The Chillicothe Boys Basketball team opened their first game of the season with a 15-0 run on points and went on to beat Penney of Hamilton on the road 58 to 28. Chillicothe led 15-3 after one and 31-8 at the half. Despite losing four seniors including three starters from last year’s team, Coach Tim Cool called it a good […]
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The 2020-2021 Chillicothe High School Basketball season begins tonight at Penney High of Hamilton. The girls game starts at 6:00pm with the boys’ game to follow. The Chillicothe girls won at home last year 61-51. They graduated two starters and one player off the bench. Hamilton girls gradated four senior starters. The boys’ teams did not play last year due […]
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The Chillicothe Football team was honored at their annual Banquet Sunday night. The Hornets proved to be a team in the classroom as well as the field. The Hornets surpassed a team goal of a 3.0 team GPA by making a team average 3.2 GPA with over 50% of the players earning a 3.3 or higher GPA. The team also […]
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In Chillicothe Middle School Sports: Cameron 8th grade Boys over Chillicothe 51-28. The Hornets were led by Brayden Shoop with 11, Kenyen Gannan 6, Ashton Baker 4, Fisk Miller 3, Silas Midgyett, and Timmy Summers each with 2. 8th Grade girls beat Cameron 41-12. Liz Oliver had 12 points for Chillicothe, Presley Rardon with 11, Aubrie Burton 10, Kaelee French […]
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The High School Basketball season begins next week. For Chillicothe, this year they have enough players to again field three full teams, Varsity, Junior Varsity and C-Team, which replaces the tradition Freshman team of past years. Players can play up to six quarters of basketball in a night. Often Sophomores will play quarters on both C-Team and Junior Varsity. Hornets […]
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The Chillicothe Wrestling Team is preparing for their season, which begins in December. Coach Chad Smith is starting his seventh season as Chillicothe’s head wrestling coach, and he says this year’s team is one of the biggest of his tenure. Smith said the team has a lot of returning talent from last season, and what he calls “a really, really […]
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The Chillicothe Hornets football season came to an end in a slugfest loss at Richmond 62 to 41. The game resembled a football version of a heavyweight boxing title match as the teams traded touchdown blows for the first three quarters. Richmond led 29-24 at the half thanks to two-point conversions. Richmond then scored on their first drive of the […]
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The Chillicothe Hornets will try to extend their football season when they play at Richmond tonight in the District Semifinal game. The #4 seed Hornets are coming off an overtime win against St Joseph Benton. Richmond had a first round bye last week. Richmond Coach Nick Pursell, who played in the 2004 Quarterfinal game against Chillicothe, says he likes to […]
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The first Chillicothe Lady Hornets cross country team to qualify for state since 1987 finished in 15th place with 336 points. St Louis John Burroughs won the team title with 59 points and fellow MEC School St Pius X finished in 10th place in Class 3. For the Lady Hornets, Aliyah Briner was 50th overall in a time of 22:52, […]
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The Chillicothe Hornets football team heads to Richmond on Friday night for the District Semifinal football game. Chillicothe beat St Joseph Benton in overtime in the first round, while Richmond had the night off. The Spartans are the top seed in the 7-team bracket. Richmond Coach Nick Persell says his team returns a lot of starters from last year’s team, […]
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