Sports

RICHMOND – Last week, Spartans varsity football coach Nick Persell got a look at some of the athletes who might be in his program in a few years. Persell led the Future Spartan Football Camp for grades K-6, held May 31-June 2.

RICHMOND – Allie Clubine Castilleja gave her dad an early birthday present: her induction into the Richmond High School Athletic Hall of Fame. Clubine Castilleja, a 2005 graduate and standout prep softball player, was inducted June 4 during the annual Hall of Fame banquet and ceremony in the high school commons area.

JEFFERSON CITY – Starting with his junior year at Richmond, Jacoby Johnson chased the boys 400-meter dash record. On May 27 at Adkins Stadium, during his final high school track and field meet, Johnson overtook the record.

ODESSA – A chilly, windy day proved no match for Richmond’s Dayne Loftin when he ran the boys 110-meter high hurdles May 21 in Class 3 Sectional 4 competition at Odessa. Loftin, who just finished his junior year at Richmond, won the event in 15.3 seconds.

ODESSA – When Mackenzey Peach suffered an ACL tear last summer in high school softball, it left her wondering about her future in track and field. Flash forward to May 2022 and she is still competing in track – at least for one more meet.

ORRICK – A major connection to Orrick’s 2020 Class 1 state quarterfinal run, and back-to-back district titles in 2019 and 2020 in boys basketball is gone. Coach Matt Brownsberger announced in April he was leaving Orrick to teach and coach in Warsaw.

CHILLICOTHE – A 32-year-old Richmond track record has fallen. Varsity coach Andy Frerking and Athletic Director Matt Habermehl reported Monday that Kaylee Pugh, Sydney Appleberry, Abrey Oldham and Brook Weber broke the school’s girls 800-meter relay record of 1 minute, 49.95 seconds, with their time of 1:49.36 May 14 at the Class 3 District 8 meet.

CHILLICOTHE – A quadricep injury last season and a hamstring injury earlier this season drove Jacoby Johnson to try to qualify for sectionals in high school track and field in “as many events as” possible, he said.