Jackson baseball players receive all-SEMO first-team honors

Jackson led area schools with four members on the first-team all-SEMO conference baseball list.

Jason Meystedt, Tyler Beussink, Tyler Profilet and Derrick Biri all made the first team from Jackson. Lee Essner, Blake Urhahn and Matt Wulfers made the squad from Notre Dame.

Central, Kelly and Scott City each placed one player on the first team. Patrick Slattery of Central, Caleb Daughhetee of Kelly and Jason Schenimann of Scott City made the first team.

Three Rivers signs Below

Rebecca Below, a former Delta basketball standout who helped lead the Bobcats to the state final four in 2003, recently signed with Three Rivers.

Below signed with College of the Ozarks after graduating in 2003, but instead went to Southeast Missouri State University this year and did not play basketball. Below averaged 24.2 points and 10.7 rebounds a game her senior season when the Bobcats finished third in Class 1 with a 27-3 record.

St. Vincent players honored

St. Vincent had three first team members on the Jefferson County small school all-conference baseball team.

Dusty Cissell, Waylon Richardet and Alex Armbruster each made the team. Justin Ruessler and Brian Buchheit received honorable mention honors.

Basketball all-star game

Two local players will take part in the 2004 St. John's Midwest Sports Medicine Missouri Basketball All-Star game this year scheduled for July 9 at the Hammons Student Center on the campus of Southwest Missouri State University.

Notre Dame's Sommer McCauley and Dominitrix Johnson of Bell City will participate. The game included recently graduated high school students from across the state.

College notes

Notre Dame graduate Josh Eftink, a junior at Central Missouri State University, made the all-tournament team as the Mules were ousted in the NCAA Division II national semifinals. Eftink finished the season hitting .328 in 64 at bats. During the national tournament, Eftink went 6-for-9 with 6 RBIs.

Columbia College senior Megan Kuntze, a Jackson graduate, earned NAIA Daktronics All-American Scholar Athlete honors recently. This is the second time Kuntze has received the honor. Kuntze and her softball teammates recently finished their season by taking fifth at the NAIA National Tournament.