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Host sites are set for most district tournaments if spring sports resume in Missouri. Missouri high schools remain out of session and all springs sports activities and practices are currently suspended due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The Indiana High School Athletics Association canceled spring sports in Indiana Thursday due to the VOVID-19 pandemic...

The Missouri State High School Activities Association issued an update regarding the status of spring sports amidst the COVID-19 pandemic Tuesday. “While schools across the state are determining the best course of action during this unprecedented time, the Missouri State High School Activities Association (MSHSAA) office staff continues to prepare for Spring Championships,” MSHSAA said in a press release. ...

Editor's note: Selection to the 2019 All-Southeast Missourian Team does not necessarily constitute selection to the Semoball Award finalists for boys cross country (XC). The Semoball Awards will be announced July 11 at the River Campus of Southeast Missouri State University, presented by SoutheastHealth...

Good Sports is a column featured weekly in the Southeast Missourian and on semoball.com. It is primarily designed to showcase people who have impacted the sporting life of Southeast Missouri, so that readers may get to know them more fully. Responses have been edited for clarity and brevity...

The preseason Missouri high school baseball state rankings were released Wednesday by the Missouri High School Baseball Coaches Association. Six baseball teams from the semoball.com coverage area are state-ranked. Cooter, which placed third in Class 1 last spring and finished 22-1 in its fall campaign, is ranked No. ...

Editor's note: Selection to the All-Southeast Missourian Team does not necessarily constitute selection to the Semoball Award finalists for softball. The 2019 girls softball season was a memorable one in Southeast Missouri, with Notre Dame advancing to the Class 3 quarterfinal game in late October...

For Notre Dame girls basketball coach Kirk Boeller, playing in front of a small crowd of spectators is not a big deal. “We’ve played in gyms with 150 people this season,” said Boeller, 32, who is leading his Bulldogs (24-4) into a Class 4 quarterfinal tilt against the Rockwood Summit Falcons (26-3) Saturday at 1 p.m...

Notre Dame boys basketball coach Paul Unterreiner realizes his team has had a charmed month of March. A 57-55 overtime win over Dexter in overtime March 3. A 38-37 double overtime victory to win the C4D1 title over Cape Central March 6. Those hard-fought, closely contested games in the Dawg Pound led to Tuesday’s 60-47 double-digit defeat of Central Park Hills – in a sectional contest played on a neutral court in Farmington...

Spring sports for Missouri high schools will start as planned next week, MSHSAA announced Friday after releasing district assignments. "We re monitoring what is happening from the Missouri Department of Health, the Governor's Office, and the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education," MSHSAA said in a statement Friday...

BLOOMFIELD, Mo. — A senior class of Todd Priggel, Tyson Goodale, and Kaiden Massey have never experienced a season at Oran without celebrating a district championship. Three years, three titles. That streak continued on Thursday evening, at Bloomfield High School, as the No. 1-seeded Eagles defeated the No. 2-seeded St. Vincent Indians 61-48 to claim the Class 2, District 3 Tournament championship...

BLOOMFIELD, Mo – Not often can a team head into a district title game knowing they’ve handed their opponent a near-50 point loss less than a month ago. That’s the exact situation the Oran Lady Eagles found themselves in, however, when taking on St. Vincent Thursday in the Class 2, District 3 championship game...

BLOOMFIELD, Mo. — Garrett Dobbelare had four points in Tuesday’s overtime semifinal win against Advance. No point was bigger than his game-sealing free-throw, that put St. Vincent ahead 67-66 with 2.8 seconds left, and the point that continued the Crusaders season, in the Class 2, District 3 Tournament at Bloomfield High School...

KENNETT, Mo. - Favorites are set to collide in the championship of the Class 3, District 1 girls basketball tournament after the top two seeds won their respective semifinals by double digits Monday night. The No. 1 seeded New Madrid County Central Eagles (20-6) will take on the No. 2 seeded Doniphan Donettes (21-7) Friday at 6 p.m. in the title game at Kennett High School...

BLOOMFIELD, Mo – By the time they faced off in Monday’s Class 2, District 3 semifinals, second-seeded Valle Catholic, and third-seeded St. Vincent knew each other well having already met twice in the regular season. St. Vincent took the first of those two meetings early in the season while Valle evened the score just over a month ago...

St. Vincent (19-6) will advance to semi-final action in Class 2, District 3 at Bloomfield after a forty-point blowout over Puxico (8-16).

Five boys basketball teams and two girls basketball teams from the Semoball.com coverage area are ranked in the final regular-season state poll released by the Missouri Basketball Coaches Association. Delta (21-5), which is the No. 1 seed in Class 1, District 2, drops two spots to No. 9 in the Class 1 boys poll...

Van Buren (9-15) earned a victory playing Summersville (1-20) on Thursday, outscoring the Tigers as they tailed the Dawgs each quarter. Catie O’dell let Van Buren with 11 points, including a 3-pointer. Addisyn Shockley scored 14 points for Summersville...

Gateway (6-4) walked away with a victory playing Jackson (12-10) on Wednesday., ending the first quarter tied, the Jaguars rallied and outscored the Indians. Madison Lambert scored four 3-pointers for Jackson, gaining 22 points total. The Indians will play Rock Bridge on Saturday at 2:30 p.m...

Oran (19-4) gained a home victory playing St. Vincent (10-13) on Monday. Gaining the most points in each quarter, the Eagles didn’t rest until they had defeated the Indians. Katie Webb scored 20 points for Oran, and her teammate Taylor Lowes scored three 3-pointers...

The selection of the 2019 All-Southeast Missourian Football Team was not an easy process. The six football-playing schools (Perryville, St. Vincent, Jackson, Cape Central, Scott City, and Chaffee) in the coverage area of the Southeast Missourian was filled with talented athletes and successful teams.

Oran (20-4) gained a victory from St. Vincent (15-5) on Wednesday. The Indians ended the first quarter in the lead, but the Eagles stepped up and nearly evened the score by halftime (23-24). Oran ended only six points ahead (57-51) Langdon Scheeter scored 15 points for Oran, including a 3-pointer...

The postseason for MSHSAA basketball is nearing and the seedings and schedule for District play throughout Southeast Missouri were recently set.

Six boys basketball teams and three girls basketball teams from the Semoball.com coverage area are ranked in the latest state poll released by the Missouri Basketball Coaches Association Thursday. Delta (19-4), which has won nine of its last 10, drops a spot to No. 7 in the Class 1 boys poll...

Gabby Nielson scored a game-high 33 points for the Campbell Camels (6-13) and outscored the Puxico Indians (0-16) by herself as the Camels picked up a 61-25 road victory on Monday.

There is rarely a shortage of excellent athletic performances throughout Southeast Missouri by high school athletes each year and the fall season in 2019 was no exception.

Puxico outscored Bloomfield in a home victory on Saturday, scoring higher than the Wildcats in every quarter. Ethan Helm scored six 3-pointers, scoring four within the first quarter. Helm contributed 20 points total to the Indians. Jamison Dodd gained 21 points for Bloomfield...

Six boys basketball teams and two girls basketball teams from the Semoball.com coverage area are ranked in the latest state poll released by the Missouri Basketball Coaches Association. Delta, which had won nine straight as it beat Oak Ridge 105-86 in the semifinal of the Scott-Mississippi County Conference Tournament Friday, remains No. 6 in the Class 1 boys state poll. Oak Ridge (12-9) moves into the rankings at No. 10 in the Class 1 boys state poll...

Meadow Heights led from the tip outscoring Zalma 41-26 at halftime and never looked back, winning 77-52.

David Layton led Oak Ridge (11-6) to a 70-61 victory with 37 points (including four three-pointers) against Kelly (11-8) Friday.

Addie Cates led St. Vincent (9-8) to dominating 52-8 victory scoring 13 points (including two 3-pointers) against Crystal City (3-12) on Wednesday.

Oak Ridge had to overcome a lot in its 61-60 boy’s basketball home victory over Oran Tuesday, not the least of which was a very strong Eagle team.

Seven boys basketball teams and two girls basketball teams from the Semoball coverage area are ranked in the latest state poll released Wednesday by the Missouri Basketball Coaches Association. Delta (16-3), which is unbeaten in the month of January, has moved up two spots to No. 6 in the Class 1 boys poll...

Six Semoball boys basketball teams and two Semoball girls basketball teams are ranked in the latest state rankings provided by the Missouri Basketball Coaches Association. Delta (14-3), which is unbeaten in the month of January, is ranked No. 8 in the Class 1 boys poll...

The Bobcats held the Hornets to one point in the first quarter and never looked back as they picked up a 63-33 home victory.

The Notre Dame boys basketball dominated host Springfield Catholic from the outset Friday in the second round of the Houlihan's Invitational in Springfield, Missouri, and eventually won 67-58. The Bulldogs (11-4) took a 17-9 lead in the opening quarter, stretched it to 32-20 at the break, and never were threatened in the second half...