GRANITE CITY - Granite City senior Emily Sykes was a key throughout the 2023-2024 season for the young Warriors. Often she not only handled the ball, but was a key under the basket. Sykes led the team with averages of 12.4 points and 10.2 rebounds per game, adding on 33 assists, 70 steals, and 33...
COLLINSVILLE - Gabby Semple was one of four seniors on the Granite City High girls basketball team - the other three being Emily Sykes and Sophia and Isabella Mangi - who helped a very young Warrior team through a very difficult season. The season ended on Feb. 12, 2024, with a loss to Alton in the...
COLLINSVILLE - Alton High girls basketball freshman Madeleine Ducey has provided a big spark for the Redbirds this season, often coming off the bench to score key points or help her teammates out in any way that she can. In the IHSA Class 4A regional at Collinsville this past week, Ducey scored...
ROCKFORD - Brylee Proffitt of Triad finished eighth in the individual standings, while Collinsville's Livia Montgomery came in 11th, as the Kahoks team finished fourth at the second day of the IHSA girls state bowling tournament, held Saturday at Cherry Bowl Lanes in Rockford. Joliet West won the...
EDWARDSVILLE - It was a very good day in the pool for the Edwardsville High boys swimming team, as senior Cohen Osborn won two events to qualify for the state meet, along with Eddie Myers, who beat the state qualifying times in his two events, Hunter Schlueter went through in diving, and all three...
CHAMPAIGN-URBANA - Civic Memorial's Bryce Griffin and Triad's Colby Crouch won the Class 2A state championships in their weight classes, while Drake Champlin of East Alton-Wood River finished second in his Class 1A division, CM's Caleb Scott came in third, and three Roxana wrestlers placed in the...
CHAMPAIGN-URBANA - Three area wrestlers - Civic Memorial's Bryce Griffin, Triad's Colby Crouch, and East Alton-Wood River's Drake Champlin - won their semifinal matches and will wrestle for the state championship in their weight classes, while many other local wrestlers, including the Edwardsville...
GIRLS BASKETBALL IHSA PLAYOFFS - REGIONAL FINALS CLASS 1A WINCHESTER WEST CENTRAL 46, HARDIN CALHOUN-BRUSSELS 45 In the final of the Concord Triopia regional, West Central was able to pull the upset to defeat top-ranked Calhoun and advance to the Nokomis sectional. The Cougars and...
COLLINSVILLE - Junior guard Kiyoko Proctor led four Alton players in double figures with 17 points as the Redbirds girls basketball team won the IHSA Class 4A regional championship with a 63-38 decision over Edwardsville in the final, played Friday evening at Collinsville's Vergil Fletcher Gym. Th...
COLLINSVILLE - Friday night's IHSA Class 4A girls basketball regional final between Alton and Edwardsville will still be played tonight at Vergil Fletcher Gym in Collinsville, but because of the snowy weather that has hit in St. Louis, the start time has been pushed back from 6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. Alto...
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