ST. JOSEPH — A pair of first-ever varsity-level event wins for both a Hornet and Lady Hornet highlighted Chillicothe’s sweep of the team titles in last Tuesday’s regular-season-ending Cardinal Relays high school track-and-field meet hosted by Benton High School.
A year ago, Chillicothe High School’s baseball Hornets went into their district tournament with a losing record, but facing more-distant opponents they had rarely, if ever, met. That worked out very well as, paced by the pitching and team leadership of then-senior, 4-years veteran Mason Baxter, they – as the No.
TRENTON — For a second year in a row, Chillicothe High School’s tennis Hornets have advanced both a singles and doubles entry – including a rare repeat district singles champion – to the upcoming state-qualifying, sectional-matches round of Missouri non-team postseason competition.
Falling behind 5-0 – including surrendering three unearned runs – before they got their first swings of the game, the Chillicothe High School baseball Hornets never challenged visiting St. Joseph: Benton the rest of the game as CHS dropped an 11-5 non-conference contest last Thursday.
ST. JOSEPH — Although they cut it relatively close, the 2022 Chillicothe High School track-and-field Hornets kept their long-stellar program’s nearly-millenium-long streak of winning at least one meet a year going last Thursday.
In a season which, while still reasonably successful, for multiple reasons hasn’t blossomed quite as fully as Chillicothe High School soccer fans have come to almost expect, the CHS Lady Hornets had a chance to show some self-pity last Thursday, but turned it down.
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Anyone anticipating a return to normalcy in the Kentucky Derby got a dose of crazy on Saturday when an 80-1 shot came charging up the rail to win at Churchill Downs.
MARYVILLE — Chillicothe High School senior Damarcus Kelow earned a couple of boys’ throwing-event crowns, sophomore Jolie Bonderer won the 1,600-meters run, and CHS pole vaulters Gavin Funk and Sarah Boon each prevailed to highlight the Hornets’ and Lady Hornets’ second-place finishes in Tuesday’s Midland Empire Conference Championships trackand-field meet.
With one individual top-10 finisher, the young Chillicothe High School golf Hornets, with four-fifths of their lineup being sophomores, finished a very respectable fourth team-wise in the annual Midland Empire Conference Championship tournament at the St. Joseph Country Club last Monday.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Yadier Molina wasn’t going to let an illness that kept the Cardinals catcher out of the previous day’s lineup also keep him from walking onto the field with Adam Wainwright for the 310th time on Wednesday.