Colin Feeney, Contributing Sports Writer

EDWARDSVILLE - Adam Powell had two hits and drove in three runs and five pitchers combined held Waterloo two a first-inning run and two hits while striking out seven as Edwardsville won its regular-season baseball finale 11-1 over the Bulldogs Monday afternoon at Tom Pile Field. The Tigers' Class...

EDWARDSVILLE - Tatum Van Ryswyk had three hits and drove home three runs as Edwardsville's softball team scored the game's first 10 runs in the first four innings and went on to a 10-3 win over Jersey in the regular-season finale for both teams Monday afternoon at the Edwardsville District 7 Sport...

TROY - Marquette Catholic's boys' tennis team has been a special group all season under coaches Jim and Kathy Claywell and on Monday at Triad, the squad came through with a top-notch performance. A pair of Explorer players - Stetson Isringhausen and Thomas Wendle - finished third and fourth, all advancin...

EDWARDSVILLE - Edwardsville's boys' tennis team advanced all six of its players to this weekend's IHSA Class 2A state tournament as Colton Hulme finished third and Jesse Hattrup was fourth, while the doubles teams of Michael Karibian and Jade Dynamic and Jace Ackerman and Sam Motley finished one-two...

Various athletes from Alton Middle School, both Edwardsville Liberty and Lincoln Middle Schools and East St. Louis Lincoln Junior High all had great performances in the Illinois Elementary School Association state track meets held over the weekend at the Eastside Centre in East Peoria. In Class...

CHARLESTON - Alton's Renee Raglin came in fifth in the 100 meters, Granite City's Emily Sykes was seventh in the shot put and a pair of Edwardsville athletes, Kaitlyn Morningstar and Gabby Saye, finished sixth and 11th respectively in the discus throw at the IHSA Class 3A girls state track meet,...

CHARLESTON - Civic Memorial's Hannah Meiser came in ninth in the 1,600 meters, while both Highland's Josie Hapack and East St. Louis' Desire Poole came in the top ten of both the shot put and discus throw, Triad's Morgan Noyes was 12th in the pole vault and East Side's Janiyah Brown was ninth in th...

TROY - East St. Louis had a big day overall, qualifying several athletes for next week's IHSA Class 2A state track meet as the Flyers overwhelmed the field in winning the Triad sectional Thursday afternoon in Troy. East Side won with 167 points, while the host Knights came in second with 79 points,...

CHARLESTON - Father McGivney Catholic runner Elena Rybak became the school's first-ever IHSA state track champion by winning the 1,600 meters as the Griffins finished fourth in the team standings at the Class 1A state track meet finals Saturday at Eastern Illinois University's O'Brien Stadium in Charleston...

COLLINSVILLE - A pair of first-half goals from Olivia Baca and Ella Cook proved to be the difference as Edwardsville defeated Alton 2-1 in the IHSA Class 3A girls soccer regional final Friday evening at Kahok Stadium in Collinsville. The Tigers won their fifth consecutive regional championship...