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Derland Moore, who played 14 seasons in the NFL and was an All-American defensive lineman at the University of Oklahoma, died Thursday night. The Poplar Bluff native was 68. Moore was a walk-on at Oklahoma after earning a track scholarship based on one meet that his father didn’t want him to attend because he had to work on the family farm...

America’s oldest amateur baseball team has snagged a significant share of Mon-Clair League’s 2020 postseason awards. Fourth-year Cape Girardeau Capahas manager Tom Bolen won his first-ever manager of the year award after leading the Caps to a 17-4 record in a COVID-compressed season...

Only one person played two rounds under par at the 74th Tom Hoover Ozark Invitational. Chad Niezing of Manchester shot 67-69 to finish 6-under and win by four strokes Sunday at Westwood Hills Country Club. “It’s been a great tournament. Love the golf course, love the people down here. ...

POPLAR BLUFF, Mo. - It’s going to be a crowded Sunday. There’s a four-way tie for first at the 74th Tom Hoover Ozark Invitational and another 12 players are within five strokes of the lead after the first round Saturday at Westwood Hills Country Club in Poplar Bluff...

A special parent/child event was held at Dalhousie Sunday. In the 9 hole division, two-person format, Aaron and Gemma Dombrowski won first place, shooting a 32. 9-hole division: First place: Aaron and Gemma Dombrowski- 32 18-hole division: First place: Kyle and Greyson McMinn- 66...

Shooting a hole-in-one in golf, at any level, is one of the hardest things to do in any sport. It requires skill, patience, and a little luck. Ok...maybe a lot of luck. Doug Mitchell, a member of Whitmoor Country Club in St.Charles, MO. accomplished that feat today at Dalhousie...

The Cape Girardeau Capahas are still seeking an elusive Mon Clair League championship. The Caps, the top seed in this weekend’s single-elimination league playoffs, fell Saturday to the no.-4 seed Belleville Rockies, 4-1, in a second-round contest at Capaha Field...

Notre Dame’s Austin Dill will be the starting pitcher if the Cape Girardeau Capahas reach the Mon Clair League championship game this Sunday. The Caps (17-3), the no.-1 seed in the aluminum bat playoff tourney, have won 15 in a row and Dill has the most impressive statistics of any league hurler...

KENNETT, Mo. - Local golfers teamed up for a fifth straight year to raise money for the Kennett Athletic Program Friday. A total of 92 golfers competed at the fifth annual Kennett Athletics Booster Club Four-Person Golf Scramble at Kennett Country Club...

The Cape Girardeau Capahas (17-3) won their 15th in a row Saturday as the oldest amateur team in U.S. history swept a doubleheader from the Belleville Rockies, 7-2 and 7-6 at Capaha Field. Game one In the early game, Malden’s Dee Triplett’s first inning three-run homer put the Caps on the board early to pace the Mon Clair League leaders. ...

SIKESTON — Night one of the 68th Annual Sikeston Jaycee Bootheel Rodeo featured seven events on Wednesday night. In bareback riding, Clayton Biglow edged Kaycee Feild and Tilden Hooper by one and a half points with a ride of 89.5. Feild and Hooper each finished with rides of 88...

POPLAR BLUFF - Heading into the summer, The Redbirds were hoping for a .500 record and to finish in the middle of the Pony League pack. Instead, they became champions. The Redbirds lost one game and beat Today's Computers 8-4 on Friday at McLane Park to win the Poplar Bluff Park Department Pony League Tournament championship...

Midwest Security had to rally three different times. The third secured them a walk-off, 9-8 win in five innings against Pack's Do It Center in the Park Department Babe Ruth League Tournament championship Thursday at McLane Park. Both coaches agreed to limit championship to either five innings or one hour and 45 minutes...

The bottom of the order set the table for the Century 21 Cyclones to come out on top in the Poplar Bluff Park Department Junior League Tournament final Thursday. With the game tied in the fifth, Alicia Barker and Maryah Tillman drew walks to open the inning. The Nos. 8 and 9 hitters moved into scoring position for the leadoff hitter...

Trenton Lacy couldn’t avoid the tag, but his bases-clearing hit capped a five-run inning and his pitches found the mitt Wednesday night. Lacy, who struck out 10 on the mound, was within 10 feet of home for an inside-the-park grand slam when he was tagged out. It was enough for First Midwest Bank to complete a perfect season with a 9-4 win over Sport Clips in the Poplar Bluff Park Department Little League Tournament championship...

Poplar Bluff Realty leadoff hitter Molly Murphy stepped up to the plate with the score tied and one out in the bottom of the sixth inning. She was 0 for 2 in the Poplar Bluff Park Department Sub-Junior Tournament championship Thursday at McLane Park. Both balls hit hard but scooped up by the infield for throws to first base...

POPLAR BLUFF, Mo. -- With steady hitting throughout the lineup, Castello's did what no team could do all season. Castello's put 19 runners on base throughout the Poplar Bluff Parks Department Civic League Tournament championship to beat previously undefeated Sterling Insurance 9-1 on Wednesday at McLane Park in Poplar Bluff...

During this time of social distancing, the SuperFan series of articles focuses on fans who are geographically distant from the teams they support, who are fiercely loyal to a team outside the state of Missouri. Responses are edited for clarity and brevity...

CHARLESTON, Mo. - Southeast Tropics cleanup hitter Peyton Eftink felt good at the plate before the Senior Babe Ruth State Tournament got underway Wednesday afternoon at Hillhouse Park in Charleston. “I was really confident coming into today,” Eftink said. “I had a good gut feeling before the game. I just tried to see the fastball and hit it every time I went to the plate.”...

KENNETT, Mo. - The Kennett Swim Team capped off an abbreviated season with its final inter-squad meet and its annual season-ending award ceremony last week at Sheryl Crow Aquatic Center in Kennett. Over 130 swimmers competed in the final inter-squad meet Friday...

Four years ago a group of Holcomb citizens began searching for a way to provide additional classroom resources to the teachers at their school district. “We met in 2016 and established the Holcomb Education Foundation in 2017,” Holcomb native Mark McClendon said. ...

The Cape Girardeau Capahas, the oldest amateur team in the United States, proved over the weekend it can win on the road as well as at home.

The four athletes selected to join the Poplar Bluff Sports Hall of Fame this fall were each stars for the Mules on championship teams, earning multiple all-state honors, competed at the collegiate level and some professionally. Craig Caringer, Brent Little, Don Martin and Ashley Williams and will be honored at the 34th induction ceremony on Thursday, Oct. 1...

Analeise Pyland had not played golf in about six months when she found out an old friend was needing a partner for a two-person scramble. Pyland and Lacey Snell ended up winning the Missouri Golf Association’s Two Lady Scramble on Thursday. “It was definitely a scramble for sure,” Pyland said. “We were back and forth. She would hit some awesome shots and then I would hit some not-so-positive shots, so it was definitely a scramble.”...

In a game threatened by lightning in the later innings, the Cape Girardeau Titans 18-and-under team evaded the raindrops and held on to win a seesaw aluminum bat contest with Poplar Bluff (1-1) in the first game of a scheduled home doubleheader Wednesday, 6-5...

A former player called Gene Bess on Wednesday and reminded him why you get into coaching. “He said, ‘I still remember you coming and picking me and my brother up in a red ‘59 Ford,’” Bess said. “That is really why you get into coaching, is to try and help people. It is really satisfying to have one of them say that I factored into his life.”...

WARRENSBURG, Mo. — This story has been updated with more complete information. Jackson’s Taryn and Ella Overstreet finished 1-2 within a stroke of each other and fellow Indian Kaydi Rhodes finished fourth in the 16-18 Division at the Missouri Junior Amateur Championship. Taryn shot 6-over 146 while Ella finished at 7-over 147 at the Keth Memorial Mules National Golf Course...

Zack Stricker earned a one-stroke victory at the Westwood Hills Country Club Championship over the weekend. Stricker finished at 1-over 143 after an opening-round under par at 70. Chris Love was second at 144 with rounds of 72. Bobby Godwin shot 69 to lead after one round and finished third at 4-over 146. Billy Pyland shot 147 for fourth while Nathan Woolard was fifth at 148 finishing with a 69...

Poplar Bluff swimmers ended their abbreviated season Saturday with the final of three home meets at the R.W. Huntington Pool. With no conference championships this year due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Piranhas hosted the meet, dubbed the “Covid Classic.” It also featured swimmers from Perryville and Pocahontas, Arkansas, with the Piranhas winning with 588 points, 54 more than the Dolphins from Pocahontas...

Mark Milde of Jackson recently sank a hole-in-one at Kimbeland Country Club.

There is a first time for everything and for the Cape Girardeau Capahas, the Tom Bolen-led team has gone 6-0 to start their league season. “In three years in the Mon-Clair League, we haven’t gone 5-0 let alone 6-0 to begin,” said Bolen, whose career mark improves to 67-34 (.663). Sunday at Capaha Field, the Caps took a doubleheader from Fairview Heights (Ill.) by scores of 2-1, 6-0.

Kennett investor Matt Gardner learned of a new investment opportunity during a weightlifting session with Kennett resident Ed Siebenhuener earlier this summer. “I was working out in the fitness center one day and Ed told me the bowling alley was for sale,” Matt Gardner said. ...

Plans are in place for the fifth annual Kennett Athletics 4-Person Golf Scramble to take place later this summer. Tee time for the event is Friday, August 7, at Kennett Country Club. The event was originally scheduled for June 26 but was postponed until the later date due to the COVID-19 pandemic...

Trent Pobst made his mark playing the outfield for Scott City High School but every summer, he dons his familiar no. 5 jersey to lead the Cape Girardeau Capahas at the plate. Pobst collected three hits, including a double, in pacing the Caps to a doubleheader sweep Sunday over Valmeyer at Capaha Field by tallies of 6-3 and 6-5...

Cape Girardeau Capahas manager Tom Bolen admits his team has several games already in the books but the real kickoff to the Caps’ 2020 season, he says, is this weekend. The Capahas (2-3) return to their home field to play a doubleheader Saturday against Millstadt (Ill.) and a Sunday twinbill against Valmeyer (Ill.)...

The Cape Girardeau Capahas were sailing toward a three-game season-opening sweep of the Valmeyer (Illinois) Lakers this weekend at Jackson Indians Stadium. Friday, the Tom Bolen-managed squad posted a 2-0 shutout, holding the visitors to three hits...

The Cape Girardeau Capahas got its 2020 summer season off to a good start as the team won its home opener Friday night, a 2-0 shutout of visiting Valmeyer at Jackson Indians Stadium.

HOLLISTER, Mo. — Brevin Giebler won three straight holes to take the lead midway through his second round match Friday at the 113th Missouri Amateur. But the Cape Girardeau golfer lost the next two holes and was knocked out by Nicholas Sheppard of Springfield, 2 up at the Ozarks National Golf Course...

HOLLISTER, Mo. — Brevin Giebler advanced to the second round of match play at the 113th Missouri Amateur. The Cape Girardeau golfer earned a 2 and 1 victory over Jake Mikesch of St. Joseph on Thursday at the Ozarks National Golf Course. Jackson’s Case Englehart survived a 10-player playoff for the final seven spots to earn the 63rd seed in the 64-player field after climbing from 139th place with a 2-under 68 round Wednesday...

HOLLISTER, Mo. — Brad Thielemier started his round Wednesday with an eagle as the Poplar Bluff golfer clawed his way back at the 113th Missouri Amateur. Thielemier, who started the day tied for 94th, made the cut for match play with an even-par 71 at the Ozarks National Golf Course...

Holcomb native Cayden Mitchell knew she wanted to speed down a dirt track when she was less than 10-years-old. “My dad has always been my best friend,” Mitchell said. “Growing up we always went and watched the races together at Poplar Bluff, Malden, and Paragould. I was drawn to it right away and wanted to do it. My dad got me started with drag racing, then we got in go-karts, and two years ago I started racing modified.”...

HOLLISTER, Mo. — Area golfers will be need to be on the move Wednesday during the final round of stroke play at the 113th Missouri Amateur. None of the players from Southeast Missouri are in the top 64 following Tuesday’s opening round at the Ozarks National Golf Course...

The fact that the world needs some positivity at this time is not debatable and the Southeast Missouri Food Bank and Dalhousie Golf Club are collaborating to bring some of that to Southeast Missouri.

Golfers of all ages competed on a couple of different Southeast Missouri courses recently. The PGA Gateway Junior Series competed at Bent Creek Golf Course in Jackson recently and here are the results.

When Kennett graduate Chris Sledge returned home to run the family business in 2001 he wanted to find a way to give back to his community. “Once I got back I really wanted to give back to the youth,” he said. “I just wanted to give back to the community and make a difference in kids’ lives.”...

During this time of social distancing, the SuperFan series of articles focuses on fans who are geographically distant from the teams they support, who are fiercely loyal to a team outside the state of Missouri. Today: Jen Odden, 42, afternoon radio personality, K103 Radio, and program director of 93.9 “The River,” and SEMO ESPN. ...

Kennett native Kevonte Mitchell isn’t passing up an opportunity to share his baseball knowledge this summer. Mitchell, who was drafted by the Chicago Cubs shortly after graduating high school in 2013, has been offering youth baseball lessons at Ultimate Sports in Kennett since he returned from the spring training facility in Mesa, Arizona, in March...