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SIKESTON — Former Sikeston guard Parker Long is heading back to the area. Long announced on Twitter Saturday that he had committed to Southeast Missouri State University and first-year men’s basketball coach Brad Korn.

SIKESTON — Below is a list compiled of the Standard-Democrat area’s 12 best boys’ basketball players — outside of the player of the year. Eight schools make up the Standard-Democrat coverage area: Sikeston, Scott County Central, Oran, Portageville, East Prairie, Charleston, New Madrid County Central, and Kelly...

The 2019-2020 SEMO Conference all-conference boys basketball awards have been released. Sikeston senior Payton Howard is the SEMO Conference Boys Basketball Player of the Year. Howard, who has signed to play baseball at St. Louis University, led the conference in scoring with 175 points in regular-season conference action. He averaged 22 points per conference game...

SIKESTON — Below is a list compiled of the Standard-Democrat area’s 12 best girls’ basketball players: Height: 5’10” Coach: Alisha Wills ABOUT HER: An all-around player for the Lady Bulldogs this season, Allen did nearly everything that Sikeston asked her to do. ...

When the clock ticked Wednesday morning to 12:01 a.m., thus marking the start of a new month, there was no one involved in collegiate athletics more appreciative of the moment than Southeast Missouri State athletic director Brady Barke.

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 2019-20 SEMO Conference all-conference girls basketball awards have been released. Poplar Bluff senior Kiley Bess is the SEMO Conference Girls Basketball Player of the Year. Bess, who has signed to play basketball at St. Louis University, led the conference in scoring with 166 points in regular-season conference action. She averaged a team-high 24 points per conference game...

POPLAR BLUFF — The Poplar Bluff Parks Department, in coordination with the Butler County Emergency Management Agency and the Butler County Health Department, has decided to close the Ozark Ridge Golf Course because of the COVID-19 pandemic. The action was a precautionary and proactive measure, Director of Parks and Recreation Lanny Corcimiglia said, and the decision will be reviewed as things evolve...

Kennett native Fred Garmon is a lifelong student of the game of basketball. “Basketball has always been my sport,” said Garmon, who is a 2011 graduate of Kennett High School. “I call people at random times just to hear me out on things like a new practice drill I’ve come up with. I continue to learn more about the game and want to share my knowledge with people who are interested in listening to me.”...

SIKESTON — After a season which saw four all-conference players graduate, a lot of questions surrounded the Sikeston boys’ basketball program on how senior guard Payton Howard was going to perform after a nagging injury toward the end of his junior year that lingered into the offseason...

SIKESTON — Former Sikeston guard Parker Long is heading back to the area. Long announced on Twitter Saturday that he had committed to Southeast Missouri State University and first-year men’s basketball coach Brad Korn.

The 2019-2020 SEMO Conference all-conference boys basketball awards have been released. Sikeston senior Payton Howard is the SEMO Conference Boys Basketball Player of the Year. Howard, who has signed to play baseball at St. Louis University, led the conference in scoring with 175 points in regular-season conference action. He averaged 22 points per conference game...

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...

Carroll Williams is wistful about his long tenure as head coach of the Southeast men’s golf program, ended by the university’s board of regents 15 years ago this spring. “All told, I coached golf at SEMO for 30 years,” Williams said. Williams, 82, is principal of Cape Christian Community School these days, which will be absorbed July 1 by Lynwood Christian Academy...

When Southeast Missouri State athletic director Brady Barke made the decision to replace men’s basketball coach Rick Ray earlier this month, he had asked for two things from the two signed Redhawk recruits, as well as the returning student-athletes:

POPLAR BLUFF — The Poplar Bluff Parks Department, in coordination with the Butler County Emergency Management Agency and the Butler County Health Department, has decided to close the Ozark Ridge Golf Course because of the COVID-19 pandemic. The action was a precautionary and proactive measure, Director of Parks and Recreation Lanny Corcimiglia said, and the decision will be reviewed as things evolve...

If Daniel Seabaugh can’t be IN the water, the very least the Cape Central swimming star will do in wake of the coronavirus problem that has engulfed the entire sports world is be NEAR the water.