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Kevin Baldwin (Former Dutchmen Head Football Coach from 1998-2002) - “My favorite college football rivalry game has to be the Bedlam game (Oklahoma vs. Oklahoma State) because I’m a diehard Oklahoma (Sooner) fan.” Baldwin is currently the Superinten-dent at Golden City High School in Golden City, Mo., which is located near Joplin in the southwest corner of Missouri.

Paul Schmanke (Former Dutchmen Head Football Coach from 2008-2010) - Schmanke’s favorite rivalry from the past is The Border War between the University of Missouri’s Tigers and the University of Kansas’ Jay-hawks. Missouri’s departure to the Southeastern Conference (SEC) ties into Schmanke’s favorite cur-rent rivalry between the Louisiana State University (LSU) Tigers and the Crimson Tide of the University of Alabama. Schmanke is currently a varsity assistant football coach for the Wildcats of Eureka High School in Eureka, Mo.

Barry Johnston (OHS As-sistant Track and Field Coach) - Going north of the Missouri bor-der, Johnston’s favorite rivalry is the annual battle for the Cy-Hawk trophy between the Iowa State Uni-versity Cyclones and the University of Iowa’s Hawkeyes. “This rivalry will shut the state down not just for football, but for basketball and wres-tling,” said Johnston. “These games are sell outs for years to come.”

Paul Day (Former Dutch-men Head Football Coach from 1993-97) - With so many rivalries

out there, Day chose his top three rivalries in Army vs. Navy, a rivalry simply known as “The Game” between Ohio State University’s Buckeyes and the Wolverines of the University of Michigan and the previously mentioned Iron Bowl between Auburn and Alabama. Day is currently the head football coach at Fort Zumwalt West High School in O’Fallon, Mo.

Randy Crowe (Former Dutch-men Head Football Coach from 2003-07) - Returning to coaching as a varsity assistant boy’s basket-ball coach at Owensville, Crowe’s favorite college football showdown is the Red River Rivalry between the University of Texas’ Longhorns and the aforementioned Oklahoma Sooners.

Ryan Okenfuss (Dutchmen Assistant Football Coach) - “I love the Army-Navy game,” said Okenfuss. “Even though both teams

usually do not go to bowl games, it is fun to watch the two service academies battle each other every year.”

Rod Barndollar (Dutchmen Assistant Football Coach) - As a native Ohioan, this was a no-brainer for Barndollar. “Since I was born in Ohio, I would easily say Ohio State vs. Michigan is my favorite rivalry game,” said Barndollar.

Dale Long (Dutchmen Head Football Coach from 2011-pres-ent) - Coach Long’s selection for his favorite college football rivalry was the University of Michigan’s Wolverines and Notre Dame’s Fighting Irish.

Dwayne Clingman (Dutchgirl Head Basketball Coach) - As a diehard Notre Dame fan, Cling-man’s choice for his favorite rivalry was an easy one in the Irish and the University of Southern California’s (USC) Trojans.

sports briefsRANDY CROWE’S JV

Dutchmen basketball team fell to St. James Monday night in the first round of the New Haven JV Boys Basketball Tournament by a score of 49-34. A win in their consolation semifinal tonight (Wednesday) against New Haven will put them in the consolation championship game against either Her-mann, Washington or Union at 5:30 p.m., on Saturday, Dec. 1 at New Haven.

VARSITY DUTCH-MEN basketball fell to Fatima last night (Tuesday) 63-27. The JV Dutchmen also fell to Fatima by a final score of 62-27. Owensville will try again for the win column on Monday, Dec. 3 at Belle with JV action beginning at 6 p.m.

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It’s a Bird. It’s a Plane. It’s an OHS cheerleader.

Hannah Levin (left) catches air while falling into the waiting grasp of several of her teammates during a timeout in the junior varsity girls game Monday night between Owensville’s Dutchgirls and Fatima’s Lady Comets. Fans looking to see more high-flying stunts and cheers from the OHS Basketball Cheerleaders need to attend the Dutchgirl home basketball doubleheader on Monday, Dec. 3 when Steelville’s Cardinals make the trek up Highway 19 from Crawford County to visit Owensville starting at 6 p.m.

Dutchmen trailed the Wolves by a score of 14-8. Landon Farrell (3), Dalton Littrell (2), Deandre Cox (2) and Cole Farris provided the first-quarter scoring for Owensville.

Behind a trifecta of 3-pointers from Drew Garner, OHS outscored Newburg 17-11 in the second quar-ter to pull even with the host Wolves at 25-25 going into halftime.

Garner’s nine points paced Ow-ensville in the first half.

Combining for 15 of Owens-ville’s 18 third-quarter points, Lit-trell and Garner helped the visiting Dutchmen to a 43-40 lead with one quarter to play in Phelps County.

Missing a golden opportunity to get the win in regulation, OHS got a late stop on defense to force overtime against the Wolves.

Unable to capitalize on chances to win in overtime, Vinyard’s Dutchmen left Newburg seeking their first win since a victory over Wright City at the Hermann Tourna-ment back in January.

JV Dutchmen at NewburgReturning to coaching after

Dutchmen • from page 15a long hiatus, former Dutchmen football coach Randy Crowe made his way back to the hardwood after coaching the Dutchgirls nearly two decades ago.

Getting outscored by a score of 23-14 in the third quarter, New-burg’s JV Wolves spoiled Crowe’s return to the hardwood, 38-29.

“I thought we played well at times,” said JV Dutchmen basket-ball coach Randy Crowe. “We need to take better care of the basketball and attack the basket more.”

Leading Owensville in scoring in the season opener was Tristan Crofford with a team-high eight points. Following Crofford in the scoring column were Matt Ampt-man (7), Terek Branson (6), Devon Dowler (6), Colton Berger (2) and Keith Wehmeyer (2).

Following a road contest against Fatima’s Comets last night (Tues-day), the Dutchmen will venture west on Highway 28 in to Maries County to face Belle’s Tigers on Monday, Dec. 3 with junior varsity action starting at 6 p.m., in Belle.PHOTO BY WILL JOHNSON