Area sports digest1/10/07

Gosche cards first ace

Bill Gosche scored his first hole in one Saturday at Kimbeland Country Club.Gosche, of Jackson, used an eight iron on the par-3, fourth hole from 134 yards out.

Kelly Waller, Phil Hager and Bob Wittenborn were witnesses.

Annual 5-kilometer runscheduled for Feb. 17

The Allen Laws Oliver Chapter of The Missouri Society of The National Society Sons of the American Revolution will have its annual President's Day 5-kilometer run on Feb. 17 with a start and finish at Red Star Baptist Church.

Registration for the run will take place 7:15 to 7:45 a.m. on race day and the event begins at 8 a.m.

The entry fee is $12 by Feb. 16 and $15 on race day.

Checks can be made out to SAR and sent to Jerry Driver, Ph.D., Box 1643, Cape Girardeau, Mo., 63702.

Friedheim sweeps, pads dartball lead

Freidheim swept three games from Frohna in Cape-Perry LLL Dartball action, increasing its hold on first place to four full games.

New Wells also swept three games to move into second place.

Crosstown, which was 3 1/2 games back, was off in Week 10 of the league and dropped into third place.

The dartball league, which concludes with a postseason tournament, has teams of nine players throwing darts at a board with a baseball diamond to reach baseball outcomes. The teams compete in standard baseball tripleheaders each week.

Standings

Team W-L Pct. Hits Runs

Friedheim 21-6 .777 363 184

New Wells 17-10 .629 301 144

Crosstown 16-11 .592 338 157

Altenburg Trinity 15-12 .555 330 150

Perryville 14-13 .518 280 121

Apple Creek 15-15 .500 356 142

Uniontown 13-14 .481 314 151

Hanover 13-14 .481 273 104

Altenbrg Immanuel 14-16 .466 325 151

Frohna 13-17 .433 262 97

Farrar 11-16 .407 256 98

Shawneetown 9-18 .333 254 100

Jackson 9-18 .333 214 67

Scores

Uniontown 2 6 5

Altenburg Tr. (2-1) 6 2 6

Frohna 1 3 4

Friedheim (3-0) 8 5 8

Altenburg Im. (2-1) 0 4 3

Farrar 5 1 0

Hanover (2-1) 3 7 4

Perryville 1 10 3

Shawneetown 0 5 3

New Wells (3-0) 4 6 9

Apple Creek 2 3 2

Jackson (2-1) 3 5 0

Koeper returnsto coach at ICS

Andrea Koeper, a 1997 graduate of Immaculate Conception School in Jackson, has returned to the school to coach the sixth grade C team in girls basketball.

Koeper played basketball and volleyball at ICS, Jackson High School and Southeast Missouri State.

Koeper is assisted by Cherish Tillman Langston. The team won its opener Dec. 18 against St. Vincent of Perryville.

-- From staff reports