Softball

The best of the best will be recognized at the 2021 Semoball Awards presented by SoutheastHEALTH on July 10 at the Rock N’ Roll Drive-In in Chaffee.

Spring sports and top award finalists for the 2021 Semoball Awards presented by SoutheastHEALTH will be announced Friday, along with the final wave of tickets going on sale. The announcement of finalists can be heard at 9 a.m. Friday on SEMO ESPN Radio and on the Semoball.com Facebook page. A story recapping all the finalists will publish later Friday online at semoball.com and in your local newspaper...

EAST PRAIRIE, Mo. — The East Prairie High School Lady Eagles softball team qualified for the Academic All-State Team Award with a combined team average grade point average of 3.3 or higher. The cumulative team GPA was 3.8225 including all 16 team members...

The 2021 Bootheel Conference all-conference softball awards have been released. Senath-Hornersville with Southland senior Jenna Gibson is the Bootheel Conference Softball Player of the Year. Gibson hit .707 with with seven home runs and 28 RBIs this spring. She also went 9-2 in the circle with a 1.89 ERA while striking out 120 in 66 innings pitched...

The 2021 Tri-County Conference all-conference softball awards have been released. Holcomb senior Hannah Burk and Holcomb junior Alyssa Brown have been selected Tri-County Co-Players of the Year. “Hannah led us in almost every offensive category and she plays first base about as good as anyone I’ve seen,” Holcomb coach Matt Casper said. “She’s just solid all the way around.”...

The all-state team has been released for spring softball. A total of 16 players in Class 1 and nine players in Class 2 from the Semoball coverage area have been selected all-state. Holcomb senior Hannah Burk, Holcomb freshman Maleigh Lemings, Holcomb senior Bailey Cupples, and Advance senior Danielle Markham have been selected as first-team all-state infielders in Class 1...

East Prairie senior Allie Eaves continues to rake in the postseason honors. On Wednesday, Eaves was selected to the Missouri Class 2 All-State second team, the latest accolade the infielder received this postseason. She was also named first team all-conference in the Scott-Mississippi County Conference, first team all-district in Class 2, District 1 and first team all region in Class 2, Region 1. She was also named to the academic all-state team...

The East Prairie Lady Eagles softball team finished a successful 9-4 campaign and four players have been recognized with postseason honors. Senior Allie Eaves was named to the first team all conference team in the Scott-Mississippi County Conference along with sophomores Tori Stinnett, Kennedy Cogdill and Katie Brewer...

SPRINGFIELD - The Holcomb Hornets greatest softball season in school history concluded a victory shy of the ultimate prize Sunday at the Class 1 state softball tournament at Cooper Softball Complex in Springfield. Holcomb played Purdy to a 1-all stalemate for the first four innings of play. But Purdy broke a 1-all tie when Robyn Schad hit a sole homer in the bottom of the fifth inning and eventually beat Holcomb 4-1 in the Class 1 state title championship...

SPRINGFIELD - The Kennett Indians softball squad closed out its season on a high note Sunday evening at the Class 2 state tournament. Kennett broke a 2-all tie when it scored four runs in the top of the sixth inning and hung on to beat Diamond 6-2 in the Class 2 third-place game at Killian Softball Complex in Springfield...

SPRINGFIELD - Holcomb Hornets left fielder Kelsi Tucker got a bit nervous when Wellington-Napoleon put the tying run on third base with two outs in the bottom of the seventh inning Saturday night. “My mind was just racing,” Tucker said. “I was just hoping we would get that third out some how some way."...

SPRINGFIELD - Kennett head coach Logan Dollins expected big things from senior slugger Kayton Hurst before his Class 2 state semifinal against Skyline ever got underway Saturday evening. “Kayton had a good round of batting practice this week,” Dollins said. “I actually told someone before the game started today that I expected her to do good things tonight.”...

The schedule has once again been altered at the spring softball state tournament at Killian Softball Complex in Springfield. The Class 1 and Class 2 state semifinals were postponed Friday due to rain. The first Class 1 state semifinal between Advance and Purdy did start on time at 4 p.m. Thursday but was suspended with two outs in the top of the third inning. Purdy currently leads Advance 1-0. Weather permitting the Advance-Purdy game will resume Saturday at 2 p.m...

Here is a glance at each of the team’s in the MSHSAA Class 2 softball state semifinals. Kennett (16-8) will meet Skyline (22-1) in a state semifinal Friday at 7 p.m. at Killian Softball Complex in Springfield. Potosi (25-3) and Diamond (20-2) will meet in the other state semifinal Friday at 4 p.m...

The Kennett Indians supplied ample offense Thursday, scoring 14 runs on 16 hits, to put an end to Scott City's season, winning a Class 2 quarterfinal in Kennett, 14-4. Down by two runs heading into the home half of the second inning, Kennett's bats got hot and stayed hot, scoring crooked numbers of two, three, two, three, and four runs, in the second through the sixth innings...

KENNETT - The Kennett Indians softball squad fell behind 2-0 early on but still found a way to book its fifth trip to the state final four since 2013 Thursday afternoon. Kennett scored 10 unanswered runs to move ahead of the visiting Scott City Rams 10-2 and eventually secured a 14-4 six-inning win in a Class 2 quarterfinal at Indian Park...

HOLCOMB - Holcomb No. 9 hitter Allison Moody recognized the significance of the moment when she stepped to the plate with the go-ahead run at third base with two outs in the bottom of the sixth inning Wednesday. “I was kind of scared at first,” Moody said. “I got down in the count 0-2. But I finally saw the pitch I wanted and swung at it.”...

Malden senior Hailey Rojas has signed with Missouri Baptist University. The Malden Green Wave senior will be attending the four-year school in Creve Couer, Missouri, on a softball scholarship. Rojas recently reflected on her softball career and her hopes for the future...

The Class One, District Two All-District Team came out on Sunday, led by five players from Oran as well as five players from Delta. The All-District Team Consists of: Alyssa Spain - Pitcher - Oran - Senior Sadie Hornbuckle - Pitcher - Delta - Sophomore...

ORAN — Oran pitcher Alyssa Spane came through in a big way for the Eagles in the sixth inning of Friday’s 10-3 Class 1 District 2 championship victory over the Delta Bobcats. Despite the Eagles’ defense allowing Delta’s three runs in the top of the sixth, Spane struck out the next batter to end the inning following a quick mound visit from coach Jim Eftink...

HOLCOMB - The Holcomb Hornets softball squad is headed to the state playoffs for the first time in school history. No. 1 seeded Holcomb beat No. 2 seeded Gideon with Risco 10-0 Friday in the Class 1, District 1 final to secure its first district title ever...

BENTON, Mo. — Kelly senior catcher Kim Seabaugh signed her National Letter of Intent to Hannibal-LaGrange in April. Seabaugh batted .329 during her senior year, with a .371 on-base percentage, a .500 slugging percentage, and a .871 on-base-plus-slugging percentage...

MALDEN - The rubber match between the Kennett Indians and Senath-Hornersville with Southland Lions softball squads lived up to its hype Thursday afternoon. No. 1 seeded Kennett edged No. 2 seeded Senath-Hornersville with Southland 7-6 in the Class 2, District 1 title game in what proved to be the third one-run result between the softball talents...

The Delta softball team has scored at least 10 runs or more in their last three games, with Wednesday's contest the opening game of the C1D2 Tournament, against Scott County Central being no different, as the Bobcats cruised to a 16-1 dominating win at Oran...

MARBLE HILL — Scott City’s Olivia Ponder hit a home run in back-to-back games to help lead the Rams to the Class 2 District 2 championship in 9-7 and 9-6 wins over Bloomfield and Clearwater, respectively, Wednesday at Woodland High School. During the bottom of the third inning in the Rams’ semifinal against Bloomfield, Ponder hit a two-run homer to right field, which prompted the Wildcats to intentionally walk her during her next three trips to the plate...

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...

MARBLE HILL — As Bloomfield senior softball pitcher Melanie Phillips has grown, figuratively and literally, so has the Wildcat program.

EAST PRAIRIE, Mo. — After a lost 2019 season, East Prairie senior infielder Allie Eaves is making up for the lost time. In 12 games this season, Eaves is batting .682 with an impressive 2.121 on-base-plus-slugging percentage. A threat at the plate by hitting for power or contact, Eaves has 30 hits altogether, including nine doubles, three triples, six home runs, 32 RBIs, and 18 runs scored...

High school softball tournaments begin Monday in Missouri. Holcomb will host Class 1, District 1. Oran will host Class 1, District 2. Advance will host Class 1, District 3. Malden will host Class 2, District 1 and Woodland will host Class 2, District 2...

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...

CARUTHERSVILLE - It came down to the wire but the Senath-Hornersville with Southland Lions softball squad found a way to knock off the Kennett Indians in an extra-inning thriller late Tuesday night. No. 2 seeded Senath-Hornersville with Southland broke a 1-1 tie when it scored two runs in the top of the eighth inning and hung on to beat top-seeded Kennett 3-2 in the championship of the Bootheel Conference softball tournament at Caruthersville...

RISCO - Winning the Tri-County Conference Tournament is becoming an annual tradition for the Holcomb Hornets softball squad.

Trailing 6 to 5 going into the bottom of the seventh inning, Oran freshman Lily Knotts drove a 1-0 pitch to deep left field, scoring Rylee Boshell and Molly Spane to win by walk-off on Monday, 7-6. Boshell singled two batters earlier, while Spane singled a batter later, moving Boshell to third base...

ORAN, Mo. — Oran earned the top seed in the Class 1 District 2 Tournament on Monday. The Eagles will face eighth-seeded Bismarck on Monday, May 3, at 12:30 p.m. All of the games are at Oran High School. See all of the times below: --- • (2) Delta vs. (7) Scott County Central, 11 a.m...

ELLSINORE — After being robbed of a go-ahead homer the pervious inning, the East Carter softball team rallied in the sixth with some much shorter hits. Jordan Moore’s two-run hit with one out and the bases loaded lifted the Redbirds past Naylor 4-3 to claim the Ozark Foothills Conference Tournament title Thursday...

KENNETT - Oran Eagles coach Jim Eftink likes playing non-conference softball talents like the Kennett Indians ahead of the state playoffs. “We love coming down here to play Kennett,” Eftink said. “Sometimes we come out on the short end of things but we are working to get to the same level they are at.”...

ELLSINORE — With two runs here and three runs there, Naylor was able to slug its way into the Ozark Foothills Conference Tournament final. The Eagles scored in every inning but the last, finishing with 15 hits, to beat second-seeded Doniphan 14-8 Wednesday at East Carter High School...

Scott City starting pitcher Mackenzie Lawless gave up 13 runs, including 10 runs in the third inning, as the Marion Wildcats defeat the Rams easily, 21-0. Scott City was only able to punch through three hits in four innings, as Lawless recorded a base hit, as did Olivia Ponder, and Harley Glueck...

ELLSINORE — East Carter was able to finish off a win just as the snow started to fall Tuesday in the Ozark Foothills Conference Tournament semifinal. The top-seeded Redbirds weathered a 13-3 win over Clearwater in six innings as Honna Brown hit a two-run homer in the rain and crossed the plate with the game-ending run...

Scott City head softball coach Alexis Atchley saw her team's offense put up crooked numbers in four straight innings, as the Rams crushed East Prairie on the road Tuesday, 11-1. Olivia Ponder led the hitting onslaught, going 3 for 4 in the game, while Avery O'Brien drove in two RBIs, to lead her team in runs driven in...

The Missouri High School Fastpitch Coaches Association has released its first state rankings for spring softball. Five schools from the Semoball coverage area are state-ranked. Holcomb (12-3), which has won a dozen straight, is ranked No. 6 in Class 1...

ELLSINORE — The final out was the toughest one for a pair of upset-minded teams Monday in the opening round of the Ozark Foothills Conference Tournament. Second-seeded Doniphan and third-seeded Naylor both pushed across winning runs with two outs in the bottom of the seventh inning to complete come-from-behind wins...

Riley Massa accomplished something very few players, at any level, will get to do. Massa drove in four RBIs in a Woodland blowout win at home against Bell City, Monday, 17-1. How she did it is something you could only call bizarre. She drove them in without recording an official at-bat...

SENATH - The temperature may be fixing to take an unusual April plummet in Southeast Missouri. But the Holcomb Hornets softball squad is as hot as July. Holcomb (12-3) entered Monday’s doubleheader against Malden and Senath-Hornersville with Southland with a 10-game winning streak, having scored at least 18 runs in its last four games...

DUSTIN WARD dward@dddnews.com CAMPBELL - The Senath-Hornersville with Southland softball squad closed out its week on a high note Thursday evening. Senath-Hornersville with Southland improved to 7-1 as it beat Campbell 8-1 Thursday. “I thought we played pretty well,” Senath-Hornersville with Southland coach Melanie Rooney said. ...

By BRIAN ROSENER Sports Editor East Carter will host the Ozark Foothills Conference softball tournament starting Monday, but the Redbirds won’t be playing until the semifinals as the top seed. The opening round starts at 12:30 p.m. Monday with No. 2 seed Doniphan facing No. 7 Greenville in Elsinore. Third-seeded Naylor plays No. 6 Twin Rivers at 2:30 p.m. with the final game set for 4:30 p.m. as No. 4 Neelyville and No. 5 Clearwater face off...

The Holcomb Hornets scored multiple runs in every inning it as it won at Delta 18-0 in four innings Wednesday. Holcomb (8-3) scored three runs in the first inning, two runs in the second inning, eight runs in the third inning, and five runs in the top of the fourth inning...

NEW MADRID, Mo. — No parent ever wants to tell their child those three words. "You have cancer." Bone-chilling words that make someone look at life from a different perspective. For 17-year-old Riley Polk, New Madrid County Central's starting catcher was the victim of those words after being diagnosed with a desmoid tumor in November 2019...

The Advance softball team won their ninth game of the season on the road Monday, plating 20 first inning runs, to beat Scott County Central, 20-1, in just three innings of play.