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2012 All-Black River League baseball
Posted Monday, May 14, at 8:48 AM
The Black River League released it's all-conference baseball team recently. Here are the selections, as voted by the coaches, in alphabetical order by school. First Team Dusty Ritter, Bunker Austyn Hovis, Clearwater Joel Koenig, Clearwater Caleb Rowold, Clearwater...

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2012 All-Ozark Foothills Conference softball
Posted Friday, May 11, at 9:39 AM

Here are the selections (alphabetically by school) for the team based on the voting by the coaches. Naylor was regular season and tournament champions after defeating Neelyville, 8-1, Thursday evening at Three Rivers College's Rains Field. First Team...

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2012 All-Ozark Foothills Conference baseball
Posted Tuesday, May 8, at 7:56 AM

Here are the the members of the 2012 OFC team as voted on by the coaches (listed alphabetically by school). First Team Joel Koenig, Clearwater Caleb Rowold, Clearwater JonDavid Harber, Doniphan Aaron Aldrich, Doniphan Coleton Powell, East Carter Scott Foster, Greenville...

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2012 Black River League Baseball Tournament *SCHEDULE CHANGE*
Posted Thursday, April 26, at 7:30 AM

Van Buren dropped out of the BRL tournament due to lack of players next week so here is a revised schedule. Monday, April 30 (1) Clearwater -- Bye (4) South Iron vs. (5) Winona, noon (2) Ellington vs. (7) Bunker, 10 a.m. (3) East Carter vs. (6) Lesterville, 2 p.m...

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All-Region hoops features 23 players from DAR coverage area
Posted Wednesday, March 28, at 10:46 AM

2012 Southeast Missouri Sportswriters All-Region Basketball BOYS CLASS 5 First Team: Jamal Cox, 6-5, soph., Cape Central Karson King, 6-5, soph., Jackson Kendric McCain, 6-0, sr., Poplar Bluff John Meyer, 6-9, sr., Jackson T.J. Tisdell, 6-6, sr., Cape Central...

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Greenville's Foster signs at WBC
Posted Tuesday, March 27, at 4:43 PM

Greenville senior pitcher Scott Foster signed his National Letter of Intent on Tuesday to play baseball at Williams Baptist College in Walnut Ridge, Ark. Look for a story on Foster's signing in Thursday's Daily American Republic.

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All-Ozark Foothills Conference Teams
Posted Thursday, March 22, at 8:58 AM

The Ozark Foothills Conference coaches selected its basketball All-Conference boys and girls teams on Wednesday. ----- ALL-OFC BOYS TEAM Ethan Roach, Jr., Clearwater Tim Jackson, Jr., Clearwater Brian Patterson, Jr., Doniphan Derek Hutchins, Sr., Doniphan...

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2012 OFC Tournament
Posted Tuesday, January 31, at 8:35 AM

Here are the seeds for the 2012 Ozark Foothills Conference tournament for boys and girls which starts this Saturday (Feb. 4) at Naylor High School. The times on Saturday are scattered to accomodate each schools' bus travel. Tickets are $3 for adults and $2 for students...

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My Top 10 Games Covered of 2011
Posted Saturday, December 31, at 6:31 PM

Here is the my Top-10 games I covered for the Daily American Republic this season. This year was pretty good for area teams and it was pretty hard to narrow down the best games in 2011. I know some of you have favorites that you saw with your own two eyes so I encourage you to leave a comment on what great games you saw this year. Here's mine:...

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Kennett wins third straight BCT
Posted Friday, December 30, at 1:55 PM

This is completely unrelated to the 'which paper covers which schools' debate in the forums right now but I just wanted to put out there the Daily American Republic's Bloomfield Christmas Tournament championship game in Friday's print edition. For the first time since 1982, the DAR didn't have a team from it's coverage area play for the championship at the BCT so last night was a pretty rare occurrence for myself to cover a game between schools I don't report on regularly...

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55th Annual Bloomfield Christmas All-Tournament team
Posted Friday, December 30, at 8:36 AM

Here is the scoring leaderboard for the 55th Annual Bloomfield Christmas Tournament. Bold players were named to the All-Tournament team. Also, here is the completed bracket: http://semoball.com/bracket/1323/ SCORING LEADERBOARD...

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2011 Lady Royals Classic All-Tournament Team
Posted Friday, December 23, at 8:07 AM

Here are the selections for the 15th Annual Lady Royals Classic All-Tournament team as voted on by the coaches. Kasuela Cooper, Charleston Lexi Morris, Clearwater Paige Patterson, Dexter Brittany Harris, Dexter Hannah Noe, Dexter Audrey Wynne, Kennett...

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2011 Lady Royals Classic
Posted Monday, December 19, at 1:43 PM

Here's an updated bracket for the 15th Annual Lady Royals Classic with play slated to continue Monday afternoon with the quarterfinals. http://semoball.com/bracket/1324/ Check out the DAR on Facebook http://www.facebook.com/darsports or Twitter https://twitter.com/#!/darsports for score updates pending cell phone service in Broseley...

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2011 Bloomfield Christmas Tournament seeds
Posted Tuesday, December 13, at 9:07 AM

Here are the seeds after Monday afternoon's meeting to select the field of the Bloomfield Christmas Tournament. The top-seeded Kennett Indians are the two-time defending champions. The tournament beings Monday, Dec. 26 with the first round. On Tuesday, Dec. 27 is the consolation quarterfinals and winner's bracket quarterfinals. Wednesday, Dec. 28 will be the consolation semifinals, fifth place semifinals and semifinals. Thursday, Dec. 29 is championship night...

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2011 Lady Royals Classic seeding
Posted Friday, December 9, at 1:42 PM

Here are the seeds for the 15th Annual Lady Royals Classic at Twin Rivers High School which starts on Saturday Dec. 17 with the first round. Monday Dec. 19 will be the winner's bracket quarterfinals and Tuesday Dec. 20 will be the consolation quarterfinals. On Wednesday Dec. 21 will be the consolation semifinals, the fifth place semifinals and the semifinals. Thursday Dec. 22 will be championship night starting with the consolation at 3 p.m. and ending with the championship at 7:30 p.m...

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2011 Lady Dawg Classic
Posted Tuesday, November 29, at 9:35 AM

Here is the updated bracket: http://semoball.com/bracket/1313/ We have a roundup of the first round in Tuesday's Daily American Republic.

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Woodard signs with Lindenwood University baseball
Posted Monday, November 21, at 9:58 AM

Naylor senior Dalton Woodard recently signed to play baseball at Lindenwood Unversity in St. Charles, Mo. Woodard, who is a left-handed starting pitcher, was a Class 1 All-State selection last season for the Eagles. Lindenwood University is an NAIA school that is in the process of transitioning to an NCAA Division II school starting in 2012...

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2011 Current River Challenge, Bernie Invitational and Lady Dawg Classic
Posted Thursday, November 17, at 8:18 AM

Three early season tournaments involving many Daily American Republic area teams have been drawn in the last couple days. (Shameless plug alert): Before you head out on the road to catch these games below, be sure to pick up Tuesday, Nov. 22 and Wednesday, Nov. ...

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Hutchison signs for volleyball at SIU
Posted Wednesday, November 9, at 2:02 PM

Bloomfield senior Lindsay Hutchison signed a ceremonial National Letter of Intent on Wednesday to play volleyball at Southern Illinois University starting next fall. Hutchison was first-team All-SCAA, all-district and all-region this past season as the Lady Wildcats went to the quarterfinals in Class 2. ...

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2011 OFC Tournament -- finals set
Posted Wednesday, October 5, at 9:57 PM

The Ozark Foothills Conference baseball tournament wraps up Thursday at Roger Pattillo Field on the campus of Three Rivers College. Wednesday's Scores Clearwater 1, Neelyville 0 (12 innings) Twin Rivers 5, Naylor 3 Greenville 8, Clearwater 4 Thursday's Games...

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Rob Tate has been sports writer for the Daily American Republic in Poplar Bluff, Mo. since August 2008. Rob was born and raised in Clawson, Mich., just 14 miles north of Detroit and is an avid Tigers, Lions, Pistons, Red Wings and University of Michigan fan. He has also adopted the Rams and Mizzou to his favorites since moving to Missouri. He is a 2008 graduate of Oakland (Mich.) University where he received his bachelor of arts in journalism. Rob and his wife Sara live in Poplar Bluff.