September 2022

Nearly halfway through the season, the Pierce City football team is benefitting from something not all Class 1 schools can boast — depth. Brad Hocker, Pierce City coach, said the injury bug is nibbling at his team this season, but young players are filling in vacant roles well.

Passing Daven Madrid, Monett 21 A, 3 C, 67 Y, 0 TD, 3 INT Clayten O’Hara, Pierce City 41 A, 20 C, 298 Y, 4 TD, 3 INT Rushing Konner Poynter, Monett Joshua Harvey, Monett 27 A, 127 Y, 1 TD Daven Madrid, Monett 70 A, 249 Y, 1 TD Clayten O’Hara, Pierce City 75 A, 554 Y, 3 TD Zane Clayton, Pierce City 24 A, 115 Y, 1 TD Judah Linn, Pierce City 25 A, 119 Y, 1 TD Receiving Marcus Young, Monett 1 C, 13 Y, 0 TD Zane Clayton, Pierce City 7 C, 101 Y, 2 TD Judah Linn, Pierce City 5 C, 116 Y, 2 TD Quortin Parks, Pierce City 4 C, 56 Y, 0 TD Defense Konner Poynter, Monett 32 S, 5 A, 4 TFL Marcus Young, Monett 15 S, 17 A, 0 TFL Fernando Hinojosa, Monett 12 S, 3 A, 0 TFL Jake Hoyt, Monett 15 S, 15 A, 2 TFL, 1 INT Zane Clayton, Pierce City 10 S, 48 A, 12 TFL, 1 FR Mekhi Kleiboeker, Pierce City 5 S, 25 A, 3 TFL Clayten O’Hara, Pierce City 5 S, 26 A, 5 TFL, 1 INT Brian Puente, Pierce City 5 S, 28 A, 6 TFL 33 A, 325 Y, 0 TD .

The Monett boys and girls cross country teams ran in the Riann Lubinski Invitational in Nixa on Tuesday. For the boys, Julio Cruz again produced a top performance, taking second in the race in 16:40.93.

Last Friday’s game still wasn’t one for the win column, but week by week, the improvements are building for the Monett football team. Ethan Lewis, Monett football coach, said in the 34-24 loss to Marshfield, there was hard evidence the Cubs are getting more lethal.