East Carter County

From across Southeast Missouri, people descended upon Cape Girardeau on Saturday night for the region's premier sports awards show. More than 150 student-athletes from 57 area high schools were on hand for the Fourth Annual Semoball Awards presented by SoutheastHEALTH at the Donald C. Bedell Performance Hall on Southeast Missouri State University's River Campus, as awards were handed out in 25 sports categories...

Ten months after the high school sports calendar began, we now know all 148 of our on-field nominees for the 2017 Semoball Awards. On Friday, the spring sport finalists for baseball, softball, girls soccer, boys and girls track and field, golf and boys tennis for the event -- to be held Saturday, July 8, at the Bedell Performance Center at Southeast Missouri State's River Campus -- were announced as part of a live selection show on SEMO ESPN Radio...

Garry Wilkerson scored a game-high 19 points, as the second-seeded Scott County Central boys basketball team trounced seventh-seeded North Pemiscot 77-24 in the opening round of the Class 1 District 1 tournament Saturday at Gideon High School. Deantrell Beard had 14 points for Scott County Central (21-6), which held a 40-point advantage at halftime...

Boys and girls basketball district tournament schedules for Class 1 District 1, Class 1 District 2, Class 2 District 2, Class 3 District 1, Class 3 District 2...

Merry Christmas, Happy Hannukah, a wonderful holidays to all! It's that time of year, and with it comes an annual rite of passage — holiday basketball tournaments. We preview and break down two of the area's biggest holiday boys basketball tournaments, as the Southeast Missourian Christmas Tournament and Bloomfield Christmas Tournament get set to kick off ...

ELLSINORE, Mo. -- As high school basketball rivalries in Southeast Missouri go, it doesn't get much more heated than the one between East Carter and Van Buren. But for a few brief moments Friday night, the coaches and players of both teams set aside a cross-county rivalry and united in the name of something much more important than sports...

"There was no quit. I told them that it wasn't over. We could get three runs. We had the top of the lineup going and I knew we could get some baserunners on. We could do three runs."

All the high school sports scores reported to Semoball.com.

All the high school sports scores reported to Semoball.com.

All the high school sports scores reported to Semoball.com.

All the high school sports scores reported to Semoball.com.

The SEMO Conference announced its official changes on Wednesday, all of which go into effect in the upcoming 2016-17 school year. Kelly will join the conference in football, creating four divisions. The Hawks will join Charleston, East Prairie and Malden in the East Division. ...