Puxico

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.

The Zalma baseball team won their season opener Monday at home off of a Trey Clark walk-off single in the bottom of the seventh, beating Puxico 4-3. Clark recorded two RBIs in the game, but none was as important as the one in the seventh. Nate Ware started on the mound for the Bulldogs, throwing 4 1/3 innings, striking out 10 Indians...

For the second consecutive year, Southeast Missouri State held an online awards celebration via Zoom Tuesday. The Redhawk women were ousted in the first round of the Ohio Valley Conference playoffs earlier this month, one year after winning the OVC tourney and punching SEMO’s ticket to the ultimately COVID-aborted 2020 NCAA Tournament...

For the sixth consecutive year, a SEMO team led by head coach Rekha Patterson is headed back to the Ohio Valley Conference annual tourney. For the second straight season, Southeast (15-10, 13-7 OVC) will go as the no. 3 seed and will face no. 6 Murray State (15-10, 12-8) in a 3:30 p.m. opening round game Thursday in Evansville, Indiana...

St. Vincent avoided the first round upset as they took down sixth seeded Puxico at home Tuesday in the Class 2, District 3 quarterfinals, 62-47. Puxico brought the fight, staying right with the home Indians, as St. Vincent could never shake Puxico for good...

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 seedings have been released for the Class 1-3 boys and girls district basketball tournaments. Postseason play begins Feb. 20 for schools in Class 1-3. Higher seeds are slated to host quarterfinals and semifinals. Some districts will also have the highest remaining seed host their district championship. Other districts have elected to designate a neutral host site for their district final...

Woodland dominated its girl’s basketball game Thursday with Scott Cunty Central from the opening tip, as it outscored the Bravettes 23-0 in the first quarter, eventually winning 70-12. The Cardinals (11-8) led 39-7 at halftime and 63-12 entering the final period.

Southeast Missouri State held off a furious fourth-quarter charge from visiting Tennessee Tech, prevailing 59-55 Thursday at the Show Me Center in women’s basketball action.

In the opening round of the MVC Tournament Monday, Meadow Heights led from the opening tip, outscoring Marquand (0-7) 55 to 17 at halftime, and continued their assault toward the century mark, beating the Tigers, 100-31. The Panthers stretched their lead to 57 points by the end of the third quarter...

Southeast Missouri State 5th-year senior LaTrese Saine had her best game as a college player Thursday, finishing with 27 points and 15 rebounds, as SEMO easily dispatched SIU-Edwardsville, 77-62.

Cape Central advanced to the championship game of the Hillsboro Girls Invitational with a 45-40 win over Herculaneum Thursday. The Tigers led 11-8 after the opening quarter and carried that lead into halftime, outscoring the Blackcats, eight to six, in the second quarter...

Lexi Rubel proved to be too much for Kennett Monday as the junior standout not only dominated inside but drained two, three-point shots as she scored a game-high 22 points and also grabbed 13 rebounds to lead her Bulldogs past Kennett on the road, 46-32...

A six-hour bus ride to the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains was initially unsuccessful for the visiting Southeast women’s basketball team as it fell Thursday to Morehead State, 58-57, in the first of a two-game Kentucky road trip. The one-point defeat snapped SEMO’s five-game win streak...

Redhawks senior Tesia Thompson confesses to on-court weariness but was nearly unstoppable Saturday in leading Southeast (7-4, 5-1 Ohio Valley Conference) to a wire-to-wire home victory over Austin Peay (7-4, 5-2), 74-61. The Redhawks’ fifth consecutive victory comes as the senior Thompson put on a scoring clinic before an announced crowd of 482 at the socially distanced Show Me Center...