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Redhawks back to above .500 after sweeping SIU (4/24/24)By Tony Capobianco ~ Southeast MissourianThe Southeast Missouri State baseball team (21-20) returned to above .500 on the season after a 8-5 win over Southern Illinois on Tuesday, April 23, at Capaha Field. The Redhawks have now played SIU twice, Murray State twice and Missouri once on the road, and have won all five games. For them, playing their rivals means something different, as shortstop Ben Palmer alluded to when he said, “there’s a different kind of energy when you get to the ball field.”...
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Raiders pick up walkoff victory over Rend Lake (4/24/24)By MIKE BUHLER, Daily American RepublicThe Three Rivers College baseball team ended the regular season in dramatic fashion as the Raiders earned an 11-10 walkoff win over the Rend Lake Warriors Tuesday at Roger Pattillo Field. Three Rivers (33-21) and the Warriors were tied at 10 going to the bottom of the ninth inning when Manny Alberto hit a two-out triple to rightfield on a full count. That set the table for Eli Marvin, whose potential inning-ending groundball was misplayed, allowing Alberto to come home with the game-winner...
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Portal, not so much NIL, having major impact on juco hoops (4/23/24)Tom DavisThere has been no shortage of stories published regarding the implementation of the new NIL (Name, Image, and Likeness) philosophy within intercollegiate athletics over the past couple of seasons. However, recently-hired Gulf State Community College men’s basketball coach, and Advance native, Lane Below, said in his four years of coaching at the junior college level, the NIL isn’t a major issue.
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Raiders tab alumnus, veteran coach Robert Kirby as next men's basketball coach (4/22/24)By MIKE BUHLER, Daily American RepublicThree Rivers College tapped into one of the brightest moments in the college's history when it selected the next coach of the Raiders men's basketball team. TRC announced Monday it has hired Robert Kirby to be the fourth men's basketball coach in the program's history. He also is the first head men's basketball coach since 1970 who is not a member of the Bess family...
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Raiders set pair of records in series split with Crowder (4/22/24)By MIKE BUHLER, Daily American RepublicThe Three Rivers College baseball team did more than split a four-game series with the powerful Crowder Roughriders over the weekend at Roger Pattillo Field — the Raiders also broke a pair of records in the process. First, Peyton Nelson picked up five hits in the weekend series up his career total to 143, breaking the TRC record for hits in a career — a record originally set in 1991...
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SEMO’s Rickermann getting it done on offense and defense (4/21/24)By Justin Trovillion ~ Southeast MissourianSEMO softball’s senior infielder Abigail Rickermann currently leads the Redhawks from the plate with a .379 batting average through April 21. Rickermann has totaled 33 hits to go with seven RBIs while drawing nine walks and is a perfect 8-8 on base stealing attempts...
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SEMO baseball drops road series to Tennessee Tech (4/21/24)By Clay Herrell ~ Southeast MissourianThe Southeast Missouri State Redhawks baseball team hit the road for a three-game set against Tennessee Tech, a battle of two of the top teams in the OVC. Ultimately, a 4-3 loss on Sunday saw the Redhawks drop the series after the two clubs split the opening two games of the series...
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3 takeaways from SEMO’s spring football game (4/21/24)By Clay Herrell ~ Southeast MissourianFans of the Southeast Missouri State Redhawks got their first taste of football in 2024 on Saturday. The Rowdy Bowl Football Spring Game featured the Redhawks’ roster divided into two teams; Team Make My Cap (SEMO Black) coached by Cape Catfish president and director of baseball operations Glenn Campbell and Team Arnold Insurance (SEMO Red) coached by Marcus Harris...
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Lady Raiders split pair with Crowder (4/19/24)By MIKE BUHLER, Daily American RepublicThe Three Rivers College softball team got a strong pitching performance from Emma Crabb to power the Lady Raiders to a 6-1 win the first game of Thursday’s doubleheader with the Crowder Roughriders at J.D. Rains Field. It was a different story in the nightcap, as the Roughriders rallied for a 6-5 win to salvage a split...
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Road to the 2024 NFL Draft: Flournoy leaves behind a legacy at SEMO (4/18/24)By Clay Herrell ~ Southeast MissourianThis is the third of a four-part series on Ryan Flournoy as he prepares for the NFL Draft. In just two years, Ryan Flournoy left behind a legacy at Southeast Missouri State University. From the beginning of his collegiate football career at the University of Central Missouri to finding his way to Cape Girardeau where he made his mark, Flournoy now has a chance to be the highest-drafted player in Redhawks history at the 2024 NFL Draft...
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Sawyers wins 200th game as Redhawks paces Racers (4/17/24)Southeast MissourianAndy Sawyers won his 200th career victory as Southeast Missouri State head baseball coach as the Redhawks (19-18) paced the Racers of Murray State 15-8 in Murray, Ky. Caleb Corbin led the Redhawks with three hits, two home runs, and four RBIs. The Redhawks have hit 61 home runs as a team, which is good for second in the Ohio Valley Conference...
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Raiders get sweep, Smith gets win No. 100 (4/17/24)By MIKE BUHLER, Daily American RepublicMILLINGTON, Tenn. — The Three Rivers College baseball team stopped a four-game losing streak Tuesday by sweeping a doubleheader from the Southwest Tennessee Saluqis, taking the opener 5-0 and the nightcap 7-4. The Raiders pick up wins No. 29 and 30 on the season and are 30-19 with one week left in the regular season. More than that, head coach Tyler Smith earns career win No. 100...
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After regular season OVC repeat, SEMO Tennis aims for tourney three-peat (4/16/24)By Tony Capobianco ~ Southeast MissourianThe Southeast Missouri State women’s tennis team have won back-to-back Ohio Valley Conference championships and enter the OVC Tournament at the top seed with a bye on Saturday, April 20, in St. Louis. “It’s kind of a relief,” Redhawks coach Mary Beth Gunn said on the SEMO Scramble, hosted by Rusty Hendricks and Semoball’s Clay Herrell. “You work hard for this every day starting in August so it’s a relief when you have these goals and you’re able to accomplish what you set out to do.”...
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Raiders, Lady Raiders have pair of rough Saturdays on diamond (4/16/24)By MIKE BUHLER, Daily American RepublicThe Three Rivers College baseball team ran into a buzzsaw over the weekend as it wrapped up a four-game home-and-home series with the Jefferson College Vikings. After dropping a pair of games at Jeffco on Friday, the Raiders hosted Jefferson Saturday and had similar results, losing the opener 8-2 and the nightcap 24-4...
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COLUMN: Prioritizing local recruitment pointless after Jadis Jones picks Lindenwood over SEMO (4/15/24)By Tony Capobianco ~ Southeast MissourianThere was a column on Semoball not too long ago stressing the importance of corralling the area’s top talent to bring the Southeast Missouri State men’s basketball team back to conference contention. Redhawks head coach Brad Korn tried to recruit Cam Williams when he was a star senior at Cape Central last year. He chose to go the junior college route and now has Division I options in conferences rated much higher than the Ohio Valley Conference...
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SEMO baseball takes rubber match with rout of USI (4/14/24)By Clay Herrell ~ Southeast MissourianOn the day the Southeast Missouri State Redhawks celebrated Masters Sunday at Capaha Field, the Redhawks baseball team channeled their inner Tiger Woods with pure domination while wearing Sunday red. The Redhawks cruised to a 12-2 win over the Southern Indiana Screaming Eagles on Sunday to take the rubber match of the three-game series...
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‘A big time player' — Jackson named second-team all-American for Lady Raiders (4/13/24)By MIKE BUHLER, Daily American RepublicBelieve it or not, Three Rivers College sophomore guard Da’Kariya “Lia” Jackson said she was shocked when she found out earlier this week she had been named a second-team NJCAA all-American for her efforts on the court this season. Not that she wasn’t happy to be honored...
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New Redhawks WR graduates from DII to FCS (4/10/24)By Tony Capobianco ~ Southeast MissourianFor new Southeast Missouri State wide receiver Tate Crane, the transition from Division II Truman State to the FCS ranks is as similar to going from being an undergraduate student to graduate school. Which he just so happens to be doing at SEMO. The Iowa native will have one season of eligibility and will compete with returning wide receivers Jack Clinkenbeard and Dorian Anderson for key roles left by Ryan Flournoy and Damoriea Vick. ...
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Raiders bounce back, sweep Moberly Area (4/10/24)By MIKE BUHLER, Daily American RepublicMOBERLY — The Three Rivers College baseball team bounced back from a weekend sweep at Mineral Area by taking a pair of games Tuesday from the Moberly Area Greyhounds. The Raiders won the opener 3-1 and the nightcap 18-9. In the opener, TRC overcame an early 1-0 deficit, tying the game in the top of the second inning, taking the lead in the top of the fifth and adding an insurance run in the top of the seventh...
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Brian Bess announces retirement as Raiders' coach, AD (4/9/24)By MIKE BUHLER, Daily American RepublicFor the first time since 1969, there will not be a Bess coaching on the bench next season for the Three Rivers College men's basketball team. TRC men's basketball coach and athletic director Brian Bess announced his retirement Tuesday after 31 seasons with the program, including the last four as the Raiders' head men's basketball coach...
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Road to the 2024 NFL Draft: Flournoy’s underdog journey to the college level (4/9/24)By Clay Herrell ~ Southeast MissourianThis is the second of a five-part series on Ryan Flournoy as he prepares for the NFL Draft. Ryan Flournoy is inching ever closer to fulfilling his lifelong dream of being drafted to the NFL, but, the dream had to start somewhere. For Flournoy, it began when he was five years old...
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Pitching fuels Lady Raiders’ three wins (4/9/24)By MIKE BUHLER, Daily American RepublicThe Three Rivers College softball team won three of its four games this weekend and improved to 24-16 on the season, thanks in part to a rally and some strong pitching. The Lady Raiders swept a doubleheader Saturday with State Fair at J.D. Rains Field, taking the opener 7-4 and the nightcap 6-3, before splitting a twin bill at St. Charles on Sunday. TRC dropped the opener 3-1, but won the second game 1-0...
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SEMO baseball avoids sweep with Sunday blowout (4/7/24)By Clay Herrell ~ Southeast MissourianEntering the weekend, the Southeast Missouri State Redhawks were 5-1 in the Ohio Valley Conference. Squaring off with a fellow OVC contender in the Little Rock Trojans, the Redhawks dropped the series but salvaged the weekend with a big 16-3 win on Sunday...
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SEMO’s Holman leads team on and off the diamond (4/7/24)By Justin Trovillion ~ Southeast MissourianSEMO softball’s fifth-year senior pitcher Paytience Holman currently leads the Redhawks with a 2.96 ERA as of April 5. Holman has seen plenty of success during her time in Cape Girardeau including the 2021 and 2023 Ohio Valley Conference regular-season championships...
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Is the best yet to come? Lady Raiders look to build on trip to elite eight (4/6/24)By MIKE BUHLER, Daily American RepublicWith so many new faces on the roster at the beginning of the season, the Three Rivers College women’s basketball team did not quite know what to expect in terms of how the Lady Raiders would do when it was all said and done. They need not have worried. Three Rivers finished the season 29-5, made its fourth trip in a row to the national tournament and reached the round of eight at nationals for just the third time in school history...
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SEMO stays undefeated with win over Southern Indiana (4/5/24)By Justin Trovillion ~ Southeast MissourianThe SEMO women’s tennis team stretched their undefeated Ohio Valley Conference streak to six matches with a 6-1 victory over Southern Indiana (USI) on Friday at the John C. Bierk Redhawks Tennis Complex. Southeast began the day like the last few matches, taking home the doubles point after winning two of the three matches...
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Raiders split pair with Mineral Area (4/5/24)By MIKE BUHLER, Daily American RepublicThe Three Rivers College baseball team used a very, very big inning to pull out a win against the Mineral Area College Cardinals in the first game of Thursday’s doubleheader at Roger Pattillo Field. The Raiders scored 10 runs in the bottom of the fifth inning — all with two out — to erase a two-run deficit and ultimately pull out an 11-6 win over MAC in Thursday’s opener...
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SEMO returns to fundamentals with new-look coaching staff (4/4/24)By Tony Capobianco ~ Southeast MissourianCoaching staff changes are a natural annual occurrence in today’s college football. Success leads to new opportunities for assistants to become head coaches and failure leads to them falling on the sword and off their perch. After following up an Ohio Valley Conference championship season in 2022 with a 4-7 2023 season, the Redhawks entered the spring with new faces on the staff and a new approach to practices...
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Southeast softball knocks off Missouri, spawns new life after rough start (4/3/24)By Cole Lee ~ Southeast MissourianAfter a brutal start to Ohio Valley Conference play and a dismal record to begin the season, it felt like just about everybody had written off SEMO softball at Missouri on Wednesday. Everybody, except for Paytience Holman. The senior pitcher threw a scoreless seven innings in Columbia, Missouri, to ensure Southeast (13-20, 7-5 OVC) knocked off the No. 11 Missouri Tigers (29-8, 4-5 SEC) in a thrilling 1-0 victory on the road...
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Redhawks look to SOAR in recruiting with NIL partnership (4/1/24)By Tony Capobianco ~ Southeast MissourianThe current state of college recruiting and name, image, and likeness, are forever intertwined. And just because Southeast Missouri State is a mid-major and FCS Division I program, that does not mean the Redhawks can allow themselves to be left in the dust...
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Raiders take three of four games, win series at State Fair (4/1/24)By MIKE BUHLER, Daily American RepublicSEDALIA, Mo. — The Three Rivers College baseball team shook off a loss in the opener of a four-game series with the State Fair Roadrunners to win the final three games and take the series. The Raiders lost last Friday’s opener 9-8, but won the nightcap 12-7. TRC then swept both games Saturday by scores of 12-4 and 10-7, respectively, to complete the series triumph...
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22 SEMO track athletes compete in final home meet (3/31/24)Staff Report ~ Southeast MissourianThe Southeast Missouri State track & field team honored 22 seniors and grad students who are on track to graduate at the end of the school year and are competing in their final home meet during day three of the Joey Haines Invite on Saturday, March 30, in Cape Girardeau...
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SEMO softball drops road series to Southern Indiana (3/30/24)By Clay Herrell ~ Southeast MissourianFollowing a successful weekend at home last weekend against Tennessee State, the Southeast Missouri State Redhawks hit the road to do battle with the Southern Indiana Screaming Eagles. Ultimately, it was the Screaming Eagles taking the three-game set after the two clubs split the doubleheader on Friday...
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Stauss homers twice, Redhawks win rubber match over SIUE (3/30/24)By Clay Herrell ~ Southeast MissourianA two-home run day by Ty Stauss led the way to a 13-3 win in the rubber match of the three-game series between the Southeast Missouri State Redhawks and the SIUE Cougars. With a sour taste in their mouth after blowing an eight-run lead the night before, the Redhawks bats came out with a purpose...
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NW Florida State ends Lady Raiders' season in quarterfinals (3/30/24)By MIKE BUHLER, Daily American RepublicCASPER, Wyo. — For the second time in the last four seasons, Northwest Florida State ended the Three Rivers College women's basketball team's season at the NJCAA Division I national tournament. The Lady Raiders fell into an early hole and never could recover as they fell 69-55 to third-seeded NWF in the quarterfinal round of the national tournament...
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Lady Raiders ride defense into quarterfinals (3/29/24)By MIKE BUHLER, Daily American RepublicCASPER, Wyo. — The Three Rivers College women's basketball team used a strong second half to turn a four-point halftime lead into a 68-50 win over the sixth-seeded Shelton State Buccaneers in the second round of the NJCAA Division I national tournament Thursday night at the Ford Wyoming Center...
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Late rally in first game keys TRC twin bill sweep (3/29/24)By MIKE BUHLER, Daily American RepublicDown four runs and down to its final strike in the first game of Thursday’s doubleheader against the North Central Missouri College Pirates, the Three Rivers College softball team came alive just in time. The Lady Raiders rallied for four runs in the top of the seventh inning of Thursday’s opener to tie NCMC, then won 6-5 after scoring a run in the top of the ninth...
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3 takeaways from Week 2 of SEMO Spring Practice (3/28/24)By Tony Capobianco ~ Southeast MissourianSpring practice continues for the Southeast Missouri State football team at Houck Field. The Redhawks had their first inter-squad scrimmage this past Saturday and are halfway past Week 2 of practices. The theme of the spring has been integrating the newcomers and sort out the competition for who will be in position to replace receiver Ryan Flournoy and running back Geno Hess by training camp...