Softball

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...

It's an understatement to call Jackson softball coach Shawn Wilding confident about the Class 4 District 1 Tournament, which begins today in Farmington. "There's no doubt we can win (it)," Wilding said. "This is probably the best team I've ever had."...

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.

MALDEN, Mo. — Behind strong defense and effective serving, the Sikeston volleyball team defeated Malden in straight-sets, 25-10, 25-19. The Bulldogs served 12 aces, blocked seven shots, and had 30 digs in the match. Emma-Claire Self and Emily McHaffie each had three aces. Khrystionna Swann, Taydrianna Barnett, and Alivia Cobb each had two...

Cape Girardeau Central's Emily Ford and Megan Maxton paired up to win the doubles competition at the Class 2 District 1 Individuals Tournament on Thursday in girls tennis at Cape Girardeau Central High School. The duo downed two of their fellow teammates, Anita Kellum and Maria Seidu-Sofo, 6-1 each set to win the doubles championship...

Jackson sophomore Kaydi Rhodes shot a 1-under-par 71 on Wednesday at The Links at Dardenne in O'Fallon, Missouri, to lead the school's girls golf program to its first district title. Rhodes finished four strokes ahead of Lindbergh's Sofia Gamayo to earn the medalist at the Class 2 District 1 tournament...

NEELYVILLE — Poplar Bluff put together another late rally Wednesday, overcoming a two-run deficit in the sixth inning for a 9-5 win over Neelyville. The Mules scored five runs in the sixth to pull ahead a day after pulling even in the sixth before losing in extra innings on Senior Day to Kelly. Their previous two wins also featured late comebacks with seven-run innings...

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. ...

NAYLOR — A late-inning defensive stand set the stage for a dramatic walk-off win Tuesday afternoon as the Naylor Lady Eagles defeated the Doniphan Donettes 8-7 in eight innings in a matchup of Ripley County rivals. With the score tied at 7-7 in the top of the eighth inning, Doniphan had Catie Donaldson and Karlee Harder on second and third with nobody out...

PORTAGEVILLE, Mo. — Winners of its last four matches, the Sikeston volleyball team traveled to Portageville on Tuesday night, hoping to make five-straight victories. Sikeston got just that, as they swept Portageville 25-19, 25-16. Emily McHaffie led the team with eight kills and tied for the team-lead with 11 digs. Khrystionna Swann also had 11 digs...

SIKESTON — Four Sikeston softball seniors got honored in between the varsity and junior varsity games against North County on Monday. Naudia Lazcano, Emma Drury, Megan Witt, and Miranda Bartlett are the seniors on the team this season. Lazcano drove in the only two runs for the Bulldogs, on the double in the seventh inning. Bartlett and Drury scored on the extra-base hit, as Sikeston (8-10) fell to North County (17-5) 8-2...

CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. — Jaden Deaton ran his fastest time of the season Saturday but finished second at the 18th annual Notre Dame Invitational. Notre Dame senior Blake Morris won the 5,000-meter race in 15 minutes, 52.18 seconds followed by Deaton in 16:31...

CLEARWATER 10, WOODLAND 3 Ahead 1-0 going into the fourth inning, the Tigers (9-2) scored in each of the final four innings to score 10 runs on 12 hits. Karson Fay was 3 for 3 with three runs, a double and an RBI as Clearwater’s leadoff hitter. Gage Keller tripled and was 3 for 3 with three RBIs and a run. Trey Rivas doubled and drove in two runs while Jackson Eaton scored twice...

POPLAR BLUFF — Lizzy Turk's two-out, bases-loaded slap hit put enough spin on the ball that it appeared to spin out of the third baseman's glove. The left-handed hitting junior gave Cape Central the lead in the top of the seventh Thursday afternoon when her cue-ball hit eluded the hot-corner's pocket and spun along the third-base line...

SIKESTON — A 10-error game cost the Sikeston softball team from a win on Thursday afternoon against Kelly. The Bulldogs committed 10 errors in the game, as the Hawks went on to win 8-1. All of Kelly’s runs were unearned. Four different Kelly players earned multiple hits in the game...

Kennett's Kobe Patterson and Twin Rivers' Whitney Williams were voted the Semoball.com Athletes of the Week in online voting that concluded Wednesday. Patterson, who had 413 votes in the boys balloting, finished first at the Van Buren Invitational cross country meet Sept. ...

CHAFFEE, Mo. — It took longer than expected for the Sikeston softball team’s offense to start clicking. Trailing 3-1 heading into the fifth inning, the Bulldogs struggled to find a way to push runners across the plate. However, a six-run frame ended any doubt of a defeat, as Sikeston (8-8) overcame an inconsistent offensive showing early to win 7-4, at Frisco Park, in Chaffee, Mo...

FREDERICKTOWN, Mo. — Rebounding from a bad showing against Jackson on Monday, the Sikeston softball team returned to the diamond on Tuesday, when it took on Fredericktown on the road. The Bulldogs won 13-3, thanks to Emma Drury’s 2-for-3 and four RBI evening. Nayla Bonner finished with three RBIs, Julia Spurlock had two, and Hailey Cantrell also added one for Sikeston (4-5)...

Notre Dame greeted October with a 16-0 five-inning softball triumph over host Cape Girardeau Central on Tuesday. It was the second time this season the Bulldogs had put up that many runs against the Tigers, posting a 16-3 win Sept. 5. Hailey Kutz got the win, striking out four, walking none, and giving up two hits -- one each in the third and fourth innings...

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 St. Vincent Indians managed to shake off a drubbing in the second set to win a close third set and pick up a 25-23, 8-25, 26-24 home victory over Ste. Genevieve in volleyball. St. Vincent (3-8-3) was led to the win by Hannah Riney and Grace Schremp. ...

BENTON, Mo. — Down a run with two outs in the seventh inning Monday, the Poplar Bluff softball team rallied to score four times. McKenzie Smith tied the game with a line drive to left field, Serena Davis followed with a go-ahead double before Breann Thresher and Sarah Taylor drove in runs for a 5-2 Poplar Bluff road win...

Catching is said to be the hardest position to fill on any youth baseball or softball team.

ELLSINORE — East Carter’s Makenna Moore threw a three-inning perfecct game against Fredericktown on Monday. Moore struck out five and only needed 35 pitches in the 15-0 win. East Carter (15-5) scored four runs in the first inning and 11 in the second. Elizabeth Crowley scored three times as the top four batters of the Redbird roster scored nine runs. Moore, Hailey Brown and PJ Gholson all had three RBIs...

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.

CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. — Sikeston opened the 29th Jackson Invitational with an 8-2 win over Doniphan at Shawnee Park Sports Complex on Saturday morning. The Bulldogs got off to a fast start after base hits from Naudia Lazcano, Nayla Bonner, Emma Drury, and Julia Spurlock wound up scoring a pair of runs...

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 Notre Dame tennis team prevailed in a meeting of unbeatens, rolling past Potosi 9-0 at the Brother David Anthony Migliorino Tennis Complex on Wednesday.

POPLAR BLUFF — The Mules gobbled up 13 ground balls for outs Tuesday while Jackson fielders tracked down 13 fly balls as Poplar Bluff's offense was stonewalled a day after scoring a season-high nine runs. Kylie Darrow provided the timely hit, Sierra Burch had the big blast and Karlie Johnson tossed a two-hit shutout as Jackson beat the Mules 3-0 at Bobby Strenfel Field...

NEELYVILLE, Mo. — Six different Sikeston softball players collected multiple hits in Tuesday’s 14-10 win over Neelyville. Jordi James, Megan Witt, Emma Drury, Nayla Bonner, Sarah Keller, and Sydney Burton each had two hits for the Bulldogs. Both Drury and Bonner drove in a pair of runs as well, as the Bulldogs exploded for 16 hits...

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...

DONIPHAN — There was only one inning where nobody scored, and only four frames with a zero. Twin Rivers and Doniphan combined for 20 runs in a back and forth game that had just one lead change, but both teams seemed to be perpetually in a jam due to walks and errors. The Royals ultimately made one final defensive stand to win 11-9 on Monday in Doniphan...

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.

The St. Vincent football team evened its season record with its second consecutive win Friday, posting a 35-0 road victory over Herculaneum.

SIKESTON — The Sikeston girls tennis team dropped its match to Kennett on Thursday. The Bulldogs got swept in every singles and doubles match. In singles matches, Mackenzie Conway lost to Anelle Harris. Isabel Collins fell to Taylor Hufford while Claudia Santos lost to Kamryn Jaco. Audrey Phillips defeated Quinn Riley, Zakyirrah Montjoy lost to Molly McClain, and Katelin Taber fell to Carley Winston to round out singles’ competition...

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. ...

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...

BENTON, Mo. — A barrage of runs crossed the plate, in the first inning, for the Kelly softball team on Wednesday afternoon. 12 Hawks scored after the first frame against Cape Central, giving Kelly a much-needed boost, in its 13-3 win in five innings, at Thomas W. Kelly High School...

Lexi Rubel and Natalie Timpe nailed seven kills apiece as the Notre Dame volleyball quickly rebounded after dropping the first set to come away with a 23-25, 25-19, 25-18 win over Ste. Genevieve on Tuesday in Cape Girardeau. Rylee McClintock...

The second time through Notre Dame’s lineup proved to be a difficult task Tuesday afternoon for the Poplar Bluff softball team. The Bulldogs scored nine times in the third inning and added a five-run fifth to beat the Mules 16-1 at Bobby Strenfel Field...

CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. — Megan Witt and Emma Drury came up big in a clutch situation on Tuesday night against Cape Central. After Sarah Keller led off the sixth inning with a single, and Jordi James and Naudia Lazcano were promptly hit by pitches, Witt gave Sikeston the 6-5 lead on a sacrifice fly...

SIKESTON — Down one run and three outs to work with, the Sikeston softball team leaned on freshman Nayla Bonner to finish off the game for the Bulldogs. Bonner, who came in to relieve senior Emma Drury after 5 2/3 innings, came into the bottom of the sixth with the bases loaded. She proceeded to strike out Bella Galloway to end the threat...

DONIPHAN — East Carter got hits from seven different spots in the lineup and runs from nine different players as it beat Doniphan 11-1 in five innings on Tuesday. Naomi Crowly, PJ Gholson, Kennedy Thies and Audrey Carter all had two hits, while Crowley and Carter both scored twice, and Thies and Hailey Brown both had two RBIs...

Aiden Blessing hit a double and drove in two runs as the St. Vincent softball team clinched its first win of the fall season in its 12-2 victory over Saxony Lutheran in six innings on Monday in its home opener in Perryville, Mo. Grace Heberlie...

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...