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The Advance boys basketball team pulled away late in the fourth quarter to secure a tightly contested 66-59 victory over host Bloomfield on Tuesday in the quarterfinals of the SCAA Conference Tournament. Third-seeded Advance (8-9) had a balanced attack plan, as four Hornets scored in double digits...

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...

Paul Duncan drained 23 points as the Woodland boys basketball team picked up a 76-68 conference victory over Bloomfield in a game that saw 70 attempts at the free-throw line on Friday in Marble Hill, Missouri. Karson Skinner pitched in 16 points for the Cardinals (8-7, 2-2 SCAA Conference), who held an eight-point lead at halftime. Jamon Frymire finished with 13 points before fouling out...

Emma Brune netted 17 points in a 55-39 conference win over host Cape Central as she eclipsed the 1,000 point mark for her career midway through the second quarter on Thursday. Saxony Lutheran came out firing in the first half, outscoring Cape Central 27-11...

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...

Literally from start to finish, the races were neck and neck. From the first race to the final finish, Tuesday’s meet between Poplar Bluff, Notre Dame and Saxony Lutheran was consistently marked by close finishes, and in one instance, a tie. Poplar Bluff still managed to come away with a win with 139 points despite missing three key swimmers...

METROPOLIS, ILL. — Brian Visor’s putback with 3 seconds left in overtime lifted the Charleston boys basketball team to a victory in the first round of the City of Metropolis Superman Classic on Monday night. Visor finished with only one bucket in the game, with none more significant than the one he had, as the fifth-seeded Bluejays beat the No. 4 seed Massac County 73-71...

Zach LeGrand hit on all six of his 3-point attempts as the Oak Ridge boys basketball team rolled to a 97-49 road victory over Zalma on Thursday. Legrand finished with 30 points and finished one rebound short of a double-double with nine. Teammate David Layton did turn the trick with another big night, netting a game-high 39 points while collecting 10 assists, seven steals and six rebounds...

The Jackson boys wrestling team won all three of its duals at home Wednesday to improve to 9-0 on the season. The Indians blew past Windsor and Ste. Genevieve, winning 78-3 and 61-9, respectively. They also defeated Sikeston 51-17. Throughout the day, Jackson won by pin 20 times...

The Jackson wrestling team won the Kinloch Classic on Saturday at Parkview High School in Springfield, Missouri. The Indians had 11 top-six finishes, and Garner Horman was the champion at the 145-pound weight class. Jackson finished 25 points ahead of second-place finisher Raymore Pecuilar...

Emma Brune scored 27 points as the Saxony Lutheran girls basketball team opened the Dragon Fire Tournament with a 74-38 win over Craigmont (Tenn.) in Collierville, Tennessee. Bri Jenkins and Cass Wunderlich added 13 points apiece for the Crusaders. SAXONY LUTHERAN (74) – Olivia Spanley 12, Bri Jenkins 13, Macey Smith 2, Cass Wunderlich 13, Sydney Turner 2, Alice Hogendobler 3, Emma Brune 27. FG 28, FT 14-21, F 14. (3-pointers: Hogendobler, Brune. Fouled out: None.)...

The Saxony Lutheran girls basketball team was on fire Wednesday night. The Crusaders hit 7 of 12 3-pointers, including 4-of-5 in the third quarter, to claim a second consecutive First State Community Bank Holiday Classic championship and its fourth title in the last five years...

It didn't look good for Saxony Lutheran girls basketball. Early in the second quarter, the Crusaders had managed to score just nine points in over 11 minutes and trailed by 14. That's when coach Sam Sides called a timeout and met his team on the floor to deliver an impassioned message...

Leah Cauble scored her 3,000th career point, part of a 36-point night, as the second-seeded Oran girl basketball team defeated seventh-seeded Meadow Heights 69-14 in the quarterfinals of the First State Community Bank Holiday Classic at the Show Me Center...

It was quite a successful fall sports season in the Southeast Missouri area. The Advance volleyball team won its first-ever state championship, and Jackson football finished the regular season undefeated for the first time in over a decade before falling in the quarterfinals to the eventual Class 5 state champions...

Emma Brune scored 19 points as the Saxony Lutheran girls basketball team cruised to a home win over Chester (Ill.) on Thursday. Alice Hogendobler totaled 14 points, knocking down four 3-pointers, and Bri Jenkins added 13 points for Saxony Lutheran (6-1), which led 35-24 at halftime...

The top-seeded Oran girls basketball team dominated third-seeded host Chaffee 83-21 to win the Lady Red Devils Invitational behind 40 points from Leah Cauble. Cauble shot 15-for-27 from the floor and 7-for-15 from behind the 3-point arc and also had six rebounds...

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Emma Brune and Briann Jenkins combined for 26 points with 13 apiece as the fourth-seeded Saxony Lutheran girls basketball team erased a six-point deficit and came alive in the final minutes to defeat fifth-seeded Notre Dame 53-47 and avoid an opening-round upset in the Third Annual SEMO Conference Tournament on Monday at the Sikeston Field House in Sikeston, Missouri...

Senior Leah Cauble had another explosive night with a game-high 39 points and notched nine rebounds and three assists to lead the Oran girls basketball team to its second win in as many days in the 96-60 conference victory over Scott County Central on Tuesday in Morley, Mo. Jessie Long recorded...

Class and district assignments have been released for boys and girls basketball in the Missouri Bootheel for the 2018-19 season. Clarkton, Delta, Delta C-7, Gideon, North Pemiscot, Richland, Risco, Scott County Central, and Southland will compete in Class 1, District 1. See teams in all Class 1 districts here: Class 1 Districts...

The schedule has been released for the SEMO Conference varsity girls basketball tournament. The eight-team event takes place Nov. 26, Nov. 27 and Nov. 29. No. 1 seeded Dexter plays No. 8 seeded Kennett Nov. 26 at 4 p.m., No. 4 seeded Saxony Lutheran plays No. 5 seeded Notre Dame Nov. 26 at 5:30 p.m., No. 2 seeded Jackson plays No. 7 seeded Cape Central No. 26 at 7 p.m., and No. 3 seeded Poplar Bluff plays No. 6 seeded Sikeston No. 26 at 8:30 p.m...

A repeat final four trip proved just out of the reach of the Saxony Lutheran boys soccer team. The Crusaders dropped a home Class 1 quarterfinal against Principia 1-0 at Shawnee Park on Saturday evening. With the win, Principia (9-7) advances to the state semifinals and will play Fair Grove at 4 p.m. Friday in Fenton, Missouri...

Paced by three top-50 finishers, the Oak Ridge boys cross country team finished second at the Class 1 state championships on Saturday in Jefferson City, Missouri Tanner Schamburg led the way in 36th place with a time of 18 minutes, 55.43 seconds, and Philip Marshall was right behind him in 37th. Mason Keith rounded out the trio of top 50 finishers, coming in 48th in 19:08.13...

On a day the Cape Central boys swimming and diving team won 10 of the 12 events and set seven conference records, it was fitting all 14 members medaled. It took a complete team effort for the Tigers to secure their fifth consecutive SEMO Conference championship Tuesday at Central Municipal Pool, as the reigning Class 1 state champs edged Notre Dame by 34 points, or six points less than what a team earns for winning a relay event...

The Jackson girls cross country team finished fourth in a Class 4 Sectional 1 meet Saturday in Washington, Missouri, to qualify for the state championship. Kennedy Bauer led the way with a second-place finish in 19 minutes, 33.56 seconds. Kaylee Wilson was the next-highest finisher for the Indians, coming in 25th in 20:27.72...