Twin Rivers

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...

CHARLESTON, Mo. — Just two days removed from a nail-biting one-run victory over Oran, the Charleston baseball team opened up the postseason on home ground, against Twin Rivers Friday. Behind a strong pitching performance from senior Brandon O’Connor and three big innings in a row, the Bluejays were able to advance convincingly and move on to the semifinals of the Class 3, District 1 Tournament, after its 12-4 victory...

ADVANCE, Mo. — The Charleston baseball team rallied from a 3-1 deficit to beat the Advance Hornets 5-4 Monday night at Westfield Park in Advance. The Blue Jays (3-13) scored one run in the sixth and three in the top of the seventh. Stephen Willis picked up the win, allowing one run — none earned — on one hit with two strikeouts and no walks in 1 1/3 innings...

EAST PRAIRIE, Mo. — East Prairie scored nine runs over a two-inning stretch, to defeat Bernie 10-6 at East Prairie on Tuesday. Carson Aycock doubled, scoring two runs, while Lane Moody added a single to score two as well. Jack Scruggs also added a double in his own right, which scored two more runs in the frame...

The Jackson boys golf team won the Class 4 District 1 championship for the second consecutive season as Case Englehart earned medalist honors with a two-under-par 70 on Monday at Crown Pointe Golf Course in Farmington, Missouri. The Indians' top four golfers all finished in the top six as Jaden Hightower and Carsen Silliman were part a three-way tie for second with a two-over-par 74. Tanner Walton tied for sixth with a four-over-par 76...

ADVANCE, Mo. — The Charleston baseball team rallied from a 3-1 deficit to beat the Advance Hornets 5-4 Monday night at Westfield Park in Advance. The Blue Jays (3-13) scored one run in the sixth and three in the top of the seventh. Stephen Willis picked up the win, allowing one run — none earned — on one hit with two strikeouts and no walks in 1 1/3 innings...

CAMDENTON, Mo. — Jade Davis scored the only goal for the Sikeston girls soccer team on Friday, as the Lady Bulldogs fell to Camdenton 2-1 in the Camdenton Lady Lakers Invitational Tournament. BASEBALL Kelly 18, St. Paul Lutheran 8 NEELYVILLE, Mo. — The Kelly baseball team drilled St. Paul Lutheran in the Neelyville Invitational Tournament on Friday...

KENNETT, Mo. — Sikeston finished in second place in both girls and boys’ team events at the Kennett Invitational on Tuesday. The girls lost to Caruthersville, 133-98, while the boys fell to Kennett 176-106. In the high jump for the girls, TK Freeman finished second, while Tyenia Stevens finished third — both with jumps of 4-10...

The Jackson boys tennis team won a dual match for the first time in school history, winning five singles and one doubles match to defeat Poplar Bluff on Tuesday in Poplar Bluff, Missouri. This is the second year Jackson (1-1, 1-1 SEMO Conference) has had a boys tennis team. Poplar Bluff dropped to 1-2, 0-2 in conference...

CHARLESTON, Mo. — Leading from start to finish the Charleston girls basketball team did not find it easy to close the door on Twin Rivers in the first round of the Class 3, District 1 Tournament on Monday night. The Lady Bluejays led by nine points heading into halftime, and six points to start the fourth quarter, but Twin Rivers made them earn their 43-40 victory...

CHARLESTON, Mo. — Postseason basketball got underway for Class 3, District 1 on Saturday afternoon, at Charleston High School. The host Bluejays opened up the first round slate, taking on No. 8 Malden (2-21) in a game that got decided after the first quarter ended...

The seedings have been released for the Class 1, District 1 basketball tournaments at Gideon High School; Class 2, District 1 basketball tournaments at Portageville High School; and Class 3, District 1 basketball tournaments at Charleston High School...

Nobody held a double-digit lead. For all but two minutes in the second half, nobody held a three-possession lead. For the first six minutes of the second half, nobody even held a two-possession lead. The No.4-No. 5 game of the Ozark Foothills Conference tournament lived up to its billing as fourth-seeded Greenville and fifth-seeded East Carter went back and forth from start to finish...

Down three as the clock passed the minute mark, the Royals got a stop, chased down the long rebound and called a timeout with 48 seconds left. Watson came off a screen and tried for a 3 from the top of the key, but missed and Bangert was fouled on the rebound...

KENNETT, Mo. - The Twin Rivers Royals varsity girls basketball team remained within striking distance most of the way but slowly lost ground against the Kennett Indians Thursday night. Host Kennett outscored Twin Rivers by single digits in every quarter on its way to a 54-39 home victory...

DONIPHAN — Twin Rivers outlasted Doniphan in a double-overtime classic Friday. The Royals made timely plays to come away with a 55-50 win at Doniphan to earn its 10th win of the season. Zach Hargraves made a clutch 3 in double overtime to give the Royals a five-point lead, and Hayden Thomas nailed a pull-up jumper to put the Royals up by four before free throws iced the game for the visitors...

DELTA DUNKLIN DEMOCRAT BLOOMFIELD, Mo. - The consolation semifinals are set at the Bloomfield Christmas Tournament following quarterfinal action Thursday. No. 8 seeded Portageville will take on No. 13 seeded Bloomfield in the first consolation semifinal Friday at 1 p.m. The second consolation semifinal between No. 10 seeded South Pemiscot and No. 14 seeded Malden follows Friday at about 2:30 p.m...