SAVANNAH — Chillicothe High School’s basketball Lady Hornets might have entered this week’s talent-stacked Savannah Invitational Tournament seeded only a tenuous fourth, but they will compete in today’s title game nevertheless.
Recovering deer populations and some great hunting weather during the 11-day November firearms deer season combined to allow Missouri hunters to check in 187,967 deer, up more than 11,000 than last year’s 176,684.
A week of extensive, but not exclusively, tournament play for C-T-area high school basketball teams will wrap up today with action for several squads, some in championship games. Tourney girls’ favorites Meadville and Polo won their opening-round games Monday at Mendon and Gallatin, respectively, with the Hale/Bosworth and Meadville boys and Brunswick girls also triumphant in the Northwestern Invitational at Mendon.
COLUMBIA — At the end of a 2021 season begun with high expectations and marked by a series of spectacularly-tight finishes in the postseason, the Marceline High School football Tigers will try today to finally scratch a 3-1/2- decades itch.
SAVANNAH — Playing their belated 2021-22 season debut after being unable to get in a “tuneup” game against Hamilton a week earlier, the Chillicothe High School basketball Hornets were swamped right off the opening tip by tall, quick, and high-pressure Platte County Tuesday in the opening round of the Savannah Invitational Tournament, falling into an 18-1 chasm that, while it once shrunk to as few as 11 points before halftime, eventually led to a 60-29 loss to the Pirates.
With one of the program’s two 2020-21 state-medal winners – light heavyweight Brock Miller – and two other state qualifiers who led the team in bout wins as freshmen back – all as underclassmen – from a squad which went 22-7 in dual matches a year ago, the Chillicothe High School’s new season will commence Thursday evening with 6 p.m. home action against Marshall.
MARCELINE — The Marceline High School football Tigers apparently chose to play the 2021 postseason under an alias mascot – the Eagles. Their district-championship game and state quarterfinal and last Saturday’s 31-30 semifinal victory over Hayti the past three weeks – all at MHS’ Chester Ray Stadium – took that famed music group’s mid-1970s musical admonition “take it to the limit one more time” to the extreme.
While this week marks the all-out charge into the 2021-22 high school basketball season for the dozen-plus area schools from the Carroll-Livingston Activity Association and various other regional conferences, about half of them got in a game or two in the week leading up to Thanksgiving.
As seemed as inevitable as the back-and-forth sway of grandfather clock’s hanging weight, the results pendulum swung back well past center for the Chillicothe High School football Hornets in 2021, their first season under the oversight of first-time head coach Chad Smith.