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Coming off its historic championship season, the Hayti Indians football program continues to gain accolades, as five senior players each signed a National Letter of Intent to play college football with Missouri Valley College Thursday afternoon, March 14 at a school assembly. With family, friends, teammates, and coaches in attendance, LaKeith Robinson, Xavier Jamerson, Chrivontae Moore, William Dunn and Jason Weatherspoon put ink to paper, making their commitments to Vikings football official...

ST. LOUIS — After a successful high school basketball career at Sikeston, former Bulldog Fred Thatch Jr. is continuing to succeed at the next level, helping Saint Louis University to the NCAA Tournament in his first season. Thatch, a 6-3 true freshman guard, was an integral part of the Billikens squad that won the Atlantic 10 Conference Tournament on Sunday and earned a 13 seed in the NCAA Tournament. ...

The 2019 Bootheel Conference high school girls basketball awards have been released. Campbell senior guard Claire Parker is the 2019 Girls Basketball Player of the Year. Parker averaged 25 points, seven rebounds, and four steals per game her senior season...

The 2019 Bootheel Conference high school boys basketball awards have been released. Hayti senior Ivory Winters is the 2019 Bootheel Conference Player of the Year. Winters averaged 18 points per game, 10 rebounds per game and two steals per game his senior season...

DUSTIN WARD dward@dddnews.com SIKESTON, Mo. - The Hayti Indians varsity girls basketball team became the latest victim of the No. 1 ranked Thayer Bobcats Wednesday night. Thayer jumped out to a 15-2 lead after one quarter of play, increased its lead to 47-9 by halftime, and enjoyed a 63-13 lead by the end of the third quarter on its way to 64-21 victory against Hayti in a Class 2 sectional at Sikeston Field House...

PORTAGEVILLE, Mo. - The Campbell Camels varsity girls basketball team rallied from a 42-27 halftime deficit to tie things up at 49-all with 5:42 remaining but was unable to put together the finish it needed to secure its first district title since 2007 Thursday night...

PORTAGEVILLE, Mo. - The No. 2 seeded Campbell Camels jumped out to an early lead and hung on to beat the No. 3 seeded Portageville Bulldogs 63-51 in the nightcap semifinal at the Class 2, District 1 girls basketball tournament Monday at Portageville High School...

PORTAGEVILLE, Mo. - The No. 3 seeded Hayti Indians moved one step closer to a repeat district championship as it beat the No. 6 seeded Senath-Hornersville Lions 61-26 in the third Class 2, District 1 boys basketball quarterfinal Saturday at Portageville High School...

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...

The seedings have been released for the Class 1, District 1 basketball tournaments at Gideon High School; Class 2, District 1 basketball tournaments at Portageville High School; and Class 3, District 1 basketball tournaments at Charleston High School...

CHARLESTON, Mo. — The Charleston Bluejays used pressure defense to grab an early lead against visiting Malden and won going away 85-38 Tuesday night. Charleston (14-8) jumped out to a 32-7 led to start the game as Bluejay full-court press caused numerous turnovers leading to easy baskets. Terridean Bogan hit three 3-pointers in the first quarter and finished with 14 points in the frame while teammate Samuel Bledsoe added 10 points, including two 3-pointers...

CHARLESTON, Mo. — Forcing 10 first-half turnovers; Charleston’s defense turned up the heat against Lift for Life Academy, at the Sixth-Man Shootout, on Saturday, at Charleston High School. The Bluejays used a 23-13 second quarter to open the gap, as they went into halftime, up 41-24...

If you attended Thursday night’s championship game of the Bootheel Conference Tournament, then you got your money’s worth. Call it a battle. Call it the “Battle of the Bootheel Part 2.” Call what you want, but the second matchup of the season between the Caruthersville Tigers (8-9) and Hayti Indians (16-3) was nothing short of stellar, full of fast and furious defense and high-flying acrobatic moves to the basket. ...

SENATH, Mo. - Hayti coach Craig Rodgers knew his squad could rotate better defensively even thought it already enjoyed a 25-19 lead against the Campbell Camels after one half of play Thursday night. “We knew we didn’t rotate well on defense and as a result didn’t rebound well in the first half,” Rodgers said. “We made sure we rotated better on defense in the third quarter, which put us in a better position to get steals and go score in the open court.”...

SENATH, Mo. - Coach Mike Kilgore and his South Pemiscot Bulldogs (13-7) went into Tuesday night’s Bootheel Conference Tournament semifinal matchup owning an impressive five-game winning streak. The Bulldogs’ opponents, Aaron Bidewell’s Hayti Indians (15-3), had won 13 of their last 14, including a 63-59 win over South Pemiscot back on Jan. 8...

SENATH, Mo. - The success continued for the No. 5 seeded Caruthersville Tigers Tuesday night at the Bootheel Conference varsity boys basketball tournament. Fresh off a 73-68 quarterfinal victory against No. 4 seeded Campbell Saturday, red-hot Caruthersville experienced little difficulty knocking off the No. 1 seeded Portageville Bulldogs in the first semifinal Tuesday...

SENATH, Mo. - Hayti Indians varsity girls basketball coach Craig Rodgers didn’t have the pieces in place to extend his defense beyond half court when the season kicked off in November. “I like putting pressure on teams,” Rodgers said. “That was something we couldn’t do the first half of the season because we didn’t have the personnel to implement it. ...

SENATH, Mo. - The semifinal are set at the Bootheel Conference varsity boys basketball tournament following quarterfinal action Saturday at Senath-Hornersville High School. No. 1 seeded Portageville, which received a first round bye Saturday, will take on No. 5 seeded Caruthersville in the first semifinal Tuesday at 5:30 p.m...

SENATH, Mo. - The top four seeds remain in contention to win the Bootheel Conference varsity girls basketball tournament after collecting quarterfinal wins Saturday at Senath-Hornersville High School. No. 1 seeded Campbell will take on No. 4 seeded Caruthersville in the first semifinal Tuesday at 4 p.m...

The brackets are set for the Bootheel Conference boys and girls high school basketball tournaments. The tournaments take place Jan. 26, Jan. 28, Jan. 29, and Jan. 31 at Senath-Hornersville High School. See brackets for tournaments at the links below:...

PORTAGEVILLE, Mo. — All Portageville had to do to capture the conference championship, was defeat Hayti on Tuesday night, at Hayti High School. Easier said than done. The Bulldogs, though, came in and did just that, defeating the Indians 68-59. Steven Guo led Portageville (14-4) with 26 points. He went 11 of 12 at the free-throw line...

JACKSON, Mo. - The Kennett Indians varsity boys basketball team moved back above the .500 mark with a 69-48 road victory against the Saxony Lutheran Crusaders Tuesday night. Kennett (9-8) led 18-11 after one quarter, 29-19 at halftime and 54-35 at the end of the third quarter...

PORTAGEVILLE, Mo. — Bub Lance scored 20 points to lead Portageville past Campbell, in overtime, 61-59. A big fourth quarter from the Bulldogs, helped them get right back into the game, as they outscored Campbell 19-12 in the final period to give the fans in attendance free basketball...

DELTA DUNKLIN DEMOCRAT BLOOMFIELD, Mo. - The consolation semifinals are set at the Bloomfield Christmas Tournament following quarterfinal action Thursday. No. 8 seeded Portageville will take on No. 13 seeded Bloomfield in the first consolation semifinal Friday at 1 p.m. The second consolation semifinal between No. 10 seeded South Pemiscot and No. 14 seeded Malden follows Friday at about 2:30 p.m...

BLOOMFIELD, Mo. - The top-seeded Hayti Indians surpassed the century mark before the start of the fourth quarter as it cruised past the No. 16 seeded Holcomb Hornets 115-40 in the first game at the Bloomfield Christmas Tournament Wednesday morning. Hayti (5-2) led 35-9 after the first quarter, 69-22 at halftime and 94-28 at the end of the third quarter...