EDWARDSVILLE - Senior TCU-bound pitcher Toby Eberlin pitched well in his first starting assignment of the season, allowing only one hit and striking out four in three innings of work. But Oak Park-River Forest scored all four of its runs in the top of the fifth inning as the Huskies took a 4-1 win...
(Photos by Paul Baillargeon) WATERLOO - Keller Jacobs had two hits and four RBIs, while Cohen Green allowed only one hit in 3.2 innings as Marquette Catholic won its first baseball game of the season, defeating Waterloo Gibault Catholic 14-8 in a game played Friday night in Waterloo. It was a see-sa...
EDWARDSVILLE - Edwardsville High School baseball coach Tim Funkhouser said he is excited about the Tigers’ upcoming 2026 season, pointing to a returning group of experienced varsity players who he expects to take on leadership roles after the program lost a core group of seniors to graduation...
EDWARDSVILLE - Senior and four-year varsity player Hunter Baugh hit a grand slam home run, his first homer of the season, to highlight a six-run fifth inning, and three pitchers combined to hold East Moline United to three runs on two hits as Edwardsville won its season opener 13-3 over the Panthers...
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 18 PLAY IT AGAIN SPORTS ROUNDUP BASEBALL JERSEY 6, GILLESPIE 2: A pair of three-run innings, in the fourth and sixth, helped give Jersey the home win over Gillespie. Evan Cheek had two hits for the Panthers, while Issac Hackethal drove in two runs. Shane Lamer went five...
GRANITE CITY - Catcher Ayden Cooper's one-out RBI single in the bottom of the sixth drove home pinch runner Hunter Dickerson with the winning run as Granite City opened its 2026 baseball season on a winning note, taking a tight pitcher's duel over Waterloo Gibault Catholic 2-1 in a game played Wednesday...
GRANITE CITY - The newly-renovated Babe Champion Field at Granite City's Nelson Hagnauer Sports Complex was officially dedicated in a pre-game ceremony on Wednesday afternoon, March 18, 2026, before the Warriors won their season-opening game over Waterloo Gibault Catholic 2-1. The original opener...
EDWARDSVILLE - Audrey De La Torre Crux had three hits, including two home runs, and drove in six runs, while Remi Werden had two hits, including a solo home run, as Edwardsville scored seven times in the second, and five more times in the fourth to take a big 16-1 win over Freeburg in a softball gam...
SATURDAY, MARCH 14 PLAY IT AGAIN SPORTS ROUNDUP SOFTBALL EDWARDSVILLE 4, WESTMORELAND, TENN. 3: In a tournament that was played in Hendersonville, Tenn., Edwardsville took a thriller in a six-inning game on an RBI double by Bryar Ellinger to give the Tigers the win over Westmoreland,...
CHAMPAIGN-URBANA - Jameson White led East St. Louis with 19 points, while Alex Johnson added 14 points, as the Flyers held off a comeback attempt by Deerfield to win the IHSA Class 3A boys basketball state championship 52-46 at State Farm Center on the campus of the University of Illinois in Champaign-Urbana...
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