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Meet the 12 selections

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Meet the 12 selections to the All-Southeast Missourian girls soccer team

Another successful spring sports season has concluded, and awards have been doled out to student-athletes in the Southeast Missourian's coverage area. Notre Dame girls soccer won its second Class 2 state championship in three seasons, and other teams, such as Saxony Lutheran baseball and St. Vincent girls soccer, also advanced to the final four...

The list of Semoball Awards finalists is complete. In Tuesday's selection show streamed exclusively on Facebook, the 45 spring sport finalists were revealed, along with the Lifetime Achievement Award winner, 13 nominees in Coach of the Year, Comeback Player of the Year and Best of Sportsmanship...

O'FALLON, Mo. -- Coming into the final game of the season, Saxony Lutheran did something it hadn't had to do in over a month -- regroup after a loss. After being slowed in the Class 3 state semifinal game Monday, the Crusaders bounced back in a game they never trailed, claiming third place with a 9-1 victory over Montgomery County on Tuesday at Car Shield Field...

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...

O'FALLON, Mo. -- Saxony Lutheran junior Jack Foeste probably had the best analysis of his team's 14-2 loss to Fatima in the Class 3 baseball semifinals Monday at CarShield Field. "We both had chances and when they had their chances, they executed and when we had our chances we did not," Foeste said. "They were the better team today. We just did not come out mentally ready to play and were not focused."...

The 2019 track and field season came to close Saturday as the Class 3, 4 and 5 State Championships were completed in three different sites due to tornado damage in Jefferson City, Missouri.  Class 3 was held at The University of Missouri in Columbia, Missouri, Class 4 at Washington High School in Washington, Missouri and Class 5 at Battle High School in Columbia...

Two wins separate Saxony Lutheran from any other baseball team in school history. The opportunity to play for a championship may be a dream for most, but for Crusaders, it's real life. "It's still kind of surreal," said sophomore pitcher Eli Brown. He wasn't alone in that feeling...

It's that time of year again. State championships are on the line when the Class 3, 4 and 5 state track and field state championships kick off Saturday across the state. Due to tornadoes that damaged Jefferson City, Missouri, late Wednesday evening, the state championships have been moved from there and will be one-day events instead of two...

ST. GENEVIEVE, Mo. -- Saxony Lutheran baseball faced yet another tough test Wednesday evening. Three days after knocking off defending-state champion Malden in extra innings, the Crusaders were pushed to the edge yet again. Again, the 10th-ranked team won on a walk-off hit. This time it was Mason Lewis who drove in the run that eliminated West County in a 7-6 walk-off win at Yanks Field...

MALDEN, Mo. -- It took a few extra innings, but the Saxony Lutheran baseball team finally found a way to eliminate defending state champion Malden from the Class 3 state playoffs Monday. Saxony Lutheran scored an unearned run in the bottom of the seventh inning to force extra innings. Four innings later, Saxony Lutheran cleanup hitter Austin Fritsche produced a two-out RBI hit to secure an 9-8 walk-off sectional victory over the Green Wave...

MALDEN, Mo. -- It took a few extra innings, but the Saxony Lutheran baseball team finally found a way to eliminate defending state champion Malden from the Class 3 state playoffs Monday. Saxony Lutheran scored an unearned run in the bottom of the seventh inning to force extra innings. Four innings later, Saxony Lutheran cleanup hitter Austin Fritsche produced a two-out RBI hit to secure a 9-8 walk-off sectional victory over the Green Wave...

The Notre Dame girls track and field team won five events to win the Class 4 Sectional 1 meet on Saturday at West Plains High School in West Plains, Missouri. Riley Burger accounted for three of those first-place finishes for the Bulldogs. The Notre Dame junior swept the jumping events (high jump, long jump and triple jump) to help propel the Bulldogs to the sectional championship. ...

BENTON, Mo. -- A game of inches. That's how Saxony Lutheran and St. Vincent will remember the final of the Class 1 District 1 soccer tournament. In a matchup that went back and forth with two of the top programs in Class 1, 80 minutes weren't enough to decide a winner...

PIEDMONT, Mo. --Saxony Lutheran and Scott City battled for six innings but, ultimately, the Crusaders got the final say as they defeated the Rams 10-8 to win the Class 3 District 2 baseball hampionship at Clearwater High School. Saxony Lutheran Mason Lewis lined a double to left in the bottom of the sixth inning that scored Tanner King and Austin Fritsche to break an 8-all...

The reigning Class 1 baseball state champions are still alive. Oran beat Bell City 3-2 on a Dawson Menz walk-off single in the Class 1 District 2 championship Tuesday at Bell City High School. The Eagles (10-9), who lost five starters from last year's championship team, had coughed up a two-run lead in the top of the seventh before Menz produced that two-out single to right field. Kole Simms scored the game-winning run after reaching on a one-out walk and advancing to third on a bunt and balk...

The Jackson boys golf team played the waiting game Tuesday afternoon. With all five golfers done with their rounds, the Indians did some scoreboard watching at the Silo Ridge Country Club in Bolivar, Missouri. With all the scores in, they noticed they were in first place, but they didn't want to celebrate a Class 4 state championship until the scores were official...

The Jackson boys golf didn't play to the best of their abilities Monday, but the Indians find themselves just three strokes off the lead in the Class 4 state championship at Silo Ridge Country Club in Bolivar, Missouri. After one day of play at the two-day state tournament, Jackson is second with a team score of 307 and within striking distance of leader Lafayette. Case Englehart led the way with a 2-over-par 74 and is in a tie for 10th...

Olivia Voelker grew up playing golf, hitting balls with a plastic club on the fairways of Cape Jaycee Municipal Golf Course at the tender age of 4. So she always planned to golf in high school, and as she grew older, she prepared by playing more and more 18-hole competitions. Voelker knew it wouldn't be easy, so she made sure she was ready for the challenge...

Get to know the 14 boys golf state qualifiers from the Southeast Missourian's coverage area.

Eli Brown did not allow a single hit and fanned five batters in the shortened five-inning game as he led Saxony Lutheran in a rout of Malden on Wednesday. Malden's Dylan Bader reached first on a dropped third strike and ran into a double play as Brown faced the minimum number of batters...

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...

MALDEN, Mo. - The Malden Green Wave baseball team became the latest victim of the red-hot Saxony Lutheran Crusaders Wednesday evening. Saxony Lutheran, which has won 16 of its last 17 games after a 2-2 start to its spring, jumped out to an 8-0 lead in the top of the first inning and never looked back as it beat Malden 11-0 in five innings...

Get to know the 12 selections to the All-Southeast Missourian girls basketball team. Players in the Southeast Missourian coverage area are eligible for these honors. The players selected are in the running for the Semoball Awards.

Jackson track and field made history this weekend, sweeping the team titles in the inaugural SEMO Conference Regional meet. For the first time, 22 teams from all four divisions in the SEMO Conference competed at the same meet (five teams in the east, north and south divisions and seven teams in the west), and the Indians were the overall champions on the girls and boys side...

Bryce Morgan pitched a complete game one-hitter with 10 strikeouts to push Kelly's baseball team past Oran 4-0 on Tuesday. Drew Dirnberger was the only player to register multiple hits in the game, going 2-for-3 with a double and a single. Dawson Menz was the only Eagle to get a hit in the game...

The Jackson boys golf team won the Class 4 District 1 championship for the second consecutive season as Case Englehart earned medalist honors with a two-under-par 70 on Monday at Crown Pointe Golf Course in Farmington, Missouri. The Indians' top four golfers all finished in the top six as Jaden Hightower and Carsen Silliman were part a three-way tie for second with a two-over-par 74. Tanner Walton tied for sixth with a four-over-par 76...

KENNETT, Mo. - The Kennett Indians golf team put together a golden performance on its home ground Monday afternoon at Kennett Country Club. Kennett took home the top prize in Class 2, District 1 with a team score of 346. The first-place score the Indians posted was 48 strokes better than second-place finisher Saxony Lutheran who shot 394 on a windy day...

The Jackson track and field team swept the north division titles at Saturday's SEMO Regional Conference Meet at Notre Dame Regional High School. The Indians bested the host Bulldogs by 14 in the North Division to clinch the girls title while the boys finished 38 points ahead of Poplar Bluff for the championship.

Wyatt Parker went 2-for-3 as the Class 2 state-ranked Chaffee baseball team remained hot and rolled to its eighth-straight win of the season in its 5-0 victory over Saxony Lutheran on Friday at Frisco Park in Chaffee. Breven Yarbro was the winning pitcher and also went 2-for-4 at bat for the Red Devils (16-3). He threw three innings and gave up no runs on two hits with five strikeouts and three walks...

Notre Dame secured a share of the SEMO Conference regular-season championship with an 8-6 win over host Sikeston on Tuesday. The Bulldogs finished in a tie atop the standings with co-champion Jackson. Sikeston's Noah Hicks hit for the cycle, but his bat was not enough to overcome Notre Dame...

BENTON, Mo. -- The Kelly Hawks boys track and field team captured eight titles to win their home meet, the Johnny Merrick Invitational. The host team won with 164 points, nearly doubling second-place Scott City's 85.5 points and Charleston's 84.5. On the girls side, Saxony Lutheran was victorious with a total of 130 points, placing first in six events. Woodland finished second at 95.5 points while Malden had 67. Kelly girls finished in 6th with 45 points...

The Jackson boys golf team cruised to victory at the SEMO Conference Tournament on Monday at Foxhaven golf course in Sikeston, Missouri. The Indians finished with a team score of 301, 26 strokes better than second place Dexter's 327 and had three golfers finish in the top five at the tournament as Carsen Silliman took home the individual championship with an even par 71. Case Englehart tied for 2nd with a three-over 74, and Seth Waters finished 5th with a six-over 77...

SIKESTON — Marion, Ill., got off to a quick start in Monday’s matchup with Sikeston at the Sikeston Recreation Complex. The Lady Wildcats scored nine minutes into the game, and then again one minute later to grab a 2-0 lead early on. Senior Marissa Basi scored both of the goals for Marion, starting a rough night for the Lady Bulldogs — who fell 9-0...

The Advance baseball team broke a tie with two runs in the bottom of the sixth and held on for a 6-4 win over Bernie to claim the Stoddard County Activities Association championship on Wednesday in Advance, Missouri. Layton Keith got the win in relief for the Hornets (11-3), giving up one run in 3 1/3 innings while Noah Sauceda had a team-high three hits...