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Woodland senior Bruester Young claimed a gold medal in the javelin at the MSHSAA Class 2 Track & Field State Championships held Friday and Saturday in Jefferson City, Missouri. Young not only claimed a state title, but also set a Class 2 state record with a throw of 173 feet, 11 inches on his first attempt. ...

The Woodland boys had a strong performance at the Class 2 Sectional 1 meet on Saturday at Hillsboro High School, qualifying seven individuals plus two relay teams for the Class 2 State Championship meet. Logan Thomsen grabbed a sectional title in the 1,600-meter run with a time of 4:40.05, and finished second in the 800 to also qualify for state in that event...

STE. GENEVIEVE, Mo. -- The Chaffee baseball team was one strike away from a district title game appearance, and then with one swing of the bat, Bismarck's Hunter Drake turned the game on its head. Suddenly, the Red Devils were down a run with just three outs to work with. They couldn't recover...

Sixth-seeded Cape Girardeau Central baseball saw its season come to an end Friday, as it fell to third-seeded Hillsboro 5-2 in a quarterfinal of the Class 5 District 1 Tournament in Hillsboro, Missouri. Cooper Crosnoe and Drake Mills each had a hit and an RBI as the Tigers...

The top-seeded Notre Dame boys tennis team didn't drop a single match in its 5-0 sweep of fourth-seeded Arcadia Valley in a semifinal of the Class 1 District 1 team tournament on Tuesday at Notre Dame Regional High School. The victory set up a clash of familiar foes, as the Bulldogs (11-1) will go up against second-seeded and two-time defending district champion Dexter at 4 p.m. ...

After coaching in the same conference as the Meadow Heights boys basketball team the last three seasons, Corey Brownsberger was familiar with the program. At Leopold, his teams faced off against the Panthers at least two times a season, a regular-season meeting and a Mississippi Valley Conference tournament matchup. ...

Jonathan Bell and D.J. Lynch each carded a 10-over-par 81 as the Notre Dame boys golf team won the Class 3 District 1 tournament championship for the second year in a row on Tuesday at the Fox Haven Country Club in Sikeston, Mo. The Bulldogs all finished below 90 as the defending district champions edged Farmington by five strokes in the team standings to come away with the district championship. Nicholas Westrich shot a one-over-par 82 to earn the medalist honors for the Knights...

Chaffee baseball coach Brian Horrell didn't expect Austin Copeland to return before the season opener in mid-March. He thought the junior might return by late April or early May, just before playoffs began. After all, Copeland had just torn his left ACL in an early September football game. Just 10 or 15 years ago, that injury would have ruled Copeland out for the remainder of the school year, Horrell said...

Layne Johnson held the Bulldogs to six hits on the mound, as the Oran baseball team knocked off Sikeston 10-2 on Thursday in Sikeston, Missouri. Johnson threw 6 2/3 innings and allowed two earned runs, striking out seven batters and walking two. Drew Reischman secured the final out for the Eagles...

Notre Dame's Jonathan Bell carded a six-over-par 77 to tie for second individually, as the Bulldogs finished 16 strokes behind champion Poplar Bluff to receive second place Monday in the SEMO Conference Boys Golf Tournament at Fox Haven Country Club in Sikeston, Missouri...

Jersey number: 30 Height: 5-foot-9 Position: Guard Favorite team tradition: Praying before every game Favorite memory from this season: Winning third in conference Favorite spot on the floor to shoot from: 3-point line Favorite gym to play in: Chaffee...

Notre Dame girls soccer got a golden-goal winner in extra time from Megan Heisserer to get past Saxony Lutheran 3-2 in a conference matchup on Wednesday in Jackson, Missouri. It was a fourth straight overtime game for the Crusaders and a second extra-time loss in as many days...

Clay Sauceda hit a solo home run, but the Oran baseball team wasn't to fend off a determined Portageville squad, as the Eagles dropped a 7-6 decision to the Bulldogs on Tuesday in Oran, Missouri. Drew Reischman went 2 1/3 innings on the mound to be tagged with the loss for Oran (6-2). He gave up four runs (one earned) on three hits and had one strikeout and one walk. He also added a double at the plate...

BENTON, Mo. -- The Chaffee girls track and field team began and ended Monday with the same result: a first-place finish in a relay. In between there were plenty of solid finishes, including a couple other top-three finishes in relays, as the Red Devils won the Johnny Merrick Invitational at Kelly High School. Chaffee beat 16 other schools, including numerous local teams, to claim the team title with a score of 110...

Trent Unterreiner hit a double to record the only extra-base hit of the game, as the Perryville baseball team tallied a run in the final inning to eke out a 2-1 win over the Bearcats on Saturday at Ste. Genevieve, Missouri. Garrett Dix went the distance on the mound to earn the win for Perryville. He allowed one earned run and recorded nine strikeouts and four walks...

Kelly baseball got a walk-off hit from Nathan Vicenzi as the Hawks edged visiting St. Vincent 5-4 with a rally in the bottom of the seventh inning. Kyle Fitzgerald went the distance on the mound to take the win for Kelly (4-6). He gave up four earned runs, struck out five and walked three...

The Kennett softball team finally met its match as undefeated Oran flew out to a 3-0 lead and hung on to win 4-1, dealing the Indians their first loss of the season on Friday at Indian Park in Kennett, Missouri. Oran took a 1-0 lead when Kaylee Payne hit a solo home run in the top of the third inning. The Eagles extended their lead to 3-0 when Leah Cauble hit a two-run homer in the top of the fifth inning...

The Chaffee football program knew it was going to have a fresh face leading the way for the first time in more than a decade and a half. Now it has a name to attach to that face. Terry Flannigan will helm the Red Devils, the school announced Thursday, two weeks after the new coach's hire was made official...

Conference: SEMO Class & District: Class 1 District 1 No further information provided BOYS & GIRLS Coach: Collin Sheridan Conference: SEMO Class & District: Class 4 District 1 Seniors graduated: 17 Team's strengths: Many athletes on our team are highly interested in more than one event. This will be a strength because we will be able to fill spots out to score as many points as possible at our meets...

Coach: Chris Asmus Conference: Stoddard County Activities Association Class & District: Class 1 District 2 Last season's record: 7-14 2016 postseason result: Lost in district semifinals to Bell City Seniors graduated: One Team's strengths: A sense of family and togetherness. That is the kind of stuff that can make a good team great. I hope this sense of family turns into resiliency...

The Notre Dame baseball team split a pair of games against South Callaway on Saturday, wrapping up the Borgia-Union Classic with a second-place finish in Washington, Missouri. Notre Dame (3-3) shut out South Callaway (6-2) in a 7-0 decision to conclude pool play, which sent it into the championship game where it faced South Callaway again, this time dropping a 4-3 contest in 11 innings...

CHAFFEE, Mo. -- The Chaffee baseball team knew there wasn't much separating it from Bell City, but it took some timely hitting to get over the hump. The host Red Devils scored seven of their nine runs with two outs and got hefty production from the bottom half of their order as they ended a three-game losing streak to the Cubs, dropping the two-time defending Class 1 champions 9-2 on Thursday...

The Kelly girls soccer team extended its winning streak to four games with a 1-0 overtime victory over Perryville on Monday on the road. Hailey Noon netted the lone goal of the game in overtime with 1:45 left off an assist from Emily Bolen to get the win for Kelly, which improved to 4-0. The Hawks continued their winning ways following a weekend championship of their inaugural round-robin tournament...

PERRYVILLE, Mo. -- It was a perfect start for the Chaffee girls basketball team. It broke Oran's full-court defensive pressure, drew fouls and forced the Eagles out of their trademark 1-3-1 press. But then Oran showed why it had already beaten the Red Devils three times this season...