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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.

Six finalists for the Semoball Cup from last year are once again in the running for the trophy given to the top sports program, including the top three from a pandemic-shortened year. The winner will be announced during the eighth annual Semoball Awards, which will be held July 10 at the Rock N’ Roll Drive-In in Chaffee...

State champions Oran and Kennett led all Semoball-area schools in all-state baseball selections with five apiece. In total, 36 athletes from the Semoball coverage area were named to all-state teams. The Eagles had three Class 1 first-team selections in senior Kaden Hargrove, senior Ty Johnson and sophomore Nic Massey. Oran senior Dawson Menz was named to the all-state second team, and sophomore Kolten Payne received an honorable mention...

According to Jackson wrestling coach Steve Wachter, Garner Horman is one of the most talented wrestlers he’s coached in his 39-year career. “He’s a three-time district champion, a three-time state medalist and I know that he’s won over 150 matches in his career,” Wachter said. “I think he finishes ninth or 11th all-time in Jackson history.”...

The 2021 SEMO Conference all-conference baseball has been released. Kennett junior Reese Robinett is the SEMO Conference Baseball Player of the Year. Robinett hit .408 with 10 home runs and 45 RBIs. He also went 4-0 with two saves and a 2.33 ERA on the hill...

Adam Stoneking is looking forward to the opportunity to take over as head coach of the Jackson girls' basketball team. “My main reason for being excited is the girls,” Stoneking said. “The commitment that I’ve seen from these ladies over the last couple of years is extraordinary. Their work ethic and their want to come in all the time and try and better themselves is hard to look past as a coach. Those are the things that get you excited about being a coach.”...

ST. LOUIS — Jaden Deaton and Layla Fliege ran their fastest mile Thursday. Deaton lowered his time by 2.5 seconds and had the 17th fastest time among high school boys while Fliege ranked 20th among high school girls at the Festival of Miles. Deaton briefly led in the final 100 meters before finishing fifth in his heat with a time of 4 minutes, 15.04 seconds...

JEFFERSON CITY — A late kick over the final 400 meters helped Jaden Deaton etch his name in the history books for Poplar Bluff.

The Jackson Track and Field team has multiple individuals place at the class 5 state meet on Thursday. Individual results include: Collin Havill - 2nd place boys pole vault Rhet Liley - 6th place boys javelin Layla Fliege - 9th place girls 800 Tony Terry - 9th place boys shot...

One year after not getting to have a baseball season at all, Cape Catfish general manager Mark Hogan wasn’t about to allow having the obstacle of not being able to field a roster to get in his way of playing the 2021 season.

Two Poplar Bluff athletes hope to end their track season with all-state honors in multiple events at Thursday’s Class 5 state championship meet in Jefferson City. Jadarius Pigg and Jaden Deaton are both seeded in the top eight in two of their events for the Mules...

The Class 5 state champion Jackson Indians lead the way with 13 players on this year's All-Southeast Missourian team.

Jackson quarterback Cael Welker headlines the All-Southeast Missourian Football Team after being named the Southeast Missourian Football Player of the Years for the second-straight year.

The nation’s oldest amateur baseball team, Cape Girardeau’s Capahas, open 2021 play with a home doubleheader Sunday at 1:30 p.m. against the St. Louis Printers – with an unusual twist to their latest roster. The Caps, which began play in 1894, are believed never to have had a father and his son as active players at the same time – until now...

Jackson senior wrestler Kayla Hodges became the first female wrestler in school history to sign a letter of intent to compete at the college level. Hodges signed with Lindenwood University on Monday at Jackson High School. “It’s honestly a very amazing feeling to be a part of something like this,” Hodges said. “Just starting it is honestly like a dream come true. From where I started, I wouldn’t have thought that I’d be signing with a college, especially not one in the NCAA.”...

To some, it may have seemed like any other high school soccer game. However, to the fans, parents, and schoolmates gathered at Jackson on Wednesday for the MSHSAA Class 4 District 1 championship game between the Indians and rival Notre Dame, this was a war between two very talented teams and their records reflected that. Both teams fought tooth-and-nail for any kind of advantage.

KIRKWOOD, Mo. — A trio of Jackson pitchers and a handful of key defensive plays kept the Poplar Bluff baseball team from scoring Tuesday. The Mules stranded nine runners and were shut out for only the second time all season in a 4-0 loss to Jackson in the MSHSAA Class 6 District 1 semifinal at Vianney High School...

SEDALIA, Mo. — Alex Wiseman added his name to the list of Poplar Bluff golfers to crack the top-10 at the MSHSAA state championships Tuesday while Jackson’s Carsen Silliman earned all-state honors after a pair of close calls as an underclassmen. “It’s good to finish all-state, that’s great,” said Silliman, who tied for 11th at 5-over-par 145 in the Class 5 tournament at Sedalia Country Club...

The top-seed Chaffee Red Devils outlasted a determined St. Vincent squad Monday, getting 14 strikeouts from starting pitcher Levi McKinnie, en route to a 2-0 shutout at Chaffee High School. McKinnie threw 6 1/3 innings of two-hit baseball, shutting down the Indian offense, which couldn't seem to get anything going against the talented freshman from Chaffee...

SEDALIA, Mo. — Rain didn’t bother Alex Wiseman once again. The Poplar Bluff junior shot 1-under-par 69 in the opening round of the MSHSAA Class 5 championship at Sedalia Country Club and is tied for third place, two shots off the lead, heading into the final round...

POPLAR BLUFF —  --- 1. Poplar Bluff 202.5; 2. Jackson 145; 3. Northwest 105; 4. Webster Groves 86; 5. Lindbergh 71; Seckman 59; 7. Mehlville 27; 8. Fox 24; 9. Oakville 18.5. 3200 — Jaden Deaton (Poplar Bluff), 9:30.29; 2. Firaol Ahmed (Northwest), 9:39.16; 3. Jake Eastin (Jackson), 9:54.23; 4. Andrew Bacon (Webster Groves), 9:59.54;...

POPLAR BLUFF —  Check back later for more. --- 1. Jackson 184.5; 2. Lindbergh 111.5; 3. Poplar Bluff 93.5; 4. Webster Groves 87; 5. Oakville 69.5; 6. Northwest 56; 7. Seckman 54; 8. Fox 50; 9. Mehlville 27. 3200 — Isabella Marcum (Fox), 11:31.82; 2. Elizabeth Steele (Jackson), 11:47.0; 3. Ryley Posey (Northwest), 12:16.14; 4. Karley Wheeler (Northwest), 12:23.91...

Jackson took advantage of a nine-run third inning Wednesday en route to a lopsided 15-3, five-inning victory over Portageville. The Indians were led at the plate by Clayton Ernst who recorded three hits, three RBIs and scored two runs. Quenton Borders recorded two hits in three at-bats with three RBIs, and Caden Bogenpohl (two hits, one RBI, one run scored), Kaleb Garcia (one hit, one RBI), Justin Moses (one hit, one RBI, one run scored), Chase Crosnoe (one hit, one RBI, three runs scored) and Quentin Dacus (one hit, one RBI) also contributed.. ...

Saxony Lutheran and Charleston were locked in a pitchers duel Saturday, but it was the pure domination of Crusader's starter Eli Brown that would hold true, as the senior shut down the Blue Jays offense to garner a 1-0 Saxony Lutheran win. While Charleston starter Dawson Crawford and reliever Luke Nichols combined for seven innings of one-run, one-hit baseball, the Crusader's Brown was just a little bit better, throwing seven innings, allowing just two hits and no runs, striking out 13, and walking zero.. ...

It’s difficult enough for a high-level athlete to wake up every day and attack his/her training with the right mindset. Human nature calls for everyone to want to slack off just a bit on any given day.

The SEMO Conference Baseball All-Tournament Team was announced on Wednesday. The team consists of : Kennett Reese Robinett Tanner Duncan Kobe Gates Poplar Bluff Brady Robertson Jackson Justin Moses Notre Dame Austin Gast Sikeston Nolan Self New Madrid County Central...

BOYS Poplar Bluff 239; Jackson 157; Kennett 109; Malden 63.5; Dexter 53; Zalma 30; Greenville 26; Winona 14; Doniphan 11.5; Richland 8. 3200-RELAY — Jackson 8:29.64; 2. Poplar Bluff 9:32.57; 3. Greenville 10:11.16. 110-HURDLES — Jadarius Pigg (PB) 14.49; 2. John-Paul Godwin (PB) 15.32; 3. Camden Pritchett (K) 16.74...

With only three games remaining on the season schedule, and Jackson head coach Justin McMullen eyeing the C4D1 #1 seed, his girls wasted no time on Tuesday, scoring early and often, shutting out Cape Central, 7-0. Both Grace Crowden and Abbey Klund netted two goals each, while teammates Katelyn Miller, Olivia Klinkhardt, and Emma Powell added a goal apiece...

SIKESTON — There aren't many better ways to end your regular season than by winning an individual conference championship, team championship, and shooting the lowest round of your career.

The Jackson girls soccer team had arguably their toughest game since their opening season loss to Parkway West on Monday, as an upstart Seckman squad took the Indians to the brink, with Jackson pulling out a 3-2 victory in double overtime. Katelyn Miller, Justi Nelson, and Olivia Ward each scored goals, while Ward and Nelson added assists in the match...

Jackson took third place in the SEMO Conference Baseball Tournament Monday, defeating Notre Dame, 5-3, at Capaha Field.

Poplar Bluff only scored in two of its seven innings against Jackson on Saturday in the semifinal of the SEMO Conference Baseball Tournament at Capaha Field. However, plating four runs in both the second and ultimately pivotal, seventh innings proved enough, as the Mules topped the Indians 8-7.

CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. — Heading into Saturday's SEMO Conference meet, two area athletes were ranked in the top-10 in the state in a pair of events. Sikeston's Daniel Lawrence and Kelly's Alaney Moore are currently eighth and third in their respective classes and events and showed off their talents at Notre Dame Regional High School Saturday afternoon in front of a host of spectators...

The Jackson boys tennis team finished in third place in the Farmington Invitational Tennis Tournament on Friday, scoring 10 points overall, four points behind tournament runner-up Poplar Bluff, who scored 14 points. Nine teams took part in the tournament, with six area Semoball teams finishing...

The Jackson boys tennis team dropped just their second team match up of the season Tuesday, losing to Farmington, 5-4. Junior Nolan Dry won his singles match, defeating Farmington player Maddox Waller-Brenneke, 8-3. James Hopkins also won his singles match, defeating Wyatt Bach, 9-8 (7-4)...

The Jackson baseball team lost both games of a double header against CBC (Christian Brothers College) High School out of St. Louis on Saturday, losing the first game 3-1, then falling in the nightcap, 10-4. Game one saw a scoreless game until the top half of the fourth inning when CBC plated two runs off of Indians starter Logan Bruns, then adding another run in the following inning off of Bruns before Jackson head coach Tatum Kitchen removed Bruns from the game...

Jackson’s Caleb Burgard was a freshman diver and member of the track and field team before the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. He came out of the months-long quarantine period a changed athlete. With nothing else to do but pick up whatever dumbbells he had available to him at his home, Burgard followed a program and came out of the lockdown period bigger and stronger than how he started the calendar year...

Notre Dame senior girl’s cross country runner Haley Smith possesses an extraordinary ability to take herself mentally where few people are capable of when asked to perform a daunting physical test.

Jackson goaltender Brooke Gerau secured her 11th shutout of the season, making one save Friday, as the Indians won their 11th game in a row against Mehlville, 3-0. Senior Katelyn Miller also had a great game, securing a hat-trick, scoring all three goals against the Panthers, whose record dropped to 0-7 on the season...

One of the top baseball teams in the state won its 13th game in a row after going 1-1 after just two games played, as Oran downed Leopold Thursday, 10-1. The class one, number one ranked Eagles scored single runs in the first inning and second inning before plating four runs in the third frame, followed by one more scoring in the fourth, and finished out the scoring with three more runs crossing home plate in the fifth...

Jackson girls head soccer coach Justin McMullen got two goals from Katelyn Miller, as well as goals from Abbey Klund and Justi Nelson, as Jackson defeated Fox High School at home Tuesday, 4-0. Miller also collected two assists. Klund also recorded an assist, as well as Grace Crowden...

The Jackson Boys and Girls Track and Field teams competed at two different meets Saturday, as the girls team finished tied for second and the Jefferson City "Licklider Relays". The girl's team was led by a first place finish in the 4x800 relay, as Layla Fliege, Addie Heisserer, Brooklyn Burgess, and Mallorie Metzger finished with a time of 10:01...

Poplar Bluff got a pair of solid rounds from Alex Wiseman and Jack Pierce to win the 16-team Jackson Invitational on Monday at Kimbeland Country Club.

There are so many meets all over the region that one goes to over the course of a track and field season, but only one in the friendly and familiar confides of home. Cape Central senior pole vaulter saved his best for his last home meet on Saturday at the Cape Invitational when he took first place in the boys pole vault with a new personal record of 3.65 meters...

The Notre Dame boys varsity tennis team beat Jackson Monday, 6-3. The Bulldog's Thomas Southard won both of his matches, defeating Nick Wimp from Jackson, 8-4. Southard teamed with Eli Youngblood to defeat the doubles-team of Wimp and James Hopkins from Jackson, 8-6...

The Notre Dame Bulldogs came away victors at the SEMO Conference Tennis Tournament, hosted at Jackson High School Friday, topping the rest of the competition with 16.5 points, while Poplar Bluff came away the runners-up, scoring 15.5 points. Dexter finished in third place with 12.5 points, while Jackson took home fourth place with 11 points...

SIKESTON — Baseball can be both a heartbreaking and heartwarming sport. For Sikeston (6-10), Thursday's game against SEMO Conference rival Jackson (9-3) turned out to be the latter, as the Bulldogs defeated the Indians 11-10 in walk-off fashion. "I was proud of our guys," Sikeston head coach Brett Kolons said. ...