Missouri
Raylen Sharpe, Missouri State football’s All-American WR, back in transfer portal | Report
Raylen Sharpe, Missouri State football’s All-American wide receiver, is back in the transfer portal after initially taking his name out when he first entered at the end of the 2023 regular season.
Multiple national recruiting outlets reported the news on Wednesday afternoon with 247Sports’ Matt Zenitz being the first.
Sharpe is coming off arguably the best single season by any Missouri State wide receiver. He caught a school-record 73 passes in addition to having 991 receiving yards and seven touchdowns — the latter two stats ranking second in school history behind Ty Scott, who played two more games than Sharpe did last season.
Sharpe also achieved a school record with six 100-yard receiving games, including an 11-reception, 160-yard and two-touchdown performance against then-ranked Northern Iowa.
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He played two seasons in a Bears uniform after transferring from Houston. The slot receiver caught 89 total passes for 1,298 yards and eight scores in 21 games.
Missouri State football coach Ryan Beard, during a radio interview during Tuesday night’s Bears baseball game against Mizzou said Sharpe didn’t play during the spring but he was present. Beard expressed excitement in having his first-team All-Missouri Valley Football Conference receiver and third-team All-American back in a Bears uniform. He also spoke highly of the Bears’ receiving depth.
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Wyatt D. Wheeler is a reporter and columnist with the Springfield News-Leader. You can contact him at 417-371-6987, by email at wwheeler@news-leader.com or X at @WyattWheeler_NL.
Missouri
Recovery efforts continue after deadly Missouri flash flooding | Latest Weather Clips | FOX Weather
Recovery efforts continue after deadly Missouri flash flooding
FOX Weather Meteorologist Jane Minar continues her coverage live from Ironton, Missouri, following catastrophic flash flooding that tore through the region Friday, leaving one dead and prompting more than 350 water rescues. Latest on recovery efforts:
July 11 (UPI) — One person was found dead and hundreds evacuated in Missouri after an intense day of flash flooding across the state, authorities said Saturday.
More than 350 people were rescued in Iron, Reynolds and Crawford counties on Friday as floodwaters rapidly took over the area.
Officials said 250 of those were staff and children at Camp Taum Sauk, all of whom were safely evacuated. Another 100 were water rescues.
“It was very harrowing,” Jennifer Box, mother of of two you boys at the camp, told The New York Times. “We knew they were safe, but we didn’t know how to get to them, and that’s kind of your worst nightmare.”
One Crawford County woman, Faith Gregory, was found dead a mile downstream from her home in Huzzah Creek, officials said.
Authorities said Gregory was swept away after part of her home collapsed in the floodwaters.
“It’s definitely not the outcome we were hoping for, but it’s a tragic reminder of how strong Mother Nature can be and how forceful it can be,” Missouri State Highway Patrol Sergeant Eddie Young told FOX Weather.
The region was battered by more than 12 inches of rain, leaving many area residents remained strained throughout Saturday.
“But they’re OK,” spokeswoman Kate Moore, of Missouri Region C, told ABC News. “They’re just stranded because the roads are washed away. We have a lot of damage — the trees, buildings, a lot of things have gone and ripped the roads away.”
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