South Pemiscot

After 10 months, the list is complete. On Monday, the 45 spring sport finalists for the 2018 Semoball Awards were announced during a selection show live on air on SEMO ESPN Radio 1220 AM. In addition to those individual student-athletes, 15 additional nominees were revealed for Coach of the Year, Comeback Player of the Year and Sportsmanship, plus the Lifetime Achievement Award winner...

The 2018 Bootheel Conference baseball awards have been released. 2018 Senath-Hornersville graduate Lathan Brooks, who has signed to play baseball at John. A. Logan College in Carterville, Ill., is the Bootheel Conference Player of the Year. Brooks batted .459 with six home runs, 24 RBIs and 25 runs scored for the Lions. He also went 6-1 on the hill with a 1.70 ERA. Brooks struck out 83 in 37 innings of work...

The 2018 Bootheel Conference softball awards have been released. Malden shortstop Lexi Campbell is the Bootheel Conference Player of the Year. Campbell batted .530 with four home runs and 26 RBIs her senior season. She also went 3-0 in the circle with a 3.62 ERA in 19 1/3 innings pitched...

The third-seeded Kennett Indians struck for three runs in the third inning Saturday and beat seventh-seeded Dexter 5-2 in a consolation semifinal of the SEMO Conference Baseball Tournament at Cape Central High School. The Indians will face Notre Dame in the fifth-place game at 2:15 p.m. Monday. Dexter (3-12) will meet New Madrid County Central for seventh place at noon Monday. Both games will be played at Capaha Park in Cape Girardeau...

The schedule has been released for the highly anticipated Bootheel Conference softball tournament. Weather permitting the eight-team event will take place Monday and Tuesday at Senath-Hornersville High School. Quarterfinals take place Monday. No. 1 seeded Malden plays No. ...

Claire Ramsey hit a double and drove in three runs as the Oran softball team started strong to pick up a big 8-4 win over traditional powerhouse Kennett on Tuesday. Alyssa Spane went the distance in the circle to come away with the win for the host Eagles, who improved to 8-1 with the victory. Spane recorded four strikeouts and two walks...

STEELE, Mo. - Lathan Brooks hit a pair of home runs and allowed only two runs in 5 1/3 innings pitched but it wasn’t enough to propel the Senath-Hornersville Lions baseball team to a victory Thursday afternoon. South Pemiscot tallied six runs in the bottom of the sixth inning to move ahead 8-3 and hung on to beat visiting Senath-Hornersville 8-6...

STEELE, Mo. - Followers of South Pemiscot High School baseball are probably aware of the many outstanding teams and players that have graced the Bulldog diamond over the past 25 years. Among the very best players, and perhaps the very best, are 1999 graduate Greg Mathis and 2007 graduate Jeremy Patton. ...

Leah Cauble notched a double-double with a game-high 30 points and 10 rebounds as the Oran girls basketball team pulled away in the second quarter and cruised to a 68-45 win Wednesday night in Dexter, Missouri. Jessie Long added 15 points for the Eagles, who outscored the Bearcats 18-4 in the second stanza to build a 39-20 lead at halftime. Katelyn Streeter chipped in 12 points for Oran (18-4), while Kaylee Payne contributed 11 points...

Another year, another group of superb performances by area student-athletes, the most outstanding of which are being recognized. On Wednesday, 55 individuals were announced as fall sport finalists for the 2018 Semoball Awards. The selections were presented during a live radio show on SEMO ESPN Radio...

PORTAGEVILLE, Mo. - The Senath-Hornersville Lions collected its first victory at the Bootheel Conference varsity boys basketball tournament since 1998 Saturday night. No. 6 seeded Senath-Hornersville picked up its fourth win in five days as it upset the No. 3 seeded South Pemiscot Bulldogs 59-51 in a varsity quarterfinal of the seven-team tournament at Portageville High School...

Updated Varsity Boys Tournament Bracket No. 2 Portageville 61, No. 7 Campbell 41 CHS 12 6 9 14 - 41 PHS 12 23 12 14 - 61 CAMPBELL (41) - Blake Fowler 16, Jacob Vines 10, Kaden Siebert 5, Skylar Morrison 4, Noah Edwards 2, Robert Hirtz 4. FG 15, FT 4/5, F 13. (3-pointers: Fowler 4, Vines 2, Siebert 1; Fouled out: None)...

The brackets are set for the highly anticipated Bootheel Conference boys and girls basketball tournaments. The tournaments will take place Jan. 27 - Feb. 2 at Portageville High School All first round games take place Jan. 27. Semifinals are Jan. 29, Jan. 30 and Jan 31. Championship games are slated for Feb. 2...

MALDEN, Mo. - A pair of 17-point quarters helped Malden’s varsity girls basketball team cruise to a 58-37 Bootheel Conference victory against South Pemiscot Thursday night. The win came in the second of a five-game home stretch for the Lady Green Wave, serving as a boost ahead of upcoming Bootheel Conference clashes before tournament play begins...

MALDEN, Mo. - An old-fashioned 3-point play proved to be the difference in Friday night’s see-saw battle between the South Pemiscot Bulldogs and Malden Green Wave. Following a timeout, South Pemiscot six-foot guard Darius Johnson penetrated to the basket and made a contested shot as he was fouled to put his team on top 59-57 with 33.7 seconds remaining. Johnson drained a free throw shortly after to pad South Pemiscot’s lead to 60-57...

STEELE, Mo. - The South Pemiscot Bulldogs varsity girls basketball team didn’t pass up an opportunity to play three out-of-state juggernauts at the Dyer County Invitational over Christmas break. Dyersburg (Tenn.) beat South Pemiscot 64-4 on Dec. 27, Middleton (Tenn.) defeated South Pemiscot 65-22 on Dec. 28 and Ridgeway (Tenn.) took down South Pemiscot 72-29 on Dec. 29...

BLOOMFIELD, Mo. - The Portageville Bulldogs and Twin Rivers Royals are set to square off in the consolation championship of the Bloomfield Christmas Tournament Friday at 4 p.m. No. 13 seeded Twin Rivers beat No. 8 seeded South Pemiscot 50-42 in the first consolation semiinal Thursday...

BLOOMFIELD, Mo. - The No. 9 seeded Kennett Indians didn’t dominate from start to finish but still managed to escape with a double digit victory against the No. 8 seeded South Pemiscot Bulldogs in an opening round contest at the 16-team Bloomfield Christmas Tournament late Tuesday night...

From Staff Reports BLOOMFIELD, Mo. - The consolation semifinals are set at the Bloomfield Christmas Tournament following consolation quarterfinal play Wednesday afternoon. No. 13 seeded Twin Rivers will take No. 8 seeded South Pemiscot in the first consolation semifinal Thursday at 1 p.m. The second consolation semifinal between No. 7 seeded Portageville and No. 11 seeded Puxico will follow at about 2:30 p.m. Thursday...

STEELE, Mo. - South Pemiscot girls basketball coach Nick Nealey provided his team with an extra incentive to rebound the basketball before Thursday night’s third-place game against the Holcomb Hornets at the Pattye Woody Classic...

Pool A New Haven split Hillsboro 25-13, 21-25 Notre Dame def. NMCC 25-07, 25-08 New Haven def. NMCC 25-04, 25-12 Notre Dame def. Hillsboro 25-21, 25-18 Pool B Farmington def. St. Vincent 25-23, 25-22 Calvary Lutheran def. Gideon/Risco 25-15, 25-11 Farmington def. Gideon/Risco 25-15, 25-18...

From across Southeast Missouri, people descended upon Cape Girardeau on Saturday night for the region's premier sports awards show. More than 150 student-athletes from 57 area high schools were on hand for the Fourth Annual Semoball Awards presented by SoutheastHEALTH at the Donald C. Bedell Performance Hall on Southeast Missouri State University's River Campus, as awards were handed out in 25 sports categories...