CHAFFEE GIRLS CAPTURE OWN SOFTBALL TOURNEY

CHAFFEE -- Chaffee High's softball squad had quite a day Saturday as the Lady Red Devils remained undefeated and won the championship of their own eight-team tournament.

The Lady Red Devils, who are now 10-0, rolled past previously undefeated New Madrid County Central 14-3 in five innings in the semifinals, then crushed Oran 15-0 in three innings in the title contest.

"It was a tremendous day for us," said Chaffee coach Mark Devenport. "We run-ruled two very good teams. We're playing real good softball right now. I'm very proud of the kids."

Ashley Pepple was the winning pitcher in both games for Chaffee Saturday. She tossed a three-inning no-hitter against Oran in the finals, striking out two and walking three.

Chaffee banged out 11 hits in the championship game. Casey Graviett, Jill Little, Morgan Kiefer and Amy Burnett all had two hits, with Graviett driving in five runs and Little and Burnett adding two RBIs apiece.

Against New Madrid in the semifinals, Pepple allowed four hits and one earned run while fanning seven and walking four.

Chaffee had 10 hits in this game, led by Kiefer with three as she tripled and doubled twice. Graviett and Jodi Pfefferkorn both had two hits.

New Madrid finished third by beating Dexter, East Prairie took fifth with a win over Advance and Delta placed seventh by downing Scott City. No scores on those games were available.

SOCCER

Fralish Cup Tournament

CARBONDALE -- Defending champion Cape Central surrendered its only goal in two years in the Fralish Cup and it resulted in their first loss.

Playing Peoria (Ill.) Notre Dame in the semifinals, Central surrendered the game's lone goal seven minutes into overtime for a 1-0 loss.

The goal relegated Cape Central (10-3-1) to the third-place game where it beat Perryville 1-0. Amber Voerg scored the lone goal at the 51-minute mark off a pass from Trisha Klipfel. Heather Hey recorded the shutout.

Peoria Notre Dame went on to win the tournament with a 2-0 victory over Carbondale.

In Friday's pool play, Peoria had defeated Jackson 2-1, netting the winning goal on a penalty kick. Meghan Humphries scored the Lady Indians' goal.

On Saturday, Jackson edged Marion 1-0. Lacey Hodo scored Jackson's goal in the first half off a pass from Dana Wright.

The Lady Indians later defeated Racine (Wis.) 2-1 in double overtime. Courtney Hahn scored the winning goal. Hodo scored the other Jackson goal.

TRACK

Riverbend Invitational

NEW MADRID -- Perryville's boys and girls teams proved dominant, winning their respective eight-team divisions in the Riverbend Invitational.

Perryville's boys placed first with 131 points, followed by Kennett at 123. Kelly placed fourth with 64. Perryville's girls won with 139 points to outdistance runnerup Kennett at 115. Kelly's girls also placed fourth with 81.

Perryville's Shawn Statler was named the meet's outstanding boys runner after winning the 200 meters in 23.3 seconds and the 400 in :51.83.

Susan Miller earned that honor on the girls' side. She won the same two races, winning the 200 in :27.6 and the 400 in 1:01.1. She also ran on the victorious 4x400 relay.

"We're pretty pleased, especially with Shawn Statler and Susan Miller," said Perryville coach Joe Dandridge. "That's just a reflection of their hard work and dedication."

Kelly's sophomore distance runner Adam Daughhetee continued to excel, taking firsts in both the 1600 and 3200 meters. He clocked personal-best times of 4:35.9 in the 1600 and 10:26.4 in the 3200. He also ran a personal-best 2:01 in the 800 in helping Kelly to a second-place finish in the 4x800.

"We're expecting him to really start peaking," said Kelly coach Bill Davis. "But we had a lot of other good performances."

On the girls side, Jenny Riley ran a personal-best 13:14.2 in winning the 3200.

Results in `Scoreboard' on 4B.

BOYS TENNIS

Parkway West 6, Cape Central 3

ST. LOUIS -- Parkway West swept the three doubles matches as Cape Central fell to 6-4 in duals.

Cape Central's JV suffered its first loss of the season, falling 5-2, as the JV Tigers are now 9-1.

Singles

1. Brown (P) def. Mick Metzger 6-0, 6-1

2. Trevor Blattner (C) def. Gonipolli 6-2, 6-1

3. Noll (P) def. Paul Miller 6-4, 6-2

4. Andrew Eaton (C) def. Slaten 5-7, 6-4, 10-2 (tiebreaker)

5. Scnofblch (P) def. Ed Roeger 6-2, 7-6

6. Eric Daume (C) def. Kim 6-4, 4-6, 10-7 (tiebreaker)

Doubles

1. Brown-Gonipolli (P) def. Metzger-Blattner 8-4

2. Noll-Kumor (P) def. Eaton-Daume 8-4

3. Scnofblch-Kim (P) def. Miller-Roeger 8-6

JV winners: (singles) Andrew Moreton; (doubles) Calvin Maginel-Paul Hagler