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Jordan Hibner, a 2020 Chillicothe High School graduate and former Lady Hornets basketball and softball standout, received both a team award and national academic recognition for her on-thecourt and classroom performances at North Central Missouri College in Trenton during the 2021-22 school year. Her Lady Pirates teammates voter her to be the recipient of the “Pirate Award” for her selflessness and dedication to team success. Then, late last month, the National Junior College Athletics Association announced Hibner was one of 13 NCMC athletes to have qualified not only NJCAA Academic All-America status for the 2021-22 school year, requiring at least a 3.60 cumulative grade-point average (on a 4.0 scale), but earned first-team Academic All-America status by having a 4.0 GPA. “I am extremely proud of our student-athletes that were able to earn this recognition,” remarked NCMC’s Athletic Director Nate Gamet, according to a news release from Ryan Suttenfield, NCMC sports information director “Thisshows the importance and value that they have placed on their academic success. I am also proud of our coaches and North Central Missouri College employees that play an intricate part in our student athlete’s success both on the field of competition and in the classroom,” Gamet added.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Baseball Hall of Fame broadcaster Vin Scully, whose dulcet tones provided the soundtrack of summer while entertaining and informing Dodgers fans in Brooklyn and Los Angeles for 67 years, died Tuesday night. He was 94.

CHICAGO — Juan Soto is joining Manny Machado and Fernando Tatis Jr. in San Diego. Jorge López, Michael Fulmer and Tyler Mahle are going to Minnesota. Noah Syndergaard, David Robertson and Brandon Marsh are heading to Philadelphia, and Joey Gallo is looking for a fresh start with the Los Angeles Dodgers.

The mushroom-like contraptions NFL players are wearing on their helmets during training camp may look strange, but they’re a part of an ongoing safety experiment the league hopes will lead to a reduction in head injuries.

KHIMKI, Russia — U.S. basketball star Brittney Griner was convicted Thursday in Russia of drug possession and smuggling and was sentenced to nine years behind bars in a politically charged case that could lead to a high-stakes prisoner exchange between Washington and Moscow.

Statistically, it’s indisputable that the 2022 Chillicothe Mudcats baseball season was the organization’s poorest, in terms of on-field team results, and that the performances of players were among the least-effective in the club’s 20-seasons history.

When Juan Soto turned down a $440 million, 15-year deal to stay with the Washington Nationals, it ensured Tuesday’s 6 p.m. EDT trade deadline would have a little juice.

ST. JOSEPH — Clyde Edwards-Helaire trotted down the long hill toward the Kansas City Chiefs’ practice field, one day after he was placed on the physically unable to perform list, and the competition was on to be the starting running back this season.

NEW YORK (AP) — The New York Yankees acquired All-Star outfielder Andrew Benintendi from the Kansas City Royals for three minor league pitchers last Wednesday, less than a week before Major League Baseball’s non-waivers trade deadline.