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SIKESTON — District assignments for boys’ and girls’ basketball and wrestling were released on Friday. Sikeston will be a part of Class 4, District 1, with Cape Central, Notre Dame, Dexter, Perryville, and Ste. Genevieve. Class 3, District 1 consists of Charleston, New Madrid County Central, East Prairie, Caruthersville, Doniphan, Malden, Kennett, and Twin Rivers. ...

Notre Dame senior Blake Morris did not achieve his goal of first place but did finish in the Top 10 at Saturday’s MSHSAA Class 3 Boys Cross Country State Finals at the Gans Creek Recreational Area in Columbia, Mo.

SIKESTON — All-District teams from Class 2 and Class 3, along with the Class 2 All-Region, were announced last week. Starting with the All-District rosters, in Class 3, District 1, Sikeston senior Emma Drury made the first team, while senior Naudia Lazcano, junior Jordi James, and freshman Nayla Bonner were honorable mentions...

PERRYVILLE, Mo. -- The rain stopped but Perryville's three-year losing streak to Notre Dame did not. The daylong light precipitation ended just before the Class 2 District 1 championship kicked off Wednesday at Perryville Soccer Complex. The top-seeded Bulldogs (15-5-1) scored all three of their goals in the second half to defeat the second-seeded Pirates 3-0 to take the district crown...

Top-seeded Notre Dame and second-seeded Perryville advanced to the finals of the Class 2 District 1 boys soccer tournament Monday in Perryville, Mo. Notre Dame defeated fourth-seeded St. Pius X (Festus) 4-0, while Perryville blanked third-seeded Fredericktown 6-0. Both teams were up 1-0 at halftime before pulling away in the second half...

In his last race on his home course, Notre Dame senior Blake Morris took top honors Saturday in the Class 3 District 1 cross country championships.

POTOSI, Mo. -- When Potosi and Perryville meet on the football field, it tends to be the details that separate the winning team from its rival. Four times the two programs have met in the past 15 months with the Trojans winning three of those. But in three of those games, the outcome has been determined by one score...

A week after dropping out of the top spot, Kennett returns to lead the Semoball Power Rankings to end the regular season.

Blane Boss is in his third season as head football coach at Perryville High School. It may feel much longer to him when it comes to Potosi. Boss and the Pirates will lining up against the Trojans for the fifth time in three seasons when they meet at 7 p.m. today in a Class 3 District 1 game in Potosi, Missouri...

Volleyball squads throughout the Missouri Bootheel begin postseason play Monday. Holcomb, South Pemiscot, Southland, North Pemiscot, Hayti, Delta C-7, and Cooter are in Class 1, District 1 at Holcomb. Defending champion Holcomb has received the No. 1 seed and a first-round bye...

For 24 minutes, the Cape Girardeau Central football team wasn’t giving an inch to an unbeaten Bolivar squad. The Tigers played the Class 4 No. 9-ranked Liberators to a 34-28 halftime score. However, the second half was a different story, as Bolivar pulled away for a 59-35 win...

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Kyla Beel made sure to leave her mark for the Leopold volleyball team in its final home game of the season on Monday against Bloomfield. The senior standout, who along with six of her other teammates were honored for Senior Night, amassed 23 kills and eight digs...

PERRYVILLE, Mo. – Through six innings, the top five hitters in the Notre Dame softball lineup hadn’t done much against Perryville senior pitcher Makayla Brown in Friday’s Class 3 District 1 championship game. The Bulldog hitters, who have been productive all season in averaging over 10 runs per game, had gotten just a couple of hits and no runs from that aforementioned group in 15 at-bats.

Before a Homecoming crowd at Pirate Stadium Saturday, Perryville snapped a three-game losing streak by dominating visiting Portageville 48-6.

Molly Flanagan blasted a solo home run among her three hits as second-seeded St. Pius X defeated top-seeded Kelly 2-1, denying the Hawks their 32nd district title in the Class 2 District 2 Tournament championship game in Benton, Missouri. A.J. Agers went the distance on the mound to earn the win for St. Pius X (15-6). The one run she gave up was unearned and she recorded seven strikeouts and one walk...

The Jackson boys and girls claimed the team titles at the SEMO North Conference Meet on Thursday at the Ozark Ridge Golf Course in Poplar Bluff, Missouri. Notre Dame senior Blake Morris successfully defended his conference in the the boys race, winning in 15 minutes, 42.94 seconds and helping the Bulldogs to a second-place team finish...

Kennett and Jackson remain atop the Semoball Power Rankings this week while Scott City’s first loss of the season dropped the Rams to fifth. By beating Scott City 46-41, Hayti moved up a spot to fourth, while Caruthersville moved up to third. Cape Central’s one-point win at St. Charles West didn’t help move the Tigers up the list (not sure why since it boosted their opponent’s win total to 28, behind only Sikeston’s 32 and Malden’s 30)...

Sikeston at NMCC Records: Sikeston 2-5; NMCC 5-2 Series History: Sikeston leads 26-10 Last Meeting: 2018, Sikeston won 20-8 Last Week: Sikeston lost to Farmington 42-0; NMCC beat Potosi 38-36 Notes: Over the last 36 meetings, Sikeston has dominated New Madrid County Central, winning 26 times. ...

The Advance volleyball team avenged its only loss thus far before it sustained its second defeat of the season in a 25-21, 18-25, 21-25 loss to Lindbergh in the championship game of the Second Annual Jackson Tournament on Saturday at Jackson High School.

There will be many eyes in Southeast Missouri on this game; the Rams, off to their first 6-0 start since 2004, have had their eyes on it for quite some time.

Cape Girardeau Central's Emily Ford and Megan Maxton paired up to win the doubles competition at the Class 2 District 1 Individuals Tournament on Thursday in girls tennis at Cape Girardeau Central High School. The duo downed two of their fellow teammates, Anita Kellum and Maria Seidu-Sofo, 6-1 each set to win the doubles championship...

Jackson sophomore Kaydi Rhodes shot a 1-under-par 71 on Wednesday at The Links at Dardenne in O'Fallon, Missouri, to lead the school's girls golf program to its first district title. Rhodes finished four strokes ahead of Lindbergh's Sofia Gamayo to earn the medalist at the Class 2 District 1 tournament...

The Notre Dame girls tennis team shut out the Saxony Lutheran Crusaders 5-0 to advance to the finals of the Class 1 District 2 team tournament Tuesday. The Bulldogs got the early lead and never looked back, thanks to three doubles wins. The frst two doubles matches both ended 8-1 as Claire Bruenderman and Anna Grace Stroup defeated Maddox Murphy and Sydney Turner at the No. ...

STE. GENEVIEVE, Mo. – As the minutes ticked away in Friday’s 42-27 Ste. Genevieve football win over Perryville, Pirate junior runner and defender, Dylan Holt, paced the sidelines struggling to catch his breath he was so distraught with the game’s outcome.

The Notre Dame boys swimming team came way with four state qualifiers that was good enough to land the Bulldogs in second place at the 26th Annual Roger Eastman Invitational on Saturday at the Rec-Plex in St. Peters, Mo. Joseph Barber and Nicholas Hux were a part of three of those state cuts for the Bulldogs, including their first-place 200 medley relay team (1:44.90) and second-place 200 freestyle relay (1:34.26). ...

STE. GENEVIEVE, Mo. -- There are no moral victories in any sport, and that includes football. So the fact his Perryville squad didn't roll over when they allowed host Ste. Genevieve to jump out quickly to a 14-0 lead made Pirate coach Blane Boss happy, but he was far from satisfied following the 42-27 win by the host Dragons...

The masses have fervently called for a revised Semoball.com Football Power Rankings and the analytics department has delivered it.

Senior Kyla Beel hammered 24 kills and tallied 14 digs as the Leopold volleyball team rallied after dropping the first set to rebound and eke out a 21-25, 25-22, 25-23 victory over Dexter on Tuesday at Leopold High School. Sophomore Paige Davis contributed 25 assists and...

PERRYVILLE, Mo. -- It's difficult to determine where to start in analyzing the impressive 40-21 football pounding St. Vincent laid on its rival, Perryville, Friday at St. Vincent.

New Madrid Central football held the top spot in the area power rankings this week. The rankings combine a team's MSHSAA point total, use bonus points for wins against other Semoball-area teams, road wins, and a team's Massey Rating.

Addie Johnson posted a double-double with 20 kills and 11 digs as the Woodland volleyball team had to claw deep after dropping the first set to come back and down Meadow Heights in the 18-25, 25-17, 25-18 three-set thriller victory on the road Thursday in Patton, Missouri...

Scott City senior quarterback Spencer Stratman was voted semoball.com Football Player of the Week after leading the unbeaten Rams to a 35-7 win over Charleston on Friday.

Woodland’s Timothy Sloan took the first-place boys’ medal in Tuesday’s Oak Ridge Invitational cross country meet.

PERRYVILLE, Mo. – It was an overcast Saturday morning in Perryville. The temperature was cooler than it has been of late and there was intermittent spitting rain. However, the less than ideal weather wasn’t enough to dissuade many members of the community who had a vested interest in the Heartland Youth Football League from coming out to watch the elementary-aged kids begin the first chapters of their football careers.

The Jackson cross country team won both gender divisions by a long mile at the Cape Girardeau Central Invitational on Saturday at Central High School.

The Perryville Pirates overcame key injuries to get back into the win column with a 21-14 overtime win against the Fredericktown Blackcats on Friday night.

Semoball’s analytical wizard (Brian Rosener, sports editor for the Daily American Republic) has crunched the numbers and formed a prep football ranking system of area teams throughout the Semoball-coverage area.

For the second consecutive football season, Perryville football coach Blane Boss is doing more roster management than an NFL general manager due to a flood of injuries.

Mackenzie Stoner slammed eight kills as the Jackson volleyball team denied host Notre Dame its 10th win of the season and picked up a big conference victory in straight sets (25-10, 25-19) on Thursday in Cape Girardeau. Hannah Shinn and Olivia Ward chipped in seven kills apiece for the Indians. ...

CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. — Megan Witt and Emma Drury came up big in a clutch situation on Tuesday night against Cape Central. After Sarah Keller led off the sixth inning with a single, and Jordi James and Naudia Lazcano were promptly hit by pitches, Witt gave Sikeston the 6-5 lead on a sacrifice fly...

Several area communities have fielded teams to compete this fall in the Heartland Youth Football League. Here are some results from the recent action.HYFL Week 1 Results WEEK 1 Dexter - 12 Perryville Gold - 6 Jackson Warriors - 44 Perryville Green - 0...

The Notre Dame girls tennis team won the Cape Central Team Doubles Tournament on Saturday.

Sixty area volleyball teams took part in the Dig For Life Challenge Volleyball Tournament at the Cape Girardeau SportsPlex and Show Me Center Friday and Saturday.

The Perryville Pirates struggled early in their first game without the injured Eli Bierk, falling to the Potosi Trojans 34-20 while losing running back Drew Hotop to a leg injury. Bierk’s absence was felt throughout the matchup, as the Pirates were without one of their most versatile players.

PERRYVILLE, Mo. – Third-year Perryville football coach Blane Boss may feel like kicking a wall at times, as his Pirate squad is being besieged by injuries for the second straight season. However, he isn’t admitting any frustration publicly.

FESTUS, Mo. -- Erin Boss doesn't have time to have cancer. The fourth-year volleyball coach at Hillsboro has a docile pit bull (Max) to love on, an educational career to further, her coaching of the Hawks to do, and a young marriage to Perryville football coach Blane Boss to grow...

Ella Overstreet carded a 3-over-par 75 to place second individually as the Jackson girls golf team finished nine strokes ahead of the host Falcons to capture the championship of the Rockwood Summit Invitational Tournament on Thursday at the Crescent Farms Golf Course in the suburban St. Louis area...

PERRYVILLE, Mo. — Jerry Fulton knew there was a need for a boy’s soccer program in Perryville in 2008. Kids were playing the sport recreationally that he believed would be interested in doing so as a Pirate representing their school.

PERRYVILLE, Mo. — It was a tough night on the diamond for the Sikeston softball team Tuesday evening. The Bulldogs fell to Perryville 9-4, with all of the runs coming in the fourth inning. Jordi James started the Bulldogs rally with a single. Naudia Lazcano then followed that up with a base hit of her own, and Megan Witt reached on an error by the second baseman to load the bases for Emma Drury...