Football

The Scott City Rams will attempt to secure their first district football title in 20 years when they host Caruthersville at 7 p.m. today. The top-seeded Rams improved to 10-1 last week with a 52-14 victory over No. 4 New Madrid County Central, while No. 2 Caruthersville avoided an upset by No. 3 St. Pius X with touchdown with 7 seconds remaining in what turned out to be a 40-29 victory...

Fox High School head coach Brent Tinker knows a little something about his counterpart in today's Class 5 District 1 championship game, Jackson's Brent Eckley. "I've coached against (Coach) Eckley a couple times," said Tinker, in his ninth year helming the Warriors of Arnold, Missouri...

To the casual observer, the Tigers of Cape Girardeau Central may appear to be a streaky football team. A 2-0 start was followed by two losses, followed by a pair of shutout victories, followed by a dramatic one-point victory over a previously unbeaten team, followed by a 63-point loss, the first of two consecutive losses to unbeaten teams...

A pile of uniforms and pads sits on an eight-foot table in front of a washing machine in the equipment room at Poplar Bluff High School. Instead of prepare for another shot at state-ranked Jackson in the MSHSAA Class 5 District 1 championship game, the Mules turned in their equipment Monday after Fox ended Poplar Bluff’s season at 4-6...

WHEN: No. 3 Ste. Genevieve at No. 1 Kennett Friday at 7 p.m. in Class 3, District 1 championship LAST MEETING: Kennett beat Ste. Genevieve 33-0 in Week 3 LAST WEEK: Kennett beat Potosi 30-12; Ste. Genevieve upset Park Hills Central 24-22 HEAD TO HEAD STREAK: Kennett is 3-3 against Ste. Genevieve since 2010...

It's postseason football time in Southeast Missouri. Scott City, Cape Girardeau Central and Jackson are all playing in their respective district finals Friday. Notre Dame Regional High School is not involved in those playoffs -- because the Bulldogs don't compete on the gridiron...

New Madrid County Central's Quazavion Jackson was voted the Semoball Football Player of the Week in online balloting that concluded Tuesday night. Jackson, who collected 284 votes, scored a touchdown and rushed for 137 yards on 24 carries in a season-ending loss to Scott City...

The 2019 Tri-County Conference volleyball awards have been released. Clarkton senior Kayla Gentry is the 2019 Tri-County Conference Volleyball Player of the Year. Gentry finished with 36 ace serves, 188 digs, 22 assists, nine blocks, and 254 kills her senior season...

On a night when the temperature was near freezing at kickoff, the No. 2 Hayti Indians hosted the No. 3 St. Vincent Indians in a Class 1, District 1 football semifinal. The Indians of St. Vincent hoped to upset the reigning Class 1, District 1 champions in their bid for a repeat state title...

Spencer Stratman wasn't going to let his senior season end on his home turf Friday night. The signal-caller paced the Scott City offense and added a pair of big defensive plays in the Rams' 52-14 win over New Madrid County Central in the Class 2 District 1 semifinals at Scott City High School...

Before a home crowd huddled beneath parkas and blankets, Jackson (10-0) warmed the hearts of the Indian faithful with an easy 55-14 win Friday over Seckman in a Class 5 District 1 football semifinal. The Tribe now will host Fox Friday at 7 p.m. for the district championship...

CARUTHERSVILLE, Mo. — Trailing 29-28 with 38 seconds remaining in a Class 2, District 1 semifinal game, it looked as if Caruthersville’s season was near the end. Quarterback Devin Russell had other plans. The junior signal caller led his team down the field 70 yards in just 31 seconds and Caruthersville escaped a St. Pius X upset bid 40-29 Friday night...

HAYTI, Mo. — The Hayti Indians steamrolled visiting St. Vincent 60-14 in a Class 1, District 1 semifinal Friday night. Hayti (10-1) intercepted a St. Vincent pass on the opening drive and scored two plays later when Elijah Burnett scored on a 34-yard run...

The Cape Girardeau Central football team wasted no time – literally - in showing it meant business in its quest to play for its first District championship game since 2017 Friday.

KENNETT, Mo. - Kennett Indians football coach Joel Wyatt knew jumping out to an early lead against the Potosi Trojans would be crucial Friday night. “We knew they were going to come in here and try to limit our possessions by running the ball and chewing up clock,” Wyatt said. ...

ARNOLD, Mo. — Fox had just padded a 3-point lead with a touchdown late in the third quarter when the ensuing kickoff bounced through the hands of three Poplar Bluff players. The Warriors recovered the ball. The Mules never recovered Friday night. Fox ran for six touchdowns, scoring 14 points off turnovers, to knock out Poplar Bluff 41-25 in the MSHSAA Class 5 District 1 semifinal...

Nick Baer sees a lot to admire in the unbeaten Jackson Indians (9-0, 4-0). Baer, the first-year head football coach of Seckman, brings his Jaguars (2-7, 1-3) into the Pit today for a Class 5 District 1 semifinal game. "We're trying to build a program like (Jackson's)," Baer said. "Coach (Brent) Eckley's got a good thing going."...

It was 31 years ago, 1988, when Jim May helped the Scott City Rams reach the state football playoffs. The running back/linebacker wore the No. 34. Ronald Reagan was president and Donald Trump was a businessman. Fast-forward to 2019, and a lot has changed -- smartphones, electric cars, social media and President Trump...

The next step in MSHSAA football team's quest for a championship will be taken tonight throughout Southeast Missouri. Here is "What 2 Watch 4" throughout the area.

New Madrid County Central vs. Scott City Records: NMCC 6-4; Scott City 9-1 Series History: Scott City leads 4-1 Last Meeting: 1985, NMCC won 20-7 Last Week: NMCC defeated Kelly 48-18; Scott City defeated Herculaneum 49-8 Notes: The last time these two schools met was in the mid-80s. ...

LAST MEETING: Kennett beat Potosi 48-9 LAST WEEK: Kennett beat Doniphan 56-0; Potosi beat Perryville 20-14 HEAD TO HEAD STREAK: Kennett won the only meeting in the last decade last season. ABOUT POTOSI: Potosi (6-4) beat Owensville 44-28 in Week 1, St. ...

For the fifth straight year, the Poplar Bluff football team is in the MSHSAA Class 5 District 1 semifinal looking to reach the championship game for the first time. It’s been 19 years since the program’s last title and a decade since the Mules were runners-up in the district...

New Madrid County Central's Quazavion Jackson was voted the Semoball Football Player of the Week in online balloting that concluded Tuesday night. Jackson collected 688 votes after rushing for 209 yards and three touchdowns in a 48-18 district win over Kelly on Friday...

HAYTI, Mo. - On a cold first night of November, the district football playoffs began around the state of Missouri with opening-round matches. The No. 2 Hayti Indians hosted the No. 7 Chaffee Red Devils in a replay of a regular-season game in Chaffee. Hayti won that contest 74-0 and was looking to do it again in the playoffs...

HILLSBORO, Mo. – The Sikeston football season came to an end on Friday night with a 23-6 loss to Hillsboro. The turnover bug reared again for the Bulldogs as Sikeston’s offensive woes contributed to the season-ending defeat to the Hawks. Sikeston’s season ends at 3-7 while Hillsboro (4-6) advances to the Class 4, District 1 semifinals to play at second-seeded Cape Central next Friday...

On a frigid night at Tigers Stadium, host Cape Girardeau Central (6-4) cruised past North County, 42-6, in Class 4 District 1 quarterfinal play Friday. Central, the No. 2 seed, went up 7-0 on its first possession of the game as senior Dashawn Franklin ran it in from 8 yards out with 9:48 left in the first quarter...

PERRYVILLE, Mo. — Portageville saw their season end Friday night with a 48-22 road loss to St. Vincent in the first round of the Class 1, District 1 Tournament. Portageville fell behind early 7-0, giving up a 6-yard touchdown run to St. Vincent quarterback Garrett Dobbelare...

NEW MADRID, Mo. — Getting out to an early lead and seizing the momentum to start was what the New Madrid County Central football team game planned to do against Kelly on Friday night. As the first round of the Class 2, District 1 tournament got underway, NMCC (6-4) jumped out to an early lead, thanks to three touchdowns on their first three drives of the night, en route to a 48-18 win over Kelly...

CHARLESTON, Mo – Less than a month ago, the Charleston Bluejays traveled to Malden and used some last seconds heroics to down the Green Wave 28-20. On Friday, with their season on the line, Malden returned the favor. After trailing the entire game, a fateful connection from quarterback Shay Amoss to Drew Blankinship in the final minutes of regulation helped the Green Wave down the hosting Bluejays 18-13 on the road in the opening round of the Class 1, District 1 Tournament...

POTOSI, Mo. -- When Potosi and Perryville meet on the football field, it tends to be the details that separate the winning team from its rival. Four times the two programs have met in the past 15 months with the Trojans winning three of those. But in three of those games, the outcome has been determined by one score...

CARUTHERSVILLE, Mo. — The East Prairie Eagles had no answer for the high-powered Caruthersville offense in a 67-20 loss in a Class 2, District 1 game Friday night. The East Prairie defense gave up seven touchdowns of over 30 yards as Caruthersville scored nine times while running just 24 offensive plays on the night...

St. Vincent scored on its first three possessions and rolled to a 48-22 victory over Portageville in a quarterfinal football game in the Class 1 District 1 Tournament on Friday in Perryville, Missouri. Senior quarterback Garrett Dobbelare rushed for one touchdown and threw for three more as the Indians rolled out to a 48-8 lead by halftime...

KENNETT, Mo. - The Doniphan Dons became the latest victim of the undefeated Kennett Indians football squad Friday night. No. 1 seeded Kennett scored touchdowns in six of its seven first-half possessions as it built a 44-0 lead by halftime. The Indians led by at least that much throughout the second half as it beat No. 8 seeded Doniphan 56-0 in a Class 3, District 1 quarterfinal at Metz Cherry Stadium in Kennett...

A week after dropping out of the top spot, Kennett returns to lead the Semoball Power Rankings to end the regular season.

No football coach throughout Missouri is more in tune with the tradition of his program than that of St. Vincent second-year coach Tim Schumer. The former Indian quarterback can recall plays and players who have built the St. Vincent program, and his 2019 roster has an opportunity to add a chapter in the Indians' history book with a victory tonight against Portageville (2-7) to open the Class 1 District 1 postseason...

Blane Boss is in his third season as head football coach at Perryville High School. It may feel much longer to him when it comes to Potosi. Boss and the Pirates will lining up against the Trojans for the fifth time in three seasons when they meet at 7 p.m. today in a Class 3 District 1 game in Potosi, Missouri...

Sikeston at Hillsboro Records: Sikeston 3-6; Hillsboro 3-6 Series History: Tied 2-2 Last Meeting: 2016, Hillsboro won 72-46 Last Week: Sikeston lost to Kennett 36-0; Hillsboro lost to Poplar Bluff 39-26 Notes: The wait is over, the postseason is here, and for Sikeston flipping the script is something this team needs to do. ...

LAST MEETING: Kennett beat Doniphan 41-6 LAST WEEK: Kennett beat Sikeston 36-0; Scott City beat Doniphan 49-6 HEAD TO HEAD STREAK: Kennett has won the only meeting against Doniphan. in the last decade ABOUT DONIPHAN: Cabool beat Doniphan 52-2 in Week 1, Thayer beat Doniphan 50-19 in Week 2, Charleston beat Doniphan 20-0 in Week 3, NMCC beat Doniphan 54-6 in Week 4, Dexter beat Doniphan 32-0 in Week 5, Kelly beat Doniphan 42-6 in Week 6, Doniphan beat Chaffee 19-0 in Week 7, Fredericktown beat Doniphan 54-11 in Week 8, and Scott City beat Doniphan 49-6 in Week 9. ...

Poplar Bluff senior wide receiver Chad Casey was voted the Semoball Football Player of the Week in online balloting that concluded Tuesday night. Casey, who collected 614 votes, hauled in six passes for 131 yards and a score in the Mules' 39-26 senior night win over Hillsboro on Friday...

A hardy remnant of Southeast Missouri State football faithful, wearing raincoats and ponchos and sporting umbrellas, were in the stands at Houck Stadium Saturday.

Jackson, the SEMO Conference North champion, enters the postseason with an unblemished 9-0 record after punishing visiting Parkway Central Friday, 52-6. “(Jackson) was more physical and controlled the line of scrimmage,” said Mark Goldenberg, Parkway Central’s coach...

CARUTHERSVILLE, Mo. - The New Madrid County Central Eagles football team fell behind the Caruthersville Tigers 36-0 in the first half but still found a way to finish the regular-season strong Friday night. New Madrid County Central forced three turnovers after halftime, helping it win the second half 30-16 and cut Caruthersville’s final margin of victory to 52-30...

CHARLESTON, Mo – Going into the last week of the regular season, the Charleston Bluejays hadn’t lost back-to-back games, compiling a 4-4 record in the process. Coming off last week’s loss to East Prairie, it looked like a distinct possibility the Bluejays might suffer their second straight loss Friday when visiting Herculaneum jumped ahead 14-0 in the first quarter...

For 24 minutes, the Cape Girardeau Central football team wasn’t giving an inch to an unbeaten Bolivar squad. The Tigers played the Class 4 No. 9-ranked Liberators to a 34-28 halftime score. However, the second half was a different story, as Bolivar pulled away for a 59-35 win...

SCOTT CITY - While the Scott City Rams were wrapping up their best regular season in more than a decade Friday night on their home field against Doniphan, something just as big was happening at another game 65 miles north.

Poplar Bluff overcame a shaky start Friday night, scoring 33 unanswered points to snap the longest losing streak in eight years on Senior Night. The Mules took care of business with a 39-26 win over Hillsboro and will find out if it will be enough to move up in the district standings...

HAYTI, Mo. — TreCharles McCoy didn’t mind that the conditions on Friday night were cold and rainy. The Hayti senior had five touchdowns in the first half as the Indians blitzed Portageville on senior night, 62-8, at Hayti High School. The win also resulted in a SEMO West Conference championship for the Indians...

SIKESTON — Heading into Friday night’s regular season finale, the Sikeston Bulldogs had an outside shot of hosting its first round district game next week. But with the undefeated, state-ranked Kennett Indians visiting, the Bulldogs knew it would be a tough row to hoe...

For those who know about the Jackson football program and how it has fared since Cael Welker took over as the starting quarterback, there may be one overriding thought: Welker encounters losing about as often as he walks into a barbershop.

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