Sports

Body RICHMOND – Qualifying for the 2020 Class 1 state girls golf tournament motivates Spartans senior Tori Bowman for 2021. “I’m really looking forward to just working on my game, getting better every day as much as I can and, hopefully, getting my … scores better,” Bowman said Aug.

Body RICHMOND – Girls tennis is back at Richmond High School after too few players cancelled last season. Former Savannah High player Brett Terry replaces Kevin Jermain, who led the 2019 program.

Body ORRICK – New varsity 8-man football coach Kirk Thacker brings an oldschool, smash-mouth philosophy of offense to Orrick. Thacker plans to run the ball often, as he did during his tenures with Hardin-Central and then the Norborne Hardin-Central co-op.

Body ORRICK – Mitch Comstock is Orrick’s new varsity volleyball coach, succeeding Trevor Ballard. As someone with zero volleyball experience, Comstock finds himself learning on the job.

Body RICHMOND – Junior Sarah Brungardt praised new varsity volleyball coach Crystal Turner. “She knows how to coach volleyball,” Brungardt said during practice Aug.

Body RICHMOND – The Spartans cross country program has candidates to fill the void left by 2020 graduates Jude Rumbaugh and Rylee Adams. Rumbaugh placed 124th at state in 2019 and 91st in ’20.

Body RICHMOND – A crop of first-year high schoolers caused a spike in softball turnout, Spartans varsity coach Staci Maddux said. There were 28 girls in the program when practices started around midnight Aug.

Body HARDIN – The Bulldogs take a senior-laden squad into their varsity softball season. Of the 11 players on coach and Richmond High School alumna Brandee Doyle’s roster, five are seniors: Sadie Clariday, Morgan Finley, Abby McNelly, Alyssa Rechtermann and Mackenzie Smith.