South Pemiscot

Districts for winter sports were released on Friday morning, with New Madrid County Central dropping to Class 3 for the 2022-23 season. NMCC finished third in Class 4 last season and return juniors Jadis Jones and AJ Ruff while junior BJ Williamson also returns after missing last season...

ORAN, Mo. — The Oran baseball team finished the 2022 fall season off with a bang when Carson Kern jacked a walk-off home run on Saturday, Sep. 24 at Oran High School. Although it wasn’t all that dramatic, the Eagles (12-2) led 8-0 when Kern hit the three-run bomb over the left field fence to inflict the mercy rule for an 11-0 win over South Pemiscot (7-9) in six innings...

Oran (10-2) jumped on Woodland (9-2) early at home with eight runs in the first two innings to cruise to an 11-0 five-inning win. The Eagles finished with just five hits as a team. Sophomore Parker Bryant’s three RBIs on one hit led Oran, while the tandem of junior Gabriel Dirnberger and senior Nick Massey combined for five innings pitched, allowing just one hit, one walk and nine strikeouts...

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.

Three players from Portageville's state runner-up baseball team received first-team All-State honors in Class 2. Junior catcher Trey Benthal, sophomore infielder Mason Adams and senior outfielder Alex Winsor each garnered first-team honors for their performances in 2022. The Bulldogs placed five players across first, second and honorable mention teams...

PORTAGEVILLE, Mo. — The Portageville baseball team claimed its fourth district crown in the past five seasons with an emphatic win over South Pemiscot on Wednesday, May 18. The top-seeded Bulldogs (28-3, 4-1 Bootheel Conference) stayed in control from start to finish during the six-inning 11-1 victory over the second-seeded Bulldogs (13-8, 4-1 Bootheel Conference) in the MSHSAA Class 2 District 1 Championship at Meatte Park in Portageville, Mo...

Class 2 District 1 Championship @ Portageville South Pemiscot (13-8) - Batting: Zachary Southern (1-3, RBI), Steven Henley (1-3, 2B, Run). Pitching: LP - Henley (2.2 IP, 3 H, 3 R, 3 BB, 4 K). Portageville (28-3) - Batting: Ronald Adams (3-4, 2 3B, 5 RBIs, Run), Conner Johnson (1-2, 2 RBIs, 2 Runs), THomas Frakes (2-2, RBI, Run). Pitching: WP - Donney Benthal (6 IP, 6 H, 1 R, 3 BB, 6 K)...

STEELE, Mo. — Portageville (22-3, 4-1 Bootheel Conference) avenged an early loss with 6-0 win over South Pemiscot (12-3, 4-1) in the semifinals of Bootheel Conference Tournament at South Pemiscot High School on Wednesday, May 4. “Today we had great pitching and defense,” said Portageville coach Tyler Trover. ...

MHSBCA Rankings (April 19) Records as of April 18 Class 1 Others receiving votes: Norwood (6-5), Weaubleau (7-3), Community (5-1), Advance (8-4) Class 2 Others receiving votes: Holcomb (9-2), Lone Jack (11-3) Class 3 Others receiving votes: West County (7-1)...

Class 1 St. Elizabeth 2-2 Oran 3-2 Cooter 3-3 Northwest (Hughesville) 6-2 Leeton 2-2 Pilot Grove 5-1 Northeast (Cairo) 2-1 Community 2-0 LaPlata 4-1 Green City 1-0 Others receiving votes: Knox County (2-1), Norwood (3-1 Class 2 Marionville 4-0 Putnam County 2-0...

POPLAR BLUFF — Chandler Sisco and Brandon Dewolf sank South Pemiscot’s comeback attempt at the foul line. Alton held off the Bulldogs in the fourth quarter as the two leading scorers knocked down a combined 16 of 19 free throws. The Comets pulled away for an 83-64 win in the MSHSAA Class 2 sectional playoff at the Libla Family Sports Complex...

HOLCOMB, Mo. — The call came during the girls championship as South Pemiscot coach Jordan McGowan and his team were waiting for their turn Friday night. McGowan’s wife was in labor and it was time for him to join her at the hospital. “We knew his wife was pretty far along on the pregnancy so he told us to go out and win it for his son,” South Pemiscot senior Zack Southern said...

HOLCOMB — Coming into Monday’s MSHSAA Class 2 District 1 semifinal against top-seeded South Pemiscot, Neelyville coach Taylor Harlow knew rebounding out of a zone defense might be tricky. But it worked pretty good a week earlier in a seven-point loss to the Bulldogs...

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 hottest team in Southeast Missouri stayed hot Thursday night as Caruthersville took down Scott City on the road 60-45 to earn its 11th victory in a row. The Tigers jumped out to a 14-8 lead in the first half and led 27-15 at halftime. The second half was all Caruthersville as well, outscoring the host Rams 32-30...

The Caruthersville boy’s basketball team has been on some kind of roll since losing its last game at home on Dec. 17 to South Pemiscot. But the saying goes, “the best kind of revenge is massive success” and that is just what the Tigers have done since that last defeat, they have had massive success...

After last year's Australian NBL-1 season was canceled due to COVID-19, former Southeast Missouri State standout Carrie Shephard has finally realized her dream of playing professional basketball. The 5-foot-4 guard currently plays for the Glanmire Basketball Club in Ireland's women's Super League and has already made an impact...

BLOOMFIELD - With Doniphan's double-digit lead down to three points in the final minute, Doniphan's Ethan Jones closed the door on South Pemiscot's late rally. Jones was perfect in two trips to the foul line and came up with a steal for a layup to lift the Dons to a 63-57 win in the quarterfinals of the 65th Annual Bloomfield Christmas Tournament on Tuesday in Bloomfield...