Murfreesboro TN - Dexter native Marcus Greer continues his athletic career with a stellar season at Middle Tennessee State University. Greer, a 6 foot 3 inch 285 Redshirt Freshman was named to the All-Freshman Team for Conference USA.
Marcus received multiple awards including being named the team's offensive player of the week and offensive lineman award. Greer was a starter in 10 games this season until he suffered an injury during the game against Rice University and missed the remainder of the season. Marcus is expected to make a full recovery and be ready for the Spring practices.
Middle Tennessee Blue Raiders suffered through the 2019 season ending with an overall record of 4 wins and 8 losses (3-5 C-USA). The Blue Raiders have a very young squad and have great hope for the 2020 Fall season. The Blue Raiders finished 5th in the C-USA conference for the year, just one spot below the preseason prediction.
Though Marcus played at Chaminade High School and denotes his hometown of St. Louis, Missouri, the Dexter community lays 100% claim of Marcus and his parents, Matt and Lisa Greer, as Dexter natives. Grandparents Gary and Judy Crump and Beverly Hunter and many other uncles, aunts and cousins are reside in Dexter and are very proud of Marcus. The entire community wishes him well in all his athletic and academic endeavors.
Bloomfield, Missouri - The 63rd Annual Bloomfield Christmas Tournament seeds and bracket have been released. The Kennett Indians earned the #1 seed. The Tournament will feature 16 teams over four days beginning December 26th.
Kennett will play #16 Richland at 10:00 a.m. on December 26th at Bloomfield High School gym.
Seeds are: #1 Kennett, #2 Bernie, #3 Dexter, #4 Portageville, #5 Hayti, #6 Doniphan, #7 Van Buren, #8 Malden, #9 East Prairie, #10 Gideon, #11Twin Rivers, #12 South Pemiscot, #13 Bloomfield, #14 Puxico, #15 Holcomb, and #16 Richland.
Thursday, December 26th
Game 1 - 10:00 a.m. Kennett (4-2) vs Richland (1-2)
Game 2 - 11:15 a.m. Bernie (4-0) vs Holcomb (0-5)
Game 3 - 12:30 p.m. Dexter (0-3) vs Puxico (1-4)
Game 4 - 2:00 p.m. Portageville (3-0) vs Bloomfield (1-3)
Game 5 - 3:30 p.m. Hayti (4-1) vs South Pemiscot (1-2)
Game 6 - 5:00 p.m. Doniphan (4-5) vs Twin Rivers (2-3)
Game 7 - 6:30 p.m. Van Buren (4-5) vs Gideon (3-3)
Game 8 - 8:00 p.m. Malden (2-3) vs East Prairie (2-1)
Consolation quarterfinals on Friday, December 27th
Portageville/Bloomfield loser vs. Hayti/South Pemiscot loser, 10:00 a.m.
Bernie/Holcomb loser vs. Van Buren/Gideon loser, 11:30 p.m.
Dexter/Puxico loser vs. Doniphan/Twin Rivers loser, 1:00 p.m.
Kennett/Richland loser vs. Malden/East Prairie loser, 2:30 p.m.
Championship quarterfinals on Friday, December 27th
Kennett/Richland winner vs. Malden/East Prairie winner, 4:00 p.m.
Portageville/Bloomfield winner vs. Hayti/South Pemiscot winner, 5:30 p.m.
Bernie/Holcomb winner vs. Van Buren/Gideon winner, 7:00 p.m.
Dexter/Puxico winner vs. Doniphan/Twin Rivers winner, 8:30 p.m.
Saturday, December 28th
Consolation semifinals are at 1:00 p.m. and 2:30 p.m.
Fifth-place semifinals are at 4:00 p.m. and 5:30 p.m.
Monday, December 30th
Consolation Championship 4:00 p.m.
Fifth-place game 5:30 p.m.
Third-place game 7:00 p.m.
The Championship game will be at 8:30 p.m. Monday, December 30th
Dexter, Missouri - The 2020 Dexter football schedule has been announced on the MSHSAA website. The schedule features new opponents in weeks 1, 2, 4 and 8.
Ste. Genevieve, Salem, and Park Hills Central have been removed from the schedule.
Sikeston, Scott City, East Prairie, and Perryville have been added.
2020 Schedule:
August 28th at Scott City
September 4th vs Sikeston
Sept 11th at NMCC
Sept 18th vs East Prairie
Sept 25th vs Doniphan
Oct 2nd at Caruthersville
Oct 9th vs Kennett
Oct 16th vs Perryville (Senior Night)
Oct 23rd at Malden
New Madrid, Missouri - The Dexter Bearcats beat New Madrid County Central Eagles 56-18 in a dual wrestling match at New Madrid improving their record to 3-0 on the season. They won 11 of their 14 matches.
Bryston Pemberton, Dylan Homan, Alex Townsend, Caleb Coons and Shawn Robards won by pinfall.
Here are the individual results.
Dexter (DEXTER) 56.0 Central (New Madrid County) (CENTRLNM) 18.0
106: Diego McCormick (DEXTER) over (CENTRLNM) (For.)
113: Eric Harmon (DEXTER) over (CENTRLNM) (For.)
120: Bryston Pemberton (DEXTER) over Nate Lawrence (CENTRLNM) (Fall 0:25)
126: Austin Perry (CENTRLNM) over CJ Greene (DEXTER) (Fall 0:00)
132: Wyatt Parker (DEXTER) over Kannon Nowell (CENTRLNM) (Dec 8-6)
138: Drew Soule (DEXTER) over Troquan Mays (CENTRLNM) (Dec 9-4)
145: Jacob Medler (DEXTER) over Jacob Wilcox (CENTRLNM) (Dec 6-4)
152: Dylan Homan (DEXTER) over Konner Masterson (CENTRLNM) (Fall 2:46)
160: Alex Townsend (DEXTER) over Ty Blakey (CENTRLNM) (Fall 0:47)
170: Travis Waldner (DEXTER) over (CENTRLNM) (For.)
182: Jacob Wicker (CENTRLNM) over Parker VanSlyke (DEXTER) (Fall 3:33)
195: Caleb Coons (DEXTER) over Glenn Helmes (CENTRLNM) (Fall 1:37)
220: Shawn Robards (DEXTER) over Justin Keith (CENTRLNM) (Fall 1:12)
285: Herman Jackson (CENTRLNM) over Bradyn Crockett (DEXTER) (Fall 1:21)
Bloomfield, Missouri - The 2019 Bloomfield Invitational Girls Basketball Tournament seeds and bracket have been released. Games begin Monday, December 16th at the Bloomfield High School gym.
Top-seeded Senath-Hornersville leads the pack followed by #2 Advance, #3 Holcomb, #4 Campbell, #5 East Carter JV and #6 Bloomfield.
Monday, December 16th
5 p.m. Holcomb vs Campbell
6:30 p.m. Advance vs East Carter JV
8 p.m. Senath-Hornersville vs Bloomfield
The Holcomb - Campbell winner will meet the Advance-East Carter JV winner in the semifinals at 5 p.m. Wednesday, December 18th, and the winner of the Senath-Hornersville - Bloomfield game will meet the Holcomb - Campbell loser in the other semifinal.
The losers of the Advance-East Carter JV and Senath-Hornersville - Bloomfield games will meet at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday.
The fourth-place game is set for 5 p.m. Thursday, December 19th, the third-place game at 6:30 p.m. and championship game at 8 p.m.
