St. Vincent

The St. Vincent football team did some good things last year, putting together a 6-4 record to make 2016 its winningest season since 2008. But it's not 2016 anymore. Now the Indians will have to prove that the high mark is also a building block because many of the players upon which last year was constructed are gone...

As Chance McKinley jogged off the field, a Scott City assistant football coach made sure to let him know the substitution had nothing to do with his play. "Chance, I'm just getting him reps. Good job," the coach yelled, his voice booming across the field...

The Semoball Cup ended up being a battle of the Bulldogs that needed overtime to decide. Megan Heisserer's golden goal to lift Notre Dame to the Class 2 soccer title also happened to clinch the Cup. In the closest finish in the early history of the award, Notre Dame edged Van Buren by 4.79 points in the standings that determine which area school had the most athletically successful school year...

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...

Twelve high school student-athletes earn recognition for their accomplishments on the baseball field this spring

Jersey number: 2 Primary position: Center mid and forward After-graduation plans: Attending Arkansas State University in the fall and majoring in psychology to work toward a masters in behavioral therapy Twitter handle: @callihouse5 Favorite warmup song: "Lose Yourself" by Eminem...

This spring, three area high school teams won state championships. With the success came accolades. Numerous local student-athletes earned recognition, including all-state honors. On the baseball diamond, Bell City won its third straight Class 1 state championship. Along the way, five Cubs earned all-state distinctions...

Ten months after the high school sports calendar began, we now know all 148 of our on-field nominees for the 2017 Semoball Awards. On Friday, the spring sport finalists for baseball, softball, girls soccer, boys and girls track and field, golf and boys tennis for the event -- to be held Saturday, July 8, at the Bedell Performance Center at Southeast Missouri State's River Campus -- were announced as part of a live selection show on SEMO ESPN Radio...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- On the morning of the Class 1 state championship, St. Vincent girls soccer coach Caitlin Pistorio had a decision to make about how she was going to set the tone for her team. The decision she came to was an unorthodox one -- she told her team not to worry about getting scored on...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Championships are won in many moments. Often little ones. Sometimes big ones. For Notre Dame in Thursday's 2-1 extra-time win over Springfield Catholic in the Class 2 girls soccer state championship game in Kansas City, Missouri, it was both...

O'FALLON, Mo. -- For the second day in a row, the St. Vincent baseball team fell behind early and couldn't come back. The Indians, who overcame multiple-run deficits late in sectional and quarterfinal games, couldn't recreate that magic at state. St. Vincent's surprising postseason run came to a bitter end in a 9-3 loss to Lincoln in the Class 2 third-place game on Wednesday afternoon at CarShield Field...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The wash of relief that swept over the St. Vincent girls soccer team took all words with it. After 79 minutes, 42 seconds of frustration and hand wringing, the final 18 seconds were speechless ones. On the 13th and final shot off the 10th and final corner kick in the 80th and final minute, Kalli Seabaugh found her way on to a bouncing ball in the 18-yard box and smacked a shot into the back of the net, exorcising an afternoon’s worth of frustrations and sending St. ...

PERRYVILLE, Mo. -- St. Vincent girls soccer coach Caitlin Pistorio wracks her brain trying to come up with interesting tidbits about her program's season; any tantalizing tales that colored the 2017 season. In the end, she's left with little, because this season has been dramatically drama-free for the Indians...

O'FALLON, Mo. -- The St. Vincent baseball team has become accustomed to overcoming deficits late in postseason games. On their way to the Class 2 final four, the Indians notched comeback victories over Van-Far in the sectional round before defeating South Pemiscot in the quarterfinals. In both games, they battled back after trailing by multiple runs in the fifth inning...

PERRYVILLE, Mo. -- Separated by 36 miles off the field and a classification on it, when the St. Vincent and Notre Dame girls soccer teams arrive in Kansas City this week for the Class 1 and 2 state championships, respectively, the two groups will, nonetheless, be decidedly linked...

PERRYVILLE, Mo. -- Ethan Pecaut knew something was amiss when he heard his father crying while running up the wood steps outside their house. The then-junior St. Vincent baseball player had already woken up that Saturday morning in November to a barrage of text messages from friends offering their condolences. A family friend from Ste. Genevieve, where Pecaut used to live, texted him, "If you ever need anything just let me know, and I love you."...

We chat with athletes from each of the four state-bound teams this week.

PERRYVILLE, Mo. -- Every time the ball hit the back of the net in the second half, the realization sank in a little more. The St. Vincent girls soccer team turned a close game at halftime into a rollicking, decisive victory in the second half, as it rolled past Maplewood-Richmond Heights 5-0 in a Class 1 quarterfinal on Wednesday at Perryville City Park and into the final four...

PERRYVILLE, Mo. -- Ethan Pecaut was in a mini-slump. The St. Vincent designated hitter had struck out in five of his last six at-bats, so when he stepped to the plate in the fifth inning with one out and a Class 2 sectional baseball game against Van-Far hanging in the balance, he turned to his mother above for help...