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TINA — With cooperative weather, the annual Carroll-Livingston Activity Association high school basketball tournament swung into action last Saturday, with one fewer game than originally planned as Breckenridge’s 1-win co-ed team dropped out of the boys’ division, and completed its quarterfinals this past Tuesday.Last night’s championship semifinals promised to be entertaining and hotly competitive as multiple girls’ and boys’ teams jockeyed for a spot in tomorrow evening’s championship contests.The girls’ title game at Tina-Avalon School, likely matching regular-season leader and top seed Higbee against either No.

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After nearly two weeks of idleness from game competition, due to winter weather issues, the basketball Hornets of host Chillicothe and Hamilton’s Penney high schools returned to the court Jan.

It didn’t take very long before a new Missouri state record fish was recorded for 2024.Jeffrey Needles of Lake Lotawana already has had a yellow perch officially weighed and certified as a new state record – a 12-ounces perch taken by throwline from (you guessed it) Lake Lotawana in Jackson County during Needles’ first fishing expedition of 2024.It was his second perch caught that day.

For the first time in the approximately half-century Chillicothe High School has had both boys’ and girls’ basketball teams, its current head coaches both have guided their CHS teams to victory more than 200 times.With Lady Hornets head coach Darren Smith surreptitiously crossing that threshold when his team defeated Smithville for the championship of the Savannah Invitational tournament back on Dec.

Chillicothe High School’s half-dozen wrestling Lady Hornets had a perfect, if not overly taxing, night at home a week ago last night, while the Hornets collectively had the opposite experience.Hosting St.

Another win over a Kansas City team Tuesday to start a tournament and a lopsided road victory last week have the Chillicothe High School basketball Lady Hornets in double digits in victories this season as they enter the most-challenging portion of their recently-revised 2023-24 schedule.After improving to 2-0 in the Midland Empire Conference a week ago Tuesday at Kansas City: St.

With the weather seemingly set to cooperate, the annual blizzard of late-season tournaments – minus one this year with the demise of the Cameron Invitational – is underway for area squads with action at seven sites.

KANSAS CITY — Chillicothe High School’s basketball Lady Hornets, yet to lose to a Missouri opponent in 2023-24, might lack the depth or height to finish the season as one of the last three or four standing, as the most-recent Missouri Basketball Coaches Association’s rankings of Class 4 team suggested – they were ranked third, but the way they’re performing, they’ll do until someone proves otherwise.This past Tuesday night, following a weather-idled week that also made even having practices a difficult endeavor, the Lady Hornets weren’t perfect as they visited Kansas City: St.

Missouri’s 2023-24 firearms deer seasons ended on Jan.