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The Jackson Indians, Cape Central Tigers and Farmington Knightettes all finished within nine points of each other in a girls swimming tri-meet. Jackson won the meet with a score of 142 with Cape Central ending at 137 and Farmington at 133. Cami Brazel and Courtney Huckabee finished first in two individual events to lead the way for Jackson. ...

Notre Dame, Jackson, and Saxony Lutheran all competed in the Ladue Girl’s Swim Invitational with the Bulldogs finishing fourth, the Indians finishing 11th and the Crusaders finishing 13th.

It’s been four years since Scott City and Kelly matched up in their opening boy’s basketball games of the Southeast Missourian Christmas Tournament.

The St. Vincent boys basketball team rode a balanced attack to a 69-50 victory over Scott City to successfully defend their title Friday night at the Rolla “Duke” Herbert Tournament in Crystal City, Missouri.

Following an early start to its season, the Poplar Bluff boys basketball team got a 16-day break to prepare for the SEMO Conference, which starts Monday in Sikeston. “Honestly, it’s been nice, much-needed break,” Mules coach William Durden said. “The first game came a little earlier than expected and this break gave us time to work on stuff...

The Leopold boys basketball team overcame a five-point deficit with a big fourth quarter to defeat Meadow Heights 54-44 in the third-place game at the Woodland Invitational Tournament on Thursday in Marble Hill, Missouri. Meadow Heights took a 36-31 lead into the fourth quarter, but Leopold (2-1) stormed off to a 10-point victory by outscoring the Panthers 23-8 in the period...

CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. — The Tigers outscored Sikeston 18-8 in the fourth quarter to rally for victory in the consolation championship of the SEMO Conference Tournament on Thursday. Ella Vogel scored six of her 11 points in the final period, and Taylor Horton tallied five of her team-high 12 points...

POPLAR BLUFF — Jimmy May scored more points than any player in SEMO Conference history and the Scott City senior was presented with the Carr Trophy as the conference's most outstanding player Wednesday night at the 74th Poplar Bluff Gridiron Banquet...

High school girl's basketball teams throughout Southeast Missouri recently opened their 2019-20 seasons. Here is a look at the area teams covered by the Southeast Missourian.

High school boy's basketball teams throughout Southeast Missouri recently opened their 2019-20 seasons. Here is a look at the area teams covered by the Southeast Missourian. CAPE CENTRAL Class 4 District 1 Conference: SEMO Head coach: Drew Church (14th year)...

CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. — The Poplar Bluff girls basketball team built a double-digit lead in the opening quarter Monday night to beat Cape Central in the opening round of the SEMO Conference Tournament. The third-seeded Mules advanced with a 60-35 win over host Cape Central and will face second-seeded Jackson in the semifinals at 8:30 p.m. Tuesday...

The Cape Girardeau Central wrestling team debuted this season with a 2-1 finish to place second in a four-team dual on Saturday across the river in Marion, Illinois. The Tigers downed East St. Louis (Ill.) 49-23 and defeated Highland (Ill.) 53-28 but fell to the host Wildcats in a 41-40 heartbreaker. Senior Dawson Bevens won all three of his duals to help lead Central. Marion prevailed in all three of its matches to claim victory...

SIKESTON — Needing 13 points to reach 1,000 points for her career, Oran senior Kaylee Payne reached that mark in the Lady Eagles 69-52 win over Scott County Central at Ronnie Cookson Gymnasium. Payne had 17 points total, on 7 of 24 shooting, along with three rebounds and seven assists...

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SIKESTON — District assignments for boys’ and girls’ basketball and wrestling were released on Friday. Sikeston will be a part of Class 4, District 1, with Cape Central, Notre Dame, Dexter, Perryville, and Ste. Genevieve. Class 3, District 1 consists of Charleston, New Madrid County Central, East Prairie, Caruthersville, Doniphan, Malden, Kennett, and Twin Rivers. ...

ST. PETERS, Mo. – The Cape Girardeau Central boys swim team had its streak of consecutive MSHSAA Class 1 state championships snapped at three Friday, as the Tigers finished runner-up to champion Glendale 247 to 222, but the Tiger swimmers found solace in the fact they turned in several strong performances at the Rec-Plex in St. Peters, Mo.

FARMINGTON, Mo. -- Last spring, veteran Missouri high school football coach Kent Gibbs took over the Cape Girardeau Central football program and tried to instill perseverance in his new student-athletes. "You're going to have to accept some things in life and get better along the way," Gibbs said Friday following his team's Class 4 District 1 championship game at Farmington. "Sometimes you get beat but you just have to keep getting up and going."...

ST. PETERS, Mo. – Those that know veteran Cape Girardeau Central swim coach Dayna Powell grasp that all is needed to get her talking at warp speed with excitement is to ask about her Tiger swimmers.

ST. PETERS, Mo. – Cape Girardeau Central senior Daniel Seabaugh “felt good” during his swims Thursday in the preliminary session of the MSHSAA Class 1 Boys State Swim Finals at the Rec-Plex in St. Peters, Mo., which meant his coach was pleased with how the opening day of competition went for the Tigers.

ST. PETERS, Mo. – Regardless of how Notre Dame senior swimmer Nicholas Hux performs in his final high school meet today, his coach is going to be a bit disappointed.

To the casual observer, the Tigers of Cape Girardeau Central may appear to be a streaky football team. A 2-0 start was followed by two losses, followed by a pair of shutout victories, followed by a dramatic one-point victory over a previously unbeaten team, followed by a 63-point loss, the first of two consecutive losses to unbeaten teams...

The Cape Girardeau Central boys swim team is on the cusp of history but in some regards, it will be a long journey to reaching that destination.

SIKESTON — Sikeston’s Alivia Cobb garnered some more awards last week, as the Class 4, District, and SEMO Conference teams got announced. Cobb earned the SEMO Conference North Defensive Player of the Year after setting the single-season record for digs in her senior season. She also earned a spot on the first-team as well...

The Cape Girardeau Central football team wasted no time – literally - in showing it meant business in its quest to play for its first District championship game since 2017 Friday.

The next step in MSHSAA football team's quest for a championship will be taken tonight throughout Southeast Missouri. Here is "What 2 Watch 4" throughout the area.

Cape Girardeau Central narrowly pulled out a victory over budding swim rival Notre Dame Tuesday in the SEMO Conference Swim Meet at the Central Municipal Pool, and Tiger senior Jacob Bening fervently believes that a higher being played a significant role in the victory.

FARMINGTON, Mo. – The good news for the Sikeston boy’s soccer program is that Cape Girardeau Central midfielder Kaya Newkirk is a senior so the Bulldog defenders won’t have to deal with him ever again.

In his last race on his home course, Notre Dame senior Blake Morris took top honors Saturday in the Class 3 District 1 cross country championships.

On a frigid night at Tigers Stadium, host Cape Girardeau Central (6-4) cruised past North County, 42-6, in Class 4 District 1 quarterfinal play Friday. Central, the No. 2 seed, went up 7-0 on its first possession of the game as senior Dashawn Franklin ran it in from 8 yards out with 9:48 left in the first quarter...

The Notre Dame boys swimming team placed first in three events and set four new school records en route to claiming the championship of the MICDS Invitational on Friday in the suburban St. Louis area. Drew Barber finished first in the 100 freestyle with a time of 48.71 seconds to shatter one of the Notre Dame records. ...

A week after dropping out of the top spot, Kennett returns to lead the Semoball Power Rankings to end the regular season.

SIKESTON — The SEMO All-Conference softball teams are here. Sikeston had one member on the first team and four more on the second team. Notre Dame had six nominations on the first team, while Jackson had four. North County and Farmington each finished with three nominees, and Kelly, Chaffee, Cape Central, and Poplar Bluff each rounded out the team with one...

CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. -- It was all but fitting that two rivals took the court in the first round of the Class 4, District 1 Tournament on Monday evening. Both the Sikeston and Cape Central volleyball teams know each others' strengths and weaknesses -- and entering the third meeting between the two schools this season -- there was more than just bragging rights on the table...

For 24 minutes, the Cape Girardeau Central football team wasn’t giving an inch to an unbeaten Bolivar squad. The Tigers played the Class 4 No. 9-ranked Liberators to a 34-28 halftime score. However, the second half was a different story, as Bolivar pulled away for a 59-35 win...

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The Notre Dame boys swimming team took first place team honors at the Bubble pool Wednesday in its senior night quad event. Bulldogs senior Nicholas Hux took first place in two invidual events -- 50 freestyle and 100 buttefly -- and swam a leg on the winning 200 freestyle relay team...

CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. — Pool play was not pleasant for the Sikeston volleyball team on Tuesday. The first day of the SEMO Conference Volleyball Tournament kicked off at the Cape SportsPlex in Cape Girardeau. 10 teams, split into two divisions, made up the tournament. In the North Division was Jackson, Notre Dame, Cape Central, Poplar Bluff, and Sikeston, while the South Division comprised of Scott City, Oran, New Madrid County Central (NMCC), Kennett, and Charleston...

CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. - The Kennett Indians varsity volleyball team finished first in SEMO South Division pool play Tuesday at Cape Girardeau SportsPlex in Cape Girardeau. Kennett won seven of the eights sets it played in pool play. Kennett beat Charleston 25-18, 25-14; Kennett beat New Madrid County Central 25-17, 25-9; Kennett beat Oran 25-14, 25-23; and Kennett split Scott City 26-24, 25-27...

The Saxony Lutheran Crusaders could not keep the North County Raiders from putting the ball in the back of the net, losing 4-2 on the road in boys soccer. Paul Adams led the Saxony Lutheran (7-9) offense, scoring a goal on an indirect free kick and assisting on the Crusaders other goal. Garrett Richey found the back of the net off the Adams feed...

Kyla Beel made sure to leave her mark for the Leopold volleyball team in its final home game of the season on Monday against Bloomfield. The senior standout, who along with six of her other teammates were honored for Senior Night, amassed 23 kills and eight digs...

St. Vincent continues to be an effective and balanced football team and that was evident in Friday's 46-12 beating of Grandview (Hillsboro). "I thought we mixed the run and the pass pretty well," Indians coach Tim Schumer said in a phone interview. Senior runner Luke Unterreiner totaled 120 yards on the ground and scored three times, while senior quarterback Garrett Dobbelare threw for a pair of scores...

POPLAR BLUFF — Running in a conference championship race for the second time in four days, Dexter's Margo Nea ran away from the field Thursday for a clean sweep. Nea won the SEMO Conference cross country race at Ozark Ridge Golf Course after earlier winning the SCAA title Monday...

The Jackson boys and girls claimed the team titles at the SEMO North Conference Meet on Thursday at the Ozark Ridge Golf Course in Poplar Bluff, Missouri. Notre Dame senior Blake Morris successfully defended his conference in the the boys race, winning in 15 minutes, 42.94 seconds and helping the Bulldogs to a second-place team finish...

Kennett and Jackson remain atop the Semoball Power Rankings this week while Scott City’s first loss of the season dropped the Rams to fifth. By beating Scott City 46-41, Hayti moved up a spot to fourth, while Caruthersville moved up to third. Cape Central’s one-point win at St. Charles West didn’t help move the Tigers up the list (not sure why since it boosted their opponent’s win total to 28, behind only Sikeston’s 32 and Malden’s 30)...

The good old days of football. Long drives, crammed time for scouting opponents, 16 mm film, and chalkboards.

The Advance volleyball team avenged its only loss thus far before it sustained its second defeat of the season in a 25-21, 18-25, 21-25 loss to Lindbergh in the championship game of the Second Annual Jackson Tournament on Saturday at Jackson High School.

ST. CHARLES, Mo. – “One more play.” It’s a message that first-year Cape Girardeau Central football coach Kent Gibbs has preached since he was hired last spring to restore the Tiger program.

Gracie Cook finished with nine kills, two service aces and two digs as the Meadow Heights volleyball team capped their third-straight sweep of the week and increased their winning streak to six games in the 25-22, 25-19 victory over host Oran on Friday...

KENNETT, Mo. - The Kennett Indians varsity volleyball team rallied from a 24-22 deficit to force an extra set but finished a couple of points shy of securing a three-set win Thursday night against the Cape Central Tigers. Visiting Cape Central won the decisive set by two points to edge Kennett 17-25, 24-26, 25-23 in a three-set thriller...