Area Sports

The Holden track and field teams competed at the Clinton Invitational Meet at Clinton Middle School on Saturday, April 24. After early morning clouds and cool temperatures cleared to sunny skies as the mercury rose, the Lady Eagles team emerged with an eighth-place finish among 11 teams with a handful of team members missing due…

In round robin play of the Holden State Farm Classic Baseball Tournament, the Holden baseball team surfaced with one win versus three losses last week. Holden opened its tournament appearance with a loss to Knob Noster before rebounding with a win over Sherwood. The Eagles fell to the baseball teams from El Dorado Springs and…

The Eagles and Lady Eagles track and field teams hosted and competed against 13 teams at the Holden Eagle Invitational Meet on Friday, April 9. As head coach Spencer Gudde, meet officials, and meet workers worked to complete the meet before an incoming rainstorm in the forecast entered the area. Holden’s track and field athletes…

Six hundred seventy-nine days. That is the amount of time that passed between the Holden baseball team’s final game of the 2019 season – an extra-inning 8-5 loss to Lamar in the first round of the district tournament on May 13, 2019 – and the Eagles’ 2021 season opener versus Sherwood on Monday, March 22.…

Coming off the cancellation of the 2019-20 season due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the Holden Eagles baseball team is set to begin regular season action with two games at Reed Springs High School this weekend. Preparation for this season kicked off outdoors under clear skies before rain late last week forced the ball team inside…

Practices are underway for the 2020-21 season of the Holden Lady Eagles track and field team with 33 athletes on the squad greeting ninth-year head coach, and first-year Holden R-3 Activities Director Spencer Gudde. Coach Gudde and the Lady Eagles team members enter the upcoming season in a unique situation after the cancellation of last…

In a season where freshmen as well as sophomores will receive their first varsity track and field experience after the cancellation of last year’s schedule due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the Eagles boys team will look for that new crop of athletes to develop over the 2020-21 season. The base of this year’s Holden boys…

Holden high school wrestler Tasia Lee has earned a spot at the Girls Missouri Wrestling State Championships after taking first place in the 137-pound weight class at the Class 1, Sectional 3 Tournament held at Harrisonville High School on Saturday, Feb. 20. The sophomore’s sectional championship victory makes Lee the first Holden Lady Eagle wrestler…

Two of Holden’s six competitors at the Class 1, Sectional 2 Wrestling Meet held at Versailles High School on Saturday, Feb. 27 captured top-three placings to qualify for the Missouri State Championships. Freshman wrestler Daylen Greene wrapped up the sectional title in the 113-pound weight class. Junior Logan Yoder will make his third appearance at…

  The Holden girls basketball team fell to the host team Lady Vikings in the third place game of the Midway Basketball Tournament by the final score of 55-36 on Saturday, Feb. 13. The opportunity to play in the third place game was set up by a first-round win over Lone Jack last Wednesday which…