Softball

This spring, three area high school teams won state championships. With the success came accolades. Numerous local student-athletes earned recognition, including all-state honors. On the baseball diamond, Bell City won its third straight Class 1 state championship. Along the way, five Cubs earned all-state distinctions...

Ten months after the high school sports calendar began, we now know all 148 of our on-field nominees for the 2017 Semoball Awards. On Friday, the spring sport finalists for baseball, softball, girls soccer, boys and girls track and field, golf and boys tennis for the event -- to be held Saturday, July 8, at the Bedell Performance Center at Southeast Missouri State's River Campus -- were announced as part of a live selection show on SEMO ESPN Radio...

KENNETT, Mo. -- Two innings earlier, Scott City softball had been down to its last out when one swing of the bat erased a three-run deficit and sent the game into extras. In the bottom of the ninth, the game again hung in the balance, but the situation was different. With no outs, Kennett had the potential game-winning run at third...

MALDEN, Mo. -- To reach a fourth straight sectional, the Scott City softball relied on its patience at the plate. It wasn't the usual approach for a team that loves to hit, but it worked. In Monday's sectional, the Rams got back to their roots as they pounded out 14 hits in an 11-5 win over Malden at the Malden Sports Complex...

A pair of guests, plus Phillip Suitts in studio to talk baseball (and softball) playoffs.

ADVANCE, Mo. -- Scott City softball had already overcame two deficits and led by four runs entering the final inning. A district championship wasn't going to come easy, though. Oran quickly whittled that advantage down to two and had the tying run on second base with no outs...

ADVANCE, Mo. -- With Scott City softball leading Oran 5-3 after two innings in the Class 1 District 4 tournament championship, play was suspended Wednesday afternoon due to wet field conditions at Advance City Park. Rain started coming down in the top of the second inning and continued off and on until the game was halted heading into the third frame...

Jonathan Bell and D.J. Lynch each carded a 10-over-par 81 as the Notre Dame boys golf team won the Class 3 District 1 tournament championship for the second year in a row on Tuesday at the Fox Haven Country Club in Sikeston, Mo. The Bulldogs all finished below 90 as the defending district champions edged Farmington by five strokes in the team standings to come away with the district championship. Nicholas Westrich shot a one-over-par 82 to earn the medalist honors for the Knights...

Layne Johnson held the Bulldogs to six hits on the mound, as the Oran baseball team knocked off Sikeston 10-2 on Thursday in Sikeston, Missouri. Johnson threw 6 2/3 innings and allowed two earned runs, striking out seven batters and walking two. Drew Reischman secured the final out for the Eagles...

Ben Womack hit two doubles and batted in two runs but it was ultimately not enough as the Notre Dame baseball team was unable to erase a five-run deficit and fell just one run short in a 5-4 loss to host Sikeston on Tuesday, dropping a crucial conference game that awarded the regular-season SEMO Conference championship to Poplar Bluff...

Notre Dame's Jonathan Bell carded a six-over-par 77 to tie for second individually, as the Bulldogs finished 16 strokes behind champion Poplar Bluff to receive second place Monday in the SEMO Conference Boys Golf Tournament at Fox Haven Country Club in Sikeston, Missouri...

The Scott City softball team had a 2-0 lead after six innings and a chance for a major confidence boost with the postseason right around the corner. Then things fell apart. Leading defending Class 1 fall softball state champion Van Buren by two runs with just three outs to go, the Rams gave up five hits and five runs in the top of the seventh to fall to the visiting Bulldogs 5-2 on Tuesday at Scott City High School...

For a group of 12th-graders at two local high schools, this season is especially special. Delta seniors will be representing their school on the softball diamond for the first time in years, and after years of waiting Bell City has a team. At both schools, seniors led the charge to form a team, recruiting others and building support...

Notre Dame girls soccer got a golden-goal winner in extra time from Megan Heisserer to get past Saxony Lutheran 3-2 in a conference matchup on Wednesday in Jackson, Missouri. It was a fourth straight overtime game for the Crusaders and a second extra-time loss in as many days...

Clay Sauceda hit a solo home run, but the Oran baseball team wasn't to fend off a determined Portageville squad, as the Eagles dropped a 7-6 decision to the Bulldogs on Tuesday in Oran, Missouri. Drew Reischman went 2 1/3 innings on the mound to be tagged with the loss for Oran (6-2). He gave up four runs (one earned) on three hits and had one strikeout and one walk. He also added a double at the plate...

Trent Unterreiner hit a double to record the only extra-base hit of the game, as the Perryville baseball team tallied a run in the final inning to eke out a 2-1 win over the Bearcats on Saturday at Ste. Genevieve, Missouri. Garrett Dix went the distance on the mound to earn the win for Perryville. He allowed one earned run and recorded nine strikeouts and four walks...

Kelly baseball got a walk-off hit from Nathan Vicenzi as the Hawks edged visiting St. Vincent 5-4 with a rally in the bottom of the seventh inning. Kyle Fitzgerald went the distance on the mound to take the win for Kelly (4-6). He gave up four earned runs, struck out five and walked three...

The Kennett softball team finally met its match as undefeated Oran flew out to a 3-0 lead and hung on to win 4-1, dealing the Indians their first loss of the season on Friday at Indian Park in Kennett, Missouri. Oran took a 1-0 lead when Kaylee Payne hit a solo home run in the top of the third inning. The Eagles extended their lead to 3-0 when Leah Cauble hit a two-run homer in the top of the fifth inning...