Perryville

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...

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...

The Scott City baseball team won two games Saturday as they claimed first place in the runners-up bracket at the Malden Invitational Tournament. The Rams (12-4) first defeated Cooter 9-7 and then beat Caruthersville 7-3. In both games, Scott City struck early...

Dustin Wengert is coming home. Wengert grew up in Perryville, and next season he'll be directing the Perryville boys basketball team after the Perryville Board of Education approved the hire in Tuesday's meeting. The current Notre Dame athletic director graduated from the town's private school, St. Vincent, and later coached a variety of Indians sports teams. This time he'll be coaching their crosstown rival, replacing Justin Dreyer on the sidelines...

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...

Trent Unterreiner hit a double to record the only extra-base hit of the game, as the Perryville baseball team tallied a run in the final inning to eke out a 2-1 win over the Bearcats on Saturday at Ste. Genevieve, Missouri. Garrett Dix went the distance on the mound to earn the win for Perryville. He allowed one earned run and recorded nine strikeouts and four walks...

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...

PERRYVILLE, Mo. -- Early this season, the Perryville baseball team has relied on its pitching to win games, and the Pirates stuck to that formula Monday afternoon. Devin Terbrak and Jerome Simpson combined to throw seven innings of one-run ball as Perryville defeated crosstown rival St. Vincent 3-1 at Perryville Elementary School in Perryville, Missouri...

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...

PERRYVILLE, Mo. -- The Perryville girls soccer team showcased its youth Thursday. Two freshmen scored, and the Pirates rode their first shutout of the season to a 2-0 win over district foe Fredericktown at The Bank of Missouri Soccer Complex in Perryville, Missouri...

Blane Boss was an all-state running back at Windsor High School in the early 2000s, even rushing for over 500 yards in one game. So it's probably not a surprise the new Perryville head football coach favors a ground-and-pound offense. "The type of kids they have, I definitely want to try to establish the run and make that our bread and butter," Boss said. ...

Britne Parker smacked two doubles and drove in four runs to lead Scott City softball to a 10-3 win over Advance. Jamie Glastetter tossed six innings to take the win for the Rams (5-1). She gave up three unearned runs on two hits and recorded eight strikeouts with two walks...