Charleston

Prior to the MSHSAA Class 4 Boy’s Soccer state championship game last November in Springfield, Jackson senior goalkeeper Luke Mirly wasn’t exactly feeling great.

The Semoball Cup is presented to the school with the most successful season based on a formula that takes into account the combined winning percentage of all sports teams (WIN) plus bonus points for advancement in postseason play for both teams (POST) and individuals (IND). The bonus points are divided by the number of teams a school fields. Here are the standings with previous rankings from 2020:...

The best of the best will be recognized at the 2021 Semoball Awards presented by SoutheastHEALTH on July 10 at the Rock N’ Roll Drive-In in Chaffee.

Sunday was already going to be a special Father’s Day for Michael Minner. The Cape Girardeau native and Charleston High School administrator, educator, and baseball coach is going to spend the day at a place he loves (Busch Stadium) with his “best friend,” who happens to be HIS father, Michael Robin Minner. “It will be a unique day,” the younger Minner said.

Four regional track and field athletes were crowned as state champions over the last two weeks of competition. Notre Dame senior Evan Bruenderman took first place in the Class 3 boys triple jump, defeating the second-place finishers by more than two feet with a leap of 45-feet, 8 1/2-inches. He was the top seed entering Saturday’s event and didn’t disappoint with the pressure turned on...

JEFFERSON CITY — Luke Nichols knew right away he had done something pretty special. The Charleston senior’s third throw was his best and is now the standard for Class 2 — 182 feet, 7 inches (55.65 meters). That distance not only won the state championship but broke a relatively new Class 2 record on Friday at the Class 2 MSHSAA Track and Field Championships at Adkins Stadium.

Saxony Lutheran out-hit Charleston 9-2 in its MSHSAA Class 3 District 2 baseball semifinal on Wednesday at Saxony Lutheran. However, the Bluejays rode a phenomenal eight-inning pitching effort by senior Dawson Crawford to force the game into extra innings before falling 2-1 on heroics from Crusader senior Eli Brown, who was tremendous in his own right.

Scott City field duo Camden Conner and Ethan Pennington hope to end their successful track & field seasons by earning all-state honors during this Friday’s Class 2 state championship meet in Jefferson City. Connor and Pennington are both coming off second-place finishes at sectionals. Connor is the No.2-seeded triple jumper and Pennington is seeded fourth in the discus throw...

Veteran Charleston High School baseball coach Michael Minner has done this long enough to comprehend that the postseason isn’t about aesthetics, it’s about survival.

Saxony Lutheran and Charleston were locked in a pitchers duel Saturday, but it was the pure domination of Crusader's starter Eli Brown that would hold true, as the senior shut down the Blue Jays offense to garner a 1-0 Saxony Lutheran win. While Charleston starter Dawson Crawford and reliever Luke Nichols combined for seven innings of one-run, one-hit baseball, the Crusader's Brown was just a little bit better, throwing seven innings, allowing just two hits and no runs, striking out 13, and walking zero.. ...