Mizzou vs South carolina

Columbia, MO - 9/20/2025 - The Missouri Tigers (4-0) hosted the South Carolina Gamecocks (2-2) in the battle for the Mayor’s Cup Saturday Night. A packed house of 57,321 fans mostly in black for the blackout theme. The game would have 6 lead changes ultimately seeing the Missouri Tigers go home with the Mayor’s Cup winning 29-20.

The 1st quarter saw a defensive battle from both South Carolina and Missouri. Missouri would hold South Carolina to just 11 plays in the 1st quarter. Missouri would have their last drive of the 1st quarter start at their 1 yard line roll into the 2nd quarter.

Missouri’s quarterback Beau Pribula would connect with Joshua Manning on a for a 8 yard touchdown pass to start off the 2nd quarter. Robert Meyer would however miss the extra point. Not to be outdone, South Carolina’s LaNorris Sellers, whose start was in question up until Friday, would answer right back on their next drive with a 49 yard passing touchdown to Vandrevius Jacobs. Missouri would drive the field again and Meyer would get a shot at redemption by drilling a 23 yard field goal to give the Tigers the lead again. The Tigers defense would force a 3 and out, but Pribula would throw an interception on their 1st play of their next drive to give it back to South Carolina. Sellers would again connect on a deep pass for a touchdown. His second of the night went for 24 yards to Brian Rowe Jr, which gave them a lead of 14-9. Meyer would add another 22 yard field goal for Missouri to cut it to 14-12 at halftime.

The Tigers would get the ball to start the 3rd quarter but would go 3 and out. South Carolina would drive down and William Joyce would add 3 points on a 32 yard field goal. Missouri would turn to their running game to answer the call. Ahmad Hardy would score on the next drive from 5 yards out. He would try to roll on top of the scrum only to spin off and find daylight on his way to the endzone. Hardy would end the night with 138 yards rushing and that 1 touchdown. After a failed 2 point conversion South Carolina would go back and Joyce would add another 3 points on a 36 yard field goal giving the Gamecocks a 20-18 lead.

The other half of the strong backfield for Missouri Jamal Roberts would open up the 4th quarter with a 16 yard rushing touchdown. Roberts would end the night with 76 yards rushing as well. The Tigers lead stood at 26-20 when again Freshman Meyer was called on to make a 40 yard field goal with under 2 minutes to go to ice the game for Missouri. Meyer put it right down the middle to give the Tigers their final 29-20 lead. Missouri’s Josiah Trotter made the final 4th down tackle to give the Tigers the win.

Mizzou vs kansas

Columbia, MO - 9/6/2025 - The University of Missouri welcomed the University of Kansas for the renewal of the Border War Rivalry for the first time since 2011, and the first time in Columbia since 2005. Both Missouri and Kansas entered the game unbeaten. Kansas was 2-0 and Missouri was 1-0. Missouri would go on to win 42-31.

The sold out Farout Field was rocking early in the first half as Ahmad Hardy would run it in from 32 yards out to give Missouri a 6-0 lead. Kansas would go on to score 21 unanswered points, including a fumble recovery for a touchdown, this would end the 1st quarter 21-6 Kansas.

Missouri’s defense would come out in the 2nd quarter and dominate. Holding Kansas to just 4 offensive plays. 1 of those plays ended in a safety thanks to a sack by Zion Young. Missouri would score 15 unanswered as they would go into halftime tied 21-21.

Kansas would take the lead early in the 3rd quarter with a field goal making the score 24-21, but Missouri would answer right back on the next drive that saw Beau Pribula connecting with Brett Norfleet for his 1st of 2 touchdown catches on the day. The 3rd quarter would end with Missouri up 28-24.

The back and fourth wouldn’t stop in the 4th quarter either. Kansas would take their second drive of the quarter in for a touchdown making it 31-28 Kansas. Missouri would convert 2 4th down plays on their next drive. A 4th and 7 and a 4th and 1. The 4th and 1 would see Pribula connecting with a wide open Norfleet for his 2nd touchdown of the game. Missouri would cap it off with a Jamal Roberts 63 yard touchdown run giving us our final of 42-31 Missouri.

Missouri would almost double Kansas total offensive yards with 595 to 226. Kansas would end the game with just 3 rushing yards on the day, which was held in check all day by the Missouri defense. Josiah Trotter for Missouri had an outstanding game. Whenever Missouri needed a stop it seemed Trotter was there to make it. Pribula shined again going 30-39 passing with 334 yards and 3 touchdowns

Bradley vs drake mvc championship

St. Louis, MO - With an attendance of 7,952 packing the Enterprise Center the Missouri Valley Conference Championship came down to 2 teams. The #1 seed Drake University and the #2 seed Bradley University. These teams split their regular season matchups. The first half was what was to expected from these 2 teams with 6 ties and multiple lead changes. Drake went in at halftime up 31-27. With starting forward Ahmet Jonovic seemingly limited on minutes Bradley relied on their bench to make up for the missed 7’1 Serbian Center. Bradley ended the first half on a 4 minute scoreless steak, which led into the 2nd half that started with another 4 minute scoreless streak. Drake being led by Junior Guard Bennet Stirtz, who was also the Larry Bird Missouri Conference Player of the Year, put up 24 points. Stirtz went 5-7 from the 3 point line and played all but the last 30 seconds of the game once it was well in hand. Drake carried the momentum most of the 2nd half. Bradley made a great effort late, but an interesting situation where both teams ended up on the free throw line and a long review ended their momentum run.

Drake would go on to win their 3rd straight Missouri Valley Conference title. Coach Ben McCollum is the 9th first year coach to win the MVC in their first year. Drake will now wait patiently for Selection Sunday to find out their fate in the NCAA tournament.

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Robert morris vs lindenwood womens hockey

Coming off a hard fought 3-3 tie with a shoutout loss the (3-16-2) Lindenwood Lions hosted the (6-14-3) Robert Morris University. The first period started off business as usual with a 0-0 tie. Robert Morris Redshirt Sophomore Goaltender Maggie Hatch faced 5 shots in the first period, and Lindenwood Freshman Goaltender Catherine Hodgins stopped 6 shots of her own. The second period started with penalty kill from Lindenwood where they racked up 5 blocked shots. Graduate Student Chloe Corbin unselfishly blocked 2 shots on this powerplay, and led the team with 4 blocked shots for the game. Sophomore Forward Alyssa Rasmuson scored her first goal of her career with Robert Morris at 8:58 into the second period. She was assisted by Sophomore Forward Catriona Crarer and team captain Graduate Student Allyson Hebert. Lindenwood was able to kill part of a 5 on 3 powerplay before Robert Morris Junior Forward Morgan Giannone went short side from the faceoff dot to make it 2-0 Robert Morris heading into the third. Lindenwood came out in the third knowing they a tough road ahead to get back into the game. They peppered Hatch with 18 shots in the third period. With about 5 minutes to play Lindenwood pulled Hodgins for the extra attacker. With 2:39 left on the clock Sophomore Defender Thalia D’Elia found the back of the net from the neutral zone sealing the game for Robert Morris. This was Hatch’s second shutout of the season.

music city bowl iowa vs mizzou

With an attendance of 43,375, at Nissan Stadium in Nashville Tennessee, the (9-3) Missouri Tigers hosted the (8-4) Iowa Hawkeyes in the 2024 Music City Bowl. Junior Brendan Sullivan led the Hawkeyes to a opening drive touchdown with a 6 yard pass to Terrell Washington Jr. after the Hawkeyes defense stopped the Missouri offense on their first drive. Missouri was quick to answer scoring on their next drive with an 8 yard touchdown pass from Graduate Brady Cook to Theo Wease. The Missouri sideline barely had any time to celebrate as Redshirt Freshman Blake Craig’s ensuing kickoff was returned 100 yards by Iowa Senior Kaden Wetjen. Brady Cook again took the Tigers 75 yards down the field to tie the game at 14 with a 2 yard pass to Sophomore Marquis Johnson. Iowa seemed to move the ball freely with great rushing performances by Redshirt Freshman Kamari Moulton who ended up with 96 yards on 14 carries and Sophomore Jaziun Patterson who had 74 yards on just 9 carries. Moulton scored late in the 2nd quarter and Iowa took a 21-14 lead into halftime.

Iowa came out in the second half and added 3 points thanks to Junior Kicker Drew Stevens to take a lead of 24-14 midway through the third. From then on Missouri’s defense had seen enough. Missouri cut it to 24-21 with a Sophomore Joshua Manning rushing touchdown on a reverse after a rushing touchdown by Cook was called back due to an illegal motion penalty. This led us to the fourth quarter. Missouri’s first drive in the fourth quarter was capped off with a 51 yard field goal by Craig tying the game at 24-24. Iowa needed an answer but after just 3 plays they were forced to punt the ball back to Missouri who was now in control of the game. “I’ll be honest, I blackout when I go out for kicks,” Craig mentioned postgame after he stepped up for a 56 yard field goal to take the lead 27-24. Missouri’s defense would hold and Missouri would go on to win the 2024 Music City Bowl 27-24 giving them double digits wins in back to back seasons.