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2022 Holcomb graduate Montana Long’s hard work has paid off – she’s a finalist for the 2022 Semoball Awards, and she recently signed to continue playing softball at the next level for William Woods University where she will chase her passions for softball and equestrian science...

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.

Three players from Portageville's state runner-up baseball team received first-team All-State honors in Class 2. Junior catcher Trey Benthal, sophomore infielder Mason Adams and senior outfielder Alex Winsor each garnered first-team honors for their performances in 2022. The Bulldogs placed five players across first, second and honorable mention teams...

Class 1 State Sectional @ Oran Cooter (23-6-1) – Batting: Lukas Barnes (1-2, HR, RBI, Run), Tyson Banks (2-3). Pitching: L – Hayden Nazarenus (4 IP, 5 H, 4 R, 3 BB, 4 K). Oran (18-3) – Batting: Quentin Senciboy (2-2, RBI, Run), Connor Kern (1-3, 2B, RBI), Carson Kern (1-3, Run). Pitching: W – Kolten Payne (6 IP, 4 H, 1 R, 2 BB, 11 K), SV – Senciboy (1 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 0 BB, 3 K)...

ORAN, Mo. — All season long the Holcomb Hornets have aimed at returning to state after a second place finish last year. On Tuesday, the Hornets used timely hitting, stellar defense and the pitching of senior Alyssa Brown to punch their ticket to the Class 1 semifinals in Springfield, with a 7-0 quarterfinal win over Oran...

SIKESTON — This group has already left a lasting legacy for Oran softball with back-to-back MSHSAA Class 1 District 2 Championship, but there’s still work to be done. In a rematch from last season, the Lady Eagles (14-5, 3-1 Scott-Mississippi Conference) will face the Holcomb Lady Hornets (25-6, 5-0 Tri-County Conference) at 4:30 p.m. in an MSHSAA Class 1 State Quarterfinal at Oran High School on Tuesday, May 17...

Records as of May 1 Class 1 Others receiving votes: Weableau (12-3) Class 2 Others receiving votes: Seymour (14-4), Lone Jack (16-4) Galena (14-4), Holcomb (12-5) Class 3 Others receiving votes: Father Tolton Regional Catholic (6-3) Class 4 Others receiving votes: Blair Oaks (14-12), Macon (14-1),...

Cape Central (8-13) – Batting: Cade Emmenderfer (2-4, RBI, Run), Ty Thatcher (1-4, 2 Runs). Pitching: WP – Wyatt Brinkopf (7 IP, 8 H, 3 R, 1 BB, 8 K). Notre Dame (9-9) – Batting: Conner Wissinger (3-4, RBI), Blake Anderson (1-3, 3B, RBI, Run). Pitching: LP – Grant James (5.1 IP, 3 H, 5 R, 4 BB, 6 K), Noah Gadberry (1.2 IP, 1 H, 1 R, 0 BB, 2 K)...

MHSBCA Rankings (April 19) Records as of April 18 Class 1 Others receiving votes: Norwood (6-5), Weaubleau (7-3), Community (5-1), Advance (8-4) Class 2 Others receiving votes: Holcomb (9-2), Lone Jack (11-3) Class 3 Others receiving votes: West County (7-1)...

Class 1 St. Elizabeth 2-2 Oran 3-2 Cooter 3-3 Northwest (Hughesville) 6-2 Leeton 2-2 Pilot Grove 5-1 Northeast (Cairo) 2-1 Community 2-0 LaPlata 4-1 Green City 1-0 Others receiving votes: Knox County (2-1), Norwood (3-1 Class 2 Marionville 4-0 Putnam County 2-0...

HOLCOMB — A pair of neighbors will face off for the MSHSAA Class 2 District 1 title. Top-seeded Naylor didn’t allow a second-quarter point to beat host Holcomb 47-22 before third-seeded Neelyville edged Hayti 57-54 Tuesday night in the semifinals. Separated by six miles, the two schools will meet for a fourth time this season with a spot in the state playoffs on the line at 6 p.m. Thursday...

HOLCOMB — A pair of underdogs advanced in the opening round of the MSHSAA Class 2 District 1 playoffs Saturday as each held their opponent to 13 first-half points and weathered a second-half storm. Campbell, the defending Class 2 state champs, knocked off third-seeded Senath-Hornersville 54-49 before fifth-seeded Neelyville held off host Holcomb 54-41...

Holcomb's Selena Burress scored 40 points to lead her team to a 56-46 victory in the battle of the Hornets against Advance on Wednesday night. Fifteen of Burress' 40 points came from 3-point range and the senior went 9-of-14 from the free throw line. She was the lone Holcomb player to reach double figures...

The Holweg sisters led Delta in scoring with 18 points each Tuesday night to lead the Bobcats win over Holcomb 76-43 at Delta High School but for the elder Holweg, the meaning was a little more substantial. Senior Kendall Holweg, who has been a four-year starter at Delta, scored her 1,500th point tonight in the victory for coach David Heeb...

BLOOMFIELD — The consolation championship proved to be an exciting start to the final night of the 65th Bloomfield Christmas Tournament as Holcomb came from behind to win. The Hornets trailed by 10 with just over six minutes to play, but rallied to beat East Prairie 50-43...

BLOOMFIELD - The stage is set for the consolation final of the 2021 Bloomfield Christmas Tournament as East Prairie will be taking on Holcomb. East Prairie were able to hold off Puxico in a game that could've gone either way in the final seconds while Holcomb was able to eliminate the hosts on Wednesday...

BLOOMFIELD — The Green Wave closed each of the first two quarters with a run to comfortably advance in the 65th Annual Bloomfield Christmas Tournament with a 73-50 win over Holcomb. Seventh-seeded Malden outscored 10th-seeded Holcomb 8-2 in the closing possessions of the first quarter, and 10-0 to finish the second. Trey Miller's 3 to open the second half put the Green Wave ahead by 20 and they led by at least 14 the rest of the game...

BROSELEY — Taleigh Harrell's 33 points led Kennett past Chaffee 49-18 in the consolation quarterfinals of the Lady Royals Christmas Classic on Monday. Macy Newhad had eight points while Lani Heeb and Anekia Farmer each had four for Kennett. For Chaffee, Rayney Held was in double figures with 10 points, Hailey Rains recorded four while Paige Hilhite and Lilly Wessel each had two points in the scorebook...

The Bloomfield Wildcats received contributions from up and down their roster in a 72-39 rout of Gideon on Tuesday night at Gideon High School. Nine different Bloomfield players scored with Andrew Francis producing a team-high 14 points. James Barks and Dawson Hill added 10 each. Hill made a team-high three 3-pointers...

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 Holcomb Hornets girls basketball squad enters its 2021-22 campaign hoping to extend its recent success after securing its first district title in school history last season.

Expectations remain high for the Holcomb Hornets boys basketball program entering its 2021-22 campaign.

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:...