Perryville

From across Southeast Missouri, people descended upon Cape Girardeau on Saturday night for the region's premier sports awards show. More than 150 student-athletes from 57 area high schools were on hand for the Fourth Annual Semoball Awards presented by SoutheastHEALTH at the Donald C. Bedell Performance Hall on Southeast Missouri State University's River Campus, as awards were handed out in 25 sports categories...

Twelve high school student-athletes earn recognition for their accomplishments on the baseball field this spring

Jersey number: 23 Positions played during high school season: Shortstop, pitcher Summer team: Top Gun Academy Twitter handle: @kpayne04 Favorite warmup song: "Turn My Swag On" by Soulja Boy Favorite bat to use: Rawlings Favorite place to play: University of Tennessee...

State events and finishes: Triple jump (15th) Favorite warmup song: "DNA" by Kendrick Lamar Favorite shoes to wear while competing: Nike TJ Elite Favorite rival to face off against: Phayzun Fobbs (Sikeston) Favorite place to compete: Kirkwood Favorite track and field athlete: Christian Taylor...

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...

The Notre Dame girls track and field team finished the season off with record performances -- a school record for all-state finishes and a plethora of podium finishes, including an individual state title -- at the MSHSAA Class 4 Track & Field Championships on Friday and Saturday at the Dennis and Roberta Licklider Track Complex in Jefferson City, Missouri...

The MSHSAA Class 4 Track & Field Championships got underway on Friday, and one local athlete did so with a bang. Notre Dame freshman Riley Burger added an impressive feat to her growing resume as she earned a gold medal in the girls' triple jump. Burger set a personal record of 40-02.25, hitting that mark on her first attempt of the day...

The Notre Dame girls track and field team finished second at the Class 4 Sectional 1 meet on Saturday, a week after capturing its first district title. The Bulldogs totaled 93 points, two behind first-place Webster Groves, and had seven individual qualifiers in eight events and one relay team advance to the state meet...

Notre Dame senior Jonathan Bell carded a 9-over-par 79 in Tuesday's second round of the Class 3 state tournament, finishing in a four-way tie for 26th place with a two-day score of 157 at Sedalia Country Club in Sedalia, Missouri. Nate Hulshof (169), Caleb Schnurbusch (174), DJ Lynch (184) and Nick Powers (192) rounded out the individual scores for the Bulldogs, who finished eighth in the team standings with a score of 684. ...

Nobody in a Notre Dame baseball uniform knows anything other than winning a district title, so when it looked like that might change, the Bulldogs did something about it. Second-seeded Notre Dame rallied from five runs down, got a momentum-swinging inside-the-park home run from Trevor Haas and a shutdown relief effort from ace Will Ferrell to break the hearts of Perryville yet again, 8-6, in a Class 4 District 1 semifinal Monday at Notre Dame Regional High School...

Jackson sophomores Case Englehart and Tanner Walton are within striking distance of garnering all-state honors after the completion of Monday's first round at the Class 4 state tournament at Twin Hills Country Club in Joplin, Missouri. Englehart carded a 6-over-par 78 to finish in a six-way tie for 27th place, while Walton finished one stroke behind (79) along with six other golfers...

After-graduation plans: Playing golf in college Number of state appearances: 3 Favorite team tradition: Jam-out session in van Favorite club: 8-iron Favorite pre-round meal: Nothing Favorite course to play: Dalhousie Golf Club Favorite golfer: Tiger Woods...

With two sophomores heading to the MSHSAA Class 4 Boys Golf State Championships, visions of the future pop up in Zack Walton's head. But the Jackson coach is focused on the present heading into the two-day tournament, which begins today in Joplin, Missouri...

The Jackson boys claimed a Class 5 District 1 team title, posting 128 points to finish just ahead of Poplar Bluff (121) in the meet held at Park Hills Central High School on Saturday. "I was just really proud of how our kids competed," Indians coach Jimmy Stoverink said. "It was really a team effort. We had a really good effort with our jumpers, throwers, sprinters, distance runners. Good performance all the way around. Just a really good team effort."...

If there are two girls soccer teams that know what it's like to be young and inexperienced this season, it's Perryville and Saxony Lutheran. Both sides have faced challenges associated with new faces and a steady learning curve, but on Tuesday it was the Crusaders who prevailed in a head-to-head matchup, getting an early second-half goal from Laurel Mueller -- one of the few veterans on the field -- to slip by the Pirates 2-1 at Saxony Lutheran High School...

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...

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...