A big day from Redhawks senior running back Geno Hess proved to be enough as the Redhawks defeated the Tennessee State Tigers 47-14 at Houck Stadium in Cape Girardeau on Sept. 25. Hess carried the ball 25 times for 205 yards and three touchdowns. He also caught one pass for 27 yards...

Fans gather from all around to watch the Redhawks football team take the stage at Houck Stadium. Although the team may have ups and downs throughout the game, the fans have their popcorn and soda in hand, enjoying every second the athletes play. Those who work behind the scenes to produce food for the fans put in more effort than meets the eye. Due to the renovations currently being made to Houck Stadium, concession stand vendors have been learning to adapt to their new situation...

On a rainy afternoon at Houck Stadium the SEMO Women’s soccer team defeated the Missouri State Bears 1-0. This was the annual Meg Herndon Memorial Green Up Game to support organ and tissue donation. Herndon was a defender for the Redhawks before being tragically killed in a truck and scooter accident in 2012. Herndon was an organ donor who was able to help other people live through her donations...

Holding off Tusla, Southern Illinois (SIU), and Central Arkansas (UCA), SEMO volleyball went 3-0 on the weekend in the Redhawks Invitational, September 17 and 18. What contributed to this successful weekend from Southeast? Redhawks coach Julie Yankus believes it was a combined team effort...

Dan Mckinney was named the new pitching coach of the Southeast Redhawks baseball team, announced Thursday, Aug. 26, by coach Andy Sawyers, and he is already making an impact. Mckinney has been around the game of baseball his whole life, from his playing days at the University of Michigan to now being a coach at Southeast...

SEMO women’s volleyball has seen early success this season, with a record of 6-3 throughout three tournaments. On Aug. 28 Southeast took home the championship in the Bradley CEFCU Invitational that took place in Peoria, Ill., with three straight match wins. ...

Intramural (IM) flag football at Southeast is getting ready to make its annual comeback this fall, but with a few adjustments to the rulebook, as well as the league itself. Southeast’s intramural flag football has three respective leagues: a men’s, women’s and co-rec league. Each team is scheduled to play twice a week this fall and is guaranteed four games a week...

Students and staff at Southeast Missouri State University should expect a few rule changes and an effective mask mandate for this intramural season to avoid an outbreak of COVID-19 amongst others. Intramural (IM) sports are recreational sports organized within a particular institution or university...

When thinking of important events this time of year, a few may come to mind — Yom Kippur, the first day of fall, Halloween — but one very close to home may not be so top-of-mind: the anniversary of Houck Field’s opening. This year marks the 91st year since the stadium’s construction. According to the Southeast Missouri State University website, on Oct. 3, 1930, Houck Field was officially opened and named in honor of long-time Board of Regents member and president Louis Houck...

Southeast Missouri State women’s volleyball team won two of their three matches in their annual SEMO Invitational, a two-day tournament Sept. 10 and 11. The Redhawks took on the Marshall Thundering Herd and the Memphis Tigers Friday night, winning in four sets against the Herd and then coming out on top in a five-set battle against the Tigers in the nightcap. The Redhawks followed up Friday night’s matches with a hard-fought loss to Arkansas State on Saturday night, losing in five sets...

Southeast’s football and soccer teams have shared plenty of ups and downs during their 91-year span inside of Houck Stadium, where fans have gathered together to cheer on the Redhawks for years. And for those who couldn’t make it to the games, the staff at ESPN+ have been there to share the live coverage of games since the Ohio Valley Conference (OVC) made a deal with ESPN+ in 2018...

Don’t call it a comeback. Semo’s eSports Club has been on campus since 2019, but recently, they have been expanding through student involvement and the creation of new ideas within the program. With a small start in August 2019 as a program under the student recreation center, the eSports club has blossomed into an open and welcoming community, with an arena located on the first floor of the Towers Complex, next to Rowdy’s. ...

Keeping stats, holding season tickets and knowing players by name are descriptors of what something a huge fan of a sport might do. This can be unique to each person from remembering past plays to knowing the players and coaches by hand. Through his mother working at the university for 35 years, John Spear started watching SEMO games during his childhood and hasn't stopped since. Through all the years of watching sports, one of his favorite games he’s seen took place in 2019...

“She’s quick, and she can finish,” Southeast soccer coach Heather Nelson said of sophomore midfielder/forward Anne-Clara Couturier when referring to her ability to impact Southeast soccer offensively. Couturier is a transfer from Southeastern University, a NAIA school in Lakeland, Fla. During the 2020-21 season, she was named the Sun Conference Freshman of the Year and named to the Second Team All-Sun Conference...

Senior offensive lineman Jaden Rosenthall looks to be a staple for the Redhawks offense for the upcoming football season. After a 4-4 season during the 2020-2021 season, the Redhawks look to climb the rankings in the Ohio Valley Conference (OVC) in hopes to be the frontrunners in their division...

As fans arrived at the aging Houck Stadium Thursday evening for the annual War for the Wheel football game, a glaring silence echoed through the southside bleachers. The grandstand section — usually designated for Redhawks fans — remained anything but rowdy through the nearly three-and-a-half-hour game...

A slow first half both offensively and defensively proved costly as the Redhawks fell to the Southern Illinois Salukis 47-21 in the War for the Wheel, allowing the Salukis to keep the wheel for the second straight season. The Salukis opened the scoring just under four minutes into the game when sophomore quarterback Nic Baker connected with junior wide receiver Avante Cox for a 99-yard touchdown on Southern’s first play from scrimmage...

Just 45 miles and a river separate Southeast Missouri State University (SEMO) and Southern Illinois University (SIU), but they are connected by more than 100 years of football rivalry. In the series that has been dubbed the “War for the Wheel,” SEMO and SIU compete in a non-conference game for bragging rights and the opportunity to take an authentic ship’s wheel back to their university. ...

As week one draws closer, Southeast football has their sights set on being frontrunners in the Ohio Valley Conference (OVC) during the 2021 campaign. The Redhawks are coming off of a 4-4 season that began in October 2020 and ended in April 2021. The Redhawks’ lone game in 2020 was a 20-17 loss on Oct. 30 when they traveled to Carbondale, Ill., to take on the Southern Illinois Salukis...

On a hot and humid night in Cape Girardeau, the Southeast Women’s soccer team used defense to take home the 1-0 victory against the University of Missouri-St. Louis Tritons. Redhawks senior goalkeeper Bailey Redden saw little in the way of shots that required her to save them. The Tritons could not get through the defenders of the Redhawks which resulted in them taking only two shots, only one of which was a shot on goal...

It was a night of firsts for the Redhawks Women’s Soccer team as two sophomore transfers and a freshman scored their first goals for Southeast, combining for the four goals that took SEMO to the 4-1 victory over the Maryville University Saints. Sophomore midfielder/forward Anna-Clara Couturier put the first two goals on the board, one off a corner kick assist from freshman defender Emma Tucker and the other off a cross from senior forward Lauren Welker, leading to the assist by sophomore midfielder Zoey Memmel before the goal by Couturier.. ...

Albert Einstein once said, “In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.” One such opportunity found its way to Shamenski Rucker, a freshman entrepreneurship major from Georgia, who made his Southeast football debut as a walk-on in 2020. When an injury put him on the sidelines during his senior year of high school, Rucker said he thought he had no other options...

Former Redhawks pitcher Todd Pennington left his mark in the record books at Southeast in 2001, when he posted a 1.33 earned run average (ERA), 12 wins, three shutouts and 121 strikeouts, all good enough for second in the single-season record books. Twenty years later, Pennington continues to leave a mark on the Southeast community by influencing younger baseball and softball players.

Student athletes are faced with the task of succeeding in their sport and in the classroom, all while worrying about the financial aspects of college life.

Redhawks softball earned their fourth series sweep of the season in what Southeast coach, Mark Redburn, called dog fights on May 1 and 2. The Redhawks battled it out with Murray State in three games, taking all three with scores of 1-0, 7-5 and 3-2 respectively.