As promised, here is a free electronic version of the February 2020 issue of Republic Tiger Sports magazine — a recap of the last ten years of Republic athletics. Over the next few weeks, I’ll gather some multimedia elements and re-release individual pages with links to audio, video, photo galleries,
Republic High School honored two of its recent all-state athletes during a recent halftime ceremony. Ally Stolte was an all-state softball player in the fall of 2017, and Alex Leonard earned all-state soccer honors in both 2017 and 2018. Both graduated last spring and will have their all-state plaques hanging
Four Republic athletes will take their skills to the next level after committing to universities during a signing ceremony last week. Jonathan O’Connell will wrestle at Drury, Jade Kirby will play basketball at Evangel, and Megan Weis and Katie Anderson will join the softball team at Williams Baptist University. Katie
One year ago, Republic fell behind 5-0 in the district championship to Webb City before coming back for a 7-6 walk-off win. Friday night, they fell behind to Webb City again, but this time, there was no comeback. Webb City scored single runs in the first, third, fourth, and fifth
For the first four innings, it seemed like the district semifinal was going to be one of those games that went back-and-forth all night and came down to the final out. But a seven-run fifth inning by the Lady Tigers broke the game open and lifted them to a 12-4
Republic edged Rogersville in eight innings to wrap up the regular season.
Senior Riley Laub saved the game with an improbable double play in the bottom of the seventh inning, then started the winning rally in the top of the eighth to help Republic edge Rogersville 6-5 in the regular-season finale. In the bottom of the seventh, Rogersville put the first two