By Steve Bowman Editor, The Brentwood Spirit Only in track and field could 1.4 seconds be so long. The girls’ 400-meter relay team from Brentwood High School missed qualifying for state by 1.41 seconds at a Class 2 sectional meet Saturday at Principia. Their time of 54 seconds was good for sixth place, 1.40 seconds behind fourth-place Hayti’s 52.60. Only [...]
By Steve Bowman Editor, The Brentwood Spirit The Brentwood High School girls’ soccer team is on a roll. Whether they have enough momentum to win their next game remains to be seen. The Eagles finished their regular season last week with 8-0 and 10-1 victories over Valley Park and Hancock. The games marked their fourth and fifth wins in a [...]
By Steve Bowman Editor, The Brentwood Spirit There are some huge egos in sports these days, from the pros all the way down to high school. So it was refreshing to see how well Kevin Smith handled being pulled from the mound in Brentwood High School’s game with Maplewood-Richmond Heights last week. Smith had a no-hitter going after four innings [...]
By Steve Bowman Editor, The Brentwood Spirit Justice Bratcher was a skinny freshman when he joined the track and field team last spring at Hazelwood East High School. He thought he’d be a sprinter until he sized up his teammates. “Everybody there was fast,” he said. “I’m fast, but not like the guys on their varsity.” But instead of quitting, [...]
Brentwood Police Weekly Activity Report For more details and daily activity updates visit: http://bwdpd.wordpress.com/. Week of May 7-13 Ward 2: On May 8 at 1:44 a.m., police responded to the 2100 block of Brentwood Blvd. for an accident with injury. A vehicle had struck a telephone pole and then a building. The 32-year-old female driver was arrested for DWI. On [...]
Hard work helped most of those pictured above qualify for the sectional meet last...
Brentwood’s leading scorer Shelby Linneman (left) knows that soccer is a contact...
Jake Caragher (right) finds himself toe to toe with Maplewood pitcher Will Wadsworth...
The sectional-qualifying 400-meter relay team is (from left) Deja Price, Ar’shay...
Brentwood Police Weekly Activity Report For more details and daily activity updates...
Hard work helped most of those pictured above qualify for the sectional meet last Saturday. They are (from left) Justice Bratcher, Deja Price,...
The five individuals who will assume new roles with the Brentwood School District this summer are (from left) Donna Knobbe, Joan Oakley, David...
Jenny Rausch relaxes in one of the model kitchens at her company’s Brentwood showroom. (Photo by Steve Bowman) By Steve Bowman Editor, The...
Mount Calvary Lutheran Church parishioners who participated in the Walk to Jerusalem enter the sanctuary on Palm Sunday morning. (Photo by Toni...
By Steve Bowman Editor, The Brentwood Spirit Only in track and field could 1.4 seconds be so long. The girls’ 400-meter relay team from Brentwood High School missed qualifying for state by 1.41 seconds at a Class 2 sectional meet Saturday at Principia. Their time of 54 seconds was good for sixth place, 1.40 seconds behind fourth-place Hayti’s 52.60. Only [...]
By Steve Bowman Editor, The Brentwood Spirit The Brentwood High School girls’ soccer team is on a roll. Whether they have enough momentum to win their next game remains to be seen. The Eagles finished their regular season last week with 8-0 and 10-1 victories over Valley Park and Hancock. The games marked their fourth and fifth wins in a [...]
By Steve Bowman Editor, The Brentwood Spirit There are some huge egos in sports these days, from the pros all the way down to high school. So it was refreshing to see how well Kevin Smith handled being pulled from the mound in Brentwood High School’s game with Maplewood-Richmond Heights last week. Smith had a no-hitter going after four innings [...]
Let the playoffs begin! The Brentwood High School baseball team will start defending its 2011 Class 2, District 5 championship when it faces Crossroads at 5:30 p.m. on Monday at Brentwood Park. The Eagles, 11-7 before playing their final game of the regular season tonight, are seeded No. 2 among seven teams. Valley Park, 12-6, is the No. 1 seed. [...]
By Steve Bowman Editor, The Brentwood Spirit Justice Bratcher was a skinny freshman when he joined the track and field team last spring at Hazelwood East High School. He thought he’d be a sprinter until he sized up his teammates. “Everybody there was fast,” he said. “I’m fast, but not like the guys on their varsity.” But instead of quitting, [...]
By Steve Bowman Editor, The Brentwood Spirit Sometimes a small thing can make a gigantic difference. In baseball, the bunt is the smallest hit you can make, but it can decide the outcome of the entire game. That’s what happened in Brentwood High School’s dogfight with Principia last Wednesday at Brentwood Park. The score had been tied four times when [...]
By Steve Bowman Editor, The Brentwood Spirit The Brentwood High School girls’ soccer team will probably end up sharing the conference title with Crossroads this year. The players are not thrilled about that but they’re still better off than they were a year ago at this time. And they seem to be a better team. After ruling the South Central [...]
Brentwood Police Weekly Activity Report For more details and daily activity updates visit: http://bwdpd.wordpress.com/. Week of May 7-13 Ward 2: On May 8 at 1:44 a.m., police responded to the 2100 block of Brentwood Blvd. for an accident with injury. A vehicle had struck a telephone pole and then a building. The 32-year-old female driver was arrested for DWI. On [...]
By Steve Bowman Editor, The Brentwood Spirit Doesn’t Ryan Vogeli know that sophomores are not supposed to throw no-hitters? Before last Thursday, only two no-hitters had been thrown by Brentwood High School pitchers in the past six seasons. Ryan Jones did it last season and Andrew Newberry in 2007. Both were seniors at the time. But Vogeli, a sophomore, no-hit [...]
By Steve Bowman Editor, The Brentwood Spirit Karen Smith will retire next month after 40 years as an educator, including the past 10 as the principal of Mark Twain Elementary School. “It’s kind of bittersweet,” she said. A mix of happiness and sadness was felt by most of the several dozen people who attended a reception for several incoming and [...]
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