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Host sites are set for most district tournaments if spring sports resume in Missouri. Missouri high schools remain out of session and all springs sports activities and practices are currently suspended due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The Indiana High School Athletics Association canceled spring sports in Indiana Thursday due to the VOVID-19 pandemic...

The Missouri State High School Activities Association issued an update regarding the status of spring sports amidst the COVID-19 pandemic Tuesday. “While schools across the state are determining the best course of action during this unprecedented time, the Missouri State High School Activities Association (MSHSAA) office staff continues to prepare for Spring Championships,” MSHSAA said in a press release. ...

SIKESTON — Multiple Standard-Democrat area basketball players earned spots on their respective All-District teams recently. Sikeston seniors Payton Howard and Clark Steward both made the team for Class 4, District 1. Senior Taydrianna Barnett and sophomore Karris Allen both made it on the girls’ side as well...

The preseason Missouri high school baseball state rankings were released Wednesday by the Missouri High School Baseball Coaches Association. Six baseball teams from the semoball.com coverage area are state-ranked. Cooter, which placed third in Class 1 last spring and finished 22-1 in its fall campaign, is ranked No. ...

Spring sports for Missouri high schools will start as planned next week, MSHSAA announced Friday after releasing district assignments. "We re monitoring what is happening from the Missouri Department of Health, the Governor's Office, and the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education," MSHSAA said in a statement Friday...

DEXTER - Any time Doniphan got some momentum, Emily Brune took it away. Saxony Lutheran's 1,800-point scorer finished with 29 points as the Crusaders won 63-43 in the MSHSAA Class 3 sectional Wednesday in Dexter. "She's a playmaker. We needed her tonight especially. We struggled," Saxony coach Sam Sides said. "We were kind of hot and cold shooting 3s. We made a few there to get separation, but then we couldn't make anything."...

Saxony Lutheran’s retiring girls basketball coach Sam Sides is full of admiration for Wednesday’s Class 3 sectional opponent, Doniphan. The Crusaders (17-11), champions of District 2, will be in Dexter to face the Donettes (22-7), winners of District 1...

KENNETT, Mo. - A couple of minutes into the third quarter Doniphan Donettes coach Adam Epps elected to change defenses after the New Madrid County Central Eagles scored the first six points of the second half to pad its lead to 42-20. “We knew we had to do something different,” Epps said. ...

KENNETT, Mo. - Favorites are set to collide in the championship of the Class 3, District 1 girls basketball tournament after the top two seeds won their respective semifinals by double digits Monday night. The No. 1 seeded New Madrid County Central Eagles (20-6) will take on the No. 2 seeded Doniphan Donettes (21-7) Friday at 6 p.m. in the title game at Kennett High School...

KENNETT, Mo. - The No. 3 seeded Kennett Indians varsity boys basketball team dug itself an early hole but recovered quickly in its Class 3, District 1 quarterfinal Saturday afternoon. The Indians managed to cut an early seven-point deficit to 18-16 by the end of the first quarter...

Five boys basketball teams and two girls basketball teams from the Semoball.com coverage area are ranked in the final regular-season state poll released by the Missouri Basketball Coaches Association. Delta (21-5), which is the No. 1 seed in Class 1, District 2, drops two spots to No. 9 in the Class 1 boys poll...

After losing their first regular-season conference game in nearly five years, the Neelyville girls basketball team kept a much longer streak alive Friday night. The Tigers earned their 12th consecutive Ozark Foothills Conference Tournament title by beating Doniphan 63-47 at the Libla Family Sports Complex...

The postseason for MSHSAA basketball is nearing and the seedings and schedule for District play throughout Southeast Missouri were recently set.

Six boys basketball teams and three girls basketball teams from the Semoball.com coverage area are ranked in the latest state poll released by the Missouri Basketball Coaches Association Thursday. Delta (19-4), which has won nine of its last 10, drops a spot to No. 7 in the Class 1 boys poll...

NEELYVILLE - Clearwater earned a pair of upsets in the Ozark Foothills Conference Tournament on its way to a third-place finish. After beating Twin Rivers in the first round and losing to top-seeded Neelyville in the semifinals, the fifth-seeded Tigers bounced back with a 63-50 win over third-seeded Doniphan Thursday in Neelyville...

NEELYVILLE - Neither team held a double-digit lead. In the third quarter, neither team even held a two-possession lead. In a game destined to go down to the wire, East Carter led by three points with 13 seconds left and Doniphan's ball. After a timeout, Doniphan ran a set to try and get Ethan Jones open, coming off a pick the picker play, but East Carter defended it and after Jones wasn't open for a shot, the Dons tuned it over with 3 seconds left...

NEELYVILLE — The Donettes held Naylor to 10 points in the first half and prevented a second-half comeback to win 50-36 Monday to advance to the OFC Tournament finals for the second year in a row. “We’re that good of a defensive team in my opinion,” Doniphan coach Adam Epps said. “We’re going to play good teams that are going to score some points and teams get hot, but I think we did a really good job of keeping them in front.”...

The brackets are set for the Class 3, District 1 basketball tournament at Kennett High School. Defending champion Charleston (19-3), which is ranked No. 3 in the latest Class 3 state poll, is seeded No. 1 in the boys bracket. ...

Six boys basketball teams and two girls basketball teams from the Semoball.com coverage area are ranked in the latest state poll released by the Missouri Basketball Coaches Association. Delta, which had won nine straight as it beat Oak Ridge 105-86 in the semifinal of the Scott-Mississippi County Conference Tournament Friday, remains No. 6 in the Class 1 boys state poll. Oak Ridge (12-9) moves into the rankings at No. 10 in the Class 1 boys state poll...

NEELYVILLE - Clearwater used a seven-point run late in the fourth quarter and held on to advance in the Ozark Foothills Conference Tournament. The fifth-seeded Tigers held fourth-seeded Twin Rivers to five points in the third quarter and went on to win 49-44 in the first round...

Can Neelyville hold serve in the Ozark Foothills Conference Tournament? The Tigers are hosting this year and both the boys and girls teams earned the top seed for the third year in a row heading into next week’s tournament, which starts Saturday. The championship will be played at the Libla Family Sports Complex and all other games will be played at Neelyville High School...

Jaylin Dutton does not look like the typical high school athlete on the basketball court or the softball diamond. Dutton, a senior at Doniphan High School, wears a skirt instead of the shorts or pants that most athletes wear when competing. “Everyone believes different things — and I didn’t always play in a skirt,” Dutton said. “But my eighth grade year, my pastor came up to me and we talked about it — and I decided that I wanted to start playing basketball in a skirt.”...

As is customary for the Delta boy’s basketball squad, the Bobcats raced out to an early lead on its latest opponent (Chaffee) and never looked back Saturday in the opening round of the Scott-Mississippi Valley Conference Tournament at Delta.

David Layton led Oak Ridge (11-6) to a 70-61 victory with 37 points (including four three-pointers) against Kelly (11-8) Friday.

DONIPHAN — Doniphan will head into next week’s Ozark Foothills Conference Tournament seed meeting with at least a share of the regular-season title. The Donettes completed their regular season OFC schedule Thursday with a 65-34 win over Twin Rivers to finish 5-1 while the Royals will be 2-3. The Donettes lone loss was to Neelyville, while Neelyville lost to Naylor and Naylor lost to Doniphan, creating a potential logjam for the top three seeds in the tournament, which starts Feb. 8...

Seven boys basketball teams and two girls basketball teams from the Semoball coverage area are ranked in the latest state poll released Wednesday by the Missouri Basketball Coaches Association. Delta (16-3), which is unbeaten in the month of January, has moved up two spots to No. 6 in the Class 1 boys poll...

The Advance Hornets outscored the Meadow Heights Panthers 33-13 in the second half en route to a 49-37 come-from-behind home victory.

The Webster Groves Statesman did not have a double-digit scorer, but eked out a 41-34 home victory over the Jackson Indians.

NEELYVILLE — There is now a three-way tie at the top of the Ozark Foothills Conference standings. Two weeks after losing to Naylor, which ended a 28-game conference winning streak, the Neelyville girls basketball team handed Doniphan its first OFC loss, winning 61-52 Thursday...

Six Semoball boys basketball teams and two Semoball girls basketball teams are ranked in the latest state rankings provided by the Missouri Basketball Coaches Association. Delta (14-3), which is unbeaten in the month of January, is ranked No. 8 in the Class 1 boys poll...

BROSELEY — Levi Rawlings was in the right spot at the right time Friday night. The Doniphan junior caught a missed shot, turned and sank a jumper just before the buzzer to stun rival Twin Rivers 41-40 in an Ozark Foothills Conference game. “I just went in for a rebound like I usually do, try my hardest,” said Rawlings who had four of his six rebounds on the offensive end...

POPLAR BLUFF — Following a back-and-forth first half, the Poplar Bluff girls basketball team shut down Doniphan's offense in the second half Monday night. The Donnettes were held to just three points in the second half until the final seconds as Poplar Bluff ran away for a 49-28 win at the Senior High Gym...