South Pemiscot

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...

GIDEON – Caruthersville fought back from a 16-10 second-quarter deficit with a huge fourth-quarter rally to beat South Pemiscot 60-58 on Friday and win the Bulldog Classic at Gideon High School.

HAYTI – Portageville got strong first quarters from senior Akiyah Jordan and sophomore Laney Stone to beat South Pemiscot 62-30 in the consolation bracket of the Al Jackson Classic at Hayti on Wednesday.

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...

SIKESTON — The Sikeston junior high basketball teams earned a split Tuesday night, with the eighth grade Bulldogs earning a 71-50 win over South Pemiscot while the seventh grade team dropped a 46-33 decision. SEVENTH GRADE South Pemiscot 46, Sikeston 33...

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.

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:...