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Authorities have re- leased the name of the man found dead in the Buckhorn area this week. Leonard Collins, 37, of St. Robert was found dead on Monday in a hotel room at Fort Wood Inn, accord- ing to Pulaski County Sheriff Ron Long. Kylon Bales, a Pulaski County Sheriff's Newburg and WCC Deputies were called to grad, is smiling the Buckhorn-area hotel approximately 1:20 p.m. after giving career Monday after hotel staff advice to new stu- discovered the deceased. dents at Way- The sheriff 's depart- nesville Career ment, along with the Pu- Center. laski County coroner, are currently investigating the incident. Additional de- Today’s Smile is tails will be released as the sponsored by the investigation progresses. DAILY GUIDE Long said that authori- Juwan Morgan, a 6-foot-8 forward for Waynesville High School, announced Wednesday he will play ties will be releasing more To Sponsor TODAY’S for the . PHOTO BY DEREK DUEKER information on this case SMILE contact Tammy later this week. at 336-3711 Derek Dueker Since Morgan announced his monster he his on the court now. Waynesville Daily Guide final few schools and Indiana was in that circle, the 6-foot-8 Brotherly Love JEFFERSON INSIDE Juwan Morgan remembers forward has received a lot of sup- Amidst all the nods to previous CITY TODAY when he was in third grade, port from their fans. coaches, teachers and friends watching play- Between them and the rest of was one mention that stood out. ers on TV. the country vying for his verbal He thanked his brother for Nixon frees Despite his young age, he real- on social media, Morgan's Twit- being his largest inspiration. ized his dream of playing Divi- ter following has grown leaps Normally, that would be sort of $143M for sion I college basketball. and bounds and is now sitting at cliché, but not in this case. “At the time I was short and over 1,800 followers. In 2005 his brother, De'Ante education chunky so I knew I had to stretch Morgan said over one night he Fields, was in a horrific car acci- out,” Morgan said Wednesday in racked up one thousand. dent in which he was traveling an after veto front of a crowd watching him Waynesville coach Chris Pilz estimated 70 mph when the car accomplish that dream and com- said he has been impressed with went off the road and rolled. mit to Indiana, a basketball team Morgan's poise throughout the Juwan was 8-years-old. session draped in success. whole process. “It was one that I shouldn't Gardening to The Hoosiers have been to the “Success is harder to handle have survived,” Fields said. “But I (AP) — Missouri Gov. NCAA Tournament 37 times, than failure,” Pilz said. “And I did.” Jay Nixon freed $143 mil- Distraction: winning the whole thing five think he's handled the spotlight Morgan said he always looked lion of previously frozen times. really well.” up to his brother and if his education funding Thurs- Propagating They haven't won the tourna- So it was no surprise that be- brother could walk today, he day, after lawmakers sus- ment since 1987, but the fore he announced his decision would play basketball at a high tained many of his vetoes plants PAGE 4 Hoosiers are hoping Morgan can he paid homage to those who level. of business tax breaks that help be a piece of the solution to took the “short and chunky” kid Nixon had denounced as that problem. and chiseled him into the tall See MORGAN, 8 potential budget-busters. The demise of the tax- Church break legislation allowed Nixon to claim at least a columns WAYNESVILLE partial victory in an annu- PAGE 6-7 al veto session that nonetheless shattered the Missouri record for the number of veto overrides. Jackson steps down The Republican-led Leg- COMING IN PRINT islature, often aided by Long-time President of Good Samaritan Board of Directors resigns some of Nixon's fellow De- mocrats, overrode 47 line- I Best of the Best item budget vetoes and 10 Reader’s Choice Win- Daily Guide supporter and partici- other bills during a session ners tab coming soon! [email protected] pant in the annual that stretched from Women of Significance Wednesday into early After more than a luncheon. 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Follow us on Twitter: SPORTS @DerekDuekerWDG HAVE QUESTIONS FOR OUR SPORTS WRITER? Contact [email protected] Hopes for a state championship still loom for Morgan Unfinished Business He didn't care how long it MORGAN Morgan said it is his took.” Continued from Page 1 mission to repay the com- Pilz could attest, Darren munity for their support. said, that he and Juwan “My next step is to go would be waiting outside “I didn't know Juwan win a state ring,” Morgan the school for the gym to was even looking up to said. open at 5-5:30 a.m. to go me,” Fields said. “I was Actually, he hasn't ever looking up to him. I got through a list of drills. stopped working on that He thought, if he was to happiness through his final goal. It started after success. Even though he's reach D-I level, it would the Tigers lost to Hick- take everything he has my little brother, I looked man 46-45 in sectionals in up to him like he was my got. March. “Playing up with older brother because he “Juwan probably got was so much taller than MOKAN really opened 500 threes up this morn- me.” my eyes that there was ton ing and several other of While his younger of people out there that is his teammates, they know brother was addressing who they are, they're just better than me,” Morgan him while leaning on the there all the time,” Pilz said. “I don't like people podium in front of a huge said. being better than me so crowd, all gathered to That type of work ethic that made me put the hear him reveal the secret began when he was play- work in to get to the spot of where he would attend ing on Fort Leonard where they are and even- college, Fields couldn't Wood after his family had tually pass them.” help but tear up. Now that he's with Indi- “It's a blessing to watch moved to the area in ana, that won't change. him,” Fields said, shaking 2005. “I have to go in with the his head in disbelief. “It's His head coach, Joe a blessing to see how he's Johnson Sr. said Morgan same mindset as I have and his son, Joe Jr., were had in high school and come from being up under Juwan Morgan gets a shot off above pressure from a Hickman Kewpie defender me all the time and me an unstoppable force even AAU,” Morgan said. “I during the sectionals matchup in March at Camdenton High School. PHOTO BY back then despite playing can't let anyone outwork not wanting to go around DEREK DUEKER him because I want to be kids a year or two older me. I have to earn my spot out with my friends. See- than them. and always put in that ing him come up and be “They used to dominate work to keep that spot.” the young man that he is the games,” Johnson said. Pilz said that type of at- now, it's good to see.” “45-0 and stuff like that.” titude is going to garner Had it not been for Other parents de- him a large fan base in In- manded to see their birth Fields though, his acci- diana. That is, if he hasn't certificates. dent, his recovery and the already built one. Johnson knew then he one-on-one games he “The thing about Juwan would play with Morgan, had a star on his hands. “Me and his dad, he was is, he may be a better per- his younger brother might son than he is a player,” not be a future Hoosier my assistant coach, we stayed on them (Joe Jr. Pilz said. “I think he's today. going to be a fan favorite “Everyone has a story of and Juwan),” Johnson in Indiana because he's why they play the game of said. “I rode them harder basketball,” Morgan said. than anyone else. My wife going to do what the “Mine is him. When [the used to ask me, 'Honey, do coaches ask him to do. wreck] happened, that you have to be that hard The fans in Indiana are made my mind up then on the kids?' I said when going to know he's putting and there to play basket- you see that the potential in his time and he's going ball.” is there you tend to ride to work hard. I think they See, Morgan used to the kids a little bit more. are going to appreciate split his time between To see him developed now, how he can communicate football and basketball, from 8-years-old up to with them, how he'll take but his brother was always this point, it's just an awe- time with them to sign an pointing him in the direc- some thing.” autograph or speak with tion of the hardwood Darren said Morgan young kids, he's done all floor. wouldn't go anywhere of that [here].” without an orange ball in With his college future Realizing his Potential Juwan Morgan stands with his parents, Darren and Jacquelyn, after announcing his hand. secured, Morgan isn't his college decision Wednesday. PHOTO BY DEREK DUEKER The older he got, the Even after that, it didn't going to ride off into the more focused he got and begin as a happily ever sunset. Not just yet. after. think this guy has that enough of Lusk to men- class after summer was the more serious he and his He spoke about unfin- Nowadays, fans see this kind of potential if he'll tion him during his over. father got with practice. ished business Wednesday tall, built college-ready buy into what we're doing speech before he selected “He's made tremendous forward who throws down and you'll put the time in,” Indiana. Time to choose efforts to improve,” Dar- too. That state champi- dunks over the toughest of Pilz said. Pilz said after Lusk of- Finally, it was time to ren said. “I used to take onship means as much to high school defenders. Everyone held up to fered Morgan a scholar- start narrowing the him to the gym with me him now than ever. As a freshman, Morgan their end of the bargain. ship, the first offer he had, choices down and give his and I would push on him “For me, everything has remembers feeling like he Morgan joined the Am- Morgan got the first phys- fans an idea of where he'll a little bit. He always had escalated because it's my didn't stack up against the ateur Athletic Union ical evidence Division I play college basketball. determination. If he senior year,” Morgan said. competition, even though (AAU) basketball team basketball was a reality. Morgan announced on missed a shot, he would “I'm still putting in the he had grown about six MOKAN Elite, his par- “After he came in and Twitter about a month stay in that same spot work to make sure I don't inches over a summer. ents made the trips to watched Juwan, his dad ago he was deciding be- until he finally made it. let my teammates down.” “I guess God was on my Kansas City to take him to and I went down to talk to tween Creighton, Indi- side on that one,” Morgan the MOKAN games and coach Lusk,” Pilz recalled. ana, Kansas, Mizzou, said to a chorus of laughs practices as well as Mor- “I think that's when Stanford, Vanderbilt and Wednesday. gan's youth coach Joe Juwan started thinking, Washington. He remembers getting Johnson Sr. 'Hey, it's a real possibility After visiting Vanderbilt scouting reports, reading The result, was some that I'm going to play Di- and Indiana last weekend them and realizing he immediate college interest vision I at a high level.'” though, he canceled plans wasn't at his opponent's from a nearby college — Following Lusk's offer, a to visit any other colleges. level yet. Missouri State University few other bigger colleges That let everyone know “I didn't start having the in Springfield. started sniffing around, it was down to those two, confidence that I have and he would later con- now until the end of my firm their suspicions, but sophomore year,” Morgan “The thing about Juwan is, he knew his choice and said. “Every time we that's the real reason he would get a scouting re- he may be a better person canceled any future visits. port and I would see all “I felt like it was only these long lists about the fair for those coaches, be- players. It made me feel than he is a player,” cause I knew I wanted to self-conscious about the go to Indiana and I didn't things I couldn't guard, — Chris Pilz want to waste their time,” the things I couldn't do Morgan said. that they could.” “They were here, they but this summer is when He said Indiana had Now, it's everyone else were here early,” Pilz said. they came knocking the everything he could want looking at what Morgan “As [this] summer went door down. and it matches all of his can do that everyone else on his stock rose a little Morgan was named the needs. can't. bit. MSU coach Paul Lusk Most Improved Player by “Academics was always Like scoring 19 points, and Morgan had a great the Elite Youth Basketball the first thing because I do grabbing 12 rebounds, relationship, but the last League and had a great want to get my degree,” getting four blocks, three time we talked to Lusk he showing at the Nike Peach Morgan said, adding he assists and two steals per knew he had gone up a lit- Jam in which he averaged will major in sports com- game as a junior. tle bit.” over 12 points and seven munications. He also said Still, it always felt like The Bears didn't get rebounds while shooting player development and Division I basketball was their big fish, but they almost 86 percent from chances to get on the floor on the outer edges of pos- could have, Morgan ad- the floor. right away were musts. sibility to the Waynesville mitted. He said there was “Before, coaches were His father, Darren, and star. a strong feeling to go there viewing me as a second or mother, Jacquelyn, said it Not to Pilz. early on. third choice if they didn't was quite the ride their About two and a half “At first there was,” Mor- get their first guy,” Morgan son has taken them on. years ago, Pilz said, he saw gan said. “Lusk was the said. “After the summer Of course, they were what was in Morgan's fu- very first coach to call me, they realized the things I beaming Wednesday ture. So, he rounded up the first to come and see could do because I had a night as the community the Morgan family and me. And he's probably larger role on my AAU came out in full force to they met at the local Pizza doubled [the amount] of team. They started view- support the young star Hut for a meeting to dis- every other coach to com- ing me as a first option.” that is their son. cuss Morgan's future. ing to see me and talking Media realized his po- “I'm overwhelmed by “I had a little Power to me. I was able to build a tential too. the enormous support,” Point on my computer great relationship with Rivals.com ranked Mor- Jacquelyn said. “Especially and I know they looked at him and even Missouri gan as a four-star recruit, from the Waynesville, Fort me and thought I was State players.” and he was rated the 16th Leonard Wood, St. Robert crazy, but I told them I He even thought power forward in the 2015 community.”

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WAYNESVILLE A Game-Changing Basketball gives local athlete a shot at rewriting his future

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Kellieon Williams didn't expect that his move from Mississippi six years ago would turn his life around, but a couple of hundred basketball games and a few life-al- tering events later and his future has never been so bright. PHOTO BY DEREK DUEKER

aynesville coach Chris Pilz blah, blah, blah I've heard that before. This likes to say decisions deter- guy doesn't know me, he just got here.” Wmine destination. Pilz didn't want to give up on his new, A shining example could be found on young player though. He realized some- his roster this season. thing in him that no one else had seen. Kellieon Williams, a senior at Way- Williams has great length. Right now, nesville High School, moved from the he's around 6'8” and has unbelievably long deep south six years ago and was making arms giving him a wing span that makes plenty of poor decisions until he found a it difficult to work around him on the coach, a friend, a father figure, and, least perimeter. expected, a future. Pilz saw that Williams had trouble Williams recently signed his letter of in- keeping on the straight and narrow, so he tent to play for Coffeyville Community decided he would give his player some- College in Kansas, but he can still re- thing to keep him busy. m e m b e r “In my when educa- sophomore tion and fu- year he made ture endeav- “[Pilz] cut me my junior me mow his ors weren't a l a w n , ” priority of year. Not many know W i l l i a m s his. said, laugh- He grew ing as he still up in about that, but he did. can't believe Greenville, it. “His yard Mississippi I was heartbroken.” is pretty big, where he he lives on a said drugs — Kellieon Williams hill. I had to and prosti- mow down, tutes filled up, go all the the streets. way around. He told me, 'I know you're Without much parental supervision, not doing anything bad because you're Williams got in with the wrong crowd and here.' I realized he was right.” was rubbing shoulders with some bad in- But a little lawn work helped lay the fluences. seeds to Williams and Pilz's incredible “I haven't known my dad my entire life friendship that goes way beyond coach- until about the beginning of this year,” ing. Williams said. “I just grew up with my “We've watched all the NCAA tourna- mom and grandparents, moving from my ments at his house, a lot of big high grandma to my mom. My mom was into school games and I've actually had a bad stuff when I was growing up. I want couple of Thanksgivings at his house to say I was on my own, but I kind of had too. I'm really part of his family.” my grandma there.” As there is in all friendships, there's His grandma did her best, but to get been some rough patches along the way. away from it all he needed to be physically A couple of times, the two have parted removed from it all. ways. So after sixth grade was over Williams In his sophomore season, Williams sat and his mom moved to St. Robert in the out a part of the season. And then, in his summer of 2008 to be with his aunt, who junior season, Pilz decided to send a was once in the military and was on Fort message. Leonard Wood. “The crazy thing about it, he cut me my It would be a while yet before Williams junior year. Not many know about that, decided to change his old habits. but he did. I was heartbroken. He said it “I really came up here like a knuckle- was a test for me and that I was going to head,” Williams said. “In middle school I straighten up and show my teammates I didn't care about my grades or nothing. want to be around or I wasn't going to I just messed around a lot.” play.” In Williams' freshman year he realized just how much he enjoyed the game of Working his way back basketball. Williams couldn't imagine life without “We had a good year even though I was basketball and, most of all, he didn't still a knucklehead,” he remembers. “We want to let down Pilz, who had become only lost one game.” more than a coach to him. Then, in 2011, Waynesville got a new “Whenever Pilz got here it was like, this basketball coach — Chris Pilz. is what having a father would be like? “I was still into some bad things, hang- That's really how the relationship is that ing out with the wrong crowd,” Williams we have.” said. “[Pilz] told me, 'You're going to So Williams refocused and began his straighten up now. You have so much po- fight for a spot back on the roster. tential, you're going to ruin your future if Williams skies high for a layup in a game against Nixa in Logan-Rogersville on you don't get on board.' I was just like, See WILLIAMS, 10 January 21. Waynesville won 61-57. PHOTO BY DEREK DUEKER 10 May 3, 2014 I www.waynesvilledailyguide.com

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eraging 12 points per game, 4.2 WILLIAMS rebounds per game and 3.4 as- LETTER OF INTENT Continued from Page 9 sists per game. Future turns bright He sweated it out in the gym, Colleges from all over saw the pumped out his frustration in the potential in Williams, but were weight room and showed his also worried about the baggage coach that he truly wanted to be he might bring with him. back on the team. Wichita State University in Pilz saw the work and gave Kansas, a team that went to the Williams his number back. Not NCAA Tournament this year, because he gives up easily, but be- along with Missouri State Uni- cause he knows the real reason versity in Springfield, took a long for high school sports. look at him. “We're just trying to help men The Bears head coach, Paul and women be better people and Lusk, has had a few talks with better members of society,” Pilz him and actually recommended said. “We're an extension of the Coffeyville to Williams as a sort classroom really, that's what ex- of precursor. tracurricular activities are.” If he can show that he can han- More than anything, Pilz was dle being on his own and stay out reoccupying the troubled teen's of trouble during his time there, free time with a productive ac- Lusk, and probably a few others, tivity. He already lost another will think once again about ex- player that year because of out- tending an offer. side distractions. It's a lot of pressure, but Marcus Hibbert, a former bas- Williams says he's ready for it. ketball player and golfer at Way- “I'm excited for my future,” nesville, was arrested for sec- Williams said. ond-degree robbery. Hibbert was His coach is excited too. one of Williams' closest friends “I give him credit, he's come in and teammates. as a senior here and really tried “He is in prison right now, do- to listen. And around school, for ing 15 years,” Williams said. “That the most part, he's done the Williams signs to Coffeyville changed my life around. I start- right things,” Pilz said. “We've Kellieon Williams signs his letter of intent to play basketball for Coffeyville Community ed surrounding myself with good talked to him a little bit and College in Kansas with his high school coaches in attendance. PHOTO BY DEREK DUEKER people. I'm in the gym every told him he'll make some mis- day, hitting the weights everyday takes still. But you've got to cor- trying to get bigger and stronger.” rect them, learn from them and Hibbert will be granted parole move on. This is where we drop ence young lives like Pilz. effective May 9 according to on- him off at the next level.” After Coffeyville, he's going to line court documents. It's been an unbelievable jour- major in physical education or Williams says he still stays in ney for the young man. Had it sports medicine and become a contact with Hibbert. not been for Pilz coming to town coach. “We're still close and we still talk and bringing Williams under- “I think I could coach a high and everything, but I knew what neath his wing, everything could school team right now to be he was doing,” Williams said. “I have turn out much differently. honest with you,” Williams said, made a decision to separate my- Some call it a coincidence. laughing. “I think I could do it. self from him. I've never gotten Some call it a miracle. Williams Pilz has taught me a lot.” close to anything like [what he calls it fate. All of that is music to Pilz's did], don't get me wrong, but I re- “I think it was all God's plan,” ears. He wants Williams to get a alized if I kept hanging out with Williams said. “God wanted degree and become a positive in- him I'm going to end up in a bad coach to come here and take on fluence on others. situation myself. all of us — me, Juwan, Joe and all “I've told him he has an op- “It's tough not having one of of us. Coach embraced it, it took portunity to be a success story,” your friends who you've known a little time, but I think Way- Pilz said. “Hopefully we've laid since you got here. It's crazy to nesville is headed in the right di- the foundation.” know that something It would be difficult can be gone so fast. to prove that Way- Losing him hurt me a “You don't coach for a nesville High hasn't. lot, but at the same Williams could've end- time it motivated me ed up in far worse more and made me year or two. If you've places than Coffeyville grind harder.” Community College That season, the got a guy on your team, playing for a national- Tigers went 15-12 and ly recognized basket- lost to Washington by he's with you for a ball team with a one point in the Class chance to move to a 5 District 10 cham- four-year college af- pionship game. lifetime.” terwards. After getting that Williams can't help close to becoming a — Waynesville coach Chris Pilz but look at his life and champion, getting a shake his head. There taste of what it felt have been plenty of like, Williams wanted more. rection.” hills and valleys, but he, his “I was determined to get what Pilz agrees that without bas- teammates and his coach has we deserved,” Williams said. ketball, Williams may not have made it despite everything. “Coach told me I was starting to gotten this far. He hopes the “It's been a hell of a run,” understand what I have.” game can take him farther. Williams said. “We've had some He and his teammates pulled “He's getting ready to get chal- down-in-the-pit moments and together, started their offseason lenged, not only athletically, but some up-in-the-sky moments. I workouts immediately and put academically,” Pilz said. “It's re- have loved every moment of it, together an impressive run in the warding to see a guy who wants and I wouldn't trade any of it for 2013-2014 season. to go play college basketball get anything.” Williams and the Tigers were an opportunity to do that. He's Neither would Pilz. Ozark Conference Champions, going to get a chance to get an Some may question the tactics, got their Class 5 District 10 education and basketball is an wonder why he didn't give up. Championship, went 24-2, but avenue to do that.” But Pilz knows his role in play- they lost in the first round of the Williams has a plan for his ed- ers' lives. state tournament to the state ucation that closely follows one “You don't coach for a year or runner-up Hickman Kewpies. of his best friends and idols. two,” Pilz explained. “If you've got Kellieon Williams clutches the ball while moving towards the rim The senior forward was instru- He wants to use his experi- a guy on your team, he's with you in a game against Glendale on January 18, 2014 in Springfield, mental in Waynesville's run, av- ences to help others and influ- for a lifetime.” Missouri. Waynesville won 80-53. PHOTO BY DEREK DUEKER

KANSAS CITY Royals fall short of sweep, lose 7-3 to Blue Jays (AP) — Jeremy Guthrie had eight hits and two walks, his the left-hander was hammered third on Butler's single, though "The two-run homer to Fran- just given up the lead on a homer bumpy night standing in stark for seven runs last Friday night they squandered another scoring cisco was quite frankly a pretty by the Blue Jays' Colby Rasmus, contrast to his last four outings against Boston. opportunity when Eric Hosmer good pitch. He tried to go in and so when the inning ended, he against the Blue Jays, when he "He mixes speeds. He locates. was thrown out at home for the got it in and he hit out of the ball blew off some steam by chucking went 1-0 with a 1.44 ERA. He frustrates you," said the Roy- second straight night. park. The pitch to Rasmus was the ball into the stands. As for the toss into the crowd, als' Billy Butler, who drove in a The Blue Jays regained the not the pitch he wanted to Way into the stands. Into the Guthrie's not concerned about pair of runs. "He feeds off your lead the next half inning when make," Royals manager Ned Yost upper deck. any reprimand from the league. over aggressiveness." Francisco, who had two homers said. "He was trying to go back- "I thought a fan upstairs de- "I'm more concerned about Aaron Loup pitched 2 1-3 in three at-bats off Guthrie last foot slider and left it up a little served a ball. Everyone down be- the repercussions about a couple shutout innings for his third ca- season, hit a two-run shot over bit. I thought he did a good job low always gets ," of home runs again," he said. reer save. the bullpen in right field. But the of keeping us in the game." Guthrie said afterward. "And so Along with the homer by Ras- The teams traded blows most Royals answered again on But- I have a strong arm for the most mus, Juan Francisco also went of the way. ler's two-out double to left in the part, so I figure treat somebody deep for Toronto. Anthony Gose Toronto struck first when bottom of the fifth. up in the third deck, cheap tick- added a pair of RBIs after getting Chris Getz singled in the first in- The Royals kept shifting dra- ets, give them a nice ball. I'm a recalled from Triple-A Buffalo to ning and then swiped bases all matically to deal with the Blue Got very fan-friendly player." start in place of injured out- the way to third, where Edwin Jays' left-handed power hitters, Guthrie's night was done after fielder Melky Cabrera, who re- Encarnacion drove him in with but it didn't matter when Ras- Sports six innings — and that toss into mained sidelined after getting hit a fielder's choice. mus came to bat in the sixth. He the stands. Toronto wound up by a pitch the previous night. Kansas City answered in the powered a 1-2 pitch right over adding to its lead against the Mark Buehrle (5-1) worked second when Justin Maxwell the defense for a two-out homer News? Kansas City bullpen in what through plenty of trouble to last walked and Alcides Escobar sin- that gave Toronto a 4-3 lead. turned into a 7-3 rout Thursday 6 2-3 innings, allowing two gled to right. Jose Bautista Guthrie finished the inning, email it to sports@ night that allowed the Blue Jays earned runs on seven hits and a flubbed the pickup, allowing and then drew a roar from the waynesville to avoid a three-game sweep. pair of walks. It was a solid Maxwell to score easily. crowd with his toss into the Guthrie allowed four runs on bounce-back performance after The Royals pulled ahead in the seats. dailyguide.com