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The 2018 Bootheel Conference baseball awards have been released. 2018 Senath-Hornersville graduate Lathan Brooks, who has signed to play baseball at John. A. Logan College in Carterville, Ill., is the Bootheel Conference Player of the Year. Brooks batted .459 with six home runs, 24 RBIs and 25 runs scored for the Lions. He also went 6-1 on the hill with a 1.70 ERA. Brooks struck out 83 in 37 innings of work...

The 2018 Bootheel Conference softball awards have been released. Malden shortstop Lexi Campbell is the Bootheel Conference Player of the Year. Campbell batted .530 with four home runs and 26 RBIs her senior season. She also went 3-0 in the circle with a 3.62 ERA in 19 1/3 innings pitched...

CHARLESTON, Mo. -- The No. 2-seeded Scott City Rams broke a 3-3 tie with five runs in the top of the third inning and never looked back, as it beat the No. 1-seeded Portageville Bulldogs 14-4 in the Class 3 District 1 baseball championship Monday at Benny Hillhouse Park...

CHARLESTON, Mo. - The Portageville Bulldogs rallied from a 3-0 deficit to tie things up at 3-3 by the end of the second inning but was unable to generate enough offense to keep pace with the Scott City Rams the rest of the way. The No. 2-seeded Scott City Rams broke a 3-3 tie with five runs in the top of the third inning and never looked back, as it beat the No. 1-seeded Portageville Bulldogs 14-4 in the Class 3 District 1 baseball championship Monday at Hillhouse Park in Charleston...

Saxony Lutheran baseball held Jefferson (Festus) scoreless through six innings en route to 6-1 quarterfinal upset in the Class 3 District 3 Tournament in Festus, Missouri. Mason Lewis had a double and scored two runs to lead the fifth-seeded Crusaders past the fourth-seeded Blue Jays...

KENNETT, Mo. - The Kennett Indians softball team trailed 4-1 after two innings of play but still found a way to secure a run-rule victory against the Portageville Bulldogs in a Class 1 sectional Monday at Indian Park. Kennett erased a 4-1 deficit by scoring 11 unanswered runs and hung on to beat Portageville 14-4 in five innings...

The third-seeded Kennett Indians struck for three runs in the third inning Saturday and beat seventh-seeded Dexter 5-2 in a consolation semifinal of the SEMO Conference Baseball Tournament at Cape Central High School. The Indians will face Notre Dame in the fifth-place game at 2:15 p.m. Monday. Dexter (3-12) will meet New Madrid County Central for seventh place at noon Monday. Both games will be played at Capaha Park in Cape Girardeau...

Kaylee Payne belted a triple as a good fifth inning helped lift Oran softball to a 6-3 victory over Portageville in its final regular-season home game on Thursday. Alyssa Spane went 5 1/3 innings in the circle to obtain the win for the Eagles (12-2). ...

The schedule has been released for the highly anticipated Bootheel Conference softball tournament. Weather permitting the eight-team event will take place Monday and Tuesday at Senath-Hornersville High School. Quarterfinals take place Monday. No. 1 seeded Malden plays No. ...

MALDEN, Mo. - The Malden Green Wave’s chances of defending its title looked to be in serious jeopardy after it needed 13 innings to dispose of Bernie 4-3 in its opening game at its own nine-team baseball tournament Friday morning. But strong pitching performances kept coming for the Green Wave even after they deployed pitchers Mason Brown and Ethan Bader in their marathon opener...

Blake Bollinger blasted a home run and batted in four runs as Meadow Heights delivered Herculaneum its first loss of the season, 8-1, in an opening-round quarterfinal of the Saxony Lutheran Showdown. Lane Baremore went the distance on the mound to get the win for Meadow Heights (5-5). He gave up one unearned run and recorded nine strikeouts and three walks...

The Jackson boys reeled off a team victory while the girls finished in second in the team standings as the Indians put together a standout performance Tuesday at the Tiger Town (Festus) Invitational in Hillsboro, Missouri. The boys posted a 104.50 to edge Hillsboro's second-place 95, while the ladies finished with 84 points, behind Jefferson's winning 88...

KENNETT, Mo. - The red-hot Kennett Indians varsity baseball team experienced little difficulty handing the visiting Portageville Bulldogs its first loss Monday afternoon. Kennett tallied multiple runs in each of the first three innings on its way to 14-0 five-inning victory against Portageville...

The 2018 Bootheel Conference high school girls basketball awards have been released. Portageville senior forward Deondra Johnson is the Player of the Year in the Bootheel Conference in girls basketball. She averaged 16 points, six rebounds and two steals per game...

Nathan Patterson recorded a triple, a double and scored two runs as Cape Central baseball opened its season Saturday with a 5-3 win at home over East Prairie. Drake Mills hurled six innings to grab the win for the Tigers (1-0). He surrendered two earned runs on three hits with three strikeouts and four walks...