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The schedule is set for the SEMO Conference volleyball tournament. The 10-team event takes place Oct. 16 and Oct. 18 at Cape SportsPlex. Pool play is Oct. 16 and bracket play is Oct. 18. Cape Central, Notre Dame, Sikeston, Poplar Bluff, and Jackson will compete in the SEMO North Pool. Scott City, Oran, NMCC, Kennett, and Charleston will compete in the SEMO South Pool...

The Saxony Lutheran softball team scored one run in the final inning to eke out an 8-7 victory over host Herculaneum on Friday. Zoie Roth went the distance in the circle to obtain the win for Saxony (4-11). Six of the seven runs allowed were earned and she recorded two strikeouts and six walks...

Series History: Dexter leads series 50-38 Last Meeting: Kennett beat Dexter 22-0 Last Week: Kennett beat NMCC 43-34; Caruthersville beat Dexter 30-12 Notes: Kennett (2-0) is looking to finish SEMO Conference South play perfect while Dexter (0-2) is in search of its first conference victory. Kennett has won the last three meetings after Dexter won the previous 16 meetings dating back to 1999...

Chalon Domian netted two goals as the Jackson boys soccer team picked up a key conference victory in its 3-0 win over Farmington on Thursday at Jackson Junior High School. Colton Seyer scored the other goal for the Indians, who improved to 11-1-2 and 4-0 in the SEMO Conference. Logan Geare provided one assist for Jackson, which snapped the Knights' five-game winning streak with the victory...

The Cape Girardeau Central girls tennis team finished one point ahead of Kennett to dethrone the defending tournament champion Indians and win the SEMO Conference Tournament on Friday at Notre Dame Regional High School. Jordan Maxton won the singles championship for the Tigers in an 8-4 victory over Kennett's Emma Phillips. Kennett's Sydni McAtee and Darcy Campbell defeated Jackson's Sarah Fetterhoff and Chloe Pipkin 8-0 for the doubles championship...

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...

The Advance volleyball team kept its undefeated season alive and picked up a key district win on Thursday night with a 25-18, 25-14 sweep of Leopold at Advance High School. Both teams will be competing in Class 1 District 3 Tournament and Thursday's result could tilt the potential district seedings in the Hornets' favor...

Scott City football had a chance to tie the game late in the third quarter. Then suddenly, it was a 14-point deficit. A fourth-down stop by Charleston followed by a 90-yard touchdown from star running back Q'nairies Anderson gave the Blue Jays the first double-digit lead of the game. They cruised from there, dealing the host Rams their first loss of the season, a 36-23 defeat at William Wilthong Field in Scott City's home opener Thursday...

Four games into the season, Scott City football is finally hosting its first home game, becoming the last SEMO Conference school to do so. The 16 other SEMO Conference programs, which are broken into four conferences, already have celebrated their home opener. The Rams, on the other hand, started the season with three road contests. They won all three, including a 38-28 win over East Prairie 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. ...

Ask Michael Minner how he's doing, and undoubtedly the response is always the same. "Livin' the dream." At first blush it might appear to be a tongue-in-cheek throwaway line, especially from a man who admits he's done some hell-raising in his time, describes himself as "a kid for going on 39 years" and has been known to loosen up a room with a one-liner or two. But about this, he is completely serious...