Southwest R-V School District

AG CDE RESULTS: On Saturday, March 16, our CDE teams traveled to Marshfield for a contest. There were 82 chapters from all over the state that competed. Results are as follows: Dairy Cattle - 3rd - Montana- 6th individual, Jack Cornell, and Case Jennings; Floriculture - 9th - Lilly Wolf, Lyndon Vanzandt, and Bri Hoover; Food Science - 13th - Macie Talbert and Bri Hufford; Knowledge - 16th - Jimena Ambriz and Jazmyn Rivas; Ag Mechanics - 20th - Otto Miller, Michael Freeman, and Lucas Ingram ; Soils - 22nd - Saige Miller and Ceci Goines; Horse - Colten Phillips

LADY TROJAN SOFTBALL TEAM: The Lady Trojan Softball Team competed in the Cheri Nash Memorial Tournament at Verona this past Saturday. It was a long, but beautiful day full of lessons to be learned by the players! "It will be a great booster into our first full week of games," said Coach Emily Snyder. We had a tough start to the day with an 18-0 loss to Marionville. Kaleigh Tull pitched 4 innings and had 6 strikeouts. In the second game of the day the Lady Trojans generated some offense, but still fell 8-7 to the Exeter Tigers. Addison Keates led off and went 2-3 with 2 RBIs Riley Flippo, Jacee Durossette, and Addyson Payne each had doubles with runners on base. Jacee Durossette also pitched the entire 4 innings with 6 strikeouts and gave up only 2 walks! In the final game of the day the Lady Trojans beat the Wheaton Lady Bulldogs 20-3. Addison Keates went 1 for 1 with a double and two walks and scored on all 3 of her plate appearances. Kaleigh Tull added another double in this game and scored on all 3 of her plate appearances. Riley Flippo went 2 for 3 with a triple and a double adding 4 more RBIs to her stat line. Ralei Miles had a couple of hits and contributed 2 runs. Addyson Payne dominated both sides of the ball. She went 3 for 3 at the plate with a walk and an RBI. She pitched the complete 3 innings giving up only 2 earned runs, 2 walks, but had 3 strikeouts. Piper King contributed 2 singles. And Becca and Gracie Swanepoel each had one. Abby Callison, Kindred Durossette, Addison Cotton, and Sophie Schweers each contributed hits in the final inning. As a whole, the team only struck out 2 times in 33 plate appearances. We are very proud of the girls for their efforts this weekend. We are back in action today (Monday) against the Exeter Tigers at their place. We have our first HOME outing Tuesday against Billings.

SOUTHWEST SPEECH AND DEBATE: Southwest Competed at Webb City over the weekend for National Qualifier, while we did not have anyone qualify this year, please congratulate the following on a wonderful showing. Out of the best 21 teams in the region we had the following results: - Abbie Clark and Christian Shaffer took 7th place in Duo Interpretation; - Aubrey Taylor and Tatum Burgess took 9th place in Duo Interpretation; - Clark Brinkman took 12th in U.S. Extemp

SOFTBALL JAMBOREE on Monday, March 11: The Lady Trojans softball team hosted a Jamboree. Participating teams were the Wheaton Lady Bulldogs and the Crane Lady Pirates. The Trojans beat the Bulldogs 10-1 in 4 full innings. Kaleigh Tull had 5 strikeouts in 2 innings and went 2 for 3 at the plate. Jacee Durossette had 3 strikeouts in her 2 innings and had a base clearing triple in the second inning. Riley Flippo went 3 for 3, with 2 RBIs. In the second game of the evening, the Lady Trojans fell to Crane in the bottom of the 4th inning, 4-3. Freshman, Addyson Payne had 5 strikeouts in her 2 shutout innings! Kaleigh Tull and Allissa Russell each had an RBI. Quote from Coach Snyder: "Lady Trojans began to settle into their first game against Wheaton and into the second game against Crane. The Jamboree was a great start to the season and overall lots of learning happened to lead us into our first Tournament this weekend at Verona!" Come support Southwest Softball at our next outings at Verona. Friday, 3/15 at 3:00 pm against Verona and Saturday 3/16 at 9:00 am against Marionville, 12:00 against Exeter, and 3:00 against Wheaton. Go Trojans!

Click on the following link to review the Southwest R-V School District 2024-2025 School Calendar. The link is https://5il.co/2ftf9

There are two dates for Southwest Summer Softball and Baseball Sign-up. The first is this Saturday, March 2nd from 10:00 am to 1:00 pm in the Middle School Gym Lobby. The second date is Tuesday, March 12th from 3:30 pm to 6:00 pm in the Middle School Gym Lobby.

SOUTHWEST FINISHES MIDDLE SCHOOL SCHOLAR BOWL SEASON: Southwest finished 6th of 12 teams in the 10th annual Shell Knob Tournament Saturday. The Trojans went 2-3 in pool play and split their matches in bracket play. They finished the season with a record of 10-10. The team consisted of Brielee Jones, Conner Jones, McKinley Miller, Natalie Corn, and Bridget Outhouse.

BOYS BASKETBALL GAME TICKET INFORMATION: Here is information to obtain a ticket for the Boys Basketball game on Tuesday night at 6:00pm (February 27, 2024). Our capacity has been split with the visiting school and a presale passcode must be used to purchase tickets until the presale period ends. Here is how to purchase a ticket. No tickets are available to purchase at the gate.: * Your presale code allows purchase of ticket(s) during a protected timeframe, it is not a guarantee of a ticket * Navigate to www.mshsaa.org * Click on the Ticket icon at the top of the home page * Select the Sport image tile * Select Class , this will bring up all events in your class and will be organized by start times * Choose your matchup from the list of events * You will see a message stating ticket sales do not begin until 02/27/2024 12:00pm, this is when the presale period expires * Click the link Have a passcode? * Enter the provided presale code K8B25R and click Apply * Enter the number of tickets and click Checkout * Enter card information to purchase the ticket * Ticket will be sent to the email address entered for presentation at the gate for admission, which may be printed or remain on the device for scanning If Southwest wins advances to the quarterfinals, a new presale code will be needed. A new post will be shared with the new presale code. Email fansupport@hometownticketing.com or call 866.488.4849 for technical support.

Girls basketball game tonight vs Crane is canceled and rescheduled for tomorrow night. Tomorrow nights schedule JV Boys at 5:00 followed by V girls and V boys.

MS TROJANS 3rd IN SWCL SCHOLAR BOWL TOURNAMENT: The scholar bowl team finished the conference season with a bang. The Trojans beat Spokane and Purdy to finish 3rd in the SWCL Meet at Spokane on Saturday. Brielee Jones and Conner Jones earned All-Tournament honors. In the quarterfinals, Southwest held on for a 220-190 victory over the host Owls. The Trojans fell to tourney runner-up Crane 210-180 in the semifinals. Southwest defeated Purdy 200-100 for 3rd place. Other members of the team include McKinley Miller, Bridget Outhouse, and Natalie Corn. The team returns to action in February at the 10th annual Shell Knob Tournament.

After driving several bus routes and finding many areas completely iced over, the Southwest School District has decided to cancel school today (Tuesday, January 23rd). Alternative Methods of Instruction Day #5.

It was brought to my attention that it is being televised that SW is closed on 1/23/24. This is a misprint. As of now, we are hopeful that we will be in session. There are some dirt and gravel road across the district that were a solid sheet of ice just before dark. These areas will be checked in the morning prior to 5:00 am. If you do not get another notice, SW will be in session on Tuesday, January 23.

Southwest R5 School District is closed Monday, January 22nd due to hazardous morning travel conditions including ice covered roads. This is Alternative Method of Instruction Day 4.

Southwest will be closed Wednesday, January 17th due to concerns with morning commutes and bus routes plus continued bitter cold. With temperatures getting above freezing on Wednesday, you need to plan to attend school on Thursday, January 18th. Wednesday is Alternative Method of Instruction Day 3.

Boys Basketball Spokane Tournament games moved to Wednesday JV plays @ 4:00 and Varsity plays @ 5:30. Boys Basketball at Sarcoxie Rescheduled for January 22nd. Girls Basketball at Verona Rescheduled for January 24th.

Activities for January 15 Postponed: Boys Basketball Tourney at Spokane postponed until Tuesday, January 16. Girls Basketball at Verona postponed (TBA).

Southwest will be closed Tuesday, January 16 due to hazardous travel conditions and bitter cold. (AMI Day 2)

Inservice scheduled for Monday, January 15th has been postponed due to inclement weather. Not sure when it will be rescheduled.

Southwest R-V School District is closed today (Tuesday, January 9) due to the potential for hazardous driving conditions. Today will be an Alternative Method of Instruction Day (AMI Day 1).

MS SCHOLAR BOWL UPDATE: Spokane rallied to defeat Southwest in SWCL Conference Scholar Bowl action Tuesday 160-120. The Trojans' record dropped to 5-5. The team is off until the SWCL Tournament in mid-January.