Malden

Expectations remain high for a Malden Green Wave volleyball program that has enjoyed its fair share of success in the Missouri Bootheel in recent years. Malden returns the majority of its key pieces off of last season’s varsity squad that finished 19-9-1 and won the Bootheel Conference Tournament for a fourth straight season...

The pieces appear in place for another big year for the Malden Green Wave football program. Malden returns a slew of starters off of last season’s squad that finished 11-1 and advanced to the Class 2 state quarterfinals before falling to Trinity Catholic...

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...