Tennis

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...

The Notre Dame boys tennis doubles pairing of Andrew West and Isaac Hopkins lost two matches in the state tournament Friday and were eliminated in Springfield, Missouri. In the first match, West and Hopkins fell to Bolivar's William vanHoornbeek and Chris Holt, 7-5, 6-1. After the first six games, the pairing was up 4-2, but Bolivar came back to win the set and then the match...

Playing a second match in two days after breezing past Arcadia Valley in a semifinal, Notre Dame boys tennis coach Donna Ryan didn't think her squad always played its best on Wednesday, but one thing it wasn't lacking was toughness. The Bulldogs rallied from deficits in three different matches, including a critical doubles contest and the day's clinching singles result to drop Dexter 6-3 in the Class 1 District 1 Tournament championship and gain a measure of revenge...

The top-seeded Notre Dame boys tennis team didn't drop a single match in its 5-0 sweep of fourth-seeded Arcadia Valley in a semifinal of the Class 1 District 1 team tournament on Tuesday at Notre Dame Regional High School. The victory set up a clash of familiar foes, as the Bulldogs (11-1) will go up against second-seeded and two-time defending district champion Dexter at 4 p.m. ...

Notre Dame took on Dexter during the Class 1 District 1 team tennis championship on Wednesday, May 10, 2017, at Notre Dame Regional High School.

Braden Cox had an all-around stellar day on the field, blasting a three-run home run and throwing all but the last three pitches on the mound, to lead the Scott City baseball team to a 9-2 victory over East Prairie on Monday and clinch the regular-season Scott-Mississippi Conference championship in Scott City, Missouri...

The Notre Dame boys tennis team won all but one singles match, defeating host Sikeston 8-1 in its regular-season finale on Monday. The win improved Notre Dame's record to 10-1, while Sikeston dropped to 0-8. Notre Dame will now turn its attention to the Class 1 District 1 tournament, which is scheduled for next week in Sikeston...

Layne Johnson held the Bulldogs to six hits on the mound, as the Oran baseball team knocked off Sikeston 10-2 on Thursday in Sikeston, Missouri. Johnson threw 6 2/3 innings and allowed two earned runs, striking out seven batters and walking two. Drew Reischman secured the final out for the Eagles...