Meadow Heights

This spring, three area high school teams won state championships. With the success came accolades. Numerous local student-athletes earned recognition, including all-state honors. On the baseball diamond, Bell City won its third straight Class 1 state championship. Along the way, five Cubs earned all-state distinctions...

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...

STE. GENEVIEVE, Mo. — The Meadow Heights baseball team looked poised to break a 3-3 deadlock late in Friday’s Class 2 District 3 quarterfinal, but when it failed, St. Vincent capitalized. The fourth-seeded Indians got out of a one-out jam with a runner in scoring position in the top of the seventh inning, then delivered the finishing touch in the bottom half of the inning to grab a 4-3 victory over the fifth-seeded Panther’s at Valle Catholic's Alumni Field...

After coaching in the same conference as the Meadow Heights boys basketball team the last three seasons, Corey Brownsberger was familiar with the program. At Leopold, his teams faced off against the Panthers at least two times a season, a regular-season meeting and a Mississippi Valley Conference tournament matchup. ...

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...

Notre Dame's Jonathan Bell carded a six-over-par 77 to tie for second individually, as the Bulldogs finished 16 strokes behind champion Poplar Bluff to receive second place Monday in the SEMO Conference Boys Golf Tournament at Fox Haven Country Club in Sikeston, Missouri...

Notre Dame girls soccer got a golden-goal winner in extra time from Megan Heisserer to get past Saxony Lutheran 3-2 in a conference matchup on Wednesday in Jackson, Missouri. It was a fourth straight overtime game for the Crusaders and a second extra-time loss in as many days...

Clay Sauceda hit a solo home run, but the Oran baseball team wasn't to fend off a determined Portageville squad, as the Eagles dropped a 7-6 decision to the Bulldogs on Tuesday in Oran, Missouri. Drew Reischman went 2 1/3 innings on the mound to be tagged with the loss for Oran (6-2). He gave up four runs (one earned) on three hits and had one strikeout and one walk. He also added a double at the plate...

Kelly baseball got a walk-off hit from Nathan Vicenzi as the Hawks edged visiting St. Vincent 5-4 with a rally in the bottom of the seventh inning. Kyle Fitzgerald went the distance on the mound to take the win for Kelly (4-6). He gave up four earned runs, struck out five and walked three...

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...