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Nearly 60 teams participated at the 31st Annual St. Francis Medical Center Dig for Life Volleyball Challenge over the weekend at various venues throughout Cape Girardeau. The program, founded by former Southeast Missouri State University women's volleyball coach Cindy Gannon, raises breast cancer awareness and helps provides mammograms to women in the area who otherwise could not afford such important screening. ...

Kara Kassel stuffed the stat sheet with 17 digs, four blocks, four kills and two assists as St. Vincent volleyball swept visiting North County 25-20, 25-19 on Wednesday. Maegyn Huber added seven kills and 10 digs for St. Vincent (2-1). Lexie Anderson also had four kills, nine digs, and one block while Grace Schrempf notched 10 digs to along with one block, one kill and one ace. Molly Myers chipped in six kills, nine digs and an ace...

Student-athletes from across Southeast Missouri were recognized for their outstanding achievements Saturday night at the region’s premier sports award show. More than 150 athletes from 57 area high schools were on hand for the Fifth Annual Semoball Awards presented by SoutheastHEALTH at the Donald C. ...

The wait is finally over. The fifth Annual Semoball Awards presented by SoutheastHEALTH kicks off Saturday. Southeast Missouri's premier sports award show will welcome more than 150 student-athletes from 57 area high schools to the Bedell Performance Hall on Southeast Missouri State's River Campus for an evening of recognition and celebration...

Less than a month ago, Oran baseball and St. Vincent girls soccer won Class 1 state championships, capping off a successful spring for area schools. Four teams, three in girls soccer and one in baseball, advanced to the final four with Jackson girls soccer making history by reaching state for the first time in program history...

After 10 months, the list is complete. On Monday, the 45 spring sport finalists for the 2018 Semoball Awards were announced during a selection show live on air on SEMO ESPN Radio 1220 AM. In addition to those individual student-athletes, 15 additional nominees were revealed for Coach of the Year, Comeback Player of the Year and Sportsmanship, plus the Lifetime Achievement Award winner...

The third-seeded Kennett Indians struck for three runs in the third inning Saturday and beat seventh-seeded Dexter 5-2 in a consolation semifinal of the SEMO Conference Baseball Tournament at Cape Central High School. The Indians will face Notre Dame in the fifth-place game at 2:15 p.m. Monday. Dexter (3-12) will meet New Madrid County Central for seventh place at noon Monday. Both games will be played at Capaha Park in Cape Girardeau...

Another year, another group of superb performances by area student-athletes, the most outstanding of which are being recognized. On Wednesday, 55 individuals were announced as fall sport finalists for the 2018 Semoball Awards. The selections were presented during a live radio show on SEMO ESPN Radio...

Alec Bogenpohl and Landon Tenkhoff each scored 22 points as the Chaffee boys basketball team picked up a 72-59 conference victory over defending Class 2 state champion Oran on Tuesday in Oran, Missouri. Damion Applewhite added 10 points for Chaffee (12-6, 4-0 Scott-Mississippi Conference), which clung to a one-point advantage at halftime before the third-quarter standstill. The Red Devils outscored the Eagles by 12 points in the final period to come away with the victory...

The curse of the Class 4 District 1 volleyball semifinal beween the Nos. 2 and 3 seeds remained intact, as third-seeded host Farmington squeezed by second-seeded Poplar Bluff in three sets (20-25, 25-19, 25-23) on Monday to reach Wednesday's district championship match against top-seeded Jackson...

Sophomore Kyla Beel recorded seven kills, five digs and four aces as the Leopold volleyball team wrapped up its regular season with a comfortable 25-13, 25-15 win over Puxico at home on Senior Night. Patience VanderMierden tallied six kills, six assists, six aces and four digs for Leopold (14-15-3). Senior Shelby Schreckenberg contributed six digs and three aces for the Wildcats and Beth Lincoln chipped in two kills and two digs...