Advance

There were several great basketball performances throughout Southeast Missouri over the last week. However, the exploits of New Madrid County Central player, Donnie Brown, and Oran senior Katie Webb stood out, according to Semoball readers.

Advance junior guard Alandry Below reached a career milestone earlier this season when she scored her 1,000th career point in a game at Scott City.

Lexi Rubel proved to be too much for Kennett Monday as the junior standout not only dominated inside but drained two, three-point shots as she scored a game-high 22 points and also grabbed 13 rebounds to lead her Bulldogs past Kennett on the road, 46-32...

To say Notre Dame's guard Hayden Jansen was feeling it Friday night is putting it lightly. To say Jansen was near unconscious is more fitting. Jansen not only broke his personal record but he shattered the school record for most three-point field goals in a game as he nailed nine of them en route to an 83-31 decimation of Saxony Lutheran...

SCOTT CITY -- The Advance Hornets defeated the Scott City Rams on the road 60-52 on Thursday to extend their winning streak to six games. “I thought the whole team played pretty well,” Advance head coach Dennis Wheetley said. “We come in here and they’ve been playing pretty well all year. We knew we had our hands full. I’m just very proud of the boys on how hard they played.”...

The Woodland girls basketball team played two games in three days, starting with a matchup Monday with a very solid Perryville team. The Cardinals were able to sneak past the Pirates, 62-38. Emma Brown led Woodland with 22 points while Addie Johnson added 15 and Chloe Goodwin finished with nine points...

Alandry Below scored a game-high 24 points and two other Advance Hornets scored in double figures as Advance pulled away from Charleston in the last three quarters, winning at home in dominating fashion Monday 63-38 to win their fifth in a row. Kaylee Cline helped the cause for the Hornets scoring 15 points and Danielle Markham added 12 points in the victory...

The Oak Ridge Blue Jays put up 20 points in the first quarter, outscoring the visiting Puxico Indians by 11, and the Indians were never able to recover, losing to Oak Ridge 59-31 Monday. For Puxico, it was their 11th loss of the season(combined with 2 wins to have their record now 2-11)...

Alandry Below scored 13 of game-high 35 points in the first quarter, and the Advance girls basketball team beat Eagle Ridge Christian 64-46. The Hornets jumped ahead 24-7 after one quarter of a game played Monday night at Advance High School. Advance led 38-26 at halftime and 54-35 after three quarters...

Two state ranked titans took the court against each other Thursday as undefeated Notre Dame, the #5 ranked girls high school basketball team in Class 5, traveled to Park Hills Central, the #1 Class 4 team in the state. What fans were allowed in the stands were not disappointed as both teams fought, clawed, and tried to impose their will on each other.

The fourth-seeded Advance Hornets secured a spot in the consolation championship game of the Delta New Year’s girls basketball tournament with a 45-26 win over eighth-seeded Puxico on Wednesday night at Delta. The Hornets will face Oak Ridge at 4:30 p.m. today for the consolation trophy. Oak Ridge beat Scott County Central 63-21 in the other consolation semifinal...

Emma Brown scored 19 points to lead the Woodland Cardinals to a 63-29 win over the Scott County Central Braves in the opening round of the Delta New Year’s Tournament on Monday at Delta High School. Eight of Brown’s 19 points came in the first quarter to help the Cardinals take an 18-2 lead...

Don’t let the MSHSAA classification fool you in this week’s Delta New Year’s Girl’s Basketball Tournament.

At the start of this month, the Cape Central boy’s basketball team was an inexperienced group floundering its way – unsuccessfully – through the SEMO Conference Tournament. The Tigers became the first top seed in that event to lose on opening night since the tournament had restarted back in 2006.

Oran made a seeming blowout loss to Jackson interesting midway through the final quarter, as the Eagles cut their deficit from 34-21 to 36-30 with a 9-2 run. However, the Indians regrouped, as Oran missed some critical shots and ultimately prevailed 46-35 in the fifth-place game of the Southeast Missourian Christmas Tournament on Wednesday at the Show Me Center.

The Delta Bobcats beat the Bell City Cubs 92-73 in the consolation semifinal round of the Southeast Missourian Christmas Tournament on Tuesday at the Show Me Center. Evan Bartels scored a game high 37 points. Bartels said it was the best game he’s had all season...

Advance kicked off the second day of the Southeast Missourian Christmas Tournament with redemption. Led by senior Landon Daily's 30 points, the Hornets beat the Oak Ridge Blue Jays 66-46 on Monday at the Show Me Center to advance to the consolation semifinal...