Sports

ORRICK – Coach Mitch Comstock starts over this season with Orrick’s golf program.

ORRICK – With roughly half of Orrick’s softball team consisting of underclassmen, skipper Zach McGill and assistant coach Tom Pierce have spent “a lot of time teaching” as the Bearcats enter the season, McGill said.

ORRICK – Coach Kirk Thacker brings parts of Hardin-Central’s track and field program to Orrick’s varsity program. Now finishing his first year of teaching and coaching at Orrick, Thacker was a longtime teacher and coach at Hardin-Central, where duties included coaching junior high and varsity track.

HARDIN – Given its size, Hardin-Central has “good numbers” for track and field, varsity coach Brent Behler said. As of March 7, the Bulldogs had roughly 20 boys and eight participating, Behler estimated.

BLUE SPRINGS – For the second straight season, a Kansas City-based private school ended Richmond’s postseason run in boys basketball in the Class 4 state quarterfinals.

RICHMOND – Richmond High School’s FFA chapter will host a donkey baskeball tournament at 6:30 p.m. March 21 in the gym.

RICHMOND – Coach Kevin Jermain and his Spartans got their district threepeat in boys basketball. They got their second straight sectional championship, too.

PRESENTING ... the academic all-state Richmond varsity softball team.

TINA – Five Ray Countians made the Missouri Basketball Coaches Association Class 1 District 13 boys all-tournament team. Orrick junior Zander Stevinson and sophomore Jaxon Miller, who led the Bearcats to the title game of the District 13 Tournament, hosted by Tina-Avalon, made the team.

RICHMOND – Lucas Rodenberg is about to make a dream come true. Rodenberg, a Richmond senior, signed a letter of intent to play baseball at Fort Scott (Kansas) Community College, where he expects to pitch.