Chaffee

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...

The Jackson girls cross country team finished fourth in a Class 4 Sectional 1 meet Saturday in Washington, Missouri, to qualify for the state championship. Kennedy Bauer led the way with a second-place finish in 19 minutes, 33.56 seconds. Kaylee Wilson was the next-highest finisher for the Indians, coming in 25th in 20:27.72...

The postseason represents a fresh start. After nine weeks of jockeying for seeding position, football teams across the state now throw away their regular-season records. Each week, teams will play an elimination game. Win and advance; lose and the season ends...

BENTON, Mo. -- The game was long over, the coach had been doused in Gatorade and the Senior Night ceremonies had ended. But there was still one thing the Kelly football seniors had to do to cap off the win over Chaffee. Minutes earlier, the freshmen, sophomores and juniors had done it. Now, it was the seniors' turn...

One win. That's all that stands between the Jackson football team and an undefeated regular season. The state-ranked Indians will aim for their first undefeated regular season since 2007 when they face host Parkway Central at 7 p.m. Friday in Chesterfield, Missouri...

The Notre Dame cross country teams picked up the championships in each gender division in the Farmington Invitational at Engler Park on Saturday. Freshman Esperanza Zalite was the first runner to cross the finish line on the girls' side with a time of 20 minutes, 9.59 seconds to lead the Lady Bulldogs to victory. Teammates Paige Beussink and Kathryn Taylor landed in the Top 10 at fourth and eighth, respectively, as Notre Dame edged host Farmington by three points to capture the girls' title...

With each passing week, and accompanying victory, it becomes more of a possibility: an undefeated regular season. It would be the first for Jackson football since 2007, when the Indians finished 11-1 and one game shy of the Class 5 state final. Right now, the 7-0 Indians are just focusing on the next challenge. ...

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...

What a difference a year makes. Last year around this time the Jackson football team sought to end Poplar Bluff's perfect start to the season. The Indians were unsuccessful, falling 29-28 and losing possession of the SEMO Conference North crown. This season, the conference title is back in the Indians' hands and they are the ones with the undefeated record heading into the conference and district rivalry game at 7 p.m. today at The Pit...

Wil Essner and Jake Sauerbrunn each sank two goals to lead the Jackson boys soccer team to a 7-0 victory over North County on Monday at Jackson Junior High School. Ryan Kinder and Noah Sparks netted one goal apiece for the Indians, who improved to 12-1-2 with the win. Chalon Domian had the other goal and also had an assist for the hosts and Chayton Bass added one assist...

The Cape Girardeau Central boys swimming team posted five state qualifying times as the host Tigers took third place at the Cape Rock Invitational on Friday at the Central Municipal Pool. Central's Hyrum Dickson accounted for two of the times. The senior won the 100 butterfly in 54.65 seconds and also posted a state-qualifying time of 22.27 seconds in winning the 50 freestyle. ...

There's no rest for the weary. Jackson football, coming off its first victory over a ranked opponent all season, dives back into the meat of its SEMO Conference North schedule with a home game against Farmington at 7 p.m. today. Last week, the undefeated Indians rode an explosive offense to a 60-33 win over Battle, which entered the matchup ranked No. 7 in the Class 5 media poll. Thanks to the win, Jackson vaulted up three spots to No. 7 in this week's rankings...

Jimmy May scored three touchdowns as the Scott City football team cruised to a 32-0 win over conference rival Chaffee in its annual Green Up game Friday at Scott City High School. May rushed for 232 yards and two TDs on 18 carries and had three catches for 39 yards and a TD...

Sierra Burch blasted a home run, a double and drove in three runs to lead the Jackson softball team to a 6-4 victory over rival Notre Dame on Thursday at Jackson City Park. Notre Dame scored three of its runs in the top of the seventh before Karli Johnson shut the door for a complete-game win in the circle. She allowed four earned runs and recorded five strikeouts and three walks...

The Green Up game is usually early in the season, often the first or second week. But a three-game road stretch to begin the campaign followed by an unusual home opener means Scott City's annual fundraiser-slash-football game is a little later than normal...

Hannah Shinn put down nine kills as Jackson volleyball clinched the regular-season conference championship of the SEMO Conference North Division with the 25-13, 25-21 win over Sikeston. Mackenzie Stoner slammed eight kills for Jackson (9-1, 4-0 SEMO North Conference) while Emily Scott added five kills and two aces. Lainey Broussard tallied 20 assists, two kills and two aces for the Indians...

Fresh off a blowout win over its rival, the Jackson football team finds itself in the state rankings for the first time this season. The Indians come in at No. 10 this week in the Class 5 state media poll, thanks to a 3-0 start and a 49-7 win over Cape Central last week...

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. ...

For years, the Jackson-Cape Girardeau Central football game was reserved for the middle of the season or later. The two teams spent the early portion of the season building up to the contest, working out tweaks and fine-tuning their squads for the rivalry matchup...

Kara Kassel stuffed the stat sheet with 17 digs, four blocks, four kills and two assists as St. Vincent volleyball swept visiting North County 25-20, 25-19 on Wednesday. Maegyn Huber added seven kills and 10 digs for St. Vincent (2-1). Lexie Anderson also had four kills, nine digs, and one block while Grace Schrempf notched 10 digs to along with one block, one kill and one ace. Molly Myers chipped in six kills, nine digs and an ace...

The Jackson boys soccer team captured the Notre Dame Soccer Fest with a tight, 1-0 victory over host Notre Dame on Saturday at the Brad Wittenborn Soccer Complex in Cape Girardeau. Xavier Heinley broke the deadlock with the lone goal of the contest for the Indians (5-0)...

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...

Home, sweet home. For the first time in over nine months, Jackson football will play at The Pit when it faces Parkway North at 7 p.m. today. Coming off a 42-7 win over Webster Groves in its season opener last week, the Indians open the 2018 home campaign with another matchup against a St. Louis school...

A fast start propelled the Notre Dame softball team to a season-opening 8-0 win over Chaffee as Grace Lemons went 3-for-3 with two doubles and three RBIs. Hailey Kutz tossed the complete-game shutout for Notre Dame (1-0), scattering four hits and one walk while striking out five...

Preview capsules for area cross country teams

Preview capsules for area softball teams

CHAFFEE, Mo. -- A new season started for Chaffee softball Tuesday, and with it a lengthy losing streak came to an end. For the first time in over a decade, the Red Devils beat Kelly in a battle of two of the premier small-school programs in Southeast Missouri...

A lot of things did not go Chaffee's way in the football offseason. For one, its three-year starter at quarterback, Landon Tenkhoff, wore down during the summer as his three-sport regimen took a toll and saw his back sideline him for the fall. Then there is the pure numbers game -- the Red Devils dressed just 16 players for their season-opening 20-0 win over Crystal City on Friday...

Notre Dame junior Blake Morris was the first runner to cross the finish line with local foe Saxony Lutheran senior Caleb Cornelius right behind him in second place in Saturday's First-to-the-Finish Kickoff Classic on the campus of Southern Illinois University in Edwardsville, Illinois...

CHAFFEE, Mo. -- For 24 minutes, it was gridlock. Call it Week 1 football, call it two teams trying to figure out an offensive identity. Whatever it was, it was inefficient, and at halftime Chaffee and Crystal City remained scoreless. But what the offenses couldn't do, the Red Devils defense could. ...

The season opener is the start of something new. It's a new season with a new team, and sometimes the beginning of a new era for a program or coach. When Jackson football takes the field for its season opener at 7 p.m. Friday in St. Louis that aura of freshness will mix with the old. That's because the Indians are facing Webster Groves in a battle between two programs with years and years of tradition...