Oran

ORAN – There was a four-year stretch of dominance put forth by the Scott City High School volleyball program over a decade ago, in which the Rams won the MSHSAA Class 2 state championship (2009), finished as the state runner-up (2008) and won a district title in finishing the season 30-1-1 (2011).

The Oran baseball team took care of business on Wednesday, scoring multiple runs in four of the first five innings, beating Leopold at home, 11-5. The Wildcats put up a fight albeit in loss, scoring three runs right off the bat in the top of the first inning, as Caleb Schaab scored from second base on an error by Eagles infielder Connor Kern to make the game interesting in the beginning...

KENNETT – There are different ways to look at Kennett’s 3-0 volleyball win over Oran on Monday.

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.

Oran head baseball coach Joe Bickings and his team started their fall baseball season off on the right foot over the weekend as the Eagles shut out South Iron, 13-0. at a game played at Van Buren on Friday. Oran then traveled to Ellsinore, MO. on Saturday and won a twin bill with East Carter, 10-6, and won the later game against Arcadia Valley, 12-1...

Two native Southeast Missouri women have come together at Fontbonne University in St. Louis to form the Midwest Sprint Football League. “We’re hoping that a lot of the young men in Southeast Missouri that currently play high school football will be interested in this news,” Fontbonne president Dr. Nancy Blattner said, “because many of them aren’t able to go on to play at a D1, D2 or D3 institution in college football. This league might allow them that opportunity.”...

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:...