I look forward to visiting Higginsville again.

Some area sports fans might question my sanity for making such statement, given a slate of recent events involving area teams that have played Lafayette County of Higginsville. On Sept. 9, Richmond lost to Lafayette County 11-7 in varsity softball (as of this writing, a rematch was scheduled for Wednesday at Southview Park, with Richmond riding a three-game winning streak). Richmond’s reborn varsity tennis program has lost twice to the Huskers in duals this season. And as I witnessed, the Spartans went 0-4 Sept. 11 in the Husker Spikefest, Lafayette County’s volleyball tournament. Richmond’s varsity volleyballers then got swept 3-0 Sept. 23 at home by the Huskers.

Then came homecoming.

I had checked Richmond’s scores through the first four weeks of the varsity 11-man football season – 40-6 over Lathrop; 52-6 over Oak Grove; 54-16 over Bishop Ward Catholic High School of Kansas City, Kansas, an 11th-hour replacement for Fulton; 52-8 over Pembr…