Sports

With a perfect mark in dual-matches play already secured, Chillicothe High School’s golf Hornets concluded their 2023 regular season Monday, competing in the annual Midland Empire Conference Championships at Cameron’s Veterans Memorial Golf Course. The entered quintet of players did so coming off the team’s second tournament title of the season in the Savannah Invitational at the Duncan Hills Golf Course last Thursday and a fifthplace finish in the Bishop LeBlond Invitational tourney at St.

While not as prolific, numbers-wise, as the football Hornets – whose history is littered with such instances, Chillicothe High School added to its ranks of sibling or multi-generational All-State basketball honorees following the 2022-23 season when CHS-records-setting Lady Hornets senior guard Jessica Reeter was selected to the Missouri Basketball Coaches Association’s Class 4 All-State squad. With her designation, she joined both her mother Julia (Hinkebein) Reeter and aunt Beth (Hinkebein) Heil as CHS hoops state-level honorees.

While a few regular- season tournaments remained on their schedule this week and next, Chillicothe High School’s 2023 golf Hornets early last week completed their second undefeated season in dual-matches competition in three years. With road wins over Lexington and host Carrollton April 17 and a 53-strokes romp past visiting Trenton at Green Hills Golf Course the next afternoon, coach Jim Wheeler’s juniors- dominated squad improved to a final 12-0 mark in head-to-head team action.

Spring weather hasn’t been conducive to fishing so far this year, but some die-hard anglers already have been trying for that “big one” and two were successful in landing new state records during March.

Chillicothe High School’s track-and-field Hornets won a third meet championship in a row a week ago yesterday at Cameron before having that streak snapped by a fourthplace showing in the Mineral Water Classic at Excelsior Springs last Friday. With event victories from Isaiah Sprong in the discus throw, Cain Evans in the 800-meters run, and both their 800- and 1,600-meters relay groups, the Hornets garnered 155 team points in the Crossroads Relays at Cameron, comfortably out-distancing runnerup Lawson’s 115 and third-place East Buchanan’s 94 in the 10-schools field.

Chillicothe High School’s tennis Hornets are in St. Joseph today, participating in the annual Midland Empire Conference Championships non-team tournament, prior to trying to make a closing push for at least a .500 overall final record in dual matches.

Chillicothe High School’s soccer Lady Hornets continued their season-long close relationship with the .500 mark last week. Entering with a 4-5 overall mark, they posted back-to-back triumphs to start the week to climb a game over break-even, then succumbed to the Mid-Buchanan Lady Dragons at home last Thursday to finish the week right on level ground.

On the heels of jumping from a fifthplace finish in Richmond’s “Hoot” Middleton Relays a year ago to the team title this year, Chillicothe High School’s track-andfield Hornets repeated the championship in the Jack McCush Invitational at Boonville last Thursday. The Hornets’ first meet crown of the year came a week ago yesterday when, with only two event wins, they compiled 106 points at Richmond, out-distancing nearest pursuer Lexington by 17 points.