June 27, 2026
Santa Fe Times Sports
SF Alumni Foundation holds annual Crappie Tournament
The 7th annual Santa Fe Alumni Foundation Crappie Tournament was a held this past on Saturday, April 18. This year, 14 adult teams and nine youth teams registered for the event. Winners from the from each division are as follows: Youth Division 1st place Brody Cramer & Colt Curry weight 6.91 2nd place Weston Hostetter & Colten “Tadpole” Hostetter - weight 6.59 3rd place Sawyer Bachtel & Junior Bachtel - weight 4.54 Small Fish Kyle Fowler & Hagen Brandt weight 0.05 Big Fish Weston Hostetter & Colten “Tadpole” Hostetter - weight 1.08 Big Bass Weston Hostetter & Colten “Tadpole” Hostetter - weight 1.54 Big Bluegill Avah Edde & Eliah Edde weight 0.58 Adult Division 1st place Richard Hostetter & Andy Hostetter - weight 9.35 2nd place Eric Begemann & Gary Vanlanker - weight 7.69 3rd place Gunner Bryant & Ty Murphy weight 7.63 Small Fish (Tie) Craig Herman & Jesse Rogge - weight 0.06 (Tie) Dillon Hostetter & Brittany Boyles - weight 0.06 Big Fish Dillon Hostetter & Brittany Boyles - weight 2.22 Big Bass Jesse Gordillo & Buddy Hostetter - weight 3.91 Big Bluegill Jason Hostetter & Travis Boheme - weight 0.58 The check-in event began at 4 p.m. on Saturday with a raffle and guests won a large number of great prizes.
Baseball back after weather cancellations
The now 2 and 7 Chiefs played a baseball game finally after weather canceled all games last week. On April 20, they hosted the now 10 and 2 Carrollton Trojans in Alma. This game would turn out to be all Trojans as the team from north of the river won going away, 20-2.
Softball handles business against Midway
Santa Fe got back into the swing of things in a big way after rough weather, playing against Midway, on 4-20-26. On the road the Chiefs sprang for 3 runs in frame one, and held that advantage through 3 innings. Fast forward to inning 6, Midway finally got on the scoreboard plating 4 runs, but the damage was done as the Chiefs were up 11-4 at that point. A nine run 7th inning explosion by the visiting Red and Black smothered any comeback hopes to be held by Midway in a 20-4 romp, and win by SFHS.
MDC seeks public comments on potential changes to nonresident deer hunting
The Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC) is asking Missouri deer hunters and others for feedback on potential regulation changes to the Wildlife Code of Missouri for nonresident deer hunting.
Lady Chiefs ground the Orioles
The Santa Fe Lady Chiefs traveled over to Orange and Black territory last week for softball at Concordia on April 8. The Lady Orioles led one to zero after one, and then Santa Fe dented home four times in the 2nd, and 5 more times in the third to open up a big advantage. After a scoreless fourth, the Lady Chiefs added 5 more runs and held on for a spread win of 14-4 after 5 innings.
Junior High Relays held at SFHS
Santa Fe held it’s annual middle school track meet on Thursday, April 9, with many schools from the area showing up to compete.
Chiefs baseball edged by Concordia
The Red and Black attack was on the road last week on April 8 to play Concordia. This would turn out to be a very close ball game with a thin one run being the difference. Santa Fe-Norborne would take an early lead of 4-0 after two and half innings before CHS struck back making it 4-3. In the 4th Santa Fe tacked on another run, however the Orioles snagged three more of their own in their at bat. The home team plated one more run in the 5th to take a 7-5 lead into the late innings. The Chiefs would take an 8-7 lead in the final frame, with CHS getting the last at bat. The Orioles then plated three runs for the hard fought I-70 win.
MDC reports young hunters took more than 5k turkeys over youth weekend
Preliminary data from the Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC) shows young turkey hunters in Missouri harvested 5,255 birds over the past youth weekend, April 11-12. Top harvest counties were Osage with 121 birds harvested, Franklin with 119, and Gasconade with 107.
SF track competes in Higginsville
The Santa Fe Track and Field program ran at Higginsville last week at the Rob Hoefer Husker invitational on Tuesday, April 7.
Lady Chiefs topple Saints in softball
It was indeed a Red and Black attack on April 6th at St. Paul Lutheran in Concordia, for the team’s first road contest of the year. The game started innocently enough, tied at bagels after one, and only one-zero after two, yet SFHS laid down a Lincoln in the third, and erupted for eight more scores in the 4th, and a run in the 5th, to put the Lady Saints away in five innings, winning 15-0.