Colin Feeney, Contributing Sports Writer

EDWARDSVILLE - Jack Puente scored on an error by the shortstop on a grounder hit by Deon Harrington with the winning run in the top of the eighth to give Alton a big 4-3 win over Belleville West in the final of the IHSA Class 4A Alton regional Saturday morning at Roy E. Lee Field at the Simmons Baseball...

PEKIN - Thea Dimitroff's brace (two goals) and assist, along with Maggie Young's opening strike, helped Edwardsville's girls soccer team to a five-goal explosion in the opening half en route to a 5-1 win over Minooka in the final of the IHSA Class 3A Pekin sectional at Coal Miners Park in Pekin. Th...

CHARLESTON - Malik Allen won the triple jump, Iose Epenesa finished second in the discus throw, Clayton Lakatos took second in the 200 meters, and the 4x100 meter relay team won its race among the highlights as Edwardsville tied for first with OakPark-River Forest in the IHSA Class 3A state track...

CHARLESTON - Triad's Louis Yohannes qualified first in the 110 meter hurdles, East St. Louis qualified many of its athletes for the finals, and Justice Eldridge of Civic Memorial made it to the final of the 1,600 meters, as did the Eagles' 4x800 meter relay team in the preliminaries of the IHSA Clas...

CHARLESTON - Edwardsville qualified many of its athletes for the finals, including Iose Epenesa in both the shot put and discus throw, with Malik Allen qualifying first in the triple jump, and Clayton Lakatos placing second in the 200 meters in the preliminaries of the IHSA Class 3A boys state track...

EDWARDSVILLE - Grace Oertle his a three-run homer off the top of the fence in left-center field in the opening inning to get things started for Edwardsville's softball team, with Riley Nelson pitching a solid 6.2 innings. The Tigers had a big scare in the seventh inning, with Belleville West rallying...

EDWARDSVILLE - Both Edwardsville's Chase Milburn and Collinsville's Ethan Bagwell pitched magnificently, as Bagwell struck out 13, and Milburn throwing a three-hit shutout, as the Tigers used three fifth-inning miscues from the Kahoks to take a 2-0 win in the first semifinal of the IHSA Class 4A regiona...

COLLINSVILLE - On Tuesday night, in a penalty shootout, Ellie Neath and Kylie Peel scored for Edwardsville's girls soccer team, while goalie Genny Burroughs made two key stops on O'Fallon's first two attempts after the IHSA Class 3A Pekin sectional semifinal match between the Tigers and defending...

COLLINSVILLE - Both Edwardsville and O'Fallon had fought through 100 minutes of goalless soccer in a very hard-fought match during the IHSA Class 3A Pekin sectional semifinal match at Kahok Stadium in Collinsville, with the Tigers taking a 2-0 lead in the penalty shootout. Then all of a sudden - lightnin...

EDWARDSVILLE - Grace Oertle had three hits, including a two-run first-inning homer over the center field fence, and three RBIs, while Riley Nelson pitched a five-inning no-hitter, striking out 11, as Edwardsville opened its postseason with a 12-0 win over Granite City in the semifinals of the IHS...