Poplar Bluff

Two of the athletes in attendance Saturday night were no strangers to the Semoball Awards. Kennett's Hadley Hilburn and Poplar Bluff's Morgan McAtee became the first-ever four-time Semoball Awards finalists. Both athletes were recognized during the event's fourth installment, held at Southeast Missouri Sate's River Campus in Cape Girardeau...

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...

With just days until the 2017 Semoball Awards, podcast host and Southeast Missourian/Semoball.com sports editor Josh Mlot (@semoballJosh) sits down with some friends of the podcast to talk about the annual event...

Jim Lohr, who coached football at his alma maters Poplar Bluff High School and Southeast Missouri State University, died Saturday. A member of the Poplar Bluff Sports Hall of Fame, Lohr was an all-state tackle for the Mules in 1951 before helping Southeast to an undefeated season four years later as a player. He went on to coach at both schools...

June has always been a busy month for Kirk Chronister. It's time to bale hay and tend cattle on his 130-acre ranch in northern Butler County. This, however, is the first June in some time in which Chronister isn't also in a gym coaching. It was at the beginning of the month when his retirement started to sink in...

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...

HILLSBORO, Mo. -- This time it was Poplar Bluff's turn to celebrate. At the bottom of a maroon dogpile Monday following the Class 5 District 1 championship game was Tanner Tibbs. The senior tossed a three-hit shutout and pushed across the first run of the game with a bases-loaded walk as the Mules beat Jackson 8-0...

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."...

The top-seeded Notre Dame boys tennis team didn't drop a single match in its 5-0 sweep of fourth-seeded Arcadia Valley in a semifinal of the Class 1 District 1 team tournament on Tuesday at Notre Dame Regional High School. The victory set up a clash of familiar foes, as the Bulldogs (11-1) will go up against second-seeded and two-time defending district champion Dexter at 4 p.m. ...

After Notre Dame got the better of Poplar Bluff earlier in the season, the Mules exacted revenge with an 8-3 victory in Saturday's rematch in a SEMO Conference Tournament semifinal at Capaha Field. Poplar Bluff (17-5) found the offensive breakthrough it needed in the bottom of the fifth inning, scoring six runs on four hits, but it was the defensive side of things that vaulted the Mules into the championship game...

Elijah Huey had the game-winning RBI single as seventh-seeded Cape Central baseball upset No. 2 Jackson 3-2 in eight innings Friday in the first round of the SEMO Conference Tournament at Whitey Herzog Stadium. Joe Baker went 2-for-3 at the plate for the Tigers (5-11) and got the save as he pitched a scoreless eighth. Drake Mills picked up the win as he gave up two runs (one earned), seven hits and two walks in seven innings. He also struck out two...

Layne Johnson held the Bulldogs to six hits on the mound, as the Oran baseball team knocked off Sikeston 10-2 on Thursday in Sikeston, Missouri. Johnson threw 6 2/3 innings and allowed two earned runs, striking out seven batters and walking two. Drew Reischman secured the final out for the Eagles...

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...

Notre Dame's Jonathan Bell carded a six-over-par 77 to tie for second individually, as the Bulldogs finished 16 strokes behind champion Poplar Bluff to receive second place Monday in the SEMO Conference Boys Golf Tournament at Fox Haven Country Club in Sikeston, Missouri...

POPLAR BLUFF, Mo. — The SEMO Conference game between Jackson and Poplar Bluff was a standoff even before the first pitch Monday. Each side opened with a three-run first inning, but Poplar Bluff got a pair of two-out RBI singles in the fourth to pull ahead. That was enough to back Ronin Rice’s complete-game effort as the Mules won 5-3 at Bobby Strenfel Field...