Sports

Chad McCoy first started playing golf at the age of 6 and could be found at Ozark Ridge Golf Course just about all the time, playing and working there as a teenager. When he died 10 days shy of his 33rd birthday in September 2020, McCoy’s family and friends started a memorial scholarship fund...

A local pickleball player is already having success despite only recently picking up the sport. Doniphan's Jason Hervoyavich won silver at the 2022 National Senior Games in May and he's hoping the sport will continue to grow in Southeast Missouri. "Pickleball is really picking up in the area around Doniphan and Poplar Bluff," Hervoyavich said. "I started playing two years ago and I was fortunate to qualify for the National Senior Games in Ft. Lauderdale in Florida."...

The 2021-22 athletics season for Three Rivers College officially wrapped up last week as the Raider rodeo team competed in the College National Finals Rodeo in Casper, Wyoming. The highlight of the week was Casey Roberts winning the 2022 National Championship in bull riding while fellow Raider Cole Skender placed in third...

RICHMOND, Mo. — Alex Wiseman’s comeback in the championship match of the 22nd MGA Junior Match Play Championship on was derailed by the rules Thursday. Wiseman’s par putt on No. 14 at Shirkey Golf Course stopped on the edge of the hole after his opponent had already made par...

The accolades for the 2021-22 Three Rivers women’s basketball program keep on coming and Myia Yelder can now say that her name is in the Hall of Fame. The Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame in Knoxville, Tennessee announced that they will display Yelder’s Three Rivers jersey in the Ring of Honor from July 2022 to May, 2023...

POPLAR BLUFF – Westwood Hills Country Club hosted the SEMO State Amateur Qualifier on Wednesday and eight golfers out of a field of 40 moved onto the Missouri Amateur Championship at Bellerive Country Club in St. Louis. One of those eight that qualified was former Poplar Bluff Mules golfer Alexander Wiseman, who had to go into a five-man playoff for one of the last three spots at 1-over-par. ...

The R.W. Huntington Municipal Pool in Poplar Bluff has been undergoing rennovations for this summer. The tentative reopening date is July 1. The pool is used by the Poplar Bluff Piranhas AAU swim team in the summer, but the squad has been forced to remain indoors in the pool at the Black Water Coliseum for practices and early season meets...

Another member of the Three Rivers women's basketball program is making the climb up the college sports ladder as Kourtney Kendrick has signed on with in-state program William Woods University in Fulton to continue her career. "It's a little closer to home," said Kendrick, a native of nearby Boonville. "I just want to finish my basketball career and get a four year degree close to home."...