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Sixty area volleyball teams took part in the Dig For Life Challenge Volleyball Tournament at the Cape Girardeau SportsPlex and Show Me Center Friday and Saturday.

PERRYVILLE, Mo. – Third-year Perryville football coach Blane Boss may feel like kicking a wall at times, as his Pirate squad is being besieged by injuries for the second straight season. However, he isn’t admitting any frustration publicly.

SIKESTON AT POPLAR BLUFF Records: Sikeston 1-1; Poplar Bluff 1-1 Series History: Sikeston leads 56-36-4 Last Meeting: 2018, Sikeston won 34-0 Last Week: Sikeston lost to McCluer North 36-0; Poplar Bluff defeated Riverview Gardens 48-8. Notes: Offense was a struggle for the Sikeston football team last week, as the Bulldogs got shut out by McCluer North in the second-straight meeting. ...

THAYER, Mo. — Doniphan's defense helped produce the first touchdown of the season for the Dons against a state-ranked opponent. Gavin Thompson recovered a fumble on the Thayer 15-yard line and help set up the first of three rushing touchdowns by quarterback Alex Harris in Doniphan's 50-19 road loss Friday night...

Bailey Cupples of Holcomb and JD Burton of Neelyville were the Semoball Athletes of the Week in online fan voting that concluded Wednesday night. Cupples, the female winner, finished with 561 votes after finishing with 12 kills, three aces and one block in the Hornets' 25-13, 25-13 season-opening win over Southland on Friday...

SIKESTON — The Sikeston softball team opened up its season on Tuesday afternoon, against Naylor at the Sikeston Recreation Complex. Leading 5-0 after three innings of play it looked like the Bulldogs were bound for a victory. The Eagles, though, had other plans, scoring seven unanswered runs to defeat the Bulldogs 7-5 and spoil the home-opener...

CITY AUTO MEMPHIS TWILIGHT CLASSIC Notre Dame senior Blake Morris was the fourth runner to cross the finish line at Saturday’s City Auto Memphis Twilight Classic at the Mike Rose Soccer Complex in Memphis, Tennessee. Morris posted a time of 15 minutes, 46.33 seconds and finished just behind junior Miles Ally of Martin Luther King High School from Nashville, Tenn., (15:43.15) and ahead of senior Conner O’Shea of Madison Central High School from Richmond, Ky., (15:50.85) to finish in the Top Five. ...

Following three weeks of fall camp, high school football players throughout Southeast Missouri finally get to compete with the scoreboard turned on tonight.

A few hours before preseason jamborees got underway Friday night some schools in the Missouri Bootheel learned they will be battling new opponents when the state playoffs begin later this fall. The Missouri High School Activities Association released 2019 class and district assignments for most fall sports Friday...

DONIPHAN — Anita Carrens returns as the Doniphan volleyball coach after 22 years. Carrens, who played college volleyball at Three Rivers and Arkansas Tech, originally coached the Donettes from 1987-97, but has been involved with the sport as a referee ever since...

DONIPHAN — There’s plenty of new faces for the Doniphan softball team this season, but the program’s recent run of success is unlikely to slow down. Jack Childress is the new head coach. Childress coached softball for 27 years at Three Rivers College before coaching Van Buren High School the past three seasons, including a state championship in 2016...

After getting its first 7-on-7 of the summer rained out last week, Poplar Bluff hosted its on Thursday at Mules Stadium with Malden and Doniphan joining. The loosely scripted evening featured the traditional 7-on-7 passing drills, with the lineman at the other end of the field battling for impromptu lines of scrimmage. A couple of 40-yard races broke out, and in one instance, a back flip...

What I learned from living the initial 52 years of my life in the state of Indiana was that Hoosiers are passionate about three things: religion, farming, and sports. And depending on the time of year and whether the Indiana University men’s basketball team is underachieving or not, the order of those things could fluctuate.