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Local athletes earns medals at first day of state (5/18/24)JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – Local athletes made their mark on the first day of the MSHSAA Class 3, 2, and 1 State Track and Field Championships, securing multiple medals and setting the stage for an exciting second day of competition. Class 3 New Madrid County Central’s Amya Bills showcased her exceptional athleticism, claiming gold in the long jump with a leap of 5-8 meters. Bills’ speed was also on full display as she qualified first in the 100-meter dash (12.12 seconds) and the 200 (25.47)...
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Chaffee wins second straight district title in dramatic fashion (5/16/24)In a season where the senior class has been heavily relied on for Chaffee’s success, it was a freshman who came through with the game-winning hit. Rolen Reischman capped off a 3-for-5 game with a walk-off single to deliver the Red Devils a 4-3 extra-inning win over Meadow Heights to win their second straight Class 2 District 3 championship on Wednesday, May 15, in Perryville, Mo...
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C2D3: Chaffee downs St. Vincent in semis (5/11/24)An offensive outburst in the fifth inning led the Chaffee Red Devils to an 8-5 win over the St. Vincent Indians on Saturday in the Class 2 District 3 semifinals. Chaffee’s offense went to work early as Levi McKinnie led the game off by reaching first on a dropped third strike...
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Yarbro pushing himself and Red Devils this season (5/8/24)Blake Yarbro punched his ticket to the Class 2 sectionals with a victory in shot put on Saturday, May 4, at the Class 2 District 1 meet at Scott City High School. Maybe the most impressive part of Yarbro’s success is despite being a senior, it’s only his second year participating in track and field...
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Cossou advances to sectionals with impressive showing at C2D1 meet (5/4/24)It’d be hard to beat the success Chaffee’s Carlyanne Cossou has had athletically in her freshman year. Whether it was leading the Red Devils to the state championship game in softball or helping lead the girls' basketball team to an impressive 16-9 season, Cossou has done it all...
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Chaffee clinches Scott-Mississippi conference with rout of Oak Ridge (5/3/24)The Chaffee Red Devils entered Friday’s contest with the Oak Ridge Blue Jays looking to clinch the Scott-Mississippi Conference Championship. They did just that, defeating the Blue Jays 17-2 to win the conference and pick up win number 21 on the season...
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Gridiron primer: A look at upcoming football schedules (5/2/24)The calendar has turned to May and the spring sports season, as well as the 2023-24 school year, is beginning to wind down. However, with the recent releases of fall schedules for the 2024-25 school year, one can not help but look forward beyond the dog days of summer and into the 2024 high school football season...
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Chaffee’s ace stifles Scott City in 1-0 pitchers’ duel (5/2/24)"It's like déjà vu all over again." Much like last year, Chaffee narrowly defeated Scott City 1-0 in a pitchers duel where stellar pale in comparison with spectacular. Chaffee senior Levi McKinnie threw a complete game shutout with one hit, three walks and eight strikeouts. Scott City senior Blake Wilbrun went six innings with one run on two hits, four walks and eight strikeouts...
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BREAKING: Semoball Awards winter sports finalists announced (4/24/24)The Semoball Awards finalists for fall sports were announced Wednesday morning on a selection show broadcast live on SEMO ESPN Radio and streamed on the Semoball.com Facebook page. The finalists were selected by a sports panel made up of representatives from the Southeast Missourian, Standard Democrat, Dexter Statesman, Daily American Republic and Delta Dunklin Democrat...
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Sikeston upsets Chaffee for first win, splits doubleheader with South Iron (4/23/24)SIKESTON — Sikeston unleashed a long-awaited offensive onslaught, securing its first win of the season dominantly with a 14-2 victory over Class 2, No. 6 Chaffee on Friday, April 19. "Our offense finally came alive," said Sikeston's coach Wyatt Pratt. "We took great at-bats up and down the lineup."...
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Chaffee BB goes from ‘rock bottom’ to Cloud 9 (4/23/24)From one game to the next, the Chaffee Red Devils went from the worst of times to the best of times. Chaffee (16-3) concluded last week being on the losing end of Sikeston’s first win of the season on April 19, and suffering injuries to key players that could lead to the derailment of a promising season...
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Chaffee BB is rolling right through adversity (4/7/24)You wouldn’t know that the Chaffee High School baseball squad is currently facing any degree of adversity when you glance at the Class 2 No. 3-ranked Red Devils’ record (12-1) or their recent outings (scoring a combined 41 runs in the last three games). However, Chaffee coach Aaron Horrell is having to manage his chess pieces, perhaps more than he’d like this spring, due to injuries. “Our preseason message was,” Horrell said recently, we have only graduated two kids last year, but I told them that this is not the same team that went to the (2023 MSHSAA Class 2 Final Four).
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Details matter to Chaffee BB, even in easy Ws (4/4/24)BELL CITY – In his second season at the helm of guiding the Chaffee High School baseball program, Aaron Horrell led his alma mater to its best finish (third place in the MSHSAA Class 2 State Finals) in over three decades. So, Horrell is not a guy who fails to see details, even in the latest of the Red Devils’ many routs that they have put on opposing teams this spring.
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Malden Track and Field Invitational attracts SEMO athletes (4/3/24)MALDEN, Mo. - Athletes from more than a dozen Southeast Missouri high schools converged here Tuesday to compete in the Malden Invitational Track and Field Meet. Kennett High School sophomore Austin Gattis competed in the Discus Throw event and took home gold...
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Walks, defense cost East Prairie chance at upset of tough Chaffee squad (4/2/24)In some regards, what veteran East Prairie High School baseball coach Gary Scott has asked of his pitchers was evident in Monday’s 4-1 loss to Class 2 No. 3-ranked Chaffee in East Prairie.
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Greenville baseball deals Chaffee’s first loss (3/27/24)The Greenville Bears traveled to Chaffee on Tuesday, March 26, and dealt the Red Devils their first loss of the season. The game was originally going to be played at Capaha Field but got moved to Chaffee instead, with Greenville serving as the home team...
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Opening baseball coaches poll released, five local squads ranked highly (3/20/24)Local baseball squads got a hot start to the 2024 season, and coaches statewide took notice as the Missouri High School Baseball Coaches Association, or MHSBCA, released its first state top-10 rankings on Tuesday. Three Southeast Missourian newspaper teams placed in those rankings, with all three being ranked among the top four squads in their respective classes...
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Red Devils have “something to prove” after undefeated opening weekend (3/18/24)Chaffee baseball is fresh off of its deepest run in three decades, and that carries a lot of weight with it that isn’t just a shiny trophy. For coach Aaron Horrell and his Chaffee Red Devils, preparing for another long year in a region filled with teams looking to knock them down, the M.O. is clear...
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Five teams to watch in 2024 baseball season (3/13/24)As the book of basketball closes, the blank canvas that is the 2024 baseball season unfurls, yearning to be written. The 2023 season saw two teams reach the final four and return home with third-place trophies but there may be more to come this year...
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COLUMN: 5 local high school baseball players to watch in 2024 (3/6/24)Spring is near and with that comes the beginning of baseball season. Local baseball fans have already gotten a taste of the action with the beginning of the Southeast Missouri State Redhawks season as well as St. Louis Cardinals spring training. But, next week begins the prep campaign where local schools set their sites on a state title...
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C2D3 BKB: Oran gets past Chaffee - again (2/21/24)BLOOMFIELD – There is an adage in sports that it is difficult to beat a comparable team twice in the same season, and in the case of Oran High School varsity boy’s basketball, it has had to deal with its counterpart at Chaffee High School three times annually in two of the past three seasons, and four times this year.
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Chaffee GBB is playing beyond its inexperience (2/18/24)There aren’t a lot of positives that the foes of Chaffee High School girl’s basketball can grasp onto as the MSHSAA Class 2 District 3 Tournament gets underway on Monday at Lesterville High School.