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MALDEN - Scott City forced seven turnovers in the first half, including a pair of pick-six scores by Gage Underwood and Logan Speakman. The short fields and quick scores helped put the Rams ahead by 39 points at halftime and they went on to beat Malden 54-21 on Friday night...

LAST MEETING: Malden beat Scott City 51-8 in 2015 LAST WEEK: Scott City beat Portageville 42-13; Perryville beat Malden 35-30 HEAD TO HEAD STREAK: Malden has won the last six meetings dating back to 2010. SCOTT CITY: Scott City (2-2) beat Dexter 18-15 in Week 1, Park Hills Central beat Scott City 40-26 in Week 2, Hayti beat Scott City 62-43 in Week 3, and Scott City beat Portageville 42-13 in Week 4. ...

Jackson improved their record to 8-1 on the season with a straight set victory on the road against St. Vincent Wednesday by the scores of 25-12, 27-25, and 25-17. Mia Tranker set the pace early with several kills against the home team Indians. She would finish with nine kills and added six blocks to her resume...

There is a reason why Kennett football coach Joel Wyatt is an extraordinarily successful coach and not a member of the media or even a fan, per se. His task is to focus on the here and now, not some possible, but not definitive opponent off into the future. However, the Indian Nation – and the rest of the prep football fans (and media) throughout Southeast Missouri had to have had their interest piqued a tad when MSHSAA released its District assignments Monday.

In the Cape Central Cross-Country invitational held Saturday it was Jackson taking all team finals. Individual Finals included: Varsity Boys 5k finals: Jackson- 2. Evan Stephens – 16:26.37. 1 point 3. Cade McCadams – 16:26.81, 2 points 5. Jake Eastin – 17:39.64, 4 points...

America’s oldest amateur baseball team has snagged a significant share of Mon-Clair League’s 2020 postseason awards. Fourth-year Cape Girardeau Capahas manager Tom Bolen won his first-ever manager of the year award after leading the Caps to a 17-4 record in a COVID-compressed season...

PORTAGEVILLE, Mo – After being held scoreless up to this point of the season, Portageville’s offense showed some signs of life against Scott City Friday on Senior Night. Unfortunately for the Bulldogs, they couldn't overcome an early deficit as the Rams broke a two-game skid to move back to .500 on the season with a 42-13 win...

As much as football intellect is needed by all that follow high school football throughout Missouri, organizational skills may be even more critical.

POPLAR BLUFF AT SIKESTON Records: Poplar Bluff 2-1; Sikeston 2-1 Series History: Sikeston leads 56-37-4 Last Meeting: 2019, Poplar Bluff won 61-18 Last Week: Poplar Bluff lost to Jackson 56-7; Sikeston lost to Farmington 25-7. Notes: One week removed from suffering its first loss of the season, Sikeston returns to the field to take on SEMO Conference rival Poplar Bluff on Hall of Fame Night at Sikeston Public Schools Stadium. ...

The Dexter football team fell to New Madrid County Central 40-20 Friday but it wasn’t due to a lack of effort or production on the part of senior athlete Ryan Collier.

KENNETT - Fresh off a runner-up finish in the silver bracket of the Black Division at the Dig for Life Challenge Saturday in Cape Girardeau, the Kennett Indians varsity volleyball squad added another win to its resume Monday night. Kennett recorded eight ace serves as it beat the visiting Scot City Rams 25-18, 18-25, 25-22, 25-14...

Jackson won all four team titles at the recent Arcadia Valley Cross Country Invitational. In the boys varsity 5k race, Jackson scored 23 points, while Notre Dame finished third with 100 points, and St.Vincent was eighth with 243 points. In the girls varsity 5k race, Jackson had 39 points, while Notre Dame finished third with 78 points...

In what would turn out to be an action packed, edge of your seat, high school volleyball game of the year kind of contest, Meadow Heights, a rather young and un-experienced club, outlasted an elder Scott City team in five sets Thursday night in Scott City...

In one of the longer Southeast Missouri high school football games in recent memory, Hayti won a shootout with its SEMO South Conference rival and host Scott City Friday, 62-43, behind the outstanding play of 6-foot-2 Indians junior quarterback Trayvon Thomas...

The third week of the high school football season has area teams at varying stages of their progression. Jackson, Chaffee, and Scott City are each competing for the third consecutive week, while Cape Central will play its second game, St. Vincent its first, and Perryville is off for a week while the Pirates are shut down due to the COVID-19 pandemic...

Notre Dame beat Scott City at home in straight sets, 25-13 and 25-14 to improve 2-0 on the season. Jersey Black led the Rams with four kills. Notre Dame will play next at the Dig for Life even in Cape on Friday and Saturday. Times are TBA. Scott City(1-2) will face Meadow Heights at home tonight at 7 p.m...

Scott City (1-1) faces the only team to blemish its 2019 regular season record Friday as it hosts unbeaten Hayti (2-0) at William Wllthong Field. The Rams were riding high at 6-0 last season when they traveled to Pemiscot County last October 11 and dropped a heartbreaker to the Indians in the final 29 seconds of the contest, 46-41...

Portageville picked up its first win of the 2020 season on Tuesday evening at Senath-Hornersville.

Chaffee football is on a roll of late.

Holcomb dominates Hayti to improve to 2-0 on the young season.

Poplar Bluff runner Jaden Deaton tore off over the 2.35-mile course through Jackson City Park Saturday to win the 12th-grade boy’s class at the annual Jackson Cross Country Invitational.

The 2020 football season will get underway throughout the state of Missouri (St. Louis aside) tonight and that is no small thing in wake of a global pandemic.

POPLAR BLUFF — The 2020 football has finally arrived and in Missouri (at least for now), Semoball.com-area programs are playing (for the most part).

Second-year Red Devils coach Will Daffron is taking nothing for granted as he approaches what promises to be a rain-drenched Friday home game against Crystal City. The Hornets were winless in 2019 and are 1-29 over the last three seasons. Chaffee has had the Hornets’ number in their annual Week 1 tilts since 2016. ...

The St. Vincent High School football season has been put on hold for a couple of weeks due to "a couple cases" related to COVID, according to third-year coach Tim Schumer.

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Cody Bova, the newly-named head boys’ basketball coach at Oak Ridge High School, is following in the wake of a successful predecessor – and he knows it. Bova succeeds the retired Chris Trimmer as skipper of the Bluejays this fall. Trimmer, 60, left the coaching ranks due to ongoing concern about the COVID-19 pandemic after amassing a 53-30 record in three seasons at the rural Class 1 school in northwestern Cape Girardeau County...

The Cape Girardeau Capahas are still seeking an elusive Mon Clair League championship. The Caps, the top seed in this weekend’s single-elimination league playoffs, fell Saturday to the no.-4 seed Belleville Rockies, 4-1, in a second-round contest at Capaha Field...

Notre Dame’s Austin Dill will be the starting pitcher if the Cape Girardeau Capahas reach the Mon Clair League championship game this Sunday. The Caps (17-3), the no.-1 seed in the aluminum bat playoff tourney, have won 15 in a row and Dill has the most impressive statistics of any league hurler...

There are now options for schools in Missouri to play sports at different points during the 2020-21 academic year. On Thursday morning, the Missouri State High School Activities Association (MSHSAA) Board of Directors announced, during a virtual meeting, the approval of a possible alternative schedule for its member schools...

The Cape Girardeau Capahas (17-3) won their 15th in a row Saturday as the oldest amateur team in U.S. history swept a doubleheader from the Belleville Rockies, 7-2 and 7-6 at Capaha Field. Game one In the early game, Malden’s Dee Triplett’s first inning three-run homer put the Caps on the board early to pace the Mon Clair League leaders. ...

Scott City’s Jimmy May is still headed to Southwest Baptist University in Bolivar, Missouri this fall – but he’ll have to wait a bit before he plays in a competitive football game again. On Monday, the Great Lakes Valley Conference (GLVC) announced it will postpone football for all its member schools until spring 2021 “due to ongoing concerns of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic,” according to a release...

The Cape Girardeau Capahas, the oldest amateur team in the United States, proved over the weekend it can win on the road as well as at home.

Scott City High School boy’s basketball coach and athletic director Mark Dannenmueller doesn’t mince words when it comes to describing what it was like to coach former Ram athletic great Joe Panagos.

Trent Pobst made his mark playing the outfield for Scott City High School but every summer, he dons his familiar no. 5 jersey to lead the Cape Girardeau Capahas at the plate. Pobst collected three hits, including a double, in pacing the Caps to a doubleheader sweep Sunday over Valmeyer at Capaha Field by tallies of 6-3 and 6-5...