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The 2020 Semoball Awards will be conducted in a "virtual" fashion on Facebook Live on July 11 at 7 p.m. Here is a list of the 2019-20 Winter Sports Finalists for the 2020 Semoball Awards. 2019-20 Winter Semoball Nominees Taydrianna Barnett, Sikeston...

Cooter senior Jake Faulkner had an academic-first thought process when he decided to attend Mississippi State University in Starkville, Mississippi. “Mississippi State is one of the Top 5 engineering schools in the nation and when I went for a tour it felt like a place I wanted to call home for few years,” Faulkner said. “It has a great student environment with lots of things to do inside and outside of classroom.”...

Craig Rodgers is no stranger to Hayti Indians athletics. Since arriving on the scene to teach at Hayti in 2016 Rodgers has coached girls basketball, track and field, and served as an assistant varsity football coach. Rodgers recently learned he would have the opportunity to take on additional responsibilities at Hayti. The Hayti Board of Education named Rodgers its new athletic director at its regularly scheduled meeting in May...

Kennett High School didn’t look far to find its next boys basketball coach. The Kennett Board of Education approved the hiring of Dunklin County native Corbin Clark as its new varsity boys basketball coach at its regularly scheduled meeting Tuesday night...

Good Sports is a column featured weekly in the Southeast Missourian and on semoball.com. It is primarily designed to showcase people who have impacted the sporting life of Southeast Missouri, so that readers may get to know them more fully. Responses have been edited for clarity and brevity...

The Kennett Indians will have a new varsity boys basketball coach next school year. The Kennett Board of Education accepted the resignation of varsity boys basketball coach Andrew Halford at Tuesday’s regularly scheduled meeting. “It was a very hard decision to make because the kids I had a chance to work with and be around at Kennett were great, hard-working kids,” Halford said. ...

Each year the Semoball Awards recognizes outstanding high school athletes from around the region. That tradition continues this summer albeit in a different format because of lingering COVID-19 concerns and social distancing requirements.

CHAFFEE — Canceling the 2020 baseball season left every team, most notably senior athletes, without a chance to compete for their schools one last time.

Several assistant coaches at Kennett are shifting positions following Tuesday’s school board meeting. Noll Billings will be the new assistant varsity boys basketball coach at Kennett. Connor Gahr, who served as the assistant varsity boys basketball coach last season, is transitioning to the wrestling program and will be the new assistant varsity wrestling coach...

CHARLESTON, Mo. — Charleston guard Ashanti Jones found her future college program after a senior season that didn’t end quite as she wanted. Jones signed her National Letter of Intent to Mineral Area College in Park Hills, Mo. What attracted Jones the most to the school, was the love from her future teammates and coaching staff, along with where she fits in the system...

The 2020 Semoball Awards will be conducted in a "virtual" fashion on Facebook Live on July 11 at 7 p.m. Here is a list of the 2019-20 Winter Sports Finalists for the 2020 Semoball Awards. 2019-20 Winter Semoball Nominees Taydrianna Barnett, Sikeston...

The sport of swimming is notorious not just for the level of physical work put in by those who compete in it, but the amount of training is just as important.

Good Sports is a column featured weekly in the Southeast Missourian and on semoball.com. It is primarily designed to showcase people who have impacted the sporting life of Southeast Missouri, so that readers may get to know them more fully. Responses have been edited for clarity and brevity...

CHAFFEE — Canceling the 2020 baseball season left every team, most notably senior athletes, without a chance to compete for their schools one last time.