A week from last night, the 21st season of Chillicothe Mudcats college-level summer baseball is due to begin. In their third season under the on-field leadership of head coach Tyler Hudlow, the 2023 Mudcats are scheduled to have a game at second- year MINK League member Carroll, Iowa, for the season opener Tuesday, May 30, at 7 p.m.
JEFFERSON CITY — A bevy of C-T-area Class 1 high school trackand- field athletes had a highly-successful weekend at Jefferson City last Friday and Saturday in the 2023 Missouri State High School Activities Association Championships. The highest of the highlights were event state titles earned by Tina- Avalon junior Tucker Singer in the shot put, the Braymer Bobcats’ 1,600-meters relay (Griffin Hughson, Kaden Stone, Landon Baker, Aleczander Kelly), and Polo’s Maverick Gentry in the discus throw.
After the Kansas City Royals and St. Louis Cardinals surprisingly traveled similar, though unsatisfying, trajectories mostly downward through April and into early May, the Cardinals’ projected level of effectiveness finally arrived a couple of weeks ago and, with their National League Central compatriots’ – particularly Pittsburgh and Milwaukee – fade from strong starts, they’ll reach the end of the month in the middle of the division title race.
Putting together a performance four strokes better than his season average, Chillicothe High School junior Jackson Trout was the top District 4 individual qualifier for yesterday’s and Monday’s scheduled Class 3 high school boys’ golf state tournament, an event he and teammate/classmate James Mathew also advanced to for a second year in a row. Trout fired a 5-over-par 76 on the Shirkey Golf Course at Richmond May 8, tying him for fourth place individually in the tourney and easily propelling him to this week’s state event at the Meadow Lake Acres Golf Course at New Bloomfield.
It’s been seven years since Missouri turkey hunters checked in more than 44,000 turkeys during the spring season youth and regular seasons, but they accomplished just that this year during the two spring turkey seasons. Youth-season hunters contributed 2,566 turkeys to the final total, down from 2,841 a year ago, but the regular- season hunters added 41,966 to this year’s total harvest, up more than 8,400 turkeys from a year ago.
With two very different, but effective, approaches, Chillicothe High School’s track-and-field teams extended the 2023 season for nearly 20 team members while posting similar team finishes in the Class 3 District 8 meet at CHS’ Jerry Litton Memorial Stadium II last Saturday. The Hornets got individual top-4 finishes – qualifying them for this Saturday’s state-meet-qualifying sectional meet at Warrensburg – from 11 different competitors, a relay-race third place, and wins by Charlie Walker in the pole vault and Cain Evans in the javelin event as they scored a second-best 122-1/3 team points.
After dropping both of their matches in the final week of the 2023 regular season last wee, including being shut out for the eighth time, Chillicothe High School’s soccer Lady Hornets needed a near-miracle this week to keep alive their string of winning seasons which dates back nearly a decade. Competitive defeats at the hands of Kirksville and Columbia: Father Tolton Regional Catholic last Tuesday and Thursday sent the CHS girls into the postseason with an 8-11 overall record.
TRENTON — The Trenton tennis Bulldogs clearly remembered. With multiple members of their lineup that, as the top seed, was overtaken by the guest Chillicothe High School Hornets in last year’s district team-championship match still in place, the Bulldogs stomped on the gas from the opening points of the teams’ title rematch last Wednesday and left the Hornets in the dust.
Track-and-field athletes from Class 1 schools in the primary C-T coverage area will comprise 20 entries in this Friday’s and Saturday’s Missouri State High School Activities Association Championships at Jefferson City High School’s “Pete” Adkins Stadium as a result of last Saturday’s sectional-meet competition at South Shelby High School near Shelbina. Headlining the contingent of area Class 1 participants will be an overlapping batch of throwing talent from Tina-Avalon and Southwest Livingston schools, three boys’ relay teams from Braymer, a 3-events sprinter from T-A, and a speed demon from Jamesport’s Tri-County High.
Having lost twice to the Maryville Spoofhounds in walkoff circumstances during the regular season, Chillicothe High School’s baseball Hornets need to have found the way to get at least that extra run Monday for their season to have extended to a crack at a district championship today. In the 5-teams, Class 4 District 16 tournament at Cameron, the third-seeded Hornets squared off with No.