By BRIAN ROSENER Sports Editor East Carter will host the Ozark Foothills Conference softball tournament starting Monday, but the Redbirds won’t be playing until the semifinals as the top seed. The opening round starts at 12:30 p.m. Monday with No. 2 seed Doniphan facing No. 7 Greenville in Elsinore. Third-seeded Naylor plays No. 6 Twin Rivers at 2:30 p.m. with the final game set for 4:30 p.m. as No. 4 Neelyville and No. 5 Clearwater face off...

CAMDENTON, Mo. — Alex Wiseman placed second and Jack Pierce was sixth Wednesday as the Poplar Bluff golf team finished third at the Lakers Invitational on Wednesday at Old Kinderhook. Rockhurst edged Chaminade by two shots for the team title by shooting 300. Poplar Bluff finished at 304 with Marquette and Helias following at 311...

POPLAR BLUFF, Mo. - Lauren Joyner has catapulted up the Three Rivers home run record book. As of April 5, Joyner was sitting at nine home runs for the season, one behind a log jam of seven Raiders who have hit 10 home runs in a season. Joyner got two against Mineral Area, and on Tuesday, she hit four in a sweep against St. Louis (15-11)...

POPLAR BLUFF — Poplar Bluff’s first hit of the game gave the Mules new life in the bottom of the seventh inning Tuesday before Kayson King’s game-winning chopper in the eighth. Down two runs in their final at-bat and having managed just one base runner up to that point against Notre Dame, the Mules fought back for an improbable 4-3 extra-inning win at Bobby Strenfel Field...

POPLAR BLUFF — It took an eagle on the last hole to catch Alex Wiseman, but the Poplar Bluff junior earned medalist honors in a playoff Monday at Westwood Hills Country Club. As a team, the Mules ran away from the field with a 297 score that was eight shots better than runner-up Jackson to claim the Poplar Bluff Invitational...