Sports

Norborne Hardin-Central (NHC) varsity 8-man football coach Andrew Watson liked the way his Aggies rebounded from their season-opening loss to Sweet Springs with their 70-28 thumping of Concordia Sept. 2 at Hardin-Central.

Jenni Scott finds herself in new territory coaching Hardin-Central cross country this fall. At Carrollton High School, Scott was a distance runner, she recalled.

On Aug. 25, vehicles poured into the parking lot around the Branded Outdoor Theatre, as folks got glimpses of Richmond High School’s fall sports student-athletes.

STE. GENEVIEVE – Richmond varsity football coach Nick Persell made a prediction about the bus ride home after the Spartans’ 61-25 season-opening win over New Madrid County Central Aug. 27 at Ste. Genevieve High School.

Richmond varsity football coach Nick Persell knows his Spartans have targets on their backs after their Class 2 state semifinal run in 2021. “We’ve had enough success in the last two years – two or three years even – that people are recognizing us, and they certainly know who we are,” Persell said Aug.

This fall, Kennedy Wrisinger hopes to complete a hat trick in varsity girls golf: She hopes to qualify for state competition for the third time. The Richmond senior qualified for state in Class 1 in 2020 and 2021.

Richmond varsity volleyball coach Crystal Turner and her Spartans are ready to defeat some Missouri River Valley Conference (MRVC) West Division teams. “We want to take down Carrollton,” Turner said Aug.