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A bold effort from the second-seeded Advance baseball team was stifled when Gavin Brown's walk-off single drove in the winning run and top-seeded Bernie claimed the SCAA Conference Tournament championship with a 6-5 win. Wyatt Barnett didn't allow a hit in a scoreless inning to clinch the win for the Mules (7-4) after Brown went six innings...

The Cape Girardeau Central girls track and field team had three of its members come away with first-place finishes to lead the Tigers to the team championship of the Sikeston Bulldog Invitational. Morgan Kluge posted a first-place time of 2 minutes, 34.35 seconds in the 800-meter run for the Tigers, who landed 11.5 points ahead of the hosts in the team standings. Brooke Witvoet won the javelin and Yienvi Johnson clinched first in the shot put to help propel Central to the title...

Kole Simms blasted a two-run home run and host Oran pulled out a 5-3 victory over Advance on Thursday afternoon in Oran, Missouri.. Layne Johnson pitched six innings to get the win for the Eagles (6-3). He allowed two runs (one earned) on four hits and recorded 11 strikeouts and two walks...

The Jackson boys reeled off a team victory while the girls finished in second in the team standings as the Indians put together a standout performance Tuesday at the Tiger Town (Festus) Invitational in Hillsboro, Missouri. The boys posted a 104.50 to edge Hillsboro's second-place 95, while the ladies finished with 84 points, behind Jefferson's winning 88...

BENTON, Mo. -- Sometimes a little pressure is all it takes. Down a pair of key players on Monday afternoon, the Kelly baseball team focused on making something happen early, and it paid off as the Hawks took an early lead and then held on to get by visiting Bell City, 3-2, in the host's Fourth Annual Green-Up Game in Benton, Missouri...

Jackson's Case Englehart and Tanner Walton each carded a three-over-par 75 to share the medalist honors and help lead the Indians to the championship of the Farmington Invitational at the Crown Pointe Golf Club. Jaden Hightower finished three strokes behind his teammates with a 78 and Carsen Silliman shot an 80 as the four Indians all claimed individual spots in the top 10 for Jackson, which placed 43 strokes ahead of Kennett in second place...

Lexi Boyer touched base all of her four times at bat, including a double and one RBI, as Woodland held on to fly away with a narrow, 8-7 conference victory over Advance on Wednesday in Advance, Missouri. Mackenzie Altenthal tossed a complete game to obtain the win for the Cardinals (2-0, 1-0 SCAA Conference). She allowed five earned runs and recorded five strikeouts and nine walks...

Nathan Patterson recorded a triple, a double and scored two runs as Cape Central baseball opened its season Saturday with a 5-3 win at home over East Prairie. Drake Mills hurled six innings to grab the win for the Tigers (1-0). He surrendered two earned runs on three hits with three strikeouts and four walks...

Trevor Lukefahr poured in a game-high 31 points and dished out eight assists as the St. Vincent boys basketball team relied on a strong first-half performance to squeeze out a 79-71 victory over Meadow Heights on Thursday in Perryville, Missouri, in what could be a potential district-semifinal preview...

Senior Krista Rhodes scored 20 points as the Woodland girls basketball team wrapped up their regular season on a high note with a thrilling 61-50 victory over Greenville in double overtime on Monday at Greenville High School. Destinee Cowell contributed 16 points for the Cardinals, who flew out to a 30-22 lead at halftime before the second-half stalemate. ...

Another year, another group of superb performances by area student-athletes, the most outstanding of which are being recognized. On Wednesday, 55 individuals were announced as fall sport finalists for the 2018 Semoball Awards. The selections were presented during a live radio show on SEMO ESPN Radio...

Nate Dillinger scored a game-high 23 points as the third-seeded Bernie boys basketball team picked up a vengeful 63-42 upset victory over second-seeded Advance on Thursday to move on to Friday's championship game of the SCAA Conference Tournament in Dexter, Missouri...