Sports

HIGGINSVILLE – Four area athletes are headed to the Class 1 state track and field meet. Orrick and Hardin-Central each qualified two athletes for the competition, slated for Saturday at Adkins Stadium in Jefferson City.

RICHMOND – Timmy Hamilton will play his final rounds of high school boys golf at a course that holds special meaning for him. Hamilton, who graduates Sunday from Richmond High School, will play in Class 2 state competition, slated for May 17-18 at Silo Ridge Golf and Country Club in Bolivar.

CLEVELAND – The Bulldogs have found “a shiny diamond” in junior sprinter Korbin Pugh, Hardin-Central varsity track coach Kirk Thacker said. Pugh’s late-season performances in the boys 100-meter dash prompted Thacker to give him that designation.

CLEVELAND – May 8 was hardly a great javelin-throwing day, Orrick junior Blake Buchanan said after competing in the boys javelin that afternoon at the Class 1 District 7 track and field meet on the Midway School District campus.

EXCELSIOR SPRINGS – On May 17-18, Dylan Comstock will play in his last state high school boys golf tournament. And there will be one other Orrick Bearcat there with him.

LEXINGTON – Shortly after running the anchor leg to give Richmond the win in the boys 400-meter relay April 29 at the Bill Hamann Invitational, senior Adrian Church flung the relay baton in the air while standing on the Lexington High School football field.

RICHMOND – Timmy Hamilton’s golf game clicked the last three holes of his round at the Richmond Boys Invitational. “I’d played bad enough up until that point that I was just like, ‘OK, I’m just going to kind of finish it out,’” Hamilton, a Richmond senior, said.

RICHMOND – Dylan Comstock summed up his round of golf April 30 at the Richmond Boys Invitational this way: rough front nine, better back nine. For the front nine of the par-71 round at Shirkey Golf Course, the Orrick senior struggled to keep his tee shots in the fairway, among a few other woes, he said.

LEXINGTON – Blake Buchanan’s best boys javelin throw April 29 at the Bill Hamann Invitational at Lexington High School was a “solid throw,” Orrick varsity coach Paul Giffin said. “Not a pr (personal record),” Giffin said.