The Mustangs after winning the 2022 MINK League title last July with team owner and general manager Ky Turner addressing the fans. Photo by Tommy Rezac. By TOMMY REZACSt. Joseph PostThe St. Joseph Mustangs are set to play ball again in 2023, taking the field as the hottest team in the MINK League.St. Joseph made history last summer, becoming the first franchise in league history to win three consecutive titles. The Mustangs capped it off with an 11-1 victory over the Joplin Outlaws back on July 30th.The Mustangs have now won eight MINK League championships since their inception in 2009. Team owner and general manager Ky Turner says the champions are a blast and that remains the goal each year, but to him, a successful summer comes down to more than that."All of these guys are excited to play for St. Joseph," Turner told KFEQ Radio. "It means a lot nationally - the St. Joe Mustangs. When you come here, you start to feel it again.""Once you get here, you meet the
Blair Oaks senior Dylan Bryan was playing in the Class 3 boys golf state championships for a third time, so he knew the formula to have a successful two-day tournament at Meadow Lake Acres Country Club. “I knew you couldn’t make mistakes,” Bryan said. “You can’t make any big numbers out here, the (double-bogeys) will kill you. You just have to take your medicine and make bogey at worst.”
It wasn’t quite a perfect season for the Tipton Lady Cardinals, but it was definitely a perfect ending. Tipton won its first state championship in program history Saturday night, avenging its only loss of the season with a 55-36 victory against the Bishop LeBlond Golden Eagles in the Class 2 state title game at Great Southern Bank Arena.
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When the final regular-season state rankings were released by the Missouri Basketball Coaches Association, the Tipton Lady Cardinals were No. 2 in Class 2, followed by the Northeast: Cairo Lady Bearcats at No. 3. One spot may have separated the two teams in the rankings, but the Lady Cardinals made the gap look as wide as the Grand Canyon in Saturday afternoon’s quarterfinal matchup at Moberly Area Community College’s Fitzsimmons-John Arena.