Stoddard County, MO - The Stoddard County Athletic Association High School Baseball Tournament seeds and bracket have been released.
The first round games are being played at four separate locations with the higher seed hosting the games. Start times on Monday, April 18th are 4:30 p.m. for each game.
Second round games will be played at one location, as a double header. The team with the highest seed that has lights will host the second round games. First game will begin at 4 p.m.
Championship and 3rd place games will be played at two separate locations with higher seed hosting. Games will start at 4:30 p.m.
Woodland received the #1 seed followed by #2 Dexter, #3 Bernie, #4 Advance, #5 Bloomfield, #6 Puxico, #7 Bell City and #8 Richland.
Monday, April 18th Schedule (Teams play at higher seed location) First pitch at 4:30 p.m.
#1 Woodland vs #8 Richland
#2 Dexter vs #7 Bell City
#3Bernie vs #6 Puxico
#4 Advance vs #5 Bloomfield
Semifinal games are April 19th at 4 p.m. and 6 p.m. 3rd place game is April 20th at 4:30 and championship game also on April 20th at 4:30 p.m.
Cape Girardeau, MO - The Dexter Bearcat golf team won a quad match at the Cape Girardeau Country Club on Thursday, April 7, 2022. They defeated Cape Central, Saxony Lutheran, and Sikeston.
Dexter's Dylan Sitze and Ben Christian both earned medals, shooting and tying a match low 37.
No. 1 - Dexter (156)
Dylan Sitze - 37
Cy Worley - 39
Ben Christian - 37
Matt Hardin - 46
Tucker Temples - 43
No. 2 - Sikeston (179)
Peyton Spurlock - 44
Jay Lape - 58
Carson Beard - 40
Andrew Faire - 47
Cullen Pearson - 48
No. 3 - Cape Central (193)
Caden Hahn - 46
Ethan McMillan - 47
Evan Dombrowski - 48
Bryce Blair - 52
Gibson Curtis - 58
No. 4 - Saxony Lutheran (204)
Mike Hasz - 45
Logan Pruitt - 55
Austin Kirn - 54
Ty Seabaugh - 50
Tom Hasz - 58
Dexter, MO - The Dexter Bearcats hosted the Notre Dame Bulldogs after a one day delay due to weather on Thursday, April 7, 2022. The Bearcats were stymied by the Bulldogs in a 12-2 loss in 5 innings. Dexter's varsity baseball team struggled to get their offense motivated on the field.
Cole Lemons, a junior, was dialed in at the plate, tallying four hits and leading the Bulldogs to victory. Lemons singled in the first, singled in the third, doubled in the fourth, and doubled in the fifth.
Notre Dame jumped out on the board first with a solo homer by senior #24 Aaron Thurston.
Then in the bottom of the first inning, Dexter tied things up at one. Grant James threw a wild pitch allowing one run across the plate for Dexter.
Notre Dame pulled away for good with three runs in the third inning. In the third Lemons singled on a 3-2 count, scoring two runs and Conner Wissinger, a senior, singled on a 3-2 count, scoring one run.
The Bulldogs put up four runs in the fifth inning. Their batters contributed to the big inning included Blake Anderson (Sr) and Wissinger (Sr), all sending runners across the plate with RBIs in the inning.
#22 Grant James, a senior, took the win for Notre Dame. The right-hander went five innings, allowing two runs on two hits and striking out 11.
Junior, Brock Wyman took the loss for Dexter Varsity. He surrendered eight runs on seven hits over three and two-thirds innings, striking out four.
Notre Dame socked two home runs on the day. Anderson had a dinger in the fifth inning. Thurston had a long ball also in the first inning.
Kaeden Kennedy and Camden Riley each managed one hit to lead Dexter.
Notre Dame scattered 11 hits in the game. Lemons, Wissinger, Thurston, and Anderson all collected multiple hits for Notre Dame.
The Dexter Bearcats will be back in action when they host the Advance Hornets on Friday, April 8th. First pitch at 4:00 p.m.
Notre Dame will host Valle Catholic at 4:00 p.m. on Friday, April 8th.
Notre Dame 1 0 3 4 4 X X - 12
Dexter 1 0 0 0 1 X X - 2
Dexter, MO - One of the largest open meets in southeast Missouri was held on Tuesday, March 29th at Charles Bland Stadium on the campus of Dexter High School. Eighteen school participated in the meet.
Dexter boys track team finished in first place with a score of 119. Poplar Bluff finished 2nd with 97.5 point and Sikeston finished third with 93 points
The Dexter girls track team finished in second place with a total of 101 points. Cape Central girls finished 1st with 138 points and Saxony Lutheran finished third with 77 points.
Teams participating were Dexter, Poplar Bluff, Cape Central, Sikeston, jackson, Blytheville, Woodland, Charleston, Chaffee, Kelly, Doniphan, Bell City, Scott County Central, Zalma, Greenville, Saxony Lutheran, and Delta.
"There was a sense of pride and amazement to see all 18 team competing at Charles Bland Stadium, "I was proud to be a part of such a huge open meet. You really don't see big open meets anymore these days because they are so difficult to run. I was proud that we executed the meet so efficiently. I couldn't have asked for better volunteers to help run the meet. It takes a lot of people to run a meet that big and the Dexter Teaching staff as well as Dexter Parks & Rec. stepped up to the challenge! I couldn't have done it without all of them."
"We had a big day at our open as far as hitting goals early in the season. Josh Alday is picking up where he left off on Javelin last year at Sectionals. Lucas Alday, Dulcie Pullen, and Rachel Lin have gotten more explosive in our field events, I think we will them scoring a lot of points for us this season and doing well come districts. Ben Dowdy captured a 1st place in the 2 mile. Ben is only a freshman so I think we will see a lot more from him the season and over the next few years. Of course we have Gabby Brown who captured 1st in all her events. The question with Gabby is how many events will she go to state in? I believe she has a chance of going in all 3 this year! Damon Helton had a PR in the 100m Dash with a time of 10.91! Aniston Kyle like Josh is picking up where he left off on his Sectional time in the 400m Dash. RJ Famer is looking great on the 300m hurdles. We also have several relay teams that I believe have a shot at districts. I'm excited to see how far this team goes this year. I believe we have the potential to take several to State again this year!"
Scoreboard:
Josh Alday - 1st Place Javelin
Lucas Alday - 1st Place Discus
Ben Dowdy - 1st Place 3200m
Gabby Brown - 1st Place 800, 1st Place 1600m, 1st Place 3200m
Damon Helton - 1st Place 100m
Dulcie Pullen - 1st Place Shot Put
RJ Farmer - 1st Place 300m Hurdles
Anistin Kyle - 1st Place 400m
Rachel Lin - 1st Place Triple Jump
Avery Neely, Dulcie Pullen, Allison Turnbo, Marie Fees - 1st Place 4x400 Girls Relay
Anistin Kyle, RJ Farmer, Levi Dement, Christ Stone - 1st Place 4x400 Boys Relay
Clayton Bell, Ben Dowdy, Cameron Bell, Christ Stone - 1st Place 4x800 Boys Relay
Dexter, MO - The Dexter boys tennis team defeated Potosi 6-3 on Monday, March 28, 2022. They now move to 2-3 on the season.
"We really saw some good improvement in our younger players, even in losses," commented Dexter head tennis coach Eric Boles. "They are much better today than they were last week and I really believe we will be a pretty tough team to beat when we get to the end of the year."
All three doubles teams won their matches:
#1 Peyton Boles / #3 Lawson Blocker defeated #1 Chase Glore / #2 Isaiah Marty 8-6
#2 Drake Channell / #4 Cooper Worley defeated #3 Haydin Eckhoff / #6 Logan Compton 8-3
#5 Logan Jones / #7 Drew Chamberlain defeated #4 Wyatt Mercer / #5 Wyatt Richards 9-7
In Singles, our players went 3-3
#2 Drake Channell defeated #2 Isaiah Marty 8-6
#5 Logan Jones defeated Wyatt Richards 8-0
#6 Rhyder Williams defeated #6 Logan Compton 8-3
Dexter was scheduled to travel to the Cape Central Tournament on Wednesday, but due to inclement weather that match has been cancelled. Their next match will be at Notre Dame on Friday for a SEMO Conference Tournament.
