East Carter County

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.

The list of Semoball Awards finalists is complete. In Tuesday's selection show streamed exclusively on Facebook, the 45 spring sport finalists were revealed, along with the Lifetime Achievement Award winner, 13 nominees in Coach of the Year, Comeback Player of the Year and Best of Sportsmanship...

The annual Kennett High School Boys Basketball Shootout is slated for Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. Junior varsity squads square off Thursday with varsity teams battling it out Friday and Saturday. Games will last approximately 40 minutes. Each game will have two 16-minute halves with a running clock. The clock will stop the final two minutes of the game on dead balls unless a team is leading by 10 points or more in the final two minutes. Overtime is sudden death...

The all-region softball team has been released. Kennett freshman Kyra Jaco, Oran junior Kaylee Payne, Campbell senior Elizabeth Steward, Puxico senior Bailey Burns, Holcomb sophomore Bailey Cupples, and Malden sophomore Hailey Rojas were selected first-team all-region infielders...

Poplar Bluff wanted to win every inning. It did, and only needed to play five innings to get the win. The Mules scored in each of the first four innings, and put six runs on the board in the fourth before committing an out, to beat East Carter 12-2 in five innings on Wednesday at Strenfel Memorial Field...

SIKESTON — Scoring runs has not been a problem for the Sikeston baseball team during its current three-game winning streak. Defeating New Madrid County Central 15-5, and Poplar Bluff 8-7 in each of its last two games, the Bulldogs have been giving their pitching staff a ton of help...

DEXTER, Mo. — Carson Aycock and the East Prairie baseball team spoiled the Dexter Bearcats’ senior day Monday at East Park. Aycock pitched a no-hitter, striking out 12 and walking one in seven innings. Senior Caleb Hoggard was charged with the loss, allowing two runs on three hits with no strikeouts or walks in one inning. Hoggard was one of seven pitchers used by the Bearcats...

NEW MADRID, Mo. — New Madrid County Central held on to a 2-1 lead through four innings of play. The late innings, though, came to back to bite the Eagles as Scott city scored 11 unanswered runs to run away with a 12-3 win over NMCC. John Michael Stanley and Caden Howell each had impressive days for the Eagles. Stanley went 2-for-3, while Howell went 2-for-4...

BENTON, Mo. — Sophomore Jordi James scored the first two goals of her varsity career on Wednesday, as the Sikeston girls soccer team upended Kelly 3-2. Emily Boyd also scored on a penalty kick goal, while Audrey Vogel and Jade Davis finished with assists...

CHARLESTON, Mo. — Cruising to a win over Neelyville, the East Prairie baseball team opened up the 2019 season with a 13-1 victory, at Hillhouse Park, in Charleston, Mo. Five Eagles recorded two hits or more. Derez Tipler, Jase Aycock, Lane Moody, and Trea Cade each had two, while Evan Howell led the team with four hits...

In a few days, basketball postseason begins for teams across Missouri, but for an hour Wednesday afternoon, the focus was back on fall sports. In a live one-hour radio show on SEMO ESPN, 55 student-athletes were announced as fall sports finalists for the 2019 Semoball Awards...

Blake Bollinger scored 23 points to push Meadow Heights past Zalma 63-53 despite a strong fourth quarter comeback effort. Bollinger was outdueled by Mayson Casey, who hit six 3-pointers on his way to 24 points in the loss. Zalma outscored Meadow Heights 27-20 in the final quarter but was unable to pull within 10 before the final buzzer...

Nobody held a double-digit lead. For all but two minutes in the second half, nobody held a three-possession lead. For the first six minutes of the second half, nobody even held a two-possession lead. The No.4-No. 5 game of the Ozark Foothills Conference tournament lived up to its billing as fourth-seeded Greenville and fifth-seeded East Carter went back and forth from start to finish...

Down three as the clock passed the minute mark, the Royals got a stop, chased down the long rebound and called a timeout with 48 seconds left. Watson came off a screen and tried for a 3 from the top of the key, but missed and Bangert was fouled on the rebound...

The schedules are set for three December basketball tournaments. The six-team Senath-Hornersville varsity boys basketball tournament takes place Dec. 10-13 at Senath-Hornersville High School. Pool play is Dec. 10-12 with championship round action Dec. 13...

Class and district assignments have been released for boys and girls basketball in the Missouri Bootheel for the 2018-19 season. Clarkton, Delta, Delta C-7, Gideon, North Pemiscot, Richland, Risco, Scott County Central, and Southland will compete in Class 1, District 1. See teams in all Class 1 districts here: Class 1 Districts...

By Alex Wallner sports@standard-democrat.com BENTON, Mo. — With two outs recorded in the top of the ninth inning, it looked as if the Kelly softball team was going to have a chance to score the game-winning run, at home, in the bottom half of the inning to advance to the state quarterfinals...

The Advance volleyball team added two more wins to its flawless record and improved to 7-0 on the season with victories over Valle Catholic and host Jackson at the inaugural Spike Fest Challenge at Jackson High School on Saturday. The Hornets swept the Warriors in straight sets (25-23, 25-22) in their first game of the day, dropping the Warriors' record to 2-4. ...

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. ...