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The Advance Hornets volleyball team lost its first match against a Class 1 school since 2017, dropping a 25-20, 25-19, 25-14 decision to Gideon on Monday night at Gideon. Valle Catholic beat the Hornets — who have won the past three Class 1 state championships — in two sets in the sectional round of the Class 1 state tournament in 2017...

The Jackson cross country team continued its successful 2021 season with a sweep of both the boys and girls divisions at Saturday’s Cape Central Invitational. Addie Heisserer, Mallorie Metzger and Layla Fliege took first through third and Brooklyn Burgess finished fifth to give the Indian girls four placers in the top five...

Behind Grace Ozark’s nine kills and nine digs and Anna Thomason’s eight kills and six blocks, the Saxony Lutheran volleyball team pulled out a huge home victory over a talented Park Hills Central team on Monday, beating the Rebels in three sets, 25-21, 25-21, 25-18...

This weekend's Dig for Life Tournament didn’t start out the way Woodland volleyball coach Melissa Rinacke had hoped, as the Cardinals took one on the chin early in tournament competition on Friday against Columbia’s Rock Bridge, losing both sets. Woodland rebounded nicely, forged ahead, and brought home a second-place trophy on Saturday, losing to Class 5 school Northwest out of Cedar Hill, Mo., at the Show Me Center, 22-25, 18-25...

MARBLE HILL, Mo. — Woodland volleyball coach Melissa Rinacke has a good thing going in Marble Hill, Mo. For the third time in as many years, the Cardinals can call themselves champions of their own tournament, as Woodland beat a tough Saxony Lutheran team in four sets in Friday's championship game (16-25), 25-18, 25-14, 25-21...

MARBLE HILL, Mo. — The Woodland Cardinals and Saxony Lutheran Crusaders both won semifinal matchups on Thursday in the Woodland Invitational Tournament to advance to Friday night’s championship. The Cardinals defeated Oak Ridge 25-21, 25-13 to improve to 2-0 on the young season...

Meadow Heights started the first round of the Woodland Tournament on Monday with a straight-set victory over Greenville, 25-22, 25-19, and 25-16. The Panthers were led offensively by Halli Bollinger who recorded a game-high 11 kills to go with eight digs...

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:...