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Success (or having no football) hasn't slowed the curiosity of SEMO coachFor those fans of the Southeast Missouri State football program that felt the lack of spring football would impede the development of the 2020 version of the Redhawks, those concerns need to have tampered a tad. -
Fishing with care (4/6/20)Arguably the best-known figure from the first Gulf War, the late Army Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf, loved few things more than taking off his combat helmet and putting on a fishing cap, festooned with artificial lures. -
Host sites selected for most spring district tournaments in Missouri (4/3/20)Host sites are set for most district tournaments if spring sports resume in Missouri. Missouri high schools remain out of session and all springs sports activities and practices are currently suspended due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The Indiana High School Athletics Association canceled spring sports in Indiana Thursday due to the VOVID-19 pandemic... -
Poplar Bluff golf course Ozark Ridge closes amid virus concerns (4/2/20)POPLAR BLUFF — The Poplar Bluff Parks Department, in coordination with the Butler County Emergency Management Agency and the Butler County Health Department, has decided to close the Ozark Ridge Golf Course because of the COVID-19 pandemic. The action was a precautionary and proactive measure, Director of Parks and Recreation Lanny Corcimiglia said, and the decision will be reviewed as things evolve... -
Good Sports: The woman who knows everybody, Jane Cooper Stacy (4/2/20)Good Sports is a column featured weekly in the Southeast Missourian and on semoball.com. It is primarily designed to showcase people who have impacted the sporting life of Southeast Missouri, so that readers may get to know them more fully. Responses have been edited for clarity and brevity... -
2019-20 SEMO Conference all-conference girls basketball awards released (3/30/20)The 2019-20 SEMO Conference all-conference girls basketball awards have been released. Poplar Bluff senior Kiley Bess is the SEMO Conference Girls Basketball Player of the Year. Bess, who has signed to play basketball at St. Louis University, led the conference in scoring with 166 points in regular-season conference action. She averaged a team-high 24 points per conference game... -
2019-20 SEMO Conference all-conference boys basketball awards released (3/30/20)The 2019-2020 SEMO Conference all-conference boys basketball awards have been released. Sikeston senior Payton Howard is the SEMO Conference Boys Basketball Player of the Year. Howard, who has signed to play baseball at St. Louis University, led the conference in scoring with 175 points in regular-season conference action. He averaged 22 points per conference game... -
The year Southeast lost the links (3/29/20)Carroll Williams is wistful about his long tenure as head coach of the Southeast men’s golf program, ended by the university’s board of regents 15 years ago this spring. “All told, I coached golf at SEMO for 30 years,” Williams said. Williams, 82, is principal of Cape Christian Community School these days, which will be absorbed July 1 by Lynwood Christian Academy... -
Dexter boys tennis seeks third straight district championship (3/29/20)For the Dexter Bearcats to win their third straight district championship in boys tennis, they will have to do so without their two best players from last season and hope the COVID-19 pandemic ends soon. Former No. 1 Eric Hahn and No. 2 Nate Gargas graduated, as did No. 5 Travis Propst... -
Poplar Bluff's Kiley Bess earns all-state honors (3/27/20)By BRIAN ROSENER Staff Writer Kiley Bess knocked down a shot in the closing seconds of the state quarterfinal two weeks ago. It ended up being one of the very last baskets of a shortened postseason. Poplar Bluff’s season ended with a 44-33 loss to Kirkwood in the MSHSAA Class 5 playoffs, that were later canceled due to the coronavirus pandemic...
Outdoors
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Missouri’s youth turkey season is this weekendMissouri’s youth turkey season, for young hunters age 6-15, will go on as planned this weekend, despite what the myriad of bogus posts on Facebook and elsewhere may tell you. “The recent rumor on Facebook that Missouri’s spring turkey season has been canceled is just that ... a rumor,” said Department of Conservation News Services Coordinator Joe Jerek. “Don’t believe everything you see on social media.”... -
Missouri’s youth turkey season is this weekendMissouri’s youth turkey season, for young hunters age 6-15, will go on as planned this weekend, despite what the myriad of bogus posts on Facebook and elsewhere may tell you. “The recent rumor on Facebook that Missouri’s spring turkey season has been canceled is just that ... a rumor,” said Department of Conservation News Services Coordinator Joe Jerek. “Don’t believe everything you see on social media.”...
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MDC temporarily suspends requirement for fishing licensesJEFFERSON CITY — The Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC) and the Missouri Conservation Commission announce they are temporarily waiving permit requirements for sport fishing and daily trout tags for Missouri residents and nonresidents whose fishing privileges are not otherwise suspended...
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Lakes, rivers up againAll the rain lately has raised local lakes and rivers yet again. I crossed the Current River at Van Buren the other day and it was up higher than I’ve seen it in a while. The river crested there early Saturday at 15.34 feet and now is hovering around 8 feet. The current projection from the National Weather Service has it slowly falling to around 6 feet by Sunday...
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Heartland Gobblers banquet grows, despite pandemicDespite all the things going on locally with the COVID-19 pandemic, the Heartland Gobblers chapter of the National Wild Turkey Federation had a successful banquet Saturday night. “We got lucky to have it, but it went over well,” said chapter president Chuck Stewart... -
PB hunter ed class set for March 23A spring hunter education skills class has been scheduled in Poplar Bluff for those needing to be certified before purchasing turkey hunting permits. The class, for those age 11 and older, will be held from 5-9 p.m. March 23 at the Poplar Bluff Junior High School...
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Biologists survey Black River walleyeWalleyes in the Black, Current, St. Francis and Eleven Point river are fat and healthy, according to Department of Conservation Fisheries management Biologist Paul Cieslewicz, who conducted his annual gill netting and electrofishing survey on the Black last week...
