Rain impacts Friday football schedule

All the rain this week and last week is still shuffling sporting events around the area. The latest change: Dexter's football game Friday against New Madrid County Central has been moved to Dexter, a result of a flooded field at NMCC.

It's the second time in two weeks that rain has caused a rarely-seen schedule change in football; Herculaneum had to postpone its game last week by 24 hours and move it to the field at Crystal City.

And that's not to mention softball games and soccer games in the past week that have been delayed or called off because of wet fields.

The good news is that after more rain Wednesday and Thursday, the weather will gradually clear out (and hopefully dry out). The forecast for Friday night football is mostly cloudy with a slight chance of rain with a low temperature in the upper 30s to low 40s.

• One more football note: Voting will begin over the weekend for our third annual SEMO Football MVP award. Almost 10,000 fans voted last year in our exclusive online poll, and Brandon Bourbon of Potosi edged Michael Greminger of Valle for the trophy and a $100 donation to the school's athletic department.

We're still working to trim the list of candidates to 10 for this year's poll, so there's time to let us know who should be there. Who should be considered?