psturm@cherryroad. com Around the regional, non-high school sports scene, the end of the University of Missouri- Columbia basketball Tigers’ regular season arrives at the end of this week with first-year head coach Dennis Gates’ squad seemingly solidly entrenched as a NCAA Tournament participant.
COLUMBIA — Chillicothe High School wrestling history will be made at around 1:30 p.m. today.
After Chillicothe High School’s basketball Lady Hornets handled visiting St. Joseph: Lafayette with relative ease a week ago last night, the CHS boys made a determined push – despite the absence of junior center and key scorer/ rebounder James Mathew – to change their luck against the perennial Midland Empire Conference cage king Fighting Irish, but fell short.
The North Missouri Sportsman’s Alliance will be conducting two events simultaneously on Saturday, March 11, at the Elks Lodge in Chillicothe. Both events are free to all who choose to participate.
EXCELSIOR SPRINGS — Highlighted by junior Cayden Larson’s unexpected capture of the 157-pounds division championship in last weekend’s Class 2 District 4 wrestling tournament at Excelsior Springs, five Chillicothe High School male wrestlers qualified for today’s and tomorrow’s MSHSAA Championships at Columbia. In addition to firsttime state qualifier Larson, who might have contended for a spot last year, but missed the season with an injury suffered late in the football season, three Chillicothe veterans of state competition – including a 2-times medal-winner – will be among the CHS contingent in the boys’ state tourney.
Every regular-season test now passed with another impressive win over a high-caliber opponent, Meadville High School’s basketball Lady Eagles took an unblemished 25-0 record into this week’s Class 1 District 12 tournament they are hosting, standing six wins away from a second state championship. At home last Monday, the MHS girls again pulled away from a state-ranked Class 2 squad to defeat Schuyler County, 68-58.
COLUMBIA – Despite a strong second-half shooting performance, the University of Missouri men’s basketball Tigers couldn’t overcome a first-half deficit against No. 25-ranked Texas A&M last Saturday at Mizzou Arena, falling 69-60.
The Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC) reminds Missouri hunters and anglers that related annual permits expire at the end of February, including 2022 permits for small game, fishing, trout fishing, and combination hunting and fishing.
Missouri’s regular goose season closed Feb. 6, but goose hunters didn’t have to stop hunting geese as the light goose Conservation Order season opened the very next day and will run through April 30.
What was the last appearance on the home court in 2022-23 for one Chillicothe High School varsity basketball team, but – it turned out – not the other, still provided much the same experience for each last Friday. Hosting the laboring Marshall squads in their final regular-season home games, the Hornets enhanced their chances of, despite a late-season downturn, having another winning season, crushing the visiting Owls 69-47 after the Lady Hornets moved to the brink of another 20wins campaign with a 71-19 smothering of the MHS girls.