Meadow Heights

CARDWELL - The Southland Rebels outlasted North Pemiscot 76-58 for its first varsity boys basketball win. Host Southland trailed 20-19 after one quarter of play but won each of the final three quarters by single digits to secure an 18-point victory...

Delta outscored Eminence 57-40 in the first half and never trailed in the contest, winning in convincing fashion Saturday 92-79. The big story in the game was Delta senior Colby Crader scoring his 1,000 point in his career. Crader led all Bobcat scorers with 29 points while Evan Bartels and Carter Scherer each added 19 each...

The MSHSAA boy's basketball season has already begun for some schools and will be for all in the near future. Here is a look at the basketball programs that comprise the Southeast Missourian coverage area.

The MSHSAA girl's basketball season has already begun for some schools and will be for all in the near future. Here is a look at the basketball programs that comprise the Southeast Missourian coverage area.

It took Meadow Heights a bit to get rolling Friday in its season-opener against Lesterville. However, the Panthers rode a huge third quarter en route to a 70-53 boy's basketball victory at home.

Meadow Heights junior Kylee Denman pumped in a team high 16 points while Ashley Gruenke added 14 to lead the Panthers past Eagle Ridge Friday 52-34. Meadow Heights took control in the fourth quarter, outscoring the Eagles 20-9 to pull out the victory...

The Missouri State High School Activities Association is pushing back the announcement of class and district assignments for winter sports to Friday, December 11. District assignments and classifications were originally scheduled to be released Friday, November 13...

ADVANCE - Gideon volleyball coach Kristen Ashabranner encouraged her players to let loose during timeouts of a closely contested first set against the Meadow Heights Panthers Saturday afternoon. “I told them they were making me look like a psycho in front of all these people,” Gideon coach Kristen Ashabranner said. ...

The Eagle Ridge Christian School volleyball team won the Missouri Christian School Athletic Association Division 2 state tournament Saturday in Joplin, beating Heartland Christian Academy from Belton, MO. in two straight sets, 25-21 and 25-15. This is Eagle Ridge's fifth straight MCSAA championship, winning from 2016-2020...

The Meadow Heights volleyball team advanced to the championship game in the C1,D4 district held at Bismarck High School, beating Valley 25-16, 25-23, and 25-14. For the Panthers, it is the first time since 2006 they have advanced to the district championship game...

The Oak Ridge boys cross country team won first place overall in the Heartland Conference meet Tuesday held at Cape County Park North out of 20 teams. Zalma finished second place on the boys side. The East Carter girls team won first place overall on the girls side while Woodland finished runner up...

The Jackson volleyball team defeated Perryville Monday in straight sets, 25-8, 25-23, 25-16, improving their recording to an impressive 22-4 on the season. Junior hitter Mia Trankler let the Indians in kills recording 16 while Hannah Shinn added nine kills, Olivia Ward pitched in eight, and Freshman Nadia Wasilewski recorded seven kills...

Cape Central finally got the proverbial “monkey off their back” Thursday as they beat Notre Dame for the first time in over a decade, 23-25, 25-23, 25-20, 15-25, 17-15, in a five set thriller! Nine different Tigers got into the stat line, as Ella Vogel finished with 25 kills, seven blocks, and 11 digs...

The Missouri State High School Activities Association has partnered with HomeTown Ticketing to serve as the official digital ticketing partner for MSHSAA state championship events this fall. Digital tickets will also be an option for all other playoff contests, at the discretion of the host manager...

There have been no shortage of stellar athletic performances throughout Southeast Missouri of late and that was evident last week, as Bernie baseball player John Nimmo and Meadow Heights volleyball player Kylee Denman excelled in their efforts. Both were recognized Wednesday as this week's Semoball.com Athletes of the Week by Semoball.com readers...

The Notre Dame girls volleyball team lost to Class one #1 ranked Advance in straight sets Monday 10-25, 9-25, 14-25 to drop their record to 11-4-1 and on the season. Claire Jones recorded six assists while Sarah Brennan added five in the loss. Rylee McClintock and Lexi Rubel each had three kills...

In a rather lop-sided game at home, Meadow Heights won easily Monday night beating Marquand 25-10, 25-5, 25-4, giving the Panthers their ninth win of the season and third victory in a row. Meadow Heights was paced by Kylee Denman, who had 10 assists to go with six digs and 10 aces...

Meadow Heights won their eighth victory on the season Friday night as they swept Greenville in straight sets, 25-19, 25-15, and 25-18. Pacing the Panthers was Gracie Cook who recorded 13 kills, a block, and an ace. Molly Conrad had seven kills, two blocks, and two aces...

Junior middle hitter Ella Vogel pumped in a game high 17 kills and added three blocks and eight digs leading Cape Central passed Saxony Lutheran Wednesday night 25-22, 25-14, and 26-24, improving the Tigers season record to 11-8-2. Madison Phelps had eight kills and 10 digs in the victory for the Tigers...

Jackson improved their record to 8-1 on the season with a straight set victory on the road against St. Vincent Wednesday by the scores of 25-12, 27-25, and 25-17. Mia Tranker set the pace early with several kills against the home team Indians. She would finish with nine kills and added six blocks to her resume...

There is a reason why Kennett football coach Joel Wyatt is an extraordinarily successful coach and not a member of the media or even a fan, per se. His task is to focus on the here and now, not some possible, but not definitive opponent off into the future. However, the Indian Nation – and the rest of the prep football fans (and media) throughout Southeast Missouri had to have had their interest piqued a tad when MSHSAA released its District assignments Monday.

Woodland couldn’t overcome an early deficit and fell to Dexter Monday evening in three straight sets, losing 22-25, 17-25, and 16-25, dropping the Cardinals season record to 3-4-2. Woodland head coach Melissa Rinacke received outstanding effort despite the loss,...

Twin Rivers softball player Abbey Hester and Notre Dame swimmer Nick Landewe were strong in their competitive sports last week and popular off them, as the two earned the latest Semoball.com Athletes of the Week honors.

Jackson won all four team titles at the recent Arcadia Valley Cross Country Invitational. In the boys varsity 5k race, Jackson scored 23 points, while Notre Dame finished third with 100 points, and St.Vincent was eighth with 243 points. In the girls varsity 5k race, Jackson had 39 points, while Notre Dame finished third with 78 points...

In what would turn out to be an action packed, edge of your seat, high school volleyball game of the year kind of contest, Meadow Heights, a rather young and un-experienced club, outlasted an elder Scott City team in five sets Thursday night in Scott City...