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C4D1: Nice season by Pirates goes down vs. stellar pitching (5/14/24)DEXTER – Slowly over the past 15 months, the Perryville High School baseball program has worked to build some positive mojo around the program, and the Pirates carried that into their MSHSAA Class 4 District 1 semifinal game with Fredericktown with Marquand-Zion at East Park in Dexter on Monday. However, Perryville had to endure a dominant pitching performance and fell 3-1. “There wasn’t much we could do,” second-year Perryville coach Don O’Keefe said following the loss.
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3 players who give Perryville hope in playoffs (5/8/24)After finishing the regular season with 12 wins for the first time since 2018, the Perryville baseball team has something entering the Class 4 District 1 Tournament that they didn't have in recent years. Hope. In a five-team district, the Pirates are tied with tournament host Dexter with the second most wins in the field, second to their opponent, Fredericktown (13-6), a team that includes Marquand-Zion junior Braydan Homan...
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Huber, Pirates blank Blackcats under the lights (5/4/24)Due to circumstances caused by weather, the Perryville baseball team got to play under the lights in a rare “road” game on Friday, May 3, in Perryville, Mo. the Pirates were originally supposed to play at Herculaneum but due to the rain soaking the playing surface, the game was moved to the Perry Park Center and played after St. Vincent’s home contest against St. Puis X...
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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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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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Local baseball teams sweep weekend at Busch Stadium (4/22/24)Both the Jackson and Perryville baseball teams had the rare and special opportunity to play a game at Busch Stadium in St. Louis. Both the Pirates and Indians are enjoying winning seasons and scored wins against their Illinois counterparts at the home of the St. Louis Cardinals...
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Perryville BB adopts predator approach (4/19/24)“Saltwater croc mentality!” Those three words echoed from the home dugout throughout the Perryville baseball team’s 8-2 win over Windsor on Wednesday, April 17 in Perryville, Mo. Grant Smith became the first Pirate to hit a home run this season and it was so nice that he did it twice. It was fitting that Smith, who leads the Pirates with 15 RBIs, was the one to come up with the team’s newest motto...
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Scott City baseball rallies for win over Perryville (4/16/24)PERRYVILLE - 16 straight. That’s how many wins the Scott City Rams have strung together. For much of Monday’s contest with Perryville however, it appeared that streak was in jeopardy as the Rams rallied to beat the Pirates 7-5. “We wanted to come out and have a lot of energy,” Rams coach Skylar Cobb said. “We felt like it could be a trap game. That’s a good team we played. They came out and punched us in the face.”...
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Dexter wins big at Ste. Genevieve, Perryville and St. Vincent finish top 10 (4/11/24)A handful of local schools participated in the Ste. Genevieve Golf Tournament on Wednesday, with Dexter taking the crown with a 322 team score. taking part in a field of 20 teams, St. Vincent, Perryville and Saxony Lutheran joined Dexter on Wednesday with both St. Vincent and Perryville placing among the top 10 teams...
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Perryville soccer’s Brooklyn Moll building off 2023 success (4/2/24)Brooklyn Moll is coming off an incredibly successful 2023 season in goal for the Perryville Pirates. She has picked up where she left off this season as she helped lead the Pirates to a 3-2 beginning. The Pirates opened the season at the Fox Invitational where they fell 1-0 to Notre Dame St. Louis and fell 4-0 to Windsor (Imperial) before beating Bishop DuBorg 6-0 for their first win of the season...
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COLUMN: 5 local girls soccer players to watch in 2024 (3/13/24)The 2024 season is nearing for local girls soccer programs. With that comes a furious race for conference titles, district titles and perhaps even state titles. Every local team features a plethora of talented players that is sure to lead them to success but I have included my five girls soccer players to watch this season...
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David vs. Goliath: Oak Ridge takes on Delta for district title (2/23/24)Delta will take on Oak Ridge for the Class 1 District 1 championship on Friday, Feb. 23 at Scott County Central High School in Sikeston, Mo. Delta is the overwhelming favorite. The Lady Cats’ 26 wins are the most since their state runner-up season in 2022. They average 82.1 points per game and hold opponents to 38.6 per game...
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Lady Pirates slay the Dragons on the road (2/20/24)Two Lady Pirates players combined to score 54 points to lead Perryville on the road past Ste. Genevieve 59-40 on Monday, Feb. 19, in Ste. Genevieve, Mo. Aby Amberger led the Lady Pirates with 28 points while Brooklyn Moll scored 26 points. Lucy Wibbenmeyer and Caroline Gremaud each scored two points in the second quarter to round out the scoring for Perryville...