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CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. — Megan Witt and Emma Drury came up big in a clutch situation on Tuesday night against Cape Central. After Sarah Keller led off the sixth inning with a single, and Jordi James and Naudia Lazcano were promptly hit by pitches, Witt gave Sikeston the 6-5 lead on a sacrifice fly...

CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. - The Gideon Bulldogs finished a win shy of taking home the top prize in the Black Division of the Dig for Life Challenge Saturday in Cape Girardeau. Gideon, which entered the tournament supporting a perfect 5-0 record, collected six wins, two ties, and suffered one loss at the two-day Dig for Life Challenge...

HAYTI, Mo. - The Hayti Indians returned home on Friday night for the annual Homecoming festivities. Prior to the game, senior Chloe Phelps was crowned as the 2019 football Homecoming Queen. Chloe and the rest of the homecoming court looked on as the Hayti Indians took on the Chaffee Red Devils, a fellow Class 1, District 1 opponent...

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.

New Madrid County Central sophomore quarterback Matt Riley was voted the semoball.com Football Player of the Week for Week 2 of the high school season. Riley accumulated 592 votes after completing 14 of 22 passes for 295 yards and three TDs in the Eagles' 46-6 win over East Prairie on Friday...

Kennett 2, Oran 0 KENNETT, Mo. - The Kennett Indians varsity volleyball team outlasted Oran 25-11, 25-20 for its second straight SEMO Conference victory Monday.

CHARLESTON, Mo. — If you were to look at the final score of the Charleston and Hayti game on Friday, you would think that it was an early decision. Charleston, however, controlled the first half in a 36-7 loss. The Bluejays led 7-6 heading into the break after Teejay Williams scored on a five-yard run with 8:52 left in the half...

There are several intriguing football match-ups in Week Two, as several teams ramp up the toughness in their schedules tonight. Here is a look at “What 2 Watch 4” throughout the Semoball-coverage area.

If Southeast Missouri State football coach Tom Matukewicz was happy following his team’s recent rout of rival Southern Illinois, then you can imagine how he felt Wednesday when former Hayti football standout Ivory Winters joined the Redhawk program.

McCluer North at Sikeston Records: McCluer North 0-1; Sikeston 1-0 Series history: McCluer North leads 1-0 Last meeting: 2018, McCluer North won 7-0 Last week: McCluer North lost to Edwardsville, Ill. 7-6; Sikeston defeated Vashon 24-18 Notes: McCluer North’s game against always tough Edwardsville, Ill., ended with the Stars down 7-6 late in the first quarter. ...

LAST MEETING: Gosnell beat Kennett 24-8 LAST WEEK: Kennett beat Fredericktown 49-0; Nettleton (Ark.) beat Gosnell 69-32 HEAD TO HEAD STREAKS: 2018 was the first time Kennett and Gosnell had scheduled each other since 2011 when Gosnell won 55-19. ABOUT GOSNELL: Gosnell has transitioned from a double wing to spread offense under new head coach Lewis Earnest. ...

HAYTI, Mo. - The excitement of the Friday night lights returned to southeast Missouri on Friday as the high school football season officially began across the state. The defending Class 1, District 1 champion Hayti Indians, ranked No. 2 in the preseason rankings hosted the No. 9 ranked Thayer Bobcats...

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

In a photo finish, Caruthersville's senior receiver/defensive back Jermaine Alexander edged out Hayti senior linebacker Adreian Stephenson for the 2019 Fan Choice Preseason Football Player of the Year in online voting on semoball.com. A total of 4,005 votes were cast in the online vote, and Alexander emerged five votes ahead of Stephenson...

The 2018 Hayti Indians football team accomplished something no other Hayti football team has ever accomplished: they won a state championship. Here we are at the start of the 2019 football season and this Indian squad has an opportunity to do what hasn’t been done before: repeat as state champions...

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...

Football fans will have to wait another week to get their first glimpse of the Kennett, Hayti, East Prairie, and New Madrid County Central football teams. The football jamboree the four schools were scheduled to compete in Friday night at East Prairie was canceled Friday afternoon due to poor field conditions from recent weather. T...

High school football fans will have the opportunity to get their first look at football teams in the Missouri Bootheel later this week. Kennett, Hayti, and New Madrid County Central will compete in a four-team jamboree at East Prairie Friday at 6 p.m...

Varsity football schedules are set for schools in the Missouri Bootheel less than six weeks before the start of the 2019 season. Kennett, Malden, Hayti, and Caruthersville have no changes to their schedules. All four programs will play the same schools in the same order as last season...

2018 Class 1 Offensive Player of the Year Check. 2018 Carr Trophy Winner Check. 2019 Bootheel Conference Boys Basketball Player of the Year Check.   The awards continue to pile up for 2019 Hayti graduate Ivory Winters. Winters added two additional awards to his repertoire Saturday night. ...

Flashbulbs and excitement were in heavy supply as student-athletes from Southeast Missouri were honored for their achievements Saturday at the biggest sports awards show in the region. The Sixth Annual Semoball Awards presented by SoutheastHEALTH honored more than 120 athletes from over 50 schools in 25 different categories.

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.