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archives August 2008 Worley 2-for-2 in SFCR sprint events New 8.3.08 
Tommy Worley Jr. of Bismarck swept the sprint feature division feature races Saturday at St. Francois County Raceway.Worley (pictured) led Joey Montgomery of Fredericktown in the feature postponed from July 12 because of rain. Keith Burch was third. In the regularly schedule feature, Joey Moughan of Springfield, Ill., was second, and Jimmy Hurley of Springfield, Ill., was third. Malden Speedway also held double feature events Friday in its late model division. Todd Hall of Charleston won the first feature, and Kyle Berry of Poplar Bluff won the second event. Ste. Gen junior Legion reaches region title game New 8.3.08 Ste. Genevieve's junior American Legion team will play for a regional championship today in Blair, Neb. The Post 150 team will play at 8:30 p.m. against Kearney, Neb. Ste. Genevieve lost to Kearney 7-5 on Sunday, its first loss of the tournament. Zone champ Festus begins state chase New 8.4.08 Festus will take its next step in a state American Legion title chase Thursday with an 8 p.m. game against Columbia Red Weir Post 202 at Washington's Rotary Recreational Complex. Post 253, which sealed its Southeast zone championship Saturday with a 14-0 win over Dunklin County, is among four teams in the double-elimination tournament. After playing Thursday, Festus will play either Carthage or Blue Springs on Friday, with the championship set for noon Saturday. A second championship game could be played at 4 p.m. Saturdayif necessary. Thursday's other game features Carthage and Blue Springs at 5. Sikeston Junior Babe Ruth wins regional crown New 8.4.08 The Sikeston Junior Babe Ruth baseball team clinched a spot in the league's world series Monday by winning the Midwest Plains Regional. Host Sikeston made quick work of Minnetonka, Minn., by scoring 11 runs in the first inning on its way to a 16-2 win. Sikeston scored all 16 of its runs in the first four innings. Drew Harper, Josh King, Tanner Murphy and Trey Tigart each had a pair of hits for Sikeston. Tigart pitched five innings with five hits and two walks. Sikeston will play its first World Series game in Jamestown, Ny., at 2:30 p.m. Aug. 16 against the Middle Atlantic Region winner. Plaza Tire Capahas advance with win in World Series New 8.4.08 The Cape Girardeau Plaza Tire Capahas advanced Monday in the National Baseball Congress World Series with a 10-6 win over El Dorado, Kan. Anthony Maupin retired 10 of the final 11 batters he faced for the Capahas and ended the day with seven strikeouts over eight innings. Maupin gave up five runs in the first four innings. Zach Borowiak was 3-for-4, and Jerry Hodges had the Capahas' lone home run. Cape Girardeau will play again Friday. Its opponent will be either the Fort Lauderdale (Fla.) Superstars or the Santa Barbara (Cal.) Foresters, which play Wednesday. Friday's winner will advance to Sunday's round. Ste. Gen junior Legion caps season with national distinction New 8.4.08 Ste. Genevieve Post 150 made its claim to the junior American Legion national title Monday night with a 7-6 win over Kearney, Neb., in the region championship. Playing in Blair, Neb., Nathan Geile struck out Kearney's final batter and left the tying run stranded at second base in the top of the seventh inning. The win handed Ste. Genevieve the title of the nation's only junior American Legion region tournament, which effectively doubled as a national championship tournament. It was the second win in three tries over five days for Post 150 (33-4) over the same Nebraska team. Kearney (50-7) lost to Ste. Genevieve early in the tournament but won 7-5 on Sunday, forcing a second championship game Monday. Ste. Genevieve took a 5-0 lead in the second inning, powered by a three-run triple by Geile. Kearney tied the game in the top of the third, and Ste. Genevieve went up for good with two runs in the fourth on hits from Michael Greminger and Aaron Basler. Kearney loaded the bases in the fifth inning, but a contested play at first ended the inning. Kearned scored its final run in the sixth. Memphis, then SEMO, now Shawnee for Bell City star Bogan New 8.7.08 Former Bell City all-state center Will Bogan's next stop: the Shawnee Community College basketball team. Shawnee coach John Sparks said in a published report today that Bogan, a 6-foot-10 center and former all-state player from Bell City, has signed to play at the junior college in the upcoming season. Bogan, who was about to start his sophomore year at Southeast Missouri State, was academically ineligible for the first semester of the basketball season. There was speculation that Southeast coach Scott Edgar withdrew Bogan's scholarship over concerns about Bogan's future eligibility. Sparks said Bogan, although still listed on Southeast's online basketball roster for 2008-'09, has already taken classes and trained on the Shawnee campus in Ullin, Ill. Bogan will join D.D. Gillespie, a Scott County Central grad who earlier signed to play at Shawnee. The season will open Oct. 7 with an exhibition game in Vincennes, Ind. Bogan averaged seven points and almost four rebounds per game for Southeast last season, but the Redhawks were Bogan's second Division I choice. He previously committed to Memphis before coach John Calipari later declined to extend a scholarship offer. Bogan committed to Southeast in April 2007. Capahas face elimination round at NBC World Series New 8.8.08 If Cape Girardeau's Plaza Tire Capahas win the NBC World Series this year, they'll have to play out of a hole to do it. The Santa Barbara (Calif.) Foresters scored five runs in the second inning to pile up a 7-1 lead going into the third, and their 12-5 win Friday dropped the Capahas into the elimination bracket for the final four days of the tournament in Wichita, Kan. The Capahas loaded the bases in the top of the ninth with no outs to threaten a rally. Omar Padilla scored to cut the gap to 12-5, but that's where the push ended. Padilla, Chris Gibson and Jerry Hodges each finished with two hits. The Capahas will play the Park City (Kan.) Rangers on Saturday. The winner will play again Sunday. Back-to-back losses drop Festus out of state finals New 8.8.08 A pair of losses in the American Legion state baseball tournament Friday in Washington ended the season for Festus Post 253. After a 6-1 defeat of Columbia on Thursday, Festus lost 7-0 Friday to Blue Springs and 9-7 to Columbia in an elimination bracket game. Festus ended the season with a 32-11 record. Charleston wins opener in Babe Ruth World Series New 8.9.08 Charleston scored five runs in the sixth and seventh innings Friday to seal an 8-5 win over Licking County, Ohio, in the opening round of the Babe Ruth Senior World Series in Newark, Ohio. A two-run home run by Blake Gaddis (pictured) in the fifth inning put Charleston's rally in motion. Jarryd Smith drove in two more runs in the sixth to make it 5-3, and Chase McClendon and Zach Rowland both added RBI singles in the seventh. Steven Dooley pitched all seven innings for the win. Branson racer wins first Malden MSRA showdown New 8.9.08 Jesse Stovall of Branson led the final 12 laps Friday to win his first event in the Mid South Racing Association late model event at Malden Speedway. The touring series attracted a track-record 33 late model entries, but none of them could match Stovall for the final 12 laps of the 30-lap event. Stovall's win was worth $2,000 and key points in the traveling tour. Rookie of the year contender Jon Kirby was second, and series points leader Joey Mack of Benton was third. Mineral Area team falls in 10-year-old tournament New 8.11.08 Mineral Area had just three hits in a 6-0 loss to West Raleigh, N.C., in the Cal Ripken World Series for 10-year-olds Sunday in Abbeville, La. The loss drops Mineral Area into the elimination bracket for a game at 5 p.m. Tuesday. Jake Bridges, Drew Harlow and Brennan White accounted for Mienral Area's hits. Squirrels stumble to 1-2 in Babe Ruth World Series New 8.11.08 Charleston faces elimination from the Senior Babe Ruth World Series after a 14-4 setback to Mobile, Ala., on Sunday in Newark, Ohio. Mobile scored 12 runs in the third, fourth and fifth innings to end the game on the 10-run rule in the bottom of the fifth. Mobile out-hit the Squirrels 14-5; Colin Gilooly's double highlighted the offense for Charleston, which led 4-2 after two innings. Charleston will play Long Island, N.Y., in the final pool play game Tuesday. The winner will finish third in the American League pool and will advance to the finals bracket. The loser will be eliminated from the tournament. Capahas eliminated with second defeat in NBC World Series New 8.11.08 The Cape Girardeau Plaza Tire Capahas were eliminated from the National Baseball Congress World Series in a 5-3 loss Monday to Havasu, Ariz. Cape Girardeau finished the double-elimination tournament in Wichita, Kan., with a 2-2 record. Havasu, the defending tournament champion, advances to a Tuesday game. Havasu took a 4-0 lead into the eighth inning before the Capahas rallied to load the bases with two outs. Zach Johnson scored on a Havasu error, and Zach Borowiak singled to scored a pair of runs to cut the lead to 4-3. Cape Girardeau had the tying run at third when Chris Gibson hit a fly ball to center field to end the inning. Havasu, which out-hit Cape Girardeau 11-5, scored its final run in the ninth. Southeast faces new NCAA investigation New 8.12.08 Southeast's basketball program is again under investigation by the NCAA, but this time focus is on the men's team and another former coach. Just less than a year after the NCAA revealed a list of punishments for the women's program and former coach B.J. Smith, the school said Tuesday that it is being investigated again. One violation, according to a one-page release from the school, stems from the earlier investigation of the program. "As a follow-up to the NCAA investigation of the women's and men's basketball programs that has previously been reported, new information has been developed," the release said. The school declined further comment until the NCAA issues a formal letter of allegations. The second violation involves former coach Gary Garner and three athletes who were ineligible to compete but traveled free with the team over a two-year period. The university imposed its own sanctions for the 2006-'07 season and paid a fine of about $12,600, but that investigation remains ongoing because Garner has filed an appeal with the NCAA. The previous investigation of Southeast lasted from late 2006 to October 2007 and resulted in the school's loss of 79 wins and its NCAA Tournament appearance in March 2006. Loss ends Charleston's run at Babe Ruth title New 8.13.08 An 11-6 loss to Long Island, N.Y., late Tuesday eliminated Charleston from the Senior Babe Ruth World Series in Newark, Ohio. Charleston, playing for the third and final qualifying spot in the tournament's American League pool division, gave up six runs in the top of the seventh as Long Island rallied from a 6-5 deficit. The Bombers used four hits and three Charleston errors to surge ahead for good. Long Island finished third in the pool with a 2-2 record and will play Wednesday in the single-elimination championship bracket. The Squirrels, which finished their first-ever Babe Ruth World Series trip with a 1-3 record in the pool round, took the lead for the first time in the bottom of the sixth after coming back from a five-run deficit. Matt Medlock, Jarryd Smith and Tyler Whybark all had two hits apiece for Charleston. Medlock also won the Tellefsen MVP trophy. Three-time tour champ Swindell joins Benton race New 8.13.08 Three-time World of Outlaws sprint tour champion Sammy Swindell will make his first trip to Benton Racepark in 11 years Friday when he competes in a special event for winged sprint cars at the Scott County dirt oval track. The Germantown, Tenn., veteran will drive the No. 58 car owned by Randy Dukes of Cape Girardeau in Friday's event sanctioned by the All Star Circuit of Champions. Swindell also will compete in the same car Saturday in the tour's stop in West Memphis, Ark. Friday's race will be Swindell's first competition at the Benton oval since winning a World of Outlaws event there in April 1997. It's also a long-awaited return for the ASCoC, which last competed at the track in late 2003 in an event won by Paul May. Swindell competes occassionally on the ASCoC tour but is more notable on the World of Outlaws circuit, where he ranks No. 2 in all-time wins with 268. Mineral Area team eliminated in Cal Ripken World Series New 8.14.08 Mineral Area gave up four straight runs after an early lead Wednesday and lost 5-2 to Branchburg, N.J., to end its run in the Cal Ripken World Series for 10-year-olds in Abbeville, La. Mineral Area's nine errors proved costly in its second loss of the tournament. Drew Harlow's double in the first inning and Keenan Johnson's solo home run pushed Mineral Area up 2-1 in the first inning before Branchburg rallied to go up for good in the second. Branchburg reached the elimination bracket championship with its win. Logan Winder finished 2-for-4, and Jake Bridges added another single for Mineral Area. Ironton golfer wins AJGA title at Dalhousie New 8.15.08 
Jordan McLaurin shot 3-under par over the final nine holes Thursday to clinch the American Junior Golf Association's Dalhousie Junior Championship title, his first win on the tour.McLaurin, a freshman at Missouri State and Arcadia Valley High grad, finished the 54-hole tournament in Cape Girardeau at 8-under par 208. He was seven shots ahead of a trio of players who tied for second: Dustin Korte of Metropolis, Ill., Landon Lyons of Baton Rouge, La., and Paul McConnell of Garland, Texas. Josh Alford of Marion, Ark., was fifth at even-par 216. McLaurin was the only player who shot under par all three days of the tournament. Ani Gulugian of Irvine, Calif., finished with her second straight Dalhousie AJGA girls title after pulling away for an eight-stroke win. Lauren Salazar of Santa Clara, Calif., shot a 74 to finish second and Bonnie Hu of Fremont, Calif., was 14 strokes behind the leader in third. All Star series points leader wins Benton tour stop New 8.17.08 
Dale Blaney brought home his third win in the past four events late Friday in the All Star Circuit of Champions' return to Benton Racepark.Blaney, of Hartford, Ohio, passed leader Tim Shaffer at the midway point of the 30-lap event to extend his points lead in the traveling series. Shaffer, of Aliquippa, Pa., finished second. Randy Hannagan finished third, Jeremy Campbell fourth and Lance Dewease fifth. Sammy Swindell was sixth. The event was the first for the All Star circuit at the Scott County track since 2003. Sikeston rolls into final round at World Series New 8.19.08 Midwest Plains champion Sikeston advanced from its pool division and into the single-elimination round with a win Tuesday in the Babe Ruth World Series' 13-year-old division. Tyler Anderson had two hits and pitched a complete game in Sikeston's 8-6 win over Southeast region champion Greenville, N.C. Sikeston will play its final pool play game at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday followed by its first elimination bracket game Thursday. All games are in Jamestown, Ohio. In Tuesday's win, Anderson gave up five earned runs, struck out four and went 2-for-3 with an RBI for Sikeston, which led 4-1 after the first inning. It was 8-4 heading into the third. Josh Hampton went 2-for-3 for Sikeston, which out-hit Greenville 10-7. SEMO grad Amano draws preseason NFL start New 8.19.08 Eugene Amano will start for the Titans in Friday's game against Atlanta, the first start of the preseason for the draft pick from Southeast Missouri State. Amano drew the call-up when linebacker Keith Bullock was pulled from Friday's lineup early Tuesday. Coach Jeff Fisher said the competition for fulltime spots aren't over, although Amano — a seventh-round pick in '04 — is in contention for the starting spot at left guard. "We’re still a couple weeks away" from naming the starter, Fisher said. Sikeston reaches semis of 13-year-old World Series New 8.21.08 Sikeston advanced to Friday's semifinal round of the Babe Ruth World Series for 13-year-olds after defeating Youngstown, Ohio, 11-9 on Thursday in Jamestown, Ohio. Sikeston scored its 11 runs in the first inning and held on after Youngstown scored its final four runs in the seventh. Youngstown pitcher Chris Maze gave up just one hit and struck out five Sikeston batters over the final five innings. For Sikeston, Brandon Goodwin, Andrew Harper and Tanner Murphy had two hits apiece. St. Pius football jamboree moved to Ste. Genevieve New 8.22.08 Ste. Genevieve will host four Mississippi Area Football Conference teams tonight after St. Pius X High School shifted its event from Festus to the Dragons' field. The announcement this afternoon will create an eight-team event at Ste. Genevieve. At 6 p.m., the host Dragons will join Valle, Park Hills Central and DeSoto for a four-team jamboree. At 8, St. Pius will join St. Vincent, Crystal City and Grandview for a final session. Other jamborees today will be played at Dexter, East Prairie, Farmington, Hillsboro, Malden, Sullivan and Thayer. Malden Speedway racing event pushed to Sunday New 8.22.08 Rain forced the postponement of tonight's racing program at Malden Speedway to Sunday afternoon, track officials announced. Gates will open at 2 p.m., followed by hot laps at 3:30 and racing at 4. Sikeston 13-year-olds eliminated in World Series New 8.22.08 Sikeston was eliminated from the Babe Ruth World Series for 13-year-olds Friday after a 13-8 semifinal loss to Bryant, Ark. Bryant scored six runs in the second inning to go ahead 8-6 in the first of two semifinals at Diethrick Park in Jamestown, Ohio. Sikeston tied the game in the fourth, but Bryant scored the winning runs later the same inning. Bryant advanced to Saturday's championship game against the winner of Friday's later game. Cord Sheehy was 2-for-4 with a double for Sikeston, which was out-hit 13-8. Josh King of Sikeston was a co-player of the game with Bryant pitcher Zach Cambron. Southeast schedule features 15 home dates New 8.26.08 Games against Kansas State, Iowa and Bradley highlight Southeast's men's basketball schedule announced Tuesday by the school. The Redhawks, 12-19 last season under coach Scott Edgar, play 15 games at home starting with a preseason exhibition game Nov. 1 against Missouri Baptist. The regular season will start Nov. 14 at New Mexico, followed by games at Kansas State on Nov. 16 and at Iowa on Nov. 25. Southeast's Ohio Valley Conference schedule will start Dec. 4 with a home date against Austin Peay. Redhawks score final 23 points to overcome SW Baptist New 8.28.08 Southeast scored the game's final 23 points Thursday to rally from a potentially deflating home-opening loss to Southwest Baptist at Houck Stadium. Southeast's 35-28 win in overtime over the Division II Bearcats (0-1) followed a 38-17 come-from-behind win a year ago against the same team in the season opener. In that game, the Redhawks scored the game's final 15 points to win. In Thursday's opener, Southeast trailed 14-3 at halftime and then 21-3 early in the second half. Doug Spada tied it 28-28 on a 47-yard field goal with 1:41 left in the fourth quarter. In overtime, Houston Lillard hit Miles Edwards with a 23-yard touchdown pass. Lillard went 27-for-39 in the air with 387 yards, including 181 in the fourth quarter, and three touchdowns. Blackcats, Lewondowski scramble to top Bulldogs New 8.29.08 
Senior Joey Lewondowski scored three touchdowns in the second half, including two in the final 61 seconds, and rallied Fredericktown past Sikeston 42-29 in the high school football opener for both teams Friday.Lewondowski scored on touchdown runs of 20, 21 and 22 yards after halftime. He scored the go-ahead touchdown with 1:01 to play, and after Ethan Tidwell picked off Sikeston's first pass of its next drive, Lewondowski scored again with 35 seconds to play. Elsewhere, Farmington took its first lead of the game with a little more than 5 minutes to play in its rivalry game against North County, then scored once more to win 21-7. Farmington is ranked No. 1 in the SemoSportsWeb preseason poll. At Ste. Genevieve, Kory Faulkner threw for 415 yards and five touchdowns in the Dragons' 49-19 win over Dexter. Ste. Genevieve is the region's No. 4-ranked team; Dexter is No. 6. Illinois' Lyons wins Fastrak special event at Malden New 8.31.08 Nick Lyons led a 15-car field from three states to win Friday's Fastrak Midwest special event for late models at Malden Speedway. Lyons, of Centralia, Ill., led Todd Hall of Charleston and Scott Tracer of Rector, Ark., in the feature race. Billy James was fourth and Shawn Rayfield fifth. Robert Powers of Malden won in the modified division, leading Hunter Rasdon and Tim Radford. Other feature race winners were Doug Moore (hobby stocks), Barry Daniels (pure stocks), Brandon Miller (e-mods), Gene Windham (mini stocks) and Joe Geisler (vintage). |
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