Sports

Mudcats Buried Early by Bombers’ Blasts

SEDALIA — Trying to make lightning strike twice in the same place in eight nights while dealing with an “X Factor” opposing hurler, a season-long unhealthy habit of the 2022 Chillicothe Mudcats college-level summer baseball team instead likely put their already-gasping postseason-qualification health on the “critical” list last Tuesday night.

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High School Fall Sports Practices Less Than Month Away

As this summer’s Missouri State High School Activities Association “dead” period (no contact between high school athletes and coaches) concludes Sunday night, summer activities in anticipation of and preparation for 2022-23 school year prep athletics will ramp back up this coming week, leading toward the Monday, Aug. 8, beginning of officially-sanctioned team practices.

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