Senath-Hornersville

If you really want to know the origins of Joe Baldwin passing judgment on pitchers’ accuracy throughout Southeast Missouri, you’d have to go all the way back to the dusty dirt fields of the Marston Little League in the early 1960s.

The 2022 MSHSAA baseball season wrapped up last week, but for the fans of Senath-Hornersville High, the 2023 seasons (plural) can’t get here quickly enough.

Former Saxony Lutheran High School pitcher Eli Brown made his debut on Friday for the Cape Catfish with mixed results, but in the end, Catfish infielder J.D. Ortiz made sure every Catfish fan walked out of Capaha Field feeling good. Ortiz smacked three hits and drove in five runs, including three in the eighth inning, to lead Cape to an 8-6 come-from-behind win over Springfield in Cape’s 2022 home opener.

A memo to high school baseball players throughout Missouri: particularly in Southeast Missouri, you are being watched. And not just for your services to be utilized by the next level years from now, but sooner than you realize. The Cape Catfish open their third season of play at Capaha Field on Friday, as they host Springfield at 6:35 p.m., and they’ll have many familiar faces on the field.

PORTAGEVILLE – Ten minutes into its MSHSAA Class 2 District 1 semifinal on Monday against Senath-Hornersville at Meatte Park in Portageville, the Bernie High School baseball squad had produced all of the offense that it would need for the afternoon. Now, all senior pitcher Wyatt Nimmo and his defensive mates had to do was play exemplary baseball for the remainder of the picture-perfect afternoon.

Charleston 7, Oak Ridge 0 Senior Chase Showmaker pitched seven shutout innings as Charleston (6-7, 2-1 Scott-Mississippi Conference) won 7-0 over Oak Ridge (2-9, 1-2 Scott-Mississippi Conference) at Hillhouse Park in Charleston. Showmaker allowed just three hits while striking out eight and walking only one batter...

HOLCOMB — A pair of underdogs advanced in the opening round of the MSHSAA Class 2 District 1 playoffs Saturday as each held their opponent to 13 first-half points and weathered a second-half storm. Campbell, the defending Class 2 state champs, knocked off third-seeded Senath-Hornersville 54-49 before fifth-seeded Neelyville held off host Holcomb 54-41...

The Bernie Mules pulled away in the second half to beat Bloomfield 70-52 in an SCAA matchup Tuesday night at Bloomfield High School. The Mules led 20-18 after one quarter and 37-33 at halftime. They outscored Bloomfield 20-11 in the third to take a 57-44 lead into the fourth. They made 5 of 7 free throws in the final quarter to secure the win...

SENATH- The Senath-Hornersville Lions boys varsity basketball team was already coming into their game against Caruthersville with a disadvantage. With their All-Conference big-man sidelined most of the game with an injury, the Lions would be in for a battle...

The Bloomfield Wildcats received contributions from up and down their roster in a 72-39 rout of Gideon on Tuesday night at Gideon High School. Nine different Bloomfield players scored with Andrew Francis producing a team-high 14 points. James Barks and Dawson Hill added 10 each. Hill made a team-high three 3-pointers...

GIDEON – Kennett got an incredible offensive performance from senior Ben McMullan on Friday to get past Senath-Hornersville 65-61 in the third-place game of the Bulldog Classic at Gideon High School.

HAYTI – First-year Caruthersville High School girl’s basketball coach Cory Grooms may want to watch the famed prep basketball movie “Hoosiers” in order to prepare herself for the 2021-22 season.

Portageville 58, Caruthersville 28 Akyiah Jordan scored a game-high 18 points to lead the Portageville Lady Bulldogs over the Caruthersville Lady Tigers 58-28. Portageville outscored Caruthersville 21-3 in the 3rd quarter to put the game out of reach. Laticia Hamilton led...

Here are the MSHSAA winter sports district assignments for Semoball area schools. ^-girls only C6D1: Fox, Jackson, Lindbergh, Northwest, Oakville, Poplar Bluff, Seckman, SLUH. Cor Jesu-^ C5D1: Cape Central, DeSoto, Farmington, Festus, Hillsboro, North County Sikeston, Windsor-Imperial...

Senath-Hornersville Lions girls basketball coach Nicki Pierce hopes what her squad learned on the hardwood last season will pay off in a big way during its 2021-22 campaign.

The Senath-Hornersville Lions boys basketball program is blessed with experience entering its 2021-22 campaign.

CARUTHERSVILLE – The Senath-Hornersville High School volleyball team is culminating a historic season on Tuesday with its final regular-season match.

CARUTHERSVILLE – It’s a new era for the Bootheel Conference Volleyball Tournament and Portageville sent a message on Thursday to that effect and third-year Bulldog coach Sasha Kellams said her program may enjoy this spot for a while.

Top-seeded Senath-Hornersville defeated fourth-seeded Campbell, 25-17, 25-20, on Wednesday as the Lions’ secured their place in the championship game at the Bootheel Conference Tournament at Caruthersville High School. The Camels (6-15-2) got 17 kills from Delayni Smith and nine service points from Marie Wheeler on offense...

There are few businesses anywhere in the world that haven’t had to think differently over the past couple of years in this ever-changing environment that we are all immersed in, more than likely, forever. And Semoball.com is not immune to that. The website devoted to providing sports fans thorough coverage of sports throughout Southeast Missouri is still going to make that its mission on a daily basis, however, the internal pieces are going to be doing some shifting moving forward.

Southland senior Jenna Gibson wasn’t sure how things would go when her softball squad combined with nearby rival Senath-Hornersville this spring. “It was a super different year because I was a senior at Southland and we wound up combining with Senath-Hornersville,” Gibson said. “I think a lot of people thought it wasn’t going to work out well and there might be drama because we were small-school rivals. But it was honestly the best year I’ve ever had and I wouldn’t trade it for anything.”...

Prior to the MSHSAA Class 4 Boy’s Soccer state championship game last November in Springfield, Jackson senior goalkeeper Luke Mirly wasn’t exactly feeling great.

The Semoball Cup is presented to the school with the most successful season based on a formula that takes into account the combined winning percentage of all sports teams (WIN) plus bonus points for advancement in postseason play for both teams (POST) and individuals (IND). The bonus points are divided by the number of teams a school fields. Here are the standings with previous rankings from 2020:...