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Good Sports is a column featured weekly in the Southeast Missourian and on semoball.com. It is primarily designed to showcase people who have impacted the sporting life of Southeast Missouri, so that readers may get to know them more fully. Responses have been edited for clarity and brevity...

Jim and Lisa Burns, high school sweethearts from the Deep South, have lived in Cape Girardeau for four decades. Jim retired in December 2018 after 39 years with KFVS-12 television. Lisa, administrative assistant for special services in the Cape Central schools, has been with the district 27 years...

If Daniel Seabaugh can’t be IN the water, the very least the Cape Central swimming star will do in wake of the coronavirus problem that has engulfed the entire sports world is be NEAR the water.

Host sites are set for most district tournaments if spring sports resume in Missouri. Missouri high schools remain out of session and all springs sports activities and practices are currently suspended due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The Indiana High School Athletics Association canceled spring sports in Indiana Thursday due to the VOVID-19 pandemic...

The 2019-20 SEMO Conference all-conference girls basketball awards have been released. Poplar Bluff senior Kiley Bess is the SEMO Conference Girls Basketball Player of the Year. Bess, who has signed to play basketball at St. Louis University, led the conference in scoring with 166 points in regular-season conference action. She averaged a team-high 24 points per conference game...

The 2019-2020 SEMO Conference all-conference boys basketball awards have been released. Sikeston senior Payton Howard is the SEMO Conference Boys Basketball Player of the Year. Howard, who has signed to play baseball at St. Louis University, led the conference in scoring with 175 points in regular-season conference action. He averaged 22 points per conference game...

The Missouri State High School Activities Association issued an update regarding the status of spring sports amidst the COVID-19 pandemic Tuesday. “While schools across the state are determining the best course of action during this unprecedented time, the Missouri State High School Activities Association (MSHSAA) office staff continues to prepare for Spring Championships,” MSHSAA said in a press release. ...

Good Sports is a column appearing weekly in the Southeast Missourian and Semoball.com. The purpose is to get to know the people who impact the sporting life of our region in a more complete way. Responses have been edited for clarity and brevity...

No Summer Olympics. No NBA, no NHL. No March Madness. It’s surprising to discover how wearying it is to key the word “no” over and over into a Word document. Good heavens, even the national pastime, major league baseball, is indefinitely delayed. With apologies to Shakespeare, his words slightly altered here due to the exigencies of the moment: “Now is the spring of our discontent.”...

Fred C. Springer, Jr., a member of the Southeast Missouri State University Athletics Hall of Fame, died Thursday at Life Care Center in Cape Girardeau. Springer, 70, was a member of SEMO’s 1969 men’s track and field team, winners of the Mid-American Intercollegiate Athletic Association’s (MIAA) indoor and outdoor track titles...

SIKESTON — Multiple Standard-Democrat area basketball players earned spots on their respective All-District teams recently. Sikeston seniors Payton Howard and Clark Steward both made the team for Class 4, District 1. Senior Taydrianna Barnett and sophomore Karris Allen both made it on the girls’ side as well...

Editor's note: Selection to the All-Southeast Missourian Team does not necessarily constitute selection to the Semoball Award finalists for tennis. The 2019 girls tennis season was a memorable one in Southeast Missouri, with Cape Girardeau Central (19-3) capturing the Class 2 District 1 championship and Notre Dame (16-3-1) winning the Class 1 District 2 title and advancing to the Final Four, the state championships in Springfield, Mo...

The preseason Missouri high school baseball state rankings were released Wednesday by the Missouri High School Baseball Coaches Association. Six baseball teams from the semoball.com coverage area are state-ranked. Cooter, which placed third in Class 1 last spring and finished 22-1 in its fall campaign, is ranked No. ...

Editor's note: Selection to the All-Southeast Missourian Team does not necessarily constitute selection to the Semoball Award finalists for softball. The 2019 girls softball season was a memorable one in Southeast Missouri, with Notre Dame advancing to the Class 3 quarterfinal game in late October...

Notre Dame boys basketball coach Paul Unterreiner realizes his team has had a charmed month of March. A 57-55 overtime win over Dexter in overtime March 3. A 38-37 double overtime victory to win the C4D1 title over Cape Central March 6. Those hard-fought, closely contested games in the Dawg Pound led to Tuesday’s 60-47 double-digit defeat of Central Park Hills – in a sectional contest played on a neutral court in Farmington...

Spring sports for Missouri high schools will start as planned next week, MSHSAA announced Friday after releasing district assignments. "We re monitoring what is happening from the Missouri Department of Health, the Governor's Office, and the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education," MSHSAA said in a statement Friday...

Good Sports is a column appearing weekly in the Southeast Missourian and Semoball.com. The purpose is to get to know the people who impact the sporting life of our region in a more complete way. Responses have been edited for clarity and brevity. Today: Chris Hahn, 30, head coach, Delta Bobcats boys basketball. ...

There may have been room inside the Notre Dame High School gymnasium for the Father and the Son to attend Friday’s epic Class 4 District 1 boy’s basketball championship battle between the host Bulldogs and rival Cape Central. However, with the walls bulging from a sold-out crowd, the Holy Ghost would’ve been turned away because putting another soul into that venue was impossible.

Good Sports is a weekly feature appearing in the Southeast Missourian and online at Semoball.com. It profiles the life of a person connected to sports and allows readers the opportunity to know the people who are impacting athletics throughout Southeast Missouri in a deeper way. Responses have been edited for brevity and clarity...

A standing-room only crowd at Notre Dame’s Dawg Pound saw the host Bulldogs win a thriller in overtime, 57-55, over Dexter Tuesday in a Class 4 District 1 semifinal. Notre Dame (23-4) will play Cape Girardeau Central (22-5) for the district title Friday...

CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. — Thirty-two minutes couldn’t decide a winner between Sikeston and Cape Central in Tuesday night’s Class 4, District 1 Tournament semifinal, at Notre Dame Regional High School. Records get put aside come postseason play, and for Sikeston, that was the case, as the Bulldogs battled to the very end, albeit in a 52-47 loss to the Tigers. The defeat ended Sikeston’s season at 16-10 and was the third-straight loss to Cape Central this season — and fourth altogether...

In a game delayed by nearly an hour due to a countywide tornado warning, host Notre Dame (21-4) punched its ticket to the finals of the Class 4 District 1 girls basketball tournament by easily overcoming Cape Girardeau Central (19-9) in semifinal action Monday at the Dawg Pound, 72-40.

CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. — It wasn’t the fastest start to a game that the Cape Central girls basketball team had hoped for on Saturday afternoon. The Lady Tigers led 8-5 after the first quarter but didn’t find their rhythm until near the end of the second quarter, in their 67-45 win over Perryville in the first round of the Class 4, District 1 Tournament, on Saturday, at Notre Dame Regional High School...

Good Sports is a weekly feature appearing in the Southeast Missourian and online at Semoball.com. It profiles the life of a person connected to sports and allows readers the opportunity to know the people who are impacting athletics throughout Southeast Missouri in a deeper way. Responses have been edited for brevity and clarity...

The Notre Dame Bulldogs (21-3) are now a perfect 11-0 on their home court after defeating the MICDS Rams (13-10) 59-43 on Tuesday evening.

Cape Central’s Cameron Cox is headed to Division II Southwest Baptist University. “It may be surprising to people that (Cox) will not play offense (in college),” said first-year Central coach Kent Gibbs. Maybe shocking is a better word. The 17-year old finished his Tigers football career as the Central record holder in touchdown passes...

The head coaches of rival high school football programs Jackson and Cape Central do not see eye-to-eye on the new kickoff protocol in the upstart XFL. “Personally, I like it,” Cape Central coach Kent Gibbs said. “I’d be willing to sit down and talk about anything that improves player safety.”...

The Tigers earned a victory playing the Trojans on Monday, outscoring them in every quarter. Taylor Horton led Cape Central with 20 points, including four 3-pointers. Olivia Coleman scored 20 points for Potosi. The Tigers will play Perryville at 11 a.m. at a tournament...

It looks fun to run up and down a soccer pitch and laser shots past a helpless goalkeeper. But Cape Central senior forward Kaya Newkirk has lived the behind-the-scenes life that involves a lot more sweat than it does glamor.

The selection of the 2019 All-Southeast Missourian Boy’s Soccer Team was as difficult as getting a victory against one of the several high-quality squads that took the pitch throughout the area last season.

There were two things that veteran Cape Central girl’s swim coach Dayna Powell knew concerning the Tigers’ 200 medley relay prospects for a championship in Friday’s MSHSAA Class 1 State Finals at the St. Peters (Mo.) Rec-Plex:

Five boys basketball teams and two girls basketball teams from the Semoball.com coverage area are ranked in the final regular-season state poll released by the Missouri Basketball Coaches Association. Delta (21-5), which is the No. 1 seed in Class 1, District 2, drops two spots to No. 9 in the Class 1 boys poll...

Cape Central junior Ava Duncan and sophomore Bella Dennis paced the Tigers through the opening day of the MSHSAA Class 1 Girl's State Swim Finals at the Rec-Plex in St. Peters. Duncan swam a time of 59.49 in the 100 backstroke to earn a fifth-place finish in the prelims, while Dennis is seeded seventh in the 100 breaststroke after swimming a time of 1:08.53.

Gateway (6-4) walked away with a victory playing Jackson (12-10) on Wednesday., ending the first quarter tied, the Jaguars rallied and outscored the Indians. Madison Lambert scored four 3-pointers for Jackson, gaining 22 points total. The Indians will play Rock Bridge on Saturday at 2:30 p.m...

Cape Central has never had a Missouri wrestling champion in more than a half-century of the Tigers’ program. Central is competing in Class 3 (boys) and Class 1 (girls) of the state wrestling tournament this weekend in Columbia. Four Tiger boys have made it to state and one girl...

The Southeast Missourian coverage area did not lack for quality volleyball during the 2019 season.

The Kelly Hawks trailed at halftime, but outscored Delta 22-5 in the third quarter to edge out the Bobcats 76-66 to pick up the home win in both teams regular season finale.

CHARLESTON, Mo – Tuesday had all the makings of a memorable senior night for the Charleston Bluejays. Not only were the Bluejays looking to close out their home schedule with a 12th-straight victory, but they had the chance to do it against SEMO Conference Tournament champion Cape Central while giving head coach Danny Farmer the 500th win of his career...

Oran (19-4) gained a home victory playing St. Vincent (10-13) on Monday. Gaining the most points in each quarter, the Eagles didn’t rest until they had defeated the Indians. Katie Webb scored 20 points for Oran, and her teammate Taylor Lowes scored three 3-pointers...

The selection of the 2019 All-Southeast Missourian Football Team was not an easy process. The six football-playing schools (Perryville, St. Vincent, Jackson, Cape Central, Scott City, and Chaffee) in the coverage area of the Southeast Missourian was filled with talented athletes and successful teams.

CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. – When Tyrus Reddin and Doreante Tucker are in the zone, the Cape Central Tigers are a tough team to handle. The Sikeston Bulldogs found that out on Friday night, as Tucker and Reddin led the state-ranked Tigers to a 72-60 win in front of a raucous crowd at Cape Central High School...

The postseason for MSHSAA basketball is nearing and the seedings and schedule for District play throughout Southeast Missouri were recently set.

Six boys basketball teams and three girls basketball teams from the Semoball.com coverage area are ranked in the latest state poll released by the Missouri Basketball Coaches Association Thursday. Delta (19-4), which has won nine of its last 10, drops a spot to No. 7 in the Class 1 boys poll...

Good Sports is a weekly feature appearing in the Southeast Missourian and online at Semoball.com. It profiles the life of a person connected to sports and allows readers the opportunity to know the people who are impacting athletics throughout Southeast Missouri in a deeper way. Responses have been edited for brevity and clarity...