St. Vincent

A year ago, the Jackson football team claimed its first SEMO Conference North championship since 2013 with a 41-27 win over Poplar Bluff. The Indians have a chance to make it two in a row at 7 p.m. today when they travel to face the Mules. Both teams enter 2-0 in conference. Thanks to a head-to-head tiebreaker, the Indians can clinch the crown with a conference game remaining if they pull out the road victory against Poplar Bluff...

Kelly Ivy threw a complete-game shutout, allowing just one hit in guiding the Kelly softball team to a 9-0 win over Perryville on Wednesday in Benton, Missouri. Ivy walked one batter and didn't record a strikeout. She helped herself at the plate with an RBI...

OAK RIDGE, Mo. -- For Michael Brown, it was all a whirlwind. One day, his 4-year-old son, Nolan, was taking a bath when his wife Elizabeth noticed a hard spot on his stomach. A couple of days later, they learned Nolan had kidney cancer and they were driving to St. Louis, Missouri, for surgery...

The Notre Dame softball team posted three consecutive wins on Saturday and downed Parkway South 10-0 in five innings to win the championship of the Jackson Invitational Tournament at the Shawnee Park Sports Complex. Aba Estes hit a triple and drove in two runs to lead the Bulldogs in their championship victory over the Patriots while Alex Lovell added a double and two RBIs...

PERRYVILLE, Mo. -- A 22-point victory still didn't sit well with Perryville coach Blane Boss. The Pirates produced 588 yards on the ground and its highest point total of the season, but a second-half surge from St. Vincent kept things closer than Boss had anticipated. In the end, Perryville did what it needed to do against its cross-town foe and held on for a 48-26 victory at St. Vincent High School...

Terry Flannigan has seen both sides of the Chaffee-Scott City rivalry. The first-year Chaffee football coach was the head man at Scott City for two separate stints, in the 1990s and 2000s. Now Flannigan leads the Red Devils into a matchup against the visiting Rams at 7 p.m. today...

The Notre Dame volleyball team overcame a 20-17 deficit in both games to eke out a 25-23, 25-23 conference victory over Poplar Bluff on Tuesday in Poplar Bluff, Missouri. Alexa Clark's serve clipped the net and fell in to break a 23-all tie in the first game, while her serve helped the Bulldogs rally in the second game...

Lainey Broussard dished out a whopping 42 assists and had four digs as the Jackson volleyball team had to dig deep but eventually found a way to pull out a three-set squeaker over Park Hills Central -- 25-18, 25-27, 25-23 -- on Monday in Park Hills, Missouri...

Garrett Dobbelare made a winning debut, throwing four touchdown passes as St. Vincent football picked up its first win of the season with a 32-6 victory over host Herculaneum on Friday in Herculaneum, Missouri. Dobbelare missed the first the first three games of the season with mono...

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...

Last year, Cape Central football entered a Week 4 matchup against Sikeston fresh off a close win over Farmington. Last week, the Tigers once again squeaked by Farmington and improved to 3-0, but this time they hope the Week 4 result plays out differently...

Kristen Barwick doubled twice and scored two runs as Notre Dame softball beat Van Buren 8-3 to deal their visiting Bulldogs their first loss of the season in the opening round of pool play at the Notre Dame Softball Fest. Ali Lynch went the distance in the circle to take the win for Notre Dame (7-1). She allowed three earned runs, struck out four and walked two...

PERRYVILLE, Mo. -- Kelly football coach Lance Powers summed things up as he walked off the field at St. Vincent on Friday night. "It's a good night to be a Hawk." The fourth-year program has already shown signs of growth early in the season but, just a week removed from snapping a 15-game losing skid, it downright dominated St. Vincent, scoring on the second play of the game, controlling the line of scrimmage on both sides of the ball and rolling to a 38-6 victory in Perryville, Missouri...

Coming off a 26-point loss, Jackson football got back to the basics in practice this week. The Indians focused on the basic tenants of football, such as blocking and tackling, as they prepared for their home and SEMO Conference North opener against Sikeston at 7 p.m. Friday...

Thanks to two second-place finishes, St. Vincent cross country won both the boys and girls team titles in the largest-ever St. Vincent Invitational at Perry Park Center in Perryville, Missouri, on Wednesday. On the boys side, Joseph Baer came in second with a time of 18 minutes, 5 seconds, as the Indians finished 13 points ahead of second-place Steeleville (Ill.). Corin Carroll was second in the girls race, and St. Vincent edged Valle Catholic and Poplar Bluff by five points...

Lexie Barnes posted a double-double with 10 assists and 10 digs to go along with seven kills, as the Saxony Lutheran volleyball team defeated St. Vincent 25-18, 20-25, 25-18 on Tuesday in Perryville, Missouri. Allie Sprink recorded 13 assists and seven kills for Saxony Lutheran (6-1). Macy Morehead finished with 16 digs and five kills, and Laurel Mueller added five kills and nine digs. Ashley Fritsche notched 12 digs to pace the Crusaders defensively...

It's becoming a tradition for Scott City football, winning the Green Up game. And senior Chance McKinley doesn't see that changing anytime soon. "We've never lost a Green Up game, and we don't plan on losing one anytime soon," McKinley said after the Rams cruised to a 21-3 win over St. Vincent on Friday at Scott City High School in matchup of Class 1 District 1 foes...

It was like stalking prey. Cape Girardeau Central's Jared Neikirk positioned himself, held his spot and pounced when he saw the opening. At the end, Neikirk got a quality win early in the cross country season as he passed and pulled away from a pair of Jackson runners -- reigning Semoball Awards Boys Cross Country Runner of the Year Ean Buffington and Gage Kinder -- to win the boys senior race at the 23rd Annual Jackson Invitational on Saturday at Jackson City Park...

The Scott City and St. Vincent football teams share the same colors -- yellow and blue, which adorn their primary jerseys -- but when it comes to offenses, the similarities end. The Rams of Scott City rely on a ground attack bolstered by a smash-mouth style of play, running the ball 48 times for 308 yards in their season opener last week. The Indians, on the other hand, put their quarterback in the shotgun, spread a defense out and try to pick it apart through the air...

Jackson volleyball coach Dave Mirly warned his team prior to its season opener that it would have to be ready to get back up if it got knocked down. His words were prescient. Every point was a battle as the Indians hosted St. Vincent on Tuesday night, but after dropping the opening set and facing a four-point deficit midway through the second, Jackson rallied to defeat the visitors 2-1 (22-25, 25-21, 25-21) at Jackson High School for the first victory of the Mirly era...

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

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