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If you really want to know the origins of Joe Baldwin passing judgment on pitchers’ accuracy throughout Southeast Missouri, you’d have to go all the way back to the dusty dirt fields of the Marston Little League in the early 1960s.

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — Kendall Holweg’s final state meet ended up having a little more frantic pace than she expected. The Delta senior ended up winning three state championships and was a runner-up in another during the Class 1 MSHSAA State Track and Field Championships on Saturday at Jefferson City High School's Licklider Track...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — Kendall Holweg won three events and finished half of an inch from claiming another Saturday at MSHSAA Class 1 track and field championships at Adkins Stadium. The Delta senior scored 38 points, finishing third in the team standings behind Drexel’s 46 and Valle Catholic’s 41...

Leopold senior Caleb Schaab was named the 2022 Mississippi Valley Conference Player of the Year, while two other Wildcats earned All-Conference honors. Schaab, along with fellow All-Conference selections Mason Deck and Connor Lincoln, helped Leopold win its first-ever district championship and advance to the Class 1 quarterfinals...

One night removed after playing one of their worst games of the season, Meadow Heights got right back on the winning track Friday as the Panthers handed St. Paul Lutheran (Farmington) its 17th loss of the season, beating the Giants, 80-52. Meadow Heights started the game putting up 21 points in the first quarter, taking a 21-8 lead...

The hottest team in Southeast Missouri stayed hot Thursday night as Caruthersville took down Scott City on the road 60-45 to earn its 11th victory in a row. The Tigers jumped out to a 14-8 lead in the first half and led 27-15 at halftime. The second half was all Caruthersville as well, outscoring the host Rams 32-30...

Sophomore Blayne Harris scored a team-high 19 points in Jackson's 71-66 road win over Miller Career Academy on Wednesday night. Harris was joined in double figures by junior Clayton Ernst who scored 18 points and Elliot Cowell who added 13. The Indians were able to recover from a 21-8 first-quarter deficit, scoring 20 points or more in the remaining three quarters and tightening up on defense...

PATTON – As the third-place plaque was handed to the Marquand-Zion boy’s basketball team following its 83-68 win over Zalma in the Mississippi Valley Conference Tournament on Tuesday at Meadow Heights High School, a Tiger girl let out a loud, high-pitched shriek of joy.

Meadow Heights remained undefeated and senior Tristan Mayfield scored his 1,000th career point in a lopsided 86-37 victory over Bismarck on Friday night at Bismarck High School.

Last Friday, Marquand-Zion's basketball team accomplished a feat it hadn't since January 2018. The Tigers won a game. During the final day of the Valley Tournament last week, Marquand (1-6) took down Viburnum 57-47 in the seventh-place game for its first win after 82 straight losses...

The Chaffee Red Devils got their 2021-22 season off to a great start on Tuesday, defeating Marquand-Zion on the road, 81-47. Chaffee led after the end of one quarter, 21-18, and built its lead to 11 by halftime. The second half belonged solely to the Red Devils as they out-produced the Tigers offensively, 42-20...

Here are the MSHSAA winter sports district assignments for Semoball area schools. ^-girls only C6D1: Fox, Jackson, Lindbergh, Northwest, Oakville, Poplar Bluff, Seckman, SLUH. Cor Jesu-^ C5D1: Cape Central, DeSoto, Farmington, Festus, Hillsboro, North County Sikeston, Windsor-Imperial...

Meadow Heights won a close one on Monday night to wrap up its regular season, beating Bell City 25-12, 25-19, 21-25, 28-26 on the road. The Panthers, who have won eight in a row heading into district play, got a solid game from senior Kambri Erzfeld (11 kills, 15 digs, two aces) and Ashley Allen (37 assists, 21 digs, one kill)...

Top-seeded Senath-Hornersville defeated fourth-seeded Campbell, 25-17, 25-20, on Wednesday as the Lions’ secured their place in the championship game at the Bootheel Conference Tournament at Caruthersville High School. The Camels (6-15-2) got 17 kills from Delayni Smith and nine service points from Marie Wheeler on offense...

There are few businesses anywhere in the world that haven’t had to think differently over the past couple of years in this ever-changing environment that we are all immersed in, more than likely, forever. And Semoball.com is not immune to that. The website devoted to providing sports fans thorough coverage of sports throughout Southeast Missouri is still going to make that its mission on a daily basis, however, the internal pieces are going to be doing some shifting moving forward.

Prior to the MSHSAA Class 4 Boy’s Soccer state championship game last November in Springfield, Jackson senior goalkeeper Luke Mirly wasn’t exactly feeling great.

The Semoball Cup is presented to the school with the most successful season based on a formula that takes into account the combined winning percentage of all sports teams (WIN) plus bonus points for advancement in postseason play for both teams (POST) and individuals (IND). The bonus points are divided by the number of teams a school fields. Here are the standings with previous rankings from 2020:...