St. Vincent

SIKESTON — District assignments for boys’ and girls’ basketball and wrestling were released on Friday. Sikeston will be a part of Class 4, District 1, with Cape Central, Notre Dame, Dexter, Perryville, and Ste. Genevieve. Class 3, District 1 consists of Charleston, New Madrid County Central, East Prairie, Caruthersville, Doniphan, Malden, Kennett, and Twin Rivers. ...

On a night when the temperature was near freezing at kickoff, the No. 2 Hayti Indians hosted the No. 3 St. Vincent Indians in a Class 1, District 1 football semifinal. The Indians of St. Vincent hoped to upset the reigning Class 1, District 1 champions in their bid for a repeat state title...

Notre Dame senior Blake Morris did not achieve his goal of first place but did finish in the Top 10 at Saturday’s MSHSAA Class 3 Boys Cross Country State Finals at the Gans Creek Recreational Area in Columbia, Mo.

HAYTI, Mo. — The Hayti Indians steamrolled visiting St. Vincent 60-14 in a Class 1, District 1 semifinal Friday night. Hayti (10-1) intercepted a St. Vincent pass on the opening drive and scored two plays later when Elijah Burnett scored on a 34-yard run...

The next step in MSHSAA football team's quest for a championship will be taken tonight throughout Southeast Missouri. Here is "What 2 Watch 4" throughout the area.

In his last race on his home course, Notre Dame senior Blake Morris took top honors Saturday in the Class 3 District 1 cross country championships.

PERRYVILLE, Mo. — Portageville saw their season end Friday night with a 48-22 road loss to St. Vincent in the first round of the Class 1, District 1 Tournament. Portageville fell behind early 7-0, giving up a 6-yard touchdown run to St. Vincent quarterback Garrett Dobbelare...

St. Vincent scored on its first three possessions and rolled to a 48-22 victory over Portageville in a quarterfinal football game in the Class 1 District 1 Tournament on Friday in Perryville, Missouri. Senior quarterback Garrett Dobbelare rushed for one touchdown and threw for three more as the Indians rolled out to a 48-8 lead by halftime...

A week after dropping out of the top spot, Kennett returns to lead the Semoball Power Rankings to end the regular season.

No football coach throughout Missouri is more in tune with the tradition of his program than that of St. Vincent second-year coach Tim Schumer. The former Indian quarterback can recall plays and players who have built the St. Vincent program, and his 2019 roster has an opportunity to add a chapter in the Indians' history book with a victory tonight against Portageville (2-7) to open the Class 1 District 1 postseason...

Sikeston at Hillsboro Records: Sikeston 3-6; Hillsboro 3-6 Series History: Tied 2-2 Last Meeting: 2016, Hillsboro won 72-46 Last Week: Sikeston lost to Kennett 36-0; Hillsboro lost to Poplar Bluff 39-26 Notes: The wait is over, the postseason is here, and for Sikeston flipping the script is something this team needs to do. ...

The Leopold volleyball team downed two familiar foes in straight sets during the opening night of the Class 1 District 3 Tournament at Advance High School on Monday to set up a collision course with the top-seeded hosts...

For 24 minutes, the Cape Girardeau Central football team wasn’t giving an inch to an unbeaten Bolivar squad. The Tigers played the Class 4 No. 9-ranked Liberators to a 34-28 halftime score. However, the second half was a different story, as Bolivar pulled away for a 59-35 win...

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The Notre Dame boys swimming team took first place team honors at the Bubble pool Wednesday in its senior night quad event. Bulldogs senior Nicholas Hux took first place in two invidual events -- 50 freestyle and 100 buttefly -- and swam a leg on the winning 200 freestyle relay team...

The Saxony Lutheran Crusaders could not keep the North County Raiders from putting the ball in the back of the net, losing 4-2 on the road in boys soccer. Paul Adams led the Saxony Lutheran (7-9) offense, scoring a goal on an indirect free kick and assisting on the Crusaders other goal. Garrett Richey found the back of the net off the Adams feed...

Molly Flanagan blasted a solo home run among her three hits as second-seeded St. Pius X defeated top-seeded Kelly 2-1, denying the Hawks their 32nd district title in the Class 2 District 2 Tournament championship game in Benton, Missouri. A.J. Agers went the distance on the mound to earn the win for St. Pius X (15-6). The one run she gave up was unearned and she recorded seven strikeouts and one walk...

St. Vincent continues to be an effective and balanced football team and that was evident in Friday's 46-12 beating of Grandview (Hillsboro). "I thought we mixed the run and the pass pretty well," Indians coach Tim Schumer said in a phone interview. Senior runner Luke Unterreiner totaled 120 yards on the ground and scored three times, while senior quarterback Garrett Dobbelare threw for a pair of scores...

Kennett and Jackson remain atop the Semoball Power Rankings this week while Scott City’s first loss of the season dropped the Rams to fifth. By beating Scott City 46-41, Hayti moved up a spot to fourth, while Caruthersville moved up to third. Cape Central’s one-point win at St. Charles West didn’t help move the Tigers up the list (not sure why since it boosted their opponent’s win total to 28, behind only Sikeston’s 32 and Malden’s 30)...

The good old days of football. Long drives, crammed time for scouting opponents, 16 mm film, and chalkboards.

There will be many eyes in Southeast Missouri on this game; the Rams, off to their first 6-0 start since 2004, have had their eyes on it for quite some time.

The Notre Dame girls tennis team shut out the Saxony Lutheran Crusaders 5-0 to advance to the finals of the Class 1 District 2 team tournament Tuesday. The Bulldogs got the early lead and never looked back, thanks to three doubles wins. The frst two doubles matches both ended 8-1 as Claire Bruenderman and Anna Grace Stroup defeated Maddox Murphy and Sydney Turner at the No. ...

The Notre Dame boys swimming team came way with four state qualifiers that was good enough to land the Bulldogs in second place at the 26th Annual Roger Eastman Invitational on Saturday at the Rec-Plex in St. Peters, Mo. Joseph Barber and Nicholas Hux were a part of three of those state cuts for the Bulldogs, including their first-place 200 medley relay team (1:44.90) and second-place 200 freestyle relay (1:34.26). ...

The masses have fervently called for a revised Semoball.com Football Power Rankings and the analytics department has delivered it.

Host Cape Central (17-2) blanked Sikeston 9-0 on Wednesday in girls tennis. Sikeston (0-11) won just two games on the day. Central's only two losses this season have been to Notre Dame. District tournament play begins for Central and Sikeston on Monday...

Senior Kyla Beel hammered 24 kills and tallied 14 digs as the Leopold volleyball team rallied after dropping the first set to rebound and eke out a 21-25, 25-22, 25-23 victory over Dexter on Tuesday at Leopold High School. Sophomore Paige Davis contributed 25 assists and...

The St. Vincent Indians managed to shake off a drubbing in the second set to win a close third set and pick up a 25-23, 8-25, 26-24 home victory over Ste. Genevieve in volleyball. St. Vincent (3-8-3) was led to the win by Hannah Riney and Grace Schremp. ...

PERRYVILLE, Mo. -- It's difficult to determine where to start in analyzing the impressive 40-21 football pounding St. Vincent laid on its rival, Perryville, Friday at St. Vincent.

New Madrid Central football held the top spot in the area power rankings this week. The rankings combine a team's MSHSAA point total, use bonus points for wins against other Semoball-area teams, road wins, and a team's Massey Rating.

Addie Johnson posted a double-double with 20 kills and 11 digs as the Woodland volleyball team had to claw deep after dropping the first set to come back and down Meadow Heights in the 18-25, 25-17, 25-18 three-set thriller victory on the road Thursday in Patton, Missouri...

Scott City senior quarterback Spencer Stratman was voted semoball.com Football Player of the Week after leading the unbeaten Rams to a 35-7 win over Charleston on Friday.

Woodland’s Timothy Sloan took the first-place boys’ medal in Tuesday’s Oak Ridge Invitational cross country meet.

The St. Vincent football team evened its season record with its second consecutive win Friday, posting a 35-0 road victory over Herculaneum.

Semoball’s analytical wizard (Brian Rosener, sports editor for the Daily American Republic) has crunched the numbers and formed a prep football ranking system of area teams throughout the Semoball-coverage area.

Mackenzie Stoner slammed eight kills as the Jackson volleyball team denied host Notre Dame its 10th win of the season and picked up a big conference victory in straight sets (25-10, 25-19) on Thursday in Cape Girardeau. Hannah Shinn and Olivia Ward chipped in seven kills apiece for the Indians. ...

Garrett Dobbelare first displayed what he could do as a quarterback at St. Vincent as a member of the JV squad. It occurred not only during JV games, but while serving on the scout team against the varsity, where he opened the eyes of then-offensive coordinator Tim Schumer and the rest of the staff...

The Notre Dame girls tennis team won the Cape Central Team Doubles Tournament on Saturday.

Sixty area volleyball teams took part in the Dig For Life Challenge Volleyball Tournament at the Cape Girardeau SportsPlex and Show Me Center Friday and Saturday.

St. Vincent senior quarterback Garrett Dobbelare threw six touchdown passes in a 42-28 victory over visiting Kelly on Friday in Perryville, Missouri.

PERRYVILLE, Mo. – Third-year Perryville football coach Blane Boss may feel like kicking a wall at times, as his Pirate squad is being besieged by injuries for the second straight season. However, he isn’t admitting any frustration publicly.

SIKESTON AT POPLAR BLUFF Records: Sikeston 1-1; Poplar Bluff 1-1 Series History: Sikeston leads 56-36-4 Last Meeting: 2018, Sikeston won 34-0 Last Week: Sikeston lost to McCluer North 36-0; Poplar Bluff defeated Riverview Gardens 48-8. Notes: Offense was a struggle for the Sikeston football team last week, as the Bulldogs got shut out by McCluer North in the second-straight meeting. ...

The Jackson boys soccer team recovered from a halftime deficit with three goals by Chalon Domian as the Indians nipped visiting Northwest (Cedar Hill) 3-2 in overtime Wednesday. The Indians trailed 1-0 at halftime before Domian went to work, scoring two goals in the first 15 minutes of the second half. Northwest pulled even about eight minutes after the second tally, and the game eventually went to overtime, where Domian scored with about two minutes left in the first extra period...

Perryville won four games last season, but two weeks into the 2019 season, the Pirates are already halfway to matching that total. The Pirates (2-0) dominated St. James on both sides of the ball Friday to win 51-0. “I thought we played pretty well,” third-year coach Blane Boss said. “Defensively, we missed some tackles, but offensively, we ran the ball hard and had some good blocks.”...

Perryville won four games last season, but two weeks into the 2019 season, the Pirates are already halfway to matching that total. The Pirates (2-0) dominated St. James on both sides of the ball Friday to win 51-0. "I thought we played pretty well," third-year coach Blane Boss said. "Defensively, we missed some tackles, but offensively, we ran the ball hard and had some good blocks."...

There are several intriguing football match-ups in Week Two, as several teams ramp up the toughness in their schedules tonight. Here is a look at “What 2 Watch 4” throughout the Semoball-coverage area.

Scott City football coach Jim May believes his Rams can achieve back-to-back winning seasons. If he's right, it'll be the first time in his 11 years at the helm. The Rams go for their second win at 7 p.m. today as they host St. Vincent, a team they've dominated the last five seasons. St. Vincent was humbled on its own field last week by Valle Catholic's fastbreak offense, 36-7...

It took Notre Dame a little bit to get going but once they did there was no looking back. After dropping a tight first set 24-26, the Bulldogs allowed 19 points total the rest of the way, winning 25-7, 25-12 to take home the three-set road victory. It was a team effort for Notre Dame with numerous contributors. ...

PERRYVILLE, Mo. — The annual season-opening clash between Valle Catholic and St. Vincent on Friday night ended the same way it has for the last decade — with a convincing Warriors win. Valle's fast-break offense overwhelmed on a cloudy night at St. Vincent, 36-7...

Following three weeks of fall camp, high school football players throughout Southeast Missouri finally get to compete with the scoreboard turned on tonight.

PERRYVILLE, Mo. – Second-year St. Vincent football coach Tim Schumer wasn’t doing backflips over the fact that his offense – particularly the passing game – looked very good in Friday’s jamboree with Chaffee, Scott City, and Kelly. He continually referenced after the game how he would have to “take it to the tape” to get a true evaluation.