High School Sports

The Jackson football team stretched its season to the furthest point possible by competing in Saturday’s MSHSAA Class 5 state championship game, and it took just as long to resolve an on-going investigation into what occurred with the Indian program in a September game against Battle.

The Dexter Bearcats won 11 of 14 matches Tuesday night to beat New Madrid County Central 56-18 in a dual wrestling match at New Madrid. Bryston Pemberton (120 pounds) Dylan Homan (152), Alex Townsend (160), Caleb Coons (195) and Shawn Robards (220) won by pinfall, as the Bearcats improved to 3-0 this season...

Blake Morris ran his first 5K race with his mother when he was 9 years old.

COLUMBIA, Mo. – The MSHSAA Class 5 football state championship game between Jackson and Carthage was every bit as dramatic as the 27-21 overtime score would indicate.

The Jackson Indians, Cape Central Tigers and Farmington Knightettes all finished within nine points of each other in a girls swimming tri-meet. Jackson won the meet with a score of 142 with Cape Central ending at 137 and Farmington at 133. Cami Brazel and Courtney Huckabee finished first in two individual events to lead the way for Jackson. ...

SIKESTON, Mo. -- Sikeston led wire-to-wire as the host Bulldogs turned aside the Jackson boys basketball team, 66-53, in the first round of the SEMO Conference Tournament on Tuesday. It was a night of jump shooting and layups for the victors, as Jackson was stymied both from beyond the perimeter and in the paint...

DONIPHAN — After dropping their Ozark Foothills Conference opener Friday to Clearwater by 22 points at home, the East Carter Redbirds got down to the business of staying in the league race Tuesday night. The Redbirds applied an aggressive defense to hold the Dons to 17 points in the first half and evened their league record with a 46-38 victory...

POCAHONTAS, Ark. — The Poplar Bluff swim team won four events and used its depth in a few key races to win a team title Tuesday. The Mules won the 200-meter medley relay and the 400-freestyle relay in consideration state qualifying times while Paige Bradley and Olivia Kirkman were first to the wall in one event each...

ORAN, Mo. — Continuing its winning ways, the Oran boys basketball team routed Risco on Tuesday night. The Eagles outscored the Tigers 22-9 in the fourth quarter on their way to an 87-57 win at Oran High School. Tyson Goodale led all scorers with 30 points...

SIKESTON — Despite winning by nearly 20 points on Tuesday night, the Charleston boys’ basketball team knows it can do better. The Bluejays defeated New Madrid County Central 66-47 in the first round of the Boys SEMO Conference Tournament at the Sikeston Field House, but it wasn’t their cleanest game...

SIKESTON — First-year Dexter coach Chad Allen would love for his Bearcats to continue playing in the SEMO Conference boys basketball tournament. The second-seeded Notre Dame Bulldogs eliminated the ninth-seeded Bearcats 62-43 Tuesday night at the Sikeston Field House...

SENATH, Mo. - The Senath-Hornersville Lions and Holcomb Hornets varsity boys basketball teams both enjoyed spurts of success against each other Tuesday night.

BROSELEY, Mo. - The Malden Green Wave varsity boys basketball squad enjoyed a strong start to each half as it won at Twin Rivers 54-49 Tuesday night. Malden led 13-6 after one quarter 28-20 at halftime, and 43-33 at the end of the third quarter before Twin Rivers won the final quarter by five points...

NEELYVILLE — Neelyville got a run early and a run late and it was just enough to win its home opener in a district showdown. The Tigers trailed for most of the second half until a nine-point run put them ahead by six with 90 seconds to go. It was enough to hold off Campbell for a 64-60 win Tuesday...

A visit to the office of Joel Wyatt, the head coach of the Kennett Indians, reveals an assortment of memorabilia on the walls. Pictures of smiling players holding trophies surround him as he works. Wyatt, who recently led Kennett to a state semifinal appearance and a 13-1 record in 2019, is no stranger to winning. Through his 10-year career as a head football coach, he has accumulated a 100-22 record...

COLUMBIA, Mo. — It’s easy to focus on the 344 yards of total offense Carthage gained against the Jackson defense in Saturday’s MSHSAA Class 5 football state championship game at Faurot Field at the University of Missouri. However, that number needs to be put into context.

Notre Dame, Jackson, and Saxony Lutheran all competed in the Ladue Girl’s Swim Invitational with the Bulldogs finishing fourth, the Indians finishing 11th and the Crusaders finishing 13th.

SIKESTON — Having long limbs, along with being able to score anywhere on-the-floor is a quality that select basketball players have. For Kennett senior Qauv’aun Harrell, he is one of them and showed off his repertoire on Monday night against No. 2-seeded Notre Dame...

CHAFFEE, Mo. — Oran dominated it’s way past Puxico in the first round of the Chaffee Lady Red Devils Invitational on Monday. The Lady Eagles won 65-1, as three players reached double-figures in scoring. Kaylee Payne led the way with 13 points, two rebounds, four assists, and four steals. Katie Webb had 12 points, four rebounds, and two steals, and Heather Gosche added 10 points, to go along with one rebound, three assists, and three steals...

SIKESTON, Mo. — Poplar Bluff went nearly 6 1/2 minutes without scoring in the first half Monday night, stuck on eight points and already down double digits. The Mules rallied to within six midway through the third quarter and got as close as five with 10 minutes still to play...

SENATH, Mo. - Up-tempo play yielded effective results from the get-go for the Kennett Indians varsity girls basketball team Monday night. Kennett, which extended its defense beyond half court much of the first half, limited the Senath-Hornersville Lions to just four made field goals in the first half while recording 13 of its own. Kennett built a 32-10 lead by halftime and led by double digits the rest of the way as it won at Senath-Hornersville 52-33...

Advance’s Jack Below and Landon Dailey almost outscored Puxico all by themselves. Dailey scored a game-high 28 points, and Below added 21 in the Hornets’ 87-50 rout of the Indians in the SCAA boys basketball matchup at Advance. Hunter Curtis was the third Advance player to score in double figures with 13 points...

Three Rivers College baseball coach Stacey Burkey has been keeping an eye on Kennett senior Jackson Henfling since he was in middle school. “I’ve known about Jackson for quite a while,” Burkey said. “I knew his family well. His dad pitched for us at Three Rivers so Jackson is a second-generation recruit for us. He’s certainly someone we wanted to represent our program because of his work ethic and high character.”...

Senath-Hornersville was named the top seed for the Bloomfield Invitational girls basketball team that begins Monday, Dec. 16 at Bloomfield High School. Advance received the second seed, Holcomb third, Campbell fourth, East Carter JV fifth and Bloomfield sixth...

SIKESTON — The shots stopped falling for the ninth-seeded Dexter Bearcats in the fourth quarter Monday night. Eighth-seeded New Madrid County Central took advantage to post 66-61 come-from-behind victory over the Bearcats in the play-in game of the SEMO Conference boys basketball tournament...

It’s been four years since Scott City and Kelly matched up in their opening boy’s basketball games of the Southeast Missourian Christmas Tournament.

POPLAR BLUFF, Mo. -- Following an early start to its season, the Poplar Bluff boys basketball team got a 16-day break to prepare for the SEMO Conference, which starts Monday in Sikeston. "Honestly, it's been nice, much-needed break," Mules coach William Durden said. "The first game came a little earlier than expected and this break gave us time to work on stuff...

COLUMBIA, Mo. - It all ended very quickly for Jackson at Faurot Field. Carthage quarterback Patrick Carlton scampered in from two yards out in overtime to give the Tigers its first-ever state football championship Saturday, 27-21. Suddenly the undefeated Indians knew what it felt like to lose...

COLUMBIA, MO. – After spending the first 52-plus years of my life in Indiana, I have become a little rigid in my defense of the ways of being a Hoosier. However, one of the things that high school athletics taught every Indiana native age 40 and up is very applicable to the members of the Jackson football program in 2019.

The Missouri State High School Athletic Association (MSHSAA) will televise the Jackson-Carthage game today at 7 pm. The game will be available to watch, according to the organization, for a $15 fee on MSHSAA TV, which can be found by using any Internet search engine...

O’FALLON, Mo. — Cherei Jones dominated her way to the finals of the Ft. Zumwalt North Girls Tournament over the weekend. Jones won all three of her matches by pinfall to advance to the finals, where she pinned Warrenton’s Monica Thies at 1:02 to capture first place at 152 pounds...

Jackson is abuzz with talk of the hometown Indians.

For 10 seasons now, Chris Collier has been offering an on-the-field invocation for the Jackson Indians football team.

MANCHESTER, Mo. — Gavyn Hays pinned all four of his opponents, Quinten Bell had three pins while Lucas Robertson and Gavin Hicks also went unbeaten to win their weight division, leading the Poplar Bluff wrestling team at the Patriot Classic. The Mules reached the finals in eight of the 14 weights to defend their team title by 59 points Saturday...

The St. Vincent boys basketball team rode a balanced attack to a 69-50 victory over Scott City to successfully defend their title Friday night at the Rolla “Duke” Herbert Tournament in Crystal City, Missouri.

GIDEON, Mo. - The Kennett Indians varsity boys basketball team is headed to the SEMO Conference Tournament on a high note after winning the Gideon Bulldog Classic for the first time. No. 1 seeded Kennett beat the No. 2 seeded Caruthersville Tigers 77-64 in the title game of the tournament late Thursday night...

This is as far as you can go when it comes to high school football.

On Nov. 25, 1994, a historic season came to a frustrating end for the Jackson football team.

A year older and wiser, the Jackson Indians seemed to use a strategy employed on them a year earlier when they returned to the Class 4A final.

Poplar Bluff sophomore BreAnn Thresher is looking forward to taking her softball career to an international level next summer with an invitation to join a select group of American players on a seven-day trip to Spain. The team, sponsored by ACIS (American Council for International Studies), will play games in Barcelona and other cities in Spain in July...

STEELE, Mo. — Christen Phillips led the way for the New Madrid County Central boys basketball team on Friday against South Pemiscot. Phillips had a game-high 25 points, as the Eagles routed past the Bulldogs 77-50. Ke’von Williams pitched in with 19 points of his own, and Donnie Ray Brown added 13...

ST. LOUIS, Mo. — The Sikeston Bulldogs were hit hard with graduation from last year’s 25-1 team, so there were a lot of question marks heading into Friday night’s season-opening game at Confluence Prep Academy. However, the Bulldogs may have answered some of those questions after a wild, yet exciting, 95-92 win over the state-ranked Titans in St. Louis...

ORAN, Mo. — Nothing was keeping Oran junior Ty Johnson from helping his team win a third-consecutive Oran Invitational Tournament on Friday night. Johnson erupted for 32 points, on 11 of 21 shooting and 6 of 11 from three, as the Eagles defeated Kelly 79-49 in front of a packed house at Oran High School...

Senath-Hornersville 60, Gideon The Senath-Hornersville Lions trailed by single digits much of the first three quarters but managed to rally late and walk away with the consolation championship at the Gideon Bulldog Classic Thursday. No. 6 seeded Senath-Hornersville outscored No. 5 seeded Gideon 24-8 in the fourth quarter to secure 60-51 victory...

The No. 2-seeded Advance Hornets built a 49-26 lead by the end of the second quarter and led by double digits throughout the second half as they beat the No. 5 seeded Malden Green Wave 79-55 in the third-place game at the Oran Invitational varsity boys basketball tournament Friday night. ...

The Bell City Cubs snapped a 44-game losing streak with a 65-62 victory over the fourth-seeded Richland Rebels on Thursday night at the Oran Invitational boys basketball tournament. The eighth-seeded Cubs went 0-20 two years ago and 0-22 last season — according to mshsaa.org — and lost their opener 81-34 to Oran in the first round of the tournament. Bell City last won a game Feb. 21, 2017 with a 59-41 semifinal win over Zalma in the Class 1 District 2 tournament...

The Notre Dame girl’s basketball squad isn’t going to overwhelm any opponent with its size. However, when it comes to athleticism and using it to cover space defensively, the Bulldogs are more than capable of utilizing that to their advantage.

Following an early start to its season, the Poplar Bluff boys basketball team got a 16-day break to prepare for the SEMO Conference, which starts Monday in Sikeston. “Honestly, it’s been nice, much-needed break,” Mules coach William Durden said. “The first game came a little earlier than expected and this break gave us time to work on stuff...

The Leopold boys basketball team overcame a five-point deficit with a big fourth quarter to defeat Meadow Heights 54-44 in the third-place game at the Woodland Invitational Tournament on Thursday in Marble Hill, Missouri. Meadow Heights took a 36-31 lead into the fourth quarter, but Leopold (2-1) stormed off to a 10-point victory by outscoring the Panthers 23-8 in the period...

GIDEON, Mo. - The Gideon Bulldogs Classic varsity boys basketball tournament concluded with four games Thursday night. The No. 1 seeded Kennett Indians outscored the No. 2 seeded Caruthersville Tigers in each of the first three quarters on its way to a 77-64 win in the championship...