East Carter County

Alexa Werneck of Dexter and Lane McLevain of Cooter were voted the female and male Semoball Athletes of the Week, respectively, for the week ending Sept. 7. Werneck, who plays volleyball for the Bearcats, received 399 votes after registering 13 kills (.333 hitting percentage), five blocks and three digs in Dexter's 2-1 victory over Jackson...

East Carter County’s Makenna Moore tossed a complete game and gave up just one earned run on four hits as the host Redbirds flew to their fourth win of the season in the 2-1 victory over Jackson on Tuesday in softball action in Ellsinore, Mo. Moore struck out...

ELLSINORE — Makenna Moore struck out a dozen, gave up one hit and made sure she didn’t have to pitch the seventh inning Monday afternoon. The East Carter senior pushed across the game-ending run with a walk as the Redbirds beat rival Twin Rivers 11-1...

The Cape Girardeau Central and Notre Dame boys swimming teams made quite a splash at Saturday’s Cape Rock Invitational at the Central Municipal Pool.

Molly Conrad hammered seven kills as the fourth-seeded Meadow Heights Panthers rallied and bounced back after dropping the first set to stave off an upset from a determined fifth-seeded Oak Ridge Blue Jays squad and prevailed (14-25, 25-13, 25-13) in the quarterfinals of the Woodland Invitational Tournament...

BENTON, Mo. — In a rematch from the Class 2 Sectionals one year ago, the Kelly softball team held its home-opener against East Carter at Kelly High School. Kelly Ivy allowed two earned run, on seven hits. She walked one batter and struck out one, and was the loser in the decision...

BROSELEY — Twin Rivers softball rallied from down 3-0 in the bottom of the fifth inning to win 6-3 Friday in Broseley. The Royals cut Naylor’s lead to one run after five innings, and then scored four runs in the sixth for holding the Eagles in the seventh...

UNION, Mo. — Poplar Bluff overcame a three-goal deficit but a penalty kick sank the Mules 4-3 in their season opener at Union. The Wildcats led 3-1 at halftime but Poplar Bluff tied it on a penalty kick by Alex Ketcherside for the junior's second goal...

It remains to be seen just how much success the Jackson softball program will have throughout its 2019 season. The Indians open the year with a tough test today at Notre Dame (4:30 p.m.). However, there is no questioning how popular the Jackson athletes are.

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...

ELLSINORE — East Carter opened last season’s Ozark Foothills Conference Tournament championship on a great note. The Redbirds took a 1-0 lead in the top of the first inning against undefeated Clearwater after Alex Kearbey stole home. The Tigers tied it up in the bottom frame, and both teams scored a second run in the fourth. It was still tied at 2-all in the sixth, but East Carter committed three errors and lost 7-2 to finish the fall season 17-6...

ELLSINORE — Last year, the softball team talked about having a two-year plan with the goal of reaching state. The talk was reasonable, with a strong junior class and only one senior, the Lady Redbirds had a window that was getting more open by the day...

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...