College Sports

A freshman guard looks to find her place as the newest member of the Three Rivers College women’s basketball team. Brooklynn Klepzig, a Doniphan native, stepped onto the court for the first time as a Lady Raider, and though everything may be new to her, she is ready to tackle the latest journey in her basketball career...

In this era of college athletics where players transfer with abandon, it’s a difficult task for coaches to have to build team chemistry and instill a program culture on an annual basis. However, on the opening day of college basketball (practice) season on Monday, leadership, communication, and enthusiasm were in abundance within the Southeast Missouri State men’s squad.

What was a sweet win in St. Louis for the Missouri Tigers was also the completion of a long journey for running back Cody Schrader. "Just looking at my journey, I never expected that I'd get this opportunity playing in the city that I'm from," Schader said...

The SEMO women’s soccer team fell to fellow Ohio Valley Conference member Eastern Illinois by a score of 0-2 on Sunday at Houck Stadium. With the loss, the Redhawks are now 4-3-1 overall and 0-1-1 in the OVC after drawing with Western Illinois last week...

If you have a quarterback, you have a chance. That is the golden rule of football, no matter the level. Through No. 23 Missouri's rise to the rankings, it is evident that the Tigers have a quarterback that makes them contenders in the SEC. It may have taken a while, but the past two weeks have shown that Brady Cook is that quarterback. ...

If a physician was examining the 2023 Southeast Missouri State football program today, the most critical thing that he/she would have to be careful NOT to do is confuse the symptoms with the diagnosis.

The SEMO women’s volleyball team opened up Ohio Valley Conference play with a 2-0 series win against the Morehead State Eagles over the weekend. The Redhawks took down the Eagles 3-1 on Friday night before sweeping Morehead 3-0 on Saturday afternoon. SEMO head coach Julie Yankus said it is great to start off conference play with a win, especially against a team like Morehead State...

There may be no statistic that veteran Southeast Missouri State football coach Tom Matukewicz speaks of with more emphasis than turnover margin.

Redhawks freshman forward and midfielder Emily Baker has wasted little time contributing to the SEMO offense. Baker has scored a team-leading three goals in five games, all of which she has started. The most recent goal scored came against Murray State University in the game on Sept. 10...

An experienced and successful college basketball coach once explained how he got over the frustration of losing a recruit to another program, whom he had spent years (plural) pursuing with zeal.

The greats write songs about Saturday nights. “It's getting late, have you seen my mates,” the legendary Sir Elton John screamed. “Ma, tell me when the boys get here…”

The SEMO women’s soccer team defeated the Cougars of Columbia College 1-0 on Thursday at Houck Stadium. Local athlete and senior midfielder Emma Brune (Saxony Lutheran High School) put the game away with a header in the 70th minute, coincidentally on her 22nd birthday...

The punt game for Southeast Missouri State took a hit last December when the best punter in the Ohio Valley Conference, Zach Haynes, decided to leave the Redhawks for the FBS program at New Mexico State.

Editor’s Note: This is the first story in a series about 2023 East Carter graduate Robert Henning and his journey to play football at Arkansas Baptist College. People come into our lives for a reason. We may not know the why or even the how someone elses path intersects with our own...

The task that lies ahead for the No. 13-ranked Southeast Missouri State football squad is hard enough, let alone having to do it shorthanded.

In some regards, many actually, the 2023 home-opener played by the Southeast Missouri State football squad was absolutely magnificent.

In May of 1929, Houck Field was just a drawing. Audrey Hepburn was born that month. Al Capone was imprisoned. Prohibition was a thing. In just a few months, the “Great Crash” on Wall Street, later named Black Tuesday, would trigger the Great Depression...

Many movies, TV shows and written pieces have portrayed a young fan — or perhaps an aging veteran player — walking into a sports cathedral for the first time. Marveling at the new, while feeling the familiar. That’s the effect Southeast Missouri State University officials are shooting for with a new Houck Field...

Former Poplar Bluff Mule Kayson King decided to take it up a notch this year for his mom’s birthday. King said she was planning a calm, quiet day in but he decided to throw a wrench in those plans and get her a present in the process. King, a freshman center for on the Southeast Missouri State football team, earned the right to travel to the Redhawks’ first game last week as they took on the Kansas State Wildcats in Manhattan, Kansas...

This fall, Houck Field opens with a new south grandstand and an exciting vision for its future. It’s a good time to be a Redhawks fan. The road to a new Houck, though, has been a longtime coming. Just days before the Sept. 2, 2021, SEMO home opener against rival Southern Illinois University, a site visit by structural engineering firm Thornton Tomasetti Inc. ...

There is no shortage of reasons to be excited about the 2023 home-opening football game on Saturday for the Southeast Missouri State program. The Redhawks (0-1) are ranked No. 14 in the country (FCS) and have been projected to be the champions of the newly-formed Big South/OVC Football Association this season.

John Wittenborn All-MIAA (1958-1968) played 11 years in the offense line and as a kicker for the San Francisco 49ers, Philadelphia Eagles, and Houston Oilers. He won an NFL championship with the Eagles and spent the last four years of his career as a kicker for the Oilers...

Q: You’ve been the radio voice of the SEMO Redhawks since 2000, calling football, basketball and baseball games for River Radio. What are some of your favorite memories from calling games over the last 20-plus years? It’s always the most enjoyable to broadcast championships. ...

Of the several thousand people who gather on Saturday at Houck Stadium to watch the “MRV Banks Game Ball Brawl” football game between visiting Lindenwood (1-0) and No. 14-ranked Southeast Missouri State (6 p.m., ESPN+), no individual will have the perspective of Cade Brister.

Among Southeast Missouri State's 13 athletic programs, over almost 120 years, only one program has had a head coach from the beginning to the present day. Heather Nelson was hired to both create and coach the SEMO women's soccer program in 1999 and has been here for 25 years and counting...

The Southeast Missouri State cross country team showed out in their only home meet of the season on Friday, Sept. 1, at the Osage Centre. Both the men's and women's squads placed first at the Redhawk Invite in the 4k and 6k. The Redhawks had four top-three finishes and nine top-ten finishes, as well as four runners who set new personal records...

Veteran Southeast Missouri State football coach Tom Matukewicz has been following the Kansas State football program since before he was shaving, so he knew how difficult of a task his team was going to have in playing the No. 16-ranked Wildcats in Manhattan on Saturday.

Veteran Southeast Missouri State football coach Tom Matukewicz has spoken often of how critical the play of the offensive line has been each time that his team has ventured West to compete in the FCS Playoffs against a nationally-ranked squad.

Tom Matukewicz wasn’t even old enough to drive a car when he knew what he aspired to be throughout his adulthood.

Through its Ohio Valley Conference football championship season a year ago, there wasn’t much that the Southeast Missouri State football team didn’t do well. However, when it came to kickoff coverage, stunningly, the Redhawks ranked dead last of the seven league teams in both net average (36.3), return yards allowed (600), and touchbacks (three).

As race day approaches for the SEMO Cross Country team, freshmen members are hoping to start their college careers with a bang while seniors look to go out in style. Two of those freshmen, Ryan Seabaugh and Cade McCadams, are from local high schools Cape Central and Jackson, respectively...

Pick a defensive statistic from the 2022 Ohio Valley Conference team football leaders and chances are the league champions, Southeast Missouri State, was either the best team or second-best.