LOCAL BRIEFS: Missouri’s Buckley receives first-team All-SEC honors

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BRANSON MO NEWS: On Thursday, Missouri senior golfer Hayden Buckley was named to the All-SEC first team. Buckley, from Belden, claimed four individual tournament titles during the 2017-18 season: the Turning Stone Intercollegiate, the Bank of Tennessee Intercollegiate, the SunTrust Gator Invitational and the Tiger Invitational. At the Warrior Invitational in Hawaii, the senior posted a cumulative score of 197, the best 54-hole score in program history, in a second-place finish and produced the best single-round score in Missouri men’s golf history (61). Buckley also owns the best scoring average in the Southeastern Conference at 69.53 and was named to the watch list for the Haskins Award, which is awarded to the country’s top college golfer. 

The Missouri men’s golf team will make its 14th appearance in NCAA postseason play when the Tigers participate in the Raleigh Regional from May 14-16 at the Lonnie Poole Golf Course.Missouri volleyball adds transfer Omazic from IllinoisTwo days after adding Illinois transfer Annika Gereau, the Missouri volleyball team picked up another transfer from the Fighting Illini. Middle blocker Tyanna Omazic, from Lenexa, Kansas, will join the Tigers’ 2018 roster, the team announced in a news release Thursday. “We recruited Tyanna quite heavily out of high school, so we know what she’s capable of and the impact we expect her to have on our program,” coach Wayne Kreklow said in the news release. “She’s an outstanding volleyball player with great quickness and agility. Tyanna is an exceptional athlete as an attacker off of one foot and is outstanding at the net as a blocker. She’s an intense competitor and will certainly help raise the level of play in our gym.”During her sophomore season with Illinois, Omazic was amongst the top five in total kills (114), hitting percentage (.271), solo blocks (11), block assists (74), total blocks (85), blocks per set (1.01) and points (172.0). The Fighting Illini …



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