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SIKESTON — Below is a list compiled of the Standard-Democrat area’s 12 best boys’ basketball players — outside of the player of the year. Eight schools make up the Standard-Democrat coverage area: Sikeston, Scott County Central, Oran, Portageville, East Prairie, Charleston, New Madrid County Central, and Kelly...

Host sites are set for most district tournaments if spring sports resume in Missouri. Missouri high schools remain out of session and all springs sports activities and practices are currently suspended due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The Indiana High School Athletics Association canceled spring sports in Indiana Thursday due to the VOVID-19 pandemic...

SIKESTON — Below is a list compiled of the Standard-Democrat area’s 12 best girls’ basketball players: Height: 5’10” Coach: Alisha Wills ABOUT HER: An all-around player for the Lady Bulldogs this season, Allen did nearly everything that Sikeston asked her to do. ...

BENTON, Mo. — Finishing his third season as head coach at Kelly, Darrin Pruitt earned Coach of the Year honors from the Scott-Mississippi County Conference. After an 8-15 season in his first year, Pruitt has led the Lady Hawks to back-to-back winning seasons, culminating in a 16-11 mark in 2019-20...

The Missouri State High School Activities Association issued an update regarding the status of spring sports amidst the COVID-19 pandemic Tuesday. “While schools across the state are determining the best course of action during this unprecedented time, the Missouri State High School Activities Association (MSHSAA) office staff continues to prepare for Spring Championships,” MSHSAA said in a press release. ...

SIKESTON — Multiple Standard-Democrat area basketball players earned spots on their respective All-District teams recently. Sikeston seniors Payton Howard and Clark Steward both made the team for Class 4, District 1. Senior Taydrianna Barnett and sophomore Karris Allen both made it on the girls’ side as well...

The preseason Missouri high school baseball state rankings were released Wednesday by the Missouri High School Baseball Coaches Association. Six baseball teams from the semoball.com coverage area are state-ranked. Cooter, which placed third in Class 1 last spring and finished 22-1 in its fall campaign, is ranked No. ...

Spring sports for Missouri high schools will start as planned next week, MSHSAA announced Friday after releasing district assignments. "We re monitoring what is happening from the Missouri Department of Health, the Governor's Office, and the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education," MSHSAA said in a statement Friday...

Good Sports is a weekly feature appearing in the Southeast Missourian and online at Semoball.com. It profiles the life of a person connected to sports and allows readers the opportunity to know the people who are impacting athletics throughout Southeast Missouri in a deeper way. Responses have been edited for brevity and clarity...

FREDERICKTOWN – Spencer Stratman has gained a lot more knowledge through his four years as a student at Scott City High School than just in the classroom.

FREDERICKTOWN – Following his team’s 59-36 win over Saxony Lutheran Monday in the Class 3 District 2 semifinal, Scott City boy’s basketball coach Mark Dannenmueller spoke to his team quickly and then headed back out to the Fredericktown High School gymnasium to scout his next opponent.

St. Vincent (19-6) will advance to semi-final action in Class 2, District 3 at Bloomfield after a forty-point blowout over Puxico (8-16).

Five boys basketball teams and two girls basketball teams from the Semoball.com coverage area are ranked in the final regular-season state poll released by the Missouri Basketball Coaches Association. Delta (21-5), which is the No. 1 seed in Class 1, District 2, drops two spots to No. 9 in the Class 1 boys poll...

The Kelly Hawks trailed at halftime, but outscored Delta 22-5 in the third quarter to edge out the Bobcats 76-66 to pick up the home win in both teams regular season finale.

SIKESTON — Both Scott County Central and Kelly were undermanned going into their matchup on Monday night at Ronnie Cookson Gymnasium at Scott County Central High School. Kelly was without the services of starters Elly Pattengill and Allison Owens, while Scott County Central was without starter Samantha Coffee and key bench player Kyla Pearson...

EAST PRAIRIE, Mo – With just a week to go before the postseason, Kelly continued their recent winning streak against host East Prairie on Friday. Spoiling the Eagles homecoming, the Hawks got a game-high 21 points from Gavin Jansen to help down East Prairie 72-52 for the team’s sixth win in a row...

The postseason for MSHSAA basketball is nearing and the seedings and schedule for District play throughout Southeast Missouri were recently set.

NEW MADRID, Mo. — Turnovers are problems for any basketball team. However, against a team, like the New Madrid County Central girls this season, it’s become a calling card to turn their opponents over with an unforgiving pressure defense. Having long, athletic, and quick players doesn’t hurt either, and it showed against Kelly (14-10), in its 76-59 win on Thursday night, at New Madrid County Central High School...

Six boys basketball teams and three girls basketball teams from the Semoball.com coverage area are ranked in the latest state poll released by the Missouri Basketball Coaches Association Thursday. Delta (19-4), which has won nine of its last 10, drops a spot to No. 7 in the Class 1 boys poll...

BENTON, Mo. — Clinging to a 43-41 lead with under one minute left, Kelly tried to stave off a Portageville comeback in the fourth quarter. That would not be the case, though, as Portageville called a timeout with 58.9 seconds left, after junior Drew Irby drove near the right elbow, got pressured, and kicked it out to a teammate before head coach Jason Irby decided to try a new strategy...

Six boys basketball teams and two girls basketball teams from the Semoball.com coverage area are ranked in the latest state poll released by the Missouri Basketball Coaches Association. Delta, which had won nine straight as it beat Oak Ridge 105-86 in the semifinal of the Scott-Mississippi County Conference Tournament Friday, remains No. 6 in the Class 1 boys state poll. Oak Ridge (12-9) moves into the rankings at No. 10 in the Class 1 boys state poll...

DELTA, Mo – It was always going to be hard for Delta and Kelly to top their first meeting this season when the Bobcats topped the Hawks on a buzzer-beater to play the spoiler homecoming. That didn’t mean Delta wasn’t going to give it a try, rallying back from a 20-point halftime deficit to close within a possession of Kelly in the closing minutes of the Scott-Mississippi Conference tournament finals Friday night...

Advance (12-8) outscored Puxico (0-15) on Thursday, ending the first half 24-7 and finishing the game 42-21. Alandry Below led the Hornets to a victory by scoring 23 points. Advance will play Holcomb at home on Monday at 6 p.m. Puxico will play Campbell at home on Monday...

The Hawks (12-9) outscored the Bluejays 62-26 on Wednesday, leading them to a victory at Oak Ridge (2-12). Alaney Moore led Kelly by scoring 32 points, over half of her team’s final score. Masterson scored the only 3-pointer for the Bluejays, contributing five points total...

DELTA, Mo. — As Cooper Priggel’s desperation heave went off the mark and Kelly gathered the rebound, the bench, and fans wearing Maroon and Gold cheered with joy as the Hawks upset Oran, at Delta High School, on Tuesday night. The No. 1 seed in the Scott-Mississippi County Conference Tournament and No. 3 seed in Class 2, fell in an overtime thriller to the Hawks 57-56 in the semifinals, leaving not one Kelly player, coach, fan, or parent without a smile on their face...

The Notre Dame defense was the story in this one as they held Cape Central to 29 points on the way to a 58-29 road win.

Saturday marked the first day of the boys Scott-Mississippi County Conference Tournament, and it started with a bang, between No. 4 seed Scott City and No. 5 seed Kelly.

David Layton led Oak Ridge (11-6) to a 70-61 victory with 37 points (including four three-pointers) against Kelly (11-8) Friday.

Addie Cates led St. Vincent (9-8) to dominating 52-8 victory scoring 13 points (including two 3-pointers) against Crystal City (3-12) on Wednesday.

CHARLESTON, Mo. — Heading into the fourth quarter up five points, the Oran girls basketball team was in a much closer contest then they had hoped, against Scott County Central, in the Scott-Mississippi County championship game. Leading by 13 points at one point in the third quarter, Oran could not find a way to stop Scott County Central senior Samantha Coffee. ...

Seven boys basketball teams and two girls basketball teams from the Semoball coverage area are ranked in the latest state poll released Wednesday by the Missouri Basketball Coaches Association. Delta (16-3), which is unbeaten in the month of January, has moved up two spots to No. 6 in the Class 1 boys poll...

JACKSON, Mo. — Andrew Schwarting made his presence felt against Kelly on Tuesday night. The 6-6, long-armed senior finished with a game-high 35 points and shot a healthy percentage from the floor, as the Crusaders defeated the Hawks, 74-55, at Saxony Lutheran High School...

CHARLESTON, Mo. — After holding on to a 28-26 lead at halftime, the start of the second half was not how the Charleston girls basketball team had envisioned. Scoring the first points of the third quarter on a basket from senior Ashanti Jones, Charleston, at the time, held a 30-26 lead over No. 7-seed Chaffee in the first round of the Scott-Mississippi County Conference Tournament at Charleston High School on Saturday...

BENTON, Mo – Homecoming games don’t get much more exciting than Kelly’s Friday night nail-biter against state-ranked Delta. Sadly for Hawk fans, it was visiting Delta’s bench rushing the court to celebrate after senior Jon Bond’s buzzer-beating put-back allowed the Bobcats to escape with an 81-79 win...

Six Semoball boys basketball teams and two Semoball girls basketball teams are ranked in the latest state rankings provided by the Missouri Basketball Coaches Association. Delta (14-3), which is unbeaten in the month of January, is ranked No. 8 in the Class 1 boys poll...

The Bobcats held the Hornets to one point in the first quarter and never looked back as they picked up a 63-33 home victory.

The Blue Jays used a 20-9 third quarter to pull away from the Hornets and pick up the home victory.

BENTON, Mo. — Kelly outscored Chaffee by 20 points, 26-6, in the third quarter to push its lead even further on Friday night at Thomas W. Kelly High School. Joel McClain led the charge, scoring nine of his 17 points in the frame. He tied Gavin Jansen for most points on the team as well...

ORAN, Mo. — Tied at five at the end of the first quarter, the Oran girls basketball team turned up the heat to end the first half on Thursday night. Oran (9-3, 4-0 Scott County-Mississippi County Conference) went on a 14-0 run to start the second quarter, led by the play of senior Kaylee Payne...

ORAN, Mo – Anyone expecting a repeat of Kelly’s 30-point loss to Oran from earlier this season when the two teams faced off again Tuesday night was in for quite the surprise. Not only did the Hawks control the first 12 minutes of the contest, but with a minute left in regulation, a clutch three had Kelly knotted up with the state-ranked Eagles...

BENTON — Cape Central earned a dominating 54-30 win at Thomas W. Kelly Monday. The Tigers (9-4, 2-0 Class 4, District 1) were paced by 6-foot sophomore Ella Vogel, who came off the bench to score 16 points, with all but four coming in the second half.