Rachel Crader is the editor of semoball.com. She graduated from the University of Missouri School of Journalism in May of 2009 before spending the summer covering the World Series of Poker in Las Vegas.

Highlights from Rachel's days in college include having a class down the hall from Chase Daniel and having NCAA wrestling champion Ben Askren hold the door open for her at Brady Commons, Mizzou's student center. She spent time covering Mizzou basketball, softball and baseball while working for the Columbia Missourian and is excited to return home to Southeast Missouri to cover local sports for semoball.com.

Rachel has covered three Southeast Missourian Christmas Tournaments for the Southeast Missourian and semoball.com, and she'll see you courtside again this year.

MVC championship game postponed

Posted Friday, February 5, 2010, at 7:17 PM

The Mississippi Valley Conference Tournament championship game between Leopold and Oak Ridge that was scheduled to start at 8:30 p.m. at Chaffee has been postponed due to the weather. The teams have not settled on a makeup date at this time.

The third place game was played earlier tonight. Meadow Heights defeated Zalma. I'm off to post the final score and box now.

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CRADER

There has been talk of playing the championship of the MVC tounament between Oak Ridge & Leopold on Wed night before the Scott County & Sikeston game.Be a real treat for OR & Leopold fans & also the rest of the fans in southeast mo to see 4 state ranked teams play at the same venue. Like to read your comment.

-- Posted by oak ridge fan on Mon, Feb 8, 2010, at 1:40 PM
LOL

I'm sure she will be in favor of the idea. I am confident Rachel Crader would like to see this championship game. It would be hard for Crader to see this game if it is played at Chaffee at the same time the Scott County Central / Sikeston game is played at the Show Me Center.

I would love to see both games. I'm not opposed to the idea of playing the game at the Show Me Center. But I think it is a complicated proposal. I do not think moving the Sikeston / Scott County Central girls game to an earlier time is an option. Therefore, the only fair alternative would be to play the Oak Ridge / Leopold game at 4:30 or 5 p.m. I am unsure if this is an appropriate time for a conference championship. I would be in favor of the idea. But I would feel very bad for working parents that might be unable to attend their son's conference championship because of the early starting time.

-- Posted by drawmules on Mon, Feb 8, 2010, at 2:34 PM
I also have one additional question.

What are the chances Leopold and Oak Ridge will be willing to travel to play a basketball game anywhere on Wednesday if we get over 5 inches of snow Monday night?

-- Posted by drawmules on Mon, Feb 8, 2010, at 2:37 PM
drawmules

Not a chance on playing with 5" snow.But something to think about. Wouldn't it be great if all the southeast conferences got together and played their championship games on the same day at th show me center. Better than some of the shootout games.

-- Posted by oak ridge fan on Mon, Feb 8, 2010, at 4:23 PM
oak ridge fan

Perhaps. But it might require all of the conferences to play their conference tournaments on the same week. I cannot see this happening.

-- Posted by drawmules on Mon, Feb 8, 2010, at 5:29 PM

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