Community Sports

The Southeast Missouri Premier Jr. High All-Star Classic is set to begin with the rosters being selected for the event that takes place at Cape Central Jr. High School on Feb. 11. The players were nominated by the area's coaches and divided by the size of the school...

Ronald Coleman Jr. is training at a local boxing academy as he prepares for his fight in the Cage Fury Fighting Championships on March 31 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Coleman, a native of Omaha, Nebraska, is training at Christian Boxing Academy in Cape Girardeau...

As the clock strikes 3 a.m. most people are sound asleep, but not Heather Gurnow. Gurnow, a Kelso native is a veterinary technician that works a minimum of 50 hours a week, 5 days a week. On top of that, Gurnow is a powerlifter and wakes up at 3 every morning to get her daily training in...

Roy Booker is hopeful his program, SEMO Prep, will continue to grow as the program enters its third year. Booker is the single-season points leader at Southeast Missouri State University and played professionally in 24 different countries over 15 years...

The Cardinals Caravan returned to Cape Girardeau on Monday after the coronavirus pandemic and MLB lockout kept them away for the previous two seasons. The return of the caravan event at the Osage Centre also meant the return of Southeast Missouri State alum Kerry Robinson, who is always the star of the show...

James Naile grew up attending the annual Cardinals Caravan, and this year Naile returned back to the area he grew up in as the caravan came to the Osage Center in Cape Girardeau. The caravan featured Naile, infielder Nolan Gorman, pitcher Matthew Liberatore, former Cardinals pitcher Jason Motte and former Cardinals outfielder Kerry Robinson...

In the four years since the Cape Catfish baseball franchise was created, team general manager Mark Hogan has made the type of decisions to make the club as good as there is within the Prospect League.

CHARLESTON – A summer baseball program doesn’t just fumble-bumble its way to 519 wins and six trips to the Babe Ruth World Series.

What began as research turned into a passion for Chelsea Pullen. Pullen — a 33-year old Pendleton, Indiana native who currently resides in Cape Girardeau — competed in her first strongman competition in 2020. Most recently, she competed at the Official Strongman Games (OSG) World Championships which ran from Nov. 12-13 in Daytona Beach, Florida...

Bootheel area business owners and community members converged at the Kennett Country Club Thursday for “a day of fun and networking” during the 39th Annual Business and Industry Golf Outing. As the Kennett Chamber of Commerce’s only fundraiser of the year, the golf outing saw 72 golfers take to the course to “do a little business while they’re having fun,” according to Chamber of Commerce Executive Director Melissa Combs...

Given its history of hosting top-notch baseball, of all ages, Cape Girardeau is difficult to beat when it comes to having a passion for the sport. With that in mind, Babe Ruth Baseball didn’t hesitate when deciding to relocate the 2023 World Series for 16-18-year-olds here next August.

MISSION HILLS, Kan. — Poplar Bluff’s Jimmy Vernon finished third at the 33rd MGA Senior Amateur Championship on Wednesday while John Shock tied for ninth and Brad Thielemier tied for 15th. David Rismiller of Kansas City won the two-day tournament at Mission Hills Country Club with an even-par 140 that featured a final-round 69. Harry Roberts of St. Joseph was second at 2-over 142...

The Malden Country Club hosted the second-annual Carl Townsend Memorial Scholarship Golf Tournament on Monday. In honor of the late Carl Townsend, former principal and superintendent of Malden schools, the tournament raises money to present two graduating seniors of Malden with a $2,000 scholarship...

Mark Littell, former Cardinals and Royals right-handed pitcher, passed away at the age of 69 on Monday following complications from heart surgery. A native of Gideon, Mo., Littell made his major league debut in June of 1973 for the Kansas City Royals. He played professionally until 1982, during which time he split his career between the Royals and St. Louis Cardinals...

Two Jackson residents, Terry Crocker and Kellan True, have qualified to compete in the 2022 Ironman World Championships which begin on Oct. 6 in Kailua-Kona, Hawaii. The event has been held annually in Hawaii since 1978 — aside from in 2021 when the championships were held in St. George, Utah due to COVID-19 — and brings some of the best endurance athletes from all across the world together to compete in a 2.4-mile swim, a 112-mile bike ride and a running marathon (26.22 miles)...

EPHRATA, Wash. — The Southeast Tropics 18u squad has a chance at redemption on Saturday afternoon. This time, it's for all the marbles. The Tropics brought down the National Division's No. 1 seed in the Northwest Bakersfield Waves 2-1 on Friday night to punch their ticket to the Babe Ruth World Series championship game on Saturday against the Alabama Rawdogs — which gave Southeast its lone defeat in the tournament...