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CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. — Megan Witt and Emma Drury came up big in a clutch situation on Tuesday night against Cape Central. After Sarah Keller led off the sixth inning with a single, and Jordi James and Naudia Lazcano were promptly hit by pitches, Witt gave Sikeston the 6-5 lead on a sacrifice fly...

CAMPBELL, Mo. - The Campbell Camels baseball team scored all of its runs in the first two innings as it knocked off the previously unbeaten South Pemiscot Bulldogs 5-1 Monday afternoon. South Pemiscot took a brief 1-0 lead when Noah Willingham drove home a run with a sacrifice fly in the top of the first inning...

CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. — The second, and final, day of the Dig For Life volleyball tournament proved to be a successful one for the Sikeston Bulldogs. Already securing a two-set win in the first day of action, the Bulldogs played three more to end the tournament, on Saturday...

Sixty area volleyball teams took part in the Dig For Life Challenge Volleyball Tournament at the Cape Girardeau SportsPlex and Show Me Center Friday and Saturday.

PERRYVILLE, Mo. – Third-year Perryville football coach Blane Boss may feel like kicking a wall at times, as his Pirate squad is being besieged by injuries for the second straight season. However, he isn’t admitting any frustration publicly.

MALDEN — After being on the wrong end of a running clock the first two weeks of the season, Malden turned the tide against Portageville. Malden marched for its first drive and never slowed down as it beat Portageville 48-12 Friday at The Swamp. Malden consistently converted on offense when it needed to, including three times on fourth down in the first half...

After two weeks of the high school football season, we are starting to get a clearer picture of teams and players. Here are my top takeaways from the first two weeks of the high school football season for our coverage area schools. Sikeston The Bulldogs need to find an offense and fast. ...

SIKESTON AT POPLAR BLUFF Records: Sikeston 1-1; Poplar Bluff 1-1 Series History: Sikeston leads 56-36-4 Last Meeting: 2018, Sikeston won 34-0 Last Week: Sikeston lost to McCluer North 36-0; Poplar Bluff defeated Riverview Gardens 48-8. Notes: Offense was a struggle for the Sikeston football team last week, as the Bulldogs got shut out by McCluer North in the second-straight meeting. ...

LAST MEETING: Kennett beat Ste. Genevieve 53-21 LAST WEEK: Kennett beat Gosnell (Ark.) 44-8; Valle Catholic beat Ste. Genevieve 41-6 HEAD TO HEAD STREAKS: Ste. Genevieve is 3-2 against Kennett since 2010. ABOUT KENNETT: Kennett, which beat Fredericktown 49-0 in Week 1 and beat Gosnell (Ark.) 44-8 in Week 2, is ranked No. ...

New Madrid County Central sophomore quarterback Matt Riley was voted the semoball.com Football Player of the Week for Week 2 of the high school season. Riley accumulated 592 votes after completing 14 of 22 passes for 295 yards and three TDs in the Eagles' 46-6 win over East Prairie on Friday...

McCluer North at Sikeston Records: McCluer North 0-1; Sikeston 1-0 Series history: McCluer North leads 1-0 Last meeting: 2018, McCluer North won 7-0 Last week: McCluer North lost to Edwardsville, Ill. 7-6; Sikeston defeated Vashon 24-18 Notes: McCluer North’s game against always tough Edwardsville, Ill., ended with the Stars down 7-6 late in the first quarter. ...

PORTAGEVILLE, Mo. — Friday night lights returned for all of the football teams in the area. In Portageville, a new-look Charleston team took the field against the host-Bulldogs, without Q’Nairies Anderson in the backfield. So far, so good for the Bluejays, as Charleston (1-0) eased past Portageville 48-8...

Following three weeks of fall camp, high school football players throughout Southeast Missouri finally get to compete with the scoreboard turned on tonight.

PORTAGEVILLE, Mo. — After losing seven players on defense and six on offense, the Portageville football team will be undergoing a re-development of their program. In addition to that, the Bulldogs have a new head coach, Mark Jackson. He replaces Jeff Bullock, who has accepted an administrative position at Malden...

Vashon at Sikeston Records: Vashon 0-0; Sikeston 0-0 Series history: Sikeston leads 1-0 Last meeting: 2018, Sikeston won 64-0 Last week: NA Notes: Last year was the first time these two schools met, and Sikeston dominated it. The Bulldogs held Vashon to -19 total yards in the game while scoring 58 points in the first half. ...

With the high school football jamborees in the book, it’s now time that we turn our attention to the regular season. Every year as a sports staff, we sit around before the season and choose which games we are going to cover.  That got me to thinking. If I could cover any game each week, featuring one of our coverage area teams, what would it be? So I decided to look closer and see that there are some interesting matchups this season as it progresses...

A few hours before preseason jamborees got underway Friday night some schools in the Missouri Bootheel learned they will be battling new opponents when the state playoffs begin later this fall. The Missouri High School Activities Association released 2019 class and district assignments for most fall sports Friday...

PORTAGEVILLE, Mo. — After 10 seasons with the Portageville volleyball program, Barry Branscum will not be at the helm of the team starting this season. Instead, it will be former player Sasha Starnes. Understanding the program, and the game, in general, is a vital asset to have, and for Starnes, it makes her excited to get into coaching for the first time. Nonetheless, at the school, where she played...

High school football fans will have the opportunity to get their first look at football teams in the Missouri Bootheel later this week. Kennett, Hayti, and New Madrid County Central will compete in a four-team jamboree at East Prairie Friday at 6 p.m...

SIKESTON — Every summer, coaching changes tend to occur. In the area, there will be multiple new faces on the sidelines for their respective programs. At Sikeston, Terry Flannigan returns to the Bulldogs football team, after his previous stint at Chaffee. He replaces Kent Gibbs who, after 12 years with Sikeston, heads to Cape Central...

What I learned from living the initial 52 years of my life in the state of Indiana was that Hoosiers are passionate about three things: religion, farming, and sports. And depending on the time of year and whether the Indiana University men’s basketball team is underachieving or not, the order of those things could fluctuate.

The 2019 Missouri High School Baseball Coaches Association all-state baseball team has been released. Six players from the Delta Dunklin Democrat coverage area have been selected all-state. Cooter senior Dawson Treat is a first-team all-state pitcher in Class 1. Treat finished 7-5 with a 2.72 ERA. He struck out 97 and walked 27 in 69.1 innings pitched...