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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...

New Madrid County Central sophomore quarterback Matt Riley was voted the semoball.com Football Player of the Week for Week 2 of the high school season. Riley accumulated 592 votes after completing 14 of 22 passes for 295 yards and three TDs in the Eagles' 46-6 win over East Prairie on Friday...

Aaron, Brad and Chris Ernst have made it easier on themselves and the general public by gravitating toward sports. Not ones to want to promote confusion, the triplets have found numerical identification can be helpful to others. Even with their faces shielded by helmets, and wearing identical garb on their 6-foot, 215-pound frames, they are easiest to keep straight on Friday nights...

The Cape Girardeau Central and Notre Dame boys swimming teams made quite a splash at Saturday’s Cape Rock Invitational at the Central Municipal Pool.

Perryville won four games last season, but two weeks into the 2019 season, the Pirates are already halfway to matching that total. The Pirates (2-0) dominated St. James on both sides of the ball Friday to win 51-0. “I thought we played pretty well,” third-year coach Blane Boss said. “Defensively, we missed some tackles, but offensively, we ran the ball hard and had some good blocks.”...

Molly Conrad hammered seven kills as the fourth-seeded Meadow Heights Panthers rallied and bounced back after dropping the first set to stave off an upset from a determined fifth-seeded Oak Ridge Blue Jays squad and prevailed (14-25, 25-13, 25-13) in the quarterfinals of the Woodland Invitational Tournament...

Perryville won four games last season, but two weeks into the 2019 season, the Pirates are already halfway to matching that total. The Pirates (2-0) dominated St. James on both sides of the ball Friday to win 51-0. "I thought we played pretty well," third-year coach Blane Boss said. "Defensively, we missed some tackles, but offensively, we ran the ball hard and had some good blocks."...

History was made on Thursday for the inaugural Saxony Lutheran girls tennis program. But it was made on another school's turf. The Crusaders posted an 8-1 victory over Charleston on Thursday at Cape Girardeau Central High School as Saxony does not yet have a tennis court on its campus in Fruitland. The Crusaders are fielding both a varsity and junior varsity tennis team for the first time in the school's history...

Bailey Cupples of Holcomb and JD Burton of Neelyville were the Semoball Athletes of the Week in online fan voting that concluded Wednesday night. Cupples, the female winner, finished with 561 votes after finishing with 12 kills, three aces and one block in the Hornets' 25-13, 25-13 season-opening win over Southland on Friday...

It remains to be seen just how much success the Jackson softball program will have throughout its 2019 season. The Indians open the year with a tough test today at Notre Dame (4:30 p.m.). However, there is no questioning how popular the Jackson athletes are.

CITY AUTO MEMPHIS TWILIGHT CLASSIC Notre Dame senior Blake Morris was the fourth runner to cross the finish line at Saturday’s City Auto Memphis Twilight Classic at the Mike Rose Soccer Complex in Memphis, Tennessee. Morris posted a time of 15 minutes, 46.33 seconds and finished just behind junior Miles Ally of Martin Luther King High School from Nashville, Tenn., (15:43.15) and ahead of senior Conner O’Shea of Madison Central High School from Richmond, Ky., (15:50.85) to finish in the Top Five. ...

Jake Unterreiner recorded one goal and one assist as the Perryville boys soccer team kicked off its season with a vengeful 3-0 shutout of Waterloo, Ill., in Friday's opening round of the Eighth Annual Greg Kline Invitational Tournament in Carbondale, Illinois...

Following three weeks of fall camp, high school football players throughout Southeast Missouri finally get to compete with the scoreboard turned on tonight.

There has been a common theme for the Perryville football squad opening its season with De Soto in recent years. It has been a struggle for the Pirates to score points. Perryville has only won one time in the last three matchups and has never scored more than 15 points against the Dragons during that stretch...

The words of third-year Perryville football coach Blane Boss have begun to resonate with his players. “I don’t sugarcoat anything with our kids,” Boss said. “I tell them straight up what they need to do. I don’t dance around things. “My biggest thing is showing up.”...

A few hours before preseason jamborees got underway Friday night some schools in the Missouri Bootheel learned they will be battling new opponents when the state playoffs begin later this fall. The Missouri High School Activities Association released 2019 class and district assignments for most fall sports Friday...

Coach: Logan Bollinger Experience: Third year coaching cross country at Central, third year overall. In the past: Two boys advanced to sectionals in 2018, including then sophomore Nathan Caldwell. He's back: Nathan Caldwell (junior). Coach speak: "We have a great crew of hardworking, dedicated runners, many of whom put in a solid schedule of summer miles," Bollinger said. "I am confident every runner will set new PR's this season."...

PERRYVILLE, Mo. - Perryville coach Jerry Fulton has been walking the sidelines of a soccer field for a quarter-century, which was long enough to know that his Pirates were going to have some growing pains a year ago when he had an incredibly young squad. However, those athletes are now “a year older and a year bigger,” which has Fulton excited about THIS boys’ season.

Coach: Jared Dobbs Experience: Fourth year coaching soccer at Central, seventh year overall. In the past: Lost 6-1 to Farmington in the Class 3 District 1 championship game in 2018 They're back: Kaya Newkirk, Lucas Grammar, TK Ayers, Jack Zhong, Zach Moore, Nate Albertson, Zach Mattison...

Coach: Justin Lieser Experience: Fourth year coaching softball at Cape Central, fourth year overall. In the past: Record of 8-14 in 2018. Lost 13-3 to Poplar Bluff in the Class 4 District 1 quarterfinals. They're back: Erica Goodin (senior, IF), Olivia Koch (senior, 2B/OF), Brooke Witvoet (junior, 1B/OF), Valerie Greenley (junior, P/3B), Catie Davis (junior, C/SS), Kayleigh Turk (junior, OF/C), Lizzy Turk (junior, P/OF)...

Coach: Logan Bollinger Experience: Third as coach at Cape Central, third year overall. Coach: Travis Calkins Experience: 13th year at Chaffee, 13th overall They're back: Madalyn Glueck (sophomore), Tori Stohmeyer (sophomore) Look for them: Madelynn Mosley (senior), Destiny Barbeau (senior), Morgan Stephens (senior), Mackenzie Jackson (junior), Isabelle Neves (sophomore), Madison Mosley (freshman), Rayney Held (fresman)...

PERRYVILLE, MO. – Third-year Perryville football coach Blane Boss has waited a while to see what Evan Daugherty could do on the football field. He found out just how solid the junior Pirate athlete is this week.

The Perryville football program hadn’t had much success when Blane Boss took over as the Pirates’ head coach prior to the 2017 season. And the brutally honest young coach didn’t make things any easier on the Pirate student-athletes.

What I learned from living the initial 52 years of my life in the state of Indiana was that Hoosiers are passionate about three things: religion, farming, and sports. And depending on the time of year and whether the Indiana University men’s basketball team is underachieving or not, the order of those things could fluctuate.

Jersey number: 14 Positions played during high school season: Pitcher and first base After-graduation plans: Going to East Central College to study early childhood education and to play softball Favorite team tradition: Saying "Do it to 'em, get 'em, Lady Hawks" before every game...

Meet the 12 selections to the All-Southeast Missourian girls soccer team

Another successful spring sports season has concluded, and awards have been doled out to student-athletes in the Southeast Missourian's coverage area. Notre Dame girls soccer won its second Class 2 state championship in three seasons, and other teams, such as Saxony Lutheran baseball and St. Vincent girls soccer, also advanced to the final four...