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Returning to the sidelines, former Sikeston boys’ basketball head coach Fred Johnson will lead the Kelly boys’ program in 2018-2019. At the helm of the Bulldogs, Johnson finished with a 118-82 record. He won three district championships during that time, along with a pair of quarterfinal appearances and a fourth-place finish at the state tournament...

The all-region softball team has been released. Kennett freshman Kyra Jaco, Oran junior Kaylee Payne, Campbell senior Elizabeth Steward, Puxico senior Bailey Burns, Holcomb sophomore Bailey Cupples, and Malden sophomore Hailey Rojas were selected first-team all-region infielders...

SIKESTON — Chaffee and Kelly headlined the Scott County, Mississippi County Conference baseball first team, was announced on Wednesday. Four Red Devils and four Hawks made up the list. Landon Tenkhoff — who was also the Player of the Year — Breven Yarbro, Brennan Fowler, and Kade Sullivan made up the first time for Chaffee...

COOTER, Mo — A postseason rivalry decades old was once against centerstage Monday afternoon when Cooter hosted Oran in the Class 1 sectionals. Flipping the script on last postseason, the Wildcats rode a strong start from ace Dawson Treat and several miscues from the Eagles’ defense to a 10-0 mercy-rule win that propels Cooter to the quarterfinals while knocking off the defending state champions...

The Notre Dame girls track and field team won five events to win the Class 4 Sectional 1 meet on Saturday at West Plains High School in West Plains, Missouri. Riley Burger accounted for three of those first-place finishes for the Bulldogs. The Notre Dame junior swept the jumping events (high jump, long jump and triple jump) to help propel the Bulldogs to the sectional championship. ...

St. Vincent's Grace Schremp collected all-state honors Friday in the girls javelin throw at the Class 1-2 Missouri Track and Field Championships in Jefferson City. Schremp placed fifth with a throw of 120 feet, 6 inches. The top eight places earn all-state...

ORAN, Mo. — Oran and Cooter experienced a thriller during last season’s Class 1 Sectional. Denver Elfrink hit a walk-off home run to beat the Wildcats, which ultimately was the second straight season that Cooter fell in that round. This season, though, is different...

The reigning Class 1 baseball state champions are still alive. Oran beat Bell City 3-2 on a Dawson Menz walk-off single in the Class 1 District 2 championship Tuesday at Bell City High School. The Eagles (10-9), who lost five starters from last year's championship team, had coughed up a two-run lead in the top of the seventh before Menz produced that two-out single to right field. Kole Simms scored the game-winning run after reaching on a one-out walk and advancing to third on a bunt and balk...

PARK HILLS, Mo. — The Sikeston girls' and boys' track and field teams competed in the Class 4, District 1 meet at Park Hills Central on Saturday. The boys finished fourth with 76.2 points, while the girls finished in ninth with 30 points. Keon Graham won in the 300-meter hurdles, with a time of 41.44 seconds...

The Notre Dame girls track and field team won its third consecutive district title Saturday at the Class 4 District 1 meet in Park Hills, Missouri. Riley Burger led the way with three individual gold medals and was part of the first-place 800 relay. Burger won the long jump, triple jump and high jump...

ORAN, Mo. — Pretty would not be one of the words to describe the Charleston baseball team’s win over Oran on Wednesday. After pushing out to a 10-2 lead with two innings left to play, the Bluejays struggled to close out the Eagles. Oran scored eight runs in the bottom half of the sixth but ultimately fell 11-10...

Eli Brown did not allow a single hit and fanned five batters in the shortened five-inning game as he led Saxony Lutheran in a rout of Malden on Wednesday. Malden's Dylan Bader reached first on a dropped third strike and ran into a double play as Brown faced the minimum number of batters...

The field is beginning to take shape. The second group of Semoball Awards finalists, the winter sports selections, were revealed Wednesday in an hour-long radio show on SEMO ESPN. That group of 30 student-athletes will join the fall sports finalists, announced earlier this year, at the 2019 Semoball Awards presented by SoutheastHEALTH on July 13 at the Donald C. Bedell Performance Hall on Southeast Missouri State University's River Campus...

DEXTER, Mo. — Carson Aycock and the East Prairie baseball team spoiled the Dexter Bearcats’ senior day Monday at East Park. Aycock pitched a no-hitter, striking out 12 and walking one in seven innings. Senior Caleb Hoggard was charged with the loss, allowing two runs on three hits with no strikeouts or walks in one inning. Hoggard was one of seven pitchers used by the Bearcats...

The Delta boys track and field team captured the program's first Class 1 District 1 championship thanks to two first-place finishes Saturday at Cape Girardeau Central High School. The Bobcats scored 86 total points, 16 more than second-place Community High School...

Get to know the 12 selections to the All-Southeast Missourian girls basketball team. Players in the Southeast Missourian coverage area are eligible for these honors. The players selected are in the running for the Semoball Awards.

For four seasons, Leah Cauble has starred for the Oran girls basketball team, weaving through defenses and firing from beyond the 3-point arc. So when Cauble reflects back on her high school career -- a time she called "the best years of my life" -- sadness comes bubbling up to the surface...

Get to know the 12 selections to the All-Southeast Missourian girls basketball team. Players in the Southeast Missourian coverage area are eligible for these honors. The players selected are in the running for the Semoball Awards.

Bryce Morgan pitched a complete game one-hitter with 10 strikeouts to push Kelly's baseball team past Oran 4-0 on Tuesday. Drew Dirnberger was the only player to register multiple hits in the game, going 2-for-3 with a double and a single. Dawson Menz was the only Eagle to get a hit in the game...

ADVANCE, Mo. — The Charleston baseball team rallied from a 3-1 deficit to beat the Advance Hornets 5-4 Monday night at Westfield Park in Advance. The Blue Jays (3-13) scored one run in the sixth and three in the top of the seventh. Stephen Willis picked up the win, allowing one run — none earned — on one hit with two strikeouts and no walks in 1 1/3 innings...

BENTON, Mo. — Bryce Morgan did not let much get to him in Tuesday’s win over the defending Class 1 state champion Oran Eagles. A lights-out performance was what the Kelly baseball team received, as Morgan pitched a shutout. He went a full seven innings and allowed just one hit...

BENTON, Mo. — Bryce Morgan did not let much get to him in Tuesday’s win over the defending Class 1 state champion Oran Eagles. A lights-out performance was what the Kelly baseball team received, as Morgan pitched a shutout. He went a full seven innings and allowed just one hit...

Wyatt Parker went 2-for-3 as the Class 2 state-ranked Chaffee baseball team remained hot and rolled to its eighth-straight win of the season in its 5-0 victory over Saxony Lutheran on Friday at Frisco Park in Chaffee. Breven Yarbro was the winning pitcher and also went 2-for-4 at bat for the Red Devils (16-3). He threw three innings and gave up no runs on two hits with five strikeouts and three walks...

CAMDENTON, Mo. — Jade Davis scored the only goal for the Sikeston girls soccer team on Friday, as the Lady Bulldogs fell to Camdenton 2-1 in the Camdenton Lady Lakers Invitational Tournament. BASEBALL Kelly 18, St. Paul Lutheran 8 NEELYVILLE, Mo. — The Kelly baseball team drilled St. Paul Lutheran in the Neelyville Invitational Tournament on Friday...

HOLCOMB, Mo. - The Holcomb Hornets softball team wrapped up a perfect regular season as it beat Portageville 18-3 in four innings Friday afternoon. Holcomb, which improves to 19-0 with the win, scored multiple runs in all four innings it batted. Eight Holcomb hitters had multiple hits. ...

Blake Bohnert earned medalist honors with a 79 to lead the St. Vincent boys golf team to a JCAA Conference Tournament championship Wednesday in Ste. Genevieve, Missouri. The Indians' top four golfers all finished in the top 10. Perryville's Drew Elder came in second, leading the Pirates to a third-place finish...

MALDEN, Mo. — Malden and East Prairie were tied at three heading into the fifth inning, on Wednesday. After the Eagles failed to score in the top half of the frame, though, the Green Wave responded with a run in the bottom half of the inning, which was enough to get the 4-3 win...

Notre Dame secured a share of the SEMO Conference regular-season championship with an 8-6 win over host Sikeston on Tuesday. The Bulldogs finished in a tie atop the standings with co-champion Jackson. Sikeston's Noah Hicks hit for the cycle, but his bat was not enough to overcome Notre Dame...

NEW MADRID, Mo. — The comeback was nearly complete for the New Madrid County Central baseball team on Tuesday. Trailing the entire game, the Eagles tied the game up in the sixth inning, before the Mules used a three-run eighth to take home the win. Gabe York finished with three RBI, going 2-for-4 at the plate, while Austin Davis tacked on two RBI of himself. Davis went 2-for-4 at the plate, with his lone hit coming on a double...

Oran’s Claire Ramsey will continue her softball career, as she signed with the St. Louis College of Pharmacy, on Thursday, at Oran High School.

The Advance baseball team broke a tie with two runs in the bottom of the sixth and held on for a 6-4 win over Bernie to claim the Stoddard County Activities Association championship on Wednesday in Advance, Missouri. Layton Keith got the win in relief for the Hornets (11-3), giving up one run in 3 1/3 innings while Noah Sauceda had a team-high three hits...

PORTAGEVILLE, Mo. — The duo of Kile Adams and Connor Barham pitched a combined two-hitter on Wednesday, as the Portageville baseball team defeated Campbell 11-2. Adams went four innings and gave up two hits and two runs — one earned — with one strikeout and one walk...

CHARLESTON, Mo. — Nate and Nolan Self each had impressive outings for the Sikeston baseball team on Tuesday, at Hillhouse Park in Charleston, Mo. Nate went 2-for-4 with four RBI, on a triple and a double. Nolan went 2-for-3, with four RBI as well. Nolan also hit a triple and a home run to go with it, in Sikeston’s 18-5 five-inning win over Charleston...

MALDEN, Mo. — The Rams edged the Eagles on a walk-off in the bottom of the seventh inning in the first game of the silver bracket at the Malden Invitational Tournament. Joe Panagos threw the last seven pitches to be credited with the win for Scott City, which got a double from Jimmy May and Spencer Stratman...

Gabe Hurley hit a double and drove in two runs as the Notre Dame baseball team scored a run in all but one inning and blanked crosstown conference rival Cape Girardeau Central 9-0 on Thursday. Brayden Eftink went six innings on the mound to earn the win for the Bulldogs (9-4, 3-1 SEMO Conference). He gave up no runs on three hits, retired 10 batters and walked two...

DELTA, Mo. — Grant Coomer and Devon Medley each doubled to pace the Bobcats in their five-inning loss at home to the Blue Jays. Tristan Johnson lasted one inning on the mound and was charged with the loss for Delta (1-9). He allowed four unearned runs on no hits and walked three batters...

CHAFFEE, Mo. — East Prairie, Kelly, and the Charleston track and field teams all had successful evenings at the Chaffee Invitational, on Thursday, at Chaffee High School. Kelly finished in second place after 18 boys events. The Hawks finished with 100 total points, while Kennett took home top honors — with 181...

Nate Hulshof and Chase Logel both shot a 9-over-par 81 to earn co-medalist honors and lead Notre Dame boys golf to the team title at the Ste. Genevieve Dragon Invitational in Ste. Genevieve, Missouri. DJ Lynch also finished in the top 10 for the Bulldogs, carding an 85...

The Perryville Pirates came out victorous over the Scott City Rams 6-3 in eight innings in high school baseball Wednesday in Scott City. Perryville pushed one run across in the first, fourth, and fifth innings and led 3-1 at the end of five. Scott City got a run apiece in the sixth and seventh innings to push the game into extra innings...

KENNETT, Mo. — Sikeston finished in second place in both girls and boys’ team events at the Kennett Invitational on Tuesday. The girls lost to Caruthersville, 133-98, while the boys fell to Kennett 176-106. In the high jump for the girls, TK Freeman finished second, while Tyenia Stevens finished third — both with jumps of 4-10...

NEW MADRID, Mo. — New Madrid County Central held on to a 2-1 lead through four innings of play. The late innings, though, came to back to bite the Eagles as Scott city scored 11 unanswered runs to run away with a 12-3 win over NMCC. John Michael Stanley and Caden Howell each had impressive days for the Eagles. Stanley went 2-for-3, while Howell went 2-for-4...

The Notre Dame girls track and field team won first place in five events to claim the team championship of the 45th annual All Catholic Invitational on Saturday at Chaminade College Preparatory High School in the suburban St. Louis area. Riley Burger accounted for three of those victories for the Bulldogs, who finished 15 points ahead of Cor Jesu Academy in the final team standings at the meet that featured 25 private school teams among both gender divisions. ...

ANNA, Ill. — Kelsie Anderson, Chelsie Moore, and Karris Allen all scored goals for the Sikeston girls soccer team on Tuesday. The Lady Bulldogs defeated Anna-Jonesboro on the road, 3-0, earning their second shutout of the season and limiting Anna-Jonesboro to one shot...

The Jackson boys tennis team won a dual match for the first time in school history, winning five singles and one doubles match to defeat Poplar Bluff on Tuesday in Poplar Bluff, Missouri. This is the second year Jackson (1-1, 1-1 SEMO Conference) has had a boys tennis team. Poplar Bluff dropped to 1-2, 0-2 in conference...

BENTON, Mo. — Bryce Phelps hit a walk-off double as the Kelly baseball team edged Woodland 3-2 on Monday in Benton, Missouri. The Cardinals (4-3) tied the game in the top of the seventh when Rafe Johnson hit a solo home run, but the Hawks responded in the bottom of the frame...

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BENTON, Mo. — Sophomore Jordi James scored the first two goals of her varsity career on Wednesday, as the Sikeston girls soccer team upended Kelly 3-2. Emily Boyd also scored on a penalty kick goal, while Audrey Vogel and Jade Davis finished with assists...

EAST PRAIRIE, Mo. — It was a successful Eva G. Hinshaw Invitational for the Sikeston boys and girls track and field teams on Thursday. Both teams finished in the top three in total team points, while five individuals won their respective events. Sikeston finished second to McCracken County (139 points) in 18 girls’ events, with 110.50 points...

Sophomore Austin Gast had another big day for the Bulldogs, blasting a home run, a double and driving in five runs as the Notre Dame baseball team trounced visiting Fredericktown 20-10 in six innings to send the Black Cats home with their first loss of the season in Thursday's slugfest...