Sports

Body For Richmond varsity football coach Nick Persell and his staff, a focal point for this week’s team camp at the high school is to teach, or reteach, their Spartans how to do something they’ll do regularly starting the second week of August: practice.

Body On Monday morning, something was clear to Hardin-Central varsity softball coach Brandee Doyle as her Bulldogs started their latest offseason team camp at the Hardin American Legion and Auxiliary baseball and softball fields.

Body Even after a packed schedule last week, Richmond varsity girls basketball coach Kaylee Vantrump could still see some get-up-and-go in her Spartans on June 30, when they hosted Braymer in offseason scrimmaging.

Body ST. JOSEPH – For his last act as a Missouri 8-Man Coaches Association board member, Kirk Thacker honored one of his former players.

Body Orrick varsity 8-man football coach Kirk Thacker’s coaching tree is finally, as he put it, “not straight up and down anymore,” he said. That tree has sprouted two branches – both former players-turned-assistant coaches.

Body A former Spartan has returned to coach Richmond varsity girls basketball. Kaylee Vantrump, a 2017 Richmond High School graduate, was hired this spring to succeed Chad Snyder.

Body The Richmond Dolphin Swim Team’s season opener June 25 at Southview Pool provided some cross training work for a few high school student-athletes. One of those athletes was Grace Bozarth, a volleyball player at Richmond.

Body ST. JOSEPH – Blake Buchanan’s official last high school football game was what he called “definitely a thing to remember.

Body Richmond 1-Ellis Farms “came a long way” this softball season, according to Carleigh Stamper, the ballclub’s hardswatting catcher.

Body Coach Kirk Thacker had to do less selling and less teaching of fundamentals during Orrick’s varsity 8-man football camp last week than he did when the Bearcats began offseason training last summer.