Poplar Bluff

Terry Flannigan has seen both sides of the Chaffee-Scott City rivalry. The first-year Chaffee football coach was the head man at Scott City for two separate stints, in the 1990s and 2000s. Now Flannigan leads the Red Devils into a matchup against the visiting Rams at 7 p.m. today...

The past week has been a bit of an adventure for the Jackson boys soccer team, as it twice had to erase multi-goal deficits in order to remain unbeaten on the season. On Tuesday, the Indians made sure a slow start was never an issue. Jackson senior Justice Crosnoe scored just 21 seconds into the game, and the Indians rolled to a 7-1 victory over SEMO conference and district foe Poplar Bluff at Jackson Junior High School...

POPLAR BLUFF, Mo. -- Jackson couldn't get the final out of the fourth inning before Poplar Bluff plated four runs Tuesday after the Indians had left the bases loaded. The Mules got five consecutive two-out hits to break a scoreless tie and added two runs the following inning before a five-run sixth in an 11-3 win over Jackson...

FARMINGTON, Mo. — Logan Bell ran for four touchdowns and threw for two more as Poplar Bluff football opened SEMO Conference North play with a 50-21 win at Farmington on Friday night. Bell threw for a career-high 247 yards, completing 7 of 11 passes, ran for 43 yards and had a 61-yard kickoff return for the Mules (4-0, 1-0 SEMO North)...

POPLAR BLUFF, Mo. -- T.K. Ayers and Danny Cruz scored 78 seconds apart to give the Cape Girardeau Central boys soccer team an early two-goal lead Thursday, and the Tigers pulled away for a 4-1 road victory against SEMO Conference foe Poplar Bluff. Ayers finished with two goals in the game and was a steady scoring threat for Central...

POPLAR BLUFF, Mo. — Poplar Bluff’s lone hit turned out to be a nice wedding anniversary gift and all the offense the Mules needed Tuesday. Calli Gerber’s two-out RBI double into the left-field gap lifted Poplar Bluff past Notre Dame 1-0 at Bobby Strenfel Field...

POPLAR BLUFF, Mo. — Tyson Cox caught four passes, one for a 41-yard touchdown, and two on defense while the Mules ran for four touchdowns Friday night as the Poplar Bluff football team beat St. Charles 45-7 on Friday night. Isaiah Johnson ran for a career-high 130 yards and scored, RaShawn McCain added 90 yards rushing on eight carries with a touchdown and quarterback Logan Bell ran for one touchdown and threw for two more...

Thanks to two second-place finishes, St. Vincent cross country won both the boys and girls team titles in the largest-ever St. Vincent Invitational at Perry Park Center in Perryville, Missouri, on Wednesday. On the boys side, Joseph Baer came in second with a time of 18 minutes, 5 seconds, as the Indians finished 13 points ahead of second-place Steeleville (Ill.). Corin Carroll was second in the girls race, and St. Vincent edged Valle Catholic and Poplar Bluff by five points...

POPLAR BLUFF, Mo. -- The Jackson volleyball team couldn't shake host Poplar Bluff for much of the opening game Tuesday night, never leading by more than three points. Then, Hannah Wilson's serve found the court just inside the back line, capping a 5-1 run that allowed the Indians to take control. Jackson served up three more aces in the second game to beat the Mules 25-17, 25-13 in a SEMO Conference match...

At the beginning of the summer Shelbey Johnson found out there was a sport she wasn't good at. This was not OK for the Poplar Bluff senior. "I'm naturally super competitive. I was like, if I come out here and blow this I'm going to be so mad. I can't come out here and look like a fool," Johnson said. "Volleys weren't that hard for me, but my forehand was absolutely terrible. I could not hit a ball to save my life."...

Olivia Hukel served four aces and dished out five assists, as the Cape Girardeau Central volleyball team defeated Puxico 25-10, 25-19 for its first win of the season Tuesday in Puxico, Missouri. Karly Thomas notched 19 digs and hammered four kills for Central (1-2)...

Mules beat visiting Puxico 25-16, 25-16

POPLAR BLUFF, Mo. — Chris Barker recovered a pair of fumbles within a span of 70 seconds as the Poplar Bluff football team took advantage of miscues by Riverview Gardens for a 34-14 season-opening win Friday night. Barker set up a 10-yard touchdown run by Brett Barousse to give the Mules (1-0) the lead for good with 8:28 left in the first half...

As Adrienne Stucker and nearly every softball pitcher can attest, there have been some close calls in the circle. From the moment a fastball leaves the hands of a pitcher and comes off the bat, there's a lingering fear among the game's hurlers that a 60-mph heater can come screaming back as a 100-mph line drive. These sharp line drives, or comebackers, happen all too often in fastpitch softball and leave pitchers standing 43 feet from the batter with less than a second to react...

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...