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SIKESTON — District assignments for boys’ and girls’ basketball and wrestling were released on Friday. Sikeston will be a part of Class 4, District 1, with Cape Central, Notre Dame, Dexter, Perryville, and Ste. Genevieve. Class 3, District 1 consists of Charleston, New Madrid County Central, East Prairie, Caruthersville, Doniphan, Malden, Kennett, and Twin Rivers. ...

The 2019 Tri-County Conference volleyball awards have been released. Clarkton senior Kayla Gentry is the 2019 Tri-County Conference Volleyball Player of the Year. Gentry finished with 36 ace serves, 188 digs, 22 assists, nine blocks, and 254 kills her senior season...

Class 2, District 1 at Malden The district championship is set at the Class 2, District 1 volleyball tournament following quarterfinal at semifinal action Monday. No. 2 seeded Twin Rivers will take on No. 5 seeded Senath-Hornersville in the title game Wednesday at 5:30 p.m. at Malden...

Volleyball squads throughout the Missouri Bootheel begin postseason play Monday. Holcomb, South Pemiscot, Southland, North Pemiscot, Hayti, Delta C-7, and Cooter are in Class 1, District 1 at Holcomb. Defending champion Holcomb has received the No. 1 seed and a first-round bye...

The Tri-County Conference baseball awards have been released. Cooter’s Lane McLevain is the Tri-County Conference Player of the Year. “Tyler batted .475 with 21 RBIs, one home run, and 21 runs scored this fall,” Cooter coach Davis Mathis said of McLevain. “He also went 6-0 on the mound with a 0.56 ERA in 37.2 innings pitched.”...

STEELE, Mo. - The Campbell Camels and Malden Green Wave are set to collide in the championship of the Bootheel Conference varsity volleyball tournament for a third straight season after both squads collected semifinal wins Wednesday night. No. 1 seeded Campbell beat No. 4 seeded Caruthersville 25-8, 25-12 in the first varsity semifinal Wednesday night at South Pemiscot High School...

The brackets are set for the Tri-County Conference volleyball tournaments. The tournaments take place Oct. 15-18 at Gideon High School. Varsity quarterfinals are on Oct. 15. No. 1 seeded Gideon plays No. 8 seeded Cooter Oct. 15 at 4 p.m., No. 4 seeded North Pemiscot plays No. ...

CLARK TON, Mo. - The No. 1 seeded Cooter Wildcats are set to take on the No. 2 seeded Holcomb Hornets in the championship of the Tri-County Conference baseball tournament after both teams collected semifinal wins Tuesday at Clarkton. Cooter (21-1) beat No. 4 seeded Gideon 16-0 in its semifinal and Holcomb (13-5) beat No. 3 seeded Risco 9-5 in its semifinal Tuesday...

Winning the Tri-County Conference is a top priority for the Cooter baseball program every fall. “We play a bunch of games in the fall and hopefully that makes us better for the spring,” Cooter coach David Mathis said. “But our main goal in the fall is to learn how to play the game the right way and win the Tri-County title.”...

Top volleyball teams from the Missouri Bootheel are set to collide this weekend at the Gideon Invitational. Four of the 15 teams in the varsity tournament are enjoying winning records following play Monday. Host Gideon, which won the Gideon Invitational in 2018, is off to a 13-1-2 start. Its only loss this season is to Southern Reynolds (Ellington) in the championship of Dig for Life Classic Sept. 14...

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 Gideon Bulldogs finished a win shy of taking home the top prize in the Black Division of the Dig for Life Challenge Saturday in Cape Girardeau. Gideon, which entered the tournament supporting a perfect 5-0 record, collected six wins, two ties, and suffered one loss at the two-day Dig for Life Challenge...

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.

Kennett 2, Oran 0 KENNETT, Mo. - The Kennett Indians varsity volleyball team outlasted Oran 25-11, 25-20 for its second straight SEMO Conference victory Monday.

SIKESTON — The Sikeston softball team opened up its season on Tuesday afternoon, against Naylor at the Sikeston Recreation Complex. Leading 5-0 after three innings of play it looked like the Bulldogs were bound for a victory. The Eagles, though, had other plans, scoring seven unanswered runs to defeat the Bulldogs 7-5 and spoil the home-opener...

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...

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 annual Kennett High School Boys Basketball Shootout is slated for Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. Junior varsity squads square off Thursday with varsity teams battling it out Friday and Saturday. Games will last approximately 40 minutes. Each game will have two 16-minute halves with a running clock. The clock will stop the final two minutes of the game on dead balls unless a team is leading by 10 points or more in the final two minutes. Overtime is sudden death...

The all-region softball team has been released. Kennett freshman Kyra Jaco, Oran junior Kaylee Payne, Campbell senior Elizabeth Steward, Puxico senior Bailey Burns, Holcomb sophomore Bailey Cupples, and Malden sophomore Hailey Rojas were selected first-team all-region infielders...

The 2019 Tri-County Conference softball awards have been released. Southland’s Jenna Gibson has been selected Tri-County Conference Player of the Year. Gibson struck out 124 in 62.2 innings pitched while posting a 1.07 ERA this spring. She batted .815 with six home runs and six doubles...

The all-time leading scorer of the Risco Tigers boys basketball program has made the decision to take his game to the collegiate level. Risco senior guard Nathan Burnett signed to play basketball at College of the Ozarks near Branson, Missouri, Thursday...

The field is beginning to take shape. The second group of Semoball Awards finalists, the winter sports selections, were revealed Wednesday in an hour-long radio show on SEMO ESPN. That group of 30 student-athletes will join the fall sports finalists, announced earlier this year, at the 2019 Semoball Awards presented by SoutheastHEALTH on July 13 at the Donald C. Bedell Performance Hall on Southeast Missouri State University's River Campus...

HOLCOMB, Mo. - The Holcomb Hornets baseball team scored the final three runs to knock off the visiting Risco Tigers 6-3 Tuesday. Wilson McGee collected the go-ahed RBI hit for Holcomb with two outs in the bottom of the fifth inning. Eli Bader added an RBI double and Austin Wallace collected a sacrifice fly to pad Holcomb’s lead to the final score in the bottom of the sixth inning...

Holcomb 4, Bernie 2 BERNIE, Mo. - A day after beating top-ranked Scott City, the Mules softball team fell victim to undefeated Holcomb on Tuesday at Bernie. Bailey Cupples hit a three-run homer in the top of the third to give Holcomb 3-1 lead. The Hornets (13-0) hung on to beat Bernie 4-2...

SIKESTON — Several local basketball players earned a spot on the All-State team, which got announced on Wednesday. Sikeston senior Trey Jenkins earned a spot on the Class 4 list. Jenkins had a significant hand in the Bulldogs 25-1 record this season...

MEADOW HEIGHTS, Mo. — Kade Lindgren touched base three of his four times at bat as the Panthers rallied in the final inning but could not overcome a seven-run deficit to fall to the undefeated Eagles on the road. Trae Davis pitched 3 1/3 innings to be marked with the loss for Meadow Heights (0-4). He gave up nine runs (eight earned) on nine hits, walked three batters and struck out one...

HOLCOMB, Mo. - The Holcomb Hornets softball team hit the ball hard from the get-go in its season opener against the Risco Tigers Friday afternoon. Holcomb sent 18 batters to the plate in the first inning and 10 more to the plate in the second frame as it pounded its way past Risco 21-3 in three innings...

The 2019 Tri-County Conference boys basketball awards have been released. Clarkton senior Lee Matney has been selected Tri-County Conference Player of the Year. Matey averaged 26 points, eight rebounds, and five assists per game his senior season. Clarkton coach Jordan Bidewell has been selected Tri-County Conference Coach of the Year. Clarkton finished 13-13, won the Tri-County Conference regular season title, and finished second in the Tri-County Conference Tournament under Bidewell...

VAN BUREN, Mo. - The Risco Tigers boys basketball program finished a win shy of making its first trip to the state final four Saturday afternoon. The Dora Falcons, which are ranked No. 1 in the latest state poll, outscored Risco in every quarter on its way to a convincing 74-37 victory in a Class 1 quarterfinal at Van Buren High School...

BLOOMFIELD, Mo. - It took a few extra minutes and an unforgettable comeback but the Risco Tigers boys basketball team found a way to earn its first birth in the state quarterfinals since 2010. Risco rallied from a 62-58 deficit in the final 23 seconds of overtime to edge the South Iron Panthers 63-62 in a Class 1 sectional Tuesday night at Bloomfield High School...

GIDEON, Mo. — With time ticking down in regulation, Risco’s entire season laid in the hands off senior Nathan Burnett. Burnett had all eyes glued to him in the most crucial point of Thursday night’s Class 1, District 1 Tournament championship game. He drove down the lane, found an opening and his floater dropped in...

GIDEON, Mo. - The Risco Tigers and Scott County Central Braves boys basketball programs are set to battle for a district title yet again after both squads won their respective Class 1, District 1 semifinal Tuesday night at Gideon High School. The first semifinal proved to be the closest with No. 1 seeded Risco edging the No. 4 seeded Delta Bobcats 60-55...

The Scott County Central high-powered offense led the way, as the second-seeded Braves cruised to a 93-55 win over No. 6 Gideon in a Class 1 District 1 semifinal Tuesday at Gideon High School. SCC went into the half with a 14-point advantage that it continued to exploit as it ran away with a 38-point victory over the host school...

GIDEON, Mo. — Without Nathan Burnett in the lineup, Risco was still able to cruise to a 91-35 opening round win of the Class 1, District 1 Tournament, at Gideon High School. EJ Myers led the team with 20 points, while Garrett Young pitched in with 19...

In a few days, basketball postseason begins for teams across Missouri, but for an hour Wednesday afternoon, the focus was back on fall sports. In a live one-hour radio show on SEMO ESPN, 55 student-athletes were announced as fall sports finalists for the 2019 Semoball Awards...

WARDELL, Mo. - The Risco Tigers varsity boys basketball team is developing the reputation of performing at its best during tournaments in the 2018-19 season. That trend continued Friday night in the championship of the Tri-County Conference Tournament at North Pemiscot School in Wardell, Mo...

ST. VINCENT, Mo. — First halves have been relatively easy for the Scott County Central girls basketball team for most of the season. On Thursday night, though, the Bravettes seemed to be in for a fight, as they only led by six points at halftime. Scott County Central (17-5) outscored St. Vincent 35-11 in the second half to win 66-36...

The seedings have been released for the Class 1, District 1 basketball tournaments at Gideon High School; Class 2, District 1 basketball tournaments at Portageville High School; and Class 3, District 1 basketball tournaments at Charleston High School...

CHARLESTON, Mo. — The Charleston Bluejays used pressure defense to grab an early lead against visiting Malden and won going away 85-38 Tuesday night. Charleston (14-8) jumped out to a 32-7 led to start the game as Bluejay full-court press caused numerous turnovers leading to easy baskets. Terridean Bogan hit three 3-pointers in the first quarter and finished with 14 points in the frame while teammate Samuel Bledsoe added 10 points, including two 3-pointers...

CHARLESTON, Mo. — Forcing 10 first-half turnovers; Charleston’s defense turned up the heat against Lift for Life Academy, at the Sixth-Man Shootout, on Saturday, at Charleston High School. The Bluejays used a 23-13 second quarter to open the gap, as they went into halftime, up 41-24...

ESSEX, Mo – A strong second quarter helped the Risco Tigers play homecoming spoilers to host Richland Friday night. The Rebels cut a 20-point third-quarter deficit in half before running out of time, allowing the Tigers to go home with a 72-62 win. “This is a good win for us,” Risco head coach Brandon Blankenship said. “We’ve had some lop-sided games recently here in our favor. It’s good to have a tough game...

The schedule is set for the highly anticipated Tri-County Conference varsity boys basketball tournament. The eight-team event will take place Feb. 4-8 at North Pemiscot School. No. 3 seeded Gideon plays No. 6 seeded Southland Feb. 4 at 6 p.m. and No. 1 seeded Clarkton plays No. 8 seeded North Pemiscot Feb. 4 at 7:30 p.m...

SENATH, Mo. - The success continued for the No. 5 seeded Caruthersville Tigers Tuesday night at the Bootheel Conference varsity boys basketball tournament. Fresh off a 73-68 quarterfinal victory against No. 4 seeded Campbell Saturday, red-hot Caruthersville experienced little difficulty knocking off the No. 1 seeded Portageville Bulldogs in the first semifinal Tuesday...

PORTAGEVILLE, Mo. — All Portageville had to do to capture the conference championship, was defeat Hayti on Tuesday night, at Hayti High School. Easier said than done. The Bulldogs, though, came in and did just that, defeating the Indians 68-59. Steven Guo led Portageville (14-4) with 26 points. He went 11 of 12 at the free-throw line...

ORAN, Mo. — Racing out to a 33-7 first-quarter lead the Oran boys basketball team dismantled Bell City on Friday night 83-19. Oran (16-1) got contributions from Jacob Shoemaker and Cooper Priggel, whom each finished with 18 points. Ty Johnson and Tyson Goodale also added 14 and 12 points, respectively, for the Eagles...

JACKSON, Mo. - The Kennett Indians varsity boys basketball team moved back above the .500 mark with a 69-48 road victory against the Saxony Lutheran Crusaders Tuesday night. Kennett (9-8) led 18-11 after one quarter, 29-19 at halftime and 54-35 at the end of the third quarter...

SIKESTON — Bre’asia Jones and Samantha Coffee continue to score and score in bunches for the Scott County Central girls basketball team. That trend continued on Tuesday night, as the Bravettes hosted East Prairie (3-8), annihilating the Eagles 71-25...

SENATH, Mo. - The Senath-Hornersville Lions varsity boys basketball team found itself trailing by just a few points in the closing minutes of regulation for a second straight game Friday night. And for a second straight night, the Lions found a way to rally past its opponent for a victory...

PORTAGEVILLE, Mo. — Bub Lance scored 20 points to lead Portageville past Campbell, in overtime, 61-59. A big fourth quarter from the Bulldogs, helped them get right back into the game, as they outscored Campbell 19-12 in the final period to give the fans in attendance free basketball...