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CLARKSVILLE, Tenn. – With just over four minutes remaining and trailing 28-24 in its football game Saturday at Austin Peay, Southeast Missouri State faced a critical fourth down that essentially would determine whether it had any chance to win the game or not.

The Southeast Missouri State volleyball team improved to 4-1 in Ohio Valley Conference Play with a sweep of visiting Eastern Illinois on Friday night at Houck Field House. The Redhawks prevailed 25-22, 25-16, 25-16, recording their second sweep in OVC play and sixth overall...

There are just three football teams that are unbeaten within Ohio Valley Conference play at this early juncture and two of them meet today at Austin Peay (2 p.m.) when the Governors host Southeast Missouri State. Austin Peay (3-2, 1-0) is coming off a bye week after beating No. 11-ranked Jacksonville State 52-33, while the No. 20-ranked Redhawks (3-2, 1-0) beat Tennessee Tech 43-37 in double overtime Saturday...

"We are fired up to announce this year's class. The future is bright!”

There are only three remaining unbeaten football teams in the Ohio Valley Conference in terms of league play and two of them will meet Saturday when No. 20 Southeast Missouri State travels to Austin Peay at 2 p.m.

There wasn’t a team in the Ohio Valley Conference last season that grabbed fewer rebounds than Southeast Missouri State.

There were several things that Southeast Missouri State football fans would have felt assured of entering the 2019 season.

Every baseball player dreams of competing in October and for the Southeast Missouri State squad, that will happen twice this week.

"I hate short goalposts." Kendrick Tiller is a football player for Southeast Missouri State. Unlike most everyone else on the field of play, he has no true human opponent. He doesn't run the ball or catch it. He doesn't block. He doesn't tackle. If he happens to do any of the aforementioned, something went awry...

SIKESTON, Mo. — The Three Rivers men’s rodeo team finished sixth at their home event in Sikeston over the weekend with 220 points. Jakob Sellers finished second in bull riding for the Raiders with 156 points, barely missing out on a win. Jacob Hodges of Northwest Mississippi edged Sellers with one extra point...

DALLAS — The Raiders didn’t pick up a win in their preseason opener in Dallas over the weekend, but they won every second half. In three games, Three Rivers trailed at halftime and either closed the gap or finished tied at the end of the game. Three Rivers was down by six at halftime against Otero, and eventually lost 52-49...

Sixth-year Southeast Missouri State football coach Tom Matukewicz sat down for his postgame press conference following the Redhawks’ thrilling 43-37 double-overtime win over Tennessee Tech Saturday at Houck Stadium and the first thing he did was set the tone for the session before anyone had even asked a question.

The Redhawks won the first two sets, 25-21 and 29-27, dropped the next two sets, 20-25 and 27-29, before prevailing in a fifth set that had nine ties and five lead changes, 15-13. The Redhawks set a program record with 21 blocks in the match, with Maggie Adams leading the way with a career-high 10. Krista Berns and Mikayla Kuhlmann had six blocks apiece...

The No. 23-ranked Southeast Missouri State football team (2-2) opens its Ohio Valley Conference portion of the season Saturday at 6 p.m. against Tennessee Tech (4-1, 1-0 OVC) at Houck Stadium.

If you see students in the far bleachers wearing brightly colored shirts for Saturday's Southeast-Tennessee Tech football game, give Aidan Gremminger and Sophie Machen credit. The Southeast freshmen have been hired by the university athletics department to fire up their peers for football...

When the Southeast Missouri State football squad runs onto the Houck Stadium turf Saturday at 6 p.m. to open the Ohio Valley Conference portion of its season, there will be pulsating music, fireworks, and thousands of Redhawk fans screaming in its support.

The numbers are in complete contrast when studying what Tennessee Tech quarterback Bailey Fisher has done and how the Southeast Missouri State defense has performed against the pass this season.

The problem that Southeast Missouri State football coach Tom Matukewicz has with the performance of his special teams so far this year has been that they aren’t, well, special.

When Southeast Missouri State forward Sage Tolbert put up seven points and five rebounds in his first collegiate game ever, and it was on the road at A-10 program Saint Louis, that was an early indication that he just may have some ability as a basketball player.

The Three Rivers College basketball teams showed off their increased size at Raider Madness. The first official day of the basketball season Tuesday, Raider Madness featured short scrimmages by the men’s and women’s teams, as well introductions of the players and cheerleaders, a 3-point contest, a dunk exhibition, a cheer routine, and plenty of antics by Rocky Raider at the Libla Family Sports Complex...

It’s easy to read the statistics from the 2018-19 Southeast Missouri State men’s basketball squad and realize the Redhawks have players who can shoot the ball from the perimeter.

When a football team plays Pikeville one week and Georgia the next, as Murray State recently did, it is difficult to assess just how good that team is statistically.

Southeast Missouri State senior midfeielder Esmie Gonzales snapped a tie in the 67th minute as the Redhawks remained unbeaten in Ohio Valley Conference play with a 2-1 victory over host Austin Peay on Friday night in Clarksville, Tennessee. Southeast, which won its third straight game, improved to 3-0 in the OVC and 5-3 overall. Austin Peay fell to 0-2-1 in the conference and 1-6-3 overall...

Based on the mass of Semoball.com traffic that clicked on the story of former Hayti athletic star Ivory Winters transferring from the Big 10 Conference (Indiana University) to Southeast Missouri State a few weeks ago, there are a lot of people curious as to when he’ll be darting onto the field turf at Houck Stadium.

None of the current Southeast Missouri State men’s basketball players were even alive when fifth-year Redhawk coach Rick Ray ran his first “3-man close-out” drill as a coach back in 1995. Having that amount of experience in the profession has led Ray to have a full comprehension of his professional situation.

The Southeast Missouri State men’s basketball team opened its 2019-20 season Wednesday with an early morning practice. Sort of.

Fifth-year Southeast Missouri State women’s basketball coach Rekha Patterson watched her team lose eight games last season by single digits, including seven within the Ohio Valley Conference portion of play. When a team finishes one game below .500 (8-10) in its league, those narrow defeats tend to stick with a coach.

Southeast Missouri State redshirt junior defensive back Bydarrius Knighten has been a college athlete long enough to know how to handle time off when he is blessed enough to receive it.

Fourth-year Southeast Missouri State baseball coach Andy Sawyers is still four-plus months away from leading his Redhawks into a game that counts in the standings, but there was no hiding his excitement to get back on the field turf at Capaha Park Monday for the first of six weeks of practices, scrimmages, and a pair of exhibition games.

When Nathan King looked at the 2019 West Virginia State University football schedule this past spring, tears came to his eyes.

A year ago, the Southeast Missouri State football team generated turnovers better than any other in the country. That has not been the case this season, so it was a sad irony Saturday that on a play in which the Redhawk defense did force a turnover, it proved very costly from a personnel standpoint.

No one within the Southeast Missouri State football program is saying that the running back rotation is a matter of saving the best for last, but that is precisely what the strategy appears to be statistically.

West Virginia State head coach John Pennington needed a favor. He called his distant cousin, two-time National Football League Comeback Player of the Year Chad Pennington, and leaned a bit on the family connection.

Southeast Missouri State never before has played West Virginia State University. Southeast (1-2, 0-0 OVC) kicks off against WVSU (2-0, 2-0 Mountain East Conference) at 1 p.m. at Houck Stadium.

Much of the euphoria surrounding the Southeast Missouri State football program since its opening-night rout of rival Southern Illinois has faded in the 23 days and two losses that have transpired since.

The Southeast Missouri State soccer team belatedly opened Ohio Valley Conference play with a 2-1 victory over Belmont on Friday at Houck Field. After nearly a two-hour weather delay, Jennifer Brien netted the Redhawks' first conference goal just 5 minutes, 26 seconds into the game. Brien scored unassisted when she broke free from about 40 yards out...

The Southeast Missouri State soccer team belatedly opened Ohio Valley Conference play with a 2-1 victory over Belmont on Friday at Houck Field.

Southeast Missouri State special teams coach Matt Martin could probably survive without long snapper Camden Boyle being on the Redhawks’ roster, but he doesn’t want to think about that scenario.

Five years ago, Mike Bennett suffered a massive stroke that should have killed him. Instead, the former defensive end on the 1969 Missouri Tigers, arguably the greatest Mizzou football team in school history, will walk with assistance onto Faurot Field at Memorial Stadium on Saturday in Columbia, Missouri...

The sign that a Southeast Missouri State football player is being disciplined is when they are forced to wear a yellow jersey during practices that say “I let my teammates down.”

There weren’t a lot of positive aspects for the Southeast Missouri State football coaches to take from the recent 50-0 loss at Missouri, but immediately following the game, Redhawk coach Tom Matukewicz was fairly pleased with the play of his tight end position, which had been besieged by injuries.

Southeast Missouri State women’s soccer coach Heather Nelson wants to win as many matches as possible. You don’t make athletics your career if you aren’t a competition nut. But even more important than the wins is the bigger, absolutely more significant message that she preaches to her student-athletes about making a positive impact on others years after their final corner kick.

The Southeast Missouri State volleyball team used a 6-1 run in the fifth set to seize control on its way to a road victory Tuesday over Saint Louis University. The Redhawks won 25-23, 18-25, 25-16, 23-25, 15-12 in improving to 5-6 on the season. With the deciding rally match tied at 2-2, Laney Malloy, Annie Wehrheim and Tara Beilsmith put down kills to give Southeast a 5-2 lead. ...

COLUMBIA, Mo. — Any post-game analysis of the Southeast Missouri State football game at Missouri Saturday needs to be kept in perspective.