Gideon

If you really want to know the origins of Joe Baldwin passing judgment on pitchers’ accuracy throughout Southeast Missouri, you’d have to go all the way back to the dusty dirt fields of the Marston Little League in the early 1960s.

The Oran Lady Eagles had five players named all-district after the team claimed the MSHSAA Class 1 District 2 title. Sophomore Molly Spane was selected as a pitcher. She earned complete-game wins in the semifinal and championship with 21 total strikeouts...

ORAN, Mo. — Top-seeded Oran withstood a tough test and a late rally from third-seeded Risco/Gideon to win its second consecutive MSHSAA Class 1 District 2 Championship at Oran High School on Wednesday, May 11. The Lady Eagles (14-5, 3-1 Scott-Mississippi Conference) jumped out to a controlling lead but the Lady Tigers (17-12, 5-1 Tri-County Conference) refused to go down without a fight...

ORAN, Mo. — Third-seeded Risco/Gideon avenged an early-season loss with a 14-5 win over second-seeded Bernie in a semifinal of the MSHSAA Class 1 District 2 Tournament at Oran High School on Tuesday, May 10. The Lady Tigers (17-11, 5-1 Tri-County Conference) led the entire game and pulled away late from the Lady Mules (16-13, 3-1 Stoddard County Activities Association). It was the first game of the tournament a lower-seeded team came away victorious...

ORAN, Mo. — Fourth-seeded Delta made quick work of fifth-seeded Campbell with a three-inning 18-0 victory in the first round of MSHSAA Class 1 District 2 Tournament on Monday, May 9, at Oran High School. The Ladycats (7-5 2-1 Scott-Mississippi Conference) pounced on the Lady Camels (3-10, 1-2 Tri-County Conference) putting the game out of reach in the blink of an eye...

The Chaffee Red Devils took it to Bell City on Monday night, beating the Cubs by 50. Shelton Simmons led the Red Devils with 20 points and Chaffee's defense didn't allow the Cubs to score in double digits in any quarter en route to a 78-28 win at Chaffee High School...

GIDEON – Cooter opened its boy’s basketball game against Gideon on Friday by exploding for 44 points in the first half en route to an 81-59 throttling of host Gideon in the consolation championship game of the Bulldog Classic.

By BRIAN ROSENER Sports Editor VAN BUREN — Doniphan held Woodland to a pair of third-quarter baskets to seize command Friday afternoon at the First Midwest Bank Current River Challenge. Maxwell Owen sank three fourth-quarter 3-pointers as the Dons pulled away while Ethan Jones scored a game-high 22 points in a 57-41 win at Van Buren High School...

Here are the MSHSAA winter sports district assignments for Semoball area schools. ^-girls only C6D1: Fox, Jackson, Lindbergh, Northwest, Oakville, Poplar Bluff, Seckman, SLUH. Cor Jesu-^ C5D1: Cape Central, DeSoto, Farmington, Festus, Hillsboro, North County Sikeston, Windsor-Imperial...

The Gideon Bulldogs boys basketball program enters its 2021-22 campaign with a new look after graduating four of its five varsity starters off of last season’s squad that finished 11-14 and won the Class 1, District 1 title.

CAPE GIRARDEAU – Those words were spoken by Gideon High School volleyball senior Hope Raymond on Saturday just moments following the Bulldogs’ three-set loss to Miller in the MSHSAA Class 1 State Final at the Show Me Center in Cape Girardeau.

CAPE GIRARDEAU – The most successful Gideon High School volleyball season in 17 years came to a close on Saturday, as Miller was too big – literally – and too good for the Bulldogs to overcome in the MSHSAA Class 1 State Final at the Show Me Center in Cape Girardeau.

CAPE GIRARDEAU – Gideon High School volleyball coach Kristen Ashabranner has coached her daughter, Bulldog junior Kaylee Ashabranner, since she first picked up a volleyball, including the past three at the high school level. However, the elder Ashabranner made it perfectly clear, as her team competed this weekend at the MSHSAA Class 1 State Finals, that her affection spreads to all the players that wear black and yellow.

CAPE GIRARDEAU – When a volleyball program has won 32 of its 34 matches in a season, 63 of its last 68, and its senior class has won 87 percent (118-17) of its matches during its four-year career, one can assume that such a team often wins on talent alone and just showing up.

CAPE GIRARDEAU – No matter the sport and no matter the level of competition, when an athlete fills a key role on a team AND their parent is the coach, eyes can roll. However, watch the Gideon High School volleyball team play and it becomes obvious to everyone that Bulldog junior hitter Kaylee Ashabranner is on the court because of her ability, not her last name.

College Soccer SIUE 3, SEMO 0 College Volleyball SEMO 3, Murray State 1 High school football Jackson 59, Mehlville 7 Seckman 35, Poplar Bluff 34 Kennett 45, Dexter 9 New Madrid County Central 44, Kelly 3 Scott City 49, St. Vincent 14 Hayti 52, Caruthersville 13...

CAPE GIRARDEAU - The Gideon High School volleyball team held its final practice session on Thursday at the Southeast Missouri State Student Recreation Center before competing in the MSHSAA Class 1 State Finals on Friday. The Bulldogs (31-1-1) will face South Iron (26-8-1) at 6 p.m. Friday at the Show Me Center in Cape Girardeau in one semifinal, while Miller (32-3-1) and Santa Fe (25-0) play in the other semifinal...

A figurative circus has come to the town of Gideon this week and Bulldog volleyball coach Kristen Ashabranner has done her best to serve as the ringmaster and keep every one of her athletes focused on what they need to be zeroing in on.

It defies logic as to just how tiny Gideon High School has become an MSHSAA volleyball power. Yet it has.

GIDEON — The last time the Gideon volleyball team advanced to the final four current coach Kristen Ashabranner was pregnant with her daughter, Kaylee. The coach fondly remembers 2004 when the Bulldogs finished second to Lockwood in the state tournament...

Only a handful of Gideon High School volleyball players were even alive when the Bulldogs made their last trek to the MSHSAA Final Four in 2004. The team has the opportunity to make that historic journey once again today, as Gideon hosts three-time defending state champion Advance in the Class 1 Quarterfinal at 3 p.m., and the Bulldog fans have “Faith” and “Hope” that their favorite team can end the Hornets’ reign of supremacy.

CARDWELL – The Southland High School volleyball program had never advanced out of the MSHSAA Class 1 District Tournament in the lifespan of any of the Rebel players (1998), and it realized quickly in its Sectional match Thursday against Bootheel powerhouse Gideon that success becomes much more difficult with each step of the journey.

College volleyball SEMO 3, Austin Peay 2 High school basketball SEMO Prep 99, West Kentucky C & T 82, preseason High school boy’s soccer Rockwood Summit 3, Jackson 0 Cape Central 4, DeSoto 0 State High school softball Perryville vs. Chillicothe – Postponed to 10 a.m. Saturday...

CLARKTON – The Clarkton and Gideon High School volleyball programs sit less than three miles apart and have won a combined 206 matches over the past four seasons. So, one would think that the Reindeer and Bulldogs would have some intensity to the matches when they battle each other. And they do.

CLARKTON – As it turns out, peanuts and cotton aren’t the only things grown along the Dunklin-New Madrid County lines, hellacious volleyball players are found in abundance, as well, and a whole host of them gathered in the Clarkton High School gymnasium on Monday.

Five Outside looking in: Holcomb (15-6-1), Bernie (15-8-1), Dexter (14-9-1), Portageville (14-9-3), Richland (Essex) (17-10),...

1. Woodland — Record: 20-3 — Recent wins: Richland (Essex), St. Vincent, Leopold 2. Notre Dame — Record: 14-2-2 — Recent wins: Leopold, Advance, Kennett 3. Jackson — Record: 14-4-2 — Recent wins: Farmington, Hillsboro, Advance 4. Gideon — Record: 21-1-1 — Recent wins: Campbell, Bernie, North Pemiscot, Holcomb...

Week two of the Semoball volleyball rankings look fairly similar except defending Class 1 state champions Advance took a hit this week, losing two games. Holcomb (11-4-1) enters the top 10 this week, replacing Advance in the rankings. Top 10: No. 1 – Woodland – Record: 16-3 – Recent wins: Cape Central, Meadow Heights, Oak Ridge, Bell City...

There are few businesses anywhere in the world that haven’t had to think differently over the past couple of years in this ever-changing environment that we are all immersed in, more than likely, forever. And Semoball.com is not immune to that. The website devoted to providing sports fans thorough coverage of sports throughout Southeast Missouri is still going to make that its mission on a daily basis, however, the internal pieces are going to be doing some shifting moving forward.

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:...