The Puxico Middle School 8th Grade Volleyball Tournaments begin this week.  The 8th grade teams will kick off on Monday, March 28, 2022.  

Schools participating are Advance, Bernie, Bell City, Bloomfield, Puxico, Richland, Sikeston, and Twin Rivers.

Pool A Schedule - Game times APPROXIMATE(games may run early or late)are as follows:

4:00 Bernie vs Sikeston

5:00 Puxico vs. Bloomfield 

6:00 Sikeston vs Bloomfield

7:00 Puxico vs. Bernie

8:00 Puxico vs. Sikeston

9:00 Bernie vs Bloomfield

Pool B Schedule - 

4:00 Twin Rivers vs Advance

5:00 Richland vs Bell City

6:00 Advance vs Richland

7:00 Twin Rivers vs Bell City

8:00 Advance vs Bell City

9:00 Richland vs Twin Rivers

Only the top two teams from each pool will advance to tournament play on Wednesday, March 30th.

The SEMO Doubles Tournament was held on the campus of Southeast Missouri State University on Friday, March 25, 2022.

It is a round-robin doubles tournament.  The teams participating were Dexter, Jackson, Notre Dame, and Sikeston.

It is a flighted tournament, so #1 doubles teams from each school face #1 teams from the other teams. #2s play #2s and #3s play #3s.

Dexter played Jackson in the first round.

#1 Peyton Boles/Lawson Blocker lost to Nolan Dry/Cameron Crawford in a third set tie break:  7-5, 4-6, 5-10

#2 Drake Channell/Cooper Worley lost to Gage Shearon/Drew Miller 2-6, 2-6

#3 Logan Jones/Drew Chamberlain lost to Will Petzoldt/Rylan Martin 2-6, 3-6

The Bearcats played Notre Dame in the second round.

#1 Peyton Boles/Lawson Blocker lost to Stephen Southard/Elijah Youngblood 0-6, 0-6

#2 Drake Channell/Cooper Worley lost to Charles West/Gavin Hardin 0-6, 0-6

#3 Logan Jones/Drew Chamberlain lost to Matthew Austin/Blake Schreckenberg in a third set tie break 1-6, 6-4, 4-10

Dexter played Sikeston in the third round.

#1 Peyton Boles/Lawson Blocker defeated Tyler McHaffie/Jake Buchanan 6-0, 7-5

#2 Drake Channell/Cooper Worley defeated Levi Douglas/Noah Mason 6-4, 6-2

#3 Logan Jones/Drew Chamberlain defeated Leo Huang/Ben Gilmore 7-6 (7-4), 6-4

"We are already seeing very good improvement in all of our doubles teams," commented Eric Boles, Dexter High School tennis coach. "The freshmen and new players are starting to get more comfortable on the courts playing at a varsity level and working with a partner.  I am proud that all three doubles teams got their first doubles wins of the season, and some were very close to getting multiple wins today."

Dexter will host Potosi on Tuesday, March 29th.  

Dexter, MO - The Dexter high school boys tennis team hosted the Poplar Bluff Mules on Thursday, March 24, 2022 at their home opener.  Poplar Bluff won the match 7-2 

Dexter's Peyton Boles and Drake Channell won their singles matches. Boles won 9-8 (7-3) and Channell won 8-3.

"Poplar Bluff has depth down the roster and that made a tremendous difference today," commented head tennis coach Eric Boles. "This year will be a challenge for the Bearcats."

The Mules swept the doubles matches.

"We have a very young team," continued Boles. "Of the 10 total players, we have only one who has 2 or more years of experience."

The Bearcats put out 3 varsity players with zero playing experience at all and two athletes with only one year of experience.

"We will continue to improve and we will be much better at the end of the season than we will be at the start."

DOUBLES

#1 Jordan Moss/#5 Michael Scott (PB) def. #1 Peyton Boles/#3 Lawson Blocker (DEX) 8-4

#3 Isaac Reid/#4 Kendric Scott (PB) def. #2 Drake Channell/#4 Cooper Worley (DEX) 8-1

#2 Gavin Vaughn/#6 Elijah McAtee (PB) def. #5 Logan Jones/#7 Drew Chamberlain (DEX) 8-3

SINGLES

Peyton Boles (DEX) def. Jordan Moss (PB) 9-8 (7-3)

Drake Channell (DEX) def. Gavin Vaughn (PB) 8-3

Isaac Reid (PB) def. Lawson Blocker (DEX) 8-2

Kendric Jones (PB) def. Cooper Worley (DEX) 8-1

Michael Scott (PB) def. Logan Jones (DEX) 8-4

Elijah McAtee (PB) def. Rhyder Williams (DEX) 8-1

Dexter will be back on the court on Friday at the Cape Central Doubles Tournament.  Game time is 9 a.m.

Pictured is Dexter junior, Peyton Boles.

MSHSAA Class 4, District 1 girls basketball team has been announced.  Dulcie Pullen was named District Player of the Year!  

District 1 includes New Madrid County Central, Dexter, Doniphan, Kennett, Notre Dame, and Perryville schools.

2021-2022 District Team

Dulcie Pullen    Dexter          

Sydni Speck     Doniphan     

Bailey Carson   Doniphan     

Alli Skaggs        Doniphan    

Magi McBride    Dexter          

Taleigh Harrell   Kennett        

Kyla Schnurbusch Perryville   

Caitlin Giles       Dexter          

Emma Voelker   Saxony         

Emani Summers NMCC       

Kenna Monaghan Doniphan 

District player of the year is Dulcie Pullen

Coach Of the Year Adam Epps

Cape Girardeau, MO - The Dexter boys and girls track and field teams competed in the Notre Dame Frozen Invitational on Saturday, March 19, 2022.  The meet lived up to its name as the temperature was a little chilly on Saturday morning, but heated up throughout the day.

DHS boys track finished 9th with 38 points out of the 19 schools participating.  Jackson High School finished in first place with 133 total points.

DHS girls track finished 7th with 38.5 points out of the 17 schools participating. Rockwood Summit High Schools finished in first place with 119 total points.

"I feel like both teams did a fantastic job for the first meet of the season," commented head track and field coach James DeBerry.  "The N.D. Frozen definitely lived up to the name! For most of the meet it was cold and windy. That is going to have an effect on times/field events. I told my athletes we aren't here to win this today. We are here to get the wheel moving again. To establish a base, and set goals moving forward. I would say overall we achieved that."

Joshua Alday, senior, placed 1st in boys javelin.  He threw an impressive 47.47 meters setting a meet record.

Lucas Alday, senior, placed 6th in the shot put throwing 12.10 meters.

In the boys DMR Cameron Bell, Anistin Kyle, Ben Dowdy, and Chris Stone finished 6th place with a time of 12:15.81

In the boys 4x200 Relay Farmer, Grams, Damon Helton, and Tristan Bryant finished in 4th place with a time of 1:40.33

In the boys 4.100m relay Damon Helton, Farmers, Tristan Bryant and Grams finished 8th with a time of 47.48.

in the boys 4x400m relay Anistin Kyle, Farmer, Chris Stone and Levi DeMent finished 2nd place.

"For the boys Josh Alday set a meet record with a javelin throw of 47.77m to earn him 1st place. RJ Farmer placed 3rd in the 300m hurdles. I was impressed with the boys 4x400m team. They finished 2nd with a time of 3:44. You can expect us to be working on that a lot more this season," continued DeBerry.  

Gabby Brown placed 2nd in the 1600m with a time of 5:41.75 She also finished 2nd in the 800m with a time of 2:32.07  Brown placed 4th in the 3200m with a time of 12:25.11.

In the girls DMR Abbie Lloyd, Avery Neely, Kali Hale, and Marie Fees placed 6th with a time of 15:22.11.

Avery Neely finished 7th in the girls high jump event with a jump of 1.31m.

Abbie Lloyd vaulted 2.13 m in the girls pole vault earning her a 5th place finish.

Dulcie Pullen earned 8th place in girls shot put throwing 8.76m.

"For the girls Gabby Brown and Allison Turnbo brought home several 2nd place finishes. I was impressed with Abbie Lloyd getting a 5th place finish in Pole Vault. We just brought that back to Dexter this year with the help of Coach Dona!"

"As a whole I thought the team did a great job of staying positive and giving their best effort despite the cold conditions. I was also proud of my athletes for standing on the infield cheering on fellow team members.  They were excited to get this first meet underway!"

DHS Track and Field Teams will be back in action on Thursday, March 24th at the East Prairie Open.  Track time is 4 p.m.

Photos provided by Kara Glaus and Willa Fees.