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The Maneater

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The Maneater

Pitching propels Tigers to 3-2 start to the season

Pitching propels Tigers to 3-2 start to the season

Missouri softball has had a tumultuous last calendar year. Just days before the start of the 2018 season, athletic director Jim Sterk fired longtime coach Ehren Earleywine. The program made the NCAA Tournament...

Missouri track defends home turf with 13 first-place finishes

Missouri track defends home turf with 13 first-place finishes

Mckenzie Knapp January 28, 2019

Missouri Track and Field returned to its home turf to compete at the Mizzou Open on Friday, Jan. 25 at the Hearnes Center. The Tigers represented by earning 13 first-place finishes, including a first place...

Missouri baseball retires Max Scherzer’s No. 31 jersey

Missouri baseball retires Max Scherzer’s No. 31 jersey

Ben Ramirez January 19, 2019

The growing legacy of Washington Nationals ace Max Scherzer took another leap with the retirement of his No. 31 jersey at Missouri baseball’s annual First Pitch Dinner Friday. With former St. Louis...

Missouri men’s and women’s track leave competition in dust at Missouri Intercollegiate

Missouri men’s and women’s track leave competition in dust at Missouri Intercollegiate

Jerry Duggan, Mckenzie Knapp January 12, 2019

As winter weather brewed over mid-Missouri on Friday, track and field athletes from several area schools competed inside Hearnes Center, in an attempt to show coaches the progress they made on their own...

Tigers finish high across the board in season-opening meet

Tigers finish high across the board in season-opening meet

Jerry Duggan, Mckenzie Knapp December 9, 2018

Redshirt junior Avery Carter and redshirt sophomore Patrick Kunza started the day off by quite literally doing the heavy lifting for their Tiger teammates. Coming in first and second, respectively, in...

Pitching is the name of the weekend for Tigers’ fall ball

Pitching is the name of the weekend for Tigers’ fall ball

October 17, 2018

With temperatures not reaching above 60 degrees, fall was in full swing as the Mizzou Tigers played their second week of fall ball action against the St. Louis University Billikens. Every good team needs...

MU baseball stomps softball to even series in annual charity scrimmage

MU baseball stomps softball to even series in annual charity scrimmage

October 1, 2018

Softball and baseball have many similarities. Three strikes to an out. Three outs to an inning. There’s a first, second, third and home. Yet for all those similarities, it was the differences between...

The Anderson ascension: Chronicling Larissa Anderson’s journey to helm of Missouri softball

The Anderson ascension: Chronicling Larissa Anderson’s journey to helm of Missouri softball

Adam Cole July 21, 2018

“You better hire me because if you don’t, I’m going to come back and beat you.” Those were the only words former Hofstra softball coach Bill Edwards needed to hear to make up his mind on bringing...

Schweizer goes out on top with sixth national title

Schweizer goes out on top with sixth national title

Andy Kimball June 14, 2018

Senior Karissa Schweizer ran on the shoulder of Stanford’s Vanessa Fraser. Turning toward the final straight away with the end of her career in sight, Schweizer passed Fraser with over 100 meters to...

Larissa Anderson introduced as Missouri softball head coach

Larissa Anderson introduced as Missouri softball head coach

Adam Cole June 8, 2018

With rain clouds overhead and a reported thunderstorm warning, Missouri softball fans and media members were moved from the Mizzou Softball Complex mezzanine to a packed press box on Thursday afternoon,...

Lackluster conference campaign snubs Missouri baseball from NCAA Tournament

Lackluster conference campaign snubs Missouri baseball from NCAA Tournament

Bennett Durando May 28, 2018

Though coming perhaps closer than ever this season, Missouri baseball still can’t break down the wall to the postseason. The Tigers will not travel to a Regional to compete in the 2018 NCAA Tournament....

Offensive woes apparent in 4-2 loss to South Carolina to likely end Missouri’s season

Offensive woes apparent in 4-2 loss to South Carolina to likely end Missouri’s season

Jerry Duggan May 24, 2018

Wednesday’s first-round, single-elimination SEC Tournament matchup against the South Carolina Gamecocks was in many ways emblematic of the Tigers’ season as a whole. The offense struggled to get anything...