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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...

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...

Ben Womack hit two doubles and batted in two runs but it was ultimately not enough as the Notre Dame baseball team was unable to erase a five-run deficit and fell just one run short in a 5-4 loss to host Sikeston on Tuesday, dropping a crucial conference game that awarded the regular-season SEMO Conference championship to Poplar Bluff...

The Kennett softball team finally met its match as undefeated Oran flew out to a 3-0 lead and hung on to win 4-1, dealing the Indians their first loss of the season on Friday at Indian Park in Kennett, Missouri. Oran took a 1-0 lead when Kaylee Payne hit a solo home run in the top of the third inning. The Eagles extended their lead to 3-0 when Leah Cauble hit a two-run homer in the top of the fifth inning...

Second-seeded Bell City outscored seventh-seeded Leopold in all but one frame in a 58-35 quarterfinal victory on Monday, moving on to the next round of the Class 1 District 2 tournament at Advance High School. Bobby Wright led all scorers with 28 points for the Cubs (11-13), while Cole Nichols added 13 points. Wright also surpassed his 1,000th career point in the win...

Sophomore Leah Cauble added another team to her list of teams that she has individually outscored this season, posting a game-high 29 points and tallying seven assists and five steals as the Oran girls basketball team wrapped up its regular season on a high note with an 86-22 rout of Scott City on Thursday at Oran High School, giving the Eagles the regular-season Scott-Mississippi Conference championship...

Boys and girls basketball district tournament schedules for Class 1 District 1, Class 1 District 2, Class 2 District 2, Class 3 District 1, Class 3 District 2...

Rylee Stafford scored 18 points as the Jackson girls basketball team prevailed over SEMO Conference rival Poplar Bluff 59-51 on Thursday at Jackson High School. Alexis Allstun posted a double-double with 15 points and 19 rebounds for the Indians, who clung to a two-point lead at the intermission. The hosts outscored the Mules by four points at the end of the third quarter and by two points at the end of the final quarter to get the eight-point victory...

A well-balanced scoring effort wasn't enough to lead the Bell City basketball team past fourth-seeded Bernie, as the Mules prevailed 51-47 in Tuesday's quarterfinal of the Stoddard County Activities Association Conference Tournament at Bloomfield High School...

St. Vincent boys basketball won the Warrior Winter Classic on Thursday, beating the hosts Valle Catholic 77-71 in the final. Evan Clifton scored 21 points, including five 3-pointers, as the top-seeded Indians avenged a Dec. 20 loss to the Warriors. Trevor Lukefahr added 17 points for St. Vincent, and Luke Wibbenmeyer had 16...

The SEMO Conference announced its official changes on Wednesday, all of which go into effect in the upcoming 2016-17 school year. Kelly will join the conference in football, creating four divisions. The Hawks will join Charleston, East Prairie and Malden in the East Division. ...

Another year, another enchanting evening at Southeast Missouri's premier sports awards show. The top student-athletes from 57 high schools across the region came together for the Third Annual Semoball Awards presented by SoutheastHEALTH on Saturday at Southeast Missouri State's River Campus, as Malden's Nick Thompson and Dexter's Makayla Waldner took home the top individual honors...