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.

Oran to host fried chicken dinner to support basketball team

Posted Monday, March 4, 2013, at 8:08 PM

There will be an Oran basketball final four fundraiser on Tuesday.

A fried chicken dinner with "all the trimmings" will be served from 5-7 p.m at the school. The cost is $6 per person.

The money will go toward providing the team with a charter bus for its trip to Columbia.

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I will have to say Oran has had a good showing of support for their basketball team.

-- Posted by gomizzou05 on Mon, Mar 4, 2013, at 12:54 PM
Winner, Winner, Chicken Dinner!

-- Posted by Larry Doby on Mon, Mar 4, 2013, at 1:52 PM
Larry, I thought you were buying the team a chartered bus?

-- Posted by Uncle Charlie on Mon, Mar 4, 2013, at 2:35 PM
Congrat to you guys, I really do hope you win it all!

-- Posted by BBfanatic on Mon, Mar 4, 2013, at 2:56 PM
ok to take a charter but could take school bus not that long of drive

-- Posted by hawk85 on Mon, Mar 4, 2013, at 3:07 PM
Where will this chicken be served?

-- Posted by joefrank78 on Mon, Mar 4, 2013, at 7:57 PM
At the school, joefrank78. I deleted that from the first paragraph and meant to add it to the second. Whoops. I'll add it back now.

-- Posted by Rachel Crader on Mon, Mar 4, 2013, at 8:07 PM
Hope Yaeger and realbootheelbasketball can make it.

-- Posted by gostlrams on Mon, Mar 4, 2013, at 8:26 PM
Thanks Rachel for posting this for us. The proceeds are going towards helping out anywhere we need to....bus, hotel, meals, etc. Hope we raise enough money to take care of it all! These boys & girls deserve it! We are beyond proud and hope to represent our area the best we can! I believe....

-- Posted by eaglefan1986 on Mon, Mar 4, 2013, at 10:57 PM
My geographical and social observations tell me yaeger, bootheel ball, and dickie would like fried chicken.

-- Posted by Uncle Charlie on Mon, Mar 4, 2013, at 11:29 PM
I think they would rather have crow instead.

-- Posted by swamie on Tue, Mar 5, 2013, at 7:13 AM
Big crowd at the dinner. Good food, good people, good time.

-- Posted by joefrank78 on Tue, Mar 5, 2013, at 7:39 PM
joefrank, sure was good to see you again.

-- Posted by Larry Doby on Tue, Mar 5, 2013, at 8:09 PM
Did Hamilton and Reynolds make it too Larry? Am I too young for that reference?

-- Posted by FarmBoy06 on Tue, Mar 5, 2013, at 8:47 PM
I heard there was over $3000 worth of sales tonight. That's over 500 pieces of chicken for you all you math wiz's. What a job by this town.

-- Posted by Uncle Charlie on Tue, Mar 5, 2013, at 11:05 PM
I don't know why it put you twice.

Larry ate approximately 2 and 3/4 plate fulls of food before being cut-off if anybody was wondering.

-- Posted by Uncle Charlie on Tue, Mar 5, 2013, at 11:07 PM
What a turn out, rival coaches even showed up. So many people showed they had to run to Food Giant in Chaffee to get more chicken. Awesome community support.

-- Posted by ThayerPops on Wed, Mar 6, 2013, at 12:01 AM

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