WILLOWBROOK, Mo. — The Chillicothe High School soccer Lady Hornets put together, in head coach Jimmy Chapman’s assessment, a quality road-match performance against Mid-Buchanan last Thursday, doing the only scoring in regulation time.
EXCELSIOR SPRINGS — The somewhat-topsy-turvy 2022 high school track-andfield season for the Chillicothe girls and boys continued last Friday with the Hornets winning three events, including a CHS-record-threatening effort by senior discus ace Damarcus Kelow, and the Lady Hornets none at the Mineral Water Classic hosted by Excelsior Springs, yet the girls finishing higher in the team standings.
Chillicothe High School’s tennis Hornets positioned themselves to claim last Thursday’s Midland Empire Conference home match against Maryville with their doubles play, but couldn’t close the deal in the one-on-one phase.
Miguel Cabrera reached the 3,000-hit mark on a weekend afternoon in front of an adoring crowd at his home ballpark in Detroit. It was a moment worthy of the milestone.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — There are two very different schools of thought surrounding the Kansas City Chiefs as they head into the NFL draft, where aggressive general manager Brett Veach has two picks apiece in each of the first four rounds and 12 in all.
As history had suggested they almost surely would, the Chillicothe High School soccer Lady Hornets rediscovered their scoring touch Monday evening when the caliber of opponent downshifted. Coming off shutout losses to very strong squads from Hannibal and Maryville last week, the Lady Hornets once again dominated a foe against which they regularly have significant offensive success, disposing of the visiting Cameron Lady Dragons 8-0 in a match ended in the 65th minute – 15-plus minutes shy of its scheduled length – on the 8-goal-lead rule, but not before sophomore Delanie Kieffer produced her first varsity 3-goals “hat trick.” In her third-ever starting assignment and first as the team’s new No.
Missouri’s “regular” spring turkey season is underway (as of last Monday), but it’s too early to predict how successful this year’s hunters will. However, the annual youth-only season two weeks ago enjoyed some pretty good weather and the young hunters checked in 2,888 turkeys, up 43 birds from their 2021 season and the most turkeys taken in the youth season since 2017 when a super youth season produced 4,100 turkeys taken.
CAMERON — Behind a second Damarcus Kelow sweep of the discus throw and shot put, Chillicothe High School’s track-and-field Hornets earned second place in Tuesday’s Crossroads Relays meet hosted by Cameron High School.
ST. JOSEPH — Entering the Pony Express Tournament hoping to ignite a midseason surge back toward the .500 mark, the Chillicothe High School baseball Hornets went from seemingly-certain to take a first step in that direction to a crushing defeat that reflected season-long difficulties in closing out games.
While their tennis counterparts were unable to follow suit the following day, Chillicothe High School’s young golf Hornets closed out the dual-matches phase of their 2022 season Monday by dominating the host Trenton Bulldogs.