3. Braden Garcia and Logan Gregory led the team in hits with 2. Brendyn Paulsen led the team with 2 runs batted in both in the 7th inning to tie the game. Braden Garcia had one RBI and Logan Gregory had the walk off hit and RBI. Charlie Pippin pitched 5 innings allowing 1 earned run and Wyatt Taft came in relief allowing 2 unearned runs and earned the win. Finally last night we ended up dropping another one versus Lamar. Charlie Pippin led us in hitting with 2 hits. Paulsen, Gregory, Meek, and Aiden Barnett all joined in with 1 hit. Tyler Meek led the team with 2 runs batted in and Gregory also had 1. We are back in action tonight @ Galena in a big conference game.

AG RESULTS: Last Thursday, Friday, and Saturday our Career Development Teams traveled to Springfield to compete at the district contest. There are 78 schools in our district. Results are as follows: - Dairy Cattle- 3rd place- State Qualifying - Jack Cornell- 7th individual, Case Jennings, Caleb Ayer, Montana Skelton; - Horse- 6th place- State Qualifying - Colten Phillips, Trey Ray, Rylee Hobbs, Tristan Morgan; - Soils- 6th place- State Qualifying - Saige Miller, Becca Swanepoel, Cecilia Goines, Hunter Cain; - Floriculture- 11th place- State Qualifying - Lilly Wolf- 10th individual, Faith Outhouse, Addi Cotton, Lyndon Vanzandt; - FFA Knowledge- 10th place - Jimena Ambriz, Addy Payne, Gracie Swanepoel, Jazmyn Rivas; - Agriculture Mechanics- 25th place - Otto Miller, Dallas King, Michael Freeman. State qualifiers will be traveling to Columbia next week to compete at state.

JH BASEBALL: With many rainouts we have managed to play 3 games. 3/21 We fell to Crane in our first game of the season. Aden Flippo was on the mound and had 9 strikeouts and only two walks and eventually hit his pitch count. Our hitting was just as impressive with only two strikeouts for the Trojans. We somehow fell to the Pirates 8-3. 3/22 We traveled to Billings and had a great game. Dom Sierra threw a solid 4 innings before hitting his pitch count only walking one batter and 10 strikeouts! Our sticks were even more impressive with putting up 14 runs and only 2 strike outs. Trojans win 14-4! Just a recap of the first two games that a combined 19 pitched strikeouts and 4 batted strikeouts! That is very impressive! 4/4 Trojans traveled to Kirbyville to play in 2 extra innings. Aden Flippo was battling it out with a team that could hit the ball. Aden threw 5 strikeouts and had two walks. Defense backing him up, only allowing 5 runs the entire game. Hunter Patterson hitting a solo homerun kicked in the motivation for the Trojans. With a couple of errors by Kirbyville we are tied in the top of the 5th. They ran into pitch count trouble and allowed us to sweep by and score 6 runs in the final inning. Giving the Trojans a 11-5 win over Kirbyville.

SOUTHWEST JH BROUGHT SOME MORE GOLD AND AN 8th GRADE SCHOOL RECORD HAS BEEN BROKEN: 8th graders, Sidney Roe and Addison Palmer placed first in their events. Sidney placed first in the mile with a time of 6:00 and also placed first in the 800m with a time of 2:48. Addison Palmer placed first in the 200m with a time of 32.2 seconds. 7th graders, Race Pippin and Wyatt Gautney also with some gold. Race placed first in the long jump with a distance of 14’4”. Wyatt placed first in the triple jump with a distance of 30’8”. Other highlights: Wyatt Gautney placed 3rd in the 110m hurdles with a time of 20.00s. Rolan Thawng placed 3rd in the triple jump and 3rd in the high jump. The girls 4x200m team placed 3rd (Addi, Olivia, Jaelyn, Alana) and the girls 4x400m team placed 2nd (Alana, Addi, Olivia, Sidney). The boys 4x100m placed 3rd (Wyatt, Rolan, Andy, Race) and the boys 4x400m placed 2nd (Race, Joe, Ky, Wyatt). And FINALLY, the record breaker… Olivia Chapman has broken the 8th grade triple jump record, previously at 23’4”. Olivia jumped a distance of 25’2”.

LLEWELLEN 7th IN MILE AT PEA RIDGE: Freshman Bryar Llewellen finished 7th in the mile (5:02.60) and 10th in the 800 (2:19.35) at the Blackhawks Relays at Pea Ridge Thursday. The two races featured a combined 74 runners. Other highlights: - Junior Braydan Rose was 24th of 58 in the 100 (12:49 seconds) and 14th of 43 in the 400 meters (59 seconds flat); - Senior Kameron Kelley PR'd and was 24th in the 400 in 1:03.49; - The 4x800 relay team was 7th in 10:17.22. The team goes to Pierce City on Tuesday.

SOFTBALL UPDATE: On Monday (4/1) the softball team hosted the Ash Grove Pirates. Fortunately, the weather held off for the whole game! Unfortunately, the Lady Trojans lost to the Pirates in 4 innings. Kaleigh Tull pitched and did great! It just wasn't enough to hold off a very good hitting team. Tull also had the solo hit by the Lady Trojans on a single to left field. Tuesday's game at Mount Vernon was rained out. Wednesday the JV Lady Trojans traveled to Pea Ridge for 2 - 5 inning games. Addy Payne pitched the first game which ended early (3 innings) after the Lady Blackhawks collected 13 hits and forced a handful of errors. On the hitting side Payne started us off with a single to left field. Becca Swanepoel is hit by a pitch and then Rylee Hobbs singles to left. With the bases loaded, Addison Cotton is hit by a pitch to score Payne. Kindred Durossette grounds out but scores a run! And Sophie Schweers hits a Sac Fly to left, scoring Hobbs before the third out is made. In the second game of the evening, Jacee Durossette came in to pitch and did a phenomenal job! In 4 innings pitched, she struck out 5 and walked zero, allowing only 4 hits and 3 runs. The Lady Trojans had 2 hits, but they were not strung together so no runs were scored in the 3-0 loss to end the night. The Lady Trojans are back in action tonight at home against Hurley in a Varsity only game. And then this weekend we are in the Ash Grove Tournament. Schedule as follows: Southwest v. Miller (Noon), Southwest v. Exeter (1:45), and Southwest v. Ash Grove (3:30).

NHS ADDS 14 NEW MEMBERS AT INDUCTION CEREMONY: The Southwest High School Chapter of the National Honor Society added 14 new members Wednesday at its annual induction ceremony. Jack Cornell, Marissa Freeman, Cecilia Goines, Cheyenne Holt, Rylee Hobbs, Emma Outhouse, Addison Pendergraft, Jaretsi Quintanilla, Andrew Russell, Tobias Smith, Victor Tellez, Katie Tenorio, and Lyndon Vanzandt. President Lyric Berard presided over the ceremonies with fellow officers Charlie Pippin, Kameron Kelley, and Juliauna Sierra. The new officers for 2024-2025 are President Riley Flippo, VP Addison Keates, Secretary Abbie Clark, and Treasurer Montana Skelton. The group has one final event, an in-school track meet, for elementary students in late April.

HUMPRIES,LLEWELLAN LEAD SOUTHWEST TRACK AT SENECA: Senior Robert Humphries and Freshman Bryar Llewellen led the Southwest track and field team Wednesday at the Seneca Bordertown Relays. Robert won the mile in 4:49.64 and the 2-mile in 10:33.93. He is among the state leaders in Class 2A in both categories. Bryar PR'd in the 800, and was runner-up in 2:12.75 and was third in the mile in 5:06.70. Other highlights: - Senior Juliauna Sierra was 7th in the javelin with a throw of 19.97 meters. - Junior Braydan Rose was 5th in the 400 (1:01.92), 9th in the jav (27.53 meters) and anchored the 4th-place 4x800 relay (9:59.66) with Sophomore Tobi Smith, Senior Kameron Kelley, and Freshman Lane Hendrix. - Tobi was 6th in the 800 in 2:30.19 and 7th in the 2-mile in 12:01.07. The team travels to Pea Ridge today.

ROE, PIPPIN, and GAUTNEY BRING HOME GOLD in JH TRACK: Sidney Roe placed 1st in the mile with a time of 6:16 and 1st in the 800m with a time of 2:50. Race Pippin placed 1st in the long jump with a jump of 13'7" and 1st in the mile with a time of 6:15. Wyatt Gautney places 1st in triple jump with a jump of 31'6". Other highlights: 6th graders, Jaelyn Wright and Alana Smith place 2nd in their races. Wright placed 2nd in the 400m dash and Smith placed 2nd in the 800m. Also, 6th grader, Joe Henry ran an amazing mile with a time of 7:02 (these are 6th graders running in 7th grade heats). 8th grader, Olivia Chapman placed 3rd in triple jump with a jump of 25'10". 8th grade girls 4x200m relay placed 2nd (Alana Smith, Jaelyn Wright, Olivia Chapman, and Addison Palmer). Girls also placed 2nd in the 4x400m relay (Alana Smith, Addison Palmer, Olivia Chapman, Sidney Roe).

HUMPHRIES WINS 2-MILE AT MONETT: Senior Robert Humphries established PRs in both the mile (4:44.2) and the 2-mile (10:28.74) to lead the Trojans track and field team Tuesday night at Monett. Robert won the 2-mile and was runner-up in the 2-mile. Other highlights: - raydan Rose was 5th in the 100 in 12:41 seconds and 11th in the jav at 93 fee; - Tobi Smith was 6th in the 2-mile (12:00.95) and 8th in the mile (5:33.06); - Kameron Kelley was 11th in the 400 in 1:03.90; - Kali Jones was 12th in the long jump in 12 feet, 6 inches; - Juliauna Sierra was 9th in the jav in 60 feet, 8 inches; - the boys 4x800 relay team of Tobi, Braydan, Kameron and Lane was 2nd in 10:33.51. The team travels to Seneca today and Pea Ridge on Thursday.

BASEBALL UPDATE: On Thursday, March 28, we traveled to Miller. SW 5 vs Miller 2. Pippin Winning Pitcher 5.1Innings Pitched 5 strikeouts on the mound 1-3. Morgan 1.2Innings Pitched Save 2 strikeouts on the mound. Gregory 2-3 Home Run Double Run Batted In. Paulsen 1-3 Home Run 2 Runs Batted In, Ray 1-3 Run Batted In. Garcia 1-2 with a triple. JV ended losing their first game of the year 3-2. The storms stayed away and we played East Newton yesterday, April 1. SW 12 vs EN 3. Gregory Winning Pitcher 6+Ininngs Pitched 2Earned Runs 9 strikeouts 6 hits 4 walks on the mound, He also went 3-4 with a double at the plate. Ayer 1 Inning Pitched 0 runs given up, also went 1-5 at the plate. Paulsen 1-2 double, Run Batted In, and 2 walks. Garcia 2-3 double, Home Run, 3 Runs Batted In. Taft 1-4 with a double and a Run Batted In. Pippin 2-3 with 2 Runs Batted In. Meek & Ray 1 hit each. JV came away with the win 7-3. Foster pitched the whole game.

SOFTBALL & BASEBALL SCHEDULE UPDATE: Today's (Monday, April 1) home softball game vs Ash Grove will start at 4:00pm. Baseball at East Newton will also start at 4:00pm.

AG RESULTS: Yesterday, 2 teams traveled to North Shelby to compete in what is probably the toughest invitational in the state. Results are as follows: Soils- 4th place, Saige Miller, Becca Swanepoel, Hunter Cain, and Ceci Goines; Floriculture- 16th place, -Addi Cotton, Lyndon Vanzandt, and Bri Hoover

HUMPHRIES EARNS GOLD, 2 SILVERS AT DIAMOND: Senior Robert Humphries won the mile (4:49.66) and finished runner-up in the 800 (2:10.28) and 2-mile (10:50.79) Tuesday at the Diamond Invitational Track Meet. Other highlights: - Freshman Bryar Llewellen was second in the mile in 5:05.53; - The 4x800 team of Bryar, Junior Braydan Rose, Senior Kameron Kelley, and Sophomore Tobi Smith was 3rd in 10:10.43; - Junior Kali Jones was 5th in the 800 in 3:06.57; - Braydan was 9th in both the 100 in 12.67 and 200 in 26.44 seconds. He was also 8th in the shot in 31-03; - Freshman Lane Hendrix was 10th in the 400 in 1:06.61; - Tobi was 6th in the 2-mile in 12:38.92; - Senior Juliauna Sierra was 10th in the 100 in 16.24. The team travels to Seneca Monday and Monett Tuesday next week.

BASEBALL NEOSHO TOURNAMENT RESULTS: We played very well during this tournament. It was filled with a lot of bigger schools and we competed with every single one of them and came up short in some games. In total we went 1-3 but showed that we can play with the bigger schools. - SW drops one in extra innings to Class 5 Neosho. - SW 3 vs Neosho 4. Paulsen 7IP 3K 2ER, 0-1 3BB ; Gregory 0-1 3BB ; Pippin 1-3 RBI HBP; Ayer 1-4 RBI; Taft 1-2 2HBP. - SW loses to tournament champion Class 6 Lebanon 12-0. Had a tough time throwing strikes but battled at the plate. Notable stats: RJ Cutberth 2IP 2H 0BB 1K. - SW beats Purdy 5-4. Gregory 5.1IP 0ER 7K W, 2-4 3B; Taft 1.1IP 1K S, 0-2 RBI 2 HBP RBI; Meek 2RBI; Paulsen 0-1 2BB HBP; Pippin 0-2 2BB. - SW falls short to class 4 Aurora 3-2. Morgan 6IP 5K 2ER, 1-3; Gregory 1-4 2B ; Ayer 1-3; Paulsen 1-2 HBP; Foster 1-3 2RBI; Pippin 1-3 2B

FFA COMPETITION RESULTS: Saturday, March 23, the FFA chapter traveled to McDonald County for another round of competition. Here are the results: Colten P 2nd individual, Horse; Dairy Cattle 6th - Case Jennings 9th individual, Montana S Jack C. Soils - 5th Hunter C, 7th individual Becca S, Cecilia G, Saige M. Floriculture - 3rd; Lilly W 5th individual, Lyndon V 8th individual, Bri Hoover, Addy C. Knowledge - Gracie S 21st individual. Ag Mech - 10th, Otto M, Dallas K, Michael F, Lucas I.

MS SPEECH AND DEBATE: This past weekend Southwest middle school traveled to Marshfield to compete in our first speech and debate competition. Those attemdomg were: Chloe K, Ayasha R, Molly H, Conner J and Connor C. Ashlynn Burgess took 6th place in Humorous Interpretation

NHS ADDS 14 NEW MEMBERS: Southwest will add 14 new members to its National Honor Society chapter at its induction ceremony on April 3. New members include: Andrew Russell, Cheyenne Holt, Vector Tellez, Lyndon VanZandt, Tobias Smith, Emma Outhouse, Rylee Hobbs, Addison Pendergraft, Celilia Goines, Jaretsi Quintanilla, Jack Cornell, Marissa Freeman, Katie-Ann Tenorio, and Kaleb Outhouse.