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Dexter High School football coach Chad Jamerson has been picking up nuggets of gridiron knowledge since he was a scrawny kid growing up on the athletic fields of East Prairie. That devotion to learning through the decades paid dividends this fall, as Jamerson led Dexter to its most successful season ever with the Bearcats finishing with an 11-1 record, dominating the SEMO Conference Central Division, and advancing to the MSHSAA Class 3 State Quarterfinals.

Caruthersville Tigers dominate with a 41-point win over Malden, marking their second consecutive victory by such a margin.

Caruthersville High School football defensive coordinator Brad Treece was born and raised in the Bootheel community and has spent over two decades either playing for the Tigers or instructing young athletes on how to excel.

The final Missouri Media Rankings for 2024 highlight the success of local high school football teams. St. Vincent leads Semoball teams, finishing third in Class 1, while Dexter and Cape Central also secure top spots.

The Culver-Stockton College football program recently watched Heart of America Athletic Conference North Division All-Conference running back Demarion Cobb wrap up his athletic career, and the Wildcat coaching staff has an idea for what they want to do with their run game moving forward.

Saying that Zai’Aire Thomas did it all for Cape Central this season might be just a bit of an understatement. Thomas helped the Tigers go 10-2 and make it all the way to the Class 5 District 1 championship game, plus the Cape Central senior scored 24 regular-season touchdowns — 13 on the ground and 11 more via reception — and threw for another as he scored 28% of the time he touched the ball on offense...

The Poplar Bluff Mules boys varsity basketball team opened up its season at home with a 60-53 victory over the Caruthersville Tigers on Tuesday night at Mules Gymnasium. The Mules picked up their first win of the season to start 1-0, while the Tigers remained winless at 0-3...

Veteran Caruthersville High School boy’s basketball coach Lamonte Bell has been at this gig long enough to understand what is best for his players in the long run. What that means in the immediate future is that the Tigers will be tested early and often, with hopes that any adversity builds toughness in February and March.

St. Vincent's playoff run ends in the state semifinals, while Jackson tops the Semoball 2024 football rankings. Discover the top 10 teams and standout players of the season.

NEW MADRID – With a portion of his roster having barely taken off their football pads, veteran Caruthersville High School boy’s basketball coach Lamonte Bell had tempered expectations as his team opened its season on Friday against West Memphis in the Riverbend Classic at New Madrid County Central High School.

The Caruthersville High School boy’s basketball program has strung together three consecutive winning seasons, and veteran Tiger coach Lamonte Bell believes he has the experience and depth this season to make it four in a row. “I return four out of five starters,” Bell said of this year’s squad.

SEMO NORTH FIRST TEAM OFFENSE QB — Brett Drye, Farmington, sr., 6-1, 180; QB — Jay Edmundson, Poplar Bluff, sr., 6-0, 178; RB — Keyshawn Boyd, Cape Central, jr., 6-0, 190; RB — Jaylon Hampton, Jackson, soph., 5-7, 165; RB — Zai’Aire Thomas, Cape Central, sr., 5-6, 165; WR — Hunter Clifford, Poplar Bluff, sr., 6-1, 166; WR — Kai Crowe, Jackson, sr. ...

The Caruthersville High School football program had its most successful season this fall since 2018, as it won 10 games for just the second time in 11 seasons. However, that success was not limited to just on the field.

The Caruthersville High School football season ended Friday with a defeat at Valle Catholic in the MSHSAA Class 2 District 1 championship game, which was an anomaly.

STE. GENEVIEVE – The small picture of what transpired on Friday in the MSHSAA Class 2 District 1 Football Playoff championship game was that Valle Catholic dominated Caruthersville 63-21.

Players from Caruthersville, Cape Central, Dexter and Farmington have been selected as finalists as the most outstanding football players in the SEMO Conference. Jermonte Alexander of Caruthersville, Jett Grams of Dexter and Zai’Aire Thomas of Cape Central are in the running to take home the Carr Trophy, given to the conference’s most outstanding player, while Nolan Alford of Dexter, Oscar Dominguez of Caruthersville and Kaesen McClain of Farmington are finalists for the Derland Moore Award as the top defensive players in the conference.. ...

Former United States Olympic hockey coach Herb Brooks, the architect of the greatest upset victory in American sports, uttered that line to his athletes just prior to his team beating the monumentally favored Soviet Union in 1980, and no coach in Southeast Missouri grasps the emotion of that sentence more so than third-year Caruthersville High School football coach Dom Guglielmo.

CARUTHERSVILLE – Third-year Caruthersville High School football coach Dom Guglielmo has preached to his team this season that he wants “fast starts” on both sides of the ball, but the Tigers haven’t always been able to do that. In Friday’s MSHSAA Class 2 District 1 semifinal win over East Prairie at Hopke Field, that wasn’t an issue.

Caruthersville High School junior linebacker Jackson Napier doesn’t rank atop the incredible Tigers’ squad this fall in tackles. He is second on the team in that important category. However, where Napier does rank higher than anybody else is more important (at least in the bigger picture).

Poplar Bluff surges with a key win, setting the stage for a major clash between Caruthersville and East Prairie in the postseason. Discover who's climbing the Semoball Area Football Power Rankings.

CARUTHERSVILLE – Third-year Caruthersville High School football coach Dom Guglielmo entered this season wanting his young athletes to grasp the opportunity that lay ahead of them this fall, and here it is November, and there is little debate that the Tigers have done just that.

Members of the Caruthersville High School football squad are going to spend Friday evening reading the schematics thrown at them by their counterparts at Portageville High School, as the two teams open the postseason in the MSHSAA Class 2 District 1 Playoffs. However, the senior Tigers spent time on Thursday reading in a more impactful manner.

Check out Missouri's latest high school football rankings as St. Vincent ups its lead on the top spot in Class 1 while Jackson makes a comeback. Discover the key movements ahead of the postseason.

Get ready for postseason high school football in Southeast Missouri as Jackson holds the top spot after a dominant win over Festus. Discover the final regular season top 10 rankings and key matchups.

The varsity football programs at Caruthersville and Ste. Genevieve High Schools hadn’t seen each other in nine years, but both brought storied traditions of success to Hopke Field on Friday, so third-year Tiger coach Dom Guglielmo knew how long the evening could be.

CARUTHERSVILLE – When Caruthersville High School football player Jermaine Caruthers walks out of the locker room and onto the field, he needs to be physically and mentally ready to roll because he ain’t going to get another moment to rest until the final horn sounds.