Bloomfield, Missouri - The Bloomfield Golf Team finishes second at the Class 1, District 1 golf tournament held at Crowley's Ridge Recreational Golf Course in Bloomfield on Monday afternoon.
Teams competing were Thayer, Advance, Vibrunum, Lutie, Gainesville, and St. Vincent. Advance finished first with a team score of 353 with Bloomfield finished second with a team score of 364. Teams finishing first and second qualify all of their golfers for sectional play.
Advance golf team is comprised of Brian Whitson, Carson Miles, Spence Lorch, and Creighton Miles. Bloomfield qualifying golfers are Andrew Northern, Peyton Bell, Holden Duckworth, Tyler Battles, and Michael Pulley.
Brian Whitson of Advance earned a first place medal with a round of four-over par 74. Andrew Northern of Bloomfield finished second with a score of 79. Peyton Bell took third with a score of 81.
The top 15 individual scores and all golfers on the top two teams qualified to play at Sectionals which will be held on Monday, May 9, 2016 at Tan-Tar-A Course in Crocker, Missouri.
Thayer's team finished third with a team score of 376. Fourth was Viburnum with a score of 395, Lutie finished with a score of 412, Gainesville came in sixth with a score of 471 and St. Vincent finished last with a score of 480.
Dexter, Missouri - The Dexter varsity boys tennis team won all of their matches but one in the singles against cape Central on Thursday, April 21, 2015.
Varsity Singles:
#1 Ethan Flowers (D) def. Caleb Ambler (C) 8-4
#2 Zach Potts (D) def. Bennett Kidd (C) 8-3
#3 Joshua Kohlbaker (D) def. Zack Brock (C) 8-2
#4 Addison Moore (D) def. Noah Orr (C) 8-2
#5 Justin Nguyen (C) def. Tyler Stevenson (D) 8-4
#6 Jacob Crumley (D) def. Brad Orenstein (C) 8-1
Varsity Doubles:
#1 Potts/Kohlbaker (D) def. Ambler/Kidd (C) 8-4
#2 Flowers/Crumley (D) def. Brock/Nguyen (C) 8-1
#3 Moore/Stevenson (D) def. Orr/Orenstein (C) 8-2
Stoddard County, Missouri - SEMO Skeeters won 1st place in the Swing Into Spring 11U baseball tournament in Mayfield, Kentucky this past weekend.
This was the first tournament of the season for the Skeeters. They won all four games to give them a 4-0 record.
SEMO Skeeters have five Dexter boys, one from Bloomfield, two from Sikeston, one from Malden and one from Poplar Bluff.
Shown in the photo from left to right: Back row: Conner Hux, Cole Nichols, Clayton Bell, Cooper Thomas, Drew Chamberlain, and Blake Wagster.
Front rowt: Kaleb Dover, Carter Crow, Reece Justice, Kaeden Kennedy, and Brock Wyman.
Dexter, Missouri - The seedings and bracket for the SEMO Conference Baseball Tournament was released Wednesday, April 27, 2016.
Poplar Bluff earned the #1 seed with a record of 20-4. Kennett received the #2 seed with a record of 10-6. Notre Dame is the #3 seed with a record of 10-6.
Sikeston (12-6) was seeded #4, Jackson (12-10) is ranked #5, Cape Central (11-7) was seeded #6, New Madrid County Central (5-11) received the #7 seed and Dexter finished last with the #8 seed with a record of 6-13.
On Friday, April 29th the higher-seeded teams will host the first round of games. Saturday’s semifinals will be played at Notre Dame High School. The Consolation semifinals will also be played on Saturday, but at Cape Central High School.
The SEMO Conference Baseball Tournament Championship game will be played at Capaha Park in Cape Girardeau on Monday, May 2ndat 8:00 p.m.
Poplar Bluff will host Dexter at 4:30 p.m. on Friday. Sikeston will host Jackson at 4:30 p.m. on Friday. Kennett will host New Madrid at 4:30 p.m. on Friday. Notre Dame will host Cape Central on Friday at 4:30 p.m.
Round 2 on Saturday at Notre Dame will begin at noon and 2:30 p.m. Games at Cape Central will be played at 10:00 a.m. and 12:15 p.m.
Bernie, Missouri - The Bernie Mules improved their record to 16-5 defeated Leopold 9 - 1 on Tuesday afternoon.
Leopold scored a run in the first on three hits. The run scored as Bernie catcher threw out a runner trying to steal second.
Bernie scored 3 runs in the first on doubles by Beck and Kirkpatrick and a walk to Brown and a hit by Hobgood.
The Mules scored three runs in the third on a hit by Beck, hit batter, a RBI-double by Kirkpatrick and a two-RBI double by Foster.
Kirkpatrick had a two-run single in the fourth.
WP--Blake Beacham 3 IP, 1 R, 4 H, 2 K, 2 BB
LP--Leazenby
The game was called after five innings due to severe weather in the area.
"We played decently although there were a few plays that we should have made and didn't," commented head baseball coach Darrin Shipman. "We just need to continue to work to clean those up. We hit ok. We just need to keep getting better as we head into the final few weeks before district."
The Bernie Mules will travel to Holcomb on Wednesday. Game time 4:15 p.m. Bernie will host Campbell on Friday at 4:30 p.m.
