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It’s going to be a tough row to hoe for the Cape Central girl’s tennis team in today’s SEMO Conference Tennis Tournament at Sikeston High School.

After Cape Central dropped its first set to Scott City on Wednesday, the Tigers turned on the heat, winning three sets in a row to beat the Rams on the road, (20-25), 25-22, 25-21, 25-18. Cape Central received a game-high 22 kills offensively from senior hitter Ella Vogel, while Ava Nelson added four kills and Madison Phelps contributed three...

The Jackson Indians look to increase their winning streak to 19 games on Friday night when they host Sikeston in a SEMO North Conference tilt. The Indians (4-0) are coming off a 48-0 win over rival Cape Central where eight different running backs carried the ball for a total of 311 yards and five touchdowns...

Four schools in the Southeast Missourian coverage area are ranked top 10 in the first Missouri Soccer Coaches Association state power rankings poll of 2021. Jackson, Notre Dame, Perryville and Saxony Lutheran all cracked the top 10. Notre Dame (9-1) and Perryville (5-1) are the highest-ranked teams in the area, both coming in at No. 3 in their respective classes...

Cape Central swept its tennis match on Thursday, beating Caruthersville 9-0. Four Cape Tigers shut their opponents out in singles competition, and two doubles teams shut out their opponents. Results Singles No. 1 — Jalee Spain won 8-0 No. 2 — Mackenzie Ramdial won 8-3...

Passing Christian Schaaf, St. Vincent — 17-19, 310 yards, 4 TD, 1 INT Gavin Venable, Scott City — 6-13, 142, 2 TD, 2 INT Aiden McGarvey, Perryville — 9-16, 122 yards, 2 TD, 1 INT Cameron Marchi, Jackson — 7-9, 94 yards, 1 TD Eli Glueck, Chaffee — 5-7, 23 yards...

The Jackson cross country team continued its successful 2021 season with a sweep of both the boys and girls divisions at Saturday’s Cape Central Invitational. Addie Heisserer, Mallorie Metzger and Layla Fliege took first through third and Brooklyn Burgess finished fifth to give the Indian girls four placers in the top five...

JACKSON, Mo. — Cape Central fought valiantly in the first quarter against the defending Class 5 state champion Jackson Indians. The Tigers drove down the field and appeared to score a touchdown to cut the score to 14-7 early in the second quarter when quarterback Adrian Fox found receiver Clayton McClard in the end zone. That play, however, would be called back for holding...

Jackson swimmer Nate Thomas has always loved being in the water, so it makes sense that the freshman is one of the top swimmers in the area. Thomas showed his ability during Jackson's Rec Center Relays on Thursday in Cape Girardeau, Mo., helping lead three of his four relays to gold-medal finishes and the Indians to an overall team victory...

Behind goals from Sam Cairns, Timothy Kirby and Jonathan Brandtner, the Cape Central boys soccer team blanked Poplar Bluff 3-0 on Thursday. The Tigers outshot the Mules, 8-0, as the trio slipped goals past the Mules' goalkeeper. Cape Central starting goalkeeper Tad Couch went relatively unscathed, as the Tigers defense didn't allow a shot on goal during the entire match...

Fans of the Jackson football team have gotten used to winning. The Indians have won their last 17 games straight, their last 33 regular-season games and have a 57-8 record since 2016; including a five-game winning streak against the Cape Central Tigers...

BENTON – The Cape Central softball team played its third game in as many days on Wednesday and has another one (vs. North County) today, and that mental and physical grind showed against a good Kelly team, as the host Hawks lit up the Tigers for eight runs in their final at-bat and won 15-4.

As Tambria Wilson lined up on the outside shade of a much larger Hillsboro offensive tackle, Cape Central assistant Steve Hemby barked orders from the sideline. An eager and undersized Wilson took Hemby's direction as she carried the disposition of a defensive end looking to make a game-saving stop, though the scoreboard told a different story...

Cape Central third baseman Haley Wolfe’s two-RBI triple in the fourth inning of the Tigers’ contest against Sikeston gave her team a boost of energy. The freshman broke a 1-1 tie on the hit and helped the Tigers roll to a 5-4 victory over the Bulldogs on Tuesday at Cape Central High School...

The Cape Central soccer team honored its seniors before Tuesday night’s game against the Sikeston Bulldogs. It was only fitting the Tigers would get their first goal on senior night from senior Logan Mizicko with 6:14 remaining in the first half en route to a 2-1 victory at Tiger Stadium...

Cape Central tennis coach Kevin Francis saw his team dominate the opposition on Tuesday, beating Charleston in all matches but one, 8-1. Taking single match wins were Emily Ford, Cammy Soto, Jalee Spain, Mackenzie Ramdial, and Sydnee Williams while the doubles teams of Ford and Soto, Spain and Ramdial and Rileigh Stevens and Zoe Mayfield were all victorious...

The Notre Dame girls golf team finished second in a quad match held at Dalhousie Golf Club while Cape Central finished fourth out of the four teams that competed. Massac County won the event, shooting an overall score of 172 while Notre Dame shot 189...

The Jackson boys cross country team took first place at Saturday's Arcadia Valley Invitational, placing three runners in the top five. Junior Hunter Wendel was the top placer for Jackson, finishing the 5K in 16:59.80 to take second place. Sophomore Bryce Gentry finished just behind Wendel in third with a time of 17:02.35, and junior Evan Kiefer finished in fourth with a time of 17:14.55...

Passing Cameron Marchi, Jackson — 18-27, 286 yards, 5 TD, 1 INT Christian Schaaf, St. Vincent — 7-18, 145 yards, 2 TD, 1 INT Gavin Venable, Scott City — 6-15, 123 yards, 2 TD, 2 INT Eli Glueck, Chaffee — 6-8, 35 yards, 1 INT Mark Panagos, Scott City — 1-1, 15 yards...

This weekend's Dig for Life Tournament didn’t start out the way Woodland volleyball coach Melissa Rinacke had hoped, as the Cardinals took one on the chin early in tournament competition on Friday against Columbia’s Rock Bridge, losing both sets. Woodland rebounded nicely, forged ahead, and brought home a second-place trophy on Saturday, losing to Class 5 school Northwest out of Cedar Hill, Mo., at the Show Me Center, 22-25, 18-25...

Jaxin Patterson hauled in a short, midfield pass, reversed field and proceeded to evade a pair Cape Central defensive backs as he raced to the sideline. Hillsboro’s decorated running back incited a roar from a sea of teammates when he ended the impressive run with a bulldozing of an ambitious, physically outmatched Tiger...

The Chaffee football team has started its season 1-1 for the third straight year under third-year coach Will Daffron, but the Arkansas native has far more confidence in his team this year than the previous two. Despite taking a 48-8 beating from Charleston last Friday, Daffron believes his team has what it takes to take down the 2-0 Kelly Hawks on Friday night at Mark Whitaker Memorial Field in Chaffee, Mo...

The Notre Dame girls golf team finished in first place at the Ste. Genevieve Golf Tournament on Wednesday, finishing with a combined score of 334, while Cape Central finished sixth out of seven teams with a combined score of 470. Notre Dame junior shot a tournament-low score of 71 while teammates Eliza Barnette shot an 82, Isabella Palmer shot an 86, Silvia Schallberger shot a 95, and Avery Baker shot a 100...

SIKESTON – The Sikeston High School girl’s tennis program doesn’t have a storied history of late. However, the Bulldogs had enough ability and determination on Tuesday to earn an impressive 5-4 battle against Cape Central at Sikeston High School.

Dexter volleyball coach Starla Pulley was quick to laud Cape Central's capable frontline, namely towering outsider hitter Ella Vogel But the Bearcats - Class 3 state quarterfinalists a year ago - had even more firepower at the net, sweeping the Class 4 Tigers 25-19, 25-19, 25-19 on Tuesday at Cape Central High School.

Passing Cameron Marchi, Jackson — 14-18, 270 yards, 4 TD, 1 INT Devin Keller, Scott City — 13-29, 243 yards, 2 TD Christian Schaaf, St. Vincent — 8-19, 143 yards, 2 TD, 3 INT Rilaynd Graham, Perryville — 7-10, 91 yards, 1 TD Eli Glueck, Chaffee — 1-4, 5 yards...

The Cape Central soccer team picked up two big wins on Saturday on its home turf as part of Notre Dame’s Soccerfest. The Tigers recorded two shutout wins Saturday, defeating Poplar Bluff 5-0 and Fredericktown 8-0. Cape Central senior forward Jon Brandtner recorded two goals in the Tigers’ first game against Poplar Bluff. He was joined in the scoring category by senior Logan Mizicko, junior Sam Cairns and senior Drew Roth with one goal apiece...

While it may be difficult to replace an All-State player, Jackson soccer coach Zack Walton believes senior goalkeeper Nolan Dry is doing his due diligence. Dry — who is replacing Class 4 second-team All-Stater Luke Mirly in the net — made an incredible diving save on a Cape Central penalty kick, and the senior goalkeeper recorded his first shutout of the season in a 2-0 victory Thursday in the Notre Dame Soccerfest at Notre Dame High School...

SIKESTON – Cape Central opened its 2021 girl’s volleyball season with a 3-0 win over Sikeston on Wednesday at the Sikeston Field House. However, the shutout margin didn’t paint an accurate picture of how competitive the match was.

SIKESTON — Poplar Bluff’s streak of scoring two runs in the first inning ended after five straight games, but the Mules ended up jumping out to a two-run lead an inning later. Breann Thresher struck out a season-high nine, Lauren Webb drove in three runs and the Mules beat Sikeston 9-5 Thursday...

The Jackson boys swim team got their season started with a victory over rival Cape Central, winning the team event with a score of 67-50. On the Jackson side, the team of Brayden Walters, Wade Levell, Nate Thomas, and Cade McAdams defeated the Cape Central team of Owen Groves, Phineas Theall, Noah McRaven, and Elias Theall in the Men's 200 Medley Relay...

After completing one of the most storied seasons in MSHSAA history, the Jackson High School football program graduated a TON of talent and leadership. “You don’t take turns,” veteran Indian coach Brent Eckley said. “The best team wins. It’s not whosever turn it is.”

The Chaffee softball team and head coach Brian Horrell got off to a good start to their fall season on Saturday as the Red Devils were victorious in two of the three games played at their host round-robin tournament, opening the day by beating Cape Central, 7-0, followed by another victory over Fredericktown, 5-1, then dropping the last game to the Notre Dame junior varsity team, 3-0...

There are few businesses anywhere in the world that haven’t had to think differently over the past couple of years in this ever-changing environment that we are all immersed in, more than likely, forever. And Semoball.com is not immune to that. The website devoted to providing sports fans thorough coverage of sports throughout Southeast Missouri is still going to make that its mission on a daily basis, however, the internal pieces are going to be doing some shifting moving forward.

JACKSON, Mo. — Jackson’s cross country team took first place in five divisions at Saturday’s Jackson Invitational meet. The Jackson boys took first place in the ninth, 10th and 11th-grade divisions while the girls took first in the 9th and 12th-grade divisions...

WEST PLAINS, Mo. — Cape Central’s Phineas Theall and Elias Theall set pool records in winning their events Saturday at the West Plains Duals to open the swimming season. Phineas Theall won two events in record time, the 200-meter individual medley and the 100-butterfly, Elias Theall won the 400-freestyle while the two teamed up with Owen Groves and Noah McRaven to place second in the medley relay...

“Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.” Religious icon Mother Theresa made that statement some time ago, and it is profound in its application to all things in life, without question. However, she didn’t witness the magnificence of Jackson High School football a year ago, as the Indians played near-perfect football through five months and won the MSHSAA Class 5 state championship in dominating fashion. So, you’ll have to forgive gridiron fans from Perryville to Poplar Bluff if they just want to savor 2020 a tad longer.

Behind a veteran offensive line and a vicious running game, the Parkway North Vikings ran all over Cape Central, downing the Tigers 50-19 on Friday at Tiger Stadium. The game looked promising early on for Cape Central, as starting quarterback Morgan Diamond hit wide receiver Clayton McClard in the backfield, weaving his way through would-be tacklers for an opening-drive touchdown, scoring from 81 yards out making it a quick 7-0 lead after a successful extra point...

Christmas remains four months away and only a handful of people throughout Southeast Missouri probably celebrate their birthdays today. However, for football fans – and as it turns out, coaches and players, as well – today is a euphoric day of the year. The 2021 high school football season officially opens this evening and like every season, the next three months promise to be a rollercoaster of emotions for every person that follows the game.

After a long, hot summer of preparing, Cape Central coach Kent Gibbs is ready to lead his team onto the field for Friday night’s season opener. “Like everybody at this particular stage of the game, we’re ready to play. We need to play,” Gibbs said. “Obviously, the heat makes it drag a little bit, so we’re looking forward to the game.”...

Cape Central wide receiver/cornerback Marshon Edwards has the potential to make a splash in 2021.

Junior quarterback Morgan Diamond and senior running back Cam Harris may be the heart and soul of the 2021 Cape Central football team.

The 2020 football season ended with a bit of a whimper for Cape Central. The Tigers were poised to face DeSoto in the opening round of district play, but COVID-19 forced those plans to change.

There is no denying the chaotic state that the world remains in for a second consecutive football season, but Southeast Missourians can take solace in this: Football season is here, and we’re going to embrace it.

A new high school football season is upon us here in Southeast Missouri and there are quite a few side scenarios to look for with some of the area teams. I’m going to go in depth on a few to see if some come to fruition. Can Jackson get back to state with many key pieces gone from the 2020 team?...

HAYTI – The four-team high school football jamboree conducted Friday at Hayti High School was exactly what one would expect the first opportunity to face another team would be, a mix of great, good, just OK, and uh-oh plays by each of the teams (Hayti, New Madrid County Central, Cape Central, and Kennett).

The Cape Central football team will have its first taste of in-game action this week. The Tigers — who went 3-6 during a 2020 season that was disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic — will travel to Hayti, Mo., on Friday to take part in the Indians’ 6 p.m. jamboree, along with New Madrid County Central and Kennett...

There were two Missouri high school divers recently named to the 2021 NISCA All-America squad. One is the most decorated diver in MSHSAA history, while the other, who happens to be an incoming sophomore at Cape Central, is chasing her legacy.

Prior to the MSHSAA Class 4 Boy’s Soccer state championship game last November in Springfield, Jackson senior goalkeeper Luke Mirly wasn’t exactly feeling great.