Jimmy Vernon and Tyler Norton teamed up for a bogey-free 36 holes while their teammates also played under par as the Westwood Hills Country Club team claimed the SEMO Cup on their home course Saturday. Westwood Hills won for the 14th time and first since 2021 in the event which started in 1989. The course hosted the event just 4 1⁄2 months after a tornado destroyed over 100 trees...

The Poplar Bluff football Mules lost a heartbreaking overtime thriller to the visiting West Plains Zizzers 35-28 on Friday night in their final home game of the football regular season. In a game marked by both teams matching each other with gritty scoring offset by turnovers and penalties, Poplar Bluff (2-5) played perhaps its best game so far this season despite the losing outcome...

Editor’s note: This story is the first of two parts. The second part will run in the Oct. 19 edition of the Daily American Republic. When Jeff Mannon was named the head football coach of the Poplar Bluff Mules earlier this year, he looked to a past mentor to join his coaching staff...

“Tonight, we honor the boys that turned into men, and the men who turned into leaders,” Sarah Holt proclaimed as she inducted the 2004 and 2005 PBHS Mules basketball teams into the Poplar Bluff Sports Hall of fame on Thursday. “These championships were built on their coaches and their families.”...

The Dexter Lady Bearcats and Poplar Bluff Lady Mules both were able to take some positives away from Thursday night’s volleyball match at the Poplar Bluff High School gymnasium. For the Lady Bearcats, it was first and foremost a 25-20, 25-21, 25-16 over their SEMO Conference rivals — especially on a night when Dexter got off to a slow start in the first set...