Basketball

SIKESTON — Every summer, coaching changes tend to occur. In the area, there will be multiple new faces on the sidelines for their respective programs. At Sikeston, Terry Flannigan returns to the Bulldogs football team, after his previous stint at Chaffee. He replaces Kent Gibbs who, after 12 years with Sikeston, heads to Cape Central...

A few weeks before the start of the 2019-20 school year the Senath-Hornersville Lions girls basketball program is headed to Branson, Missouri, to fine-tune its skills under a new head coach. Senath-Hornersville is scheduled to play two scrimmage games on Wednesday, four games on Thursday, and three games on Friday under new head coach Nicki Pierce...

Cape Girardeau Central High School graduate Chancey Hughes will attend Colby Community College in Kansas on a basketball scholarship. "It feels great to have my schooling paid for and not have to worry about it," Hughes said. "Colby is known for basketball, and the head coach (Rusty Elmore) reminds me of my old coach, Drew Church. It also has a family-type environment similar to Cape, and it's a school that'll help me focus."...

CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. — Leah Cauble added placed another trophy on her mantle on Saturday night. The all-time leading scorer in Missouri history won the Girls Basketball Athlete of the Year award at the Semoball Awards. Cauble led the Oran Lady Eagles to the Class 2 Quarterfinals, where they lost to Thayer 58-28. For her senior season, she averaged 37 points per game, 7.5 rebounds, and shot 62 percent from the floor...

Flashbulbs and excitement were in heavy supply as student-athletes from Southeast Missouri were honored for their achievements Saturday at the biggest sports awards show in the region. The Sixth Annual Semoball Awards presented by SoutheastHEALTH honored more than 120 athletes from over 50 schools in 25 different categories.

What I learned from living the initial 52 years of my life in the state of Indiana was that Hoosiers are passionate about three things: religion, farming, and sports. And depending on the time of year and whether the Indiana University men’s basketball team is underachieving or not, the order of those things could fluctuate.

Olivia Ward isn’t a complicated young lady. That isn’t to say she isn’t busy, but the Jackson High School junior keeps her focus on what is important in life and isn’t easily distracted from those priorities.

SIKESTON — One of Scott County Central’s own is returning to the sidelines this winter for the boys' basketball team. Tim Carlisle, who spent last season as an assistant coach under Matt Cline, takes the reigns of the Braves basketball program this season. His first basketball head coaching position that he has ever held...

Dunklin County native Ty’re Washington was unsure what career he wanted to pursue when he graduated from Southland High School in Cardwell, Missouri, in 2006. “When I graduated high school I was like a lot of others and didn’t know what I wanted to do so I started working in a factory,” Washington said. “One day as I was working it became crystal clear to me that something had to change. That day I decided I’m going to go back to school.”...

ORAN, Mo. — A decorated career on the basketball court for Oran’s Leah Cauble ended on a personal high note for the senior. Cauble earned another spot on the Class 2 All-State team — the fourth time in her career she accomplished that — and was also Class 2 Player of the Year...

Two proposals passed at the 2019 Missouri High School Activities Association Election in May will alter the postseason playoff field for local high schools in the Missouri Bootheel beginning in the 2020-21 school year.

EAST PRAIRIE, Mo. — East Prairie football and basketball player Derez Tipler signed with Black Hawk College in Moline, Ill., on Tuesday, at East Prairie High School. Tipler averaged 18.7 points per game, 8.2 rebounds, and 5.2 assists for the Eagles during his senior season. He also provided a boost on the defensive end of the floor, averaging 3.4 steals per contest...

NEW MADRID, Mo. — Middle school and high school basketball players are using their summer to improve their game. Since May 28, approximately 15 to 20 Central Middle School athletes and 25 to 30 Central High School athletes have honed their skills on the court. Assistant Coach Dontre’ Jenkins said he and the other coaches are pleased with the outstanding attendance and the hard work put in by the students...

After a decade on the bench as a boys basketball coach in the Missouri Bootheel Aaron Bidewell is preparing for a new role in the world of high school sports. Bidewell, who has served as the varsity boys basketball coach at Hayti the past three seasons, recently accepted the position of athletic director at Holcomb High School for the 2019-20 school year...

Returning to the sidelines, former Sikeston boys’ basketball head coach Fred Johnson will lead the Kelly boys’ program in 2018-2019. At the helm of the Bulldogs, Johnson finished with a 118-82 record. He won three district championships during that time, along with a pair of quarterfinal appearances and a fourth-place finish at the state tournament...

The annual Kennett High School Boys Basketball Shootout is slated for Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. Junior varsity squads square off Thursday with varsity teams battling it out Friday and Saturday. Games will last approximately 40 minutes. Each game will have two 16-minute halves with a running clock. The clock will stop the final two minutes of the game on dead balls unless a team is leading by 10 points or more in the final two minutes. Overtime is sudden death...

CHARLESTON, Mo. — A season to remember was recognized on Saturday evening, as the Charleston Fighting Squirrels season kicked off by celebrating the 2018 Senior Babe Ruth World Series championship, at Hillhouse Park. The introduction of all of the Fighting Squirrels’ affiliated teams, followed by a ceremonial first pitch from former Fighting Squirrel and Sikeston Bulldog Will Pratt— who was a member of the championship team — started the evening. ...

Scott County Central’s Landon Glueck signed with Missouri Valley College on Thursday, at Ronnie Cookson Gymnasium at Scott County Central High School. Pictured from left to right (top row): John Mark-Jones, Tim Carlisle, and Matt Cline; (bottom row): Mother Heather Glueck, Landon Glueck, and father, Travis Glueck...

The all-time leading scorer of the Risco Tigers boys basketball program has made the decision to take his game to the collegiate level. Risco senior guard Nathan Burnett signed to play basketball at College of the Ozarks near Branson, Missouri, Thursday...

The field is beginning to take shape. The second group of Semoball Awards finalists, the winter sports selections, were revealed Wednesday in an hour-long radio show on SEMO ESPN. That group of 30 student-athletes will join the fall sports finalists, announced earlier this year, at the 2019 Semoball Awards presented by SoutheastHEALTH on July 13 at the Donald C. Bedell Performance Hall on Southeast Missouri State University's River Campus...

Chauncey Hughes first touched a basketball when he was 2, beginning a years-long love affair with the game. Without a Nerf Hoop as a youngster, he used a laundry basket and a small ball. As he got older, he started cutting up milk crates and hanging them up on power poles as makeshift baskets...

Get to know the 12 selections to the All-Southeast Missourian girls basketball team. Players in the Southeast Missourian coverage area are eligible for these honors. The players selected are in the running for the Semoball Awards.

For four seasons, Leah Cauble has starred for the Oran girls basketball team, weaving through defenses and firing from beyond the 3-point arc. So when Cauble reflects back on her high school career -- a time she called "the best years of my life" -- sadness comes bubbling up to the surface...

Get to know the 12 selections to the All-Southeast Missourian girls basketball team. Players in the Southeast Missourian coverage area are eligible for these honors. The players selected are in the running for the Semoball Awards.

KENNETT, Mo. - The clutch hitting continued for the Kennett Indians baseball team in a quarterfinal of the SEMO Conference baseball tournament Friday afternoon at Indian Park. Kennett collected a pair of RBI doubles and hit solo home run against the visiting Sikeston Bulldogs...

Former Sikeston basketball player Donnell Cobb signed his National Letter of Intent to Crowley Ridge College on Thursday.

Former Sikeston basketball player Chris Appleton signed his National Letter of Intent with Crowley Ridge College on Monday.

For the first time in five years, the Holcomb Hornets will have a new varsity boys basketball coach. Michael Snider, a 2013 graduate of nearby Twin Rivers High School, accepted the varsity boys basketball job at Holcomb earlier this month. Snider takes over for Chris Hahn who had served as head coach at Holcomb since 2014. Hahn is leaving Holcomb to be the varsity boys basketball coach at Delta High School...

SIKESTON — Kevin Jones had a prolific career dawning a Sikeston Bulldogs’ uniform. On Thursday, Jones signed to continue his playing career at Three Rivers Community College in Poplar Bluff, Mo., under legendary coach Gene Bess. “I’ve been close to that program since the seventh grade, going over there and playing with the SEMO Bulls,” Jones said. ...

SIKESTON — Sikeston’s Trey Jenkins signed with Southwestern Illinois College on Tuesday, at the Sikeston Field House. Jenkins — the 2019 Standard-Democrat Player of the Year — joins a team that is coming off of a 20-12 campaign in 2018-2019, and lose all four of its double-digit scorers from this past season...

After two successful seasons at Jackson High School Alexis Allstun has signed her National Letter of Intent with Missouri Baptist University of St. Louis to continue her basketball career while furthering her education...

Headline Kalli Mayfield signs with Lyon College Jackson’s Kalli Mayfield officially signed to play basketball at Lyon College on 4/2 after verbally committing in December. Kalli said she chose Lyon because she "loved the campus and town and it felt like home and the players and coaches super nice and they have a successful program"...

Parker and Owen Long signed with Maryville University on Friday, at the Sikeston Field House. This past season, Parker averaged 12.1 points, 6.5 assists, and 4.4 rebounds per contest. Parker’s 6.5 assists per game, was good for third all-time on the Bulldogs assist list. ...

DEXTER, Mo. — Chaylea Mosby has had quite the career for the Dexter girls basketball program. Scoring 2,386 points in her illustrious career with the Lady Bearcats, Mosby holds the record by 646 points. She broke that mark during her junior season, surpassing Brittany Harris — who previously held the record — with 1,740 points scored...

SIKESTON — Many true post players have graced the Sikeston basketball program over the years under head coach Gregg Holifield. Senior Trey Jenkins added his name to that distinct list with his play over the course of the 2018-2019 season, culminating with him earning his first All-State nod and the 2019 Standard Democrat Boys Basketball Player of the Year...

ORAN, Mo. — 3,788. That’s the number that Oran senior Leah Cauble holds. It is also the number that makes her No. 1 all-time in scoring for the state of Missouri. Breaking the record, previously held by Miller’s Hannah Wilkerson, against St. Vincent, Leah Cauble said that it was a moment she will always cherish with her...

MALDEN, Mo. - The Malden Green Wave rallied from a 6-2 deficit to knock off state-ranked Kennett 7-6 late Friday night. Malden scored four runs in the bottom of the sixth inning to tie things up at 6-6 and another run in the bottom of the seventh inning to secure a walk-off victory...

Oran girls basketball senior Leah Cauble added one more achievement to the long list of accolades she has racked up in a stellar four-year career: Class 2 Player of the Year. Cauble broke the state career scoring mark this past season and is the two-time reigning Southeast Missourian Player of the Year. She's also one of several area players to earn all-state honors in boys and girls basketball, as the Missouri Basketball Coaches Association released the teams Wednesday...

SIKESTON — Several local basketball players earned a spot on the All-State team, which got announced on Wednesday. Sikeston senior Trey Jenkins earned a spot on the Class 4 list. Jenkins had a significant hand in the Bulldogs 25-1 record this season...

ST. LOUIS — After a successful high school basketball career at Sikeston, former Bulldog Fred Thatch Jr. is continuing to succeed at the next level, helping Saint Louis University to the NCAA Tournament in his first season. Thatch, a 6-3 true freshman guard, was an integral part of the Billikens squad that won the Atlantic 10 Conference Tournament on Sunday and earned a 13 seed in the NCAA Tournament. ...

Chaylea Mosby made history, Kiley Bess reached a goal set in memory of a fan and Dominique Hardimon made an impromptu speech at the 61st annual Poplar Bluff Letter Club Basketball Banquet. Mosby became the first three-time winner of the Bob Gray Award as the most outstanding girls basketball player in the SEMO Conference. ...

POPLAR BLUFF, Mo. — Poplar Bluff's Dominique Hardimon was presented with the John Gibbs Award as the most outstanding player in the SEMO Conference on Wednesday night at the 61st annual Poplar Bluff Letter Club Basketball Banquet while Kiley Bess and Dexter's Chaylea Mosby shared the the Bob Gray Award...

The Leopold baseball team came alive in the sixth inning and held Bell City at bay to come away with a 3-1 road victory on Monday in both teams' season debut. Ryan Lewis went the distance on the mound to get the win for the Wildcats (1-0). The one run he allowed was earned, and he had eight strikeouts and three walks...

The 2019 Bootheel Conference high school girls basketball awards have been released. Campbell senior guard Claire Parker is the 2019 Girls Basketball Player of the Year. Parker averaged 25 points, seven rebounds, and four steals per game her senior season...

St. Mary’s and Collins ends Central’s Dream Season HILLSBORO — What Cape Central did much of the season was jump on opponents early and often. However, a shift in momentum would allow St. Mary’s to go on a run and keep the Tigers at bay, ultimately ended the dream season, 68-62. ...

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. — With the scored knotted up at 50 and 3:30 left to play, the Oran boys basketball team was locked in a battle with Greenwood in the Show-Me Showdown Class 2 state championship game on Saturday afternoon at the JQH Arena.

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. — Joe Shoemaker rarely shows emotions, talking quickly and without pause and often focusing on Xs-and-Os. But minutes after a heartbreaking state championship defeat, the Oran boys basketball coach, sitting on a dais and looking out at a gaggle of reporters, visibly choked up when talking about his team...

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. — A nine-point lead had dwindled to one, and the Oran boys basketball team was going through its worst offensive drought of the day. A lead change seemed inevitable midway through the third quarter, but Oran Joe Shoemaker didn't burn a timeout. He trusted his players...

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. — The trophy case at Charleston High School added one more to the collection on Friday. Bolting out to a 22-5 lead after the first quarter, Charleston (21-11) was clicking on all cylinders en route to a 71-58 win over St. Paul Lutheran, in the third-place game of the Class 3 Show-Me Showdown at the Hammons Student Center, in Springfield, Mo...