• The Nevada Lady Tiger basketball team celebrated "senior" night with a ten-point victory over Springfield Central Monday night in the Wynn Gymnasium at Nevada High School, 52-42. After each team scored 13 points during the first quarter, Nevada out-scored Central, 15-5, during the second quarter to take command on the way to their fifth win in the last six games. Freshman Mikayla Bartlett led the Lady Tigers with 16 points and junior Ashley Shumaker added ten to help Nevada improve to 13-9 for the season. Nevada also won the junior-varsity game, 44-34, and the Lady Tiger freshmen posted their first victory of the season, 25-21, in the first game of the tripleheader. The Lady Tigers are to visit McDonald County Friday night.
  
  The Nevada Tiger boys are to play Mount Vernon's Mountaineers this evening at Mount Vernon. The junior-varsity game starts at six o'clock with the varsity game to follow at about 7:30 p.m. Coverage of the varsity game on KNEM and KNMO, www.knemknmo.com and nevadamotv.com starts about 7:15 p.m.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  In the Golden Valley/Vernon County Conference Tournament Monday night at Bronaugh, senior Makena Thompson scored 30 points to lead the Hume Lady Hornets to a victory over Northeast Vernon, 80-24. Jacob Bell scored 22 and Grant Davis added 17 to help the Northeast Vernon boys defeat Hume, 70-34, and the Montrose teams swept Ballard, 70-36, in the girls game and 54-45 in the boys game. Today's schedule begins at 4:30 p.m. with a game between the Lady Hornets and Sheldon followed by a Hume-Bronaugh boys game, Ballard and Bronaugh in a girls game and a Sheldon-Ballard boys game.
  
  Also scheduled tonight in area high school basketball are a Big 8 game between Lamar's Tigers and Carl Junction at Carl Junction, the Liberal Bulldogs at Jasper and an SEK League doubleheader between Fort Scott and Parsons at Parsons, Kansas.
  
  Liberal's Lady Bulldogs improved to 17-3 Monday night with a 43-22 win at Jasper. Senior Kori Dodson led Liberal with 13 points and Kendall Kirby added ten as the Lady Bulldogs kept their Spring River Valley Conference perfect at 5-0. Jasper's Lady Eagles are 8-11 and 2-2. Liberal hosts Diamond on "senior" night Friday.
  
  Carl Junction's Lady Bulldogs defeated Lamar, 72-27, Monday night in a Big 8 Conference game at Carl Junction. Bryce Boyd led Carl Junction with 23 points. The Lady Bulldogs are 8-15, over-all, and 3-1 in Big 8 games and are to visit Aurora Thursday evening.
  
  Conway defeated El Dorado Springs, 74-48, Monday night at El Dorado Springs. Garrett Mays led the Bulldogs with 18 points. El Dorado Springs is to visit Hermitage Thursday evening.
  
  The Nevada Middle School's seventh- and eighth-grade boys basketball teams are to host Neosho this evening with the first games start at 5:30 p.m.
  
  Fourth-ranked Missouri escaped Norman, Oklahoma with a 71-68 Big 12 Conference victory Monday night. Marcus Denmon, named the Big 12's player-of-the-week Monday scored 25 points against the Sooners and Ricardo Ratliff added 15 points and 10 rebounds. Mizzou is 22-2, over-all, and 9-2 in Big 12 games -- half-a-game ahead of Baylor and Kansas. The Bears are to host the Jayhawks Wednesday night. The Tigers are to entertain Baylor Saturday afternoon in the Mizzou Arena.