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In a “must-win” situation, if they still wanted to be part of an uphill race for this season’s Midland Empire Conference basketball championship, Chillicothe High School’s Lady Hornets used a 7-0 minirun by three players not usually major offensive factors for them to gain an 11-7 advantage over perennial league power St. Joseph: Benton last Friday night.

with Wehrle The Chillicothe Elks Gun and Knife Outdoor Show will be held this coming Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, Feb. 10-12, at their fine facility on Ryan Lane in southeast Chillicothe.

KANSAS CITY — A year after buzzing to a 41-22 half lead over the Kansas City: St. Pius X Warriors at home before eventually holding on for a 9-points win, Chillicothe High School’s basketball Hornets found the tables turned on them as they played SPX on the road a week ago yesterday.

With a flurry of late-scheduled home matches, Chillicothe High School’s wrestling teams wrapped up their 2022-23 regular season last night when they hosted St. Joseph: Benton and Oak Grove at the middle school fieldhouse.

All the positives the Chillicothe High School basketball Lady Hornets achieved over more than 29 minutes of their Cameron Shootout finale against Smithville last Saturday afternoon nearly were squandered when their ball security unraveled in the final three. Having steadily built the lead established when they bottomed two trifectas in the first 1:10, the Lady Hornets (15-3) moved in front by 15 points with a couple of minutes left in the third stanza and twice matched that in the first 5:01 of the fourth before melting down in the face of Smithville’s desperation full-court press.

TRENTON — Chillicothe High School’s wrestling Hornets were short on success when they made the short trip to Trenton for boys’ and girls’ matches a week ago last night. Even though the host Bulldogs were empty in five of the 14 weight classes – the vacancies at 106 and 126 pounds shared by CHS, they overcame the 18-point deficit that created by winning all except the last of the nine contested bouts, claiming a 41-21 boys’ victory.

CAMERON — A tightly- packed set of challenging games for the Chillicothe High School basketball Hornets in the revamped Cameron Shootout on the heels of a tough, faraway road game the preceding Saturday brought many strong stretches of play, but no payoff, in terms of scoreboard victory. A 5-1/2-minutes lapse at the start of the second half in a tie game against a strong, solid Smithville squad doomed the Hornets to a 66-49 first-round defeat on Jan.

While Higbee’s top-seeded squads were finishing first in the boys’ division and second in the girls’ of last week’s Keytesville Invitational high school basketball tournament, Southwest Livingston’s boys were making a push toward .500 on the season.