Soccer

SIKESTON — Jacob Lovel was the lone goal scorer for the Sikeston boys soccer team on Tuesday against Carterville, Ill. Lovel scored on a pass from Josh McClendon, but the Bulldogs fell 7-1. Sikeston (0-20) hosts Perryville on Thursday, in the final regular season match of the season...

The Advance volleyball team avenged its only loss thus far before it sustained its second defeat of the season in a 25-21, 18-25, 21-25 loss to Lindbergh in the championship game of the Second Annual Jackson Tournament on Saturday at Jackson High School.

Gracie Cook finished with nine kills, two service aces and two digs as the Meadow Heights volleyball team capped their third-straight sweep of the week and increased their winning streak to six games in the 25-22, 25-19 victory over host Oran on Friday...

SIKESTON — Sports took a backseat during the Sikeston boys soccer team’s match against North County at the Sikeston Recreation Complex on Thursday. It was the annual Gold Out Game for the Bulldogs, a game where Sikeston dons gold jerseys and raises money for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital...

The Notre Dame girls tennis team shut out the Saxony Lutheran Crusaders 5-0 to advance to the finals of the Class 1 District 2 team tournament Tuesday. The Bulldogs got the early lead and never looked back, thanks to three doubles wins. The frst two doubles matches both ended 8-1 as Claire Bruenderman and Anna Grace Stroup defeated Maddox Murphy and Sydney Turner at the No. ...

The Notre Dame boys swimming team came way with four state qualifiers that was good enough to land the Bulldogs in second place at the 26th Annual Roger Eastman Invitational on Saturday at the Rec-Plex in St. Peters, Mo. Joseph Barber and Nicholas Hux were a part of three of those state cuts for the Bulldogs, including their first-place 200 medley relay team (1:44.90) and second-place 200 freestyle relay (1:34.26). ...

Senior Kyla Beel hammered 24 kills and tallied 14 digs as the Leopold volleyball team rallied after dropping the first set to rebound and eke out a 21-25, 25-22, 25-23 victory over Dexter on Tuesday at Leopold High School. Sophomore Paige Davis contributed 25 assists and...

The Cape Girardeau Central boys swimming team placed first in five events to claim third place at the CoMo Invitational on Saturday at the Mizzou Aquatic Center in Columbia, Mo.

The Notre Dame tennis team won the SEMO Conference Tournament on Friday in Poplar Bluff, Missouri, on the strength of its doubles play. Both Bulldogs doubles teams won semifinal matches and will play for the title at date to be determined. Claire Bruenderman and Anna Grace Stroup defeated Dexter's Kyla Propst and Julianna Rivera 6-0, 6-2 in one semifinal, while Claire Southard and Megan Gullette rallied to defeat Cape Girardeau Central's Anita Kellum and Maria Seidu-Sofo 0-6, 6-2, 6-4...

Addie Johnson posted a double-double with 20 kills and 11 digs as the Woodland volleyball team had to claw deep after dropping the first set to come back and down Meadow Heights in the 18-25, 25-17, 25-18 three-set thriller victory on the road Thursday in Patton, Missouri...

The signs were there during a 3-0 loss at Jackson earlier in the week and again Thursday night at Mules Stadium in a 4-0 win over Sikeston — the Poplar Bluff soccer team is starting to figure things out. “I think we finally came together as a team,” Poplar Bluff senior Noah Kanell said. “It’s taken us how many games? But we’re finally coming together and making everything work out.”...

Jackson squeaked out a 28-26, 22-25, 25-21 volleyball road victory over Park Hills Central on Monday. It could hardly get much closer as only three total points separated the teams. Mia Trankler and Haley Quatmann were menaces at the net all night for the Indians, who improved to 7-1. Trankler finished with six kills and a team-leading eight blocks, while Quatmann ended up with five kills and five blocks. Olivia Ward led Jackson with eight kills, and Katelyn had a team-high 12 digs...

POPLAR BLUFF — Brylee Misner set a Poplar Bluff softball record for career home runs Monday in a 15-9 loss to Farmington at Bobby Strenfel Field. The Mules (2-12) set a season high for runs in a game after giving up five runs in the top of the first inning...

SIKESTON — After going scoreless in its past two games, the Sikeston boys soccer team returned to the pitch at the Sikeston Recreation Complex on Monday, against Saxony Lutheran. Battling to the end, the Bulldogs fell 3-2 to the Crusaders but made the match interesting throughout...

The Jackson cross country team won both gender divisions by a long mile at the Cape Girardeau Central Invitational on Saturday at Central High School.

Mackenzie Stoner slammed eight kills as the Jackson volleyball team denied host Notre Dame its 10th win of the season and picked up a big conference victory in straight sets (25-10, 25-19) on Thursday in Cape Girardeau. Hannah Shinn and Olivia Ward chipped in seven kills apiece for the Indians. ...

After giving up an early goal, the Poplar Bluff soccer team kept Cape Central at bay for much of the first half and generated some offensive chances Thursday night. But the Tigers scored twice in the final five minutes of the half then finished off the host with five goals over a 17-minute stretch to beat Poplar Bluff 8-0 at Mules Stadium...

Sikeston's Emma Drury and Poplar Bluff's Alex Ketcherside won the fan balloting for Semoball Athletes of the Week for the week ending Sept. 15. Drury led the female candidates with 895 votes after she had a home run, three RBIs and three runs scored in a 15-0 win over Saxony Lutheran. She also had a triple and an RBI in a 9-4 loss to Perryville...

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

The Jackson softball team didn’t drop a single game to win its pool at the Fourth Annual People’s Bank Back-to-School Fall Softball Classic on Friday at the Campbell Chapman Sports Complex in Sullivan, Mo.

Ella Overstreet carded a 3-over-par 75 to place second individually as the Jackson girls golf team finished nine strokes ahead of the host Falcons to capture the championship of the Rockwood Summit Invitational Tournament on Thursday at the Crescent Farms Golf Course in the suburban St. Louis area...

FREDERICKTOWN, Mo. — Dylan Thornbrough and Heath Poindexter netted the only two goals for the Sikeston boys soccer team in Thursday night’s loss to Fredericktown. The Bulldogs fell into an early hole, down 3-0, before making the game interesting. Sikeston (0-8) is getting outscored 40-6 this season...

PERRYVILLE, Mo. — Jerry Fulton knew there was a need for a boy’s soccer program in Perryville in 2008. Kids were playing the sport recreationally that he believed would be interested in doing so as a Pirate representing their school.

East Carter County’s Makenna Moore tossed a complete game and gave up just one earned run on four hits as the host Redbirds flew to their fourth win of the season in the 2-1 victory over Jackson on Tuesday in softball action in Ellsinore, Mo. Moore struck out...

Following a weekend in which they found the back of the net once in three games, the Poplar Bluff Mules soccer team got goals from six different players in their home opener Tuesday. Alex Ketcherside and Hayden Pinderski each scored twice while Ketcherside added an early assist in Poplar Bluff’s 8-0 win over St. Paul Lutheran at Mules Stadium...

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...

Molly Conrad hammered seven kills as the fourth-seeded Meadow Heights Panthers rallied and bounced back after dropping the first set to stave off an upset from a determined fifth-seeded Oak Ridge Blue Jays squad and prevailed (14-25, 25-13, 25-13) in the quarterfinals of the Woodland Invitational Tournament...

BENTON, Mo. — In a rematch from the Class 2 Sectionals one year ago, the Kelly softball team held its home-opener against East Carter at Kelly High School. Kelly Ivy allowed two earned run, on seven hits. She walked one batter and struck out one, and was the loser in the decision...

History was made on Thursday for the inaugural Saxony Lutheran girls tennis program. But it was made on another school's turf. The Crusaders posted an 8-1 victory over Charleston on Thursday at Cape Girardeau Central High School as Saxony does not yet have a tennis court on its campus in Fruitland. The Crusaders are fielding both a varsity and junior varsity tennis team for the first time in the school's history...

UNION, Mo. — Poplar Bluff overcame a three-goal deficit but a penalty kick sank the Mules 4-3 in their season opener at Union. The Wildcats led 3-1 at halftime but Poplar Bluff tied it on a penalty kick by Alex Ketcherside for the junior's second goal...

SIKESTON — Four days ago, both the Sikeston and Anna-Jonesboro boys soccer teams’ played against each other the final day of the Carbondale Invitational. The Bulldogs fell to the Wildcats 3-0, ending a three-game span where they fell 12-0. Moving to Tuesday night — where the two teams met again at the Sikeston Recreation Complex — and there was more than enough scoring between the two teams, as the Wildcats upended the Bulldogs 4-2...

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. ...

Jake Unterreiner recorded one goal and one assist as the Perryville boys soccer team kicked off its season with a vengeful 3-0 shutout of Waterloo, Ill., in Friday's opening round of the Eighth Annual Greg Kline Invitational Tournament in Carbondale, Illinois...

The Poplar Bluff soccer team has been working on conditioning so much during the preseason that one of the players thought they could keep up with the cross country team. The soccer Mules met the challenge earlier this week, running a workout with the cross country team on the track...

SIKESTON — On the heels of an 11-13 season, the Sikeston boys soccer team looks to improve its record with a much younger unit on the pitch this fall. After losing starters Bryce Miller, Adam Comstock, and Jeffery Thornbrough to graduation, the Bulldogs are looking for a new identity...

PERRYVILLE, Mo. - Perryville coach Jerry Fulton has been walking the sidelines of a soccer field for a quarter-century, which was long enough to know that his Pirates were going to have some growing pains a year ago when he had an incredibly young squad. However, those athletes are now “a year older and a year bigger,” which has Fulton excited about THIS boys’ season.

Coach: Jared Dobbs Experience: Fourth year coaching soccer at Central, seventh year overall. In the past: Lost 6-1 to Farmington in the Class 3 District 1 championship game in 2018 They're back: Kaya Newkirk, Lucas Grammar, TK Ayers, Jack Zhong, Zach Moore, Nate Albertson, Zach Mattison...

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.

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.

Before her freshman year at Notre Dame Regional High School, Megan Heisserer knew she and her friends were going to have success. What they didn't realize then was how good they could be. Four years later, Heisserer has wrapped up a magnificent high school soccer career that included four district championships, three Class 2 final four appearances and state titles as a sophomore and senior. She did it alongside teammates she grew up playing with, from the second grade onwards...

Meet the 12 selections to the All-Southeast Missourian girls soccer team

Another successful spring sports season has concluded, and awards have been doled out to student-athletes in the Southeast Missourian's coverage area. Notre Dame girls soccer won its second Class 2 state championship in three seasons, and other teams, such as Saxony Lutheran baseball and St. Vincent girls soccer, also advanced to the final four...

Sikeston’s Emily Boyd earned All-State Honorable Mention honors for the 2019 season. Boyd, a center-defender, was a stout defender for the Lady Bulldogs. “She is one who always leaves her all on the field, and we can always count on her to lead by example,” Sikeston head coach Gabe Dement said. “She earned the award as a result of hard work and dedication to the team.”...

The list of Semoball Awards finalists is complete. In Tuesday's selection show streamed exclusively on Facebook, the 45 spring sport finalists were revealed, along with the Lifetime Achievement Award winner, 13 nominees in Coach of the Year, Comeback Player of the Year and Best of Sportsmanship...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Tears were on the faces of the Notre Dame girls soccer seniors following the Class 2 state championship game. The Bulldogs had just won their second state title in three seasons, but it was a bittersweet triumph for the group of eight who grew up playing club soccer with one another...

SIKESTON — Running has been in Sikeston senior Emma Jones’ DNA for seemingly her entire life. Starting on the pitch, Jones was a standout for the Lady Bulldogs soccer team for the past three years. “I played everything from club soccer, indoor soccer, to summer tournaments,” Jones said. ...