College Sports

Three Rivers men’s basketball is expecting some of the most competitive November tournaments it has ever had, and the women’s basketball schedule includes 27 games against Division I opponents. The Raiders recently finalized their 2021-22 schedule in a return to normal after last season’s schedules had to be redone before games eventually started in January...

Success can spoil a lot of people involved in athletics and the media is no exception to that.

When you’re a talented athlete, who also happens to attend one of the more prestigious college prep schools in the country, you’re going to have options on which path you follow in life.

Noah Burkey is showing the behind-the-scenes work after redshirting his freshman season at Missouri State University. The Poplar Bluff alum is 7-0 pitching for the Cape Catfish this summer and is scheduled to face the Alton River Dragons on Tuesday. Burkey has a 5.07 ERA over 49 2/3 innings with 40 strikeouts and 31 walks against...

Success begets success and that is nowhere more obvious than in the pipeline that exists between the soccer pitches of Jackson High School and Southeast Missouri State.

Second-year Southeast Missouri State men’s basketball coach Brad Korn is admittedly “a big theme guy, a big quote guy,” and he tapped into that trait prior to this summer in giving his student-athletes a mantra to pursue through their activities this off-season both on and off the court.

The awards for Three Rivers athletics keep rolling in. The Raiders collectively finished with a 3.10 GPA across all sports and won the Harold Oetting All-Academic Award for having the top collegiate GPA in the MCCAC Conference. “That’s a big honor,” said Athletic Director and men’s basketball coach Brian Bess, adding that Three Rivers hadn’t won the award since 2002...

Three Rivers’ newest NJCAA team will compete virtually. The college has added esports and will compete starting in August. “We’re excited because, in the future, it could be a recruiting tool,” Three Rivers athletic director and men’s basketball coach Brian Bess said. “Everybody in the area that’s a game might be able to join.”...

There is no lack of unknowns surrounding the Southeast Missouri State football program entering the 2021 season.

Southeast Missouri State catcher Wade Stauss signed with the St. Louis Cardinals on Tuesday as an undrafted free agent. Stauss went 39-for-166 (.235) as a redshirt sophomore and led the Redhawks in home runs with 14. He also had 36 RBIs and crossed the plate 32 times...

Two native Southeast Missouri women have come together at Fontbonne University in St. Louis to form the Midwest Sprint Football League. “We’re hoping that a lot of the young men in Southeast Missouri that currently play high school football will be interested in this news,” Fontbonne president Dr. Nancy Blattner said, “because many of them aren’t able to go on to play at a D1, D2 or D3 institution in college football. This league might allow them that opportunity.”...

A year ago, Southeast Missouri State senior pitcher Dylan Dodd had a decision to make. The Texas Rangers, among others, were offering him $20,000 to leave the Redhawks with one season of eligibility remaining and begin his professional career.

Dylan Dodd spent the past two-plus seasons in Cape Girardeau evolving – almost daily – into a better and better pitcher.

Coming off his first season throwing javelin for the Southeast Missouri State track and field team, Josiah Kilgore wants to pass along what he’s learned to Poplar Bluff’s younger athletes. With the recent passage of the name, image and likeness laws he will be able to do just that...

The Southeast Missouri State men’s basketball program wasted no time last season in sending a message to the college basketball world that it was a new era for the Redhawks.