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The Advance Hornets brought home another tournament trophy Saturday, beating Valle Catholic 25-22, 25-15 to win the Jackson volleyball tournament. While the two-time defending Class 1 state champion Hornets remain unbeaten, they lost their first two sets of the season along the way. They split two sets with Valle Catholic in pool play and needed a third set to beat St. Pius X in the semifinals...

The Advance baseball team scored four runs in the sixth inning to blow open a tight game and beat South Pemiscot 8-3 Saturday in a round robin at Malden. Jed Garner drove home a run with a bases-loaded walk, Tyler Davis was struck by a pitch with the bases full, and with two outs, Jack Bailey doubled home the final two runs...

DEXTER — The Dexter football team finished strong to win its first game of the season and first on the new turf at Charles Bland Stadium. Dexter quarterback Josh Alday threw four touchdowns, and Ryan Collier caught three of them in the Bearcats’ 26-7 win over Doniphan on Friday night in a SEMO Central Conference matchup...

Kennett and Notre Dame took home singles, and doubles honors at Friday’s SEMO Conference tennis meet at Sikeston.

Woodland defeated Puxico at home Friday night in straight sets, winning 25-11, 25-18, and 25-9 to cap off a busy week of play, going 3-1 in the week and 6-4-2 overall on the season. Addie Johnson had 11 kills for the Cardinals as well as six digs. Emma Brown produced 10 kills of her own to go along with nine digs and four aces...

Derland Moore, who played 14 seasons in the NFL and was an All-American defensive lineman at the University of Oklahoma, died Thursday night. The Poplar Bluff native was 68. Moore was a walk-on at Oklahoma after earning a track scholarship based on one meet that his father didn’t want him to attend because he had to work on the family farm...

Perryville could not string together the offense to come back, getting behind early in the game, to mount a comeback as they lost to Hillsboro Thursday at home 7-3. The Hawks jumped out to an early 1-0 lead in the first. They would then score three more runs in the top of inning three, with the home-team Pirates getting on the scoreboard one-half inning later, pushing a lone run across the plate...

SIKESTON — The sequel ended up being as good as the original Thursday night as Poplar Bluff edged Sikeston 3-2 in overtime. “The guys kept fighting,” Mules coach Rusty Crafton said. “It was a good all-around game. A good win for us.” The Mules (4-4-1) beat Sikeston in penalty kicks on Sept. 10 at home after falling behind by two goals...

The Advance baseball team broke a 2-all tie in the fifth inning and beat Leopold 4-3 Wednesday at Westfield Park in Advance. Leopold scored a run in the top of the fifth before the Hornets’ Hunter Tidwell singled home two runs for a 4-2 lead. Gus Garner was the winning pitcher, allowing one unearned run on three hits with 10 strikeouts and no walks in three innings...

The Holcomb baseball team walked off a winner when Nate Rhew scored on a balk in the bottom of the eighth inning Thursday at Holcomb. The Hornets loaded the bases with one out before Connor Scott’s balk handed them a 4-3 win over Bloomfield. Bloomfield scored two runs in the top of the second to take a 2-0 lead and one in the third to tie the score at 3...

It was a good week for Notre Dame athletes both on AND off the field, as a pair of Bulldogs earned success in their athletic quests, as well as proved to be popular with Southeast Missouri fans.

MALDEN — Serve-receive was not Malden’s friend Tuesday night. The Green Wave struggled to generate any offense and allowed 13 service aces in a 25-10, 25-17, 25-6 loss to the Bernie Mules volleyball team at Malden High School. “Serve-receive’s difficult. ...

With the recent and surprising announcement by Southeast Missouri State football that it would be returning to the football field over the next four weeks for training camp, followed by a game at Southern Illinois on Oct. 23, seventh-year coach Tom Matukewicz was excited about the opportunity to “learn a lot about our team.”

There is a reason why Kennett football coach Joel Wyatt is an extraordinarily successful coach and not a member of the media or even a fan, per se. His task is to focus on the here and now, not some possible, but not definitive opponent off into the future. However, the Indian Nation – and the rest of the prep football fans (and media) throughout Southeast Missouri had to have had their interest piqued a tad when MSHSAA released its District assignments Monday.

In a matchup at home it was Cape Central winning all 6 varsity matches against Saxony Lutheran. Singles scores include: 1. Emily Ford(CC) def. Sydney Turner(SL) 9-7 2. Megan Maxton(CC) def. Maddox Murphy(SL) 8-5 3, Cammy Soto(CC) def. Skyler Soto(SL) 8-1...

Woodland couldn’t overcome an early deficit and fell to Dexter Monday evening in three straight sets, losing 22-25, 17-25, and 16-25, dropping the Cardinals season record to 3-4-2. Woodland head coach Melissa Rinacke received outstanding effort despite the loss,...

The Advance Hornets baseball team’s seventh-inning rally came up short in a 6-5 loss to SCAA rival Woodland on Tuesday at Marble Hill. Woodland picked off a runner at third base — the potential game-tying run — to end the game. The Hornets had the bases loaded with only one out.

Statewide high school football rankings, as compiled by a 9-member panel of sportswriters and broadcasters. First-place votes in parenthesis. Only teams that have played games this season are eligible for rankings. CLASS 6 Rank, team, Rec., Pts. 1. Raymore-Peculiar (9), 4-0, 99...

Depending on who you are, some people want to deal with Southeast Missouri State women’s basketball coach Rekha Patterson, while others don’t.

Everything in life during this calamitous year has been fluid and nothing captures that instability more so than the college football season.

BLOOMFIELD — First-year Bloomfield baseball coach Ryan Alexander is building his team around defense. The Wildcats played error-free ball Monday in their 16-0 rout of Gideon. The game was called in the third inning because of the 15-run mercy rule. “That’s been our identity as a team. ...

Four Dexter athletes won medals Saturday at the Cape Central Cross Country Invitational in Cape Girardeau. Carter Dorton and Gavin Cartwright took home medals in the 3.1-mile varsity boys race. Dorton placed 17th in 18 minutes, 33.99 seconds and Cartwright was 20th in 18:56.26...

DEXTER — The East Prairie football team capitalized on a pair of third quarter fumbles and orchestrated a time-consuming, game-clinching touchdown drive in the fourth quarter to beat the Dexter Bearcats 25-15 Friday night at Charles Bland Stadium. The Eagles (3-1, 2-0 SEMO Central Conference) trailed 15-7 at halftime, but back-to-back turnovers by Dexter allowed them to take a lead they didn’t relinquish...

The Woodland baseball team lost a very close game to Bloomfield Friday at home by the score of 5-4 to drop their record to 1-2 on the shortened season. The Wildcats jumped out to an early lead, plating two runs in their half of the first inning. The Cardinals answered, scoring one run in the third inning and then three more in the fourth inning, capped off by a 1 out, RBI single by Seth Abernathy...