Friday Morning Sports Report

The Mizzou Tigers fell to the Georgia Bulldogs the other day in Columbia in a close match 60-57. Mizzou’s next game will be tomorrow at 3PM against Texas A&M.

The Missouri State Bears beat the Drake Bulldogs in Iowa this week 79-70. Their next game will be a home game today against Evansville and Sunday the Bears will travel to play against Southern Illinois.

The Missouri State Lady Bears are hoping for a better homestand this weekend than the last one they went through. Their most recent weekend at JQH Arena ended in a couple of Missouri Valley Conference losses – to Drake and Northern Iowa. That ended a perfect conference start to the season and dropped the Lady Bears out of first place in the league. Missouri State sits in fifth place in the league race.

In the NFL, the Patriots play the Broncos sunday at 2PM, and the Cardinals play the Panthers Sunday Night at 5:40PM.

The Mountain Grove Panther Boys had to cancel their game against Norwood on Tuesday night due to weather hopefully they’ll get to make up that game. Panthers will take on the #1 ranked team in Class 2, the Hartville Eagles, this evening. Hopefully they’ll get to play that game tonight with both schools being out due to weather conditions. Next week, the Panther Classic in Mountain Grove gets under way, and the girls will be traveling to Mansfield for the Mansfield Tournament. The Panther JV will be making up the Willow Springs Tournament this Saturday.