This blog is maintained by high school beat reporter Phillip Suitts and the semoball.com staff. Phillip has been a reporter for the Southeast Missourian and semoball.com since September 2016. An Atlanta native, Phillip graduated from the University of Maryland in May 2016. He worked for the independent student newspaper, The Diamondback, and has interned at The Montgomery Advertiser and Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

Southeast Missourian Christmas Tournament seeds released

Posted Sunday, December 10, 2017, at 3:53 PM

Coaches gather at the Isle Casino Cape Girardeau for the Southeast Missourian Christmas Tournament seeding meeting Sunday. (Phillip Suitts ~ psuitts@semissourian.com)

The seeds for the 2017 Southeast Missourian Christmas Tournament were determined Sunday at the Isle Casino Cape Girardeau.

Cape Girardeau Central (5-1) was awarded the top seed with 13 of 16 first-place votes. The head coaches of the 16 tournament teams determined the seeding by voting. Coaches could not vote for their own team.

The seedings are listed below with the team's vote total listed in parenthesis, followed by its current record. Coaches couldn't vote for their own team. (Update: Teams voted one-by-one on seeding, starting with the top overall spot.)

The bracket can be found here.

No. 1= Cape Central (13 first-place votes, 5-1)

No. 2= Notre Dame (13, 3-2)

No. 3= Charleston (14, 5-3)

No. 4= Jackson (10, 1-2)

No. 5= Oran (14, 4-0)

No. 6= Advance (13, 5-1)

No. 7= Meadow Heights (8, 5-0)

No. 8= Scott County Central (10, 2-5)

No. 9= Chaffee (15, 5-1)

No. 10= Delta (13, 5-2)

No. 11= Oak Ridge (2-2, 11)

No. 12= Woodland (2-3, 11)

No. 13= Scott City (10, 0-3)

No. 14= Leopold (10, 1-4)

No. 15= Kelly (15, 1-4)

No. 16= Bell City (0-2)