Bayless Boys Avenge Loss to Brentwood

The Bronchos took care of the Eagles on the Brentwood court.

Bayless boys basketball lost to Brentwood at home last year, and came to the Eagles' home court on Friday with a plan to even the score. They did it convincingly. “They beat us by one point at our place,” Bayless’ Munir Hirkic told STLtoday.com. “So we had a bit of a chip on our shoulder and we came out ready to play.” See more photos at Affton Patch Facebook. STLtoday.com reported on the game at Brentwood, which the Bronchos won, 70-44. Bayless (8-3) got 20 points from Hirkic and a team-high 26 from Patrick Triplett – 17 in the second half – as it improved to 2-0 in the conference. Brentwood (6-6, 0-1) was led by junior guard Will Erby, who scored 15. The Bronchos didn’t waste any time taking control in the opening minutes. They hit their…

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Bayless High School Junior Honored for Service, Leadership

Luella Loseille, 17, won a scholarship from the YWCA Future Leader Award program.

Luella Loseille, a junior at Bayless High School, has been named a runner up for the YWCA Future Leader Award.  The YWCA of Metro St. Louis recognizes five young women each year for their leadership skills with this scholarship. Loseille, 17, was one of four students who will win a $500 runner-up award. Nina Barbleh, of Carnahan High School, won the $1,500 scholarship. Veronica Marshall, development assistant for the YWCA, said this year the YWCA did a pilot program with the future leader program and offered students workshops on service learning and leadership.  Marshall said her first impression of Luella based on the workshops was that she was friendly.  "She just exuded bubbliness and happiness," Marshall said. "From her leadership …

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Affton, Bayless Baseball Players Named to All-Star Team

Affton's Eric Hegger and Bayless' Alfred Parisi were among the 34 St. Louis-area high school seniors that will play in an all-star game on June 16 at Busch Stadium.

Two local high school baseball players will get a shot to play at Busch Stadium this month. Affton's Eric Hegger and Bayless' Alfred Parisi, both seniors, were selected to play in the second annual Smiles League Coaches' Choice High School Seniors All-Star baseball game. The rosters were announced Sunday outside of Busch Stadium. The game will be played on June 16 following the 1:15 p.m. St. Louis Cardinals vs. Kansas City Royals game. Admission to the all-star game is free. Cardinals alumni players Scott Cooper and Kerry Robinson will coach the two teams. This is the second year for both coaching in the all-star game. Cooper is a St. Louis native who played high school baseball for Pattonville, spent seven years in the major leagues, and …

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Seniors and Parents: Upload Your Prom Photos

Share memories of prom on Patch.

The past two weekends, Affton and Bayless students danced the night away, enjoying a classic high school rite of passage.  Students, show off your glitzy dress, freshly-pressed tux or wrist corsage by uploading your photos to Patch.  Parents, upload some of the 1,000 photos you'll take of your children posing on stair banisters or at the park.  Simply click on the 'Upload Photos' button above and don't forget to tell us who you are! Wishing the Affton and Bayless juniors and seniors a fun and productive end of the school year.  Check out our photos from last year's Affton and Bayless proms.

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Tailgate Sale at Bayless Intermediate Today

Get out to support Project Graduation and buy stuff.

Bayless Grad Is Youngest Arch Rival Roller Girl

Check out this feature on Katy Hahler's roller derby experience.

Week in Sports

Local Teams Up and Down in Tourneys

Our weekly South County sports roundup touches both basketball and wrestling.

The Rockwood Summit boys basketball team hoped to ride the emotion and momentum of a last-second win in the semifinals of the Lindbergh Tournament to a tourney title. It was not meant to be as the Falcons lost in the championship game to O'Fallon 58-52. The tournament was still an encouraging one for the Falcons who defeated the host Flyers in the first round 57-37 and then had a memorable win over Springfield Hillcrest 44-43 in the semifinals. Jory Woodson hit a shot at the buzzer in the semifinals and had an outstanding tournament overall. Woodson had 21 points in the opener, 13 in the semifinals and 19 in the championship game. Lindbergh came back after the opening round loss to defeat Jackson twice and capture the consolation …

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It's On eBay: 1964 Clipping on Bayless High Architects

Check out this piece of Bayless School District history.

This week's piece of eBay treasure comes to us from the year 1964: a vintage magazine clipping about the architects and design of Bayless High School. According the seller the clipping came from a rare building industry magazine. The item can be purchased for $7.88 plus $3.29 shipping. The seller describes the paper as "mildly tanned, overall good shape." "I've been a paper collector for nearly 20 years and have been in business since 1998...paper is my life's passion," said seller Carrie of eBay's Vintage Alliance. "We purchase lots of ephemera from individuals and salvage what we can...letters, postcards, pictures, articles, books, anything on paper." The paper includes a picture of Bayless High School's original achitect Ernest Friton …

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Tournament Time For Area Basketball Teams

The Southside Classic and other tournaments opened the 2011-12 season for several area boys and girls basketball teams.

The beginning of high school basketball season usually means tournament action and that was the case for many of the South County-area boys and girls teams last week with more tournaments scheduled for this week. The Southside Classic has been an annual start for several schools and action was held last week at Mehlville High School for the boys and Affton High School for the girls. The Bayless boys advanced to the championship game in the boys tournament before falling in the finals to St. Louis University High 68-41. The Bronchos got off to a rocky start in their first round game against DuBourg as they trailed 29-16 at the half. But they rebounded to outscore the Cavaliers 31-12 in the second half in a 47-41 win. Edin Mehmedovic had 16 …

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Bayless Takes 2nd At Southside Classic After Loss To SLUH

Mistake prone first half proves too much to overcome, as Bronchos lose big to SLUH.

MEHLVILLE – Mama said there’d be days like this. And unfortunately for the Bayless High boys basketball team, one of those days came in the Southside Classic championship game, Friday night against SLUH, when the Bronchos couldn’t do hardly anything right, and lost the game 68-41. “I tell you, some days you’re the windshield, and some days you’re the bug,” Bayless head basketball coach Pat Triplett said. “Today, we were that bug, and we got smashed.” Boy did they ever. Bayless, the tournament’s No. 1 seed after winning the event for the first time ever last year, had one of its worst performances ever, in what proved to be a 27-point loss to the Jr. Billikens. The Bronchos shot poorly, and passed poorly, and had nearly everything go wrong …

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