MONDAY, NOVEMBER 14 SPORTS ROUNDUP GIRLS BASKETBALL DUPO CAT CLASSIC GRANITE CITY 59, MADISON 26: In a meeting between two backyard rivals, Granite won their opening over Madison. Melashia Bennett led the Warriors with 14 points, while Isabella Mangi added 11 points, Emily Sykes and Carely...
EDWARDSVILLE - Five members of the Edwardsville High School 2022 IHSA Class 4A state championship baseball team signed letters of intent to attend various colleges in a ceremony held Wednesday night at the high school's Media Center. Riley Iffrig, an infielder, signed to play at Indiana State University...
RED BUD - Running back Gunter Marshall and quarterback Zach Babb scored the touchdowns, while the defense played stellar as the East Alton-Wood River Junior Oilers Under-7 football team defeated home-standing Red Bud 12-0 to win their division of the Southwestern Illinois Youth Football Conference...
EDWARSVILLE - Senior center and forward Emerson Weller, who will return to the Edwardsville team after missing the 2021-22 campaign due to a knee injury, signed a letter of intent to play college basketball at Missouri-St. Louis in a ceremony held Thursday evening in the high school's Media Center....
COLLINSVILLE - Alton senior Ben Mitchell had the best performance for the area, bowling a 1,301 six-game series to finish fifth as the Redbirds came in seventh in the Gold Division, while Triad was second in the Silver Division and Highland Black was second in the Bronze Division at the Zack LeCuyer...
BOYS BASKETBALL MISSISSIPPI VALLEY CHRISTIAN 76, FAITH BIBLE CHRISTIAN ACADEMY (ROSEMOND, ILL.) 40: Tommy Kunz got the basketball season off to a flying start by scoring a career-high 40 points as MVCS took its opener at the home of Faith Bible. Kunz now has 1,777 points for his MVCS career, which...
EDWARDSVILLE - Caty Happe was recently hired by the Edwardsville Community Unit District 7 School Board to become head softball coach for the Tigers, succeeding Lori Blade, who retired at the end of the 2022 season. It's the second time Happe has succeeded Blade as a Tiger head coach, having been...
ROXANA - The second annual Roxana Hoopsgiving basketball tournament is set to go for the week of Nov. 21-26 at both Larry Milazzo Memorial Gym and the Roxana Junior High gym, and it promises to be a week full of great basketball to start the 2022-23 season. A good mix of teams from the local area...
EDWARDSVILLE - Democrat Nikki Budzinski won a key congressional race in the new Illinois 13th District, while Mary Murphy easily won in the 15th District, Republican Amy Elik won re-election to the Illinois House while Katie Stuart led Jennifer Korte in her race and Erica Conway Harriss defeated...
EDWARDSVILLE - Republican Linda Andreas defeated Democratic incumbent Debbie Ming-Mendoza in the race for the County Clerk, while the GOP retained its majority on the County Board and also won the three elections for circuit judges in results from Madison County during Tuesday's mid-term elections....
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