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Portageville High School volleyball coach Sasha Kellams knows a thing or two about postseason success.

MARTIN, Tenn. — It still had a heartbeat, but it was faint. When Southeast Missouri State defensive tackle Bryson Donnell recovered a fumble by Tennessee-Martin quarterback Keon Edwards with 2:12 left in the fourth quarter on Saturday, the Redhawks were in a position to push the country's 13th-ranked team to overtime...

Subject to change. Friday, Oct. 29 Mehlville at Fox, 7 p.m. Cape Central at Seckman, 7p.m. Oakville at Poplar Bluff, 7 p.m. Friday, Nov. 5 Fox-Mehlville winner at Jackson, 7 p.m. Poplar Bluff-Oakville winner vs. Seckman-Central winner, 7 p.m...

CLARKTON — The Gideon Bulldogs returns to the district finals, punching their ticket and set up a date with Tri-County Conference foe Clarkton in the Class 1, District 2 championship game. The Bulldogs defeated Risco 25-10, 25-16 25-13 in the district semifinals to advance to the championship game...

SIKESTON – It was a good thing for the Kennett High School football squad on Friday that it held a large enough lead for most of the game at Sikeston to: * Be able to play its entire complement of players, and * Utilize a running clock throughout much of the second half The Indians overcame a sluggish start against the Bulldogs to win easily 56-5 to close out the 2021 regular season.

BENTON – After winning five-straight games to start the season, injuries and a tougher schedule started to take their toll on the Kelly Hawks. The result was a string of three-consecutive losses going into their final regular season game Friday night against winless Bayless...

CAPE GIRARDEAU – In the five years that Cindy Cissell has been leading the Perryville High School volleyball program, its common theme has been success. The Pirates have averaged over 16 wins per season during that span, including an MSHSAA Class 3 Sectional championship won in 2019. However, the Pirates have plunged this season to a record of 6-18-2 this fall, which Cissell said has been confounding.

SIKESTON — The Sikeston Bulldogs soccer squad picked up an early goal in the first half but could not keep the Hillsboro Hawks off the board despite a productive defensive effort, falling to the Hawks 2-1 Thursday night. The Hawks sent a statement early with a shot on target in the fourth minute of the match but the Bulldogs’ keeper Jon Martin Boner showed that to see the back of his net wouldn’t be easy...

BENTON – The Kelly High School softball team played beyond its experience in Wednesday’s 2-1 loss to Iberia in the MSHSAA Class 2 Quarterfinal.

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.

KENNETT AT SIKESTON Records: Kennett 6-2; Sikeston 3-5 Last week: Kennett lost to Poplar Bluff 41-15; Sikeston lost to NMCC 44-0 Series history: Sikeston leads 59-11-1 Last meeting: 2020, Kennett won 53-14 Notes: Both Kennett and Sikeston are hoping to end the regular season on a high note heading into districts after both took big losses in Week 8. ...

The 2021 Tri County Conference Fall Baseball Team has been selected with Nate Rhew of Holcomb and Hayden Nazareanus of Cooter selected as Co-Players of the Year. David Mathis of Cooter and Micheal Snider of Holcomb were voted as the conference Coaches of the Year...

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.

The Clearwater Tigers lost their final regular-season game to perennial power Winona at home on Tuesday in straight sets, 25-11, 25-19, 25-8. Clearwater coach Lisa Ayers got 10 kills from senior Jaylin Street. The Tigers (8-21-3) will await the winner of Puxico/Greenville at 6 p.m. on Friday at the Class 2 District 2 tournament at Twin Rivers High School...

SEMO Prep's Team White coach Johnny Dancy was satisfied with how his team performed on Saturday when the Huskies visited Crowley Ridge College in Paragould, Ark., for a pair of preseason matchups. In its first game, SEMO Prep rolled past Faith Prep out of Memphis, Tenn., 111-72...

The Advance volleyball team sent out it's only senior a winner. Alandry Below led the Hornets to a 25-20, 25-18, 25-17 victory over St. Vincent on senior night Tuesday at Advance High School. The three-time defending Class 1 state champion Hornets (16-12-2) will begin defense of their championship on Friday in the District 3 tournament on their home court. The No. 2 seed will open against No. 7 Marquand-Zion at 4 p.m. in a first-round matchup...

CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. — The Sikeston Bulldogs soccer team traveled north to Cape Girardeau to take on the state ranked Notre Dame Bulldogs, falling 8-0. Notre Dame entered the match landing a sixth spot in the Class 3 state rankings for boys soccer released on Monday. Notre Dame lived up to their ranking within just one minute of the match when they put the first score of the match on the board...

CAPE GIRARDEAU – Things haven’t always gone smoothly this volleyball season for Poplar Bluff. The Mules (8-20-1) have endured two seven-game stretches in which they didn’t win a match. However, Coach Aimie Parkin’s squad looked more than solid on Monday, as they swept Sikeston 2-0 on the opening night of pool play in the SEMO Conference Tournament at the Cape Girardeau SportsPlex.

Meadow Heights won a close one on Monday night to wrap up its regular season, beating Bell City 25-12, 25-19, 21-25, 28-26 on the road. The Panthers, who have won eight in a row heading into district play, got a solid game from senior Kambri Erzfeld (11 kills, 15 digs, two aces) and Ashley Allen (37 assists, 21 digs, one kill)...

NMCC at Charleston Records: NMCC 6-1; Charleston 1-7 Last week: NMCC defeated Sikeston 44-0; Charleston lost to Scott City 41-0 Series history: NMCC leads 23-9 Last meeting: 2020, NMCC won 60-20 Notes: New Madrid County Central rebounded from their first loss last week by dominating Class 4 Sikeston 44-0. ...

x-conference champ; --- MISSOURI MEDIA RANKINGS A look at rankings from a 10-member panel of media members from around the state with current record, points based on votes with first place votes in parentheses and last week’s ranking. CLASS 6 Also receiving votes: Lindbergh (7-1) 7; Marquette (7-1) 2; Liberty (5-3) 1...

Saxony Lutheran handed Oran its 19th loss of the season in a sweep of matches on Friday, beating the Eagles,25-4, 25-14, 25-14.

If Southeast Missouri State can take any solace from Saturday's gut-punching 32-31 loss to Murray State, it's that it didn't count. Not in the Ohio Valley Conference standings, anyway. Racers sophomore quarterback D.J. Williams — making his first collegiate start — orchestrated a six-play, 84-yard drive in the final 62 seconds, an effort capped by Aaron Baum's 35-yard game-winning field goal that took the air out of a half-filled-because-of-stadium-conditions Houck Field...

Notre Dame’s Mason Morris won the varsity boys division of the Farmington Invitational cross country meet Saturday, completing the 3.1-mile course in 16 minutes, 57.55 seconds. He beat second-place Reed Layton, of Woodland, by 10.1 seconds (17:07.05) at Engler Park in Farmington...

Similar sequence, bigger stage. When SEMO midfielder Lauren Welker intercepted an Eastern Illinois pass on Thursday and proceeded to find open, fellow Jackson alum Katelyn Miller, the freshman’s one-touch goal evoked a stream of memories. Welker, a senior, helped the young Miller scorch the net in high school, too...

NEW MADRID – Powerful, gusting winds and an inconsistent rain grounded New Madrid County Central’s potent passing attack most of the night Friday against visiting Sikeston. It didn’t matter. Turning to their running game, the Eagles got a monster night out of senior running back Corvel Williams as they rolled to a 40-0 win on senior night...

RISCO — Continuing their winning tradition, the Tri-County Conference once again belongs to Gideon as they swept the third-seeded Clarkton Reindeer 25-14, 25-12, 25-5, Friday night to win the Tri-County Tournament. "It feels really good. We have worked hard all season we knew it was going to be tough no matter who was on the other side,” Kaylee Ashabranner said...

CARUTHERSVILLE — Caruthersville scored early and often and rolled past East Prairie 42-0 for a homecoming win Friday night. The Tigers scored 36 points in the first quarter and tacked on another 6 in the second quarter to earn their first win of the season...

CARUTHERSVILLE – It’s a new era for the Bootheel Conference Volleyball Tournament and Portageville sent a message on Thursday to that effect and third-year Bulldog coach Sasha Kellams said her program may enjoy this spot for a while.

POPLAR BLUFF — One dugout at Rains Field featured a team making its first district finals appearance since the spring of 2016, the other side had been here plenty of times before. Still, there were nerves on both sides Thursday night. “Right before we took the field we were like this is weird,” Kelly senior Kendyl Stuckey said. “We could tell our hearts were pumping. We all took a deep breath and we’re like ‘it’s fine, we’ve been here before, we can do it.’”...

CHARLESTON – The Charleston High School volleyball program recently won its eighth match of the 2021 season with a 3-2 victory against Oran. Given the Bluejays have 10 defeats, to go with one tie, the overall 8-10-1 record may not seem that impressive. However, once you study the recent history of the program, eight victories are quite the achievement.

On a night that was about more than soccer, the Sikeston soccer team dropped a 5-2 decision to visiting Perryville. Sikeston fell behind 3-0 in the first half to Perryville, who is ranked third in Class 2. “Our game plan was to sit back and defend and look for counters,” said Sikeston head coach Gabe Dement. ...

SIKESTON — It was another exciting night of volleyball at the Sikeston Field House Thursday evening as the Lady Bulldogs hosted the New Madrid County Central Eagles, winning it’s sixth-straight match in a five set thriller over New Madrid County Central, 25-23, 20-25, 27-25, 20-25, 15-8...

Five Outside looking in: Holcomb (15-6-1), Bernie (15-8-1), Dexter (14-9-1), Portageville (14-9-3), Richland (Essex) (17-10),...

You can tell how important a professional position is to a person when they can immediately tell you the day that they received the opportunity.

Top-seeded Senath-Hornersville defeated fourth-seeded Campbell, 25-17, 25-20, on Wednesday as the Lions’ secured their place in the championship game at the Bootheel Conference Tournament at Caruthersville High School. The Camels (6-15-2) got 17 kills from Delayni Smith and nine service points from Marie Wheeler on offense...

FESTUS, Mo. — Sikeston saw their season come to an end in the Class 4, District 1 Softball Tournament Wednesday after a late rally lifted Windsor to a 6-3 win. “I feel like we played a very competitive game against a great ball club that is ranked 10th in the state in Class 4,” said Sikeston coach Jacob May. “I think defensively and offensively we played very sound and mistake free.”...

SIKESTON AT NMCC Records: Sikeston 3-4; NMCC 5-1 Last week: Sikeston defeated Charleston 62-8; NMCC lost to Valle Catholic 64-22 Series history: Sikeston leads 27-11 Last meeting: 2020, NMCC won 64-34 Notes: NMCC snapped an 11-game losing streak to the Bulldogs last year with a 64-34 win. ...

Campbell was victorious in the first round of the Bootheel Conference Tournament at Caruthersville on Tuesday, beating Caruthersville in three sets. Behind junior Delayni Smith’s four kills and 20 assists, the Camels downed the Tigers, 25-16, 19-25, 15-9...

The Cape Central boys swim team finished third overall at the John Burroughs High School tri-meet Tuesday, scoring 41 points. Tigers Individual results: Event 1: 200 Medley Relay 5th - Owen Groves, Elias Theall, Noah McRaven, Adam Sparks – 2:06.00 Event 2: 200 Freestyle...

SIKESTON — Tuesday night in the Field House the Sikeston Lady Bulldogs took down the Indians from Kennett for the first time since 2017, 3 sets to 1. The Indians played the Lady Bulldogs close all evening, forcing them to dig deep to earn the three sets 26-24, 25-20, 26-28, 25-21...

The seventh-seeded Greenville Bears stunned second-seeded Chaffee 8-5 in the first round of the MSHSAA Class 2 District 1 playoffs Tuesday at Rains Field, the only lower seed to win in the tournament’s opening round. In other first-round action, fourth-seeded Twin Rivers downed No. 5 Saxony Lutheran 3-1, top-seeded Kelly shut out No. 8 Seymour 4-0 and No. 3 Hartville downed sixth-seeded Gainesville 3-1...

The Notre Dame volleyball team wasted little time on Tuesday against Cape Central, dismantling the Tigers on the road in straight sets. Coach Meridith Brinkmeyer got another stellar game from senior Rylee McClintock, who smashed 16 kills, recorded 13 digs — both game-highs — and secured two ace serves in the Bulldogs’ 25-19, 25-20, 25-14 win...

The top-seeded Kelly Hawks staved off elimination on Tuesday, beating the eighth seed Seymour Tigers 4-0 at the Class 2 District 1 quarterfinal at Three Rivers College in Poplar Bluff. Sophomore pitcher Mallery Lemonds pitched a complete-game shutout for Kelly, allowing just four hits, striking out seven and walking three...

NEW MADRID, Mo. — It was all Scott City Tuesday night as the Rams rolled over the New Madrid County Central Eagles in three sets 25-14, 25-13, 25-19. Turnovers were the kryptonite for NMCC as Scott City took full advantage and rolled to a three-set win...

SEMO Prep School went 2-1 in its first set of games, as program director Roy Booker's Red Team traveled to Vincennes University in Indiana and played a trio of games. The Huskies took on Dohn Prep out of Cincinnati, Ohio in the first game, winning 54-46...