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STOUTLAND, Mo. - Fresh off a third-place finish in the Class 1 state playoffs in June the Cooter Wildcats baseball program is enjoying continued success in its fall campaign. Cooter capped off a perfect 6-0 week Saturday night when it took home the top prize at the Stoutland baseball tournament in Southwest Missouri...

Late in the third quarter Kennett senior Marsayv’aun Harrell came up with his own idea regarding how his squad could put more points on the scoreboard against the Ste. Genevieve Dragons. “He came over to the sidelines and said, ‘Hey coach what about this?’” Kennett coach Joel Wyatt said...

MALDEN, Mo. - The Kennett Indians volleyball program entered Thursday night hungry for its first head-to-head victory against the Malden Green Wave at the varsity level since 2014. “My girls were ready from the get-go tonight,” Kennett coach Taylor Miller said. “When you play a rival you want it a lot more because you know the players on the other team. They wanted this one really bad.”...

LAST MEETING: Kennett beat Ste. Genevieve 53-21 LAST WEEK: Kennett beat Gosnell (Ark.) 44-8; Valle Catholic beat Ste. Genevieve 41-6 HEAD TO HEAD STREAKS: Ste. Genevieve is 3-2 against Kennett since 2010. ABOUT KENNETT: Kennett, which beat Fredericktown 49-0 in Week 1 and beat Gosnell (Ark.) 44-8 in Week 2, is ranked No. ...

SENATH, Mo. - The Holcomb Hornets varsity volleyball team continued to make noise a few days before the start of the Dig for Life Challenge Tuesday night. Holcomb improved to 5-0 with a 25-21, 25-9 road victory against the Seanth-Hornersville Lions...

DEXTER, Mo. - The Kennett Indians varsity girls tennis team strengthened its case for a No. 1 seed in its upcoming district tournament by winning at Dexter 9-0 Tuesday. Kennett improved to 4-1 with the victory. Dexter fell to 3-2. Kennett will compete at the Sikeston Invitational Thursday...

KENNETT, Mo. - Three former standout athletes of the Kennett School and two Kennett track teams that claimed state titles were added to the Kennett Athletics Hall of Fame Friday night. Matt Shetley, Tanika Macias, Brandi Jackson, the 1933 Kennett High School Track Team, and the 1942 Kennett High School Track Team were recognized as the latest inductees in a ceremony conducted at halftime of the Kennett-Gosnell varsity football game Friday at Metz Cherry Stadium...

Kennett 2, Oran 0 KENNETT, Mo. - The Kennett Indians varsity volleyball team outlasted Oran 25-11, 25-20 for its second straight SEMO Conference victory Monday.

KENNETT, Mo. - The Kennett Indians seventh grade football team fell behind the visiting Poplar Bluff Mules 8-0 late in the second quarter but refused to be denied a victory in its season-opener Monday at Metz Cherry Stadium. Kennett responded by scoring a touchdown in the final minute of each half as it rallied past Poplar Bluff 14-8...

IRONTON, Mo. - The Kennett Indians cross country team placed fifth at the Arcadia Valley Invitational Saturday. Kennett posted a team score of 155. Potosi (65) placed first, North County (109) was second, Arcadia Valley (126) finished third, and Poplar Bluff (143) came in fourth. ...

After a three-year hiatus fall baseball is returning to Clarkton High School. For the first time since 2016 Clarkton has enough players out for baseball to field a fall team at the high school level. “We haven’t had an opportunity to play since our eighth grade season,” Clarkton sophomore Anthony Lemus said. “It’s nice to get back on a diamond. We want to slowly build our baseball program back up.”...

KENNETT, Mo. - It took a couple of big plays for the Kennett Indians football team to find its rhythm Friday but once it got things going it never looked back. Kennett senior running back Marsayv’aun Harrell broke loose for a 76-yard rushing touchdown to put the Indians on top 7-0 with 4:23 left in the second quarter...

DUSTIN WARD dward@dddnews.com KENNETT, Mo. - The Kennett Indians varsity girls tennis team ended its week on a high note Thursday afternoon. Kennett found a way to finish its week 2-1 after suffering its first regular season loss since 2016 when it fell to Notre Dame 8-1 on Tuesday. Kennett rebounded by beating Charleston 9-0 Wednesday before winning its home opener against Jackson 8-1 Thursday...

CHARLESTON, Mo. - The Kennett varsity girls tennis team rebounded nicely Wednesday afternoon after dropping it season opener at Notre Dame Tuesday. Kennett won all singles and doubles matches as it won at Charleston 9-0. Kennett is back in action Thursday at 4 p.m. when it hosts Jackson...

LAST MEETING: Gosnell beat Kennett 24-8 LAST WEEK: Kennett beat Fredericktown 49-0; Nettleton (Ark.) beat Gosnell 69-32 HEAD TO HEAD STREAKS: 2018 was the first time Kennett and Gosnell had scheduled each other since 2011 when Gosnell won 55-19. ABOUT GOSNELL: Gosnell has transitioned from a double wing to spread offense under new head coach Lewis Earnest. ...

KENNETT, Mo. - The Campbell Camels varsity volleyball team went back to the drawing board after dropping the first set to the Kennett Indians 25-20 Tuesday night. “We just had to start playing offense more,” Campbell volleyball coach Gentry Vancil said. “Once we changed things and ran our offense the whole game turned around.”...

HAYTI, Mo. - The excitement of the Friday night lights returned to southeast Missouri on Friday as the high school football season officially began across the state. The defending Class 1, District 1 champion Hayti Indians, ranked No. 2 in the preseason rankings hosted the No. 9 ranked Thayer Bobcats...

The Kennett Indians boys cross country team is blessed with experience entering the fourth year of its program. All five runners out for cross country at Kennett are returning upperclassmen. “We have pretty high expectations,” Kennett senior Kobe Patterson said. “We have a group of five experienced runners. We are ready to run and make some noise.”...

The Gideon Bulldogs varsity volleyball team enters the 2019 season hoping for repeat success with a few new leaders on the court. Gideon graduated six seniors off of last season’s varsity squad that finished 27-5-1 but returns a talented group of underclassmen that finished 17-1-1 at the junior varsity level...

FREDERICKTOWN, Mo. - After Mother Nature robbed the Kennett Indians of an opportunity to participate in its own Gatorade Game and the East Prairie football jamboree last week it wouldn’t have been surprising to see the squad come out a bit rusty in its season-opener at Fredericktown Friday night...

LAST MEETING: NMCC won 50-40 LAST SEASON’S PERFORMANCE: Malden (2-8); NMCC (4-6) HEAD TO HEAD STREAKS: NMCC snapped a six-game losing streak against Malden with a 50-40 victory last season. The all-time series is tied 12-12. ABOUT MALDEN: The Green Wave have a good balance of veteran players and youngsters on its roster. ...

The Kennett Indians football program enters the 2019 season hungry for repeat success after securing its first district title in over three decades last season. “Usually after a season like last year kids go one of two years,” Kennett coach Joel Wyatt said. “They get complacent, start patting themselves on the back, and think we don’t have to work because look what we’ve done, or they go in the direction you want them to go and stay hungry, excited, and want to do it again. ...

The 2019-2020 football season for the Caruthersville Tigers will see many of the same faces. There is no change in the lineup of opponents. Last year the team (9-3) consisted of mostly freshmen and sophomore players, most of these players are returning. The coaches are the same with the exception of Ethan Marshall who replaced Peter Lloyd as an assistant...

PORTAGEVILLE, Mo. — After losing seven players on defense and six on offense, the Portageville football team will be undergoing a re-development of their program. In addition to that, the Bulldogs have a new head coach, Mark Jackson. He replaces Jeff Bullock, who has accepted an administrative position at Malden...

The 2018 Hayti Indians football team accomplished something no other Hayti football team has ever accomplished: they won a state championship. Here we are at the start of the 2019 football season and this Indian squad has an opportunity to do what hasn’t been done before: repeat as state champions...

The Malden Green Wave football program enters its 2019 campaign looking to rebound from a rare losing season in 2018 with a new head coach. Justin Peden, who has served as an assistant coach at Malden for the past three seasons, is taking over the head coaching responsibilities...

A veteran Kennett Indians varsity volleyball squad enters the 2019 season looking to move above the .500 mark after finishing just one game below .500 last season. Kennett returns the majority of its starters off of last season’s varsity squad that finished 13-14-2 and won the SEMO Conference South regular-season title...

A few hours before preseason jamborees got underway Friday night some schools in the Missouri Bootheel learned they will be battling new opponents when the state playoffs begin later this fall. The Missouri High School Activities Association released 2019 class and district assignments for most fall sports Friday...

Football fans will have to wait another week to get their first glimpse of the Kennett, Hayti, East Prairie, and New Madrid County Central football teams. The football jamboree the four schools were scheduled to compete in Friday night at East Prairie was canceled Friday afternoon due to poor field conditions from recent weather. T...

The Southland Rebels volleyball program enters the 2019 season looking to develop its underclassmen. Southland, which is coming off an 11-9-1 campaign at the varsity level last season, has six freshmen, one sophomore, and one senior on its high school roster...

Senath-Hornersville volleyball coach Alex Glover has few complaints about her players’ work ethic as they prepare for the start of the 2019 season. “They play super hard,” Glover said. “I honestly couldn’t ask for a harder-working team. They always come ready to practice.”...

High school football fans will have the opportunity to get their first look at football teams in the Missouri Bootheel later this week. Kennett, Hayti, and New Madrid County Central will compete in a four-team jamboree at East Prairie Friday at 6 p.m...

The pieces appear to be in place for a big year for the Clarkton Reindeer varsity volleyball squad. Clarkton returns nearly all of its players off of last season’s varsity squad that finished 21-11-1. “We only graduated one player and she was injured last season so we’ve pretty much got our same varsity players back again,” longtime Clarkton volleyball coach Amy Cowart said. “I’m looking forward to seeing what they can do this fall. It should be a fun season"...

Coach Christine Luedecke is very excited for the upcoming season, “We have Keara Johnson returning for her senior year,” she said. “She plans to play college volleyball next year. Adi Young returns as one of our setters and we are adding Laticia Hamilton to the mix as our second setter. ...

Participation is sky-high for the Campbell Camels volleyball program coming off its strongest season in recent history last year. “We’ve got more than 20 out for volleyball this season,” Campbell fourth-year volleyball coach Gentry Vancil said. “Right now we are looking at nine playing on varsity and 12 on junior varsity. “We’ve got a lot to live up to because we’ve got a lot of good girls returning."...

The Holcomb Hornets volleyball program is blessed with experience entering the 2019 season. Holcomb has three seniors and five juniors on its varsity roster. Five of the eight players saw significant playing time on last season’s varsity squad that finished 10-16-4 and won Class 1, District 1...

The two-time defending district champion Malden Green Wave volleyball program enters the 2019 season looking to adopt a new style of play after graduating most of its power hitters. “We are a totally different team this season,” Malden coach Brittany Crane said. ...

The Kennett Indians girls tennis program enters the 2019 season looking to continue a long-lasting tradition of winning district titles with a slew of newcomers. Kennett returns just two varsity starters off of last season’s squad that finished 13-1 and won its 12th straight district title...

Volleyball schedules are set for Dunklin County volleyball squads. Senath-Hornersville, Holcomb, and Southland open their season Aug. 30. Holcomb visits Southland Aug. 30 at 6 p.m. Senath-Hornersville visits North Pemiscot Aug. 30 at 6 p.m. Campbell, Kennett, Clarkton, and Malden play their first game Sept. 3. Campbell visits Kennett Sept. 3 at 6 p.m., Clarkton hosts Cooter Sept. 3 at 6 p.m., and Malden hosts Hayti Sept. 3 at 6 p.m...

Three Rivers College assistant baseball coach Tyler Smith encouraged his second baseman, Zane Wallace, to consider playing in the Prospect League this summer if he wanted an experience similar to the daily grind of playing professional baseball.

KENNETT, Mo. - The final numbers are in and the money raised has reached five figures for a second straight year at the Kennett Athletics Booster Club Four-Person Golf Scramble. The final net proceeds raised at the 2019 event that took place July 26 at Kennett Country Club are $11,800. The amount is a few thousand shy of the all-time high $15,016 that was collected last year...

CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. - The Kennett Swim Team took home second place at the Southeast Missouri Swim Conference Championships Saturday at Cape Central Municipal Pool in Cape Girardeau. Kennett recorded a second-place team score of 5,079. Defending champion River City Aquatics of Cape Giradeau repeated as conference champs with a first-place team score of 6,419. ...

Former Southeast Missouri State University assistant men’s basketball coach Alan Barnett was recently recognized in a retirement reception at Dyersburg State Community College in Dyersburg, Tennessee. Barnett has served as the men’s basketball coach and athletic director at Dyersburg State Community College since 1995...

The Senath-Hornersville Lions softball program didn’t look far to find its new head coach. Assistant coach Melani Rooney will be the new head softball coach at Senath-Hornersville for the 2019-20 school year. “I’m super excited about it,” Rooney said. “I have had an interest in being a head coach for some time if the opportunity ever presented itself.”...

Varsity football schedules are set for schools in the Missouri Bootheel less than six weeks before the start of the 2019 season. Kennett, Malden, Hayti, and Caruthersville have no changes to their schedules. All four programs will play the same schools in the same order as last season...

A few weeks before the start of the 2019-20 school year the Senath-Hornersville Lions girls basketball program is headed to Branson, Missouri, to fine-tune its skills under a new head coach. Senath-Hornersville is scheduled to play two scrimmage games on Wednesday, four games on Thursday, and three games on Friday under new head coach Nicki Pierce...

Dyersburg State Community College President Karen Bowyer has announced the appointment of David Anderson as the new head coach of the men’s basketball team. “We look forward to Coach Anderson joining us as head coach of the Eagles basketball team,” Dr. ...

CHARLESTON, Mo. - Malden graduate Tye Miller enjoys being the table setter at the top of the Southeast Tropics batting order. “I’m always confident if I can get on base in the first inning the big boys are going to bring me in,” Miller said of batting leadoff...

2018 Class 1 Offensive Player of the Year Check. 2018 Carr Trophy Winner Check. 2019 Bootheel Conference Boys Basketball Player of the Year Check.   The awards continue to pile up for 2019 Hayti graduate Ivory Winters. Winters added two additional awards to his repertoire Saturday night. ...

Kennett middle school social studies teacher Logan Dollins received an unexpected call earlier this summer. “One day I was at the house and Kevin McCaig contacted me and asked me if I would be interested in applying to be the softball coach,” Dollins said. “My initial thought was no just because I’ve been a baseball guy my entire life. But he portrayed to me it is a similar game that just has a little bit faster pace with more of an emphasis on the slap hitting.”...

“You know, I love, I love, I love, this town,” Poplar Bluff High School’s Wesley Lewis said. “I’m calling this word a True Mule. A True Mule to me means that I feel like I belong to the school. I feel like I have a lot of pride in being a part of this school. And I want these kids around us to have that same feeling toward where they came from. You got to know from whence you came to where you going. And right now the kids don’t know where they came from.”...

Less than three months after taking second at the Class 1 state tournament the Kennett softball program is searching for a new head coach.

The summer before Sydni McAtee started high school at Kennett playing competitive tennis was not on her radar. “I was in a summer school PE class and assistant tennis coach Hanna Lack came up to me and encouraged me to play tennis,” McAtee said. “I replied, ‘I don’t think I’d be very good at it because I went to one summer tennis clinic when I was a kid and I hated it.’...

KENNETT, Mo. - The third annual Holcomb Education Foundation Golf Scramble took place Friday at Kennett Country Club. A field of 60 golfers, which included 15 four-person teams, competed at the event. After expenses were paid a total of $13,500 was raised. The committee in charge of the tournament said the money raised will go toward supplemental education needs at Holcomb Schools...

Two Dunklin County student-athletes have been nominated by Rend Lake College for their high academic achievement for the 2018-19 school year. Kennett graduate Ty Ellis has been nominated for the NJCAA Second-Team Academic Achievement Award. Ellis maintained a 3.81 GPA...

Dunklin County native Ty’re Washington was unsure what career he wanted to pursue when he graduated from Southland High School in Cardwell, Missouri, in 2006. “When I graduated high school I was like a lot of others and didn’t know what I wanted to do so I started working in a factory,” Washington said. “One day as I was working it became crystal clear to me that something had to change. That day I decided I’m going to go back to school.”...

In the fall of 2016, a group of Holcomb citizens began searching for a way to provide the teachers at their school district additional resources in the classroom. “We started meeting in 2016,” Holcomb Education Foundation representative Mark McClendon said. “By January 2017 we had established our foundation.”...

Last summer 2014 Kennett graduate Tyson Campbell thought his baseball career had ended despite putting together a stellar junior season at Lyon College in Batesville, Arkansas, in 2018.

Plans are in place for the fourth annual Kennett Athletics 4-Person Golf Scramble to take place later this summer. The tee time for the event is slated for 1 p.m. on Friday, July 26, at Kennett Country Club. All proceeds from the event go toward projects for Kennett athletic program...

Two proposals passed at the 2019 Missouri High School Activities Association Election in May will alter the postseason playoff field for local high schools in the Missouri Bootheel beginning in the 2020-21 school year.

The Kennett Indians High School baseball team is among the 17 teams set to compete at the 17-team Go Nuts Classic Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. The tournament takes place at Hillhouse Park in Charleston, VFW Stadium in Sikeston, and Notre Dame Regional High School in Cape Girardeau...

The 2019 Missouri High School Baseball Coaches Association all-state baseball team has been released. Six players from the Delta Dunklin Democrat coverage area have been selected all-state. Cooter senior Dawson Treat is a first-team all-state pitcher in Class 1. Treat finished 7-5 with a 2.72 ERA. He struck out 97 and walked 27 in 69.1 innings pitched...

PARAGOULD, Ark. - The Kennett Indians played the defending national champion Charleston Fighting Squirrels to a 5-5 stalemate through six innings but was unable to put together the finish it needed to walk away with a victory. Charleston broke the five-all tie when it scored seven runs in the top of the seventh inning and held on to beat Kennett 12-5 in a championship semifinal of the Glen Sain GMC Tournament at Paragould, Arkansas, Saturday night...

PARAGOULD, Ark. - The scoreboard beyond the fence in left-center field wasn’t the target for the Kennett Indians lineup when they arrived on the scene at the Glen Sain GMC Tournament in Paragould, Arkansas. “We were just looking to hit a good line drive to the outfield grass,” Kennett No. 3 hitter Andrew Spence said...

For the first time in four years, the Senath-Hornersville Lions baseball program has a new skipper in its dugout. Chris McLain, who is a 2000 graduate of Senath-Hornersville High School, is returning home to serve as high school baseball coach for the Lions...

The schedule is set for the highly anticipated Glen Sain GMC baseball tournament in Paragould, Arkansas. The eight-team event takes place Friday, Saturday, and Sunday at Bland & Threlkeld Baseball Park in Paragould. Senior Babe Ruth and Senior American Legion teams from Missouri and Arkansas will compete at the event...

KENNETT, Mo. - Participation continues to increase for the Kennett Swim Team even with numbers dwindling at many other summer programs. Traditional summer swimming powerhouse Kennett has 175 swimmers in its 2019 summer program. The high participation was evident when the Kennett squad had a record 155 swimmers show up to compete at its first home meet of the season Saturday at Sheryl Crow Aquatic Center...