November 2019 Issue

by Destiny Wiser
photo courtesy of Wagner Photography
The Varsity Girls’ Softball team won
districts this season. They headed to sectionals
after their district win with a record of
15-10-1.
According to Coach Simpson, the biggest
moments from their playoff run include
the game against Ritenour, when “Maddie
Bailey hit a double and scored two runs. I
feel like it shifted a lot of momentum.”
Coach Simpson’s advice to the players
before playoff games was “to stay focused
and to remember what they do well as a
team and as an individual, to support each
other and to have confidence in themselves.”
The team made it to sectionals for the
first time since 1998. Maddie Bailey helped
get her team there, with a .800 slugging
percentage and a .500 batting average. She
also stole 15 bases.
The team fell to Francis Howell Central
in their sectional matchup after an impressive
season.
by Bailey Shields
The Springfield Three is the unsolved missing persons case of three women.
Sherrill Levitt, a 47-year-old, the daughter of Sherrill, Suzanne Streeter, 19-yearold,
and a close childhood friend of the Suzanne, Stacy McCall, who was 18.
The disappearance happened on July 7, 1992, in a city not too far from here,
Springfield, Missouri. The three were found missing from Sherrill and Suzie’s
home by a friend when she went looking for them.
The two teenage girls had just graduated from Kickapoo High School and
were planning on heading to Branson, Missouri, to have a day of fun at Silver
Dollar CiIty. Suzie and Stacy were simply going to drive the morning after graduation,
considering it was only 30 minutes away.
They were all decided on staying at a friend’s house and then leaving from
there. Unfortunately, the house was too occupied with relatives, so they relocated
to Suzie's house.
The next morning the third person attending the day of fun went to look for
the two the next morning to continue their plans. When she and her boyfriend
arrived, the phone rang. She answered, thinking it was going to be Suzanne or
Stacy. Instead, it was a deep male voice screaming inappropriate remarks.
There were signs that they made it back home that night. Their purses and
jewelry, as well as makeup bags, were found. And, it also looked like they had
slept in the bed. The friend looking for them just assumed that the two had
already left for the busy and fun day ahead. But, they never returned.
The case is still unsolved, but the mother of Stacy gave her best efforts to
find them. She made flyers and tried to spread the word as much as possible.
They did have a few leads on who could have done it until one very suspicious
report came along. Robert Craig Cox was a known criminal. He killed a
19-year-old girl in Florida. He was known to be around Springfield at the time
of the disappearance. When police questioned him, he said “I can tell you that I
know the three women are dead, and the person who committed the crime had
experience, and they were buried close to Springfield.”
But there wasn’t enough evidence to determine the killer. He was the last
lead in the case. There has been no new evidence that has opened the case back
up, so the mystery remains.
by Maddie Davenport
We all know that cheerleaders are full of fun
and spirit, but the Pattonville Highschool Varsity
cheerleaders are absolutely on a roll right now.
Besides cheering for the football, basketball,
soccer and wrestling, they attend the Missouri
State Cheer Competition and received second
place.
This is a huge achievement, considering photo by Aleigha Hornaday
the fact that cheer is an extremely difficult sport and it is mentally and physically
draining at times.
The team is overall an amazing squad and they deserve all the recognition for
their hard work and dedication to the sport!