ALTON - Jack Puent gave up four runs on six hits while striking out four in throwing a complete game, while his Alton Post 126 under-15 American Legion baseball team took a second-inning lead they would never relinquish in going on to an 8-4 win over Alton's under-17 team in a game played Monday...
EDWARDSVILLE - Kaitlyn Morningstar, who finished on the podium three consecutive years in the IHSA Class 3A girl's discus throw, signed a letter of intent to compete on the women's track and field team at SIU-Edwardsville in a ceremony held Tuesday evening at Edwardsville High School Morningstar recentl...
EDWARDSVILLE - The Edwardsville High boys basketball team played well in their first game of the day against Webster Groves in the Edwardsville NCAA Live Showcase event on Saturday morning, but a late 11-0 run by the Statesmen helped give Webster a 51-45 win in the first of two games for the Tigers...
EDWARDSVILLE - Summers Port Swim Club of Godfrey, took the boys' title in the Southwestern Illinois Swimming Association Relays meet recently at Sunset Hills Country Club in Edwardsville, while the Collinsville Gators Swim Club, formerly known as Splash City Swim Club, jumped out to an early lead...
EDWARDSVILLE - Marquette Catholic's boys' basketball team started out strong. then pulled away in the second half after Galesburg came back to tie the game early in the half to take a 58-51 win in the Explorers' third game of the Edwardsville High NCAA Live Showcase event Saturday afternoon at Liberty...
EDWARDSVILLE - The Alton High School boys' basketball team has struggled the last two seasons, going 4-23 in 2021-22 and 6-26 in 2022-23. Now, there is renewed confidence and optimism around the Redbirds as they use their summer season to prepare for the upcoming 2023-24 season. Alton lost a close...
EDWARDSVILLE - Hunter Heck of St. Paul, Minn., won his second straight open singles championship, earning a wild card berth in next month's Edwardsville Futures tournament, while Dave Snider of Collinsville took his third consecutive 18-and-over singles title and Ollie Okonkwo of Iowa City, Ia....
EDWARDSVILLE - Kyra McCandless of Lexington, Mass., who went into the tournament as the second seed, won the Open Singles championship, while Emily Kantrovitz of St, Louis and Abigail Thurmer of Chesterfield, Mo. won the open doubles and St. Louis veteran player Laurie Burke won the 18-and-over single...
EDWARDSVILLE - Top-seeded Hunter Heck of St, Paul, Minn. and second seed Ollie Okonkwo of Iowa City, Ia. won their opening round matches, while local women's singles players advanced to the quarterfinals on the first day of the 2023 Edwardsville Open tennis tournament Friday at the Edwardsville Tenni...
PIASA - Steve Mitchell, who coached the Marquette Catholic girls soccer team to two third-place finishes in 2013 and 2016 in Class 1A, has been appointed the boys and girls soccer coach at Piasa Southwestern High, starting with the boys' season this fall. Mitchell will take over the girls' program...
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