EDWARDSVILLE - Three members of the Edwardsville High baseball team, Cole Funkhouser, Logan Geggus, and Riley Iffrig, were named to the Illinois Baseball Coaches Association Class 4A All-State team, released on Wednesday by the organization. All three players played critical roles in helping th...
JERSEYVILLE - The Alton Post 126 American Legion junior baseball teams split a pair of games on Tuesday in Jerseyville, with the under-15 team scoring three runs in the top of the seventh to defeat the Post 492 under-15 team 8-5, while the under-17 team lost as Jerseyville scored in the bottom of...
EDWARDSVILLE - Keith Burton of O'Fallon was the winner of the Edwardsville/Glen Carbon Habitat for Humanity Home Sweet Home 5K race on Saturday, June 17, at Airplane Park in Edwardsville, coming in way ahead of the pack to win the race. The veteran runner jumped out ahead early on and never looked...
LOS ANGELES - Bryan Hudson, a 2015 graduate of Alton High School, made his Major League Baseball debut on Saturday night for the Los Angeles Dodgers in their loss to their fiercest rival, the San Francisco Giants, in a game played Saturday night at Dodger Stadium. Hudson pitched the final two innings...
MARYLAND HEIGHTS, Mo. - Four players had two hits each in the under-15 game, while Caleb Handler led Alton Post 126 with three hits in the under-17 game as Alton swept Maryland Heights, Mo., Post 213 in a junior doubleheader on Saturday in Maryland Heights. The under-15 team defeated Maryland Heights...
TRENTON - The Alton Post 126 senior American Legion baseball team finished third in the Trenton Post 778 Gator Classic tournament over the weekend, losing to the Aviston Express in the semifinals Saturday morning 12-1, but bouncing back to defeat Carlyle in the third-place game 2-1 Sunday morning...
EDWARDSVILLE - The 2023 Edwardsville High School baseball team made plenty of history in going on to a 33-9 record and their second consecutive IHSA Class 4A state championship, which the Tigers won over Chicago Brother Rice Catholic 6-4 on June 10 at Duly Health and Care Field in Joliet. The...
EDWARDSVILLE - Stephanie Pruitt was the women's winner in the Route 66 10K Run road race on June 10 through the streets of downtown Edwardsville, coming in with a time of 43:21, beating her time from last year and winning the second leg of the Goshen Triple Crown series. Pruitt, 31, enjoyed very idea...
ALTON - Eli Lawrence had three hits and drove in three runs, while Logan Bogard also came up with three hits as Alton Post 126's senior American Legion baseball team came back from a 9-5 deficit to score three times in the fifth and twice more in the sixth to take a 10-9 win over Highland Post 439...
EDWARDSVILLE - Sam Brammeier from Edwardsville won the men's 25-29 age group in the Route 66 10K Run road race on June 10, coming in at 41:02 to finish 14th overall in the race, held on June 10 in downtown Edwardsville. Brammeier, 29, felt he ran a good race and conditions were very favorable to th...
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