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TRENTON — Chillicothe High School’s basketball Lady Hornets still have never defeated an out-of-state opponent in their few (four) opportunities, so they won’t open the new-year portion of their season undefeated for the first time in nine years.However, what they experienced in a 55-36 loss to the Waukee (Iowa) Northwest Lady Wolves a week ago today might be invaluable down the line, should they manage to go deep into postseason play.Among the lessons learned or available for learning from the game in the 19th-annual “High School Holiday Hoops” shootout hosted at Trenton by the North Central Missouri College Foundation:– When facing a team with multiple players with noteworthy height and an appetite for blocking shots, timidity and altering shot releases in an attempt to avoid rejections won’t work.– Stronger conditioning that can sustain playing at a high level throughout four quarters will be needed.– One player, no matter how well she performs, can’t carry them to victory without help.– In senior guard/forward Jolie Bonderer, they have an elite-level player capable of performing exceptionally, even against a daunting foe.“This is a game we can (review video of) and we can get better from,” asserts Darren Smith, whose first Lady Hornets squad in 2014-15 didn’t lose until January.“In our half-court sets in practice, we’ve got to really work to set good screens, come off screens hard, and get open, because I felt like that was part of our problem.

For the first time since 2017, Chillicothe High School’s football Hornets have had a player honored with first-team All-State status.Junior 2-way lineman Bo Smith late last week was announced as a top-team choice as an offensive lineman on the Missouri Football Coaches Association’s annual Class 3 All-State squads.A second-team MFCA All-Stater as a sophomore, B.

In what project to be among the figurative handful of games critical to this season’s Carroll-Livingston Activity Association regular-season championship chases, Brunswick scored two big home-floor wins by surprising double-digits margins over Braymer last Friday.In the boys’ game, the Wildcats (5-2, 2-0 conf.) prevailed 72-51, while the Lady Wildcats (3-4, 1-0 conf.) were 43-33 winners.

CARROLLTON — Chillicothe High School’s wrestling Hornets made a fully-successful debut for the 2023-24 season last Friday, downing all three opponents they had during the Carrollton Duals tournament, while, a bit farther west, a Lady Hornet was capturing an individual tournament title.At Carrollton, the Hornets used a nearly-full lineup – they had a vacancy only at 113 pounds – to slip past the host Trojans 48-30, down head coach Chad Smith’s former squad – Hamilton: Penney – 48-27, and shut out Kansas City’s Guadalupe Centers charter school 7-members team 84-0.Only one Hornet – senior upper-middleweight Cayden Larson – won contested bouts in each of the three dual matches.

We’ve had so many firearms deer seasons this fall that it’s hard to keep track of what’s still open or soon will be and which season{s) are left.It’s getting a lot simpler now, with the closing of the late antlerless season Dec.

ARCHIE — While meeting under milder conditions than windy temperatures in the mid 20s might have helped, the ultimate outcome of the Braymer-Breckenridge football Bobcats’ 88-20 loss to the Archie Whirlwind strongly suggests climatic conditions more amenable to the Bobcats’ primary mode of attack likely would not have extended their season.Paced by 6’1”, 180-pounds senior quarterback Briar McIntire, Archie scored three touchdowns in the first six minutes of the teams’ 8-man state-semifinals contest on the AHS field and never looked back, blowing away the Bobcats 88-20 in a clash of previously 12-0 squads last Friday night.“Archie is a very talented team that could compete for a state title in 11-man, as well,” proclaims Clayton Brown, a former college player and Braymer alumnus after his first season as Bobcats’ head coach ended with a 12-1 mark.