On Saturday, March 1st, the semo.net Surfers baseball team held a benefit basketball tournament at the Fisk Gymnasium. The five area 6th grade teams competing were: 1st Place Charleston Front Row: Maquese Parks, Mike Kellum II, Dale Bogan, Khamahja Haynes, Back Row: Coach Emmett Gillespie II, Dee Bogan, Devote Gram, Robert Bogan II, Claire Hart, Coach Ron Caldwell 2nd Place Poplar Bluff Front Row:Bailey Davidson, Nicholas McAnutty, Andy Whitworth, Lucas Tibbs, Back Row:Coach Brad Stuckenschnieder, Ryan Brittingham, Mark Benton, Colton Mannon, Brandon Stuckenschneider, Brett Luna, Coach Kenny Hosler 3rd Place-Fisk Front Row: Hunter Ham, Tucker Ham, Nathan Watson, Jase Worley Back Row: Coach Doug Ham, Matthew Wood, Charlie Dunn, Andrew Perryman, Eric Ray, Cade Lowe Free Throw Competition The Surfers

Luann Elledge was the lucky winner for the Cardinal Raffle tickets. Her raffle ticket was sold by Kirby Coleman. Kirby is a pitcher & 1st baseman for the semo.net Surfers as well as a 4th grade student at O'Neal. Congratulations to Luann!!!!!

On Friday night before a packed house at TRCC, the Lady Bears of Greenville kept the pressure on against Twin Rivers' Lady Royals straight through to a nail-biting 66-60 victory, gaining the MSHSAA Class 3 District 2 championship title. "I'm just so proud of my kids," said Greenville coach Diane Rainwater Meyer in the crowded lobby of TRCC's Bess Activity Center after the win. "It got so tight, in the end. It was a situation where some of the youngsters were really stepping up...where some of the normally quiet players had to be big players."

I had to maintain my cover as that very, very, good little girl---while playing, while lunching, while watching TV---and then to strike quickly and silently, without leaving a trace! When I was a little girl, I learned at least one very good reason to do as my mother instructed. Of course, as has been the case with little ones throughout the ages, I learned it while blatantly defying her instruction. I may have been hovering about the five-year-old mark when Moom brought in the shopping one morning, and, after putting the groceries away, gave my little brother and me something to taste for the first time. "Try this," she said, offering us a bit of vegetable topped with the most

The semo.net Surfers baseball team is raffling off 4 Field Box tickets (Section 162, Row 6) for the May 16th evening game against the Rays for only $5 each. Stop by before Friday 5pm and buy a couple of tickets OR if you have an account with semo.net, call us (573.686.9114 ext 4) and we'll bill your account for your raffle ticket order. The drawing is on Saturday, March 1st and the winner will be announced online and contacted by phone. Actual value of the 4 tickets with tax is $40 x 4 = $160. These are great seats and only $5 for a chance to win them!!!!

I'm not sure exactly why I agreed to do a guest spot for this column, as Toni has asked. You'll notice she still gets the byline, and I get squat, as the saying goes. But since I consented, allow me to introduce myself. I am The Little Wolf, or "The Six-Year-Old-Raised-By-Wolves", if you will, residing within the very person of our earnest writer---and willfully sabotaging her every attempt at making better health a way of life! BAHhahahahahaha!