Saxony Lutheran

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...

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...

Notre Dame senior Jonathan Bell carded a 9-over-par 79 in Tuesday's second round of the Class 3 state tournament, finishing in a four-way tie for 26th place with a two-day score of 157 at Sedalia Country Club in Sedalia, Missouri. Nate Hulshof (169), Caleb Schnurbusch (174), DJ Lynch (184) and Nick Powers (192) rounded out the individual scores for the Bulldogs, who finished eighth in the team standings with a score of 684. ...

Jackson sophomores Case Englehart and Tanner Walton are within striking distance of garnering all-state honors after the completion of Monday's first round at the Class 4 state tournament at Twin Hills Country Club in Joplin, Missouri. Englehart carded a 6-over-par 78 to finish in a six-way tie for 27th place, while Walton finished one stroke behind (79) along with six other golfers...

After-graduation plans: Playing golf in college Number of state appearances: 3 Favorite team tradition: Jam-out session in van Favorite club: 8-iron Favorite pre-round meal: Nothing Favorite course to play: Dalhousie Golf Club Favorite golfer: Tiger Woods...

With two sophomores heading to the MSHSAA Class 4 Boys Golf State Championships, visions of the future pop up in Zack Walton's head. But the Jackson coach is focused on the present heading into the two-day tournament, which begins today in Joplin, Missouri...

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...

If there are two girls soccer teams that know what it's like to be young and inexperienced this season, it's Perryville and Saxony Lutheran. Both sides have faced challenges associated with new faces and a steady learning curve, but on Tuesday it was the Crusaders who prevailed in a head-to-head matchup, getting an early second-half goal from Laurel Mueller -- one of the few veterans on the field -- to slip by the Pirates 2-1 at Saxony Lutheran High School...

Karsten Short carded a 14-over-par 86 to lead the Saxony Lutheran boys golf team to second place and qualify the Crusaders for the state tournament in a Class 2 sectional on Monday at Dalhousie Golf Club in Cape Girardeau. Ben Daniel shot an 88, as Saxony ended up 10 strokes behind Willow Springs in the team standings, earning both teams a bid to next week's state tournament at the Fremont Hills Country Club in the suburban Springfield area. It will be the Crusaders' first appearance at state...

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...