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Notre Dame baseball postponed, soccer still on
Posted Tuesday, May 21, at 4:33 PM
The Class 4 baseball sectional between Notre Dame and Ste. Genevieve has been postponed until Wednesday at 5 p.m. due to the rain moving in. The Notre Dame girls will still host Hillsboro in a soccer sectional at 6 p.m.

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Column: Swinging at 6 with the Jackson baseball team
Posted Friday, May 10, at 7:25 AM

It's 5:55 a.m. and already there are five trucks and a couple cars in the Jackson Junior High School parking lot. Before a minute goes by three more vehicles pull in, and eventually members of the Jackson baseball team exit their rides and head inside...

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Update with quotes: Mitch Wood stepping down as Oran baseball coach
Posted Thursday, May 9, at 9:38 PM

Long-time Oran baseball coach Mitch Wood said it was simply time to walk away from the coach's box after 21 years at the school and 24 overall. "I made the point a long time ago of saying when I was kind of ready to get out, I didn't want to stay around," he said. ...

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Updated: SEMO Conference baseball tournament schedule
Posted Friday, April 26, at 2:27 PM

Here are the seeds of the 2013 SEMO Conference baseball tournament: 1. Jackson 2. Notre Dame 3. Poplar Bluff 4. Sikeston 5. Kennett 6. Dexter 7. New Madrid County Central 8. Cape Central The higher seeds will host first-round games on Monday after games were postponed on Friday. All games are scheduled to start at 4 p.m...

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Column: Otto Porter stays true to form all the way to NBA
Posted Wednesday, April 17, at 12:39 AM

There was little doubt what news Otto Porter was going to deliver when he sat down alongside Georgetown coach John Thompson III at a press conference Monday afternoon. Porter is ready for the NBA, and everybody knows it. He knows it, his family and friends know it, his coaches know it and NBA scouts and executives know it...

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Otto Porter headed to NBA
Posted Monday, April 15, at 12:57 PM

Scott County Central graduate and Georgetown forward Otto Porter is expected to make his intentions to forgo his junior and senior seasons and enter the NBA draft official this afternoon at a press conference. In the meantime, pretty much every major news organization is citing "sources" in announcing Porter's decision...

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My complete, in-depth MLB predictions
Posted Sunday, March 31, at 8:37 PM

A lot of you know that I think making predictions is close to the biggest waste of time imaginable, but I was told I had to make MLB predictions for Sunday's print edition of the Southeast Missourian. My picks made it in the paper but not the super-detailed and important reasons that I included, so I thought I'd post them here for your reading pleasure...

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Cover It Live: Oran plays for third at 3:20 p.m. Friday
Posted Friday, March 8, at 9:43 AM

I will kick off live coverage of the Class 2 third-place game between Oran and Iberia at 3 p.m. Friday afternoon. 2013 Boys Basketball: Class 2 Third-Place Game...

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Cover It Live: Oran vs. Salisbury
Posted Friday, March 8, at 9:41 AM

I will start up Cover It Live at 6:30 p.m. Thursday night for live updates from Class 2 boys basketball semifinal between Oran and Salisbury. 2013 Class 2 Final Four: Oran vs. Salisbury...

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Oran to host fried chicken dinner to support basketball team
Posted Monday, March 4, at 8:08 PM

There will be an Oran basketball final four fundraiser on Tuesday. A fried chicken dinner with "all the trimmings" will be served from 5-7 p.m at the school. The cost is $6 per person. The money will go toward providing the team with a charter bus for its trip to Columbia...

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C2D3 on Saturday + more changes +updated district brackets
Posted Thursday, February 21, at 7:27 PM

Here are the latest updates I have for postponed district basketball tournaments. The Class 1 District 1 finals were postponed until Friday at Gideon. That's Risco-Naylor boys and Naylor-Koshkonong girls. Girls start at 6, boys follow. The Class 1 District 2 finals between the Scott County Central-Delta girls and the Leopold-SCC boys have been postponed until Friday at SCC. Girls games starts at 6, followed by the boys...

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Column: Leopold boys basketball team has sights set on first district title
Posted Wednesday, February 6, at 2:29 AM

The seniors on the Leopold boys basketball team played their final game on their small home floor, tucked inside their undersized gym Tuesday night. "Playing in a blueberry? A blueberry factory? Kind of like 50 shades of blue?," joked Leopold senior Brandon Jansen when I asked him what is was like to play in the gym...

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Scott City game time update
Posted Friday, February 1, at 11:30 AM

The Scott City boys basketball game against Egyptian, Ill., will start at 6 p.m Saturday night at Scott City. We had the time wrong on our schedule.

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Sikeston vs. Charleston
Posted Friday, February 1, at 11:25 AM

Press the play button below for live play-by-play updates from the Sikeston-Charleston rematch at the Show Me Center. The Rematch: Sikeston vs. Charleston...

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MVC Tournament starting early Tuesday
Posted Tuesday, January 29, at 10:53 AM

The Mississippi Valley Conference boys basketball tournament will get underway a half-hour early tonight thanks to the threat of wintry weather. Leopold will take on Zalma at 5 p.m. Host Oak Ridge will take on Meadow Heights at 6:30.

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Coaches vs. Cancer Shootout on Saturday
Posted Wednesday, January 23, at 7:55 PM

Charleston is hosting the fourth annual Coaches Versus Cancer Shootout this Saturday, which will feature high school girls basketball teams from all over the area. All proceeds are donated to the St. Francis Foundation Dig for Life campaign, according to Charleston girls basketball coach Josh Thompson. Tickets, which are good for all of the games throughout the day, cost $6...

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Column: Christmas Tournament about more than final scores
Posted Saturday, January 5, at 9:36 PM

In some ways high school basketball is always about more than what is happening on the court. The officials of the Missouri State High School Activities Association like to remind us all prep sports are about sportsmanship and teamwork. I like to think they're about learning to achieve goals through discipline and accountability to yourself and others...

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Southeast Missourian Christmas Tournament all-tournament team
Posted Thursday, January 3, at 6:57 PM

I'll add this list to the 2012 Christmas Tournament page soon, but here is the list again. Michael Hull, Charleston Trey Watkins, Charleston Garan Evans, Cape Central Jamal Cox, Cape Central Karson King, Jackson Blake Reynolds, Jackson Cody DeBrock, Notre Dame...

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Southeast Missourian Christmas Tournament going on as scheduled Saturday
Posted Saturday, December 29, at 9:00 AM

The 11 a.m. game between Scott City and Woodland will be played as scheduled at Jackson High School this morning despite the overnight snowfall. Chaffee and Oak Ridge will follow at 12:30 p.m. before the tournament moves back to the Show Me Center at 4 p.m...

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Charleston's Parham out indefinitely
Posted Thursday, December 27, at 1:51 PM

Charleston's all-state captain Ryan Parham did not dress out for the top-seeded Bluejays game against Delta this morning. His team did just fine without him in routing the Bobcats 107-24, but it will have to continue to play without him for an indefinite amount of time...

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Rachel Crader is the editor of semoball.com. She graduated from the University of Missouri School of Journalism in May of 2009 before spending the summer covering the World Series of Poker in Las Vegas.

Highlights from Rachel's days in college include having a class down the hall from Chase Daniel and having NCAA wrestling champion Ben Askren hold the door open for her at Brady Commons, Mizzou's student center. She spent time covering Mizzou basketball, softball and baseball while working for the Columbia Missourian and is excited to return home to Southeast Missouri to cover local sports for semoball.com.

Rachel has covered three Southeast Missourian Christmas Tournaments for the Southeast Missourian and semoball.com, and she'll see you courtside again this year.