ALTON - Springfield's Savannah Brannan, 25, was the overall winner, while Maddie Keller of Troy was second and Anna Stirton finished third in the women's 10-mile race of the 64th annual Great River Road Run, presented by the Alton Road Runners Club, Saturday morning in Alton. Savannah is an Edwardsville...
ALTON - Civic Memorial High School runner Jackson Collman won the race, while head coach Jake Peal and runner Lucas Naugle also finished in the top ten in the men's 10-mile race in the 64th annual Great River Road Run, held Saturday morning in Alton. The race, which dates back to 1959, is a November...
CLASS 1A CAMP POINT CENTRAL 14, LENA-WINSLOW 0 Elijah Grennebacher scored both touchdowns, on runs of 22 and 11 yards, to give Camp Point Central a 14-0 win and the Class 1A state championship. Grennebacher ran 24 times for 141 yards and his two touchdowns, while quarterback Nick Moore wa...
BLOOMINGTON-NORMAL - A 19-play, 71-yard drive that took 10:41 resulted in the winning touchdown on a two-yard run by sophomore Logan Abrams with 1:19 left in regulation to give Cary-Grove a 23-20 win over East St. Louis in the IHSA Class 6A football championship game Saturday afternoon at Hancock Stadium...
ROXANA - Centralia pulled off the biggest surprise of the tournament with a win over Gateway Legacy Christian of Florissant, Mo., while Piasa Southwestern, Marquette Catholic, and East Alton-Wood River all had wins. Both the host Shells and Civic Memorial lost in the semifinals on day four of th...
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 25 SPORTS ROUNDUP BOYS BASKETBALL ROXANA HOOPSGIVING CLASSIC - NINTH PLACE GAME PIASA SOUTHWESTERN 61, STAUNTON 50 Southwestern had two players break the 20-point barrier in their win in the ninth-place game over Staunton. The Piasa Birds led throughout, holding edges...
EDWARDSVILLE - Edwardsville's girls basketball team held their own and battled the defending IHSA Class 2A state champions Breese Materi Dei until the end in a contest on Wednesday afternoon at Lucco-Jackson Gym, but the Knights prevailed 49-42. Breese Mater Dei junior center Alyssa Koerkenmeier...
MARQUETTE CATHOLIC 57, EAST ALTON-WOOD RIVER 38: Marquette broke a 17-17 first-quarter tie by outscoring EAWR 35-20 in the last three quarters to take their first win of the season. After the 17-17 first-quarter tie, the Explorers took a 29-25 lead at halftime, Marquette extended it to 42-32 after...
GLEN CARBON - Father McGivney Catholic senior baseball pitcher Ryker Keller signed a letter of intent to attend Concordia University in River Forest, Ill., in suburban Chicago, in a recent ceremony held in the school's chapel. Keller, who's become one of the St. Louis area's premier relief pitchers,...
O'FALLON - Sophomore guard Mia Semith's talents have been showcased in the past two Edwardsville girls' basketball games. Semith scored 15 points for the Tigers against Breese Central in the O'Fallon Southern Illinois Girls Shootout Series on Nov. 18 at the OTHS Panther Dome. On Monday night in Edwardsville's...
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