Twin Rivers

BROSELEY - Homecoming was good to the Royals. Twin Rivers, bolstered by homecoming festivities that included a National Anthem rendition by a preschool class and Natalie Baxter being crowned Homecoming Queen, led from its first basket until its last and beat Neelyville 60-39 on Friday...

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.

Brooklyn Kearbey scored nine of her game-high 21 points in the opening quarter as the host Redbirds jumped out to a 20-6 lead Tuesday and East Carter earned a 62-43 win over Clearwater in an Ozark Foothills Conference game. Makenna Moore sank four of her five 3-pointers in the third quarter and had 19 points for East Carter (8-6, 1-2 OFC) while Naomi Crowley added eight points...

BROSELEY — Levi Rawlings was in the right spot at the right time Friday night. The Doniphan junior caught a missed shot, turned and sank a jumper just before the buzzer to stun rival Twin Rivers 41-40 in an Ozark Foothills Conference game. “I just went in for a rebound like I usually do, try my hardest,” said Rawlings who had four of his six rebounds on the offensive end...

RISCO, Mo. - The Risco Tigers varsity boys basketball team built a 24-11 by the end of the first quarter on its way past the visiting Bell City Cubs 92-55 Thursday night. Four Risco players recorded at least 18 points. Andrew Rodgers tallied a team-high 26 points, Evan Pipkin added 22 points, Hayden Ludwig put up 19 points, and Kamron Meese scored 18 points for the Tigers...

POPLAR BLUFF, Mo. — Cherei Jones added another pinfall victory to her total on Tuesday night, at a triangular match against Marion, Ill., and Poplar Bluff. Jones pinned Marion’s Haylie Nappier at 3:09, as the Bulldogs went on to win 18-6. Kate Grubbs also picked up a win, in 28 seconds, over McKayla Vavrik...

BROSELEY, Mo. — Allison Owens and Alaney Moore led the Kelly girls basketball team on Monday night, albeit in a losing effort to Twin Rivers. Owens had a team-high 17 points, while also adding five steals, five assists, and four rebounds. Moore secured a double-double with 13 points and 11 rebounds in the Lady Hawks 62-54 loss...

BROSELEY - With both teams coming off exhausting down-to-the-wire losses in Friday's semifinals, Saturday's third place battle at the Lady Royals Christmas Classic could fittingly be called the 'survival of the fittest game.' New Madrid Co. Central took the third-place trophy and the unofficial title of fittest in running past the Naylor Eagles 49-29...

BLOOMFIELD, Mo. - The No. 12 seeded South Pemiscot Bulldogs fell behind a few points early but responded with the finish it needed to upset the No. 8 seeded Malden Green Wave in a consolation semifinal at the Bloomfield Christmas Tournament Saturday afternoon...

BLOOMFIELD, Mo. - The No. 8 seeded Malden Green Wave rebounded nicely less than 24 hours after suffering a 56-54 upset loss to No. 9 seeded East Prairie in an opening-round contest at the Bloomfield Christmas Tournament Thursday. Malden built a 45-22 lead by halftime on its way past No. 16 seeded Richland 70-32 in a consolation quarterfinal Friday afternoon...

Through the first two days the average margin of victory at the Lady Royals Christmas Classic was somewhere close to 30 points. That changed quickly Friday in the semifinals of the fifth-place bracket. The Twin Rivers Royals and Kennett Indians both survived down-to-the-buzzer finished to earn another game in the 16-team tournament field...

BLOOMFIELD - Doniphan trailed for just one possession. Had there been a second it may have cost them the win. After taking control early, the sixth-seeded Dons narrowly held off 11th-seeded Twin Rivers to win 59-54 in the opening round of the Bloomfield Christmas Tournament on Thursday in Bloomfield...

BROSELEY, Mo. - It took a little bit of time to have an impact put the defensive pressure the Twin Rivers Royals applied finally created havoc for the Malden Green Wave. After falling behind 8-5 after one quarter of play, No. 6 seeded Twin Rivers outscored the No. ...

PARK HILLS, Mo. — A lackluster second-quarter spurned the Sikeston girls basketball team on Thursday against Park Hills Central. After trailing by one point after the first quarter, Sikeston got outscored 25-14 in the second, in the Lady Bulldogs 76-46 loss to the Rebels...

Hannah Cunningham, of Naylor, led Crowley’s Ridge in scoring twice in the last week. She had 14 points on 6 for 14 shooting in a 93-68 loss to Southwest (N.M.) on Monday. Cunningham also led the team with seven rebounds and five assists before fouling out. The next day, she had 16 points, five steals, four assists and three rebounds in a 64-36 win against Faith Baptist Bible...

DONIPHAN — When a defense forces 32 turnovers good things normally happen. Senior post Emily Ederer scored 26 points and the defense averaged creating one turnover per minute for four quarters as the Doniphan Donettes opened Ozark Foothills Conference play with a 62-29 win over the East Carter Lady Redbirds...

BROSELEY, Mo. - The Malden Green Wave varsity boys basketball squad enjoyed a strong start to each half as it won at Twin Rivers 54-49 Tuesday night. Malden led 13-6 after one quarter 28-20 at halftime, and 43-33 at the end of the third quarter before Twin Rivers won the final quarter by five points...

CHAFFEE, Mo. — Oran dominated it’s way past Puxico in the first round of the Chaffee Lady Red Devils Invitational on Monday. The Lady Eagles won 65-1, as three players reached double-figures in scoring. Kaylee Payne led the way with 13 points, two rebounds, four assists, and four steals. Katie Webb had 12 points, four rebounds, and two steals, and Heather Gosche added 10 points, to go along with one rebound, three assists, and three steals...

High school basketball teams throughout the Missouri Bootheel begin play in opening-season basketball tournaments Monday.

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. ...

Poplar Bluff moved up to the largest class in wrestling and will face the same opponents in basketball while hosting the district this winter. Poplar Bluff Athletic Director Kent Keith announced in a statement that the school’s bid to host the MSHSAA Class 5 District 1 boys and girls basketball tournament had been accepted...

MALDEN — A year after winning just one match, the Twin Rivers volleyball team is headed to the state playoffs. The second-seeded Royals outlasted the fifth-seeded Senath-Hornersville 25-19, 25-22 in the MSHSAA Class 2 District 1 championship at Malden High School on Wednesday...

MALDEN, Mo. - Senath-Hornersville volleyball coach Alex Glover was confident her squad was ready to make noise in Class 2, District 1 even after it received the No. 5 seed in the seven-team tournament “I knew we could make a run in this tournament,” Glover said...

Class 2, District 1 at Malden The district championship is set at the Class 2, District 1 volleyball tournament following quarterfinal at semifinal action Monday. No. 2 seeded Twin Rivers will take on No. 5 seeded Senath-Hornersville in the title game Wednesday at 5:30 p.m. at Malden...

Volleyball squads throughout the Missouri Bootheel begin postseason play Monday. Holcomb, South Pemiscot, Southland, North Pemiscot, Hayti, Delta C-7, and Cooter are in Class 1, District 1 at Holcomb. Defending champion Holcomb has received the No. 1 seed and a first-round bye...

Neelyville’s Lexus Hagood picked a good time to hit her first home run of the season. In the top of the fifth inning, Hagood sent the first pitch she saw over the left-field fence for a 3-run home run that put the Tigers ahead by six. Twin Rivers scored three runs of its own the next inning, but a potential rally ended there as Neelyville won 9-5 in the MSHSAA Class 2 District 1 semifinal Wednesday at Rains Field...

PIEDMONT — Two games with different styles each ended up with the same outcome. Each game featured a come-from-behind win for the Clearwater Tigers, who overcame deficits late in both games to beat Twin Rivers 26-24, 25-21 Tuesday night. For Twin Rivers, it was twin disappointment, as their big hitters at the net made big plays in both games, but not enough to stop the Tigers’ late surges...

POPLAR BLUFF — After three innings, Neelyville was losing 5-0, had committed six errors, had one hit. Instead of collapsing and calling it a day on their fall season, the Tigers kept working and rallied to beat Twin Rivers 13-12 in the Ozark Foothills Conference Tournament quarterfinals Monday at Roger Pattillo Field...

Kennett's Kobe Patterson and Twin Rivers' Whitney Williams were voted the Semoball.com Athletes of the Week in online voting that concluded Wednesday. Patterson, who had 413 votes in the boys balloting, finished first at the Van Buren Invitational cross country meet Sept. ...

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. ...

NEELYVILLE, Mo. — Six different Sikeston softball players collected multiple hits in Tuesday’s 14-10 win over Neelyville. Jordi James, Megan Witt, Emma Drury, Nayla Bonner, Sarah Keller, and Sydney Burton each had two hits for the Bulldogs. Both Drury and Bonner drove in a pair of runs as well, as the Bulldogs exploded for 16 hits...

Top volleyball teams from the Missouri Bootheel are set to collide this weekend at the Gideon Invitational. Four of the 15 teams in the varsity tournament are enjoying winning records following play Monday. Host Gideon, which won the Gideon Invitational in 2018, is off to a 13-1-2 start. Its only loss this season is to Southern Reynolds (Ellington) in the championship of Dig for Life Classic Sept. 14...

DONIPHAN — There was only one inning where nobody scored, and only four frames with a zero. Twin Rivers and Doniphan combined for 20 runs in a back and forth game that had just one lead change, but both teams seemed to be perpetually in a jam due to walks and errors. The Royals ultimately made one final defensive stand to win 11-9 on Monday in Doniphan...

Lexi Rubel and Natalie Timpe nailed seven kills apiece as the Notre Dame volleyball quickly rebounded after dropping the first set to come away with a 23-25, 25-19, 25-18 win over Ste. Genevieve on Tuesday in Cape Girardeau. Rylee McClintock...

SIKESTON — Down one run and three outs to work with, the Sikeston softball team leaned on freshman Nayla Bonner to finish off the game for the Bulldogs. Bonner, who came in to relieve senior Emma Drury after 5 2/3 innings, came into the bottom of the sixth with the bases loaded. She proceeded to strike out Bella Galloway to end the threat...

BROSELEY — Clarkton just needed to trust itself. Starting a freshman for the first time in place of a three-year varsity player, it took a bit for the Reindeer to settle in. They eventually did and beat Twin Rivers 27-25, 25-12 on Monday. “I think there was just a little uncertainty of how they were going to play together with her. ...

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.

ELLSINORE — Makenna Moore struck out a dozen, gave up one hit and made sure she didn’t have to pitch the seventh inning Monday afternoon. The East Carter senior pushed across the game-ending run with a walk as the Redbirds beat rival Twin Rivers 11-1...

BROSELEY — Twin Rivers softball rallied from down 3-0 in the bottom of the fifth inning to win 6-3 Friday in Broseley. The Royals cut Naylor’s lead to one run after five innings, and then scored four runs in the sixth for holding the Eagles in the seventh...

PUXICO — It took the Royals an inning to settle into their season opener, and then they cruised. Twin Rivers struck out twice in the first inning, but just three more times the rest of the game as they beat Puxico 15-0 in four innings Thursday. The bottom five spots in the lineup scored 10 of Twin Rivers’ 15 runs. ...

BROSELEY — Bella Galloway stepped up to the plate with the game-winning run on second base and thought, “I’m going to kill this ball because people think I can’t. So I’m going to do it, prove them wrong.” Galloway came through with a hard hit single to center scoring Abbey Hester in the bottom of the seventh inning, lifting the Royals to a 4-3 win over Van Buren on Tuesday...

A few hours before preseason jamborees got underway Friday night some schools in the Missouri Bootheel learned they will be battling new opponents when the state playoffs begin later this fall. The Missouri High School Activities Association released 2019 class and district assignments for most fall sports Friday...

BROSELEY — This might be Ryan Medlin’s first season coaching the Twin Rivers softball team, but he’s already familiar with a few of the players from travel ball. As well as their competition. Medlin has given pitching lessons to both Neelyville’s Payton Reinbott and Doniphan’s Grayson Kirby, who are likely to be those schools’ No. 1 arms...

BROSELEY — With three returning seniors, a returning ace, experienced juniors and a talented crop of underclassmen, Twin Rivers would like the improvement it saw from fall to spring last season to continue into this fall. After batting below .200 as a team during last fall’s 6-11 season, the Royals hit above .300 in the spring as they finished 13-25 for the year...

BROSELEY — Last year’s Twin Rivers volleyball season was ... not the best. The Royals had to practice and play all 26 games on the road after water buckled the gym floor during the first week of school, forcing it to be replaced. The Royals practiced and played home games at Fisk, but only after poles were installed...

BROSELEY — Twin Rivers recently filled its vacant softball head coach role. Ryan Medlin — a Jackson native — will serve as the new coach while filling in as a substitute teacher in the school district. “I’m really excited for the opportunity to lead a quality program,” Medlin said...

What I learned from living the initial 52 years of my life in the state of Indiana was that Hoosiers are passionate about three things: religion, farming, and sports. And depending on the time of year and whether the Indiana University men’s basketball team is underachieving or not, the order of those things could fluctuate.

The annual Kennett High School Boys Basketball Shootout is slated for Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. Junior varsity squads square off Thursday with varsity teams battling it out Friday and Saturday. Games will last approximately 40 minutes. Each game will have two 16-minute halves with a running clock. The clock will stop the final two minutes of the game on dead balls unless a team is leading by 10 points or more in the final two minutes. Overtime is sudden death...

The all-region softball team has been released. Kennett freshman Kyra Jaco, Oran junior Kaylee Payne, Campbell senior Elizabeth Steward, Puxico senior Bailey Burns, Holcomb sophomore Bailey Cupples, and Malden sophomore Hailey Rojas were selected first-team all-region infielders...