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The Jackson Junior High football teams went undefeated this season. The eighth-grade team was 6-0 and hasn't lost a game the past two seasons, going 12-0 in that span.

Professional wrestling returned to Kennett in a big way Saturday night. A crowd of approximately 500 attended Fall Brawl presented by American Hostile Championship Wrestling at the Kennett American Legion Building. Six matches were on the card for the event...

Dalhousie Golf Club hosted the 18-hole Southeast Health 4-person scramble Monday. In the morning, Keith Boeller, Chris Edmonds, Paul Cairns and Dan Sine won the championship flight with a score of 61. Melissa Hubbard, Jamie Malugen, Shanon Malugen and Matt Banken were one stroke back in second after winning a scorecard playoff...

The Notre Dame golf outing was held Monday at Dalhousie Golf Club. The foursome of Tony Buehrle, Pat Buehrle, David Palmer and Brady Dixon won the morning wave with a score of 54. Glenn Campbell, David Lynch, Drew Thornton and Darrell Cook were five strokes back in second. Jeff Unterreiner, Chris Baker, Kevin Suiter and Mike Suiter claimed third place thanks to a scorecard playoff after shooting a 62...

Professional wrestling is returning to Kennett. Fall Brawl presented by American Hostile Championship Wrestling is slated to take place at the American Legion Building in Kennett Oct. 6. American Hostile Championship Wrestling owner Mark Manley said wrestlers scheduled to be on the six-fight card include: WWE Hall of Famer Koko B. ...

Brevin Giebler won the Championship Flight of the Dalhousie Club Championship at the Dalhousie Golf Club on Sunday. Giebler shot a 218 over three days, including a 71 on Sunday, to beat second-place finisher Travis Simmons by 12 strokes. Ian Soutar was third at 240, Troy Bell was fifth at 244 and David Babcock rounded out the top five with a 249...

Starting off the 71st Annual Nation Soybean Festival will be the Sixth Annual Soybean Shuffle 5K Run/Walk sponsored by SRG Global - Portageville. All proceeds will be distributed back into the community to the local Portageville Food Pantry and toy drives...

Darrell Long took first place at Dalhousie Golf Club's quota format point series Saturday, posting a plus-13. In second was Tom Armbruster (plus-7), while third and fourth were Brevin Giebler (plus-5) and Ian Soutar(plus-3), respectively. Travis Simmons sank his second career ace while golfing at Dalhousie Golf Club on Monday...

A familiar name will help the Cape Catfish baseball team attempt to build a footprint in the region. The organization announced Thursday the hiring of Cindy Gannon as assistant general manager. Gannon was a longtime fixture at Southeast Missouri State, coaching the volleyball team for 16 years -- with four Ohio Valley Conference Coach of the Year honors -- before moving into administrative roles, including senior associate director of athletics. In total, her stint at SEMO lasted 31 years...

Bob Ramsey of Jackson carded his first hole-in-one Monday at Kimbeland Country Club. Ramsey used a gap wedge on No. 12, a par 3 playing 89 yards. Witnesses to the feat were Mark Milde, Rodney Miller and Andy McIntosh. Ramsey has been playing golf for 50 years...

Dalhousie Golf Club played host to the Senior Club Championship on Saturday and Sunday, with golfers ages 50 and up competing across 18 holes each day. Woody Harrelson was the overall winner for a third straight year, shooting rounds of 81 and 79 for a low gross of 159...

Steve Schiwinger won the Missouri Golf Association point series event at Dalhousie Saturday. The format was stableford over 18 holes, and Schiwinger led at plus 16. Terry Bozzay was second at plus 12, and Bob Garrett was right behind in third with plus 11...

Ask Michael Minner how he's doing, and undoubtedly the response is always the same. "Livin' the dream." At first blush it might appear to be a tongue-in-cheek throwaway line, especially from a man who admits he's done some hell-raising in his time, describes himself as "a kid for going on 39 years" and has been known to loosen up a room with a one-liner or two. But about this, he is completely serious...

A swarm of Charleston players dogpiled on Sikeston’s Will Pratt, Sunday afternoon, as the former Bulldog recorded the final out of the Babe Ruth World Series, and a championship for the Fighting Squirrels — the first one in program history. Charleston defeated Mobile, Alabama, 4-1 behind strong pitching and timely hitting...

KENNETT, Mo. - Participation was at an all-time high at the third annual Kennett Athletics Booster Club Four-Person Golf Scramble Friday at Kennett Country Club. A record 104 golfers participated in the event. Final net proceeds raised were also at an all-time high at $15,016.75...

The Charleston Fighting Squirrels baseball program is used to winning. But this is something new. Charleston scored three runs in the fifth inning and dispatched Mobile (Ala.) 4-1 on Saturday afternoon at Russell E. Diethrick Jr. Park in Jameston, New York, claiming its first-ever Senior Babe Ruth World Series championship and staking its claim as the best Senior Babe Ruth team in the country...

When President Theodore Roosevelt made the phrase, "Speak softly and carry a big stick," famous, he was referring to foreign policy. But Trent Pobst is happy to take that philosophy onto the baseball field. The former Scott City standout will be the first to say he doesn't always talk much, but he's made a baseball career of letting his bat do the talking, and it has culminated, to this point, in a monster summer with the Capahas and, in recent weeks, signing with his hometown Division I program at Southeast Missouri State.. ...

In a pitcher's duel in which offense was hard to come by, the Charleston Fighting Squirrels baseball team found a loophole: take advantage of a mistake. Locked at 1-all in the bottom of the sixth inning, pinch runner Ajay Sager scored from second base on a two-out error, sending Charleston to a 2-1 win over Williamsport (Pa.) on Friday and into the final of the Senior Babe Ruth World Series in Jamestown, New York...

Charleston is just two wins away from claiming a World Series championship, as the Fighting Squirrels went 3-1 in pool play to earn the No. 1 seed — in the American Division — at the Senior Babe Ruth World Series in Jamestown, New York. The Fighting Squirrels face West End, Williamsport, Penn., in the semifinals today at 5 p.m. The winner of the game advances to the championship game, which will be on Saturday, at 1 p.m...

The Cape Girardeau Ford and Sons Post 63 Senior Legion baseball team has exhausted its nine lives. After its season was revived by a surprise invite to the Mid-South Regional Tournament, Post 63 dropped its first two games of the competition, with its season coming to a close -- for good -- with a 9-8 defeat at the hands of Columbia (Tenn.) Post 19 on Thursday morning at Kirsch Rooney Stadium in New Orleans...

The Charleston Fighting Squirrels baseball team lost a three-run lead and fell, 7-6, to Northern Fairfax County (Va.) in extra innings in pool play of the Senior Babe Ruth World Series on Wednesday in Jamestown, New York. Despite the Squirrels' first loss at the tournament, they finished first in the American Division with a 3-1 record, earning a bye into the semifinals Friday...

Aaron Arnzen had been riding since 6 a.m. and already logged 180 miles on his bike that day. But with a storm rolling in and a chance at first place looming, he decided it was no time to rest. Instead, he hopped back on his bike and kept pedaling. Over 24 hours later, early in the morning of July 26, Arnzen crossed the finish line in second place in the Trans South Dakota Race. ...

In its regional tournament opener, the Cape Girardeau Ford and Sons Post 63 Senior Legion baseball team struggled to get anything going at the plate and suffered another opening-game defeat. Gonzales, Louisiana, Post 81 scored single runs in the sixth and seventh inning to claim a 2-0 win over Post 63 on Wednesday in the Mid-South Regional Tournament at Kirsch-Rooney Stadium in New Orleans...

The Charleston Fighting Squirrels posted their second consecutive one-run victory and improved to 3-0 in the American Division at the Senior Babe Ruth World Series on Tuesday in Jamestown, New York. The Squirrels scored single runs in third and sixth innings on their way to a 2-1 victory over Lynn, Massachusetts...

Out of all the phone calls Josh Meyer made this past Friday -- to players and coaches -- the one to Bill Bohnert was his favorite. When Meyer, the Cape Girardeau Ford and Sons Post 63 Senior Legion baseball coach, learned via a phone call Friday that Post 63 would be taking the place of Oklahoma's representative at the regional tournament, he made sure to call Bohnert, his assistant coach...

Down by four runs with just six outs to work with, the Charleston Fighting Squirrels baseball team kept believing. That belief paid off with a 6-5 walk-off win over the Northwest Bakersfield (California) Blues in pool-play action at the Senior Babe Ruth World Series in Jamestown, New York...

Charles Chilcutt won Saturday's point series event at Dalhousie Golf club. The format was full handicap -- net over 18 holes, and Chilcutt shot a 63. Rob Mitchell was second with a 64, and David Strom shot a 67 to finish third. Steve Sikes and Terry Bozzay both shot a 68 to tie for fourth...

An excellent first season in the Mon-Clair League came up just short of a chance at something more Sunday. The Capahas baseball team had two runners on and no outs in the bottom of the ninth, but couldn't find a break through as it fell 6-5 to the St. Louis Printers in a semifinal of the Mon-Clair League playoffs in Belleveille, Illinois...

The Charleston Fighting Squirrels made quick work of their opening game in the Senior Babe Ruth World Series, dropping host Southern Tier 11-1 in five innings in pool play in Jamestown, New York. Will Ferrell threw five no-hit innings, striking out seven batters and walking five...

The Charleston Fighting Squirrels will continue its quest for its first World Series title in program history this weekend. The Fighting Squirrels open play at the week-long Senior Babe Ruth World Series Saturday in Jamestown, New York. “This is where we want to be,” Fighting Squirrels coach Michael Minner said in a phone interview as the team was traveling on a charter bus in New York Thursday afternoon. ...

Cape Girardeau Ford and Sons Post 63 Senior Legion baseball has a second lease on life. This summer, Post 63 battled to 31 wins, district and zone titles and came through the elimination bracket to play for a state championship, ultimately losing that contest and seeing its season end. But a phone call changed that Friday, as Cape has earned an invitation to play in the Mid-South American Legion Regional Tournament...

Charleston will embark to the Empire State for the Senior Babe Ruth World Series, starting this weekend, in Jamestown, New York. The Fighting Squirrels begin the tournament in pool play, where they play four games in five days, from Saturday to Wednesday, August 8. The Michael Minner-led team takes on Southern Tier at 7:30 p.m., on Saturday in its first game...

Drew Reischman and Cole Nichols grew up playing together and were district foes in high school. They each know how good the other is and are friends off the diamond. So when Nichols' coach at Metropolitan Community College-Maple Woods asked him for his thoughts on Reischman this past school year, the Bell City High School product didn't hesitate...

Dalhousie Golf Club featured some tight competition Monday, as the CT1 golf event went down to a scorecard playoff. The four-player group of Jim Childress, Jake Seabaugh, Carsen Silliman and Cameron West scraped out the victory, shooting a 59 and edging out a big group in a five-way scorecard playoff...

QUARTERFINALS Saturday at Fairview Heights, Illinois Game 1: 1-Capahas (16-8) vs. 8-Fairview Heights (10-14), Noon Game 2: 4-St. Louis Printers (13-11) vs. 5-St. Louis Spikes (12-11), 3 p.m. at Waterloo, Illinois Game 3: 2-Millstadt (14-10) vs. 7-Waterloo (12-12), Noon...

Capahas baseball manager Tom Bolen has been aware of Colten Weber for some time -- an inevitability for someone who is tasked with keeping an eye on local baseball. So the former Jackson standout -- an All-Southeast Missourian selection and Semoball Awards finalist during his prep days -- was certainly on the manager's radar...

CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. - The Kennett swim team concluded its season with a second-place finish at the Southeast Missouri Swim Conference Championships July 21 at Cape Central Municipal Pool in Cape Girardeau. Kennett finished with 4,665.50 points. River City Aquatics won the meet with 5,958.50 points. ...

Everyone has dreams. And for those who realize those dreams in some form or fashion, most have an idea, even if only in a hazy scene that plays out in the back of their mind, of how they'd most like to see that dream come to its conclusion. Many in the baseball community in Cape Girardeau and the surrounding areas know John Rice -- he has been the voice of so many area teams during the past decade. ...

Dalhousie Golf Club entertained a four-person scramble across 18 holes Friday, with the quartet of Jim Childress, Brevin Giebler, Jake Seabaugh and Jeff Maurer taking home the day's top prize. The winning group finished two strokes ahead of the runners-up with a 55...

The Capahas baseball team took care of business during the final weekend of the regular season, defeating Valmeyer (Ill.) and Waterloo (Ill.) 5-2 and 6-5, respectively, to sweep a doubleheader Saturday and clinch an out-right St. Clair Division and Mon-Clair League regular-season title...

SEDALIA, Mo. — The Cape Girardeau Ford and Sons Post 63 Senior Legion baseball team took the long road to the state tournament final, and it ran out of gas against the defending champs. Exhausting a quartet of Cape’s pitchers for 11 hits, Jefferson City Post 5 captured its second consecutive Senior American Legion Missouri State Baseball Tournament with a 9-3 victory Saturday at Liberty Park Stadium...

SEDALIA, Mo. -- Back-to-back complete game performances from its starting pitchers Friday helped work Cape Girardeau Ford and Sons Post 63 Senior Legion into championship contention in the Senior American Legion Missouri State Baseball Tournament at Liberty Park Stadium in Sedalia, Missouri...

SEDALIA, Mo. -- Cape Girardeau Ford and Sons Post 63 Senior Legion pitchers Bryan McNeely and Drake Mills could not be more different. McNeely goes side to side with fastballs; Mills gets outs with a slow, looping breaking ball. Both effective pitchers entering the Senior American Legion Missouri State Baseball Tournament, the pair represented Cape's yin and yang, zig and zag and, sometimes, the team's Jekyll and Hyde...

Messages have poured in from everywhere. Since the Cape Girardeau Ford and Sons Post 63 Senior Legion baseball team won the Zone 4 Tournament on Sunday, advancing to the state tournament for the first time in 15 years, coach Josh Meyer has heard from former players and coaches along with area umpires and others who are simply invested in the program's success...

Notre Dame product Allison Bray made up ground in Round 2 and made the cut Tuesday at the Prairie Invitational at Indian Hills Country Club in Mission Hills, Kansas. Bray shot a 5-over-par 75 to move up seven spots and into a tie for 12th. The top 18 golfers advanced to the final round, which begins at 7:30 a.m. today...

Behind stellar pitching and hot hitting, Charleston was able to go undefeated at the Midwest Plains Regional in Bismarck, North Dakota from Friday, July 20 to Monday, July 23. In pool play, the Fighting Squirrels went 3-0, defeating Bismarck, Scott County, and East Twins. In all three games, Charleston outscored their opponents 33-3 — the largest run differential of any team in the tournament...

Notre Dame alumnus Allison Bray is tied for 19th overall after one round at the Prairie Invitational on Monday at Indian Hills Country Club in Mission Hills, Kansas. Bray, who finished second at the 2017 MSHSAA Girls Golf State Championship and will begin her collegiate golf career this fall at Missouri State, shot an 8-over-par 78 on Day 1 of the event, which is contested across three days and is included in the World Amateur Golf Rankings. ...

Southland 14-year-old Jenna Gibson has participated in her fair share of softball competitions as she nears her sophomore year of high school. The right-handed pitcher, who has played softball in 14 states against teams from 28 states, is preparing to take her game to a 15th state in a few weeks...

The Cape Girardeau Ford and Sons Post 63 Senior Legion baseball team is heading to the state tournament for the first time since 1994. Post 63 beat Festus Post 253 twice Sunday to claim the Zone 4 championship and complete a remarkable comeback after an opening-game defeat in the double-elimination tournament...

The Charleston Fighting Squirrels are headed back to the Senior Babe Ruth World Series. The Squirrels continued their dominance of the Midwest Plains Regional on Monday in Bismarck, North Dakota, capturing their second straight regional championship...