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Richmond junior Genevieve Didier almost made a clutch game-tying free throw Monday night – less than a week after making some game-winning free throws. With 2.5 seconds left in the fourth quarter of Richmond’s meeting with Cameron and the Spartans trailing 57-55, Didier was fouled and awarded two foul shots.

‘A LOT OF GRIT’ Richmond wrestling coach Cody Hogan liked the character he saw from Liam Hyder at the 28th annual Alan Isom Invitational – and the week leading up to it. Competing at 126 pounds, Hyder fought his way to a division title at the Jan.

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For Richmond teammates Dryden Hendrix and Nolan Quick, winning the boys title for this year’s Lawson Invitational was a reminder to stay hungry and humble. “It’s cool to win this tournament, but we (have) got bigger goals in mind,” said Hendrix, a sophomore, minutes after the Spartans’ 74-59 Jan.

Genevieve Didier sensed she and her Richmond teammates were in a zone when they began their fifth-place game with Excelsior Springs in varsity girls basketball at the Lawson Invitational. Then, they fell out of the zone.

‘GOOD NIGHTS’ Latimer Cavanah and Landon Garrett “both had good nights” for Richmond Jan. 17 at a freshman wrestling tournament at Staley High School in Kansas City, according to Richmond coach Cody Hogan.

I need to learn more about wrestling. By “wrestling,” I don’t mean the scripted professional version I watched on television as a boy, provided we could get a clear picture on the UHF channels of our family TV set in our Ray County living room.