Bloomfield

BLOOMFIELD — The Bloomfield Wildcats look to be more competitive this season after a bad finish last year. The Wildcats return nine players from last year’s 8-15 boys basketball team. After a 5-1 start and a first-round, double-overtime upset of Portageville in the first round of the Bloomfield Christmas Tournament, the Wildcats struggled in the new year...

Class and district assignments have been released for boys and girls basketball in the Missouri Bootheel for the 2018-19 season. Clarkton, Delta, Delta C-7, Gideon, North Pemiscot, Richland, Risco, Scott County Central, and Southland will compete in Class 1, District 1. See teams in all Class 1 districts here: Class 1 Districts...

MALDEN — The Arcadia Valley volleyball team set some lofty goals in the preseason. The Bloomfield Wildcats weren’t sure what to expect in the upcoming season. The Tigers achieved one of their goals Saturday night, beating Bloomfield 25-15, 25-14 in a Class 2 quarterfinal at Malden High School...

MALDEN -- The Bloomfield Wildcats and Malden Green Wave might meet again. The Wildcats, seeded second in Class 2 District 2, defeated Malden, the top seed in Class 2 District 1, 25-17, 25-18 Thursday night at Malden High School. If both teams win their district, they would meet again in a sectional playoff Oct. 27 at Malden High School...

The Oak Ridge volleyball team won all three of its matches in straight sets to win the round-robin Mississippi Valley Conference Tournament on Friday at Zalma High School. Maggie Howe led the way with 18 kills in the tournament and Paige Glueck had 15 kills for the BlueJays (20-7-2). Brittany Showmaker had eight kills in the three matches and Taylor Seyer finished with 44 assists...

Nicholas Hux posted a first-place time of 5 minutes, 14.46 seconds in the 500 freestyle as the Notre Dame boys swimming team finished 18 points of Monett to win the championship of the 25th Annual Roger Eastman (Fort Zumwalt North) Invitational on Saturday at the Rec-Plex in St. Peters, Missouri...

The Cape Girardeau Central girls tennis team finished one point ahead of Kennett to dethrone the defending tournament champion Indians and win the SEMO Conference Tournament on Friday at Notre Dame Regional High School. Jordan Maxton won the singles championship for the Tigers in an 8-4 victory over Kennett's Emma Phillips. Kennett's Sydni McAtee and Darcy Campbell defeated Jackson's Sarah Fetterhoff and Chloe Pipkin 8-0 for the doubles championship...

The Advance volleyball team kept its undefeated season alive and picked up a key district win on Thursday night with a 25-18, 25-14 sweep of Leopold at Advance High School. Both teams will be competing in Class 1 District 3 Tournament and Thursday's result could tilt the potential district seedings in the Hornets' favor...

Nearly 60 teams participated at the 31st Annual St. Francis Medical Center Dig for Life Volleyball Challenge over the weekend at various venues throughout Cape Girardeau. The program, founded by former Southeast Missouri State University women's volleyball coach Cindy Gannon, raises breast cancer awareness and helps provides mammograms to women in the area who otherwise could not afford such important screening. ...

Macy Morehead recorded 17 digs and nine kills as the Saxony Lutheran volleyball team escaped with a straight-set sweep of Sikeston (25-12, 25-23) on Thursday in Sikeston, Missouri. Olivia Spanley also had nine kills for the Crusaders (4-4), who got 21 assists from Olivia Voelker. Makayla Mueller notched 12 digs and served four aces for Saxony...

BLOOMFIELD — The Bloomfield Wildcats want what the Puxico baseball team has — a win. In a battle of two winless teams, the Indians scored in each of the last three innings and beat Bloomfield 10-6. “We’ve been working toward this,” Puxico coach Jay Pierce said. “Our first game was kind of a blowout. Then we’ve been progressing toward getting better, and this is the fruition of that. … We are making that progress we need to win some games.”...

Cape Girardeau Central senior Jared Neikirk was the first runner to cross the finish line with a first-place time of 10 minutes, 36.94 seconds to help lead the Tigers to second place at the Fleet Feet Cross Country Kickoff Classic at the Arnold City Park on Thursday...