COLUMBIA, Mo. – The American Midwest Conference (AMC) has announced the 2024 AMC Softball All-Conference teams, season award winners, Academic All-Conference team, and the AMC Softball Champions of Character Team. Columbia placed three players on the First Team, two on the Second Team, and one on the Third Team. Gold Glove…
The Class 1 and Class 2 State Track and Field Championships took place over the weekend, and several local athletes came back home as state champions. There were other standout performers from the meet Jefferson City as well.
Second place in the boys 3,200-meter run wasn’t so bad for New Bloomfield’s Nathan Hinrichs. It helped the state champion beat him with a meet-record time. Hinrichs clocked a runner-up time of 9:46.59 on Friday in the 3,200 at the Class 2 track and field state championships at Adkins Stadium. He trailed only New Covenant Academy’s Tanner Talley, who blazed by the competition with a record time of 9:15.11.