Cross Country

The Notre Dame girls tennis team won the Cape Central Team Doubles Tournament on Saturday.

WILLOW SPRINGS, Mo. — Ellington’s Carson McNail won the Class 1 race in 18 minutes, 14.48 seconds at the Steve Waggoner Cross Country Invitational on Thursday at the Willow Springs Municipal Golf Course. For the girls team, Grace Lloyd took second in 24:12. Fordland’s Mia Wiley won the race in 23:33...

IRONTON, Mo. - The Kennett Indians cross country team placed fifth at the Arcadia Valley Invitational Saturday. Kennett posted a team score of 155. Potosi (65) placed first, North County (109) was second, Arcadia Valley (126) finished third, and Poplar Bluff (143) came in fourth. ...

The Cape Girardeau Central and Notre Dame boys swimming teams made quite a splash at Saturday’s Cape Rock Invitational at the Central Municipal Pool.

By BRIAN ROSENER Daily American Republic IRONTON, Mo. — Poplar Bluff’s Jaden Deaton and Dexter’s Margo Nea ran away from the pack at the Arcadia Valley XC Invitational on Saturday. Deaton won by 47 seconds, cutting 44 seconds from his second-place time last year as a sophomore. He ran the 5,000-meter course in 17 minutes 5.9 seconds...

Poplar Bluff's Jaden Deaton won his race Saturday in the season-opening cross country meet while Alexis Richardson finished in the top 10. Deaton covered the 2.35-mile course at Jackson City Park in 12 minutes 27 seconds to win the junior race at the Jackson Invitational, which features races for each grade and a shorter distance than a normal 5,000-meter meet...

The Kennett Indians boys cross country team is blessed with experience entering the fourth year of its program. All five runners out for cross country at Kennett are returning upperclassmen. “We have pretty high expectations,” Kennett senior Kobe Patterson said. “We have a group of five experienced runners. We are ready to run and make some noise.”...

VAN BUREN — For 35 consecutive years, Van Buren has been represented at the state cross country meet. New coaches Jacob Black and Peyton Bolander seek to take over where former coach Randal Jenkins left off. “Our cross country was very successful during the time he ran it,” said Black, who has been an assistant cross country coach for the past seven years. “We’ve not really changed the way we go about it because he was so successful.”...

CITY AUTO MEMPHIS TWILIGHT CLASSIC Notre Dame senior Blake Morris was the fourth runner to cross the finish line at Saturday’s City Auto Memphis Twilight Classic at the Mike Rose Soccer Complex in Memphis, Tennessee. Morris posted a time of 15 minutes, 46.33 seconds and finished just behind junior Miles Ally of Martin Luther King High School from Nashville, Tenn., (15:43.15) and ahead of senior Conner O’Shea of Madison Central High School from Richmond, Ky., (15:50.85) to finish in the Top Five. ...

Cross country teams around the state will have a new end-of-season destination this fall and Poplar Bluff’s Jaden Deaton looks to be there. After placing 64th at the state meet as a sophomore, Deaton can join nine previous Mules that qualified for state in multiple years. If he does, it will not be in Jefferson City...

Poplar Bluff junior cross country runner Jaden Deaton doesn’t run to garner attention for himself. “He studies the sport,” Poplar Bluff cross country coach Beth Lewis said of Deaton. “He loves the sport. He lives for the sport.”

DELTA. Mo. – The Delta boys cross country squad isn’t good because of numbers. When you have fewer than 100 students – boys AND girls – in the entire school, the depth of athletic talent isn’t going to overwhelm anyone.

ELLINGTON — Ellington cross country didn’t graduate anybody from last year’s team, and returns multiple runners who could make the state meet. The team’s top runner is the defending Big Springs Conference and MSHSAA Class 1 District 1 champion in sophomore Grace Lloyd, who went on to finish 14th at state with a time of 22 minutes, 22.95 seconds. Lloyd is also playing varsity volleyball...

There is glory in joining the Chaffee girls cross country program, even if the current group of Red Devil runners can't envision anything but the splendor of running hills at Cape County Park on an afternoon in which the heat index topped 100 degrees ending as soon as possible...

Coach: Logan Bollinger Experience: Third as coach at Cape Central, third year overall. Coach: Travis Calkins Experience: 13th year at Chaffee, 13th overall They're back: Madalyn Glueck (sophomore), Tori Stohmeyer (sophomore) Look for them: Madelynn Mosley (senior), Destiny Barbeau (senior), Morgan Stephens (senior), Mackenzie Jackson (junior), Isabelle Neves (sophomore), Madison Mosley (freshman), Rayney Held (fresman)...

The official start of the MSHSAA cross country season was Monday so Saxony Lutheran first-year coach Max Weiser has been having his athletes be on the run, literally.

On January 30 of this year, Semoball.com published an interview with then-Jackson High School senior runner Scout Pettit, who had been named to the 2018 All-Southeast Missourian Boys Cross Country Team.

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.

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.

Poplar Bluff’s Dylan Cisne has earned a college scholarship after competing in a sport for just two years. Cisne recently signed to run cross country with Mineral Area College. “It is a dream come true for me, Cisne said. “It is amazing. I’m just happy to run for a great coach in (Mineral Area coach Steve Davis). ...

In a few days, basketball postseason begins for teams across Missouri, but for an hour Wednesday afternoon, the focus was back on fall sports. In a live one-hour radio show on SEMO ESPN, 55 student-athletes were announced as fall sports finalists for the 2019 Semoball Awards...

List of college signees in the Southeast Missourian coverage area that were submitted to the newspaper

Check out the six selections for the All-Southeast Missourian boys cross country team

Blake Morris didn't plan to set a school record. Earlier that day, he and his coach had even discussed conserving his energy with another race coming up in a few days. The weather was so nice, though, and the Notre Dame junior felt great in warm-ups. He started strong, running his fastest-ever first mile, clocking in under five minutes, and it continued from there...

It didn't matter if the weather was bitterly cold, if there was pouring rain or a muddy course to navigate. There was always one constant for the Jackson girls cross country team. Kennedy Bauer had a smile on her face. That enthusiasm was infectious, lifting the spirits of her teammates, and when the race started, Bauer continued to lead by example...

Check out the six selections for the All-Southeast Missourian girls cross country team

It was quite a successful fall sports season in the Southeast Missouri area. The Advance volleyball team won its first-ever state championship, and Jackson football finished the regular season undefeated for the first time in over a decade before falling in the quarterfinals to the eventual Class 5 state champions...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Kennett junior Kobe Patterson capped off his cross country season with his first appearance at the state championship meet Saturday at Oak Hills Golf Course in Jefferson City. Patterson placed 93rd out of 164 runners with a time of 17:51...

Paced by three top-50 finishers, the Oak Ridge boys cross country team finished second at the Class 1 state championships on Saturday in Jefferson City, Missouri Tanner Schamburg led the way in 36th place with a time of 18 minutes, 55.43 seconds, and Philip Marshall was right behind him in 37th. Mason Keith rounded out the trio of top 50 finishers, coming in 48th in 19:08.13...

CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. - Kennett junior Kobe Patterson is state bound after securing a Top 15 finish at the Class 3, District 1 cross country meet Saturday at Notre Dame Regional High School in Cape Girardeau. Patterson finished 11th in the boys meet with a time of 17:29.28. Maxwell McDaniel of Festus won the meet with a time of 15:53.94...

The Jackson girls cross country team finished fourth in a Class 4 Sectional 1 meet Saturday in Washington, Missouri, to qualify for the state championship. Kennedy Bauer led the way with a second-place finish in 19 minutes, 33.56 seconds. Kaylee Wilson was the next-highest finisher for the Indians, coming in 25th in 20:27.72...

Prior to the start of Saturday's Class 1 District 1 and Class 3 District 1 cross country district championship meets, runners and coaches looked calm and collected. Members of the Dexter boys team threw a Frisbee back and forth near the starting line. The Herculaneum Bearcats crowded around their food and water table while the girls tied blue ribbons into their braids. If teams weren't walking the course at Notre Dame Regional High School, they were huddled together underneath their tents...

DEXTER, Mo. - The Kennett varsity cross country team placed fourth among 13 teams at the Dexter Invitational Saturday at Dexter High School. East Carter County won the meet, with 47 points, followed by Fredericktown (51), Woodland (53), Kennett (71), Dexter (75), Delta (81), Bloomfield (82), Valle Catholic (131), and Meadow Heights (138). Crystal City, Greenville, Willow Springs, and Advance did not have the minimum of five runners required to score as a team...

CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. - The Kennett high school cross country team is preparing for postseason play after fine-tuning its skills at the Heartland Conference Championship at Cape County North Park in Cape Girardeau last week. Kennett finished seventh out of 10 schools at its conference meet Oct. ...

Jackson senior Kennedy Bauer was the first runner to cross the finish line at the Class 4 District 1 cross country Tournament on Saturday at the Jackson City Park to earn the individual district championship and helped lead the Indians to second place...

The Perryville boys soccer team scored three goals in each half to wrap up the regular season with a 6-1 conference victory at home over the Windsor. Dayton Strattman and Jake Unterreiner netted two goals apiece to lead Perryville (13-10, 4-1 JCAA Conference). Unterreiner added one assist and Stanley Volansky chipped in one goal and one assist. Nick Omelchenko recorded the other goal for the Pirates and Austin Welk provided two additional assists...

CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. — It was a struggle in all four matches for the Sikeston volleyball team, at the SEMO Conference Tournament, on Tuesday evening. The Bulldogs were swept in all four of its matches and are the No. 5-seed for bracket play — which begins on Thursday — at the Cape Girardeau SportsPlex...

The Notre Dame cross country teams picked up the championships in each gender division in the Farmington Invitational at Engler Park on Saturday. Freshman Esperanza Zalite was the first runner to cross the finish line on the girls' side with a time of 20 minutes, 9.59 seconds to lead the Lady Bulldogs to victory. Teammates Paige Beussink and Kathryn Taylor landed in the Top 10 at fourth and eighth, respectively, as Notre Dame edged host Farmington by three points to capture the girls' title...

JACKSON, Mo. - The Kennett high school cross country team had two runners medal at the Saxony Lutheran Meet at Jackson City Park Oct. 4. Kennett’s Kobe Patterson (18:35) placed third and Kennett’s Alex Yates (19:51) took 22nd. Kennett’s Ronaldo Guerrero (21:10) finished 42nd, Kennett’s Larry Payne (21:16) placed 43rd, Kennett’s Carson Blansett (22:17) came in 52nd, and Kennett’s Brett Bradley (22:26) took 53rd...

CARTERVILLE, Ill. — Two goals from senior Jeffrey Thornbrough made the difference for the Sikeston soccer team on Tuesday night. Sikeston defeated Carterville, Illinois, on the road, 2-1 to move to 10-12 on the season. It was also the Bulldogs last regular season game of the year and will take the pitch next on October 30, at the district tournament, at the Sikeston Recreation Complex...

Nicholas Hux posted a first-place time of 5 minutes, 14.46 seconds in the 500 freestyle as the Notre Dame boys swimming team finished 18 points of Monett to win the championship of the 25th Annual Roger Eastman (Fort Zumwalt North) Invitational on Saturday at the Rec-Plex in St. Peters, Missouri...

SIKESTON — Two days after losing a tough, three-set match to Portageville, the Sikeston volleyball team returned to the court, at the Sikeston Field House, for senior night on Thursday against Malden. The Bulldogs lost both sets, as the Green Wave exposed Sikeston’s weakness, at the setter position...

CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. - A short-handed Kennett high school cross country team competed at the Notre Dame Invitational in Cape Girardeau Saturday. “We finished 16th out of 16 teams in the boys’ varsity race,” Kennett cross country coach Fred Garmon said. ...

After every team huddle, the Advance volleyball team yells the word "Mission" in unison. Mission was accomplished on Saturday as the defending tournament champion Hornets didn't drop a match to clinch their second consecutive championship at the 20-team Perryville Tournament...

Blake Morris didn't get the time he wanted. He did, however, get the victory. For the second consecutive year, the Notre Dame junior won the boys varsity cross country race at the Notre Dame Invitational, leading the host Bulldogs to a second-place team finish Saturday...