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Freshman Danny Wright was the lone player to represent the Southeast Missouri State baseball team on the Ohio Valley Conference All-Tournament team, which was revealed following the conclusion of Saturday's championship game. Wright batted .545 during SEMO's three games in the tournament, which was held at Choccolocco Park in Oxford, Alabama. He had a slugging percentage of 1.091, finishing with seven RBIs, two home runs and four runs scored...

Southeast Missouri State senior Zach Gordon finished 21st in Saturday's finals of the 200-meter dash, wrapping up his stint at the NCAA Outdoor Track and Field West Preliminaries in Austin, Texas. Gordon qualified for the final prelim round after placing second in Friday's third heat of the event. He bested that time on Saturday, finishing the race in 20.81 seconds...

The Southeast Missouri State baseball team’s title defense at the Ohio Valley Conference tournament came to an end on Friday. The fifth-seeded Redhawks’ offense was only able to muster six hits, while Murray State first baseman Jack Hranec finished 3-for-5 with a pair of home runs and four RBIs to lead the sixth-seeded Racers to an 8-5 win at Choccolocco Park in Oxford, Alabama...

It was the kind of outing Ryan Flick won’t be forgetting any time soon. The Southeast Missouri State baseball team did everything it could to slow down the Tennessee Tech slugger in Thursday’s second-round game of the Ohio Valley Conference tournament, but there wasn’t much that worked...

The Southeast Missouri State track and field team opened competition at the NCAA West Preliminaries on Thursday. Two Redhawks, Kayla Gutierrez and Miya Dorsey, competed at the University of Texas in Austin, Texas. Dorsey was 37th in the 400 meter hurdles with a time of 1:04.62. Gutierrez placed 43rd in the hammer throw with a toss of 177 feet, 2 inches...

The Southeast Missouri State volleyball team announced the addition of Bob Crank as an assistant coach on Wednesday. "I am beyond thrilled to add Bob Crank to our coaching staff," Redhawks coach Julie Yankus said in a news release. "His experience as a head coach, a club director, and a player will be instrumental in bringing our program to the next level...

The Southeast Missouri State baseball team leaned heavily on its offense to begin its Ohio Valley Conference tournament title defense on Wednesday. Freshman Danny Wright finished 3-for-5 with a home run and five RBIs, and the fifth-seeded Redhawks gave coach Andy Sawyers another reason to celebrate on his birthday with a 13-10 win over fourth-seeded Jacksonville State in the opening round of the OVC tourney at Choccolocco Park in Oxford, Alabama...

Andy Sawyers knows a thing or two about what it takes to succeed in the postseason. The first-year head coach of the Southeast Missouri State baseball team spent 18 years in the ranks prior to taking over the Redhawks' program. During that time, he was a part of teams that appeared in 10 NCAA Regionals, three Super Regionals and two College World Series...

Outfielder Dan Holst earned first team All-Ohio Valley Conference honors to headline a group of six Southeast Missouri State baseball players who were recognized by the league on Tuesday. Catcher Brian Lees, outfielder Chris Osborne and starting pitchers Justin Murphy and Clay Chandler earned second team honors for the Redhawks, while second baseman Danny Wright was named to the all-freshman team...

HOOVER, Ala. -- Robbie Glendinning hit a grand slam and Andy Toelken pitched 4 2/3 innings of scoreless relief Tuesday as Missouri eliminated Texas A&M 12-7 in the Southeastern Conference tournament. Tenth-seeded Missouri (36-21) earned its seventh straight victory and advanced to the double-elimination portion of the tournament. Missouri faces No. 2 seed LSU (39-17) today...

COLUMBIA, Mo. -- Prep basketball standout Jontay Porter has announced his intention to sign with Missouri, joining his older brother and father. Porter, who recently completed his junior season in Seattle, averaged 14.3 points and 13.6 rebounds per game for undefeated Nathan Hale High School. The 6-foot-10 forward is listed by 247sports as the 27th-best player in the 2018 class, though there is a chance he could finish high school in the summer and join Missouri this fall...

Dan Holst represents the Southeast Missouri State baseball team as the Ohio Valley Conference Player of the Week, the league announced Monday. The senior outfielder led the Redhawks over the weekend to a sweep of visiting Eastern Kentucky, hitting .429 with nine RBIs during the three-game series. He had two hits and two runs scored in each game...

Southeast Missouri State student-athletes combined to post a 3.20 grade point average for the 2016-17 academic year. The women's tennis team led the way with a 3.79 cumulative GPA, while women's cross country and women's soccer were close behind with a 3.75 and a 3.70 GPA, respectively...

In the final home game of their college careers, the seniors led the way as Southeast Missouri State baseball ended the regular season with a sweep. Saturday, five senior starters combined for 10 hits as the Redhawks cruised to a 16-3 victory over Eastern Kentucky on Senior Day at Capaha Field...

With a spot in the Ohio Valley Conference Tournament already clinched, Southeast Missouri State's baseball team defeated Eastern Kentucky 8-4 on Friday to clinch the final regular-season series of the year. Senior starting pitcher Clay Chandler returned to his early-season form, allowing just two runs on eight hits and two walks while striking out four over 5 1/3 innings in his final start at Capaha Field to earn the win...

Southeast Missouri State softball freshman Rachel Anderson earned second-team All-Mideast Region honors, the National Fastpitch Coaches Association announced Thursday. In all, 667 players from 175 programs garnered NFCA Division I All-Region recognition. Anderson, like all other honorees, is now in the running for the 2017 NFCA Division I All-American teams...

After returning home from a seven-game road trip, the Southeast Missouri State baseball team showed Thursday that it's ready for the postseason. Dan Holst and Tristen Gagan combined for three home runs and 11 RBIs, as the Redhawks combined for 15 hits in a 14-6 win over Eastern Kentucky in the opener of a three-game Ohio Valley Conference series at Capaha Field...

The Southeast Missouri State baseball team was unable to respond after Belmont scored two runs to go ahead in the bottom of the eighth inning, as the Bruins clinched the Ohio Valley Conference series with an 11-10 victory on Sunday in Nashville, Tennessee...

A late-game, four-run rally fell by the way side for Southeast Missouri State baseball, as it dropped a 6-5 contest in 12 innings to Belmont on Saturday in Nashville, Tennessee. The Redhawks rally began in the top of the eighth inning, with Brian Lees singling before Tristen Gagan hit a two-run home run over the right-field wall to cut the deficit to 5-3...

The Southeast Missouri State men's track and field team claimed its second consecutive Ohio Valley Conference Outdoor Championship on Saturday at Choccolocco Park. SEMO totaled 182 points, 44 more than second-place Belmont (138 points). Eastern Illinois was third with 136...

Hitting the road for the final time in the regular season, the Southeast Missouri State baseball team edged Belmont 4-1 on Friday night in Nashville, Tennessee. The Redhawks (25-22 overall, 13-12 Ohio Valley Conference) got mult-hit games from Josh Haggerty and Brian Lees and a strong pitching performance from Justin Murphy to get past the Bruins (34-35, 15-13)...

Southeast Missouri State track and field thrower Logan Blomquist was named Ohio Valley Conference Outdoor Male Freshman of the Year, the league announced Thursday. Blomquist began the outdoor season with top-10 finishes in three separate events at the Jaguar Opener, including a first-place toss in shot put. He posted 18 more top-10 finishes throughout the year...

The Southeast Missouri State women's track and field team is in first place following the opening day of the Ohio Valley Conference Outdoor Championships, as Sydney O'Brien took first for the Redhawks in the 10,000-meter run with a time of 37 minutes, 24.44 seconds on Thursday in Oxford, Alabama...

The Southeast Missouri State men's basketball program is doing its best to move past a disappointing 2015-16 campaign, one that left its most lasting mark on Wednesday when the NCAA announced that Southeast is one of 17 Division I programs across the country ineligible for postseason play in 2017-18 as a result of low Academic Progress Rate scores over a four-year period...

Southeast Missouri State softball's Rachel Anderson and Mykaela Arellanes each earned Ohio Valley Conference honors at Tuesday's banquet. Anderson was named OVC Freshman of the Year and earned first-team and all-newcomer honors, while the sophomore Arellanes was named to the all-newcomer team...

A couple of months ago, Southeast Missouri State women's basketball assistant coach James Arnold got a phone call from his realtor -- a family was moving to Cape Girardeau and was interested in purchasing his house. Except his house wasn't for sale...

Southeast Missouri State accomplished a first Saturday, winning back-to-back road games for the first time all season. That put the Redhawks in position for a series sweep. But SEMO couldn't capitalize on that opportunity as Western Michigan avoided the sweep Sunday with an 8-6 comeback victory in Kalamazoo, Michigan...

The Southeast Missouri State softball team split a road doubleheader at UT Martin on Saturday, winning the opener 7-0 and dropping the nightcap 8-2. The pair of games wraps up the season for the Redhawks, who did not qualify for the Ohio Valley Conference tournament...

The Southeast Missouri State baseball traveled northward for a pair of games at Western Michigan on Saturday and captured a doubleheader sweep, 12-6 and 8-5, in Kalamazoo, Michigan. The result marked the first time all season that Southeast has won back-to-back road games...

Jasmin Hilliard grew up in the United States. As a soccer player, she is a product of northeast Ohio, a place one might describe as the anti-Caribbean. But two weeks ago Hilliard pulled on a uniform for the Puerto Rican women's national team, taking the first step in a journey that could see her become the first ever Southeast Missouri State soccer player to represent any country's national team...

The Southeast Missouri State baseball team couldn't hang onto a one-run lead in the ninth inning Tuesday, as Trent Leimkuehler hit a two-run, walk-off double to give Saint Louis a 6-5 win in St. Louis. SEMO led 5-4 entering the final frame but Leimkuehler's clutch hit sealed SEMO's defeat...

Former Southeast Missouri State punter Alex Knight will take part in a tryiout at rookie minicamp with the Jacksonville Jaguars. Knight, a left-footed punter, was a first team All-Ohio Valley Conference selection as a senior in 2016, leading the league and ranking sixth in the nation with 43.8 yards per punt...

Despite holding a lead three different times, the Southeast Missouri State softball team dropped a 6-5 decision against Belmont in Ohio Valley Conference action Monday in Nashville, Tennessee. The game was originally scheduled as part of a doubleheader on Sunday, but inclement weather forced the Redhawks to stay an extra day in Nashville to complete the two-game set...