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BENTON, Mo. — It was a great day to be a Dexter Bearcat and Lady Bearcat. Both the Dexter boys and girls track teams earned first-place honors at the Johnny Merrick Invitational at Thomas W. Kelly High School, Thursday, in Benton. On the boys' side, Dexter edged Scott City by two points, 105-103. Kennett finished in third with 86 points...

The Missouri High School Baseball Coaches Association released its first state rankings for the 2021 season earlier this week. Oran and Kennett are favored to win state titles in their respective classes. Oran is ranked No. 1 in Class 1 and Kennett is ranked No. 1 in Class 4...

Chaffee head baseball coach Brian Horrell got 6 1/3 innings from senior starting pitcher Alec Brown, who only gave up two earned runs, striking out 12 batters and scattering five hits, shutting down East Prairie Monday, 6-2. Brown was very solid in his start, throwing 70 of his 106 pitches for strikes...

Following a year of missing out on gathering with friends and family due to the COVID pandemic, everyone, including sports fans, is anxious to spend time with those closest to us once again.

The Oran offense pounded out 10 runs on 12 hits Thursday, including shortstop Ty Johnson going 3 for 3 at the plate, as the Eagles shut out Delta, 10-0, to win their fifth game in six attempts. Johnson also drove in two RBIs in the contest. Two other Eagles (Kaden Hargrove and Nicolas Massey) drove in two RBIs as well to tie Johnson for the game lead in runs driven in...

Third place hitting Andrew Enderle went 5 for 5 against Bernie Monday, driving in seven RBIs, hitting three home runs, to lead Scott City past the Mules, 19-10. Enderle homered in the first inning, singled in the third, singled in the fourth, homered again early in the sixth inning, and finally wrapping up his day with another home run of the grand slam variety, later in the same inning...

Scott City fell behind early, giving up a run in the first inning, and couldn't get anything going offensively, as Farmington shut out the Rams, Friday, 8-0. Scott City starting pitcher Nick Hillman gave up a double to lead-off hitter Jeremiah Cunningham, who would advance to second after a walk by Hillman, then would steal third base a batter later...

Saxony Lutheran earned their second win of the season Wednesday, defeating Meadow Heights, 7-3.

The Bell City Cubs opened their 2021 Baseball campaign with a lopsided home win Monday, beating Leopold, 10-0. The story of the game was the pitching of Bell City starter Austin Hunt, who totally shut down the Wildcats offense, limiting them to just three hits the entire six-inning contest...

ORAN, Mo. — Oran senior Katie Webb and head coach Amy Pobst earned Player of the Year and Coach of the Year honors for the Scott-Mississippi County Conference last week. Webb was one of three Eagles to earn a spot on the all-conference team — juniors Hope Woodfin and Traci Hency joined her — while sophomore Haley Webb was an honorable mention...

SIKESTON — Two Sikeston Lady Bulldogs’ earned a spot on the Class 5, District 1 All-District team. Juniors Karris Allen and Amyari Blissett both received the honor. Allen finished her junior year averaging a double-double, with 20 points and 10 rebounds, to go along with four assists, four steals, and two blocks per contest. She shot 44 percent from the field, 29 percent from three, and 56 percent at the free-throw line...

Local teams place in MCCA state cheer competition East Carter won its division at the Missouri Cheerleading Coaches Association's state championships, it was announced Sunday, while the East Prairie and South Pemiscot squads were honored for their work during timeouts. ...

The Woodland girls basketball team has really put together a nice winning streak of winning since mid-January, going 7-0 in that stretch. They continued that streak Wednesday with a semifinal win against Charleston, ending the Blue Jays season with a 70-37 shellacking...

SCOTT CITY — Six years ago, Scott City High School boy’s basketball coach Mark Dannenmueller reacted to a postseason loss to Charleston by strengthening the Rams’ schedule the following season to an insane degree.

High School boys and girls basketball district tournaments are finally upon us. Fans, players, and coaches have had to endure a strange, but sometimes fun, basketball season, which was filled with many postponements and/or cancellations due to Covid-19, as well as the weather. However, we can say that the 2020-2021 season has been one of the more entertaining ones in recent years.

The seedings have been released for the Class 1-3 boys and girls district basketball tournaments. Postseason play begins Feb. 20 for schools in Class 1-3. Higher seeds are slated to host quarterfinals and semifinals. Some districts will also have the highest remaining seed host their district championship. Other districts have elected to designate a neutral host site for their district final...

ORAN, Mo. — No lead is safe in basketball games when you have quality shooting. For East Prairie (9-9) senior Evan Howell, he made sure to do that and not let his team go down without a fight in the consolation championship game of the Scott-Mississippi County Conference Tournament against Chaffee (7-14). The No. 6-seeded Red Devils defeated the No. 4-seeded Eagles 68-60...

A lot of things have gone well for the New Madrid County Central girl’s basketball program this season.

Since the start of 2021, the Notre Dame girls basketball team has fallen on difficult times, due to the fact that their competition has drastically improved since the beginning of the season. Saturday proved to be their toughest opponent yet, as they took on the undefeated class six, number one ranked Incarnate Word Academy in St. Charles...

ORAN, Mo. — Saturday was the first day of the Scott-Mississippi County Conference Tournament at Oran High School. There were three games played, with the No. 1 seed Scott City earning a bye after No. 7 seed Scott County Central dropped out. No. 3-seeded Kelly had little to worry about against No. 6 seed Chaffee...

SIKESTON – Oran High School girl’s basketball coach Amy Pobst was an accounting major in college, not a psychology major, but she did a masterful performance of rewiring her players’ minds following an 18-point loss to Delta just five weeks ago.

Cape Central advanced to the championship game of the Hillsboro Girls Invitational with a 45-40 win over Herculaneum Thursday. The Tigers led 11-8 after the opening quarter and carried that lead into halftime, outscoring the Blackcats, eight to six, in the second quarter...

Coach Darrin Scott might've seen his team lose a very tough matchup in the Hall of Fame Classic Saturday to the #1 team in Class 5 Cardinal Ritter Lions but he can't say his team didn't compete. His team was very much in the game, even tied with the highly touted Lions at halftime...

The Cape Central Tigers improved to 10-4 on the season as Ella Vogel and Taylor Horton led all scorers with 22 points each to beat Seckman in the Hillsboro Invitational Tournament Tuesday, 64-41. Vogel scored 15 of her 22 points in the second quarter and Horton produced 13 points of her 22 in the final quarter to put an exclamation point on the game...

Tuesday night the Oran Eagles were minus the services of two of their starting five in Langdon Scheeter and Diesel Cato, but the rest of the team stepped up and pulled out a tough, late-season Scott-Mississippi Conference game on the road against Chaffee, winning 49-44...

Alandry Below scored a game-high 24 points and two other Advance Hornets scored in double figures as Advance pulled away from Charleston in the last three quarters, winning at home in dominating fashion Monday 63-38 to win their fifth in a row. Kaylee Cline helped the cause for the Hornets scoring 15 points and Danielle Markham added 12 points in the victory...

The Kelly Hawks picked up a road win Friday by beating an upstart Chaffee team 60-54, improving their season record to 7-7. Kelly, who had previously only won one of their last 4 games, got a game-high 24 points from junior Gavin Jansen, who recently picked up his 1,000th career point this past week...