Cross Country

CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. — For the third consecutive year, Portageville claimed the Best Fans Awards at the 2022 Semoball Awards on Friday, July 8, at LaCroix Church in Cape Girardeau, Mo. Nearly 40,000 total votes were cast from May 2 to May 31, with all schools in the Semoball coverage area eligible. Each week, the list was narrowed down based on votes until the final five schools remained. The five finalists were Bernie, East Prairie, Poplar Bluff, Portageville, and Sikeston...

Van Buren’s Katie Griffin added one more honor before moving onto the next chapter in her athletic and academic career as she was named Girls Cross Country Athlete of the Year at the 2022 Semoball Awards. Griffin had a stellar cross country season along with winning a state title in track and playing basketball for the Lady Dawgs...

Woodland sophomore Reed Layton and his father Ryan have an interesting dynamic. Ryan is Reed’s cross country coach. Reed was named the Boys Cross Country Athlete of the Year at the 2022 Semoball Awards presented by SoutheastHEALTH on July 8 at LaCroix Church in Cape Girardeau...

The Show Me Center will play host to the MSHSAA State Volleyball Championships in 2023-24 and 2024-25 according to a Missouri State High School Activities Association news release on Wednesday. The MSHSAA Board of Directors decided to put aside proposals to host the state volleyball tournament in 2025-26, 2026-27 and 2027-28 to allow staff members to visit the St. Joseph Civic Arena for consideration...

As Jackson senior Layla Fliege concludes her high school track and field career, one thing is for certain. She will be competing next year as a Division 1 athlete. Fliege signed a letter of intent in December to run both track and cross country at Southeast Missouri State, joining fellow locals Kendall Holweg and Anna Thomason as a member of the Redhawks...

The 2022 Semoball Awards, presented by SoutheastHEALTH, returns to its roots as the awards show goes back to a gala-style format following two years of alternative plans due to the COVID-19 pandemic. This year's event will take place on Friday, July 8, at LaCroix Church (3102 Lexington Ave.) in Cape Girardeau, Mo...

The Bernie High School softball squad opened its 2022 season on Friday with a commanding rout of Charleston. The victory shouldn’t be surprising to anyone that has followed the Mules through the years. And that isn’t limited to softball.

You have to have a different mindset to compete in cross country, as well as the distance events in track, and Dexter High School senior Gabby Brown is definitely a unique athlete, according to Bearcat coach of both sports, James Deberry.

COLUMBIA, Mo. — The Oak Ridge boys added another state cross country trophy to the collection, while the St. Vincent girls added No. 1. Both teams made the podium during the Class 1 MSHSAA Cross Country Championships held on Saturday at the Gans Creek Cross Country Course...

COLUMBIA, Mo. — Kastin Cleaver, Katie Griffin, Kinsley Murphy and Addison Lewis earned all-state honors, leading Van Buren to the MSHSAA Class 1 title Saturday at Gans Creek Cross Country Course. The four runners all placed in the top 25 while Ella Wilbanks finished in front of the top runner for all but runner-up Glasgow as the Bulldogs ran away with the team title...

COLUMBIA, Mo. — Tegan Bishop accomplished her two goals she wanted to at the MSHSAA Class 4 Cross Country Championships. The icing on the cake is a new school record for Perryville. The junior ran the 5K course in 19:22.1 and took 19th place, which accomplished her first two items on her agenda on Friday morning on the Gans Creek Cross Country Course...

Woodland’s Reed Layton continued his impressive sophomore season at Saturday’s Class 2 District 1 boys cross country meet in Ironton, Mo., and Oak Ridge won the Class 1 District 1 team championship. Layton finished third in the district race with a time of 17:03.88, qualifying for the state championships. Bloomfield senior Josh Reynolds took eighth place. The top 30 individual finishers and top four teams advanced to the state meet...

CAPE GIRARDEAU – As Heartland Conference Cross Country meet director Travis Calkins announced the final team standings for the event on Tuesday at Cape County North Park, he continually heaped praise on the Oak Ridge program. “Oak Ridge is one of the premier cross country programs in Missouri,” Calkins said.

CAPE GIRARDEAU – Kelly High School cross country coach Omar Campos had a simple message for his athletes just minutes before they embarked on what, physically, may have been the most difficult test of the season on Tuesday.

CAPE GIRARDEAU – Running is an exercise in solitude, literally, where the athlete IS racing against others, but in truth, they are really racing against themselves. For Woodland High School senior Emilee Rouggley, she was racing against herself along the daunting Cape County North Park course on Tuesday at the Heartland Conference Girl’s Cross Country Meet, 48 other runners, but also against Father Time...

CAPE GIRARDEAU – Woodland High School sophomore runner Reed Layton has been thinking about the Heartland Conference Cross Country Meet for a year. A year ago, Oak Ridge High School freshman Brock Hobeck beat Layton, which had stuck in Layton's mind ever since.

Freshman Emily Marriott finished sixth with a time of 21:44.08 and junior Lindsey Caldwell finished seventh with a time of 21:44.32 for Cape Central, with both taking home medals in the Potosi Invitational on Saturday. Ryan Seabaugh finished eighth in the boys division with a time of 17:50...

Cape Central cross country coach Logan Bollinger had several of his teams runners earn medals in Saturday’s Notre Dame Invitational held at Notre Dame Regional High School. Despite very rainy and slippery conditions, junior Lindsey Caldwell placed 10th for the Tigers with a time of 21:17 and freshman Emily Marriott placed closely behind in 11th with a 21:24 time on the girl’s side...

The Jackson girls finished in eighth place in the Gold Division of the Gans Creek Classic on Saturday in Columbia, Mo., while the Indians boys finished ninth. The top placers for Jackson's girls were Addie Heisserer (21st), Mallorie Metzger (32nd) and Annika Barks (75th), and the top placers for the boys were Bryce Gentry (41st), Hunter Wendel (51st) and Cole Puls (67th)...

POPLAR BLUFF — Things went from ugly to down right ghastly for the Poplar Bluff softball team Monday. Already trailing by eight runs, the Mules couldn’t get the first two outs of the fifth inning before Farmington hit a pair of grand slams. The Knights sent 17 batters to the plate, with 12 coming around to score in the inning, to beat the Mules 21-3 at Bobby Strenfel Field...

The Jackson cross country team continued its successful 2021 season with a sweep of both the boys and girls divisions at Saturday’s Cape Central Invitational. Addie Heisserer, Mallorie Metzger and Layla Fliege took first through third and Brooklyn Burgess finished fifth to give the Indian girls four placers in the top five...

The Jackson boys cross country team took first place at Saturday's Arcadia Valley Invitational, placing three runners in the top five. Junior Hunter Wendel was the top placer for Jackson, finishing the 5K in 16:59.80 to take second place. Sophomore Bryce Gentry finished just behind Wendel in third with a time of 17:02.35, and junior Evan Kiefer finished in fourth with a time of 17:14.55...

The road to Gans Creek and the MSHSAA state cross country championships will again be a little different this fall. The number of district meets around the state has been trimmed to four per class with the top 30 runners advancing to Columbia’s Gans Creek course. The top four teams in each district will also advance, unless there are fewer teams competing in a district...

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JACKSON, Mo. — Jackson’s cross country team took first place in five divisions at Saturday’s Jackson Invitational meet. The Jackson boys took first place in the ninth, 10th and 11th-grade divisions while the girls took first in the 9th and 12th-grade divisions...