BELLEVILLE - Owen Logan scored a golden goal in the 83rd minute to give Edwardsville a 2-1 win over Belleville Althoff Catholic in the Metro Cup Showcase event Wednesday night at Althoff's stadium. The win was the second straight for the Tigers to open the season against quality opposition in a very...
GIRLS VOLLEYBALL ROXANA INVITATIONAL TOURNAMENT GROUP STAGE ROXANA - Roxana was nearly flawless in girls volleyball play Monday night in the Roxana Tourney and captured a berth in the semifinals with wins over Granite City 25-8, 25-13, over Father McGivney 25-17, 25-20, and Dupo 25-18, 25-12...
WOOD RIVER - Amiya Hardin, a senior girls volleyball player for East Alton-Wood River Community High School, is expected to be one of the key players for the Oilers as the 2022 season gets underway in the next week. Last season was a very good one for Hardin, as she served up 50 points and 19 aces...
ALTON - Jersey swept all four divisions of the tournament going on to win the Andy Simpson Doubles Invitational tournament Saturday at Alton High, the Bud Simpson Tennis Center at Gordon Moore Park, and the Andy Simpson Tennis Complex at Lewis and Clark Community College in Godfrey. The hosts Alton...
WOOD RIVER - Senior football lineman Richard Seitzinger is one of the key linemen that East Alton-Wood River High will be depending on when the Oilers open their 2022 football season on Aug. 26 at home against Harrisburg. Seitzinger is one of the team's hardest workers, both on the field and in the...
EDWARDSVILLE - Senior tennis player Chloe Koons is emerging as one of the best girls tennis players in the St. Louis area and is one of the top players on a very talented Edwardsville High team as fall practice began last week. Koons won 35 matches last season en route to a sectional championship...
EDWARDSVILLE - Edwardsville junior receiver Kellen Brnfre enjoyed some success as a sophomore for the Tigers football team in the 2021 season, catching 25 passes for 330 yards and three touchdowns and also ran 13 times for 144 yards and a touchdown, scoring a total of five touchdowns on the season....
EDWARDSVILLE - Lane Kaburick, a former player on the football team at Edwardsville High School, has taken up bicycle racing and had a good showing in the BuseyBank Edwardsville Rotary Criterium Festival Saturday afternoon in Downtown Edwardsville, finishing third in the juniors 17-18 race. The Glen...
ALTON - The Alton High football team held its annual preseason scrimmage before an energetic and enthusiastic crowd Friday night at Public School Stadium, and by all indications, are all set to go for the 2022 season. That season begins this coming Friday at home against Cahokia in a 7 p.m. kickoff,...
ALTON - Father McGivney Catholic golfer Sarah Hyten finished third with a six-over-par 78, while Addison Kenney of Alton fired an 83 to tie for eighth with Shaylee Ficken of O'Fallon and Kami Jarvill of Pekin as the host Explorers came in sixth, the Griffins 10th and the Redbirds tied for 14th at...
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