Malden

If you drive around the cities and towns dotting the Southeast Missouri landscape, one thing is undeniable: Kids are playing sports again in wake of the coronavirus pandemic.

Malden High School SPORTS: Football, basketball, baseball PARENTS: Troy and Lori Amoss SIBLINGS: Brock and Trell Amoss PETS: Cows, horses, dogs, cats, chickens and ducks PLANS AFTER HIGH SCHOOL: Has signed National Letter of Intent to play football at Westminster...

Each year the Semoball Awards recognizes outstanding high school athletes from around the region. That tradition continues this summer albeit in a different format because of lingering COVID-19 concerns and social distancing requirements.

Malden graduate Tanner Murphy spent time with two major league baseball organizations before he began playing in the Prospect League in 2019. The 2013 Bootheel Conference Player of the Year was taken 133rd overall by the Atlanta Braves in the June Amateur draft in 2013 after batting .600 with 10 home runs and 39 RBIs for Malden his senior season...

Editor’s Note: This is Part 1 of a two-part series. Malden graduate Tanner Murphy has received the opportunity to play baseball for teams based on the East Coast, West Coast, and Midwest since he was drafted in the 4th round by the Atlanta Braves in 2013...

For the first time since 2015 the Malden Green Wave volleyball program will have a new leader at the helm. The Malden Board of Education hired Alex Glover as its new varsity volleyball coach at its most recent meeting. Glover will also teach physical education and serve as the middle school volleyball coach at Malden...

Malden Green Wave veteran baseball coach Tim Harmon entered the spring hoping to develop a slew of underclassmen on his varsity baseball roster. A dozen of the 20 players that went out for baseball this spring for two-time defending district champion Malden were underclassmen...

Malden senior Garrett Rackley liked what he saw when he went for a visit at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri. “They had nice facilities,” he said. “The campus felt nice. I liked the campus and loved their football field. I also liked the message I received from their coaches. It just felt like the right fit for me.”...

Westminster College football coach John Welty made a good first impression on Malden senior Shay Amoss when he visited him at his high school earlier this school year. “When he came and talked to me at the school he related to us like you were in his shoes,” Amoss said. “He told me how things would work from his perspective. It made me feel like I really wanted to go there so I could be around him and people like him.”...

Malden Green Wave football coach Justin Peden has never been a fan of playing in a four-team conference. “I prefer a bigger conference,” Peden said. “I think things get a little watered down in terms of postseason awards playing in a four-team conference. There have also been a few times over the years a team finished below .500 and won a conference. I feel like you should actually have to win some games to be a conference champion.”...

Columbia, Mo. - The Missouri State High School Activities Association (MSHSAA) Board of Directors voted to grant relief of portions of the MSHSAA By-Laws that include summer limits on contact between coaches and student-athletes at its April meeting on Thursday...