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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...

BISMARCK, N.D. - Ultimate Baseball of Kennett finally met its match Monday at the Midwest Plains Regional in Bismarck, North Dakota. Ultimate Baseball suffered a 3-1 loss to Scott County, Iowa, in a regional semifinal. It was Ultimate Baseball’s first loss of the regional...

Headline SEMO Swishers take first place at Show-Me Games The SEMO Swishers 6th grade girls basketball team took first place in their division at the Show-Me Games in Columbia, MO July 20-22. The SEMO Swishers is a 2nd year travel team made up of girls from Southeast Missouri area.  Under the guidance of coaches Chris Nichols and Adrian Eftink, they have developed their skills and determination to become a contender in their age group...

The Capahas baseball team pounded out a combined 32 hits in two games Sunday as the offense got going in a doubleheader road sweep of the Valmeyer Lakers. The Caps (22-10 overall, 14-8 Mon-Clair League) won Game 1 14-7 and then secured a 13-4 win in the nightcap in league action...

The Charleston Fighting Squirrels baseball team wrapped up pool play at the Babe Ruth Midwest Plains Regional Tournament with another resounding victory. The Squirrels cruised to a 15-3 win over East Twins (Minn.) on Sunday in Bismarck, North Dakota, wrapping up the top spot in the American standings with a 3-0 record...

BISMARCK, N.D. - The Charleston Fighting Squirrels and Ultimate Baseball both finished pool play 3-0 at the Midwest Plains Regional in Bismarck, North Dakota, Sunday. Ultimate Baseball beat the Buckley Bombers of Colorado 3-2 Friday; beat Williston, North Dakota, 13-0 Saturday; and beat Parsons, Kansas, 8-2 Sunday to finish first in the National League Pool...

For the second straight year, the Cape Girardeau Ford and Sons Post 63 Senior Legion baseball team rebounded from losing its opening game of the zone tournament and advanced to the championship. Its opponent this year just happens to the same as last year too: Festus Post 253...

BISMARCK, N.D. - The success continued for Ultimate Baseball at the Midwest Plains Regional in Bismarck, North Dakota, Saturday morning. Ultimate Baseball improved to 2-0 in pool play when it beat Williston, North Dakota, 13-0. No additional information on the game was available by press deadline...

Brady Bibbs, who is a 2016 Senath-Hornersville graduate, recently had the opportunity to showcase his talent at the Ohio Valley League All-Star Game at Colonel Field in Hopkinsville, Kentucky. Bibbs was a member of the Ohio Valley League West All-Star Team that beat the Ohio Valley League East All-Star Team 7-6 on July 1...

BISMARCK, N.D. - Ultimate Baseball edged the Buckley Bombers of Colorado 3-2 in its first game at the Midwest Plains Regional in Bismarck, North Dakota, Friday afternoon. Ultimate Baseball plated a run in the top of the first, third and fifth innings to build a 3-0 lead...

The Cape Girardeau Ford and Sons Post 63 Senior Legion baseball team scored three runs its first time up and cruised from there, extending its season at least one more day. Behind those three first-inning runs, Post 63 defeated Thoman-Boothe Post 338 7-3 in a Zone 4 elimination game Friday at Yanks' Field in Ste. Genevieve, Missouri...

The Cape Catfish's first-ever game is 11 months away, but the roster-building process is in full swing. The collegiate summer baseball team, which will begin play in the Prospect League in June 2019, could announce its first players as early as August, having already identified several targets...

STE. GENEVIEVE, Mo. -- Against one of the best pitchers it's faced this season, the Cape Girardeau Ford and Sons Post 63 Senior Legion baseball team simply made too many mistakes on the base paths to come away with the win. Post 63 had three runners thrown out and left five men on base, squandering seven hits in a 4-1 loss to Eureka Post 177 in the Senior Legion Zone 4 quarterfinal Thursday at Yanks Field...

Regional action begins, as the Charleston Fighting Squirrels will battle for a regional championship at the Midwest Plains Regional, at Bismarck Municipal Ballpark in Bismarck, North Dakota, with games going from today to Monday, July 23. In this regional, eight teams were broken up into two different pools, with the two best teams from each pool advancing to bracket play on Monday. Every team is guaranteed three games in its respective pool, as pool play will take place from Friday to Sunday...