College Sports

The awards for Three Rivers athletics keep rolling in. The Raiders collectively finished with a 3.10 GPA across all sports and won the Harold Oetting All-Academic Award for having the top collegiate GPA in the MCCAC Conference. “That’s a big honor,” said Athletic Director and men’s basketball coach Brian Bess, adding that Three Rivers hadn’t won the award since 2002...

Three Rivers’ newest NJCAA team will compete virtually. The college has added esports and will compete starting in August. “We’re excited because, in the future, it could be a recruiting tool,” Three Rivers athletic director and men’s basketball coach Brian Bess said. “Everybody in the area that’s a game might be able to join.”...

There is no lack of unknowns surrounding the Southeast Missouri State football program entering the 2021 season.

Southeast Missouri State catcher Wade Stauss signed with the St. Louis Cardinals on Tuesday as an undrafted free agent. Stauss went 39-for-166 (.235) as a redshirt sophomore and led the Redhawks in home runs with 14. He also had 36 RBIs and crossed the plate 32 times...

Two native Southeast Missouri women have come together at Fontbonne University in St. Louis to form the Midwest Sprint Football League. “We’re hoping that a lot of the young men in Southeast Missouri that currently play high school football will be interested in this news,” Fontbonne president Dr. Nancy Blattner said, “because many of them aren’t able to go on to play at a D1, D2 or D3 institution in college football. This league might allow them that opportunity.”...

A year ago, Southeast Missouri State senior pitcher Dylan Dodd had a decision to make. The Texas Rangers, among others, were offering him $20,000 to leave the Redhawks with one season of eligibility remaining and begin his professional career.

Dylan Dodd spent the past two-plus seasons in Cape Girardeau evolving – almost daily – into a better and better pitcher.

Coming off his first season throwing javelin for the Southeast Missouri State track and field team, Josiah Kilgore wants to pass along what he’s learned to Poplar Bluff’s younger athletes. With the recent passage of the name, image and likeness laws he will be able to do just that...

The Southeast Missouri State men’s basketball program wasted no time last season in sending a message to the college basketball world that it was a new era for the Redhawks.

There is obvious enjoyment in winning 40 games over the past two women’s basketball seasons for seventh-year Southeast Missouri State coach Rekha Patterson. However, if there is a downside to success, it is that other programs want what is yours, which is why Patterson has spent the summer replacing her entire coaching staff.

By SCOTT BORKGREN Sports Writer Three Rivers baseball and softball will be required to test all bats on every day this upcoming season. “I like what the NJCAA is doing,” Three Rivers baseball coach Tyler Smith said. “They are following what the NCAA does, so when our kids move on to the four-year level, they know what to expect and that is never a bad thing.”...

The Southeast Missouri State football program is never going to “wow” any prospective assistant coach with its incredible facilities or exorbitant resources.

The Raiders will have to take one step back to make 3-pointers next season. The 3-point line will be moving back to the international distance for women’s basketball next season. For Three Rivers, this means both men’s and women’s teams will have the same 3-point line and Gene Bess Court at the Libla Family Sports Complex will have one less 3-point line this upcoming season...

Both Southeast Missouri State football coach Tom Matukewicz, as well as Redhawk offensive coordinator Jeromy McDowell, have spoken about how they like their quarterbacks to have an edge of toughness to them.