Soccer

The Jackson boys golf team cruised to victory at the SEMO Conference Tournament on Monday at Foxhaven golf course in Sikeston, Missouri. The Indians finished with a team score of 301, 26 strokes better than second place Dexter's 327 and had three golfers finish in the top five at the tournament as Carsen Silliman took home the individual championship with an even par 71. Case Englehart tied for 2nd with a three-over 74, and Seth Waters finished 5th with a six-over 77...

SIKESTON — Marion, Ill., got off to a quick start in Monday’s matchup with Sikeston at the Sikeston Recreation Complex. The Lady Wildcats scored nine minutes into the game, and then again one minute later to grab a 2-0 lead early on. Senior Marissa Basi scored both of the goals for Marion, starting a rough night for the Lady Bulldogs — who fell 9-0...

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. — Sophie Rowland nearly earned a double hat trick. The senior midfielder for Poplar Bluff scored five goals against Springfield Parkview as the Mules won 6-3 to earn their first win since their season opener. “It was a good win for us, good for morale going into next week,” said Poplar Bluff coach Rusty Crafton, highlighting Monday’s matchup against Jackson...

SIKESTON — Thursday was not the game, or conditions, that the Sikeston girls team had in mind. The Lady Bulldogs fell to district foe Farmington 3-0, in sloppy and cold conditions at the Sikeston Recreation Complex. Riley Turner scored the first goal for the Knightettes 21 minutes into the contest. Anna Morrow then added two goals to the cause, tallying the first at the 37-minute mark, and the second in the 77th minute...

The Advance baseball team broke a tie with two runs in the bottom of the sixth and held on for a 6-4 win over Bernie to claim the Stoddard County Activities Association championship on Wednesday in Advance, Missouri. Layton Keith got the win in relief for the Hornets (11-3), giving up one run in 3 1/3 innings while Noah Sauceda had a team-high three hits...

The Notre Dame girls track team picked up the team win at the Sikeston Invitational Bulldogs Relays on Tuesday. The Bulldogs beat out 14 teams to take home first-place honors. Notre Dame won by a comfortable margin as it finished with 152 points and the runners up Carbondale finished with a distant 118 points...

CHARLESTON, Mo. — Nate and Nolan Self each had impressive outings for the Sikeston baseball team on Tuesday, at Hillhouse Park in Charleston, Mo. Nate went 2-for-4 with four RBI, on a triple and a double. Nolan went 2-for-3, with four RBI as well. Nolan also hit a triple and a home run to go with it, in Sikeston’s 18-5 five-inning win over Charleston...

Gabe Hurley hit a double and drove in two runs as the Notre Dame baseball team scored a run in all but one inning and blanked crosstown conference rival Cape Girardeau Central 9-0 on Thursday. Brayden Eftink went six innings on the mound to earn the win for the Bulldogs (9-4, 3-1 SEMO Conference). He gave up no runs on three hits, retired 10 batters and walked two...

ANNA, Ill. — Sikeston scored at will on Friday, in the opening round of the Fralish Cup at Bleyer Field in Anna, Ill. The Lady Bulldogs defeated host-Anna 7-2. Karris Allen, Kelsie Anderson, Megan Witt, Chelsie Moore, and Jordi James all netted goals for Sikeston (4-5). Allen, Megan Witt, Anderson, and Moore all contributed with assists as well...

HANNIBAL, Mo. — Poplar Bluff got its senior midfielder back in the lineup, but wasn’t nearly enough against St. Charles West. The Mules lost 10-0 in their first game at the Hannibal Lady Pirate Invitational and will play again at 9 a.m. Saturday, which will be the Lady Mules’ ninth game since April 2...

DELTA, Mo. — Grant Coomer and Devon Medley each doubled to pace the Bobcats in their five-inning loss at home to the Blue Jays. Tristan Johnson lasted one inning on the mound and was charged with the loss for Delta (1-9). He allowed four unearned runs on no hits and walked three batters...

BONNE TERRE, Mo. — Poplar Bluff’s Sierra Sievers got her first goal of the season while playing forward in the first half for the Mules. Normally a starting second back, Sievers has played up top recently to try and improve the offense. In the first half, Madalyn Berry passed a through ball and to split the defense. Sievers made a run from off the ball and shot to the right corner for a goal...

The Perryville Pirates came out victorous over the Scott City Rams 6-3 in eight innings in high school baseball Wednesday in Scott City. Perryville pushed one run across in the first, fourth, and fifth innings and led 3-1 at the end of five. Scott City got a run apiece in the sixth and seventh innings to push the game into extra innings...

NEW MADRID, Mo. — New Madrid County Central held on to a 2-1 lead through four innings of play. The late innings, though, came to back to bite the Eagles as Scott city scored 11 unanswered runs to run away with a 12-3 win over NMCC. John Michael Stanley and Caden Howell each had impressive days for the Eagles. Stanley went 2-for-3, while Howell went 2-for-4...

Poplar Bluff was able to hold Notre Dame at bay for 20 minutes, but the Lady Bulldogs’ first goal quickly led to a second, and eventually many more. Notre Dame beat Poplar Bluff 10-0 Thursday at Mules Stadium, scoring the final goal with 8:44 left in the second half and ending the game early...

ANNA, Ill. — Kelsie Anderson, Chelsie Moore, and Karris Allen all scored goals for the Sikeston girls soccer team on Tuesday. The Lady Bulldogs defeated Anna-Jonesboro on the road, 3-0, earning their second shutout of the season and limiting Anna-Jonesboro to one shot...

BENTON, Mo. — Bryce Phelps hit a walk-off double as the Kelly baseball team edged Woodland 3-2 on Monday in Benton, Missouri. The Cardinals (4-3) tied the game in the top of the seventh when Rafe Johnson hit a solo home run, but the Hawks responded in the bottom of the frame...

Natalie Miller scored a goal and had one assist as the Indians picked up their second win in the 18th Annual Parkway College Showcase at the Lou Fusz Soccer Complex in the suburban St. Louis area. Abby Klund and Mik Liley sank the other goals for Jackson (4-0) while Grace Crowden and Olivia Ward had one assist apiece...

Paul Scherer and A.J. Stroup slammed seven kills apiece to lead the Notre Dame boys volleyball team to a 25-16, 27-25 sweep of host Oakville in the suburban St. Louis area. John Scherer contributed six kills for Notre Dame (4-2). Jamie Barnes dished out 22 assists for the Bulldogs while Tanner Peters tallied eight digs and Kennedy Mansfield notched seven digs...

BENTON, Mo. — Sophomore Jordi James scored the first two goals of her varsity career on Wednesday, as the Sikeston girls soccer team upended Kelly 3-2. Emily Boyd also scored on a penalty kick goal, while Audrey Vogel and Jade Davis finished with assists...

SIKESTON – A pair of early Notre Dame goals put the Sikeston Lady Bulldogs in a hole they couldn’t climb out of Thursday afternoon as they looked to climb back to .500 on the season. After going without a shot on goal in the first half Sikeston missed on their two chances in the second half, falling 5-0 to undefeated Notre Dame...

Sophomore Austin Gast had another big day for the Bulldogs, blasting a home run, a double and driving in five runs as the Notre Dame baseball team trounced visiting Fredericktown 20-10 in six innings to send the Black Cats home with their first loss of the season in Thursday's slugfest...

ST. CHARLES, Mo. — A scoreless game until the fourth inning, the Sikeston baseball team battled with Francis-Howell at Francis-Howell High School, in St. Charles, Mo., on Monday. A pair of runs crossed the plate for the Vikings, though, in the frame, and an additional four came across in the following inning, as Francis-Howell defeated the Bulldogs 6-0 in the first day of the 23rd Annual St. Louis Midwest Classic...

The Chaffee baseball team gave it all it had in its second game of the day against Portageville but watched as a wild pitch delivered the walk-off win for the Bulldogs in a 4-3 decision in eight innings Tuesday in Portageville, Missouri. Andrew Brown was on the mound when the Bulldogs scored and took the loss for the Red Devils...

Spring. A time when flowers blooms, rain falls in copious amounts and new high school sports seasons begin. Basketball is a thing of the past, at least until November. The focus turns to outdoor activities with baseball, softball, track and field, boys tennis and golf and girls soccer, now underway. Can't forget the Notre Dame boys volleyball team, either...

BENTON, Mo. — Bryce Phelps led the Kelly baseball team to a 4-3 comeback win on Friday. Phelps got the game-winning single in the bottom of the seventh, as the Hawks erased a four-run deficit in two innings of work. After pitching lights out through five, East Prairie’s Carson Aycock struggled to finish the game. He went 6 1/3 innings, giving up seven hits on four earned runs and eight strikeouts...

SIKESTON — Through two games played, the Sikeston girls soccer team has yet to score a goal in regulation. On Thursday night, the game was scoreless at the end of regulation, and without any extra time needed, Poplar Bluff and Sikeston went straight to penalty kicks, with the Lady Bulldogs prevailing for a 3-2 win...

SIKESTON — Tuesday’s opener was not what the Sikeston girls soccer team envisioned. The Lady Bulldogs dropped the first game of the season to district-foe North County 1-0, at the Sikeston Recreation Complex. With the game tied after 40 minutes of action, the start of the second half was all that the Lady Raiders needed to take the lone lead...

Tanner Walton carded a one-under-par 34 to earn medalist honors as the Jackson boys golf team opened its season with a win over Notre Dame and Cape Girardeau Central on Tuesday at Kimbeland Country Club. Case Engelhart followed up with an even-par 35 for Jackson, which finished 32 strokes ahead of the Bulldogs for the victory...

MEADOW HEIGHTS, Mo. — Kade Lindgren touched base three of his four times at bat as the Panthers rallied in the final inning but could not overcome a seven-run deficit to fall to the undefeated Eagles on the road. Trae Davis pitched 3 1/3 innings to be marked with the loss for Meadow Heights (0-4). He gave up nine runs (eight earned) on nine hits, walked three batters and struck out one...

After shutting out West Plains in their season-opener Friday, Poplar Bluff faced much tougher competition in their second game. Seckman consistently overloaded the right side of the field and had 25 shots to Poplar Bluff 5 as it went on to beat the Mules 5-1 at Poplar Bluff...

A week ago, Mik Liley was preparing for a Class 5 girls basketball quarterfinal contest. Fast-forward to Friday, and the multi-sport athlete was on the soccer pitch -- not the hardwood -- where she led the Indians to a season-opening win. Liley assisted on the game's opening goal and scored another as Jackson girls soccer cruised to a 2-0 win over Parkway South at Jackson Junior High School. ...

WEST PLAINS — Poplar Bluff opened its season with a shutout win. Against a much improved West Plains team, which Poplar Bluff mercy-ruled 10-0 early in the second half last year, the young Lady Mules squad won 2-0. “I thought we had a great first game. I thought West Plains give credit to them, they are a much-improved team because the past two years, we put 20 goals on them,” Poplar Bluff coach Rusty Crafton said. “They are much improved and I told their coach that.”...

SIKESTON — A new dynamic surrounds the 2019 Sikeston girls soccer team this season. With a lot of question marks and unknowns going into the campaign, head coach Gabe Dement is using that as an opportunity to see what his new group can do. “I think finding out some of what our new girls are made of and finding out what kind of leaders our experienced girls can be is going to be what kind of year this will be based on,” Dement said. ...

A day after scoring a team-high 16 points in a basketball district semifinal win, Notre Dame senior Megan Heisserer put pen to paper to sign a National Letter of Intent with Southeast Missouri State -- in women's soccer. The three-sport athlete will concentrate on soccer at the next level, adding more local talent to the hometown program's roster. ...

SIKESTON — Sikeston’s Jeffery Thornbrough signed to continue his soccer career at Jefferson College in Hillsboro, Mo., on Friday. Thornbrough was a three-year starter for the Bulldog’s soccer team, scoring 25 goals during that time. His best season came in his junior campaign when he had 13 goals...

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...

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...

SIKESTON — Four Sikeston soccer players earned All-District honors, on Monday. Seniors Jeffery Thornbrough, Adam Comstock, and Bryce Miller, and junior Clark Steward all received honors. Thornbrough and Steward were First-Team All-District selections, while Comstock and Miller were Honorable Mention selections...

Despite a spirited effort, Jackson boys soccer will have to wait another year to end its quarterfinal drought. The Indians fell 1-0 to DeSmet in a Class 4 sectional on Tuesday in St. Louis. A second-half goal from Matt Russo doomed Jackson (18-5-2) to a third consecutive defeat at the sectional round. Logan Payne got the shutout for DeSmet...

A repeat final four trip proved just out of the reach of the Saxony Lutheran boys soccer team. The Crusaders dropped a home Class 1 quarterfinal against Principia 1-0 at Shawnee Park on Saturday evening. With the win, Principia (9-7) advances to the state semifinals and will play Fair Grove at 4 p.m. Friday in Fenton, Missouri...

Saturday afternoon's Class 2 boys soccer state quarterfinal game at Notre Dame Regional High School got started about 30 minutes late due to a breakdown of the visiting John Burroughs team bus en route to Cape Girardeau. Once the Bombers got on the field, there were no breakdowns, despite serious second-half pressure from the Bulldogs as Burroughs held off the hosts 2-1 to advance to the final four...

IMPERIAL, Mo. -- There was no panic, no uneasiness on the Jackson boys soccer sideline. After all, the Indians had been practicing for this exact moment since preseason practice began more than two months ago. Now was the chance to put all that work to use...

SIKESTON — Controlling the pace of play has been just what the doctor ordered for the Farmington soccer team this season. They continued that on Thursday, in the Class 3, District 1 championship game at the Sikeston Recreation Complex, in Sikeston. Behind six goals — four coming in the second half — the Knights were able to stay aggressive for the entire match; defeating Cape Central 6-1...

Zachary Moore scored late in the second half as the Cape Central boys soccer team beat North County 2-1 on Tuesday in Sikeston, Missouri, to advance to the Class 3 District 1 championship. With the district semifinal win, the second-seeded Tigers (11-11) avenged an Oct. 24 loss to the third-seeded Raiders and advanced to a district final for the first time since 2012. They will fae No. 1 Farmington in the final at 6 p.m. Thursday...

MEHLVILLE, Mo. -- Scoring the first goal in an elimination game is always beneficial. Scoring it 10 seconds before halftime proved to be insurmountable. Henry Traxel scored with just 10 seconds left in the first half, then assisted on Brent Vandeven's goal early in the second, propelling Notre Dame boys soccer to a 2-0 sectional win over Bayless on Tuesday, and advancing the Bulldogs to the state quarterfinals for the first time since 2010...

SIKESTON — Going into their match on Tuesday evening, the Sikeston soccer team knew that Farmington was going to be a challenge. Losing to the Knights at the beginning of October 10-1, Sikeston also knew what they had to do defensively to come away with the upset victory over the top seed in the Class 3, District 1 Tournament...

SIKESTON — Gearing up and ready to get another postseason run started, the Sikeston soccer team will take on top-seeded Farmington on Tuesday night, at the Sikeston Recreation Complex. The Bulldogs enter the Class 3, District 1 Tournament, as the No. 4 seed. They finished with an 11-12 record, but are winners of its last two games — both on the road...

The top-seeded Saxony Lutheran boys soccer team won its fifth consecutive district title on Wednesday with its 4-0 victory over second-seeded McKinley Classical Leadership Academy in the Class 1 District 1 Tournament at Engler Park in Farmington, Mo. The Crusaders...