The week that was in Mizzou sports: Dec. 8-14
Even though there wasn’t a game, football still takes up most of the oxygen around Mizzou sports. So let’s take a look at what MizzouToday wasn’t able to cover in the past week.
Women’s Basketball
MizzouToday was able to cover the Mizzou game against Illinois during the week, but the Tigers went on the road to face Saint Louis on Sunday at the same time as the men’s game.
Mizzou walked away from SLU with an 82-66 win.
The Tigers jumped ahead to take a 17-14 lead after the first quarter, then led 42-27 at halftime. Saint Louis outscored Mizzou in the third, but the Tigers led 60-46 going to the fourth.
Chloe Sottell led the team with 16 points and eight rebounds. She was 5-of-10 from the field and 4-of-7 from 3. Shannon Dowell added 16 points, six rebounds and a team-high five assists.
Grace Slaughter added 16 points, five rebounds and two blocks.
Jayla Smith came off the bench to contribute 13 points and four assists, while Jordana Reisma had six rebounds and Abbey Schreacke had five rebounds and three steals.
Mizzou shot 25-of-57 (43.9 percent) overall, 10-of-29 (34.5 percent) from 3 and 22-of-27 (81.5 percent) from the free-throw line.
The Tigers led in points off turnovers 22-14, fast break points 26-8 and points in the paint 30-28. SLU led 20-10 in second-chance points.
Mizzou (10-3) will return to Mizzou Arena to host North Alabama at noon Sunday.
Wrestling
No. 14 Mizzou opened Big 12 competition with a road matchup at No. 15 Northern Iowa on Sunday.
Northern Iowa came away with a 22-14 win.
Mizzou dropped the first three matchups, all between ranked opponents.
No. 28 Mack Mauger lost by 12-0 major decision to No. 27 Trever Anderson at 125. Then No. 17 Kade Moore lost a 9-8 decision to No. 26 Julian Farber at 133. No. 21 Zeke Seltzer dropped a 5-1 decision against No. 10 Cory Land at 141 pounds.
The Tigers picked up a win at 149 pounds when No. 15 Josh Edmond claimed a 10-4 decision against Ethan Basile. Then No. 20 J Conway took a 6-3 decision against RJ Weston at 157 pounds to bring the Tigers within 10-6.
But the short Tiger winning streak ended at 165 when No. 16 Max Mayfield lost a 1-0 decision to No. 8 Ryder Downey. Then Peyton Westpfahl lost a 12-0 major decision to No. 10 Jared Simma at 174 pounds.
Trailing 17-6 with three weights left, the Tigers needed some big wins.
And No. 2 Aeoden Sinclair kept hopes alive with a 20-4 technical fall in 6:33 against No. 28 CJ Walrath at 184 to bring Mizzou within 17-11.
Then No. 16 Evan Bates earned a 5-2 decision against John Gunderson at 197 to make it 17-14.
But the ranked heavyweight matchup didn’t go the Tigers’ way as No. 26 Jarrett Stoner lost by 21-6 technical fall in 7 minutes against No. 13 Wyatt Voelker.
Mizzou dropped to 6-6 overall and 0-1 in the Big 12.
The Tigers will return to action when they head to the Soldier Salute in Coralville, Iowa on Jan. 3-4.
Gymnastics
Mizzou opened the season with the Black & Gold scrimmage at Mizzou Arena on Friday.
Team Gold won the intrasquad, 158.150-157.650.
Freshman Kimarra Echols led Team Gold in the all-around with a score of 39.600, which would tie for the 12th-best mark in program history in a competitive meet. Echols, Railey Jackson and Kaia Tanskanen tied for the balance beam title, all scoring 9.950.
Echols also tied for second on the floor (9.900), uneven bars (9.900) and vault (9.850).
Jackson and Tanskanen each posted scores of 39.550 in the all-around for Team Gold.
Hannah Horton was the lone all-around competitor for Team Black. She scored 39.350, highlighted by a 9.900 on the uneven bars.
Mizzou had 39 scores of 9.800 or higher out of 50 scores, including 14 scores of 9.900 or better. Five of those 9.900s came on the balance beam.
“I was really impressed tonight,” Mizzou coach Shannon Welker said. “We saw a lot of people step up, steady progress across the lineup and a glimpse of how good this team can be.”
Team Gold won the vault 39.400-39.300.
Both teams posted 39.500 on the bars, with Tanskanen winning the title at 9.950.
Team Gold scored 39.700 to win the beam.
Team Gold won the floor 39.550-39.350.
Mizzou will officially open the season Jan. 4 when the Tigers host Iowa State.
Swim & Dive
Mizzou sent diver Collier Dyer to the USA Diving Winter National Championships.
The competition is ongoing through today, so I will update his final results in next week’s edition of this story.