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Class and district assignments have been released for boys and girls basketball in the Missouri Bootheel for the 2018-19 season. Clarkton, Delta, Delta C-7, Gideon, North Pemiscot, Richland, Risco, Scott County Central, and Southland will compete in Class 1, District 1. See teams in all Class 1 districts here: Class 1 Districts...

The Jackson girls cross country team finished fourth in a Class 4 Sectional 1 meet Saturday in Washington, Missouri, to qualify for the state championship. Kennedy Bauer led the way with a second-place finish in 19 minutes, 33.56 seconds. Kaylee Wilson was the next-highest finisher for the Indians, coming in 25th in 20:27.72...

The postseason represents a fresh start. After nine weeks of jockeying for seeding position, football teams across the state now throw away their regular-season records. Each week, teams will play an elimination game. Win and advance; lose and the season ends...

BENTON, Mo. -- The game was long over, the coach had been doused in Gatorade and the Senior Night ceremonies had ended. But there was still one thing the Kelly football seniors had to do to cap off the win over Chaffee. Minutes earlier, the freshmen, sophomores and juniors had done it. Now, it was the seniors' turn...

One win. That's all that stands between the Jackson football team and an undefeated regular season. The state-ranked Indians will aim for their first undefeated regular season since 2007 when they face host Parkway Central at 7 p.m. Friday in Chesterfield, Missouri...

By Alex Wallner sports@standard-democrat.com BENTON, Mo. — With two outs recorded in the top of the ninth inning, it looked as if the Kelly softball team was going to have a chance to score the game-winning run, at home, in the bottom half of the inning to advance to the state quarterfinals...

Sam Elders scored two touchdowns, including the go-ahead score in the third quarter, as the Scott City football team edged Kelly 20-13 on Friday at Scott City High School. The two teams combined for 26 points in the second quarter and seven in the other three quarters...

CHAFFEE, Mo. -- On the same field where the Kelly softball team suffered a season-opening defeat, the Hawks celebrated Thursday. That loss in the opener, and tough start to the season, is behind them. What's ahead: a return trip to the state tournament...

With each passing week, and accompanying victory, it becomes more of a possibility: an undefeated regular season. It would be the first for Jackson football since 2007, when the Indians finished 11-1 and one game shy of the Class 5 state final. Right now, the 7-0 Indians are just focusing on the next challenge. ...

Poplar Bluff's Brylee Misner blasted two home runs and had three RBIs as the Mules ended Cape Girardeau Central's softball season Wednesday in the Class 4 District 1 Tournament with a 13-3 victory in the quarterfinals at Jackson City Park. The Mules used four three-run innings in enacting the 10-run rule in the sixth inning...

BENTON, Mo. -- What started off as a hot streak quickly came to a halt for the Kelly softball team as Jackson claimed a comeback win. The Indians scored seven runs in the final three innings, including three in the fifth to take the lead for good, and beat host Kelly 11-8 on Monday in a SEMO Conference matchup and the regular-season finale for both teams...

The Kelly football team made history Friday night. The Hawks cruised past Metro-East Lutheran (Ill.) 50-0 on Homecoming to reach five wins for the first time in the history of the five-year varsity program. Kelly has two more regular-season games left, plus the postseason, to improve upon that mark...

What a difference a year makes. Last year around this time the Jackson football team sought to end Poplar Bluff's perfect start to the season. The Indians were unsuccessful, falling 29-28 and losing possession of the SEMO Conference North crown. This season, the conference title is back in the Indians' hands and they are the ones with the undefeated record heading into the conference and district rivalry game at 7 p.m. today at The Pit...

Notre Dame softball pitcher Allison Lynch celebrated Senior Day on Thursday with another solid performance. The senior hurler pitched seven innings of one-run ball to earn the complete-game win as the Bulldogs beat SEMO Conference foe Kelly 2-1 on a walk-off single at Notre Dame Regional High School...

Jake Sauerbraunn scored on free kick with 10 minutes left in regulation as the Jackson boys soccer team completed a 3-2 comeback victory over host Northwest in Cedar Hill, Missouri. Chalon Domian had given Jackson (13-1-2) a 1-0 lead midway through the first half, but Northwest countered with a pair of goals for the lead at halftime...

There's no rest for the weary. Jackson football, coming off its first victory over a ranked opponent all season, dives back into the meat of its SEMO Conference North schedule with a home game against Farmington at 7 p.m. today. Last week, the undefeated Indians rode an explosive offense to a 60-33 win over Battle, which entered the matchup ranked No. 7 in the Class 5 media poll. Thanks to the win, Jackson vaulted up three spots to No. 7 in this week's rankings...

The Green Up game is usually early in the season, often the first or second week. But a three-game road stretch to begin the campaign followed by an unusual home opener means Scott City's annual fundraiser-slash-football game is a little later than normal...

What a difference two years can make. In 2016, the upstart Kelly football team suffered through a winless campaign, scoring just 13 points in 10 games. One of the Hawks' worse losses was an 85-0 defeat to Malden, which finished the regular season undefeated...

MALDEN, Mo. - The story of Malden’s football season keeps writing the same chapter. Malden was once again on the doorstep as opportunity knocked, but it couldn’t capitalize on its chances. Turnovers and penalties haunted the Green Wave in their 42-34 loss to Kelly Friday night...

The Advance volleyball team added two more wins to its flawless record and improved to 7-0 on the season with victories over Valle Catholic and host Jackson at the inaugural Spike Fest Challenge at Jackson High School on Saturday. The Hornets swept the Warriors in straight sets (25-23, 25-22) in their first game of the day, dropping the Warriors' record to 2-4. ...

The Advance volleyball team kept its undefeated season alive and picked up a key district win on Thursday night with a 25-18, 25-14 sweep of Leopold at Advance High School. Both teams will be competing in Class 1 District 3 Tournament and Thursday's result could tilt the potential district seedings in the Hornets' favor...

Fresh off a blowout win over its rival, the Jackson football team finds itself in the state rankings for the first time this season. The Indians come in at No. 10 this week in the Class 5 state media poll, thanks to a 3-0 start and a 49-7 win over Cape Central last week...

Nearly 60 teams participated at the 31st Annual St. Francis Medical Center Dig for Life Volleyball Challenge over the weekend at various venues throughout Cape Girardeau. The program, founded by former Southeast Missouri State University women's volleyball coach Cindy Gannon, raises breast cancer awareness and helps provides mammograms to women in the area who otherwise could not afford such important screening. ...

For years, the Jackson-Cape Girardeau Central football game was reserved for the middle of the season or later. The two teams spent the early portion of the season building up to the contest, working out tweaks and fine-tuning their squads for the rivalry matchup...

The Jackson boys soccer team captured the Notre Dame Soccer Fest with a tight, 1-0 victory over host Notre Dame on Saturday at the Brad Wittenborn Soccer Complex in Cape Girardeau. Xavier Heinley broke the deadlock with the lone goal of the contest for the Indians (5-0)...

Cape Girardeau Central senior Jared Neikirk was the first runner to cross the finish line with a first-place time of 10 minutes, 36.94 seconds to help lead the Tigers to second place at the Fleet Feet Cross Country Kickoff Classic at the Arnold City Park on Thursday...

Home, sweet home. For the first time in over nine months, Jackson football will play at The Pit when it faces Parkway North at 7 p.m. today. Coming off a 42-7 win over Webster Groves in its season opener last week, the Indians open the 2018 home campaign with another matchup against a St. Louis school...

CHAFFEE, Mo. -- A new season started for Chaffee softball Tuesday, and with it a lengthy losing streak came to an end. For the first time in over a decade, the Red Devils beat Kelly in a battle of two of the premier small-school programs in Southeast Missouri...

Twenty-six teams kicked off the cross country season Saturday at the Jackson Invitational at Jackson City Park. The host program had a strong day, led by its senior girls. With each grade getting its own race, Kennedy Bauer topped the senior showdown with a time of 15 minutes, 30 seconds, just 18 seconds ahead of teammate Kaylee Wilson in second. Faith Littleton crossed the line fifth in that race to lead the Indians to a team victory in the race...

The season opener is the start of something new. It's a new season with a new team, and sometimes the beginning of a new era for a program or coach. When Jackson football takes the field for its season opener at 7 p.m. Friday in St. Louis that aura of freshness will mix with the old. That's because the Indians are facing Webster Groves in a battle between two programs with years and years of tradition...