Green Ridge R-8 School District

GR 5th graders took part in DARE graduation today. Our students learned so much from Officer Trout! Whitney Rupe and Kyndal Gilbertson were our outstanding essay winners.

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Green Ridge Boy’s Golf ⛳️⛳️⛳️ Class 1 State Tournament @ Rivercut Golf Course in Springfield, Missouri Sam Verbovshchuk Results… Monday: 88 Sam Verbovshchuk made the turn in the lead of the Class 1 State Tournament shooting a +3 (39) front 9 score. Making the turn Sam struggled to find a rhythm and fell back to 25th ending the day with a par on the 18 hole. Sam shot his personal best on the front 9 of Day 1. Tuesday: 86 Sam started on the back 9 on Tuesday and got revenge on that side of the golf course that gave him trouble the day before by improving by 7 strokes on the back 9. Sam struggled to find consistency on the front 9 of Day 2. Overall Sam Verbovshchuk finished 24th in the Class 1 State Tournament out of 84 golfers ⛳️ He was only 4 strokes away from being All-State. The Green Ridge Golf Programs now has 2 sophomore golfers inside the Top 25 of Class 1 with Ava Needy (Girl’s Fall Season) and now Sam Verbovshchuk (Boy’s Spring Season) Congratulations to Sam Verbovshchuk for a very successful season. Finishing 4th in Conference, multiple individual 9 hole victories, multiple Top 5 9 hole matches, 24th at the Class 1 State Tournament

The GRHS 7-12 concert begins at 6pm. Come out tonight at 6pm to hear our talented musicians. Also, check out the events scheduled for the remainder of the year!

Baseball lost in the first round of District Friday 10-3 to KC Lutheran. Lucas Mason pitched well through the first four innings, until he maxed out his pitch count. Trent Scotten led the way with two hits. The Tigers gained valuable experience throughout the year. They played a very difficult schedule and gave their best effort most nights. Thank you to Trent and Austin for a great career and their senior leadership to the team.

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Annual Spring Title I Meeting

Sectional Track will be tomorrow at West Platte High School. Those interested in traveling there will need to purchase digital tickets found here: https://www.mshsaa.org/CMSPages/Tickets.aspx Click Track & Field, then pick Class 1 Sectional 3 and Class 2 Sectional 4 at West Platte High School. After purchasing your tickets, you can manage them through the HomeTown Fan app.

Tiger Baseball Roundup this week. The Tigers played the #1 and #2 teams in the conference to end out the regular season. The Tigers played a talented Cole Camp team on Tuesday and lost 14-1. Then played the State Ranked Mustangs and lost 14-0. The Tigers have been playing better overall, just need some timely hitting and error reduction. The Tigers start District play tonight in Leeton, against KC Lutheran. First pitch is at 5:00 p.m.

Baseball travels to Northwest today for a varsity contest. First pitch is at 5:00 p.m. Baseball plays in the first round of Districts tomorrow against Lutheran KC @ Leeton. Game starts at 5:00 p.m. Track travels to West Platte High School for the Sectional Meet on Saturday. Field Events start at 9:00 a.m. and Running Events start at 11:00 a.m. GR athletes Weston Crawford competes at 9:00 and Michael Smith competes at noon. Good Luck Tigers!

The votes are in! Option 1 is the winner with almost 80% of the votes. We look forward to having a new, welcoming look to our our main entry lobby and our gym lobby this summer!

Help us celebrate our GR8 students as they advance into the next level of their education. The 6th grade students are being promoted into Jr High! This year's 8th grade classed missed their promotion recognition during 2020, so we are celebrating them as they advance from Jr High to High School. Please feel free to join us in both of these celebratory events!

Help us welcome a new staff member for the 2022-2023 school year!

What is going on at the school? Here are a few things in the works! We have a lot of construction projects in the works, thanks to the support of our GR8 community! The roof renovations were completed over the summer. The gym lobby restrooms are currently closed and work has started to add more stalls for our public. A new HVAC system will be added to most of the main building, which is great because many of the units are having issues today! A new fire alarm system will be in place for safety purposes. All unrenovated restrooms will be renovated and new flooring will be added to most of the school. The peach ceramic tiles in the hallways will be painted, and our school entrances will receive more welcoming makeovers! We will be sending the community periodic updates of our progress, so stay tuned!

Help us welcome a new staff member for the 2022-2023 school year!

Green Ridge Boy’s Golf ⛳️⛳️⛳️ Class 1 District 3 Tournament @ Windmill Ridge Golf Course in Monett, Missouri. Results… Sam Verbovshchuk: 104 Logan Dove: 120 Kamryn Hoos: 121 Shane Meyer: 136 Ryan Hagedorn: 136 Team Results… 11th place out of a total of 18 schools CONGRATULATIONS to Sam Verbovshchuk for advancing to the STATE Tournament @ Rivercut Golf Course in Springfield, Missouri next week. ⛳️🏆 Congratulations to Logan Dove, Kamryn Hoos, Shane Meyer, Ryan Hagedorn, and Ace Bodenhamer on a successful season! Thank you for all your hard work and dedication to the golf program. We are looking forward to seeing all the hard work you guys put in over the summer translate to next season.

Lady Tigers win! GR takes out Smithton in district play. Our Lady Tigers will play the winner of Lincoln/Otterville this Wednesday at Sweet Springs. Game will begin at 6:30pm.

Athletic updates for Monday, May 9th: Golf is at Monett today for District competition at Windmill Ridge Goof Course. Shotgun start at 9:00am. Softball is at Lincoln, playing Smithton, in the first round of Districts. First pitch will take place at 4:00 pm. Good luck Tigers!

The Green Ridge Varsity Track Team traveled to Cass Midway today and competed in the Class 1 District 6 meet. Here are the results for Green Ridge: Girls Lexi Van Brocklin 800m Run PR 1600m Run 5th Place PR Javelin PR Boys Weston Crawford High Jump 3rd Place PR (Advance to Sectionals) 800m Run 4th Place PR (Advance to Sectionals) Michael Smith 110m HH 3rd Place (Advance to Sectionals) 300m H 5th Place Eric Thomas 1600m Run 5th Place Mark Pavlioglo High Jump 5th Place Congratulations to Weston Crawford and Michael Smith advancing to Sectionals next Saturday at West Platte High School. GO TIGERS!!!!!

Today is School Lunch Hero Day! Our GR8 Schools would like to honor three of the BEST lunch heroes, Greta Turner, Rena Tylar, and Rhonda Ulmer.