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1976 Lexington State Championship football season - part 2

The Lexington Girls and Boys traveled across the State Line, and had some good performances in the extremely large University of Arkansas Chile Pepper Meet, that was held last Saturday in Fayetteville, Arkansas. This meet attracted a total of 201different schools from many different states For the Lexington Girls, Ellie Lichte finished 19th out of 367 runners, on the 5000 Meter course, in the Caliente 1 Division, with a time of 17:49, while Addison Smith finished 30th with a mark of 18:04 and Phoebe Engelbrecht 47th at 18:30.

The Lexington Minutewomen Softball Team actually out hit the Holden Lady Eagles, but the visitors put 8 runs on the board in the final three innings and defeated the Lexington Girls 10 to 6 last Wednesday at Lexington Community Park.

The Lexington Minutewomen Tennis Team beat Holden a week ago Monday, but they then dropped a match with Richmond last Thursday.

Richmond Pitcher Ava Johnson had a dominant performance, as she allowed only one hit and struck out 14, over six innings, as the Lady Spartans defeated the Lexington Minutewomen 8 to 0 last Thursday in Richmond.

It is almost getting to be a regular occurrence, as for the third time in the past few weeks, the dynamic Girls trio of Ellie Lichte, Addison Smith and Phoebe Engelbrecht once again swept the top three spots out of 232 runners, this time in the tough Gold Division of the Gans Creek Cross Country Meet, that was run last Saturday in Columbia.

On October 16, the 1976 Lexington Minutemen State Championship Football Team, will be introduced and honored during the halftime of the Lexington-Higginsville Football game. at Gil Rector Stadium. During the next three weeks, I thought that I would try to tell the story of this first Lexington State Championship Football Team, which is also the only undefeated and untied State Champion team, by breaking the magical season down, game by game, in a series of three different articles. In today’s Column, we will highlight the first four games of the 1976 season: Clinton at Lexington

The Lexington Minutewomen Girls Volleyball team played three games this past week, and they picked up a nice MRVC East Conference win over Richmond, but dropped a Conference match to Holden and a non Conference bout with Harrisonville.