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The Semoball Cup ended up being a battle of the Bulldogs that needed overtime to decide. Megan Heisserer's golden goal to lift Notre Dame to the Class 2 soccer title also happened to clinch the Cup. In the closest finish in the early history of the award, Notre Dame edged Van Buren by 4.79 points in the standings that determine which area school had the most athletically successful school year...

From across Southeast Missouri, people descended upon Cape Girardeau on Saturday night for the region's premier sports awards show. More than 150 student-athletes from 57 area high schools were on hand for the Fourth Annual Semoball Awards presented by SoutheastHEALTH at the Donald C. Bedell Performance Hall on Southeast Missouri State University's River Campus, as awards were handed out in 25 sports categories...

Ten months after the high school sports calendar began, we now know all 148 of our on-field nominees for the 2017 Semoball Awards. On Friday, the spring sport finalists for baseball, softball, girls soccer, boys and girls track and field, golf and boys tennis for the event -- to be held Saturday, July 8, at the Bedell Performance Center at Southeast Missouri State's River Campus -- were announced as part of a live selection show on SEMO ESPN Radio...

MALDEN, Mo. -- To reach a fourth straight sectional, the Scott City softball relied on its patience at the plate. It wasn't the usual approach for a team that loves to hit, but it worked. In Monday's sectional, the Rams got back to their roots as they pounded out 14 hits in an 11-5 win over Malden at the Malden Sports Complex...

Jonathan Bell and D.J. Lynch each carded a 10-over-par 81 as the Notre Dame boys golf team won the Class 3 District 1 tournament championship for the second year in a row on Tuesday at the Fox Haven Country Club in Sikeston, Mo. The Bulldogs all finished below 90 as the defending district champions edged Farmington by five strokes in the team standings to come away with the district championship. Nicholas Westrich shot a one-over-par 82 to earn the medalist honors for the Knights...