Chaffee

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...

The coronavirus pandemic has altered the 2020 Semoball Awards into a production like never before, as the event will be conducted as a “virtual” event on Facebook Live on July 11 at 7 p.m. instead of a live show that the sports fans throughout Southeast Missouri have grown accustomed to through the years.

If you drive around the cities and towns dotting the Southeast Missouri landscape, one thing is undeniable: Kids are playing sports again in wake of the coronavirus pandemic.

CHAFFEE — Stop me if you have read this scenario before: Scott City earns a victory with Jimmy May and Joe Panagos playing key roles late in the game.

CHAFFEE, Mo. — A beautiful, sunshine-filled afternoon is just what the doctor ordered as baseball returned to Southeast Missouri. Three five-inning games took place at Harmon Field, in Chaffee, on Sunday, featuring senior athletes from eight Scott-Mississippi County Conference teams...

Each year the Semoball Awards recognizes outstanding high school athletes from around the region. That tradition continues this summer albeit in a different format because of lingering COVID-19 concerns and social distancing requirements.

CHAFFEE — Canceling the 2020 baseball season left every team, most notably senior athletes, without a chance to compete for their schools one last time.

SIKESTON — Baseball is gearing back up. Practices and drills are starting all in anticipation for the first game for each summer program, and although it may not be the season each team envisioned, there is still going to be a season. After the cancellation of the Missouri American Legion baseball season, Sikeston Silver Sox general manager Craig Templeton was trying to find a different alternative...

Columbia, Mo. - The Missouri State High School Activities Association (MSHSAA) Board of Directors voted to grant relief of portions of the MSHSAA By-Laws that include summer limits on contact between coaches and student-athletes at its April meeting on Thursday...

Jackson football coach Brent Eckley is entering his ninth season leading the program, and despite the uncertainty of months lost to the coronavirus, is bullish on his football team’s prospects in 2020.

CHAFFEE, Mo. — Chaffee senior Braelyn Pobst is continuing her basketball career in college. On Saturday morning, Pobst signed with Webster University in St. Louis. Pobst finished her senior season with Lady Devils averaging 11 points per game on 62 percent shooting. She had 106 assists, good for nearly four assists per game, 64 steals, which was good for nearly two steals per contest, and nearly three rebounds per game...

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...