In selections that likely would have been predicted at season’s start, a pair of non-seniors have been honored as the Carroll-Livingston Activity Association’s top players for the just-ended high school basketball campaign.
ST. JOSEPH — Two Chillicothe High School Lady Hornets and one Hornet – including a brother-and-sister hardwoods act – have been selected to the Midland Empire Conference’s 2021-22 all-conference basketball first teams, it was announced by the league Sunday.
The valves on the Chillicothe High School-University of Central Missouri athletics pipeline remain open and free-flowing. Having seen multiple CHS graduates across several sports evolve from Hornets to Mules, the connection between here and the Warrensburg university saw current CHS senior and 2021 trackand-field state champion Damarcus Kelow agree officially earlier this month to make that transition next school year. Flanked by his father Mark Kelow and mother Charo Andrus during a brief March 15 ceremony in the CHS commons, Kelow signed his NCAA letter-of-intent to accept a track-and-field scholarship from UCM a week prior to the beginning of his senior season of prep competition. Kelow will seek to become a repeat state champion in the discus throw this spring, while also competing in the shot put, in which he narrowly missed earning a state-meet medal last May. Chillicotheans have fared very well in track and field, particularly in field events, for the Division II school at Warrensburg. In recent years. Jesse Miller was a multiple-times national medalist in jumping events as a Mule and Brett Shaffer was a strong hurdler and Drew Frizzell was a multiple-times national champion as a thrower for UCM about 10-15 years ago. Asked by the C-T if he sees Kelow, who presumably will be tried in all five college throwing disciplines (shot put, discus, javelin, hammer, and weight), as of the ilk of Frizzell and another early 2000s CHS throwing standout, Wade Smith, who competed in D-II national-championship meets for then-William Jewell College, long-time acclaimed Chillicothe throwers coach Ken Stull was emphatic in his endorsement. “He can be every bit as good as them. I won’t be surprised if he were to be a national champion and go to nationals several time.” CHS boys’ head coach Bill Shaffer commented on the latest UCM-bound signee, “When you work hard and keep at it, good things happen. He’s been dedicated to this type of opportunity throughout his high school career. Even with losing (his sophomore season) to COVID-19, he kept the ‘big picture’ in mind.”. Kelow told the C-T Frizzell encouraged him to consider UCM. “His successes (as a Hornet and Mule) have been an inspiration to me,” the current CHS standout confirmed. (PAUL STURM/C-T PHOTO)
LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — Kansas coach Bill Self has always relied on veteran point guards to run his teams, All-Americans such as Frank Mason III and Devonte’ Graham, or Tyshawn Taylor, who led an unheralded group of Jayhawks to the Final Four in 2012.
Returning the bulk of a squad which unexpectedly capped a roller-coaster 2021 season with their program’s second district championship, the Chillicothe High School baseball Hornets head into their new season with promising prospects.
In the last three weeks, our area has had the largest number of snow geese arriving that I’ve ever seen or heard of. Snow geese are migratory and fly through this area in both spring and fall, coming from or going to their nesting ground in the Arctic.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The Kansas City Royals signed six-time All-Star pitcher Zack Greinke to a $13 million contract for this season Wednesday, reuniting the right-hander with the club that drafted him in the first round two decades ago.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The Chiefs agreed to a three-year, $31.5 million contract with safety Justin Reid, a person familiar with the negotiations told The Associated Press, likely ending Tyrann Mathieu’s time with Kansas City.
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Tom Brady’s retirement lasted 40 days.
Keegan Murray has given Iowa a firstteam Associated Press All-American for the third straight year, and Kofi Cockburn has made it two in a row for Illinois — not bad for a couple programs that haven’t had a whole lot of them.