EDWARDSVILLE - Stephen Stobbs enjoyed much success in the 60th Southwestern Illinois Swimming Association championship Meet on Sunday at Edwardsville High School's Chuck Fruit Aquatic Center. Stobbs won a pair of races in the boys 13-14 age group - the 200-yard freestyle with a time of 2:11.83 and...
ALTON - Former Alton High player Robby Taul drove in three runs, while teammates Ben Gallaher and Troy Johnson drove home two runs each as the Alton River Dragons scored four times in both the second and sixth innings en route to a 13-7 win over the Normal CornBelters in the first of a two-game Prospect...
VALMEYER - The Valmeyer Junior American Legion baseball team scored six times in the first three innings of the first game of a best-of-three series to defeat Alton Post 126 8-2, then used a three-run fifth inning to win the second game 4-1 and sweep the junior Legionnaires in the District 22 playoffs...
EDWARDSVILLE - The Southwestern Illinois Swimming Association championship meet will be taking place on Sunday, July 17, hosted by the Montclaire Swim Club and will be held at Edwardsville High School's Chuck Fruit Aquatic Center at the District 7 Sports Complex. This will be the second time the mee...
DANVILLE - Hayden Garner, Logan Bogard and Braden Arview drove in all the runs needed in the third inning, while Andrew Wieneke threw a complete game, striking out five as Alton Post 126's senior American Legion baseball team won its first game of their final regular season tournament of the year ove...
GODFREY - The Paddlers Swim Club Pirates of Granite City used a big win in the boys' meet to take an overall victory over Summers Port Swim Club 393-278 in a Southwestern Illinois Swimming Association dual meet on Tuesday night at the Summers Port club in Godfrey. The Pirates took a big win over...
ALTON - The Troy Post 708 junior American Legion baseball team jumped out to an early 12-0 lead, scoring six runs in both the first and third innings, but the Alton Post 126 junior team rallied back with nine unanswered runs in the third through fifth innings, with Troy eventually holding off Alton...
BREESE - The Alton Post 126 junior American Legion baseball team suffered a pair of tough defeats in a split doubleheader on Sunday in Breese, falling in the first game on a run in the bottom of the seventh to Breese Grey 4-3, then was shut out in the second game by Harrisburg 5-0. Both the junior...
ALTON - Camden Siebert and Drake Champlin both had two hits each, while Champlin struck out six in three-and-two-thirds innings on the mound, but the Breese Gray junior American Legion baseball team scored twice in both the fourth and sixth innings to take a 5-2 win over Alton Post 126's junior team...
HIGHLAND - Jordan English of Benton, Ill., won the 50-lap feature race for the second time in the past three weeks, while Nick Hoffman won the 25-lap Modified race as the DIRTCar Summer Nationals series races Saturday night at Highland Speedway. In the Modified race, Hoffman won despite breaking hi...
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