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LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Three Rivers never trailed, but it was awfully close at the end. The Raiders scored the first seven points but had to hang on late to beat Arkansas Baptist 101-96 Monday night. “We had to earn it. We knew coming in we were going to have to earn it,” Three Rivers coach Brian Bess said. “This is a hard place to play.”...

The Southeast Missouri State women’s cross country team began the season on top by placing first at the Redhawks Invitational at the Osage Center. The 2020 fall sports season was pushed to the spring semester of 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The silver lining of rescheduling meets from scratch was the Redhawks hosting a meet for the first time since the 2018 Ohio Valley Conference Championships on Oct. 27, 2018...

Well, that was easy. Three Rivers coach Alex Wiggs picked up his first head coaching win in comfortable fashion as the Raiders beat John A. Logan 110-60 on Saturday at the Libla Family Sports Complex. “Definitely from the start, proud of the girls, proud of the way they came out. I thought their intensity, communication, those are the things we talked about. Attitude, effort and communication, that stuff was really good from the start of the game,” Wiggs said...

Sophomore Roshala Scott hit on all cylinders Saturday, producing a career-high 15 points while adding a team-high six assists as visiting SEMO (8-5, 6-2, Ohio Valley Conference) defeated Eastern Kentucky University (6-8, 5-5) in women’s basketball action, 61-55, at McBrayer Arena...

The men’s basketball game between Southeast Missouri State and Eastern Kentucky has been postponed due to Ohio Valley Conference COVID-19 protocols. It was originally scheduled for Saturday but both schools will work with the OVC to reschedule the game...

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Aaron Modrow is about to begin his sophomore cross-country season at Southeast Missouri State in an unusual fashion.

DQ Nicholas had 17 points but it wasn’t enough as the Southeast Missouri State Redhawks fall to Morehead State 76-65 on Thursday night. It was the second consecutive game Nicholas made three three-pointers. The sophomore guard previously went seven games with only one made three-pointer...

A six-hour bus ride to the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains was initially unsuccessful for the visiting Southeast women’s basketball team as it fell Thursday to Morehead State, 58-57, in the first of a two-game Kentucky road trip. The one-point defeat snapped SEMO’s five-game win streak...

Chris Harris scored 17 points to lead the Southeast Missouri State Redhawks beat the Tennessee State Tigers 63-59 on Tuesday night. It was not only SEMO’s first road win of the season but it also snapped a 23-game road losing streak dating back to Feb. 16, 2019, when the Redhawks defeated Eastern Illinois. That was also the last time the Redhawks swept an opponent, which they have finally done so on Tuesday with the win over Tennessee State...

CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. — Checking in for the first time this season with 5:39 left in the first half Saturday, former Sikeston Bulldog Parker Long was more than happy to have a chance to play on a bigger stage. There seemed to be a weight lifted off his shoulders after months of waiting and watching as numerous Division-I players had their waivers granted and had the chance to play...

Former Sikeston Bulldog Parker Long made his long awaited Redhawk debut in Southeast Missouri State’s 65-50 defeat against Morehead State on Saturday at the Show Me Center. He played only six minutes and recorded no stats in the Redhawks’ first game in over a week after being on pause since Jan. 8 due to COVID-19 protocols...

Redhawks senior Tesia Thompson confesses to on-court weariness but was nearly unstoppable Saturday in leading Southeast (7-4, 5-1 Ohio Valley Conference) to a wire-to-wire home victory over Austin Peay (7-4, 5-2), 74-61. The Redhawks’ fifth consecutive victory comes as the senior Thompson put on a scoring clinic before an announced crowd of 482 at the socially distanced Show Me Center...

The Southeast Missouri State men’s basketball team returns to the court after pausing activities for a week to take on Morehead State on Saturday at 4 p.m. at the Show Me Center. The game was originally slated for Feb. 19 but was moved to Saturday to fill a slot vacated by Austin Peay, which was supposed to come to town.

Murray State is the top-scoring team in the Ohio Valley Conference but when the Racers score less than 60 points per game, they always lose.

When former Southeast Missouri State all-everything wide receiver Kristian Wilkerson graduated a year ago and took his 219 career receptions with him, it left a hole the size of Houck Stadium in the Redhawks’ offensive statistics.

In an incredible act of irony, as the FBS college football season came to a close on Monday with Alabama and Ohio State competing for a national championship, programs at the FCS level were opening their training camps.

It’s three wins in a row for Southeast Missouri State (5-4, 3-1 Ohio Valley Conference), as they defeated Tennessee State on the road in conference action on Saturday 64-45. Two of the three most recent Redhawk victories have come against the winless Tigers (0-7, 0-5).

Southeast Missouri State Athletics announced Friday that the Redhawks men's basketball team is pausing activities due to COVID-19 protocols.

The Southeast Missouri State Redhawks went into Thursday’s game against the best team in the Ohio Valley Conference without their leading scorer and it wasn’t until the final few minutes that the game finally got away from them and lost by 11 points...

The Southeast Missouri State Redhawks fell to the Ohio Valley Conference leading Belmont Bruins 77-66 on Thursday at Nashville. The Redhawks were without their leading scorer, junior guard Chris Harris. “He dinged his thumb up at practice on his shooting hand,” head coach Brad Korn said. “He wasn’t comfortable enough giving it a go so it was a gametime decision. We just decided to not let him go, didn’t want it to get any worse than it is. I think he’ll be fine.”...

If there is one thing the Southeast Missouri State Redhawks men’s basketball team has learned in their previous game is if the shots aren’t falling in, simply torpedoing towards the basket and forcing the opponent to foul can be a viable scoring option...

It should not be too much to ask for college football’s top sub-division to expand the playoffs for a more fair playing field. The FCS has a 24-team playoff field and had to shrink it to 16 teams for the spring due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Nobody largely cares about the FCS so the argument of too many games or games during finals has never been applied to those athletes...

Southeast Missouri State’s sophomore guard Sophie Bussard has been named the Ohio Valley Conference Player of the Week, the league announced on Tuesday. The honor marks the first career OVC weekly award for Bussard. She led the Redhawks with 37 points (18.5ppg) in 75 minutes this past week, helping SEMO earn victories against Tennessee Tech and Tennessee State...

Any team can garner a victory when things go well. However, a sign of growth for a squad is when it can find ways to win when things don’t work in its favor.

As the calendar changed, some things remained the same. Things like that uneasy feeling everyone at the Show Me Center got on Saturday when Southeast Missouri State men’s basketball game team went into overtime (again) against Tennessee State. That scenario has already happened three times with the Redhawks this season. It is like playing a game of “War” when both players draw the same card and have to then draw four more with the final one being the equalizer...

Anyone casually looking at the score of Saturday’s Southeast Missouri State women’s basketball contest, a 34-point victory over still-winless Tennessee State, might think Redhawk coach Rekha Patterson would be elated at the result.

Dylan Branson was a late addition to the Southeast Missouri State recruiting class of 2020 after signing in late May. However, the Mehlville High School graduate is making an early impression on his new coach so far this season.

Tesia Thompson had a double-double and Sophie Bussard scored a career-high 15 points as Southeast Missouri State (3-4, 1-1 Ohio Valley Conference) continued its recent dominance over Tennessee Tech with a convincing 79-70 win Wednesday in women’s basketball action in Cookeville, Tennessee...

Southeast Missouri State’s Redhawks started the season 2-1 but now find themselves spiraling down a four-game losing streak. If there was ever a team to face during an ever-growing losing streak, it’s Tennessee Tech. At 0-9, the Golden Eagles look more like an aged and neglected copper that has turned moldy green — and that look only works for the Statue of Liberty.