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BENTON, Mo. — It was a great day to be a Dexter Bearcat and Lady Bearcat. Both the Dexter boys and girls track teams earned first-place honors at the Johnny Merrick Invitational at Thomas W. Kelly High School, Thursday, in Benton. On the boys' side, Dexter edged Scott City by two points, 105-103. Kennett finished in third with 86 points...

The Oran offense exploded for a season-high 16 runs on Wednesday as the Eagles drilled 15 hits to shutout Scott City, 16-0. Sophomore Kolton Payne led the show, going 3 for 4 at the plate, including a double that drove in a run in the first inning. Payne also scored two runs...

Junior center fielder Riley Massa recorded a game-high five RBIs en route to leading her Woodland Cardinals past Valle Catholic Thursday, 15-4, in five innings.

Mackenzie Lawless drove in six runs while smashing a home run and a triple, leading Scott City past Scott County Central Monday, 29-12. The Rams scored 15 runs in the second frame, as six different hitters drove in RBIs in the inning, while the Brave pitchers walked a total of 19 Scott City batters...

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 Oran girl's softball team won their sixth game in a row, as the Eagles downed Delta Thursday, 8-2. Oran got on the board in the second inning when Lily Knotts smashed an RBI double to put the Eagles up, 1-0. Oran continued their offensive charge with four more runs scored in the fourth inning, as Dalaini Bryant, Kennedi McVay, and Alyssa Spane each drove in runs in the frame...

Mark Panagos finished his freshman season at Scott City with three rushing touchdowns, two receiving touchdowns, and a total of 226 yards in a playoff game against New Madrid County Central. That was good enough to get invited to and participate at the U.S. National Team Combine hosted by USA Football. The event was held on Sunday at the training facility of the Dallas Cowboys in Frisco, TX...

Third place hitting Andrew Enderle went 5 for 5 against Bernie Monday, driving in seven RBIs, hitting three home runs, to lead Scott City past the Mules, 19-10. Enderle homered in the first inning, singled in the third, singled in the fourth, homered again early in the sixth inning, and finally wrapping up his day with another home run of the grand slam variety, later in the same inning...

Scott City fell behind early, giving up a run in the first inning, and couldn't get anything going offensively, as Farmington shut out the Rams, Friday, 8-0. Scott City starting pitcher Nick Hillman gave up a double to lead-off hitter Jeremiah Cunningham, who would advance to second after a walk by Hillman, then would steal third base a batter later...

Saxony Lutheran earned their second win of the season Wednesday, defeating Meadow Heights, 7-3.

The Kennett Indians softball team scored in every inning as it run-ruled Scott City 19-4 in five innings Wednesday. Visiting Kennett (2-2) led 8-2 after one inning, 15-3 after two innings, 17-4 after three innings, and 18-4 after four innings. Adelynn Nelson and Olivia Orf both finished 3 for 4 with four RBIs for Kennett. Nelson had a pair of doubles...

The Oran girls softball team won their home opener Monday, defeating Scott City, 12-2, as senior Alyssa Spane went 1 for 4 with a game-high four RBIs in the contest. Spane hit a bases-clearing double in the bottom half of the fourth inning, scoring three Eagles, putting the Eagles up 8-1...

ORAN, Mo. — Oran senior Katie Webb and head coach Amy Pobst earned Player of the Year and Coach of the Year honors for the Scott-Mississippi County Conference last week. Webb was one of three Eagles to earn a spot on the all-conference team — juniors Hope Woodfin and Traci Hency joined her — while sophomore Haley Webb was an honorable mention...

SIKESTON — Two Sikeston Lady Bulldogs’ earned a spot on the Class 5, District 1 All-District team. Juniors Karris Allen and Amyari Blissett both received the honor. Allen finished her junior year averaging a double-double, with 20 points and 10 rebounds, to go along with four assists, four steals, and two blocks per contest. She shot 44 percent from the field, 29 percent from three, and 56 percent at the free-throw line...

Woodland girls head basketball coach Paul Lynch can attest just how the game of basketball can be a "tale of two halves". The Cardinal's first half of the year started fairly dismal, as they carried a 3-5 record into the Christmas break. From that point on, they went 11-3, winning nine games in a row, and have now found themselves raising the district championship trophy, as they defeated Scott City Thursday, 66-48, behind four players scoring in double figures...

The Woodland girls basketball team has really put together a nice winning streak of winning since mid-January, going 7-0 in that stretch. They continued that streak Wednesday with a semifinal win against Charleston, ending the Blue Jays season with a 70-37 shellacking...

Something clearly happened to Saxony Lutheran when the calendar turned to the month of February. The last time Crusaders lost a game it was at home to Scott City on Jan. 28. Since then, they have been on a winning streak and extended it to five after upsetting the Rams on Tuesday 43-41, to avenge their last loss and advance to the Class 3 District 2 championship game...

A year of uncommon adversity came to end for Scott City after falling narrowly to Saxony Lutheran 43-41 on Tuesday in the semifinal round of the Class 3, District 2 tournament at Scott City. Senior Camden Conner led the Rams with 19 points. Senior Ethan Pennington had 11 points. Junior Kaleb Karrenbrock added nine points and senior Nicolas Hillman scored the remaining two points for Scott City...

Behind a stellar game from senior Camden Conner, Scott City advanced to the semifinal round in the Class 3, District 2 tournament, knocking off Bloomfield Monday, 82-40. Conner poured in a game-high 26 points, 13 of which coming in the first quarter...

SCOTT CITY — Six years ago, Scott City High School boy’s basketball coach Mark Dannenmueller reacted to a postseason loss to Charleston by strengthening the Rams’ schedule the following season to an insane degree.

The Scott City girls basketball team wrapped up their regular season with a victory over St. Vincent Friday by the score of 66-56, ending their season record at 8-11. Junior guard Kaicie Daigger led the Rams in the scoring column, netting 18 points...

St. Vincent outlasted Scott City Friday, winning 62-61 in triple overtime, in what was their last regular season contest before districts start. The Indians jumped ahead early, taking a 26-12 lead into halftime. But the Rams came storming back, outscoring St. Vincent 29-15 in the final two periods, to send the game into OT...

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.

Scott City hosted Ellington Saturday and found themselves on the losing end, dropping a home game loss to a very good Whippet team, 76-61. The Rams were down by 10 points at the end of the first quarter (25-15), and trailed by 14 going into halftime...

In a game scheduled just days prior, Notre Dame pulled out a victory over the #1 ranked, Class One South Iron Saturday at Mineral Area College, defeating the Panthers, 66-64. The Bulldogs trailed the Panthers for most of the game, trailing by as many as seven points at the end of the third quarter (48-41)...

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...

GIDEON - Traveling more than 70 miles for a road contest less than 24 hours after suffering a 54-47 loss to Kelly in the title game of the Scott/Mississippi Conference Tournament Friday night wasn’t an ideal scenario for the Scott City Rams. Nevertheless, Scott City coach Mark Dannenmueller didn’t want to pass up an opportunity to take on the Gideon Bulldogs...

ORAN, Mo. — Excitement filled the gym, and smiles ran across every Kelly player’s face Friday night after the final buzzer sounded and the championship plaque was in their grasps. For the second-straight year, the Hawks won the Scott-Mississippi County Conference Tournament...

Woodland girls head basketball coach Paul Lynch saw his team win their fifth game in a row, handing Scott City their eighth loss of the season, Tuesday, in a 54-52 ultra-close contest. The Cardinals found themselves up by 10 points going into the fourth quarter but quickly realized the Rams had no quit in them whatsoever, with Kaicie Dagger leading her Rams with nine points in the final quarter, as Scott City outscored Woodland 19 to 11 to make the outcome razor-thin...

Camden Conner scored a team-high 20 points and Mark Panagos added 18 points to lead Scott City past Delta in the second round of the Scott-Mississippi Conference Tournament at Oran Tuesday. The duo scored 16 points between them in the third quarter, outscoring the entire Delta squad by five in the quarter...

SIKESTON – Oran High School girl’s basketball coach Amy Pobst was an accounting major in college, not a psychology major, but she did a masterful performance of rewiring her players’ minds following an 18-point loss to Delta just five weeks ago.

Camden Conner poured in 13 of his game-high 27 points in the third quarter, leading Scott City to a 62-47 win over Saxony Lutheran Thursday. Conner added 10 more in the fourth quarter, and four points in the opening frame. He didn't score in the second period...

Coach Darrin Scott might've seen his team lose a very tough matchup in the Hall of Fame Classic Saturday to the #1 team in Class 5 Cardinal Ritter Lions but he can't say his team didn't compete. His team was very much in the game, even tied with the highly touted Lions at halftime...

The Cape Central Tigers improved to 10-4 on the season as Ella Vogel and Taylor Horton led all scorers with 22 points each to beat Seckman in the Hillsboro Invitational Tournament Tuesday, 64-41. Vogel scored 15 of her 22 points in the second quarter and Horton produced 13 points of her 22 in the final quarter to put an exclamation point on the game...

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...

Clayton Ernst was one of three Jackson Indians to score in double figures Friday as Ernst netted 18 points, Luke Mirly added 10, and Blayne Harris notched 10 points to lead Jackson to a 60-47 win at home over Scott City. The 6'8" senior scored the majority of his points in the second quarter, pouring in eight of his team-high 18...

To say Notre Dame's guard Hayden Jansen was feeling it Friday night is putting it lightly. To say Jansen was near unconscious is more fitting. Jansen not only broke his personal record but he shattered the school record for most three-point field goals in a game as he nailed nine of them en route to an 83-31 decimation of Saxony Lutheran...

SCOTT CITY -- The Advance Hornets defeated the Scott City Rams on the road 60-52 on Thursday to extend their winning streak to six games. “I thought the whole team played pretty well,” Advance head coach Dennis Wheetley said. “We come in here and they’ve been playing pretty well all year. We knew we had our hands full. I’m just very proud of the boys on how hard they played.”...

There were several great basketball performances throughout Southeast Missouri of late, but East Carter's Kyren West and Holcomb's Macy Houart were recently selected as the top performers over the last week by Semoball.com readers.

Tuesday night the Oran Eagles were minus the services of two of their starting five in Langdon Scheeter and Diesel Cato, but the rest of the team stepped up and pulled out a tough, late-season Scott-Mississippi Conference game on the road against Chaffee, winning 49-44...

Alandry Below scored a game-high 24 points and two other Advance Hornets scored in double figures as Advance pulled away from Charleston in the last three quarters, winning at home in dominating fashion Monday 63-38 to win their fifth in a row. Kaylee Cline helped the cause for the Hornets scoring 15 points and Danielle Markham added 12 points in the victory...

The Kelly Hawks picked up a road win Friday by beating an upstart Chaffee team 60-54, improving their season record to 7-7. Kelly, who had previously only won one of their last 4 games, got a game-high 24 points from junior Gavin Jansen, who recently picked up his 1,000th career point this past week...

Drum roll, please. After seeing a lot of chatter on who the top-10 boys and girls basketball teams are in the region, I have put together a list of who I think deserves to be mentioned. Here is the absolutely accurate (see the sarcasm) boys’ list: New Madrid County Central (9-0)...