Area digest: Kohlfeld Scorpions open with 6-0 record

The Kohlfeld Scorpions rugby club kicked off the fall with four straight wins and a first-place finish in a tournament Sept. 2, then followed with two more wins Saturday.

The Scorpions won their own Cape Town tournament Sept. 2, topping a field that included four teams from St. Louis.

Center Matt Koetting was named the man of the match for the tournament.

In the Royals Rugby Tournament on Saturday in St. Louis, the Scorpions defeated Washington University 45-5 and Indiana University 19-17.

Scott Johnston was the man of the match, while Tim Basler, Josh Goodrich, Joey Hann, Jeremy Mabry and Kevin Tucker scored for the Scorpions.

The Kohlfeld team still has tryouts before Missouri Rugby Union championship play begins. The team practices 5:30 p.m. Tuesdays and Thursdays at Arena Park.

St. Louis-area teams win at Dalhousie

The team of Al Zelko and Ed Schwent from Missouri Bluffs in St. Charles County tied the team of Mike Carron and Mike Kootman from Meadowbrook Country Club in St. Louis in Tuesday's regional qualifier for the John Deere International Tournament in November at The Reynolds Plantation in Greensboro, Ga.

The regional tournament, hosted by Dalhousie Golf Club and sponsored by Erb Turf Equipment Inc., was a handicapped two-man scramble event open to two representatives -- superintendents, owners, pros, general managers or presidents -- from area golf clubs.

The top teams carded 62s.

Tom Williams and Chris Ashby of Green Hills in Mount Vernon, Ill., finished third at 63.

Local racers place at Sikeston drag strip

Ron Simmons of Cape Girardeau finished second Saturday in racing at the Sikeston Drag Strip.

Simmons, competing in the super pro class in which he has won past series championships, posted a time of 6.136 on a dial-in time of 6.12. He averaged 111.38 miles per hour.

The area had a couple more second-place finishers in racing the previous weekend, on Sept. 2.

Brian Bickings of Oran was second in the pro class, while Dave Slayden of Diehlstadt was second in the ET class.

Bickings went out on the red light in the start of his pro class final.

Slayden similarly went red in his final, offsetting a 90.76-mph run that took 7.5 seconds.

Sept. 3 was the first all-Pontiac day at the strip, and Jeff Koenig of Perryville placed first in the ET class.

Koenig ran a time of 7.217 seconds on a dial-in of 96.15 to beat Terry Wagner of Marquand to the line.

-- From staff reports