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The 2018 Bootheel Conference baseball awards have been released. 2018 Senath-Hornersville graduate Lathan Brooks, who has signed to play baseball at John. A. Logan College in Carterville, Ill., is the Bootheel Conference Player of the Year. Brooks batted .459 with six home runs, 24 RBIs and 25 runs scored for the Lions. He also went 6-1 on the hill with a 1.70 ERA. Brooks struck out 83 in 37 innings of work...

The 2018 Bootheel Conference softball awards have been released. Malden shortstop Lexi Campbell is the Bootheel Conference Player of the Year. Campbell batted .530 with four home runs and 26 RBIs her senior season. She also went 3-0 in the circle with a 3.62 ERA in 19 1/3 innings pitched...

Hayti standout and all-state honoree Kobe Cooper recently signed a national letter of intent with North Central Missouri College in Trenton. With family, friends, teammates, coaches, and administration on hand, Cooper put the ink to paper in a ceremony in the gym lobby at 1 p.m. on May 7...

In the fall of 2016, Ivory Winters was an up-and-coming defensive player for the Hayti Indians football team. Recognizing his talents, the coaching staff started him at defensive end, a good decision for sure as Winters was selected first-team all-state...

The St. Vincent boys track and field team placed first in five events en route to claiming the district championship at the Class 2 District 1 meet at Cape Girardeau Central High School on Saturday. Trevor Lukefahr posted two first-place times of 22.43 seconds and 50.74 seconds in the 200 and 400 dashes, respectively, to help lead St. ...

The winter sports season is one of the most passionate in Southeast Missouri, and this winter there were plenty of performances deserving of that passion. On Tuesday, 40 more individuals were announced as winter sport finalists for the 2018 Semoball Awards...

Rylee Venable had a home run and four RBIs to lead the top-seeded Scott City softball team to a 13-3 semifinal victory over fourth-seeded Advance in the Class 1 District 4 Tournament at Oran. Kaileigh Dirden was the winning pitcher and also doubled and drove in three runs for Scott City (16-3). She threw a complete game and allowed three earned runs with eight strikeouts and no walks...

The third-seeded Kennett Indians struck for three runs in the third inning Saturday and beat seventh-seeded Dexter 5-2 in a consolation semifinal of the SEMO Conference Baseball Tournament at Cape Central High School. The Indians will face Notre Dame in the fifth-place game at 2:15 p.m. Monday. Dexter (3-12) will meet New Madrid County Central for seventh place at noon Monday. Both games will be played at Capaha Park in Cape Girardeau...

Hayti senior standout Ton’Quasha Hayes signed a national letter of intent to play basketball at Jefferson College, during a ceremony at the Hayti High School gym lobby Apr. 18. With family, friends, and coaches on hand, Hayes happily put pen to paper, officially becoming a member of the Lady Vikings basketball squad. Hayes will be headed to Hillsboro, Missouri, later in the summer for at least two more years of college hoops...

The schedule has been released for the highly anticipated Bootheel Conference softball tournament. Weather permitting the eight-team event will take place Monday and Tuesday at Senath-Hornersville High School. Quarterfinals take place Monday. No. 1 seeded Malden plays No. ...

The 2018 Bootheel Conference high school boys basketball awards have been released. Hayti senior guard Darius Jones and Malden senior guard Dashawn Butler are Co-Players of the Year in the Bootheel Conference in boys basketball. Jones averaged 17 points and seven rebounds per game. Butler averaged 18 points and six rebounds per game...

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - The Hayti Indians played with a lead most of the way but ultimately finished a basket shy of securing its first state title in boys basketball since 1983 Friday night. The Van-Far Indians rallied from a 50-42 deficit in the final two minutes of regulation to force overtime and hit a 2-pointer with four seconds left in the extra session to edge Hayti 56-55 in the Class 2 state championship at JQH Arena in Springfield...

SPRINGFIELD. Mo. - Doing things to create extra scoring opportunities has been a key to success for the Hayti varsity boys basketball team since Day 1. “Coach always tells us in practice you have to work hard,” Hayti senior Kobe Cooper said. “We especially have to focus on defense and rebounding. And we did that tonight.”...

Hayti senior Kobe Cooper recently hit an outstanding milestone in his high school basketball career. Jones scored his 1,000th as an Indian during Hayti’s district championship win over Bernie Feb. 22 The two-time all-conference and all-district player had this to say about his achievement: “My goal never was to score 1,000 points,” he said. “My goal was to make it to state. I’ve just always played hard and done what is best for my team.”...

Hayti all-state star hoops player Darius Jones recently signed a National Letter of Intent with Rend Lake College, located in Ina, Illinois. Surrounded by family, friends and coaches, Jones put ink to paper in a ceremony in the school gymnasium lobby Feb. 23...

Listed below is a breakdown of the four teams competing at the Class 2 boys basketball Final Four Thursday and Friday. --- PROGRAM BREAKDOWN: The Indians are located in Pemiscot County and have an enrollment of 211. The head coach is Portageville graduate Aaron Bidewell, who has a career record of 123-66 and a school record of 42-15. The Indians have won eight district titles and advanced to the final four in 1983, 2012 and 2018. Hayti’s only state championship was in 1983...

POPLAR BLUFF, Mo. - The Hayti Indians varsity boys basketball team received a mid-season wake-up call when it suffered a 69-56 loss to Malden in a semifinal of its conference tournament Jan. 30. “We had a really bad game against a high-quality Malden club in our conference tournament,” Hayti coach Aaron Bidewell said. ...

There will be no magic this time around. After making an unexpected run to claim the Class 2 state championship last season, the Oran boys basketball team ran into a Hayti side looking for revenge, and the Indians set the stage for what they hope is their own run with a 72-57 win over Oran on Wednesday night in a Class 2 sectional at Jackson High School...