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A local legend is being honored for his distinguished career with American Legion Baseball Post 63. John ‘Doc’ Yallaly is set to be inducted into the American Legion Baseball Hall of Fame. A celebration of Doc’s induction is scheduled from 12:30-3:30 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 28, at American Legion Post 63 in Cape Girardeau...

Jackson Tribe 18u entered the fourth night of Missouri Legion zone play on Thursday in desperate need of just a single win against Rock Memorial Post 283 to both advance to the state tournament in Sedalia, Missouri and to return to face Festus Post 253 in the zone championship series...

SIKESTON — As the sun sets on the Sikeston Silver Sox’s summer league season, it’s not the final score that lingers in the hearts of these young athletes, but rather the intangible moments that forever bind them as teammates and friends. Their journey may have come to an end on the field, but the impact they’ve made on each other and the game itself will resonate for years to come...

Given its history of hosting top-notch baseball, of all ages, Cape Girardeau is difficult to beat when it comes to having a passion for the sport. With that in mind, Babe Ruth Baseball didn’t hesitate when deciding to relocate the 2023 World Series for 16-18-year-olds here next August.

Prior to the COVID pandemic shutting down the 2020 high school spring sports schedule, the Sikeston High School baseball program had been on very solid footing.

BALLWIN, Mo. — The Jackson Legion AAA’s 2022 campaign came to an end on Friday night as a 7-1 edge in the fifth inning wasn’t enough to subdue streaking Ste. Genevieve bats, ending the game at 11-9 and the season at 29-8. After taking the first game of the zone tournament against Lemay on Wednesday night, Jackson cruised into big leads against both Festus and Ste. Genevieve, but couldn’t finish as leads disappeared in the seventh inning of both games...

The Jackson Post 158 Senior Legion baseball team came one half-inning away from securing their place in the zone championship series with a 6-3 lead over Festus Post 253 on Thursday night at the Ballwin Athletic Association in Ballwin, Missouri. Late-game heroics proved supreme, as Festus loaded the bases without recording an out, eventually leading to Jaxin Patterson walking the game off with a two-out RBI single into right field to win 7-6 over Jackson...

The Jackson American Legion 17u players entered Monday night’s doubleheader needing just one win to advance to the state tournament in Washington, Missouri. They got it, 12-10, but it didn’t come easy. Jackson Post 158 and Festus Post 253 played with state tournament implications on the line. ...

The 2021 American Legion AAA zone tournament at Jackson Indian Stadium saw Cape Post 63 knock off host Jackson Post 158 en route to a berth in the state tournament. At the start of the 2022 season, the Cape Post 63 senior squad didn’t have enough players to field a team, leaving a number of members without a club for the summer. ...

PERRYVILLE – On a micro level, a key reason that the Sikeston Silver Sox Post 114 baseball squad was able to rally and nearly beat Perryville in the semifinal of the recent American Legion AAA District Tournament at City Park in Perryville, was the play of shortstop Bryce Phelps.

PERRYVILLE – For anyone that doesn’t feel there is pressure in performing in a summer baseball game, they needed to witness Perryville’s 5-4 dramatic win over Sikeston Silver Sox Post 114 on Wednesday in the American Legion AAA District Tournament at Perryville City Park.

An action-packed American Legion AAA district tournament between Jackson, Perryville and Sikeston came to an end Wednesday night as Jackson defeated Perryville 14-4 in five innings to claim the district championship and advance to the zone tournament...

PERRYVILLE - Perryville topped Sikeston Silver Sox Post 114 5-4 in the American Legion AAA District Tournament on Wednesday at Perryville City Park.

PERRYVILLE — A night of three relentless offenses duking it out resulted in 30 runs over two games as Jackson, Perryville and Sikeston’s American Legion AAA teams did battle on the opening night of district baseball play. Jackson finished the day on top, as its 15-5 victory over Perryville in the second round secured its bid in the championship series and moved the club one win away from a zone berth...

STE. GENEVIEVE – Garrison Brown's two-way performance led the Jackson Junior Legion Post 158 to a win over Ste. Genevieve Junior Legion Post 150. On the mound, Brown threw four innings on 0.75 WHIP, tallying three strikeouts along the way. Offensively, Brown reached base three times in four plate appearances and stole four bases afterward. ...

The Jackson Legion baseball organization will host tryouts on Sunday, March 27 at Saxony Lutheran High School for anyone interested in playing summer baseball. Tryouts for freshman are at 12 p.m., junior legion are at 1:15 p.m., and senior legion will be at 2:15 p.m. For more information or questions on what equipment players need to bring with them to tryouts, call Mark Lewis at 573-979-0286...

The Cape Girardeau Ford and Sons Senior Legion Post 63 baseball team is holding tryouts at 10 a.m. Sunday at Capaha Field. Cape Post 63 — which was 2021 Senior Legion Zone Champions and took third place in the state tournament — is seeking players for its Freshman Legion (15U), Junior Legion (16U) and Senior Legion (18U) teams...

The Cape Girardeau Ford and Sons Senior Legion Post 63 19U baseball team was eliminated in the American Legion Missouri state tournament. Oak Grove Post 379 proved to be Cape's kryptonite, defeating Post 63 twice in two days to eliminate them from the tournament...

The Cape Girardeau Ford and Sons Senior Legion Post 63 19U baseball team avenged a loss on Saturday to Ste. Genevieve Legion Post 150 by opening Sunday's contest with 11 runs in the first inning. Cape Post 63 went on to defeat Ste. Gen Post 150 16-9 to win the American Legion AAA Zone 4 championship in Jackson and advance to the state tournament...

STE. GENEVIEVE, Mo. – Tyler Martin spent a lot of time Friday night staring off into the nighttime sky and beating himself up. The Jackson Legion Post 158 pitcher would saunter into the bullpen while his teammates hit and try to compose himself and get ready for the next inning.

Ste. Genevieve, Mo. – Jackson American Legion Post 158 baseball coach Mark Lewis has two decades of coaching summer baseball under his belt and six more springs of working with the Saxony Lutheran program. All of that experience has helped him develop an intuition on how to handle his pitchers.

The Scott County Post 389 Junior Legion baseball squad is now on its way to AA Regional Tournament in Birmingham, Alabama beginning Thursday. However, its journey began with quite the audacious first step.

Jackson rode the momentum of a pair of early no-hitters in its own District 14 Senior Legion Baseball Tournament and ultimately won the event Sunday with a third consecutive dominating performance.

In every game, wins and losses normally determine the outcome. However, there’s also another component associated with a success that one local high school athlete hopes to bring his teammates. Learning.

The Jackson Post 158 freshmen legion baseball team defeated Cape Post 63 twice in as many days to claim a district championship and advance to the state tournament. Jackson defeated Post 63 10-0 on Friday and 13-9 on Saturday, both times at Jackson Indian Stadium. In between, Post 63 defeated Perryville in an elimination game...

The Jackson Legion Post 158 baseball squad completed a harried schedule of two-a-day games over the past four days by winning the #GoNuts Classic on Sunday. Jackson got a complete game out of pitcher Mason Martini in beating the Southeast Tropics 4-2 in the title game...

As the summer continues to roll along, it has not slowed down a pair of Saxony Lutheran state qualifiers on the diamond. Hunter Bilek and Mason Lewis combined for four hits and five runs batted in, as the two helped Jackson Senior Legion Post 158 to a 13-5 victory over Cape Ford and Sons Senior Legion Post 63 in the first game of a doubleheader at Jackson Indian Stadium on Tuesday...

Ask Michael Minner how he's doing, and undoubtedly the response is always the same. "Livin' the dream." At first blush it might appear to be a tongue-in-cheek throwaway line, especially from a man who admits he's done some hell-raising in his time, describes himself as "a kid for going on 39 years" and has been known to loosen up a room with a one-liner or two. But about this, he is completely serious...

The Charleston Fighting Squirrels baseball program is used to winning. But this is something new. Charleston scored three runs in the fifth inning and dispatched Mobile (Ala.) 4-1 on Saturday afternoon at Russell E. Diethrick Jr. Park in Jameston, New York, claiming its first-ever Senior Babe Ruth World Series championship and staking its claim as the best Senior Babe Ruth team in the country...

In a pitcher's duel in which offense was hard to come by, the Charleston Fighting Squirrels baseball team found a loophole: take advantage of a mistake. Locked at 1-all in the bottom of the sixth inning, pinch runner Ajay Sager scored from second base on a two-out error, sending Charleston to a 2-1 win over Williamsport (Pa.) on Friday and into the final of the Senior Babe Ruth World Series in Jamestown, New York...

The Cape Girardeau Ford and Sons Post 63 Senior Legion baseball team has exhausted its nine lives. After its season was revived by a surprise invite to the Mid-South Regional Tournament, Post 63 dropped its first two games of the competition, with its season coming to a close -- for good -- with a 9-8 defeat at the hands of Columbia (Tenn.) Post 19 on Thursday morning at Kirsch Rooney Stadium in New Orleans...

The Charleston Fighting Squirrels baseball team lost a three-run lead and fell, 7-6, to Northern Fairfax County (Va.) in extra innings in pool play of the Senior Babe Ruth World Series on Wednesday in Jamestown, New York. Despite the Squirrels' first loss at the tournament, they finished first in the American Division with a 3-1 record, earning a bye into the semifinals Friday...

In its regional tournament opener, the Cape Girardeau Ford and Sons Post 63 Senior Legion baseball team struggled to get anything going at the plate and suffered another opening-game defeat. Gonzales, Louisiana, Post 81 scored single runs in the sixth and seventh inning to claim a 2-0 win over Post 63 on Wednesday in the Mid-South Regional Tournament at Kirsch-Rooney Stadium in New Orleans...

The Charleston Fighting Squirrels posted their second consecutive one-run victory and improved to 3-0 in the American Division at the Senior Babe Ruth World Series on Tuesday in Jamestown, New York. The Squirrels scored single runs in third and sixth innings on their way to a 2-1 victory over Lynn, Massachusetts...

Out of all the phone calls Josh Meyer made this past Friday -- to players and coaches -- the one to Bill Bohnert was his favorite. When Meyer, the Cape Girardeau Ford and Sons Post 63 Senior Legion baseball coach, learned via a phone call Friday that Post 63 would be taking the place of Oklahoma's representative at the regional tournament, he made sure to call Bohnert, his assistant coach...

Down by four runs with just six outs to work with, the Charleston Fighting Squirrels baseball team kept believing. That belief paid off with a 6-5 walk-off win over the Northwest Bakersfield (California) Blues in pool-play action at the Senior Babe Ruth World Series in Jamestown, New York...

The Charleston Fighting Squirrels made quick work of their opening game in the Senior Babe Ruth World Series, dropping host Southern Tier 11-1 in five innings in pool play in Jamestown, New York. Will Ferrell threw five no-hit innings, striking out seven batters and walking five...

Cape Girardeau Ford and Sons Post 63 Senior Legion baseball has a second lease on life. This summer, Post 63 battled to 31 wins, district and zone titles and came through the elimination bracket to play for a state championship, ultimately losing that contest and seeing its season end. But a phone call changed that Friday, as Cape has earned an invitation to play in the Mid-South American Legion Regional Tournament...

Drew Reischman and Cole Nichols grew up playing together and were district foes in high school. They each know how good the other is and are friends off the diamond. So when Nichols' coach at Metropolitan Community College-Maple Woods asked him for his thoughts on Reischman this past school year, the Bell City High School product didn't hesitate...

Everyone has dreams. And for those who realize those dreams in some form or fashion, most have an idea, even if only in a hazy scene that plays out in the back of their mind, of how they'd most like to see that dream come to its conclusion. Many in the baseball community in Cape Girardeau and the surrounding areas know John Rice -- he has been the voice of so many area teams during the past decade. ...

SEDALIA, Mo. — The Cape Girardeau Ford and Sons Post 63 Senior Legion baseball team took the long road to the state tournament final, and it ran out of gas against the defending champs. Exhausting a quartet of Cape’s pitchers for 11 hits, Jefferson City Post 5 captured its second consecutive Senior American Legion Missouri State Baseball Tournament with a 9-3 victory Saturday at Liberty Park Stadium...

SEDALIA, Mo. -- Back-to-back complete game performances from its starting pitchers Friday helped work Cape Girardeau Ford and Sons Post 63 Senior Legion into championship contention in the Senior American Legion Missouri State Baseball Tournament at Liberty Park Stadium in Sedalia, Missouri...

SEDALIA, Mo. -- Cape Girardeau Ford and Sons Post 63 Senior Legion pitchers Bryan McNeely and Drake Mills could not be more different. McNeely goes side to side with fastballs; Mills gets outs with a slow, looping breaking ball. Both effective pitchers entering the Senior American Legion Missouri State Baseball Tournament, the pair represented Cape's yin and yang, zig and zag and, sometimes, the team's Jekyll and Hyde...

The Cape Girardeau Ford and Sons Post 63 Senior Legion baseball team is heading to the state tournament for the first time since 1994. Post 63 beat Festus Post 253 twice Sunday to claim the Zone 4 championship and complete a remarkable comeback after an opening-game defeat in the double-elimination tournament...

The Charleston Fighting Squirrels are headed back to the Senior Babe Ruth World Series. The Squirrels continued their dominance of the Midwest Plains Regional on Monday in Bismarck, North Dakota, capturing their second straight regional championship...

The Charleston Fighting Squirrels baseball team wrapped up pool play at the Babe Ruth Midwest Plains Regional Tournament with another resounding victory. The Squirrels cruised to a 15-3 win over East Twins (Minn.) on Sunday in Bismarck, North Dakota, wrapping up the top spot in the American standings with a 3-0 record...

For the second straight year, the Cape Girardeau Ford and Sons Post 63 Senior Legion baseball team rebounded from losing its opening game of the zone tournament and advanced to the championship. Its opponent this year just happens to the same as last year too: Festus Post 253...

The Cape Girardeau Ford and Sons Post 63 Senior Legion baseball team scored three runs its first time up and cruised from there, extending its season at least one more day. Behind those three first-inning runs, Post 63 defeated Thoman-Boothe Post 338 7-3 in a Zone 4 elimination game Friday at Yanks' Field in Ste. Genevieve, Missouri...

STE. GENEVIEVE, Mo. -- Against one of the best pitchers it's faced this season, the Cape Girardeau Ford and Sons Post 63 Senior Legion baseball team simply made too many mistakes on the base paths to come away with the win. Post 63 had three runners thrown out and left five men on base, squandering seven hits in a 4-1 loss to Eureka Post 177 in the Senior Legion Zone 4 quarterfinal Thursday at Yanks Field...

When Cape Girardeau Ford and Sons Post 63 Senior Legion baseball coach Josh Meyer saw things line up for him to send Austin Dill to the mound in the biggest game of the season thus far, he knew his team had a chance. Dill answered the call with 11 strikeouts while allowing just two balls to leave the infield, and Cape defeated Jackson Post 158 by a score of 5-2 in the Senior Legion District 14 Championship on Sunday night at Capaha Field...

The Perryville Post 133 Senior Legion baseball team overcame a problematic first inning but ultimately lost in extra innings, as it fell to Pemiscot County River City Redbirds 5-4 in nine innings on Saturday in a American Senior Legion District 14 Tournament elimination bracket semifinal in Sikeston, Missouri...

It was an epic battle between a pair of rivals, and it took a long time to decide. Seven innings wasn't enough, as Cape Girardeau Ford and Sons Post 63 Senior Legion baseball needed 12 innings to find the game-winning runs, edging Jackson Post 158 by a score of 3-1 in extra innings of a Senior Legion District 14 semifinal Friday night in Sikeston, Missouri...

SIKESTON, Mo. -- The defending district champs took care of business in their postseason opener. Cape Girardeau Ford and Sons Post 63 Senior Legion baseball battled through control issues on the mound in its District 14 quarterfinal Thursday evening -- issuing nine walks in the game -- but the second seed worked through that to defeat No. 3 Perryville Post 133 8-2 at VFW Memorial Stadium...

SIKESTON, Mo. -- For six innings, the top seed in the district baseball tournament was staring at disappointment. Jackson Post 158 Senior Legion looked up at a deficit, pressed offensively and found no answers. But with an opening-game upset looming, Jackson rallied, scoring four runs in the bottom of the seventh to snatch a 6-5 comeback victory over fifth-seeded Pemiscot County River City Redbirds Senior Legion in a District 14 quarterfinal Thursday night at VFW Memorial Stadium...

CHARLESTON, Mo. -- There are some things that never get old. Like trophies and dogpiles. Just ask Drew Reischman. On Sunday, Reischman secured his second state championship in as many months, when he helped the Charleston Fighting Squirrels claim their ninth Senior Babe Ruth Baseball state title, 13-3 over Kennett-based Ultimate Sports. ...

The Jackson Post 158 Senior Legion baseball team capped off an undefeated weekend Sunday with an 11-1 six-inning victory over Imperial in Imperial, Missouri. Post 158 won two games down in Arkansas on Saturday, beating Sheridan (Ark.) 10-0 in five innings before edging Paragould (Ark.) 5-3...

CHARLESTON, Mo. -- For three innings, the championship game of the Senior Babe Ruth Baseball State Tournament was back and fourth, with four lead changes. Then the fourth stuck. The Charleston Fighting Squirrels put together an eight-run third inning to strike a decisive blow and put away Ultimate Sports, based out of Kennett, Missouri, 13-3 in five innings at Hillhouse Park for the Fighting Squirrels' ninth state title since the program's inception in 2005...

CHARLESTON, Mo. -- In their first game of the postseason, the Charleston Fighting Squirrels found themselves looking up at a 2-0 hole before even stepping to the plate. It didn't faze the defending regional champions. Charleston got a go-ahead, two-run single from Ronin Rice in the bottom of the third and pulled away from the SEMO Spartans for a 10-4 win in the first round of the Senior Babe Ruth Tournament at Hillhouse Park...

It has all been leading up to this. All the doubleheaders, all the regular-season tournaments. It was to prepare the Charleston Fighting Squirrels for another postseason. The defending Missouri Senior Babe Ruth state champions begin their quest for a second straight crown today, facing the SEMO Spartans at 7:30 p.m. at Hillhouse Park in Charleston, Missouri...

Trailing by a pair of runs, the Cape Girardeau Ford and Sons Post 63 Senior Legion baseball team scored three times in the bottom of the eighth to take down the visiting Charleston Fighting Squirrels 5-4 on Monday night at Capaha Field. The hosts took advantage of three walks, an error and a wild pitch in the eighth, with Cooper Crosnoe pushing in the go-ahead run on a fielder's choice with one out...

The Jackson Post 158 Senior Legion baseball team fell in a semifinal of the Belleville (Ill.) Wood Bat Tournament, dropping a 3-0 contest to Wheaton (Ill.) on Monday afternoon in Belleville, Illinois. Jackson mustered just one hit as it failed to generate any offense...

The Jackson Post 158 Senior Legion baseball team plowed through the competition during pool play of the Belleville (Ill.) Wood Bat Tournament on Saturday and Sunday in Belleville, Illinois. Jackson went 4-0 across the two days, including a 3-0 win over Valmeyer (Ill.) that clinched first place in the pool Sunday and secured a semifinal berth, to be played today at 10 a.m...

The Senior Legion baseball district tournament is still weeks away, but the key to Cape Girardeau's success in the postseason -- pitching -- was on display Wednesday. Trent Unterreiner wasn't at his best, according to his coach, and still tossed five innings of one-run ball as Cape Girardeau Ford and Sons Post 63 cruised to an 11-1 six-inning win over the visiting Sikeston Silver Sox in District 14 action at Capaha Field...

Bryan McNeely threw a no-hitter as the Cape Girardeau Ford and Sons Post 63 Senior Legion baseball team bounced back from an opening loss to win its second contest of the day in the Lyon County (Ky.) Showcase. McNeely didn't allow a hit in a 2-0 win over Post 68 on Saturday, hours after Cape fell 6-1 to Rockport Legion. McNeely worked around one walk and four errors while striking out four in seven innings...

Facing a 2-0 lead early Tuesday evening, the Cape Girardeau Ford and Sons Post 63 Senior Legion baseball team didn't panic. It just kept making little plays. Those little plays -- and a couple of big ones -- saw Post 63 swing into the lead and pull away for an 8-2 doubleheader-opening victory against league foe Pemiscot County River City Redbirds Senior Legion at Capaha Field...

Cape Girardeau Ford and Sons Post 63 Senior Legion pushed its record to 10-5 with a doubleheader sweep of Perryville Post 133, 13-2 and 16-5, on Sunday in Perryville, Missouri. Post 63 racked up a total of 21 hits on the day and took advantage of eight total Perryville (1-4) errors...

The Jackson Post 158 Senior Legion baseball team took an early lead Thursday and never looked back, continuing its fast start to the season. Post 158 scored one run in the first inning and two more in the second, which was more than enough for starting pitcher Tyler Martin in the first game of a doubleheader...

The Cape Girardeau Ford and Sons Post 63 Senior Legion baseball team swept a doubleheader against the Sikeston Silver Sox on Wednesday. Post 63 claimed a five-inning 15-0 win in Game 1 before completing the sweep with a 10-2 victory in the nightcap in Sikeston, Missouri...

PARAGOULD, Ark. - The early season success continued for Ultimate Baseball in Game 1 of a road doubleheader against Paragould (Ark.) Senior Legion Sunday afternoon. Ultimate Baseball right-handed hurler Ryan White, who is a 2018 Dyer County (Tenn.) graduate who has signed to play baseball at the University of Alabama-Huntsville, was almost perfect on the hill. White limited Paragould Legion to just one hit and faced the minimum while hurling seven innings of shutout ball...

CHARLESTON, Mo. -- After a disappointing Friday doubleheader, Cape Girardeau Ford and Sons Post 63 Senior Legion baseball was looking for an opportunity to bounce back. The squad took it on Sunday. Cape swept a pair of games, dropping Festus Senior Legion 4-1 before a convincing 8-0 defeat of the Charleston Fighting Squirrels in the nightcap at Benny Hillhouse Memorial Field...

Late runs hurt the Cape Girardeau Ford and Sons Post 63 Senior Legion baseball team Friday as Kennett Senior Legion swept a doubleheader at Capaha Field. Post 63 (3-4) lost Game 1 in extras, falling 5-4 in eight innings. The winning run scored on catcher's interference as Austin Dill took the hard-luck loss, giving up one unearned run in three innings...

The Cape Girardeau Ford and Sons Post 63 Senior Legion baseball team cruised to a home doubleheader sweep of De Soto Senior Legion with a pair of 10-run wins Wednesday. Post 63 (3-2) won the first game 11-1 in six innings and collected a 10-0, five-inning victory in Game 2...

The Cape Girardeau Ford and Sons Post 63 Senior Legion baseball team suffered its first loss of the season Sunday, falling to the St. Louis Redbirds "Blue" team 2-1 at Missouri Baptist University in St. Louis. Cape (2-1) took a 1-0 lead in the third inning but succumbed to the Redbirds' rally in the final two innings...

There were times when it looked like neither team wanted to lift a trophy. But championships don't care how they are won. In a game rife with sloppiness, Festus Post 253 managed to suffer the smaller of self-inflicted wounds as it got up early and held off a stubborn Cape Girardeau Ford and Sons Post 63 Senior Legion baseball team for a 13-9 win in the Zone 4 Championship on Saturday at Whitey Herzog Stadium in Jackson...

The Cape Girardeau Ford and Sons Post 63 baseball team will open and close the Senior Legion Zone 4 Tournament against the same team. Cape hopes the outcomes will be different. Thanks to two victories Friday, including a 6-2 win over Jackson Post 158 in the second game, Post 63 advanced out of the loser's bracket. ...

Cape Girardeau Ford and Sons Post 63 Senior Legion baseball needed some answers after a dud of an opening game in the Zone 4 Tournament on Wednesday. Thursday, it made the necessary adjustments. Post 63 broke a tie in the fourth inning and held on the rest of the way to get past Ste. Genevieve 11-6 in an elimination game at Whitey Herzog Field in Jackson, Missouri...

Jackson Post 158 Senior Legion baseball found itself in an early hole and never really recovered, as it fell to Festus Post 153 by a 14-5 score on Thursday night in a Zone 4 Tournament semifinal at Whitey Herzog Field in Jackson, Missouri. The hosts trailed 7-0 early and by as many as 10-0, but scored five runs in the final three innings...

The Jackson Post 158 Senior Legion baseball team put together another strong performance on Wednesday night, holding off a late rally threat to defeat Eureka Post 177, 9-5, in a Zone 4 Tournament quarterfinal at Whitey Herzog Field in Jackson, Missouri...

It was a day Cape Girardeau Ford and Sons Post 63 Senior Legion baseball didn't look much like a district champion. Mistakes on the mound and in the field gave Festus Post 253 too many opportunities, and Cape had no answers offensively as it fell 9-1 in a quarterfinal of the Zone 4 Tournament on Wednesday at Whitey Herzog Field in Jackson, Missouri...

Bunts can be difference makers in a close baseball game, and on Tuesday night they made all the difference. Sparked by four consecutive bunts in the bottom of the sixth inning, the Jackson Post 158 Senior Legion baseball team rallied past Ste. Genevieve and held on for a 5-4 victory in the opening round of the Zone 4 Tournament at Whitey Herzog Stadium in Jackson...

If there's a single person who's synonymous with the Cape Girardeau Post 63 American Legion baseball program, it's Bill Bohnert. For 37 years, Bohnert has watched countless teams, players and coaches filter their way through the system, and as the years have passed, his words have gained a unique weight...

The knack to be resilient showed itself throughout the ninth inning on Sunday at Capaha Field. But the home half was the one that counted most, as the top-seeded Cape Girardeau Ford and Sons Post 63 Senior Legion baseball team found a way to pull out the victory...

A day after an opening-round loss, the fourth-seeded Jackson Post 158 Senior Legion baseball team rebounded with a big win. Jackson pounded out 14 hits and defeated No. 3 Sikeston Post 114 12-2 in eight innings in a District 14 tournament elimination game at Capaha Field...

The Jackson Post 158 Senior Legion baseball team finished second at the Metro East Firecracker Tournament on Monday. Jackson went 5-1 in the senior legion tournament, falling in the championship to Valmeyer, Illinois, 8-3. Post 158 started the tournament Saturday with two wins. First, Tyler Martin got the win on the mound in a 7-6 victory over Aviston, Illinois. Later that day, Post 158 beat Ballwin 4-2, as Braeden Dobbs got the pitching victory...

As the bottom of the fifth inning got under way, Southeast Tropics pitcher Dalton Hobgood sailed a pitch in to the first batter for a strike as fireworks exploded across the street from the baseball field. It was enough to startle Hobgood as the throw back to the mound sailed past him, but it was hardly the first fireworks of the game, and they were often provided by Hobgood...

CHARLESTON, Mo. -- When the Charleston Fighting Squirrels and Charleston Riverdogs clashed Thursday night, it was a meeting saturated with deep ties and reunions. Trey Tigart, for example, got the win on the mound for the Riverdogs in the second game of the doubleheader at Hillhouse Park -- the Squirrels won the opener 10-0 in five innings before the Riverdogs hung on for a 7-6 win in the nightcap -- and played for the Squirrels under coach Michael Minner the last time the team earned a berth in the Babe Ruth League World Series.. ...

The Cape Girardeau Ford & Sons Post 63 Senior Legion baseball team has made a habit of fast starts this week, and that continued Friday. Cape scored three runs in the first inning and that was all Post 63 needed with Austin Dill on the mound, as he held Jackson Post 158 Senior Legion off the board for a 4-0 victory in a nine-inning game at Capaha Field...

Slow starts have been an issue this season for the Cape Girardeau Ford & Sons Post 63 Senior Legion baseball team. Not on Tuesday night. Cape scored five runs in the first two innings and cruised to an 8-2 win over Sikeston Post 114 in the first game of a doubleheader at Capaha Field. Post 63 won the second game 12-2 in six innings...

On a day in which the Jackson Post 158 Senior Legion baseball team compiled 15 hits and scored nine runs, it didn't do enough on the other side of the ball. A pair of big innings launched Wayne County Senior Babe Ruth to an 11-9 victory over Jackson on Monday at Whitey Herzog Stadium...

The bats were quiet early and never quite woke up, for the Cape Girardeau Ford & Sons Post 63 Senior Legion baseball team. It didn't matter, though. Cape showed discipline at the plate, took advantage of six errors by Jackson Post 158 and used bunts to manufacture runs and claim a 5-4 win at Whitey Herzog Stadium on Tuesday between District 14 rivals...

Just one win shy of the championship round, the Jackson Senior Legion Post 158 fell short on Friday in the Senior Legion Zone 4 Tournament, falling to host Ste. Genevieve 13-3. Post 150 rallied from a 3-2 deficit with nine runs in the top of the seventh inning to break things open, finishing with 14 hits...

The first two rounds of the Junior Legion State Tournament went extremely well for the Cape Girardeau Post 63 team. The third round was a bit more heartbreaking. A win away from the championship game, Cape fell to Sedalia Post 642 in walk-off fashion, 1-0, at Ronsick Field in Washington, Missouri, on Friday...

The Cape Girardeau Junior Legion Post 63 baseball team opened up the Junior Legion State Tournament with a bang on Thursday at Rosnick Field in Washington, Missouri, rolling through the first two rounds. Cape (32-9) dropped Elsberry 8-0 in the opening round before sweeping past tournament host and defending champion Washington 6-2 in the second-round nightcap...

Cape Girardeau Junior Legion Post 63 coach Josh Meyer knows all too well what it feels like to miss the state tournament. He played on some of the Post 63 legion teams that came oh so close -- getting to the zone championship -- only to fall short. Now he knows what it feels like to be on the other side...

Nathan Hurst couldn’t have picked a better time to record his first hit of the District 14 Senior Legion championship. Jackson Post 158 built a sizable lead and watched it slip away before Hurst came through with a two-out hit to left center in the bottom of the ninth to secure Post 158’s fifth consecutive district title with a 9-8 walk-off win against Cape Girardeau Ford and Sons Post 63...

The Cape Girardeau Ford & Sons Post 63 baseball team, coming off a rout of Sikeston Post 114 earlier in the afternoon, went toe to toe with top-seeded Jackson Senior Legion Post 158 for the first half of the second game of the senior legion district tournament on Thursday at Saxony Lutheran High School...

For nine innings, Jackson Senior Legion Post 158 played aggressive baseball. At times it hurt them, but in the end it paid off. A week after easily handling Cape Girardeau Ford & Sons Post 63, things weren't so simple for Jackson this time around. But Post 158 rallied to score twice in the bottom of the seventh to take a 7-6 edge and then added an insurance run in the eighth for an 8-6 victory that clinched the top spot in next week's district tournament...

When Blytheville Senior Legion arrived at Saxony Lutheran High School with just eight players on Friday evening, Jackson Post 158 coach Mark Lewis just wanted his players to see live pitching. He lent the visitors a right fielder to arrange a game, and players like Post 158 left fielder Will Winingar took advantage of the opportunity as the host extended its winning streak to eight games with a 12-4 victory...

Missouri Rage defeated the Sikeston Silver Sox 5-1 in the Ford & Sons Post 63 19U Wood Bat Invitational championship