Behind six top-3 finishes and led by junior Yoo Lee’s title in the 120-pounds division, Chillicothe High School’s wrestling Lady Hornets earned second place in this year’s Chillicothe Invitational tournament last Saturday.With 51-1/2 points, CHS nosed out Mexico by 2-1/2 points for the runnerup team spot behind champion Marceline, which registered 71.
BROOKFIELD — With, based on the matchups, the likely results of all but a few of bouts foreseeable, the Chillicothe High School wrestling Hornets managed victories in only three of 11 contested bouts last Thursday as the neighboring Brookfield Bulldogs posted a deceptively-close 45-36 dual-match home victory.The Hornets, dropping to 8-14 in duals this season, received wins by fall in three of the four heaviest weight divisions after getting half of their overall points total from forfeits, due to three vacancies in the Brookfield lineup (113, 126, and 165 pounds).Brookfield’s girls also prevailed, 48-18, in a match with 10 open weights and only four contests.In the boys’ action, as expected, CHS’ Cayden Larson took the measure of BHS’ Jaden Kyle, winning in 1:03 at 175 pounds.
Missouri anglers haven’t caught as many state-record-sized fish in the last couple of years as they were reporting three or four years back, but are still putting some new records in the book each year.In 2022, they recorded only five new records, and just recently the fifth new record “booked” for 2023 was taken when Anthony Rozniak of St.
As 2024 high school basketball play began for Linn County’s smaller schools, the path to a second-straight regular season for the Meadville Lady Eagles turned more direct.After unexpectedly navigating two strong teams from larger classifications (Cairo and South Shelby) in the first week of 2023 to stamp themselves as highly-legitimate contenders for the Class 1 state championships they claimed two months later, the Lady Eagles last week again encountered and surmounted the challenge of South Shelby in the title contest of the Salisbury Invitational tournament to preserve their perfection thus far in the 2023-24 campaign.Having overwhelmed Marceline 78-33 a week ago Tuesday (reported in last week’s edition), Meadville’s top-seeded girls waxed the host Lady Panthers 64-30 in their all-purple semifinal a week ago last night, then recovered from a slow start to out-duel South Shelby’s Lady Cardinals 49-44 last Saturday for the crown.Although also labeling it as not “a very pretty game,” Meadville head coach Steve Carvajal also observes, “It was a great game between two good teams.”Meadville came out of the opening quarter of the championship contest trailing 13-5, yet – showing their championship pedigree – didn’t flinch.By halftime, the Lady Eagles (13-0) had moved to within a point, down 22-21, and, following a back-and-forth duel between respective standouts Korrie Holcer of Meadville and Callie McWilliams of South Shelby in the third period – each delivered 10 points in the segment, it was the defending tourney and state champs on top by one, 37-36.The game stayed close and within range of a Lady Cardinals rally that would end MHS’ 43-games winning streak, but the core trio of Holcer and coach Carvajal’s daughters Paige and Madison – with help from sophomore Kinlee Fletcher’s rebounding – would not let it happen.
This past Monday’s and Tuesday’s half-foot-plus snowstorm put the Lawson Invitational high school basketball tournament on hold, but the top-seeded Chillicothe High School girls’ and boys’ teams were able to begin making their bids for the titles at mid-week.The Lady Hornets (8-1), the event’s defending champions, and Hornets (7-3) played their opening-round games against seemingly-overmatched opponents (Hamilton: Penney girls and Cameron boys) Wednesday.
A year after a more-experienced St.
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In the spirit of the Christmas season, Chillicothe High School’s Lady Hornets proved, that “Yes, Virginia,” the CHS basketball teams do play some games at home.Exactly four weeks after they and the Hornets tipped off their 2023-24 seasons with contests in Kansas City, the CHS girls became the first of the two to play a game this winter without boarding a bus first.Once the varsity game began, the opposing Lawson Lady Cardinals might have wished they’d missed their bus.In non-unexpected manner, the undefeated Lady Hornets scored 25 of the non-conference contest’s first 27 points, their defense denying Lawson (7-4) any baskets for more than 12 minutes at game’s start, en route to their seventh victory of the season, 47-13.“That’s kind of what our (modus operandi) is,” Darren Smith, 10th-year CHS head coach, admits.
Hosting a tall, talented, faraway foe from a school more than twice the size of theirs in a 1-off, non-conference game only days away from Christmas and with their veteran starting point guard out of uniform again with a hopefully-temporary health issue, the Chillicothe High School basketball Hornets could have been excused for not being engaged when Springfield: Parkview came calling a week ago Wednesday.Ditto for continuing to fight when the Vikings, playing with the seeming Led Zeppelin-referenced intention to pillage and plunder, secured a 38-26 lead 20 seconds into the fourth quarter after a 13-2 run in just under 2:45.In both cases, the CHS boys typically were unwilling to relinquish their 5-games winning streak without equally testing their opponent’s resolve in what ended as a 51-43 Vikings victory that left both clubs with 5-3 records.Uncorking their own 12-1 flurry of punches with both hands over the next 4-1/2 minutes, the Hornets backed Parkview against the ropes, pulling to within a point at 39-38 with 3:22 remaining on sophomore power forward Jaishon White’s quick, cross-lane short drive.Parkview’s Vikings skillfully spun off the ropes, though, parrying most CHS blows the rest of the way while jabbing away with quick blows and free throws to secure a hard-earned triumph.“I’m just so proud of our guys.
Chillicothe Middle School’s eighth grade basketball teams completed their 2023 seasons at mid-month with their traditional finale – their own “Hornet Hoops” 4-team tournament at the CMS fieldhouse Dec.