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BROSELEY — The Puxico Indians dug deep to win their first-round match in the MSHSAA Class 2 District 2 Volleyball Tournament on Thursday night at Twin Rivers High School. The fourth-seeded Indians rode a strong effort by their defense and showed the ability to close out games en route to a 26-24, 25-16, 26-24 victory over fifth-seeded Greenville...

CAPE GIRARDEAU – As Heartland Conference Cross Country meet director Travis Calkins announced the final team standings for the event on Tuesday at Cape County North Park, he continually heaped praise on the Oak Ridge program. “Oak Ridge is one of the premier cross country programs in Missouri,” Calkins said.

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...

Friday’s football game between Dexter and Malden has been canceled, but that won’t stop the Bearcats from ending a 10-year postseason drought. They will host a district playoff game for the first time since 2011 when Park Hills Central beat them 29-28 in the first round...

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)...

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...

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...

PERRYVILLE — The Dexter Bearcats scored a variety — and a lot — of touchdowns Saturday, spoiling Perryville High School’s homecoming. Dexter’s offense, defense and special teams produced points in a 72-26 rout of the Pirates. The Bearcats scored four touchdowns rushing, Josh Alday threw three touchdown passes, the defense scored three touchdowns and Levi Dement made a field goal...

DEXTER — The second-seeded Dexter Bearcats repeatedly disrupted the Woodland offense en route to winning their first SCAA Volleyball Tournament championship since 2017. Dexter rallied from a one-game deficit to knock off top-seeded Woodland 24-26, 25-15, 25-15, 25-11 on Friday night at the Bearcat Event Center...

DEXTER — The second-seeded Dexter Bearcats withstood every challenge presented to them by Advance. The Bearcats fought off the three-time defending tournament champion Hornets 25-18, 25-23, 25-22 Thursday night to advance to the championship match of the SCAA Volleyball Tournament...

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

The Cardinals fired manager Mike Shildt over philosophical differences within the organization Thursday, just one week after St. Louis lost to the Los Angeles Dodgers in the National League wild-card game. Cardinals president John Mozeliak said the firing was “something that popped up recently,” but he declined to expand on what he called “philosophical differences.” He did point out that Shildt was heading into the final year of his contract but that it wasn’t the sole reason for parting ways...

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...

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...

DEXTER — Sophomore Bryce Gentry and senior Addie Heisserer pulled away from the pack, as did their Jackson Indians at the SEMO Conference Cross Country Meet on Wednesday on the Dexter R-XI School District campus. Gentry and Heisserer led the Indians to team championships...

DEXTER — Momentum was missing from most of the match between Bernie and Bell City on Tuesday night at the SCAA Volleyball Tournament. Neither team led by more than five points in a tight, back-and-forth match in the first round of the tournament at the Bearcat Event Center. ...