Southeast Gymnastics

Southeast Missourian A fast start wasn't enough to propel the Southeast Missouri State women's basketball team to its first win of the season Wednesday. SEMO scored 15 of the game's first 18 points, but struggled to score for the rest of the contest and fell 60-40 to rival Southern Illinois in Carbondale, Illinois...

The Southeast Missouri State gymnastics team will host four home meets this season, according to the schedule released Tuesday. SEMO's 2019 campaign begins with a Jan. 4 quad meet against SEC program Alabama, Northern Illinois and Temple in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. A week later, SEMO faces Big Ten 10 program Iowa...

Southeast Missouri State athletics fans will soon be able to find streaming broadcasts of Redhawks games on a new platform, as the university and Ohio Valley Conference announced Monday a media rights agreement that will see ESPN+ feature a minimum of 600 OVC events during the 2018-19 school year...

After nearly a year of transition, Southeast Missouri State officially has a gymnastics head coach. The university announced Friday morning it has hired Ashley Lawson, a former Southeast gymnast and assistant coach at Lindenwood. Lawson still holds SEMO's individual records on the all-around, uneven bars, floor exercise and balance beam, all listed under Godwin, her maiden name. ...

The third-seeded Kennett Indians struck for three runs in the third inning Saturday and beat seventh-seeded Dexter 5-2 in a consolation semifinal of the SEMO Conference Baseball Tournament at Cape Central High School. The Indians will face Notre Dame in the fifth-place game at 2:15 p.m. Monday. Dexter (3-12) will meet New Madrid County Central for seventh place at noon Monday. Both games will be played at Capaha Park in Cape Girardeau...

Southeast Missouri State senior gymnasts Alexis Brawner and McKinzie Jones finished in the top six in individual event finals and earned first-team USA Gymnastics All-American honors Sunday. Brawner tied for sixth in the vault while Jones tied for third on the beam at the USA Gymnastics Women's Collegiate National Championships at Texas Woman's University in Denton, Texas...

Southeast Missouri State senior gymnast Alexis Brawner finished 30th out of 42 competitors in the floor exercise Saturday at the NCAA Regional in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Brawner's 9.750 mark in the event matched her best Regional performance in her third appearance at that level of the postseason...

Before the season began, Alexis Brawner knew she wouldn't be returning to the NCAA Regionals as an all-around competitor. The Southeast Missouri State gymnastics senior had to medically retire from the beam, and that meant she would be competing in three events, not four, in her final collegiate campaign. ...

Alexis Brawner is headed back to an NCAA Regional. The Southeast Missouri State gymnastics senior was announced Monday as an individual event specialist qualifier set to compete at the Tuscaloosa Regional hosted by the University of Alabama at 4 p.m. Saturday...

Southeast Missouri State gymnastics compiled a season-high team score en route to finishing fourth at the Midwest Independent Conference Championships on Friday in St. Charles, Missouri. Host Lindenwood won the meet with a 195.225 score. Texas Woman's finished second and University of Chicago was third. SEMO finished with a score of 193.875...

Southeast Missouri State gymnastics posted a season-high vault score of 48.475 but finished last in the State of Missouri Meet on Friday in the regular season finale. Host Missouri won the meet with a score of 196.800 while Southeast had a 192.500 score. Lindenwood was second with 195.200...

The Southeast Missouri State gymnastics team closed out its home schedule in style, celebrating its seniors and then defeating visiting Centenary 191.950-189.125 on Friday night. Senior Alexis Brawner claimed three of the individual events, topping the field in the vault (9.775), bars (9.875) and floor (9.900)...

The Southeast Missouri State softball team closed out its trip to Chattanooga, Tennessee, with a pair of one-run victories on the final day of the Chattanooga Frost Classic. Southeast (7-4) scraped by Western Michigan 9-8 before edging Western Illinois 2-1...

The Southeast Missouri State women's tennis team picked up its first dual meet win over Saint Louis in more than 17 years, beating the Billikens 4-3 on Wednesday afternoon in O'Fallon, Illinois. SEMO lost the doubles point, but won four of the six singles matches to claim the narrow victory...

The Southeast Missouri State gymnastics team grabbed event titles thanks to Gabrielle Adams and Alexis Brawner, but dropped the team competition as it fell to Illinois-Chicago 193.625-191.325 on Sunday afternoon at Houck Field House. The event was the team's annual Pink Up Meet...

The Southeast Missouri State gymnastics team dropped a 192.425-191.650 decision to No. 33 Western Michigan on Friday night at Houck Field House. The Redhawks' posted a season-high score on the bars -- 48.375 -- but couldn't overcome the Broncos. Alexis Brawner, coming off honors as Midwest Independent Conference Gymnast of the Week, won both the vault (9.775) and floor (9.900) titles. Her floor score matched the best mark of her career...

Southeast Missouri State's Alexis Brawner was named Midwest Independent Conference Gymnast of the Week on Wednesday. A native of Chesterfield, Michigan, Brawner claimed individual titles in five of the six events she competed in over the weekend in Philadelphia. She began the weekend with three first-place finishes in a win over Penn on Friday, matching her career-high of 9.900 on floor and tying her season-high on vault with a score of 9.825. She also scored a 9.800 on bars...

The Southeast Missouri State gymnastics team finished third in a quad meet Sunday in Philadelphia. Southeast (3-6, 1-1 Midwest Independent Conference) finished with a score of with a score of 189.325, ahead of Ithaca, but behind second-place Cornell and first-place Temple. The host Owls led the way with a team score of 193.175...

The Southeast Missouri State gymnastics team claimed a 192.700-192.200 win over Pennsylvania on Friday at Rockwell Gymnasium in Philadelphia. Alexis Brawner led the way, claiming individual titles on vault, uneven bars and floor exercise. She tied with Penn's Kyra Levi on uneven bars...