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STATE BOUND: East Carter softball team wins quarterfinal over Leeton
This story will be updated. CENTERVIEW, Mo. — The East Carter softball team advanced to the MSHSAA Class 1 final four with a 6-3 win Saturday against Leeton. Jordan Moore hit a tiebreaking home run to start the bottom of the third and drove in a pair of insurance runs with two outs in the sixth. The senior struck out 10 and allowed six hits, four in a three-run third as the Bulldogs pulled even...
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    Dexter's Bell sloshes to sixth-place finish at rain-soaked Bearcat Cross Country Invitational
    By KYLE SMITH — Dexter Statesman
    DEXTER — Dexter junior Clayton Bell and the rest of the field in the varsity boys division faced treacherous terrain at the Dexter Bearcat Cross Country Invitational on Saturday. Heavy rain struck...
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    Gideon knocks off Risco to advance to C1D2 finals; will face Tri-County rival Clarkton
    By Garrett Hicks - Special to the Standard Democrat
    CLARKTON — The Gideon Bulldogs returns to the district finals, punching their ticket and set up a date with Tri-County Conference foe Clarkton in the Class 1, District 2 championship game. The...
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    Breaking: Kennett rallies (twice) for Class 1 tennis state championship
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    Tennis is mostly thought of as an individual sport. However, veteran Kennett High School coach Janet Hilburn has been guiding the Indians long enough to have learned that every player contributes to...
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    Jackson passes O'Fallon's test, clinches another undefeated regular season1
    J.C. Reeves - Southeast Missourian
    O'FALLON, Ill. — The Jackson Indians may have faced their toughest test of the season against the O'Fallon Panthers. The Indians were held to just seven points through three quarters before exploding...
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    Perryville softball headed to state semifinals with win over St. Charles West
    The Perryville softball team punched its ticket to the Class 3 state semifinals berth, taking down St. Charles West on Wednesday. The Pirates beat the Warriors 10-4 at Perryville Park. Perryville coach Lilly Pecaut went with her ace Alyson Stortz in the circle, and the junior did not disappoint. Stortz struck out a game-high 14 batters for the Pirates...
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    Loud and gleeful chants from a sizable Notre Dame crowd echoed through Harry L. Crisp Field on Wednesday night, signaling a SEMO Conference championship. The Bulldogs had just dispatched defending Class 4 state boys soccer champion Jackson 2-0 for the league crown — hardware often claimed by the Indians — and a blue-clad, sign-waving contingent swarmed in celebratory fashion...
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    East Carter advances to C1 quarterfinal as Moore fans 11 no-hitter (10/21/21)
    ELLSINORE — There was no rally needed this time for the Redbirds, but East Carter did manage to win with a walk-off hit Wednesday. Rylee O’Dell ended the game with no outs in the fifth on a hit over a crowded infield to drive in the final run of a 10-0 win over Norwood in the MSHSAA Class 1 sectional playoff...
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    Young Kelly squad shows growth in tough postseason loss (10/21/21)
    BENTON – The Kelly High School softball team played beyond its experience in Wednesday’s 2-1 loss to Iberia in the MSHSAA Class 2 Quarterfinal.
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    SEMO receiver Zack Smith overcoming setbacks
    Both of Zach Smith’s senior seasons were derailed. Southeast Missouri State’s sure-handed receiver has had the strange experience of being granted a pandemic-related mulligan for his final year of eligibility followed by another frustrating setback...
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    Zoey Beasley has had a big hand in SEMO's recent surge. The junior outside hitter had 21 kills in the Redhawks' weekend sweep of Southern Illinois-Edwards, extending their win streak to seven. Beasley, who has a .333 hitting average the past three games, earned back-to-back Ohio Valley Conference Offensive Player of the Week honors for efforts...
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    Analysis: Murray State sinks SEMO with new QB, game-winning field goal
    If Southeast Missouri State can take any solace from Saturday's gut-punching 32-31 loss to Murray State, it's that it didn't count. Not in the Ohio Valley Conference standings, anyway. Racers sophomore quarterback D.J. Williams — making his first collegiate start — orchestrated a six-play, 84-yard drive in the final 62 seconds, an effort capped by Aaron Baum's 35-yard game-winning field goal that took the air out of a half-filled-because-of-stadium-conditions Houck Field...
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    SEMO Prep splits preseason matchups over the weekend (10/20/21)
    SEMO Prep's Team White coach Johnny Dancy was satisfied with how his team performed on Saturday when the Huskies visited Crowley Ridge College in Paragould, Ark., for a pair of preseason matchups. In its first game, SEMO Prep rolled past Faith Prep out of Memphis, Tenn., 111-72...
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    More than 20,000 runners from all over the world took to the streets of Boston on Monday to run the city's 125th marathon after almost a two-year hiatus because of the pandemic. Three of those runners are from the local running community. Carol Winter of Uniontown, Missouri, and Andrew Johnson and Joe Windeknecht of Cape Girardeau said they have each run the Boston Marathon and other races many times. Winter and Johnson have completed it seven times now and Windeknecht has done it eight times...
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    Catfish anglers from several different states descended on Cape Girardeau this past weekend in hopes of bringing home a portion of the $20,260 in cash and prizes at the King Kat Tournament Trail event presented by Bass Pro Shops and Cabela's. In addition to cash and prizes, 13 teams competed for a spot in the year-end King Kat Classic Championship held in November on the Red River in Natchitoches, La...
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