College Sports

With the season opener two weeks away, the Southeast Missouri State football team ended the quarterback battle Saturday and announced Daniel Santacaterina as the starter less than an hour after fall camp concluded with a scrimmage. Santacaterina impressed in the intrasquad tune-up, unofficially completing 9 of 17 passes for 138 yards and a touchdown and working around a couple of drops by his receiving corps...

After nearly a year of transition, Southeast Missouri State officially has a gymnastics head coach. The university announced Friday morning it has hired Ashley Lawson, a former Southeast gymnast and assistant coach at Lindenwood. Lawson still holds SEMO's individual records on the all-around, uneven bars, floor exercise and balance beam, all listed under Godwin, her maiden name. ...

COLUMBIA, Mo. -- When former Missouri offensive coordinator Josh Heupel left to become the head coach at Central Florida last year, it meant that Tigers quarterback Drew Lock would play his senior season with a third offensive coordinator in four years...

At times it was exciting and at times it was disjointed, as so often go season openers. Ultimately, it was the moments of disconnect that cost the Southeast Missouri State women's soccer team, as it allowed a pair of goals in the final 22 minutes and fell, 2-1, to visiting Evansville to begin the season Thursday night at Houck Field...

The Southeast Missouri State volleyball team was picked to finish ninth in the Ohio Valley Conference preseason poll released Tuesday. SEMO also had no representatives on the 14-player preseason All-OVC team. Murray State is the preseason favorite, receiving 10 first-place votes and 230 points. ...

The Southeast Missouri State volleyball team got on the floor for the first time this season and swept visiting Missouri Baptist 3-0 in an exhibition match Monday evening at Houck Field House. Southeast edged the Spartans 25-18, 25-20 and 26-24 in the Redhawks' second-ever exhibition clash...

And on the seventh day, they rested. Midway through fall camp and with a week of practices under their belt, the Southeast Missouri State football team stepped away from the field this weekend. Following the cancellation of a planned intrasquad scrimmage Saturday in an attempt to allow players to heal up bumps and bruises, the Redhawks took to the Show Me Center on Sunday for media day, wrapping up two days without snapping a football as the team enters its final week of the preseason and the stretch leading up to its Sept. ...

It has been an offseason of change for the Southeast Missouri State men's basketball team, but the Redhawks' roster for the 2018-19 season was filled out with Friday's announcement of the signing of Durham, North Carolina, product Jordan Love. A 6-foot-5 combo guard, Love averaged 20 points, 2.2 assists, 4.3 rebounds and two steals a game as a senior at Voyager Academy. ...

The Southeast Missouri State volleyball team isn't messing around. Despite the loss of six seniors -- including two All-Ohio Valley Conference picks -- from an 11-20 squad which bowed out in the first match of the OVC Tournament a year ago, the Redhawks have reason to believe they can take a big leap forward in 2018...

Southeast Missouri State athletics announced Wednesday it has signed a partnership agreement to make Under Armour, Inc., the school's official outfitter of equipment and apparel. As part of the multi-year agreement, which began on July 1, Under Armour will provide on-field and training equipment for 15 sports as well as members of the athletic department. ...

The Southeast Missouri State women's soccer team was picked to finish fourth in the Ohio Valley Conference preseason poll released Tuesday. SEMO and Belmont tied for fourth in the poll of the league's head coaches and sports information directors, as both teams garnered 138 points...

Only so much can be gleamed from watching players practice in helmets and shoulder pads. Football is, after all, a contact sport. Tuesday, Southeast Missouri State coach Tom Matukewicz got a chance to see his players perform under game-like circumstances as the Redhawks held their first fall practice in full pads at Houck Field. With the season opener less than a month away, his first impressions were positive...

A two-minute stretch cost the Southeast Missouri State women's soccer team in its preseason opener Monday. SEMO gave up two goals in two minutes during the first period and fell 2-0 to Memphis in Memphis, Tennessee. The Redhawks' sole exhibition game was split into three 30-minute periods, instead of the traditional 45-minute halves...

Here is a unit by unit breakdown of what to look for as the Southeast Missouri State women's soccer team opens its 2018 season ....

As Southeast Missouri State women's soccer coach Heather Nelson talks about the upcoming season, she is excited. She also keeps repeating herself. Time and time again, one word keeps popping up as the longtime coach, now in her 19th year leading the program she helped get off the ground, talks about how the pieces of the puzzle are coming together...

Football has become a year-round endeavor, but for those who love it, there's just something special about the first day of fall camp. Southeast Missouri State held its first fall football practice Friday morning at the Rosengarten Athletic Complex, and coach Tom Matukewicz had some extra pep in his step as he patrolled the practice fields on what is a kind of personal holiday...

After three years as a Southeast Missouri State men's basketball assistant coach, Adam Gordon was elevated to associate head coach Wednesday. Gordon has worked under SEMO head coach Rick Ray for the past six years, including three seasons as director of operations when Ray coached at Mississippi State...

Southeast Missouri State football senior Marquis Terry added another preseason accolade to his resume Tuesday. The running back was named to the 2018 STATS Football Championship Subdivision Preseason All-American Team, one of six Ohio Valley Conference players to receive that recognition. Terry was a third-team selection...

A month ago, the Southeast Missouri State baseball team thought it might lose its best hitter to the MLB Draft. That didn't happen, but the Redhawks have lost him anyway. According to a report from the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette published last week, Trevor Ezell has joined the University of Arkansas as a graduate transfer...

The Southeast Missouri State women's tennis team this week added three international players to its roster ahead of the 2018-19 year, as Roman Tarajova, Teona Velkoska and Manuela Fernanda Barriga Otalora entered the fold. Tarajova is from Dolny Kubin, Slovakia, where she competed in the International Tennis Federation Women's Circuit in April and February. Her background heavily leans toward singles competition and has experience on both clay and hard surfaces...

With less than two weeks until the Southeast Missouri State women's soccer team takes to the field for a competitive outing, the program has released its 2018 season schedule. The Redhawks will open their season with an exhibition contest at Memphis on Aug. 6, ahead of their home opener against Evansville at 6:30 p.m. Aug. 16 at Houck Field...

Southeast Missouri State football coach Tom Matukewicz knows where his team needs to improve. After watching the Redhawks lose five one-possession games last year, partly due to an offense that ranked last in the Ohio Valley Conference in scoring and total offense, Matukewicz brought in a new offensive coordinator...