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POPLAR BLUFF — East Carter put the squeeze on early to jump ahead of Poplar Bluff and got an extra run out of it Saturday afternoon. With the bases loaded and one out trailing by a run in the second inning, the Redbirds No. 8 hitter Levi Boyer got the bunt down with teammate Jacob Saffle racing home. Luke Roark scored from second on the play as Boyer beat the throw to first base...

Several schools from Southeast Missouri competed in the MSHSAA Class 1 District 1 track and field meet Saturday, May 8, 2021, at Charles Bland Stadium in Dexter.

HILLSBORO, Mo. - Through the first month of the season, Makale Floyd had two starts for Three Rivers, pitched 10 1/3 total innings, and allowed a run per inning. She secured the No. 2 starter spot in April, and her ERA has plummeted. "I don't know how many compliments I've had from umpires on her," Three Rivers coach Jeff Null said. "They say she's come so far from the beginning of the year."...

CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. — Parker Nagy didn’t drop a set Friday and became Poplar Bluff’s first state qualifier in boys tennis in 13 years. The senior claimed the MSHSAA Class 2 District 1 singles title with a 6-1, 6-3 win over Cape Central’s Jacob Ford while Poplar Bluff’s Gavin Mense and Collin Scobey placed fourth in the doubles tournament...

Julia Smothers gave her senior teammates a golden gift Friday night. The junior took a drop pass from Olivia Carda and scored 2 minutes, 42 seconds into overtime, lifting the Poplar Bluff soccer team to a 2-1 win over Farmington on Senior Night at Mules Stadium...

Teams compete in the Class 2, District 1 track meet at Dexter Saturday

HILLSBORO, Mo. - North Central got twice as many hits as the Raiders but didn't get them when it mattered most. Powered by Jaime Lee's three-run homer and a clutch finish by pitcher Kindi Puckett, Three Rivers beat the Pirates 4-3 in the winner's bracket semifinals of the Region XVI tournament Friday in Hillsboro...

MALDEN - The Campbell Camels baseball squad has positioned itself well to take home the top prize at the Bootheel Conference baseball tournament after collecting its latest victory Thursday afternoon. No. 4 seeded Campbell outlasted the No. 3 seeded Malden Green Wave 6-4 to reach the championship round of the double-elimination event...

Pangs were felt in the hearts of St. Louis Cardinal fans on Thursday and they were similar to those experienced nearly a decade ago when one of the greatest Redbirds of all time left the franchise for a riverboat full of money. However, letting Cardinal legend Albert Pujols leave town on that cold December day encapsulates what makes St. Louis an iconic Major League Baseball franchise.

MALDEN - The streak of success never ended for the Campbell Camels baseball program at the Bootheel Conference baseball tournament. No. 4 seeded Campbell finished the double-elimination tournament a perfect 4-0 as it beat No. 1 seeded Portageville 14-1 in the title game Thursday. ...

Playing for just the third time together, Poplar Bluff’s top-seeded doubles team of Parker Nagy and Gavin Vaughn jumped out to an early lead Thursday, winning the first three games. Just as quickly, however, the pair found themselves down with multiple games going to deuce...

ADVANCE — Wednesday wasn’t the first time the Advance Hornets displayed aggressiveness on the base paths. But this time, they used a familiar strategy to accomplish a first in program history. The top-seeded Hornets scored the winning run in the bottom of the eighth to beat second-seeded Greenville 1-0 to win their first district softball championship...

The SEMO Conference Baseball All-Tournament Team was announced on Wednesday. The team consists of : Kennett Reese Robinett Tanner Duncan Kobe Gates Poplar Bluff Brady Robertson Jackson Justin Moses Notre Dame Austin Gast Sikeston Nolan Self New Madrid County Central...

No. 1 seeded Holcomb scored in every inning it batted as it beat No. 5 seeded Campbell 10-0 in a Class 1, District 1 softball semifinal Wednesday. Host Holcomb led 5-0 after one inning, 7-0 after two innings, 9-0 after three innings, and 10-0 after four innings...

The Chaffee baseball squad has only lost three games all spring, but two of those defeats have come in the past week. However, the No. 3-ranked Red Devils (Class 2) bounced back from their two-game skid and thumped Scott City 15-0 on Wednesday.

BOYS Poplar Bluff 239; Jackson 157; Kennett 109; Malden 63.5; Dexter 53; Zalma 30; Greenville 26; Winona 14; Doniphan 11.5; Richland 8. 3200-RELAY — Jackson 8:29.64; 2. Poplar Bluff 9:32.57; 3. Greenville 10:11.16. 110-HURDLES — Jadarius Pigg (PB) 14.49; 2. John-Paul Godwin (PB) 15.32; 3. Camden Pritchett (K) 16.74...

Jadarius Pigg and Jaden Deaton were chasing history Wednesday at the 40th Poplar Bluff Invitational track and field meet. The Poplar Bluff seniors have been inching closer to school records this spring that have stood for over two decades. Pigg ran the 300-meter hurdles in under 40 seconds for the first time, despite taking out a hurdle with 90 meters to the finish line and had his second-fastest time in winning the 110-meter hurdles...

The Advance Hornets walked off with a 1-0, extra-inning win over Greenville to win their first district softball championship Wednesday, May 5, 2021, at Westfield Park in Advance.

Eight baseball squads from the Semoball coverage area are included in the latest state rankings released by the Missouri High School Baseball Coaches Association earlier this week. Oran remains ranked No. 1 and Cooter remains ranked No. 3 in Class 1. Advance has moved up two spots to No. 7 in Class 1...

Southeast Missouri State Athletics recently recognized several of its athletes with the annual “HAWKSPYs” ceremony at the Show Me Center.

Three Rivers’ Chaylea Mosby and Myia Yelder were selected to the NJCAA All-American team. “I thought it was pretty special as a program to get a couple of kids on the All-American list,” Three Rivers coach Alex Wiggs said. “If you ask me, I think we have more than two, but I understand how big of an accomplishment it is to just have one, let alone two on the list.”...

Half of Three Rivers’ losses this season were against its semifinal opponent in the Region XVI Tournament. The second-seeded Raiders take on third-seeded North Central at 1 p.m. Friday in Hillsboro. With a win in the double-elimination tournament, Three Rivers will play at 10 a.m. Saturday. With a loss, it will play at 4 p.m. Friday...

Dexter seniors Chloe Thurmon and Mekenzie Yount will share their partnership on the volleyball court next season at Mineral Area College. They signed with the NJCAA school April 22 at the Bearcat Event Center. The all-state players liked the junior college located in Park Hills for similar reasons...

SIKESTON — There aren't many better ways to end your regular season than by winning an individual conference championship, team championship, and shooting the lowest round of your career.

CAPE GIRARDEAU - The strong pitching continued for the Kennett Indians baseball squad at the SEMO Conference Tournament Monday night at Capaha Park in Cape Girardeau. No. 1 seeded Kennett allowed two runs or less for a third straight game as it beat the No. 3 seeded Poplar Bluff Mules 6-1 in the title game of the eight-team, three-day tournament...

The St. Louis Cardinals have started to play pretty consistent baseball since April 23 and are four games above .500 at 16-12, only one game behind National League Central Division-leading Milwaukee, who sits at 17-11.

POPLAR BLUFF — Zoe Savat, Lilly Johnson and the Poplar Bluff defense once again gave the Sikeston soccer team fits Monday. Savat set up Johnson’s tiebreaking goal with just under 11 minutes remaining and scored one herself late as the Mules beat Sikeston 2-0 for the third time this season...

POPLAR BLUFF — Jackson swept the team titles at the SEMO North Conference Junior High track and field championships on Monday at the Sam Giambelluca Track Complex in Morrow Stadium. --- At Poplar Bluff BOYS Jackson 85; Cape Central 69; Poplar Bluff 51; Sikeston 23...

Kennett beat Poplar Bluff 6-1 in the championship of the SEMO Conference baseball tournament Monday at Capaha Park in Cape Girardeau.

The Poplar Bluff tennis team lost a pair of tiebreakers Monday and another close match in falling 7-2 to visiting Farmington. The Knights took two doubles matches, winning the top-seeded match 9-8 (7-4) against Poplar Bluff’s Parker Nagy and Gavin Vaughn...

MARBLE HILL — Rebecca Brewington pitched a five-inning perfect game, and the Clearwater Tigers produced another big inning. The third-seeded Tigers scored 11 runs in the third inning and rolled to a 14-0 victory over sixth-seeded Dexter in the first round of the MSHSAA Class 2 District 2 Softball Tournament on Monday at Woodland Schools...

Jackson took third place in the SEMO Conference Baseball Tournament Monday, defeating Notre Dame, 5-3, at Capaha Field.

Poplar Bluff only scored in two of its seven innings against Jackson on Saturday in the semifinal of the SEMO Conference Baseball Tournament at Capaha Field. However, plating four runs in both the second and ultimately pivotal, seventh innings proved enough, as the Mules topped the Indians 8-7.

CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. — Heading into Saturday's SEMO Conference meet, two area athletes were ranked in the top-10 in the state in a pair of events. Sikeston's Daniel Lawrence and Kelly's Alaney Moore are currently eighth and third in their respective classes and events and showed off their talents at Notre Dame Regional High School Saturday afternoon in front of a host of spectators...

Trace Sullivan’s walk-off double delivered sixth-seeded Sikeston a 3-2 victory over the seventh-seeded Dexter Bearcats in the consolation quarterfinals of the SEMO Conference Baseball Tournament on Saturday at Capaha Park in Cape Girardeau. Tharen Russell led off the seventh inning with a single to left field, and Justin Marks sacrificed Russell to second...

MALDEN - The No. 4 seeded Campbell Camels fell behind 2-0 but still found a way to rally past the No. 5 seeded Senath-Hornersville Lions 4-2 in the opening round of the Bootheel Conference Tournament Saturday. Senath-Hornersville scored two runs in the top of the third inning but Campbell responded with a run in the bottom of the third inning and three more runs in the bottom of the fourth inning to win the low-scoring affair...

CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. — In some instances, pitchers have your number. For Sikeston (9-13), Poplar Bluff hurler Kannon Carr is just that, after the junior tossed his second-straight gem of the season against the Bulldogs. Over Carr’s four innings of work on Friday night, he allowed one hit and fanned four as the third-seeded Mules upended the sixth-seeded Bulldogs 15-0 in the SEMO Conference Tournament at Capaha Field in Cape Girardeau...

CAPE GIRARDEAU — The second-seeded Jackson Indians needed a fast start against seventh-seeded Dexter in the first round of the SEMO Conference Baseball Tournament on Friday at Capaha Park. The Indians fell behind 6-3 when the two teams met nine days earlier and had to score two runs in the seventh to escape with a 7-6 home victory...

Oran scored the final two runs to snap Holcomb’s 19-game winning streak as it collected a 4-3 victory at the Swing Pink Tournament Saturday in Dexter. Holcomb led 2-1 after two innings and 3-2 after five innings before Oran scored a run in the top of the sixth inning and another in the top of the seven frame for a one-run win...

Campbell takes on Senath-Hornersville Saturday at the Bootheel Conference Tournament in Malden

PARK HILLS, Mo. — Three Rivers got three home runs and won, then gave up three home runs and lost. The Raiders had 24 hits on the day and won their opener against Mineral Area 7-5 before losing the nightcap 13-5 on Friday in Park Hills. The Raiders will conclude the series, and their regular-season, at Mineral Area on Saturday...

The Woodland softball team won their ninth game of the season Friday on the road, pummeling Puxico by the score of 17-2. The Cardinals scored multiple runs in the third inning (six) and fifth (nine) innings, highlighted by a home run and an RBI triple hit by Rylee Cureton, who accumulated three hits while driving in four RBIs...