Community Sports

Cape Girardeau resident Glen Harter sunk a hole-in-one on Hole No. 18 at Kimbeland Country Club in Jackson on Tuesday. Harter used a 9-iron on the 137-yard hole. Witnesses were Harold Schott, Bob Hedden and Jim Griffin. Harter has been playing golf for 45 years, and this was his second hole-in-one...

Mike Redman had reason to celebrate when he recently sank a hole-in-one at Kimbeland Country Club. Redman aced hole No. 4 with a gap wedge from 94 yards while golfing with Randy Bohn, Van Riehl and Craig Wilson. It was the first hole-in-one for the 64-year-old Jackson resident...

The Southeast Missouri State athletic community lost one of its biggest supporters this week. Cape Girardeau lifer and long-time leader of SEMO's booster club Mike McKinnis died from a heart attack Tuesday at the age of 67. Born and raised in Cape Girardeau -- a former athlete at Cape Girardeau Central High School -- McKinnis has long been a part of Southeast athletics' outreach, serving as the Redhawks Club Executive Committee president up until his death...

As the new Summer Ball Season approaches, it is time to start discussing registrations, expectations, issues, and areas that may or may not need to be addressed. There will be a meeting on February 26th, at 6:30, at Called Up for all that want to contribute/volunteer their time to help make this year's season a success, just as last year...

The SEMO Area Umpires Association will be having a preseason meeting for all returning and new members on Feb. 28. The meeting will take place at 6:30 p.m. at River Eagle Distributing (2346 Rust Avenue) in Cape Girardeau. Information on MSHSAA Rules Meetings for Baseball and Softball will be discussed along with available game assignments...

The nexus of baseball in Cape Girardeau gathered in front of the podium, representing the sport in the city for the last 50-plus years. They were not there, though, to discuss the old, but rather to usher in the new. The next era of baseball in Southeast Missouri will include what is currently formally known as Cape Prospect League, LLC, as the City of Cape Girardeau announced Friday afternoon at the Cape Girardeau SportsPlex that a wood bat college summer league team will be playing at Capaha Field beginning in June 2019.. ...

Every year the St. Louis Cardinals bring their traveling offseason tour through Cape Girardeau, and this year the focus was on the future. The annual Cardinals Caravan stopped at the Osage Center on Monday evening, toting a group of team representatives that leaned heavy on youth...

Joining the Mon-Clair League just made sense to Capahas manager Tom Bolen. After all, the Capahas, who for years operated independently, already played baseball against most of the teams in the league, and inclusion would bring with it a set schedule of 26 regular-season contests, an all-star game and a postseason...

The St. Louis Cardinals Caravan will be making its annual stop in Cape Girardeau on Monday. This year's Caravan will take place at the Osage Community Center at 5:30 p.m. The Cardinals guests will include Carson Kelly, Matt Bowman, Ryan Sherriff, Austin Gomber, Al Hrabosky and Scott Cooper...

Jackson resident Bill Coleman got his first hole-in-one recently at Kimbeland Country Club in Jackson. Coleman is 87 years old and has been golfing for 60 years. Using a gap wedge on hole No. 12, Coleman aced the hole from 77 yards out. Jerry Reynolds, Jerry Suedekum and Dub Suedekum were the witnesses...

Just four years after the birth of a soccer league in Portageville, kids are making history. Five years ago, soccer was a virtually unknown sport in Portageville. A couple of parents who attended Living Stone Baptist Church were driving their children to play soccer in other communities. They suggested to the pastor, Todd Higgs, that he consider starting a league in Portageville...

Adam Criblez has been many things in his life: college basketball player, chemistry major, coach, historian and professor. Somehow, all of those things aligned in a way that make him something else, as well: an author of a sports book. An Assistant Professor of History and Director of the Center for Regional History at Southeast Missouri State, Criblez added that to his resume this year when he published "Tall Tales and Short Shorts: Dr. ...

As 5-year-old JaiDynce Reed runs up and down the field watching his older brother JaiDeon Reed practice with the Mean Machine football program, coach George Foster calls out to him, asking what grade he is in. It turns out JaiDynce, still in kindergarten, is still too young to strap on the pads for Foster and the Mean Machine, but the coach likes what he sees, praising his enthusiasm and energy before giving him a kiss on his head...

Look at a map and imagine Cape Girardeau as a human body. Now imagine the geographical location of its heart and your eyes are drawn to Capaha Park. Zoom in even further and you would see that the beating heart behind so much of what went on there for the last half decade was Mary Bolen...