Community Sports

No matter the opposition for the Burger King Capahas. Sunday night presented a new game and another valuable opportunity to play some baseball. Against a shorthanded Saline County (Ill.) Monarchs team and a submarine-style pitcher in starter Daisuke Yasui, the Caps produced 21 hits and cruised to a 17-0 win at Capaha Field...

It was the kind of outcome the Burger King Capahas baseball team needed -- a lopsided, decisive victory. Cody Heisserer threw seven solid innings on the mound and the Caps pounded out 15 hits in a 12-0, seven-inning win over the Saline County (Ill.) Monarchs on Friday night at Capaha Field...

The Cape Girardeau Ford & Sons Post 63 Senior Legion baseball team has made a habit of fast starts this week, and that continued Friday. Cape scored three runs in the first inning and that was all Post 63 needed with Austin Dill on the mound, as he held Jackson Post 158 Senior Legion off the board for a 4-0 victory in a nine-inning game at Capaha Field...

Mary Bolen doesn't necessarily consider herself to be a collector, but it's a hobby she doesn't mind taking up on an annual basis. For more than 40 years, Bolen has spearheaded the Capahas Baseball Team Benefit Auction, doing her part to raise money for the team's annual trip to the National Baseball Congress World Series in Wichita, Kansas. ...

The Gateway Junior PGA held a tournament at Dalhousie Golf Club on Tuesday for golfers ages 10 to 19. Scores were posted by 42 golfers by the end of the day. In the girl's 18-hole division, Analeise Pyland took first place in the 16- to 19-year-old group with her score of 85. Haley Taylor took second place with her score of 102 and Haylie Howard's score of 125 won third...

Former Sikeston pitcher Doug Still was drafted by the San Francisco Giants during the 2017 MLB Draft on June 14. Still, who graduated from Sikeston in 2014, was selected with the 336th overall pick in the 11th round after helping Missouri State to just its third Super Regional berth in school history...

BLOOMFIELD, Mo. – The Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC), National Wild Turkey Federation (NWTF) and the Stars and Stripes Museum partnered to present a JAKES (Juniors Acquiring Knowledge, Ethics and Sportsmanship) event in Bloomfield June 10. Conservation Agent Michael Collins said the event hosted 40 children, thanks in part to pleasant weather...

Slow starts have been an issue this season for the Cape Girardeau Ford & Sons Post 63 Senior Legion baseball team. Not on Tuesday night. Cape scored five runs in the first two innings and cruised to an 8-2 win over Sikeston Post 114 in the first game of a doubleheader at Capaha Field. Post 63 won the second game 12-2 in six innings...

The SEMO Horseshoe Association hosted a pair of tournaments over the weekend, with Cori Stoverink and Lachelle Cook playing for top-three pairings in both. The first competition took place Saturday at Scott City Summerfest with 10 teams participating. The duo of Cook and Jerome Backfisch took the top prize on the day...

The Burger King Capahas baseball team was undone by a four-run fourth inning, as Valmeyer, Illinois, came away with an 8-5 win on Saturday in Valmeyer, Illinois. Valmeyer trailed 4-2 going into the bottom of the fourth. The team's first two batters were hit by a pitch before Mark Early provided an RBI single to cut the hosts' deficit to 4-3. ...

The Burger King Capahas baseball team gave up 14 hits, as Waterloo, Illinois, claimed a 12-5 win on Friday in Waterloo, Illinois. Cody Heisserer got the pitching start and was tagged with the loss after five innings of work. He allowed 10 runs (six earned) on nine hits, striking out five batters and walking one. Zach Moore pitched the final three innings for the Capahas (3-3), finishing with one strikeout and two walks. Moore gave up four runs (three earned) on five hits...

Tom Viers carded a net score of 67 to win the point series golf event on Saturday at Dalhousie Golf Club. Bob Gile finished second with a 71, while Bruce Watson fired a 72 to place third. Scoring was determined by a full handicap over 18 holes. -- From staff report...

CHARLESTON, Mo. -- It's tough to beat a team with these kind of weapons in the holster. A year after carrying a big chunk of the pitching load for the Charleston Fighting Squirrels, Garrison Keene and Ty Householder have barely been used on the mound this summer. But when the Squirrels broke them out in the opener of a doubleheader Thursday night, the pair was lights out...

Mark Littell shakes his head in wonderment at the many twists and turns his life has taken. A former major-league pitcher for the Kansas City Royals and St. Louis Cardinals, his life is a baseball trivia quiz where all the answers are Mark Littell. “After you finish reading my book, maybe you will understand a little about me because I’m not sure I do,” Mark says of his recently released book, “On the Eighth Day God Made Baseball.”...

Sarah Bell finished with a two-day total of 160 to claim first place in the high school women's division of the Accelerated Golf Tour event at Dalhousie Golf Club. Bell, who is the reigning Class 1 state champion after helping guide Notre Dame to a team title in the fall, shot a 7-over-par 79 on Wednesday to conclude the event, finishing at 16-over. Lacey Snell (171) took second, while Alyson Goggin (201) placed third...

Sarah Bell sits in first place in the high school women's standings after the completion of Tuesday's opening round of the Accelerated Golf Tour event at Dalhousie Golf Club. Bell, who is the reigning Class 1 state champion after helping lead Notre Dame to a team title in the fall, carded a 9-over-par 81. Lacey Snell (86) is in second, while Alyson Goggin (102) is in third...

On a day in which the Jackson Post 158 Senior Legion baseball team compiled 15 hits and scored nine runs, it didn't do enough on the other side of the ball. A pair of big innings launched Wayne County Senior Babe Ruth to an 11-9 victory over Jackson on Monday at Whitey Herzog Stadium...

KELSO, Mo. -- Nevermind the fact that Sunday didn't go according to plan for Kelso Fastpitch. Coach Larry Eftink is still encouraged about the future. Kelso dropped a 7-0 decision against the Bloomington Stix in the winner's bracket final of the Kelso Klassic before being eliminated by the Pueblo Bandits, 9-2, as pitching ran out for the tournament hosts...

KELSO, Mo. -- The Kelso Klassic brings together all sorts of people in the name of fastpitch softball, and if you look closely enough, some of their stories creep to the surface. One might catch your eye because, just weeks shy of his 42nd birthday, he still looks like an athlete through and through. ...

Brandon DeWitt and John Fuchs claimed the overall prize at the 2017 Gentleman's Invitational on Friday and Saturday at Dalhouse Golf Club. DeWitt and Fuchs were also the champions of the Curly Flight in the two-day event, which consisted of five nine-hole match play rounds...

Clayton Efftink didn't know for sure if he was going to have to pitch until it was go time. But when Kelso Fastpitch had to go to their No. 3 pitcher on Saturday night, the kid got the job done. Battling through a sticky middle portion of the game, Efftink pitched a complete game in his first Kelso Klassic start, throwing his team to a 7-3 win over the Belleville (Ill.) Stallions at Kelso City Park, moving the hosts to 3-0 in the tournament and into the winner's bracket championship for the first time since 1998.. ...

The crucial hits were elusive for the Burger King Capahas baseball team on Friday night. The Caps struck out 16 times, as the St. Louis Printers combined for 17 hits in a 10-5 victory at Capaha Field. “We didn’t get timely hitting,” Capahas manager Tom Bolen said. “I think we struck out 16 times. When you put the ball in play, you force the defense to make some plays, and we just didn’t do that.”...

The Burger King Capahas split a doubleheader against Valmeyer, Illinois, on Saturday at Capaha Field. The Caps (3-2) claimed a 6-1 win in the opener, while Valmeyer won 3-2 in Game 2. Cody Heisserer got the start on the mound and didn't give up a hit until the fourth inning. He was credited with the win after giving up just one earned run, striking out two batters and walking three...

KELSO, Mo. -- Kelso Fastpitch knows how to get a party started. As the sun went down and the lights came up and the crowd began to grow, the bats came out, as Kelso hit four home runs en route to a 10-4 win over Sporty's Softball (Altamont, Ill.) in the opener of the 33rd Annual Kelso Klassic fastpitch softball tournament on Friday night at Kelso City Park...

The start of the Kelso Klassic was still days away, but Jerry Wolsey was certain. There would be a new champion this year, the tournament media coordinator and former player said. There has to be. The reigning champs won't be there to defend their crown...

Notre Dame Regional High School graduate Brady Dixon and Advance grad Brian Whitson topped the field in a Missouri Amateur men's golf Championship qualifier on Wednesday at Dalhousie Golf Club. Each shot a 1-over-par 73, and were two of 10 golfers to qualify for the championship, which will be held June 20-25 at St. Joseph Country Club in St. Joseph, Missouri...

Congratulations SEMO War Eagles!!! They went undefeated for the Thunder Bayou tournament held this weekend in Blytheville. On Sunday, they beat Kennett 7-4 in the semi finals and beat Tomahawks 5-0 for the championship. -submitted photo

In 1959, Mark Littell, then just six-years-old, was stepping to the plate for his very first at-bat. Growing up in Wardell, Missouri, Littell had never been in a game and was much more intrigued by the scores of people in attendance and the bright lights that lit up the ballpark he called “the biggest thing in the world to me at the time.”...

The bats were quiet early and never quite woke up, for the Cape Girardeau Ford & Sons Post 63 Senior Legion baseball team. It didn't matter, though. Cape showed discipline at the plate, took advantage of six errors by Jackson Post 158 and used bunts to manufacture runs and claim a 5-4 win at Whitey Herzog Stadium on Tuesday between District 14 rivals...

More than 100 participants and their four-legged friends participated in Saturday's Fitness Plus Furry 5K and One-mile Fun Walk. In the 5K event, Carlen Mullholland was the overall female winner with a time of 24 minutes, 20.16 seconds, Doug Ambler took the overall male competition in 20:22.34 and Zach Young won the wheelchair division in 17:55...

Terry Godwin, Jeff Bierman, Chris Ward and Stan Irwin carded a 56 and won in a scorecard playoff to claim first place in the A Flight at the Cape West Rotary-Southeast Missouri State four-person scramble on Monday at Dalhousie Golf Club. Greg Adkinson, Fred Ducharme, Todd Huber and Brad Deken shot a 64 and won in a scorecard playoff to take top honors in the B Flight...

Jess Bolen has found himself a new spot on the bench. After spending 50 years watching countless players come and go, Bolen is no longer the guiding hand that oversees the Burger King Capahas baseball team. Instead, he's the calm and quiet figure who's positioned himself on the far end of the dugout bench, almost hidden by the shadows that lurk when the sun sets along the left-field line at Capaha Field...

The Burger King Capahas baseball team took advantage of 10 walks and held on for a 7-6 win over the St. Louis Raging Bulls in Friday night's season opener at Capaha Field. Grant Miller finished 3-for-4 with a pair of RBIs to lead the Caps (1-0) at the plate. Kyle James added a single and a double, while Adam Connor chipped in two base hits...

Ken Schmitz took a tight point series event on Saturday at Dalhousie Golf Club, needing a playoff to edge Lewis Bock. Both competitors finished at plus-16, with Schmitz edging ahead in a playoff. The event used a Modified Stabeleford scoring system, which distributes points based on the number of strokes on each hole. The goal is to achieve the highest score...

Spencer Warren carded a 75 to take first place in the boys 14-15 age division tour (18 holes) during a Gateway PGA Junior Series event Wednesday at Hidden Trails Country Club in Dexter, Missouri. Jaden Hightower shot an 84 to win the boys 16-19 age division tour (18 holes), while Dylan Sitze shot an 83 to take first in the regular boys 12-13 age division...

Meetings planned in Springfield, Joplin for Community Conservation Grants.

The SEMO War Eagles 11U travel baseball team recently competed in The Academy Sports Mid-South Slam Fest in Jackson, Tennessee on Mothers Day weekend. The War Eagles went undefeated in pool play qualifying them for the championship game in the gold bracket against the Paducah Storm. ...

The team of Heather Wegge, Sue Rector, Kelly Pfister and Beth Duepner combined to shoot a 5-under-par 68, finishing first at the four-lady scramble golf tournament Tuesday at Dalhousie Golf Club. Shelia Crosson, Christie Gurley, Denaye Spurling and Tonya Friga took second with a 2-under 71, besting the third-place team of LouElla Archer, Margaret Caksackkar, Lisa Kupper and Cindy Wyatt (3-over 75) in a scorecard playoff...

A five-on-five basketball tournament will be held on Saturday, July 15 to raise money for a scholarship fund. The event will be hosted by Billie Jean, who announced that proceeds from the contest will go to the Jimmy Williams Memorial Scholarship Fund...

The Burger King Capahas will hold tryouts for the 2017 season at 3 p.m. Sunday at Capaha Field. Those who are interested in playing for the Capahas must be out of high school. The season begins June 3, while the team will hold its annual benefit auction on June 23...

Dalhousie Golf Club will host a two Missouri Golf Association Senior Series Tour events this week. The first event starts at 1 p.m. today. It will be a shotgun start. The second event begins at 8:30 a.m. Wednesday. About 80 players are scheduled to compete, including numerous area golfers...

Headline Campbell JH Baseball Wins Bootheel Comfernce Toirnament. The Campbell JH baseball team won the bootheel coonfernce baseball tournament championship Monday May 8th 2017 in Hornersville. Campbell beat Portageville 11-1 in the semi final and beat Kennett 5-1 in the championship. Campbell took second behind Kennett in the regular season as Kennett beat them 6-3 in 8 innings earlier in the season. Congratulations to both teams on great seasons...

Way to go Skeeters! This young team won the championship in the USSSA Spring Showcase in Hopkinsville, KY last weekend! They have played in three tournaments since April 1. They also have two second place wins and one first place. The team plays every weekend through the end of June except Easter and Memorial Day...

Headline SEMO Sizzle Sho-Me Showcase Tournament Champs SEMO Sizzle 7th grade girls basketball team is off to a 13-2 start as they went 4-0 last weekend in the 8th grade division of the Sho-Me Showcase held at Jefferson Junior College in Hillsboro, MO. ...

MDC and Missouri Bird Conservation Foundation invite birders and others to special events. JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – The Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC) and the Missouri Bird Conservation Foundation invite birders and others interested in birds to special events in May celebrating the completion of the Great Missouri Birding Trail...

Hunter York shot 66 at Westwood Hills Country Club to win the 71st Tom Hoover Ozark Invitation when the second round was cancelled due to rain.

The 71st annual Tom Hoover Ozark Invitational may turn into a soggy mess this weekend at Westwood Hills Country Club in Poplar Bluff.

There is still time to register teams for the Third Annual Gus Macker 3-on-3 Basketball Tournament. An extended deadline now allows for teams to register through Monday, April 24, with the event set for May 6-7 at Arena Park. Teams of four can register online at www.macker.com/local/cape-girardeau-mo. The cost to enter is $35 per person or $140 for a team of four, with all proceeds going to benefit the Boys & Girls Clubs of Southeast Missouri...

Former Kelly High School track and field standout Maurice Davis was recognized on Tuesday as the Heart of America Athletic Conference Track Athlete of the Week. Davis currently competes at Missouri Valley College, an NAIA program. Competing in the Gorilla Classic at Pittsburg State (Kan.) University against a field with numerous Division II teams, Davis finished fourth in the 100-meter dash. ...