College Sports

The Southeast Missouri State men's track and field squad completed its 2022 sweep over the weekend, by winning the Ohio Valley Conference Outdoor Championship, months after claiming the Indoor title.

Andy Sawyers has been on a baseball diamond since he was barely taller than a Louisville Slugger bat, so he knows enough that a team is only as good as its pitching.

It’s doubtful that Southeast Missouri State basketball would have been an attractive enough option for Aquan Smart coming out of Niles North (Ill.) High School two years ago.

After a two year delay due to COVID-19, the Three Rivers men's basketball program and its fans get to congratulate a legend on a well-deserved retirement as the college will host the Gene Bess Retirement Celebration on Saturday, May 21 at the Libla Family Sports Complex...

The immediate picture for the Southeast Missouri State was not to the liking of Redhawk followers, as No. 4-seed SEMO fell 3-2 to No. 2-seed Belmont in the 2022 Ohio Valley Conference Tournament at Choccolocco Park in Oxford, Ala. However, any rational fan can zoom out and see the big picture for the program is nothing but bright, and the final inning of that loss exhibited that.

This spring has proven to be a mixed bag for Southeast Missouri State junior pitcher Hunter Ralls.

If Southeast Missouri State is going to win the 2022 Ohio Valley Conference Softball Tournament, it is following the most arduous path possible to that desired destination.

Southeast Missouri State softball coach Mark Redburn would have been hard-pressed to have asked for a better start to the 2022 Ohio Valley Conference Tournament on Wednesday at Choccolocco Park in Oxford, Ala.

Southeast Missouri State baseball coach Andy Sawyers has been in the coaching business longer than Redhawk left fielder Jevon Mason has been alive. So, Sawyers knows that changing a player’s hitting mechanics is doable but altering someone’s personality isn’t.

When Southeast Missouri State softball takes the field on Wednesday at Choccolocco Park in Oxford, Ala. To open the 2022 Ohio Valley Conference Tournament, it will do so as a running, hitting, and fielding contradiction. The No. 4-seed Redhawks (27-22) will take on the winner of No. 5-seed Austin Peay (30-22) and No. 8-seed SIU Edwardsville (18-33), who will play at 12:30 p.m., and the Redhawks will do so having put together yet another strong season, despite being one of the youngest, if not THE youngest, squad in the field.

Three Rivers' 2022 softball and baseball seasons came to an end with postseason exits. On Monday, the Raider softball team lost to North Central Missouri 6-2 after splitting Sunday's games with a 6-3 loss to Jefferson College and a 10-0 win over Metropolitan...

It would be easier to tally the ways that former Southeast Missouri State football player Shabari Davis could NOT contribute on the field, as opposed to the unending list of ways that he CAN contribute to a team’s success.

The fact that Southeast Missouri State senior pitcher Austin Williams got roughed up in Sunday’s 15-3 loss at Oklahoma State can be dismissed as an anomaly.

ST. LOUIS — Alyson Marcum struck out 10 and Kyla Puckett drove in two runs as the Three Rivers softball team opened the Region XVI Tournament with a 7-3 win over State Fair on Saturday. The Raiders (32-13) will play Jefferson at 9 a.m. Sunday at St. Charles Community College with a spot semifinal on the line. The winner advances to play at 4 p.m. while the loser plays at 1:45 p.m. in an elimination game, needing to win three times to reach the final...

Some call the postseason a "second season" and that's how the Three Rivers baseball team is going into the best-of-three Sub-Regional against Jefferson College this weekend. "Postseason is a good time of year and it's like a new season," Raiders coach Tyler Smith said. "I think we got a good draw with Jefferson and I think we match up well with them."...

With the calendar flipping to May, it's postseason time for the Three Rivers softball team as the Raiders look for a trip to the NJCAA National Tournament for the second straight year. "The sophomores that went to the national tournament last year know that it's go-time now," Raiders coach Jeff Null said. "The freshmen on the team aren't really freshmen anymore after going through the grind of region play so they should know what to expect in the next few days."...

The non-conference hits (literally and figuratively) keep coming at the Southeast Missouri State baseball squad, and the Redhawks aren’t shying away from any team this spring.

The coming and goings of college basketball aren’t limited to just the men’s programs.

After being a strong leader for the Three Rivers women's basketball team for three years, Myia Yelder will be taking her talents out west as she signed with Utah State. Yelder was a huge part of the Lady Raider roster over one of the most successful stretches in program history...

The Southeast Missouri State women's tennis team will face 15th-seeded Stanford in the opening round of the NCAA Women's Tennis Championships. The Redhawks (15-6) and Cardinal (17-5) are scheduled to meet at 3 p.m. Friday in Stanford, California. SEMO and Stanford are two of 31 conference champions that automatically qualified for the 64-team tournament, with the Redhawks winning their first-ever Ohio Valley Conference championship this year...

A year ago, the Southeast Missouri State women’s tennis squad was riding a wave of confidence entering the 2021 Ohio Valley Conference Tournament championship final against Austin Peay.

Southeast Missouri State cornerback Shabari Davis signed with the Jacksonville Jaguars on Sunday as an undrafted free agent. Davis, a native of Savannah, Georgia, recorded 98 total tackles, three tackles for loss, 33 pass breakups, eight interceptions and forced one fumble during his career with the Redhawks...

As yet another memorable baseball season unfolds this spring for Southeast Missouri State, the Redhawks’ power-stroking offense will get a lot of adulation tossed its way, and with very good reason.

Former Cape Central standout Al Young signed with the New York Giants as an undrafted free agent on Sunday. Young recorded 23 total tackles, 11 pass breakups, two interceptions and recovered two fumbles during his senior season at Jackson State. Prior to playing for the Tigers, Young spent five seasons with Southeast Missouri State where he made 71 total tackles, broke up 26 passes, made seven interceptions and recovered a fumble...

The Three Rivers softball team hosted region-leading Crowder and were swept in a doubleheader Friday, 3-2 and 9-1. The Raiders (31-11) finish the regular season 11-7 in Region XVI play. After falling behind 2-0 in the first inning of the opener, Three Rivers got on the board in the second with Abby Wilson stealing home before Ann-Marie Simpson tied it with an RBI single in the third...

Of the 13 Southeast Missouri State men’s basketball players that comprised the 2021-22 roster this past season, only one, freshman forward Dylan Branson, chose history as an academic field to focus on. That is ironic because studying history – as it pertains to college basketball – would have been beneficial to the seven Redhawk student-athletes (of which Branson isn’t included) that elected to leave the program this spring.

The Southeast Missouri State men’s basketball program finally got some positive news this spring when third-year coach Brad Korn was able to announce the signings of transfers Kobe Clark and Gavyn Elkamil earlier this week.

From playing high school ball in nearby Neelyville to a couple of national tournament runs with Three Rivers, Autumn Dodd will be taking the next step of her basketball career to the NCAA Division I level as she committed to Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia...

Southeast Missouri State stayed in the thick of the Ohio Valley Conference softball race with a sweep of UT Martin on Wednesday in Cape Girardeau. The Redhawks (24-19, 13-7) battled to win a pair of one-run games in a 4-3, 5-4 over the Governors (27-16, 12-7).

After beating Southeast Missouri State 3-2 in a recent college baseball game at Capaha Field, Southern Illinois got past the Redhawks once again by a single run, as the Salukis topped SEMO 7-6 in 11 innings in Carbondale on Tuesday.

POPLAR BLUFF – The Three Rivers softball team got back on track with a milestone win for coach Jeff Null on Wednesday as they swept a doubleheader over St. Charles at JD Rains Field. After taking the opener 8-0, the Raiders won the second game 9-2 to give Null his 200th win with Three Rivers...

A lot was made of the recent performance by new Southeast Missouri State wide receiver Ryan Flournoy in the Redhawks’ annual spring game. After all, the junior college transfer contributed to a pair of touchdowns in helping Team SEMO beat Team Redhawk 31-7. However, another transfer, sophomore quarterback Paxton DeLaurent, did Flournoy one better and contributed to three scores, as he led his team to a 21-0 lead.

ST. CHARLES – The Three Rivers softball team came away with a split with St. Charles as the Raiders lost the opener 7-2, but bounced back to win the second game 9-7. The Cougars took advantage of three runs in the first and two runs in the fourth and by the time Three Rivers got on the board in the fifth and sixth innings, it was too little too late for them as they came away with a loss...

There is a heavy weight carried on your shoulders when your last name is Brune and you compete athletically at Southeast Missouri State.

PARK HILLS – Three Rivers went into Saturday down 2-0 in the four-game series against Mineral Area and were swept by the Cardinals 6-5 (11 innings) and 14-5 in the nightcap. The Raiders took a 4-3 lead in the seventh as they scored three runs first on a passed ball and a two-run double by Brett Harris. Later in the inning, Harris tried to score on a grounder to the shortstop but was tagged out on a throw to the plate...

NEOSHO – The Three Rivers softball team struggled on the road Saturday as they dropped a doubleheader to Crowder 7-3 in the opener and 10-4 in the night cap. The Raiders have won only twice in their last six games. The Raiders held a 3-0 after two and a half innings scoring twice in the first and once more in the third. However Crowder got on the board with one run in the third and two more in the fourth before scoring four runs in the sixth to put the game away...

POPLAR BLUFF – For the first time since 2019, Three Rivers College held their annual winter sports banquet at the Bess Activity Center on Monday evening. The 2022 banquet also marked the first time the men's and women's basketball teams and the cheer squad got to share one banquet together and recognize each teams accomplishments in the 2021-22 season...

And then there were five. The Southeast Missouri State men’s basketball program officially lost its most productive player from its 2021-22 roster on Monday, as junior shooter, Eric Reed Jr., entered the transfer portal.

Southeast Missouri State freshmen pitchers Alex Esker and Ethan Osborne are learning that college baseball can be a series of peaks (hopefully a lot of them) and valleys (it happens to every athlete), particularly of late.

That was the assessment of eighth-year Southeast Missouri State football coach Tom Matukewicz on the spring performance of junior college wide receiver transfer, Ryan Flournoy, earlier this spring. Flournoy didn’t disappoint when the snaps were for real (or at least more real) on Friday.

As it turns out, the last name of Southeast Missouri State’s newest offensive lineman is the LEAST interesting part of this guy’s storyline.

Sikeston native and Saint Louis University men's basketball standout Fred Thatch Jr. was recently named to the Division I-AAA Athletics Directors Association Scholar-Athlete Team. Thatch, along with teammate Gibson Jimerson, was named to the 12-person Scholar-Athlete Team. They were selected after a special review committee of athletics directors within the NCAA Division I-AAA ADA membership, which comprises 98 Division I institutions that do not sponsor football...

SEDALIA – The Three Rivers softball team split Tuesday's doubleheader at State Fair, losing the opener 8-7, but bounced back in the nightcap defeating the Roadrunners 14-4. The Raiders trailed 6-2 going into the seventh, but they were able to rattle off five runs to go up by one. However the Roadrunners (10-26, 6-10 XVI) were able to walk it off in the home half of the seventh scoring two runs on back-to-back singles...

The Southeast Missouri State baseball squad are now two games out of first place in the Ohio Valley Conference standings after dropping two of three games over the weekend at Tennessee Tech. On Saturday, Redhawk junior Andrew Keck went 2-for-4 with a home run, double, one run scored and two RBI, but SEMO (24-10, 8-4 OVC) fell 7-4...

After losing seven players who have eligibility remaining off its 2021-22 roster, the Southeast Missouri State men’s basketball program reversed its outflow by adding a student-athlete for next season on Friday.