Poplar Bluff

Each morning when the Poplar Bluff High School huddle of the Fellowship of Christian Athletes meet before school, students will find doughnuts and Colin Lamberson. When the two meet, that’s when coach David Sievers knows it’s time to start the meeting...

The Jackson boys tennis team won 9-0, Thursday, at home over Cape Central, to keep the Indians perfect on the season at 4-0. Results include: Singles Results 1. Nick Wimp (J) def. Jacob Ford (CC) 9-7 2. Nolan Dry (J) def. Zach Borowiak (CC) 8-0 3. Will Petzoldt (J) def. James Webb (CC) 8-1...

SIKESTON — Don’t let their record fool you. Even though the Sikeston girls' soccer team is 1-4 on the season, the inexperienced Lady Bulldogs have found a way to stay in games that many thought would be over by halftime. Since an 8-0 loss to Perryville on March 27, Sikeston has improved by leaps and bounds, and Lady Bulldogs' head coach Gabe Dement is well aware of that...

SIKESTON — It was a quick turnaround for the Sikeston baseball team on Tuesday, and one that the Bulldogs felt couldn't end quick enough. Twenty-four hours removed from a 13-4 victory over New Madrid County Central, Sikeston (4-8) returned to VFW Stadium for its second-straight SEMO Conference matchup — this against Poplar Bluff...

POPLAR BLUFF — Away from Mules Stadium, the Poplar Bluff soccer team has lost just once and averaged nearly 3 1/2 goals in seven games. But the Mules are still looking for their first goal at home following a second 3-0 loss, this time against Valley View (Ark.) on Tuesday...

The Jackson boys tennis team won the overall with a 7-2 score over Poplar Bluff Tuesday. Will Petzoldt won both his individual match as well as his double's match, as did Cameron Crawford, Nolan Dry, and James Hopkins. Varsity Individual Results 1. Parker Nagy (PB) def. Nick Wimp (Jack) 8-3...

SIKESTON — Poplar Bluff had four players break 80 Monday as the Mules golf team beat Jackson by 22 strokes in a four-team tournament at Fox Haven County Club. Paul Innes led the Mules at 4-over-par 75, Alex Wiseman and Jack Pierce each shot 76 while freshman Lawson Barks finished at 79, three shots ahead of Jackson’s No. 2 score which Poplar Bluff’s Ian Martinez matched...

Following a year of missing out on gathering with friends and family due to the COVID pandemic, everyone, including sports fans, is anxious to spend time with those closest to us once again.

Bell City scored two runs in the first inning, and three more runs in the second inning to take an early lead, but lengthened that lead in the bottom of the fifth, scoring eight runs, to put the game away Monday, winning 14-4 at home. Nate Stone recorded three hits in three at-bats, one of those being the long ball variety, as the senior drove in a run and scored four runs, leading the Cubs (2-1) offensively...

POPLAR BLUFF — Before the Farmington baseball team broke open a tight game with a five-run seventh, the Knights caught a break. With the game tied in the fourth, the Mules put their first two on base before a hard-hit line drive was snared by the Farmington third basemen leading to an inning-ending double play...

CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. — Alex Wiseman lost his ball on the second hole Monday but was able to escape with a bogey. “That really got me some momentum,” said Poplar Bluff junior, who ended up with three lost balls, five birdies and individual medalist honors at the Notre Dame Invitational...

CAPE GIRARDEAU — Poplar Bluff extended its shutout streak to 210 minutes with a pair of wins Saturday at the Noon Optimist Tournament. The Mules, who opened the tournament Friday with a win over Sikeston, beat Saxony Lutheran 2-0 then edged Hillsboro 1-0 on a penalty kick by Zoe Savat with 18 1/2 minutes remaining...

CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. — The Sikeston girls soccer team fell to Poplar Bluff on the first day of the Noon Optimist Club Tournament Friday. The Lady Bulldogs lost 2-0, with the Mules' goals credited to senior Zoe Savat and sophomore Lily Johnson. “Today’s match was back-and-forth,” Sikeston head coach Gabe Dement said. ...

NEOSHO, Mo. — Emilee Cheek won two events while Marquis Johnson also won a pair of individual events and helped a relay win as Poplar Bluff athletes won 14 events Friday at the Harry Lineberry Open meet. No team scores were kept, but Poplar Bluff’s boys took the top two spots in four of the nine events they won...

POPLAR BLUFF — Caleb LeGrand and his fellow honorees on the All-SEMO Conference basketball team never got their lettermen jacket patches after last season. The Notre Dame senior took home the patch and a very large trophy Wednesday night from the Poplar Bluff Letter Club Basketball Banquet...

BONNE TERRE, Mo. — Poplar Bluff took the top three spots in two events, Jaden Deaton won a pair of races and the Mules took 10 events in all to win by 54 points Wednesday at the Raider Relay Invitational. Deaton, Joshua Savat, Kasen Hoss and three relays won on the track while Preston Taylor, Marquis Johnson and Luke Barousse earned field event wins as Poplar Bluff finished with 214 points to beat Hillsboro (160 points) and six other teams at North County High School...

Heading into his junior track season, Jaden Deaton had a goal to lower his mile time but the Poplar Bluff runner had to wait when the season, and everything else, was put on hold due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Deaton wanted to add a 4-minute, 20-second time in the mile to his resume for college after running 4:25 during an indoor meet that winter...

WEST PLAINS, Mo. — Olivia Carda had a hat trick, Zoe Savat added a pair of goals and Nevaeh Larkins earned her second shutout Tuesday night as Poplar Bluff earned a road win. Three different players scored first-half goals for the Mules in a 6-0 win at West Plains a night after being shut out...

BONNE TERRE, Mo. — A two-out double broke a fifth-inning tie Monday as the Poplar Bluff baseball team lost 2-1 at North County. The Mules committed three errors and struck out nine times, losing for the third straight game. “There’s a lot of positives I can point out, we just got to clean it up,” Mules coach Steven Edwards said...

Sixteen seconds after the opening kickoff the Mules soccer team was down a goal Monday night. Poplar Bluff’s home opener didn’t get off to a very good start with Seckman scoring twice in the opening 10 minutes, but the Mules didn’t give up a goal over the final 50 in a 3-0 loss to the Jaguars...

POTOSI, Mo. — Jadarius Pigg won all four of his events Friday, sweeping the hurdles and beating a teammate in the long jump, as the Poplar Bluff track and field team won 11 in all to claim the Trojan Invitational. The Mules took the top two spots in five events, winning the team title by 73 points in the season-opening meet...

During their year apart, much of the Poplar Bluff tennis team got together to play on their own. Now that the Mules are back together as a team, there’s been an increase in challenge matches during the preseason camp. “Everyone’s challenging, it’s cool to see,” said Mules coach Michael Sowatzke. “In other years we’ve had people just sit where they’re at, happy. All the way down to the very bottom of JV, everyone’s challenging. That’s really good.”...

Unlike the boys, Poplar Bluff’s girls track and field team does not have a single state qualifier returning other than junior Salah McCormack, who ran at the state cross country meet this past fall. Only five athletes competed as freshmen two years ago in the district meet and only one advanced...

Marquis Johnson, Luke Barousse, JaDarius Pigg and Preston Taylor each competed at the MSHSAA state track and field championships two years ago while Jade Deaton earned all-state honors this fall in cross country. On paper, the Poplar Bluff boys look like a team that could make a push for a trophy in May...

Now that they’re Missouri Sports Hall of Famers, Poplar Bluff golfers look to add to the program’s rich history this spring. Like everybody else around the state, the Mules return after a lost season due to the COVID-19 pandemic eager to compete at again...

The Poplar Bluff girls soccer team is looking to get a little defensive this spring as the Mules return from a lost season. “We’re going to try to get better defensively this year and just try to keep games close and try to stay in games,” Mules coach Rusty Crafton said...

Following the lost baseball season of 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, every team enters this spring with a lot of question marks. “There’s a little bit of adjustment this year,” Poplar Bluff Mules coach Steven Edwards said. “We have a lot younger guys out here. We lost a big senior class last year, and of course not getting on the field to get to play kind of hurt.”...

POPLAR BLUFF — The Mules gave the top-ranked team a devil of a time Friday night in the MSHSAA Class 6 quarterfinal. Chaminade scored 11 straight points in the third quarter, all after offensive rebounds, then held off a late rally by Poplar Bluff, advancing with a 69-55 win...

In any other year, the back injury Gavyn Hays suffered during the sectional tournament might not have had time to heal prior to the MSHSAA wrestling championships. “My back would be crazy,” Hays said, “probably wouldn’t have been able to (wrestle Saturday).”...

The pressure is mounting on area basketball players as the MSHSAA tournament continues. For Semoball-area players, the performances have matched the intensity of the competition. Campbell senior Blake Fowler and Oran junior Traci Hency have both excelled of late and the two were recognized recently as the Semoball.com Basketball Players of the Week.

Consider the MSHSAA Class 6 quarterfinal Friday at the Senior High Gym a delayed Poplar Bluff Showdown. Just like the annual Christmas tournament that was canceled this season due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the host Mules will face a very good team featuring highly-recruited players...

POPLAR BLUFF — With a dependable defense and a perfect performance from the foul line in the fourth quarter, the Poplar Bluff boys basketball team ended a 16-year playoff drought Tuesday night. Joseph Hardimon’s step-back 3 to end the third quarter put the Mules ahead after Oakville overcame a 10-point deficit. ...

A year without baseball makes the heart grow fonder. However, returning to it for the first time since spring training and minor league baseball was shut down due to the COVID-19 pandemic may seem like going outside in the middle of a bright sunny day after spending hours inside...

Poplar Bluff and Oakville avoided each other at a tournament in January, but the two teams will square off with a spot in the MSHSAA Class 6 quarterfinals on the line. The Mules will host the District 2 champions after winning the program’s first district title since 2018 with a thrilling 49-42 overtime win over Jackson on Thursday...

CEDAR HILL, Mo. — The Mules are coming home with a district title. Joseph Hardimon scored seven of Poplar Bluff’s 13 points in overtime, Nic Brumitt broke a tie with a layup and the Mules sank their final six foul shots to knock off Jackson 49-42 Thursday in the MSHSAA Class 6 District 1 championship at Northwest High School...

The Jackson girl’s basketball team opened MSHSAA Class 6 District 1 play Tuesday as the top seed and got some revenge on No. 4-seed Poplar Bluff, as the Indians won 43-18 at Jackson. Jackson dropped the 2020 district championship game to the Kylie Bess-led Mules, but it had little resistance, as the Indians came out firing, quickly putting up nine unanswered points in the opening quarter and eventually put the game out of reach.

Local teams place in MCCA state cheer competition East Carter won its division at the Missouri Cheerleading Coaches Association's state championships, it was announced Sunday, while the East Prairie and South Pemiscot squads were honored for their work during timeouts. ...

The Notre Dame boys basketball team finished out their regular season with a road victory over fellow SEMO Conference foe Poplar Bluff Saturday, 66-58. The win gave the Bulldogs a 19-6 finish to their regular season, heading into district play Tuesday...

CEDAR HILL – There are few things in athletic completion that capsulate the emotion of victory quite like winning the match that punches the ticket into the state tournament. Poplar Bluff’s Gavin Hicks placed third in the 126-pound weight class in the Class 4 Section 1 Tournament on Saturday at Northwest High School. The sophomore reached his first state tournament...

POPLAR BLUFF — Notre Dame nearly ran out of gas at the end of an eight-day stretch to end the regular season. A 14-point, third-quarter lead was whittled down to a point, but the Bulldogs held Poplar Bluff at bay before scoring eight straight points to win 66-58 Saturday afternoon...

Poplar Bluff’s five seniors were on the court together Wednesday night for the first time this season, and the final time. Hannah Corcimiglia, Casey Greenwall, Emma Johnson, Alexis Richardson and Sierra Sievers were honored before the Mules final game at the Senior High Gym...

PARK HILLS, Mo. — The Poplar Bluff Mules boys basketball team went cold at arguably the worst time of the game against Park Hills Central. Poplar Bluff did not score for nearly 4 1/2 minutes in the fourth quarter as the Rebels rallied for a 66-62 win here Thursday night. It was the Mules’ first time on the court after a winter-weather layoff of nearly three weeks...

POPLAR BLUFF — After taking the lead early in the second quarter, Poplar Bluff went scoreless for 8 1/2 minutes Wednesday night and managed just five second-half points. Kennett forced 27 turnovers and gave up as many shots defensively to beat the Mules 41-23 at the Senior High Gym...

ST. PETERS — The Cape Central girl’s swim team didn’t have an individual champion at Saturday’s MSHSAA Class 1 Swimming and Diving State Finals at the St. Peters Rec-Plex.

Notre Dame, Jackson, Dexter and Poplar Bluff will have the opportunity to do something this year that they weren’t able to the year before. Send a girl to the state tournament. A total of 13 wrestlers from the Southeast Missouri area will converge at St. Clair for the Sectional 1 Tournament on Saturday. Only the top-3 finishers will advance to the state tournament...

High School boys and girls basketball district tournaments are finally upon us. Fans, players, and coaches have had to endure a strange, but sometimes fun, basketball season, which was filled with many postponements and/or cancellations due to Covid-19, as well as the weather. However, we can say that the 2020-2021 season has been one of the more entertaining ones in recent years.

The Cape Central girl’s 200 medley relay squad of Ava Duncan, Bella Dennis, Lauren Lamar, and Grace Sanders stunned everyone at last year’s MSHSAA Class 1 State Swim Finals.

The snow may have come at the worst time for area basketball teams with the MSHSAA district playoffs starting this weekend for the smallest schools. But it may have been good timing for the Poplar Bluff boys basketball team. “Sometimes you need a break this time of year. The season is really long, it can be a grind,” Mules coach William Durden said. “If you got a little momentum and you’re hot, it kind of hits at a bad time.”...

Since posting their fastest time of the season on January 22, Poplar Bluff’s medley relay has been right at the cutoff for making the MSHSAA state swimming and diving championships. “In the last couple of years we’ve kind of banked on that (consideration time),” Mules coach Beth Lewis-Muse said...