Advance

DEXTER – Top-seed Puxico did what it was supposed to do – eventually – in its opening game of the Stoddard County Athletic Association Boy’s Basketball Tournament on Monday at the Bearcat Event Center.

Advance High School varsity boy’s basketball coach Dalton Wilson is only in his second season of leading his alma mater, so he has not become entrenched in a specific strategy or style of play, aside from the tenets of effort and smart decision-making.

ADVANCE – There have been moments for the Advance High School varsity boys basketball squad this season where it showed its potential. That was the case on Monday against Class No. 8-ranked Richland (Essex). However, as it has been all season, sustaining that ability ultimately cost the Hornets, as the Rebels dominated 70-41 at Advance High School.

ELLSINORE — Over the last several years, the annual battle of Carter County between the Van Buren Bulldogs and the East Carter Redbirds — also known as the Yellow Sucker game — has become one of Southeast Missouri’s premier rivalry basketball games...

The Advance Hornets opened their first home game of the new year on a somber note but ended it on a high note. Before defeating the Delta Bobcats 69-62 on Tuesday, Jan. 6, the Advance community mourned the loss of AHS alum and Southeast Missouri State Hall of Fame basketball player Carl Ritter Sr., who passed away Tuesday morning at the age of 84. Ritter led the Hornets to their first state championship game appearance in 1957 and is the SEMO career points leader with 1,916 points from 1959-63...

It's been a long while since I've got to enjoy as much holiday basketball as I have this year. For the first time in a while, if ever, I got to attend the Poplar Bluff Showdown, Lady Royals Christmas Classic and the Bloomfield Christmas Tournament all in one five-day stretch. While I last covered the Showdown and Lady Royals Christmas Classic in 2019, this was my first time at Bloomfield in at least a decade...