Thursday, December 6, 2012
Bombers lost the meet to CJA, but may have found two future swimming stars in freshmen Maddie Wessel and Barrett Carlson.
With a shorthanded roster due to illness and other issues, John Burroughs girls swim coach Leslie Kehr knew going in to Tuesday's season-opening meet against Cor Jesu Academy, that her Bombers might have trouble earning enough points to earn a team win. So instead of worrying about victories, Kehr wanted her swimmers to simply focus on making a strong first showing of the season, with an eye on improving as a group throughout the season. And that's pretty much what the Bombers delivered at the Cissel Center Pool, finishing with five wins in 12 events in what proved to be a 119-59 team loss to the Chargers. "I thought the girls did pretty good out here today," Kehr said. "We knew we didn't have everybody. There are some girls out sick and …
Sunday, December 2, 2012
Sophomore center has helped Bombers snag wins in two of their first three games this season.
In the opening game of the new season, and with her team playing without its best player, sophomore Jordan McClendon scored 12 points and grabbed seven rebounds to lead John Burroughs to a 33-15 win over Lift for Life Academy. That magnificent season debut earned McClendon a nomination in this week's Patch MVP Athlete of the Week voting. And with a strong showing of support from the JBS community, McClendon won the ballot this week (nabbing a whopping 70 percent of the votes cast) to become the third JBS student-athlete to win Patch MVP this year. Football players Peter Schnuck and Ezekiel Elliott received the Patch MVP honor earlier, and the jovial Jordan McClendon has joined them. Earlier this week, we caught up with Jordan and were able…
Monday, November 26, 2012
Representatives from all five Ladue-Frontenac-Olivette-area high school's made this week's Athlete of the Week candidate list. Fans can vote for a winner through 5 p.m. Thursday.
We took a week off from the Patch MVP voting to honor or Male and Female Patch MVPs of the Fall (Ezekiel Elliott of John Burroughs football and Natalie Gower of St. Joe volleyball). But it's time to bring back to weekly battle royale, as we ask fans to vote for their favorite local Athlete of the Week. Once again, we've nominated deserving representatives from all five local high schools, and we've opened up the voting to let the fans tell us, who should get the nod. Our friends over at Villa Duchesne have made this award all their own this month, by making sure each of our November votes went to the Saints' nominee. This week's vote marks the last time anybody from Ladue, John Burroughs, St. Joe, or MICDS will get a chance to keep Villa …
Saturday, November 24, 2012
Future Ohio State star capped his high school career with 419 all-purpose yards and set several other Show-Me Bowl records.
ST. LOUIS -- Even as the tears streamed down his face, John Burroughs senior football star Ezekiel Elliott stepped forward and did the one thing nobody else on his team wanted to do -- he accepted the second place trophy following the Bombers’ 35-22 loss to Maryville in the MSHSAA Class Show-Me Bowl, Friday afternoon at the Edward Jones Dome. Check out the game photos on the Ladue-Frontenac Patch. After four years of pain and sweat, and three straight heart-aching Show-Me Bowl losses, no one of the Burroughs team wanted anything to do with that second place trophy. But just as he had all season, and throughout his brilliant career as a Bomber, Elliott stepped up and did what I had to be done. “I had to be strong for my teammates,” Elliott …
Friday, November 23, 2012
Ezekiel Elliott caps his sensational career with 419 all-purpose yards and three more touchdowns, but it wasn’t enough Maryville rushed for 436 yards as a team.
ST. LOUIS -- Try as he might, even the best player in the state couldn’t do it by himself. That’s the feeling fans and observers left the Edward Jones Dome with Friday afternoon, after John Burroughs running back/receiver/kick returner/defensive back Ezekiel Elliott turned in the single greatest individual yardage performance in Missouri football state championship game history, but still had to walk off the field in tears, following his team’s 35-22 loss to Maryville in the 2012 MSHSAA Class 3 Show-Me Bowl game. “It just hurts so much,” Elliott said, after amassing an incredible 419 all-purpose yards and scoring three touchdowns for the Bombers. “I really don’t know how else to put it. We put in so much work, and to get here and fall …
No. 1-ranked and undefeated Bombers will take on No. 2-ranked Maryville (MO) in state championship game, Friday afternoon at the Edward Jones Dome in St. Louis.
GAMEDAY PREVIEW -- CLASS 3 SHOW-ME BOWL CHAMPIONSHIP GAME MARYVILLE SPOOFHOUNDS (14-0) vs. JOHN BURROUGHS BOMBERS (13-0) EDWARD JONES DOME -- NOVEMBER 23, 2012 -- 1 p.m. ST. LOUIS -- They have been waiting 363 days for the chance to fix something that happened in a heartbreaking instant that cost them a state title. Their all-world, four-star rated running back, who's headed to Ohio State next season, was about to score a game-tying touchdown in the final seconds of the Class 3 Show-Me Bowl championship game last year. But before he could, some unnamed defender swooped in and knocked the ball out of his hands, forcing a fumble that cost John Burroughs its second straight shot at winning state. And since the moment that game ended, the …
Thursday, November 22, 2012
Senior touchdown machine will lead Bombers in third straight state championship game appearance on Friday, before heading to Ohio State next year.
Update: Zeke Elliott will depart Sunday for the U.S. Army All Star football game in San Antonio Tx. On the eve of the biggest, and final, game of his remarkable high school career, John Burroughs senior football star Ezekiel Elliott has just a few hours left to lament the two goals he set for himself going into this season. "Zeke," as he's called by friends, family, and teammates, desperately wants to break the the St. Louis area single-season touchdown record, which currently stands at 54. "I just want that record," said Elliott, who has 47 touchdowns this season, after scoring three times in the JBS' 28-6 win over Monett (MO) in the state semifinals last Saturday. "I still think I can get it." But what Elliott and all his Bomber …
Wednesday, November 21, 2012
Check out some of the awesome photos from JBS' big win in Monett, sent to us by outstanding amateur photographer and contributor Margaret Bahe.
Burroughs won the game 28-6, and will play in the MSHSAA Show-Me Bowl state championship game on Friday. Here's just a handful of the terrific photos from the game sent to Patch by our friend and colleague, John Burroughs science teacher Margaret Bahe. Bahe has contributed award-winning action shots of Burroughs athletes ever since Patch launched in Ladue and Frontenac in December, 2010. Patch will have a full round of championship photos from the game at the Dome Friday with Maryville for the Class 2 Show Me Bowl title game.
Sophomore Jordan McClendon led the way with 14 points and nine rebounds, as Bombers put away visiting Lady Hawks.
It wasn't very pretty, but all in all, it was pretty effective. That's the sentiment the John Burroughs girls basketball team left the Olin Fieldhouse on the JBS campus with Tuesday evening, after finishing off a thrilling 33-15 victory over the Lift for Life Academy of St. Louis. Sophomore Jordan McClendon led all scorers with 14 points and added nine rebounds, as the Bombers won a matchup of clubs playing their first games on the 2012-2013 girls basketball season. Burroughs, which came into the new season having lost 10 of its last 11 to end last year, made sure to kick off its new campaign in style by jumping out to a quick 8-0 lead, and never looking back in its first matchup ever against Lift for Life. The Bombers never trailed, and …
Tuesday, November 20, 2012
With 44 touchdowns last year, and 47 more this year, the Ohio State-bound star has scored 91 touchdowns the last two seasons.
Among the many honorees in nine different sports announced as 2012 All-Stars by Metro League commissioner Dory Smith on Monday, one announcement was no surprise at all. And that worst-kept secret of probably the entire 2012 Fall sports season was that John Burroughs running back Ezekiel Elliott -- the conference leader in rushing yards, total yards, all-purpose yards, and the St. Louis area leader in touchdowns -- was named Metro League Football Player of the Year, after a weekend vote conducted amongst the league's coaches. Elliott, who was a city-wide Player of the Year candidate last year, after scoring 44 touchdowns and leading the Bombers to their second straight Show-Me Bowl state title game, is widely considered the leading …
James Baer
6:55 am on Saturday, November 24, 2012
Keep your heads up guys. Name all the other teams who reached the Show-Me Bowl title game 3 years running. Thanks for more great memories. more ›