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The season is finally over for the Semoball area. After 14 weeks of games, Cape Central and St. Vincent went on the road and lost as the final two remaining teams in the area. With our final edition of the rankings for 2023, we’re going to run back through each team’s season and grade how they performed with the talent that they brought into the season...

The St. Vincent Indians began the 2023-24 season on a high note by defeating Advance on the road 55-32 on Tuesday, Nov. 21, in Advance, Mo. Three St. Vincent players scored in the double digits during the game. Rylee Robinson led the Indians with 12 points, followed by 11 points from Cailyn Prost and 10 from Haley Emmendorfer...

The Scott City girls basketball team’s quest for a third straight winning season began on Monday, Nov. 20, with a 61-44 win on the road over Advance. Lilyan Landis led the Rams with 17 points. Ramsey Spinks and Mackenzie Lawless each scored nine points...

The number of teams remaining in the area has been chopped in half over the past week. Last week’s top two teams – Jackson and Portageville – both went down in heartbreaking defeats to some of the classes’ top dogs while Cape Central and St. Vincent marched on to the semifinals...

As the teams continue to get whittled down, more of them emerge as the year’s most successful teams. Some of these teams are still dominating the competition, while others are starting to face their toughest competitors of the season. Jackson, Portageville and St. Vincent all won big this past week. Cape Central maintained the game against Farmington and came away with a district title, but Scott City fell to Valle Catholic on the road...

It's not every year that a 6'6" junior walks into the gym and adds a new dynamic to the makeup of the team. That's what the Scott City Rams have in Kobe Watson, who transferred from Murray, Kentucky during the spring of the previous school year. He already made an impact on the baseball team during their 2023 district title run and has the potential to do the same on the court...

The absolute reality of high school football in Missouri is only one team will end their season in triumph. Everyone else will feel the pain of finality. It's just a matter of when not if. Every team this deep into the playoffs eventually runs into a buzzsaw, a brick wall that seems impenetrable. When the clock hits zero, the reality of the end of a senior's identity as a football player hits with a sudden thud, like the moment their heart stops beating...

The finalists for the Carr Trophy and the Derland Moore Award were released on Friday, November 10. The winners of the awards will be announced at the 78th Poplar Bluff Letter Club Gridiron Banquet on Wednesday, November 29 at Black River Coliseum in Poplar Bluff...

In their district semifinal win over New Madrid County Central last week, the Scott City Rams did something they haven’t done before during Jim May’s head coaching tenure. They scored 70 points in a single game. “I didn't think we'd score that many points,” May said. “I thought we were going to have a good offensive night.”...

Everyone was active for a Week 11 playoff slate that saw a number of important verdicts in southeast Missouri. Some teams got big wins, while others saw their seasons come to an abrupt end. Cape Central’s win against St. Mary’s South Side emerged as the biggest win of the week for our top 10 teams, while Scott City went into hostile territory and knocked off the highly-ranked New Madrid County Central Eagles...

An overwhelming matchup was correctly predicted but in the opposite direction. The Scott City Rams came to New Madrid County Central and grounded the Eagles 70-28 in the Class 2 District 1 semifinal game on Friday, Nov. 3, in New Madrid, Missouri. It is the first time all season that the Rams have scored 70 points...

Statistical leaders from the Southeast Missourian coverage area through the regular season. The Southeast Missourian covers six local football teams: Cape Central, Chaffee, Jackson, Perryville, Scott City, and St. Vincent. An asterisk (*) indicates that a team is eliminated from the 2023 MSHSAA football playoffs and that a player's stats are finalized for the 2023 season...

The bye week is over, and the true heat of the playoffs has begun. We saw some interesting results throughout the first week of action, including a big upset in Class 4. While many teams got time to rest, we got to see the first postseason action for a handful of teams. Some big wins, some tough losses but as we enter Week 11, there’s plenty left to play for...

Tears flow down the faces on both sides of the net. For Arcadia Valley, it's tears of joy, as the Tigers advance to the Class 2 semifinals for the first time since finishing 2nd in 2018. For Scott City, the tears come from the agony of defeat. A straight-set loss (20-25, 21-25, 17-25) on Saturday in Scott City brings the Rams' dream season to a thudding finale in the Class 2 quarterfinals...

Scott City shook off the rust and left East Prairie in the dust in a 56-8 victory to begin the Class 2 playoffs.

PORTAGEVILLE, Mo. — Scott City burst onto the court with the energy of a supernova and laser-like focus as the team executed its game plan with precision and flair in a 3-0 win at Portageville in the MSHSAA Class 2 Sectional Round on Thursday, October 26...

Each week of the high school football season, Southeast Missourian sports editor Tony Capobianco will provide a quick matchup rundown for each of the seven area teams. The regular season is over so in the final edition of the Gridiron Guide, we name the MVP of each area team...

Statistical leaders from the Southeast Missourian coverage area through the regular season.

As we enter a bye week for many of our local teams, there’s plenty of regular-season drama to reflect on. There are some important scorelines to go over from Week 9, the most important of which comes from the big battle between the SEMO Central and SEMO South champions...

Each week of the high school football season, Southeast Missourian sports editor Tony Capobianco will provide a quick matchup rundown for each of the seven area teams. In the final week of the regular season, I'm doing something different and revisiting our "Countdown to Kickoff" questions from our Gridiron magazine...

Portageville officially cemented its place as the SEMO South champion in Week 8, defeating Kelly handily and rounding out the three SEMO Conference champions before the slate of regular-season finales begins. With the biggest area game of the year on the horizon, with two conference champions doing battle in New Madrid, there are some big games on the schedule for Week 9...

CHARLESTON — Mark Panagos scored four touchdowns in three different ways to lead the Scott City Rams to a 55-20 win over Charleston on Thursday, Oct. 12, in Charleston, Mo.

Statistical leaders from the Southeast Missourian coverage area through seven games. The Southeast Missourian covers six local football teams: Cape Central, Chaffee, Jackson, Perryville, Scott City and St. Vincent...

Each week of the high school football season, Southeast Missourian sports editor Tony Capobianco will provide a quick matchup rundown for each of the seven area teams. Doniphan canceling the rest of their season has thrown a wrench into the schedules of both Chaffee and Scott City. Chaffee gets the rare bye week with the forfeit win this week while Scott City will have a long layoff between Thursday's road game at Charleston and the district playoffs...

Every single team in the Semoball Area Football Top 10 Rankings won last week. That’s the first time that’s ever happened. Some big wins, some little wins and some medium-sized wins happened in Week 7. St. Vincent may have taken the biggest win last week, while Poplar Bluff managed to slide by Farmington in a SEMO North Conference battle...

Scott City's run of dominance continues with a 56-14 win over Chaffee on Friday, in Chaffee, Mo. Scott City stuck first when quarterback Mark Panagos threw a 35-yard touchdown pass to Jackson Gloth, giving the Rams a 7-0 early in the first quarter. Chaffee struck back with a two-yard rushing touchdown by quarterback Carson Spies to tie the game. The Red Devils had five linemen pushing forward and five running backs forming an entourage for Spies whenever he carried the ball...

Combatants on the field. Companions off the field. The Scott City Rams and Chaffee Red Devils are the local embodiment of a friendly rivalry. More so now than before. "It's really different because we know everyone from Scott City on a personal level, not just knowing of them," Chaffee senior quarterback Carson Spies said. "It's kind of different trying to flip the switch from playing against people you don't know to playing against your friends."...

Statistical leaders from the Southeast Missourian coverage area through six games. The Southeast Missourian covers six local football teams: Cape Central, Chaffee, Jackson, Perryville, Scott City and St. Vincent...

Each week of the high school football season, Southeast Missourian sports editor Tony Capobianco will provide a quick matchup rundown for each of the seven area teams. Week 7 is the start of the final stretch of the football season. Perryville (3-3) at New Madrid County Central (6-0)...

The Scott City Rams traveled to Oak Ridge and grounded the Blue Jays in four sets 25-21, 25-22, 22-25, 25-13) on Monday night in Oak Ridge, Mo. Ramsey Spinks led the Rams with 43 assists. The junior surpassed the 1,000 assist career benchmark the previous weekend during the SEMO Conference Tournament, in which Scott City went 2-1...

No statement rang louder in Week 6 than the dominant performance of the Scott City Rams, who routed the No. 10 Kelly Hawks on the road to improve to 4-2. With a number of big wins on the week, the rankings saw a few teams shaken up.

For the second consecutive week, the Scott City Rams scored over 60 points in a win. Unlike last week, the Rams did it against an undefeated opponent by clobbering Kelly 63-6 on Friday in Benton, Mo. Kelly’s only score came on a four-yard rushing touchdown by senior running back Reece Eftink, who now has seven touchdowns and 742 rushing yards on the season...

Conference standings and statistical leaders from the SEMO Conference — North, Central and South.

Statistical leaders from the Southeast Missourian coverage area.

Each week of the high school football season, Southeast Missourian sports editor Tony Capobianco will provide a quick matchup rundown for each of the seven area teams. Week 6 is filled with teams either teams likely running into buzzsaws or becoming the buzzsaw, with one clear exception...

A lot of teams made waves in Week 5. Some good, some great and some bad. However, many teams stood their ground and proved a lot about themselves. After five weeks of play, we’ve gotten to know a lot about the teams in the area and we now have a pretty good idea of what the conference standings will look like at the end of the season. With this being said, however, there’s still plenty of time left for these teams to make a statement in 2023...

The homecoming king had a ball. Scott City senior Tyson Underwood rushed for 142 yards and five touchdowns on 11 carries to lead the Rams to a 62-8 win over the Malden Green Wave on Friday, Sept. 22, in Scott City. “Our plan was to go fast all night," Underwood said. "So the play calling went my way.”...

SCOTT CITY, Mo. — In a disappointing match, Sikeston volleyball suffered a decisive 3-0 defeat at Scott City on Thursday, September 21. The Lady Rams (6-5-1) celebrated Senior Night with the win over the Lady Bulldogs (4-11-2) in set scores of 25-13, 25-18 and 25-15...

Each week of the high school football season, Southeast Missourian sports editor Tony Capobianco will provide a quick matchup rundown for each of the seven area teams. Due to the timing of the Gridiron Guide, Thursday matchups are excluded, which is why Kelly was left out last week and Perryville is being excluded this week. But don't worry, the Pirates have their very own preview...

Portageville’s dominating run continues as the Bulldogs steamroll the Rams of Scott City 56-32 on Friday in Scott City, Mo. This was a rivalry game Portageville really wanted to win. “I just love playing this team so much,” said Portageville senior receiver Carson Bradley, “I think this is the highest we beat Scott City by in four years.”...

Friday's showdown between Scott City (2-1) and Class 1 juggernaut Portageville may be the game of the week. The No. 2 team in Class 1 defeated East Prairie 56-0 the previous week, led by Semoball Award-winning running back Jamarion Smith, who scored three rushing touchdowns and caught another score. He gained 134 yards on 10 carries, as Portagevile rushed for a total of 328 yards, averaging 17.3 yards per carry average...

Scott City VB dealing with adversity after Dig For Life Tournament The Dig For Life Tournament, an event so big that it takes two days and three locations, serves as an inflection point for the seasons of many teams. "I think we are a stronger team after having played through the Dig For Life," Scott City coach Cidny Henry said...

There’s been some significant movement among the top teams in the area after week three. With some high-scoring action across some of the region’s best games of the week, we saw quite a few big results come across the ticker. With a new No. 2 in southeast Missouri, the area power rankings saw quite the shakeup between weeks three and four. While some teams made positive statements on Friday night, the opposite happened to a few other local teams...

The Scott City Rams entered the season knowing what their bread and butter is. Seniors Mark Panagos and Tyson Underwood lead the offense to the point where whether or not they win or lose is based on how they play or if they play. The defense, on the other hand, was an unknown going in. There were a plethora of seniors who were receiving playing time for the first time and are now being counted on to be leaders...

Each week of the high school football season, Southeast Missourian sports editor Tony Capobianco will provide a quick matchup rundown for each of the seven area teams. With two weeks into the season, we are now getting closer to rivalry week territory...

The second week of local high school football action saw a number of important scorelines. The most impressive among these, however, came from the two teams that returned to the top of the power rankings as the area powerhouses once again proved their mettle against the strong teams from up north...

A week ago, Mark Panagos had to leave to season opener early because of a hamstring injury. Just seven days later, the Scott City senior wills the Rams to a 16-14 victory over St. Vincent on Friday, Sept. 1, in Scott City. "It was just mental," Panagos said. "I just had to get through it and push through for my team because I know they'd do the same thing for me."...

Scott City volleyball coach Cindy Henry described the 2023 Rams as "same team, different look." "I have a lot of the same returners coming back, but we have a completely different atmosphere," Henry said. The Rams went 24-11-3 last year, their second consecutive 20-win season. Led by Ramsey Spinks and Gracie Karrenbrock, Scott City looks primed for another 20-win season...