Ten Chillicothe High School football Hornets have received postseason recognition from coaches or media thus far with it anticipated additional state-level honors could be forthcoming in the next week or so as the state-championship games are wrapped up.With the exit by Kansas City: St.
While the eventual 2023-24 wins totals likely will remain relatively small, the Penney High School Lady Hornets and Breckenridge Bulldogs basketball squads already have assured themselves of not sweating out potentially-winless seasons.As noted in last week’s edition without any details being available, Breckenridge’s nominal boys’ team – two of the eight players are girls – won its first time out a week ago Tuesday.
CONCORDIA — Having had a few occasions – not many, but some, including as recently as their prior game – in which, during a to-date undefeated season, they have found themselves trailing in games, the Braymer-Breckenridge Bobcats were not spooked by finding themselves behind the host St.
Even with one-third of its returning nucleus still feeling some effect from the state-semifinals injury she gamely battled through to help the team complete its perfect pursuit of the 2022-23 Class 1 state title last March, the Meadville High School basketball Lady Eagles scavenged host Glasgow last Friday night as the MHS girls took their first tiny step in pursuit of back-to-back state crowns.Senior Korrie Holcer and sophomore Madison Carvajal, All-State guards for the Lady Eagles last year, picked up where they left off, combining for 54 points and 10 steals, as the purple and white romped to a 76-17 non-conference road win.Holcer swished eight 3-pointers and had four of the thefts.
The Missouri Department of Conservation has offered several additional firearms deer seasons this year in an effort to reduce deer populations in areas where the deadly deer diseases CWD and EHD have been found.
MILAN — Even with a second failure to score any conversion points after Clay Finch’s second touchdown run of the game – an 18-yards dash with 8:18 remaining in the fourth quarter, the Hamilton: Penney football Hornets looked to have a clear path to pulling out their Class 1 District 4 high school playoffs championship game over host Milan last Friday night, trailing by only a point.It turned out, however, to be their last chance.After top-seeded Milan (11-1) successfully grabbed the Hornets’ squibbed kickoff at the MHS 40, the Wildcats drained all of the remaining time from the clock and walked off their home field headed to this weekend’s state semifinals as 13-12 victors.“I’m disappointed…,” Alex Lloyd, third-year PHS head coach, comments in reporting game information to the C-T this week, “but we are going to work hard to make sure we can send you Thanksgiving weekend stats next year.”This year’s roster for the Hornets (7-5), while only 29 players deep, included a mere four seniors, offering a solid basis for the coach’s hope that 2024 can see the Hamilton team advance even further.This season’s squad this week had eight players – five of them non-seniors – named to the revived (after a 2-years lull) Missouri Sportswriters and Sportscasters Association’s all-northwest district team in Class 1.Last week at Milan, the Hornets couldn’t quite stage the second-half comeback which had marked their district victories over Maysville-Winston and Westran the preceding two rounds.After each side’s defense had forced a punt on the opponent’s initial offensive series, the host Wildcats got the ball a second time in excellent field position at the PHS 41 and wasted little time in seizing the lead.After senior star running back Carlos Cotto, an all-northeast district MSSA honoree this week, gained three yards on first down, he got outside for a 23-yards dash to the 15.
The Missouri Department of Conservation has offered several additional firearms deer seasons this year in an effort to reduce deer populations in areas where the deadly deer diseases CWD and EHD have been found.
COLUMBIA — Two cross-country runners from Hamilton’s Penney High School, including eighth-place finisher Kortney Witherow, and one each from Braymer and Mendon: Northwestern earned state-meet medals with top-30 finishes in last Friday’s Missouri State High School Activities Association Championships for teams in classes 1 and 2.PHS Lady Hornets junior K.
Four of the five non-Chillicothe high school football teams covered by the C-T extended their 2023 seasons by at least a week last Friday.
While Missouri’s 2023 high school football regular season – a successful one, on balance, for four of the five area teams covered by the C-T – concluded last weekend, the postseason will start for only one of them tonight.Due to switches from 11-man play to 8-man and the expansion of the sport’s structure from five to six classifications a few years back, there are fewer districts in either brand of ball that have either four or eight teams these days.