Sports

The more I cover motor sports, the better I understand basketball fans. Assuming you have stopped repeatedly ramming your head into a kitchen wall because that last sentence has confused the blankety-blank-blank out of you and are ready for me to continue, I will explain.

HARDIN – The Bulldogs had to relocate to start this week’s softball camp. Originally, they were scheduled to begin camp Monday at the Hardin American Legion and Auxiliary baseball and softball fields.

WARRENSBURG – David Wood’s June 12 outing at Central Missouri Speedway went “a lot better” than his other evenings this stock car racing season. “I’ve had motor trouble from the beginning of the year, and then, I … (couldn’t) get the car to go forward,” Wood said.

HARDIN – A new coaching era has begun with Norborne Hardin-Central’s varsity 8-man football program. Andrew Watson succeeds Kirk Thacker, now at Orrick, in leading the Aggies.

ORRICK – Kirk Thacker sees his new job of coaching and teaching at Orrick as therapeutic. A 1987 Richmond High School graduate, Thacker became Orrick’s varsity 8-man football and varsity track coach and joined the high school faculty as a social studies teacher this spring.

JEFFERSON CITY – The Spartans gave Richmond varsity track and field coach Mike Long a few high notes for ending his career. One of those notes was a state boys 800-meter relay title.

ODESSA – A long-held school record at Richmond High has fallen. On May 22, the Richmond boys 400-meter relay team won at the Class 3 Sectional 4 competition at Odessa in 43.58 seconds, breaking the school record of 43.75, set in 1993 and tied in 1995.

RICHMOND – The Richmond High School Athletic Hall of Fame ceremony is back. After a year’s delay because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Richmond Spartan Alumni Association will induct the newest members June 5.