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Jackson's Gilbert improves game, earns second Semoball Award (7/25/24)For the second year in a row, Jackson’s Alana Gilbert was named Girls Golf Athlete of the Year at the 2024 Semoball Awards on Friday, July 12, at LaCroix Church in Cape Girardeau. Gilbert won the 2023 award after an 18th-place finish at the state tournament, leading the Indians to a sixth-place finish as a team. The senior’s golf game improved this year, ultimately leading to another Semoball award, something Gilbert never saw coming...
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Sauer overcomes, excels en route to Semoball Awards Comeback Athlete victory (7/24/24)Against all odds, John-Paul Sauer made it happen. Recovering from a torn ACL, signing with Tulane University and finishing his senior season with Jackson baseball undefeated, the kid never let adversity get in the way of pure dominance. The Indians pitcher was an obvious choice for the 2024 Semoball Comeback Athlete of the Year sponsored by the St. Louis Cardinals...
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Jackson senior commits to Evansville baseball (7/18/24)The Jackson High School baseball program continues the tradition of having a future Division I player leading the team. Rising senior Cooper Rhodes announced on social media on Thursday, July 18, his commitment to the University of Evansville. The Purple Aces went 39-26 and won the Missouri Valley Conference championship, and the Greenville Regional before falling to Tennessee, the eventual national champions, in a three-game Super Regional...
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Future is bright for Jackson golfer after tournament win (7/14/24)The future is bright for this rising senior Ian Lambert won the Missouri Junior Golf Amateur Championships at Crown Point Golf Club in Farmington on Wednesday, July 10. The tournament featured some of the best high school-aged golfers in Missouri. “That’s probably one of the bigger tournaments, so it’s a good feeling,” Lambert said...
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Young Jackson hoops squad working to find its new identity this summer (7/6/24)DEXTER – The first two seasons of Jackson High School basketball under Indian Coach Kory Thoma have gone extremely well. Under his guidance, the Indians have combined for 40 wins and an appearance in the MSHSAA Class 6 State Finals in 2023, where his team took fourth place.
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D1Baseball gives Bogenpohl All-American nod, further building résumé (7/5/24)The postseason honors keep on coming for former Jackson standout and rising Missouri State star Caden Bogenpohl, as the freshman sensation reeled in one of his biggest accolades to date on Friday. As part of its string of seasonal honors, D1Baseball tabbed Bogenpohl as one of its first-team freshman All-Americans, joining an elite club in the outfield...
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Veteran Tropics squad getting boost from new faces (7/1/24)With the core of his team returning this summer from its Babe Ruth World Series championship run last August, veteran Southeast Tropics manager Dustin Schwartz felt confident heading into this summer that his team would be pretty good. And it has been.
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Henley, 'Fish mates get aggressive early at the plate in home W (6/30/24)The Cape Catfish have not struggled through this Prospect League season to score runs – at times. In four of their past six games, Cape has scored a combined 38 runs, with shutout losses coming in the other two outings, which leads to some maddening consistency in production.
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Experience pays off in Tropics' opening game rally in Alabama tournament (6/28/24)Veteran Southeast Tropics manager Dustin Schwartz felt great about his summer baseball squad entering this season not only because of its talent level after winning the 2023 Babe Ruth World Series last August but because of its experience, as well.
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Semoball Cup finalists announced, breaking down top 10 programs (6/26/24)The 11th annual Semoball Cup chase has been narrowed down to the final 10 teams, and it’s a field packed with talent from schools both big and small. Six of the first 10 Semoball Cups belong to teams that enter the top-10 phase of this year’s cycle, including the reigning champions in the Jackson Indians...
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Jackson grad, Tulane recruit reflects on short Catfish stint (6/26/24)Before recent Jackson High School graduate John-Paul Sauer leaves home to begin his new challenge as a college pitcher at a top-tier conference, he had to experience a taste of what is to come. Fortunately for him, he didn’t have to go far for that experience...
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Catfish 'pen can't sustain another strong outing by former Jackson star (6/17/24)The transition to the next level of baseball for former Jackson High School standout pitcher John-Paul Sauer continued on Saturday with another seamless step in the (very) right direction.
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Borders ecstatic entering Year 2 with Catfish after breakout freshman season (6/13/24)Part of a deep Jackson heart of the Cape Catfish roster, Quinton Borders has been a big part of the order through the past couple weeks. Fresh off an appearance in the NJCAA Division I World Series in May, the Crowder College rising sophomore made big strides in his first year out of high school...
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Bogenpohl’s early efforts rewarded with NCBWA Freshman All-America honors (6/11/24)Caden Bogenpohl got some mighty honors on Monday as the National College Baseball Writers Association tabbed him as a second-team Freshman All-American. The Missouri State outfielder was selected as one of the top freshmen outfielders in the country, joining the likes of some of the greatest players in the country...
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Young Catfish coach has found Prospect League 'professional, talented' (6/11/24)This summer season in the Prospect League, though less than two weeks old, has proven to be a learning experience for the Cape Catfish players, but that evolution hasn’t been limited to just the guys that take the field and get at-bats.
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Hackworth earns early bragging rights over Jackson alums in Catfish-Hoots rivalry (6/9/24)Eight Jackson High School baseball alums were on the field when the O'Fallon Hoots and Cape Catfish clashed for the first of a seven-game rivalry series on Saturday, June 8, at Capaha Field. Only one of them was with the away team. Braden Hackworth went 2-for-5 with an RBI and led off the Hoots' three-run rally in the ninth inning to beat the Catfish 6-5...
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Former Jackson High star strong - eventually - in Catfish debut (6/8/24)First-year Cape Catfish pitcher John-Paul Sauer learned quickly that the Prospect League ain’t high school baseball.
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Jackson baseball looking ahead to 2025 campaign (6/7/24)It was another impressive year by area baseball teams in 2024. One of those clubs was the Jackson Indians, who had an impressive 25-8 season after graduating a wildly successful senior class. Losing the talent they did after the 2023 season, it was unclear how the Indians would bounce back in 2024...
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Semoball Awards spring sports finalists announced (6/6/24)Semoball Awards finalists for the spring sports categories were announced Thursday morning on a selection show broadcasted live on SEMO ESPN Radio and streamed on the Semoball.com Facebook page. Baseball Levi McKinnie, Chaffee Gabe Dirnberger, Oran Cooper Rhodes, Jackson...
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Hodges headlines deep, talented Aycorp Squirrel pitching rotation (6/6/24)Veteran manager Michael Minner openly admits that the 2023 summer season for the Aycorp Charleston Fighting Squirrels didn’t end well, as his team lost all four of its games in the Babe Ruth World Series. Having said that, he was positive about his team’s pitching in that critical tournament.
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Former Jackson player sees live pitching for first time in a while, as Catfish fall (5/30/24)It’s been a long wait for former Jackson High School baseball standout Steven Schneider to dig into the batter’s box and face live pitching – in a real game. However, he wasted no time in doing so on Wednesday, as he served as the leadoff hitter for the Cape Catfish in the team’s 3-0 loss at Jackson (Tenn.). “I just really want to get as many reps as I can,” Schneider said prior to the season-opening game on Wednesday, “and have fun out there.”
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2024 Southeast Tropics load up on arms for another World Series run (5/30/24)If the adage regarding a baseball team going as far as its pitching can take it, then the Southeast Tropics are in a pretty good position to repeat as the Babe Ruth World Series champions in August.
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2024 Cape Catfish has no shortage of local flavor (5/29/24)There will be no shortage of reasons to attend a Cape Catfish baseball game this summer.
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McMullen passes torch, bids farewell to illustrious Jackson coaching career (5/26/24)The last dance for 18-year Jackson Indians girls soccer coach Justin McMullen has finally come to an end, putting to rest a run that turned the team into one of the top dynasties around. Over his nearly two decades at his post as head coach, McMullen guided the girls to 10 district titles, seven of them coming consecutively since 2017, and the program’s first-ever final four...
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Jackson soccer drops quarterfinal at Nerinx, marking end of McMullen era (5/25/24)Against an all-too-familiar foe, Jackson girls soccer saw its season end on Saturday at the hands of a juggernaut Nerinx Hall team in St. Louis. The Markers, having finished second in each of the past four seasons and defeating Jackson in each of the last three, didn’t have it easy against a tough defensive Jackson team...
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Jackson soccer hoping history doesn’t repeat itself Saturday at Nerinx Hall (5/23/24)For the seventh straight year, the Jackson Indians won a district title. And for the third straight year, the Indians will do battle with Nerinx Hall in the Class 4 state quarterfinals, who has ended their season each of the last three years. Jackson (17-3) enters the Class 4 quarterfinal matchup having won 11 games in a row, and having allowed just seven goals all season long...
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Jackson golf concludes season with sixth-place finish at state (5/21/24)The Jackson boys golf team concludes the 2024 season with a sixth-place finish at the Class 5 State Tournament. Last Wednesday, the Indians were paced by Ian Lambert, who finished tied for 18th and shot a 75 on day one and a 72 on day two for a total of 147 to lead the Indians to a team score of 605 over the two days...
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Record-setting Rhodes has Jackson baseball primed for postseason run (5/6/24)The Jackson baseball team enters the final week of the regular season with a slate of home games leading up to the Class 6 District 1 Tournament at Lindbergh High School. The Indians (21-7) will attempt to return to the final four after making their first ever appearance as a program last year...
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John-Paul Sauer returning to form after ACL tear (5/2/24)If you asked John-Paul Sauer how he anticipated his senior year on the baseball field would play out, I’m not sure he would have predicted the ups and downs he would face. In fact, he may not have even had time to envision the upcoming baseball season at all...
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Gridiron primer: A look at upcoming football schedules (5/2/24)The calendar has turned to May and the spring sports season, as well as the 2023-24 school year, is beginning to wind down. However, with the recent releases of fall schedules for the 2024-25 school year, one can not help but look forward beyond the dog days of summer and into the 2024 high school football season...
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St. Joseph named new MSHSAA football championships host starting 2024 (4/30/24)For the first time since 1995, the MSHSAA Show-Me Bowl, the series of high school football state championships, won’t be in the Edward Jones Dome or at Faurot Field. Instead, the event has reportedly been scheduled to move to St. Joseph, Missouri, as soon as the 2024 season for some teams, moving to Missouri Western State’s Spratt Stadium...
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Sauer shines as Indians secure SEMO Conference Championship (4/30/24)A dominant outing from John-Paul Sauer led the Jackson Indians to a 5-0 win over the Dexter Bearcats to claim their third consecutive SEMO Conference Championship at Capaha Field on Monday. “It’s always fun to win and it’s always fun to play on this field,” Indians coach Josh Roach said. “Dexter played really well today and they’re a really good ball team. Our guys played good team baseball and got the job done.”...