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Carsen and Ray Silliman carded a 3-under 69 to take first place in the 18-hole division Sunday in the Junior/Parent Tournament at Dalhousie Golf Club. Henry and Mark Rusten shot a 2-under 70 to finish second in the 18-hole division, followed by Jaden and Tim Hightower in third with a 3-over 73...

The SEMO Horseshoes Pitchers recently held a pair of tournaments that featured a total of 24 teams. In the first event, held at Schindler's Tavern in New Hamburg, Missouri, the duo of Mike Kluesner and Ron Legrand took the top prize. Randy Senciboy and Darren Glastetter finished in second while Lachelle Cook and Larry Glastetter were third...

KENNETT, Mo. - The first annual Holcomb Educational Foundation Golf Scramble turned out to be a big success Friday at Kennett Country Club. A field of 60 golfers, which included 15 four-person teams, competed at the event.  After expenses were paid a total of $12,019 was raised at the event. The committee in charge of the tournament said the money raised will go toward supplemental education needs at Holcomb Schools...

CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. - Vision, elusiveness and speed are just a few of the words coach Tom Matukewicz uses to describe Marquis Terry. The junior newcomer displayed his diverse skill set with several long runs and showed why he’s atop the depth chart at running back during the Southeast Missouri State football team’s scrimmage a week ago Saturday at the Rosengarten Athletic Complex...

EPHRATA, Wash. – The run is over. Poised to take the next step in their Senior Babe Ruth World Series journey, the Charleston Fighting Squirrels were stopped in their tracks Friday evening in Ephrata, Washington. Charleston lost 1-0 in a rematch with Cape Cod, Massachusetts during the tournament semifinals ending a streak of 14-straight wins and a perfect showing of four-straight victories on the national stage...

Family vacations to southeast Missouri were always the high point of summer for Tia Hodges. Getting away from the hustle and bustle of St. Louis and into the shops and family gatherings that Sikeston provided was like an escape to a simpler, harmonious time...

PUXICO, Mo. -- An Olympic hopeful from Puxico, Missouri, has been banned from the 2020 Summer Olympics after testing positive for a drug often associated with athletes who compete in the field of weightlifting. Jackson native Tyler Moore, age 24, has accepted a four-year sanction for an anti-doping rule violation, according to the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency (USADA)...

The superiority of the Charleston Fighting Squirrels baseball team continued Wednesday during their final Senior Babe Ruth World Series pool play game in Ephrata, Washington. The Squirrels remained undefeated by squeezing out a 3-0 win over Surry County, North Carolina, a day after securing the top seed in the American Pool.

A year ago, Cape Girardeau native Bryan Greaser was in Wyoming competing in a four-day, 400-mile expedition race known as Cowboy Tough. Now he finds himself back in the Cowboy State, preparing to take on that race again. Except this time, the level of challenge is even greater...

Dalhousie Golf Club will host the Missouri Golf Association 4-Ball Tournament Saturday and Sunday. The event welcomes two-player teams both locally and from around the state to the Jackson course. Tee times will begin at 7:30 a.m. and run through 1:30 p.m. each day...

Mark Ruark wasn’t there when Trae Robinson collapsed on the basketball court. But when Ruark, Saxony Lutheran’s principal, saw the video, it scared him. Robinson, who played basketball for Saxony Lutheran last season, was on the defensive end of the court during an AAU tournament game July 29 in Kansas City, Missouri, when he suddenly stood straight up and then fell flat on the floor like a tree hitting the ground, according to Ruark...

EPHRATA, Wash. – The Charleston Fighting Squirrels guaranteed a shot at this year's Senior Babe Ruth World Series title with another dominant effort in Ephrata, Washington. The Squirrels defeated Cape Cod, Massachusetts 10-3 Tuesday afternoon to lock up a No. 1 seed during the upcoming bracket play later this week. Their third-straight win in Ephrata also grants them a first round bye automatically moving them into the bracket semifinals on Friday...

Eileen Owens and Jeff Patton were winners Saturday at Dalhousie Golf club. Owens won the Ladies handicap tournament while Patton was victorious in a Missouri Golf Association point series event. Owens shot a net-71 to win. Deanna Estes was second with a net-72 and Ann Dombrowski and Terri Parmly tied for third with a net-73 each...

The Southeast Missouri State men’s basketball team revealed its non-conference schedule for the 2017-18 season on Friday. The slate features 13 non-conference games, beginning with the home opener against Missouri Baptist on Nov. 10. The Redhawks will travel to face Louisiana Tech (Nov. ...

JUNCTION CITY, Kan. - Backed by a pitching gem from Trey McDaniel and an offense that keeps rolling, the Charleston Fighting Squirrels are headed back to the World Series. The Squirrels defeated the Buckley Bombers 7-0 last week to claim the Senior Babe Ruth Midwest Plains Regional championship in Junction City, Kansas, and advance to the World Series in Ephrata, Washington...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. - The Ohio Valley Conference’s implementation of instant replay in football was a hot topic on July 24, while Southeast Missouri State was picked to finish seventh at OVC media day in Nashville, Tennessee. The OVC is one of 11 Football Championship Subdivision leagues that will implement instant replay in 2017. Scoring plays, spot reviews and catches can all be reviewed, while targeting is the only foul that can be reviewed based on judgment...

Notre Dame girls track and field standout Claire Morrill wrapped up her stint at the USA Track & Field National Junior Olympic Championships with a seventh-place finish in the 1,500-meter run (17-18 division) on Sunday in Lawrence, Kansas. Morrill, who reached the podium in three other events at the national meet (800, steeplechase and 4x800 relay), ran a personal-best time of 4 minutes, 52.58 seconds in the event...

In the Charleston Riverdogs' final regular-season games of the year -- and Paul Sander's tenure as head coach -- things felt a lot like they have all season for the baseball team. There were defensive mistakes and clutch hits that just didn't come through, as Charleston twice tried to rally but twice failed in a doubleheader sweep by visiting Millstadt, Illinois, 10-8 and 6-4, in Mon-Clair League action on Sunday afternoon at Saxony Lutheran High School...

Notre Dame girls track and field standout Claire Morrill reached the podium Saturday at the USA Track & Field National Junior Olympic Championships on the campus of the University of Kansas in Lawrence, Kansas. Morrill ran a personal-best time of 2 minutes, 17.11 seconds in the 800 to secure a fifth-place finish in the 17-18 division...

When Benjamin Parsons graduated from Notre Dame Regional High School, he appeared poised for success. He was an honor roll fixture academically, and on the soccer field, he had captained his St. Louis Scott Gallagher club team and capped his high school career with a 23-goal season, a Class 2 First-Team All-State nod and a spot as a Semoball Awards finalist...

Cord Dombrowski never dreamed of becoming the Missouri Golf Association president. It simply played out that way. Dombrowski, who's lived in Cape Girardeau since 1973, got involved with the organization years ago in an effort to give back to the game he loves...

A huge congratulations goes out to the 2017 1st place Champions of the 5th Annual Jimmy Williams 5 on 5 basketball tournament. The first place trophy went to the team Monstars, from Charleston, Mo. Teams came from all across the Southeast Missouri area to participate. ...

SEMO Boom, a local 12U travel softball team, recently earned a gold medal at the Show Me State Games in Columbia, Missouri. The Scott County-based team won the championship by going undefeated in a bracket that featured 18 teams, outscoring opponents 55-2. ...

Before the Cyclones' championship game, emotions began to well up inside of Justin McMullen. It was going to be the last time he coached the team in action, and he went over scenarios in his head leading up to game time. When the final whistle sounded over an hour later, those melancholy feelings were gone, replaced by joy...

Entering the final week of the regular season and sitting on the playoff bubble, the Charleston Riverdogs really wanted a positive result on Sunday. They didn't get one in the opening game of a doubleheader. Charleston let quality opportunities go by the wayside and fell to the visiting St. Louis Printers 5-2 in Mon-Clair League action at Saxony Lutheran High School in Jackson...

Brevin Giebler won a Missouri Golf Association point series event at Dalhousie Golf Club on Saturday. ...

On this day in any other year, the Burger King Capahas would be playing baseball at the National Baseball Congress World Series in Wichita, Kansas. But not this year. It's a weird ending to a weird season -- "weird" being a word that even Capahas matriarch Mary Bolen uses to describe the 2017 campaign...

There were times when it looked like neither team wanted to lift a trophy. But championships don't care how they are won. In a game rife with sloppiness, Festus Post 253 managed to suffer the smaller of self-inflicted wounds as it got up early and held off a stubborn Cape Girardeau Ford and Sons Post 63 Senior Legion baseball team for a 13-9 win in the Zone 4 Championship on Saturday at Whitey Herzog Stadium in Jackson...

The Cape Girardeau Ford and Sons Post 63 baseball team will open and close the Senior Legion Zone 4 Tournament against the same team. Cape hopes the outcomes will be different. Thanks to two victories Friday, including a 6-2 win over Jackson Post 158 in the second game, Post 63 advanced out of the loser's bracket. ...

Jake Sisson of Collierville TN was selected to The Commercial Appeal's All Metro Division I team for his 2017 sophomore high school soccer season.  Jake plays center back for the Collierville Dragons soccer team during the high school season and is in his 10th season with the Lobos Rush soccer club.  Jake is the son of Clay and Jennifer Sisson of Collierville TN and grandson of Bud and Joanne Sisson of Portageville...

The Southeast Missouri Swim Conference held its championships on Saturday, July 15, at the Cape Central Pool.  Eleven teams from Farmington down to Kennett participated in the huge event.  There were over 400 swimmers competing for medals and trophies.  Beau-Hunter Warren was named the top male swimmer in the 11-12 age group with all first place wins!! Max Warren received 3rd placed in the 9-10 age group with all 2nd place finishes!!  Beau and Max are members of the Cape County Castaways,  who were also named the Small Team SMSC Conference Champs.. ...

Cape Girardeau Ford and Sons Post 63 Senior Legion baseball needed some answers after a dud of an opening game in the Zone 4 Tournament on Wednesday. Thursday, it made the necessary adjustments. Post 63 broke a tie in the fourth inning and held on the rest of the way to get past Ste. Genevieve 11-6 in an elimination game at Whitey Herzog Field in Jackson, Missouri...

Jackson Post 158 Senior Legion baseball found itself in an early hole and never really recovered, as it fell to Festus Post 153 by a 14-5 score on Thursday night in a Zone 4 Tournament semifinal at Whitey Herzog Field in Jackson, Missouri. The hosts trailed 7-0 early and by as many as 10-0, but scored five runs in the final three innings...

The Heartland Firecrackers 10U softball team will compete in the Babe Ruth World Series on July 27-August 5 in Jensen Beach, Florida. The Firecrackers won state and regional tournaments, going a combined 8-0. That includes seven wins by mercy rule. At regionals, they outscored opposing teams 49-3. During this run, four different pitchers have secured a win on the mound...

The Burger King Capahas wrapped up their 2017 season on Wednesday night with a doubleheader sweep of Saline County (Ill.), defeating the Monarchs 7-0 and 3-2. The Capahas (13-9) got off to a quick start, scoring three runs in each of the first two innings of the opener...

The Jackson Post 158 Senior Legion baseball team put together another strong performance on Wednesday night, holding off a late rally threat to defeat Eureka Post 177, 9-5, in a Zone 4 Tournament quarterfinal at Whitey Herzog Field in Jackson, Missouri...

It was a day Cape Girardeau Ford and Sons Post 63 Senior Legion baseball didn't look much like a district champion. Mistakes on the mound and in the field gave Festus Post 253 too many opportunities, and Cape had no answers offensively as it fell 9-1 in a quarterfinal of the Zone 4 Tournament on Wednesday at Whitey Herzog Field in Jackson, Missouri...

Local gymnast Cambria Terry recently collected a major victory when she earned the gold medal and title of 2017 AAU vault champion at the National AAU Gymnastic meet in Kingsport, Tennessee. Terry took the top spot in the vault with a score of 9.575...

CHARLESTON, Mo. - The hot hitting continued for Ultimate Baseball Saturday afternoon at the Senior Babe Ruth state tournament at Hillhouse Park in Charleston. Ultimate Baseball calculated at least six runs for a fourth straight game as it rallied from a 1-0 first-inning deficit to knock off two-time defending state champion Wayne County Lumberjacks 6-3 in a state semifinal...

CHARLESTON, Mo. - Saturday’s lunchtime win for the Charleston Fighting Squirrels did two things. It vaulted them into the Missouri Senior Babe Ruth state tournament championship game later in the evening and sent the Squirrels back to the Midwest Plains Regional...

CHARLESTON, Mo. - Ultimate Baseball became the latest team to fall victim to established baseball juggernaut Charleston Fighting Squirrels Saturday night at the Senior Babe Ruth state tournament The Fighting Squirrels built a 10-1 lead by the end of the third inning on its way to a 13-3 five-inning run-rule victory against Ultimate Baseball in the Missouri state championship at Hillhouse Park in Charleston...

Bunts can be difference makers in a close baseball game, and on Tuesday night they made all the difference. Sparked by four consecutive bunts in the bottom of the sixth inning, the Jackson Post 158 Senior Legion baseball team rallied past Ste. Genevieve and held on for a 5-4 victory in the opening round of the Zone 4 Tournament at Whitey Herzog Stadium in Jackson...

Kyle Dodd, of Cape Girardeau, recently claimed the top prize in his division at the American Poolplayers Association (APA) Junior Nationals tournament in Davenport, Iowa. Including the 11-year-old Dodd, the event featured more than 300 youth competitors from 23 different states in four different divisions...

The U14 Girls Cyclones are international champions. The Cape Girardeau-based Southeast Missouri Soccer Club (SMSC) came out on the winning end of a grueling week of competition, finishing with a 6-0 record Sunday to claim the championship at the Disney Cup Youth Invitational International Soccer Tournament in Orlando, Florida...

Local traveling team SEMO Elite Basketball is bound for national competition this week at the AAU National Championships in Orlando, Florida. The team is one of two SEMO Elite Basketball teams coached by Tommy Delph of Cape Girardeau, who uses basketball as a tool to keep children out of trouble, instill life values and introduce them to college recruitment possibilities...

If there's a single person who's synonymous with the Cape Girardeau Post 63 American Legion baseball program, it's Bill Bohnert. For 37 years, Bohnert has watched countless teams, players and coaches filter their way through the system, and as the years have passed, his words have gained a unique weight...

The knack to be resilient showed itself throughout the ninth inning on Sunday at Capaha Field. But the home half was the one that counted most, as the top-seeded Cape Girardeau Ford and Sons Post 63 Senior Legion baseball team found a way to pull out the victory...

The Burger King Capahas exploded for 19 hits Sunday to win their road finale. The Caps scored 10 runs in the first three innings and cruised to a 16-2 win over the Saline County Monarchs team based in Harrisburg, Illinois. Every Capaha starter had at least one hit, and six had multiple hits. ...