Parkway North Rides Johnson To Thrilling Win In District Semifinals over Rival Central

Senior Darrell Johnson’s near-triple double leads Vikings to title game berth against De Smet on Friday.

CHESTERFIELD – For the third time this season, archrival boys basketball programs Parkway North and Parkway Central hooked up Wednesday night. The teams traded victories in the two previous meetings, with North earning a 59-51 win in the season opener back in November, and Central claiming a 47-45 win in conference play three weeks ago. But the most important matchup of the season came Wednesday night, when the Vikings and Colts clashed one last time in the MSHSAA Class 5 District 4 semifinals, with the winner earning a shot at the district title game on Friday night. And thanks to a brilliant performance by 6-foot-8, 240-pound senior center Darrell Johnson, it was Parkway North's night, somehow outlasting Parkway Central for a 49-45 win, …

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Traffic Flow to Change Monday at Parkway Central Campus

Admins call for feedback on the changes.

Traffic flow routes will change Monday on the Parkway Central High School campus, the school's principal said Thursday. Bus riders will enter the school at different doors, due to the traffic changes. See an accompanying map here for specifics. "As most are aware, traffic flow on campus has been particularly challenging the last month or so due to the changes with 141," Principal Tim McCarthy said. The plan's major shifts:   McCarthy called for parents to consult with their students over the changes by Monday morning, particularly if students drive to school. "If your student rides the bus, please let them know their point of entry into the building will change," McCarthy said in an email to Parkway families. Administrators worked to …

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Coach: Parkway Central Football Star Chooses College

Mizzou wanted him, but who gets him?

He isn't talking about it yet, but it appears Parkway Central Wide Receiver Brandon Sheperd has ended his college recruiting process. His coach, Mark Goldenberg, told Patch that Sheperd apparently committed to Oklahoma State University Monday morning. Sheperd was in Stillwater over the weekend for a recruiting visit which included OSU's game Saturday against arch rival Oklahoma. Sheperd, who had narrowed his choices to Oklahoma State and the University of Missouri, led the Colts with 21 touchdowns this season as Parkway Central High School won a district title. Goldenberg said he learned Monday night of Sheperd's decision. Attempts to reach the senior for comment have been unsuccessful. Recruits can only make verbal pledges, which are non-…

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MTV 'Made' With Chesterfield Teen, Saturday Noon

Saturday noon episode shows how Parkway Central senior spent an important summer of her life.

Angie Tozer, a senior at Chesterfield's Parkway Central High School, is featured in an MTV docu-series “Made” on Saturday, Dec. 3, at noon. Episodes of “Made” follow young people as they embark on a mission to transform their lives. Tozer's story kicks off the series’ 11th season on MTV. “I can’t wait to see what they actually show after filming for 150 hours and editing it to a one hour show,” Tozer said, in an email to Chesterfield Patch. Over seven weeks this past summer, a team of MTV coaches worked with Tozer to prepare for a beauty pagent. Coaches included Ms. Missouri 2009, Tamara Osseck.  Viewers will watch the 17-year old Tozer work to shed her man-of-the-house persona that she took on after her dad died when she was a fifth-…

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Jean Whitney

11:05 pm on Saturday, December 3, 2011

I would love to meet her. Inspiration is right, Karen!   more ›

Parkway Central Ends Football Season in Loss to Hazelwood East

Colts only able to manage first quarter points.

Parkway Central High School closed out its varsity football season Saturday with a 42-15 loss to Hazelwood East for the Class 5 quarterfinals, in Chesterfield. Parkway Central had clinched the district title in October, with a win over Webster Grove. Parkway's Colts scored during the first minutes of the playoff round Saturday. Hazelwood's Spartans answered with a touchdown, and the Colts hit back with another touchdown—making for a 15-12 Colts lead at the end of the first quarter. Parkway Central would not score again Saturday night. The two teams went into the playoff game with records of Central 10-1, Hazelwood East 7-4. But in a cursory look over the field, Spartans seemed to outweigh the Colts, player for player. There were laughs on …

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Parkway Central Overpowers Webster With Big Second Half Flurry

Colts move to 10-1 and advance to state football quarterfinals, with 42-26 win over Statesmen, who are 9-2 with Turkey Day Game left in two weeks.

The story of Monday’s MSHSAA Class 5 sectional round football game between Webster Groves and Parkway Central could probably be best told as a tale of right and wrong. In the first half, visiting Webster Groves did virtually everything right, with big plays and big hits, and built for itself a 20-7 halftime lead. But in the second half, it was Parkway Central that could do no wrong, as it stormed back with 35 points in the final 24 minutes, to advance past sectionals and into the state quarterfinals, with a 42-26 win over the Statesmen. “We didn’t get much going in the first half, but we got a pretty good start to the second half,” Central coach Mark Goldenberg said. “And then they settled in. And once we got all that bad stuff behind us, …

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Police Address Heroin With Community at Parkway Central Forum

St. Louis County police say heroin is now a predominantly middle-class drug.

Parkway School District, St. Louis County police and other community organizations are hosting a town hall meeting on the dangers of heroin at Central High School, Monday. "It is open to anyone in the community. They don't have to have kids in Parkway. They may attend one of the private schools, but this is a community event," Parkway District spokesperson Cathy Kelly told Patch. Due to Game 5 of the World Series, Monday's community forum on heroin will be held one hour earlier at 6-7:30 p.m. Monday at Parkway Central High School, at 369 N. Woods Mill Rd. "Heroin is a huge problem of epidemic proportion to our population, to young adults and to the youth. I mean, we're handling overdoses every day," said St. Louis County Police Department …

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Whiz Kids: Students Named National Achievement Semifinalists

The students from Parkway North and Parkway Central are eligible to compete for college scholarship dollars.

The Parkway School District announced this week that a pair of Creve Coeur area high school students have been named National Merit Scholarship Achievement scholarship semifinalists. Parkway Central's Ahmed Eltahir, and Parkway North's Paa Imbeah are among a pool of approximately 16,000 students nationwide to have reached this stage, thanks to performance on standardized testing. The field will be winnowed down to 15,000 students nationwide who have demonstrated strong academic performance throughout high school and will have been recommended and endorsed by their principal. The students will also write an essay, have strong SAT scores, and be evaluated on their leadership, community involvement outside of class. Next spring, roughly 8,300…

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Parkway Central Football Rolls Over Rockwood Summit

The teams played Thursday under the lights, instead of Friday, since Yom Kippur starts Friday at sundown.

Parkway Central High School varsity football beat Rockwood Summit 28-9 Thursday night under the lights at Parkway Central's stadium in Chesterfield. The Colts led 7-0 at halftime after a second quarter goal. The teams seemed pretty evenly matched, with the Colts barely moving the ball over the line for a touchdown in a big pile up. Spectators didn't know it was a score until the referees signalled. Quarterback Cole Gorman got the Colts on the scoreboard. Colts got the kick and it was 7-0 just as the second quarter began. The Colts scored three more times in the second half. Brandon Sheperd made a 99-yard kickoff return in the first play of the third quarter that gave the Colts a 14-0 lead. Then Parkway's Alan Gasanli scored from 14 yards …

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