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.
As I write this column in the second week of Missouri’s 3-week spring turkey season, harvest success across the state appears to have slowed markedly since opening weekend, with inclement cold weather a big factor.
Capitalizing on weather which belied the forecast, Chillicothe High School’s spring sports teams in girls’ soccer and boys’ tennis closed out April play with shutout victories last Thursday and the golf Hornets got in a final tuneup for this week’s conference tournament.
Although they went for nought, in terms of possibly qualifying for a berth in the would-be championship game of their later-cancelled annual tournament, the Chillicothe High School baseball Hornets at least maintained their mastery of recent-years nemesis St. Joseph: Lafayette.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Brett Veach found himself in the same vexing position as every other NFL general manager during the draft, trying to remain true to his scouting board — and all the work put in this past year — while also understanding there were glaring holes on the roster that need to be filled.
LAS VEGAS – University of Missouri football saw two of its’ former student-athletes – Akayleb Evans and Tyler Badie – selected in the 2022 NFL Draft on Saturday. The selections mark the 17th consecutive season Mizzou has had a player drafted, dating back to 2005.
The Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC) encourages Missouri hunters to apply for elk-hunting and bear-hunting permits in May. MDC will offer five permits to hunt bull elk in Missouri this fall with at least one permit allocated for qualifying area landowners and the remaining permits for the general public.
With family members around him, ailing Chillicothean Roger Brick, who moved to the community in the 1970s to establish a chiropractic practice and, in the 1990s, became the chief advocate for development of the community’s youth and school soccer programs which have developed and flourished in the past quarter-century-plus, is presented a plaque saluting him as the town’s “Mr. Soccer” on behalf of Chillicothe High School’s program by one of last fall’s Hornets state tournament quarterfinalists during an appreciation ceremony that followed last Monday’s 3-1 CHS girls’ victory over state-ranked St. Joseph: Bishop LeBlond. (BUTCH SHAFFER/C-T PHOTO)
The Missouri Department of Conservation has announced the 2022-23 season dates and bag limits for migratory game birds and waterfowl. Hunters can now plan and prepare for fall hunting well in advance.
ST. JOSEPH — With this spring’s prevailing chilly, wet weather twice having forced postponement of their teams’ still-unplayed dual match, when Chillicothe High School tennis Hornets Chace Corbin, last year’s Midland Empire Conference boys’ tennis singles runnerup and subsequent Class 1 state tournament qualifer, stepped on the Noyes Tennis Center court Wednesday afternoon to face 2021 champion and state tournament fourth-place finisher Cole Horton in this year’s MEC Championships singles title rematch, there was no direct barometer to gauge whether the intervening 12 months had brought their respective games closer together or widened the gap between the CHS senior and Savages sophomore.