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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...

ORAN, Mo. -- After watching Austin Hicks give up two hits to the first two batters and then escape the inning unscathed, his coach and catcher had an idea. Maybe you need to speed up your pace on the mound, Bell City baseball coach Justin Simpher and catcher Bobby Wright suggested to Hicks after the first half-inning of the Class 1 District 2 championship. At times this season, he's gotten into trouble by taking too much time in between pitches, Hicks said...

BELL CITY, Mo. -- With district seeding already announced, Monday's meeting between the Bell City and Oran baseball teams meant little. But it was a potential preview of a Class 1 District 2 title matchup next week, and Oran (12-3) took advantage of some early opportunities and then held off the Cubs down the stretch to grab a 3-2 victory at Bell City High School...

ADVANCE, Mo. -- Scott City softball had already overcame two deficits and led by four runs entering the final inning. A district championship wasn't going to come easy, though. Oran quickly whittled that advantage down to two and had the tying run on second base with no outs...

ADVANCE, Mo. -- With Scott City softball leading Oran 5-3 after two innings in the Class 1 District 4 tournament championship, play was suspended Wednesday afternoon due to wet field conditions at Advance City Park. Rain started coming down in the top of the second inning and continued off and on until the game was halted heading into the third frame...

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...

Layne Johnson held the Bulldogs to six hits on the mound, as the Oran baseball team knocked off Sikeston 10-2 on Thursday in Sikeston, Missouri. Johnson threw 6 2/3 innings and allowed two earned runs, striking out seven batters and walking two. Drew Reischman secured the final out for the Eagles...

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...

Jersey number: 10 Height: 6-foot-3 Position: Point guard AAU/travel team: Perryville Plans after graduation: Attend Lindenwood University and major in sports management Favorite team tradition: Team meal before big games Favorite memory from this season: Putting in 40 points against Park Hills...

At a summer tournament about two hours away from home, Ethan Evans watched his star player hold her own -- even stand out -- when facing Class 4 and 5 schools, and realized this season would be different. Leah Cauble was ready to take a step forward, Evans thought. The Oran girls basketball player had averaged more than 25 points per game a year earlier as a freshman, and she looked even more impressive in this mid-July tournament in Arnold, Missouri...

Jersey number: 30 Height: 5-foot-9 Position: Guard Favorite team tradition: Praying before every game Favorite memory from this season: Winning third in conference Favorite spot on the floor to shoot from: 3-point line Favorite gym to play in: Chaffee...

ORAN, Mo. -- In baseball, pretty and exciting are not always synonymous. Oran and Saxony Lutheran combined for three errors, 14 walks, eight wild pitches, a bevy of missed opportunities and multiple base-running blunders before the host Eagles walked off with a bases-loaded free pass in the bottom of the seventh inning for a 7-6 victory on Tuesday at Oran High School...

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...

BENTON, Mo. -- The Chaffee girls track and field team began and ended Monday with the same result: a first-place finish in a relay. In between there were plenty of solid finishes, including a couple other top-three finishes in relays, as the Red Devils won the Johnny Merrick Invitational at Kelly High School. Chaffee beat 16 other schools, including numerous local teams, to claim the team title with a score of 110...

It wasn't the six innings in which the Oran baseball team held serve, or even out-scored, Scott City on Friday. It was the one inning it didn't that undid the previously unbeaten Eagles. The host Rams jumped all over Oran with an eight-run first inning and, with their ace on the mound, held on for a 9-2 victory in their annual "Green Up" game at Scott City High School, handing the Eagles their first loss of the year...

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 Poplar Bluff boys golf team claimed first place at the Notre Dame Invitational on Monday at Bent Creek Golf Course. The Mules carded a team score of 316 to lead the way, while Notre Dame followed in second with a 326 and Jackson came in third with a 334. Saxony Lutheran was sixth with a 378, and Cape Central finished eighth with a 415...

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...