St. Vincent

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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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...

Woodland senior Bruester Young claimed a gold medal in the javelin at the MSHSAA Class 2 Track & Field State Championships held Friday and Saturday in Jefferson City, Missouri. Young not only claimed a state title, but also set a Class 2 state record with a throw of 173 feet, 11 inches on his first attempt. ...

As the final seconds wore down, the St. Vincent girls soccer team linked arms on the sideline and anxiously eyed the clock. Who could blame the Indians? They'd been waiting for this moment for years. When the final horn sounded, St. Vincent enjoyed every moment of it, celebrating a 4-0 win over rival Saxony Lutheran in the Class 1 District 1 championship Friday at Notre Dame Regional High School...

Woodland senior Bruester Young claimed a gold medal in the javelin at the MSHSAA Class 2 Track & Field State Championships on Friday in Jefferson City, Missouri. Young not only claimed a state title, but also set a Class 2 state record with a throw of 173 feet, 11 inches...

The Notre Dame boys volleyball team dropped a 2-1 decision in a thriller against Living Word Christian in a Class 3 District 4 semifinal Thursday in O'Fallon, Missouri. The Bulldogs won the first set 25-23 before falling in back-to-back sets 25-22, 25-20...

STE. GENEVIEVE, Mo. -- The game had ended 25 minutes ago. Photos with the district plaque had been snapped. A bus had already whisked the opposing team away. But the St. Vincent baseball team remained on the field, soaking in the moment with friends and family. This championship had been 16 years in the making, and the first district title in any sport for eight seniors. The Indians were going to savor the feeling...

The Woodland boys had a strong performance at the Class 2 Sectional 1 meet on Saturday at Hillsboro High School, qualifying seven individuals plus two relay teams for the Class 2 State Championship meet. Logan Thomsen grabbed a sectional title in the 1,600-meter run with a time of 4:40.05, and finished second in the 800 to also qualify for state in that event...

STE. GENEVIEVE, Mo. — The Meadow Heights baseball team looked poised to break a 3-3 deadlock late in Friday’s Class 2 District 3 quarterfinal, but when it failed, St. Vincent capitalized. The fourth-seeded Indians got out of a one-out jam with a runner in scoring position in the top of the seventh inning, then delivered the finishing touch in the bottom half of the inning to grab a 4-3 victory over the fifth-seeded Panther’s at Valle Catholic's Alumni Field...

Jonathan Bell and D.J. Lynch each carded a 10-over-par 81 as the Notre Dame boys golf team won the Class 3 District 1 tournament championship for the second year in a row on Tuesday at the Fox Haven Country Club in Sikeston, Mo. The Bulldogs all finished below 90 as the defending district champions edged Farmington by five strokes in the team standings to come away with the district championship. Nicholas Westrich shot a one-over-par 82 to earn the medalist honors for the Knights...

The St. Vincent girls soccer team will be pretty happy with the way the past week has gone. First a decisive victory over district thorn-in-the-side Saxony Lutheran, then a competitive game against Class 4 Jackson before the Indians wrapped things up with a 2-2 draw Saturday against Class 2 No. 2-ranked Springfield Catholic in the Notre Dame Showcase at Houck Stadium...

Ben Womack hit two doubles and batted in two runs but it was ultimately not enough as the Notre Dame baseball team was unable to erase a five-run deficit and fell just one run short in a 5-4 loss to host Sikeston on Tuesday, dropping a crucial conference game that awarded the regular-season SEMO Conference championship to Poplar Bluff...

Notre Dame's Jonathan Bell carded a six-over-par 77 to tie for second individually, as the Bulldogs finished 16 strokes behind champion Poplar Bluff to receive second place Monday in the SEMO Conference Boys Golf Tournament at Fox Haven Country Club in Sikeston, Missouri...

PERRYVILLE, Mo. -- As the two teams huddled up just before kickoff, one sentence seemed to rise out of the St. Vincent girls soccer huddle -- "They've had their time." Then the Indians went out and proved it. Scoring twice in the game's first six minutes, St. Vincent definitively defeated Saxony Lutheran 4-0 on Monday evening at the Bank of Missouri Soccer Park, gaining some revenge while making a statement of intent...