Colin Feeney, Contributing Sports Writer

EDWARDSVILLE - Greta Deist had an excellent meet at the 62nd Southwestern Illinois Swimming Association Championships on July 21, 2024, at the Chuck Fruit Aquatic Center at Edwardsville High School. Deist was a part of the Sunset Hills girls 13-14 200-yard medley relay team, which came in second...

EDWARDSVILLE - Isak Padio became the first player to advance to the semifinals of the Pro Wildcard Challenge tournament, presented by the Gori Law Firm, and is a qualifier for next week's Edwardsville Futures, presented by the EGHM Foundations, as the Wildcard Challenge began Wednesday at the Edwardsvill...

EDWARDSVILLE - Aubrey Rickman was one of the most improved younger swimmers for the Summers Port Swim Club during the 2024 Southwestern Illinois Swimming Association season, and at the 62nd annual SWISA championship meet on July 21, 2024, at the Chuck Fruit Aquatic Center at Edwardsville High School,...

EDWARDSVILLE - Karis Chen of the Montclaire Swim Club broke a 10-year SWISA record in the 15-18 100-yard breaststroke, coming in at 1:09.80, which turned out to be the highlight of the meet, as the Collinsville Swim Club won the girls championship, while Montclaire won the overall title, at the 62nd...

EDWARDSVILLE - The Montclaire Swim Club boys team dominated the races in every age group, taking both the boys and overall championships in the 62nd edition of the Southwestern Illinois Swimming Association meet, held Sunday morning and afternoon at the Chuck Fruit Aquatic Center at the Edwardsville...

TRENTON - The Alton under-16 red junior American Legion baseball team scored four runs in the second, then added three in the sixth to take a 7-1 win over the Orient Miners Post 1961 junior team in the losers bracket final of the Illinois Fifth Division tournament Sunday morning at Trenton Community...

EDWARDSVILLE - Metro-East Lutheran graduate Erik Broekemeier hit a two-run homer as a part of a part of a three-run bottom of the fourth inning, and it turned out to be the winning runs as the Normal CornBelters scored six unanswered runs, including five in the seventh, in the Alton River Dragons'...

MARION - Metro-East Lutheran graduate Erik Broekemeier, who plays for Grand View State in Des Moines, Ia., hit a game-tying solo home run in the top of the seventh inning, but the Thrillville Thrillbillies scored twice in the bottom of the eighth inning, and it was enough to hold off the...

TRENTON - Harrisburg Post 167 was held to just one hit, but scored twice in the bottom of the fourth inning, and made the runs stand up as Harrisburg's junior American Legion baseball team defeated Alton Post 126's under-16 red team 2-1 in the Fifth Division tournament Saturday evening at Trento...

EDWARDSVILLE - Father McGivney Catholic graduate Jackson Rodgers pitched six shutout innings, while both Javi Alvarez and Cole Schrank each drove in two runs as the Alton River Dragons took an 11-2 win over the Terre Haute, Ind., REX in a Prospect League baseball game Friday night at Roy E. Lee Fiel...