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Mizzou men’s golf finishes fifth at the Big 12

April 28, 2011 By

The Missouri men’s golf team shot a final round 295, the second best score of the day, to finish fifth overall at the Big 12 Championship in Hutchinson, Kan. The fifth place finish by Mizzou is the school’s best at the Big 12 Championship since 2005. It also equaled Missouri’s best finish at Prairie Dunes Country Club in the Big 12 era, tying the fifth-place showing in 2002.

Stuart Ballingall (74-73-68-73–288) led Missouri at the tournament. The junior from Norwich, United Kingdom, shot 73 on Wednesday to move into a tie for fourth place. Emilio Cuartero and Jace Long also finished among the Top 25 at the league championship.

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Missouri State trips up Missouri baseball

April 28, 2011 By

The Missouri State baseball team held Missouri scoreless after the third inning Wednesday and got a pair of two-RBI hits from Derek Mattea and Luke Voit on the way to a 5-2 win over the Tigers at Taylor Stadium in Columbia.

MU (17-24) first baseman Eric Garcia ended the Bears’ 50.2-inning streak without allowing a homer with a two-run shot in the third, but the Bears (24-15) answered right back in the fourth, opening with a leadoff walk from Spiker Helms and a Brent Seifert double before Mattea came through with a two-strike, two-out single up the middle to tie the game at 2-2.

Seifert set the table again in the sixth with a leadoff single, and Voit launched his fourth homer of the year over the right field fence for a 4-2 lead.  Pierce Johnson started for the Bears and went four innings, striking out three against two runs on four hits. Jake Powers (1-0) entered in the fifth and fired 3.2 scoreless innings, yielding two hits and a walk against three strikeouts for his first win of the year.

An error and a single opened the door for the Tigers in the eighth, giving the home team three chances with the go-ahead run at the plate. A sacrifice moved both runners into scoring position and Powers got a foul out to first before giving way to Dan Kickham, who struck out Ben Turner to keep the 4-2 lead.

The Bears added an insurance run in the ninth, as Aaron Conway was hit by a pitch with two outs and scored on the next pitch, moving to third on Kevin Medrano’s single to left and scoring when the left fielder fumbled the ball.

Story courtesy of Missouri State Athletics.

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Tax credit reform moving late in session

April 28, 2011 By

The legislature has talked about reforming the tax credit system for more than a decade.  It has a chance to do that in the last two weeks of the session. 

The state senate is ready to pass a bill giving lawmakers more oversight on the taxes the state lets developers and businesses keep—and use to create jobs.   A couple of generations of legislators have questioned whether Missouri gets its money’s worth by giving out those credits. [Read more...]

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Lawmakers reach agreement on new Congressional districts, prepare for governor veto (AUDIO)

April 28, 2011 By

Grand Compromise Map

State lawmakers, who couldn’t reach agreement on new Congressional districts during an overnight meeting last week, suddenly find a compromise. They have approved a redistricting map and sent it to Governor Nixon.

A meeting between House and Senate negotiators that began early Thursday evening last week and stretched into the early hours of Friday morning failed to reach a compromise. Things changed on Wednesday this week. House Redistricting Committee Chairman John Diehl, a Republican from Town and Country, says there was magic to Wednesday.

“If we want to get this addressed before we leave on May 13th and resolve any veto issue one way or the other, then today was probably the last day to try to get a bill to the governor and I think that’s what force the discussion today,” Diehl says.

Passage gives the Republican-dominated legislature the opportunity during the regular session to override any possible veto by Democratic Governor Jay Nixon without having to wait until the annual veto session in September.

Though Diehl got only 96 votes on the map, he expects all Republicans to vote to override and believes he has a shot at enough Democrats to assemble an override majority of 109 votes. [Read more...]

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Gov. Nixon signs dog breeder bill after quick action by legislature (AUDIO)

April 27, 2011 By

Gov. Nixon has signed legislation replacing voter-approved regulations of dog breeders with a compromise his administration worked out between animal welfare organizations and agriculture groups.

The governor’s bill-signing ceremony and news conference capped a dizzying day of legislative activity. It began with the governor signing SB 113, which the legislature approved last week. After it passed, Nixon’s Agriculture Department announced it had reached an agreement between animal welfare organizations and agriculture groups. Negotiations between the Nixon Administration and legislative leaders reached agreement: Nixon would sign SB 113 and the legislature would add the compromise language to SB 161. [Read more...]

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