SOFTBALL MARQUETTE CATHOLIC 12, PLEASANT HILL 3: Marquette went on the road hitting Pleasant Hill with four runs in the fifth and eight more in the seventh to break open the game en route to their win. Sydney Ehman led the Explorers with four hits and two RBIs, Cali Foersterling had thre...
CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. – Southeast Missouri State scored a run in the seventh and two more in the eighth Sunday on its way to a 5-2 win over SIUE and a sweep of the three-game Ohio Valley Conference baseball series. The Cougars fell to 10-11 overall and 0-3 in the OVC. The Cougars have now dropped...
FRIDAY, MARCH 25 SPORTS ROUNDUP BASEBALL BELLEVILLE EAST 14-12, JERSEY 0-6: Belleville East jumped out in front early and held Jersey to only one hit in the first game, then scored 10 runs in the third and fourth innings combined to sweep a doubleheader at Jersey. In the first game....
EDWARDSVILLE - The Edwardsville girls track team put together a great all-around performance to take the team title at the Southern Illinois Relays meet Friday afternoon at Edwardsville High's Winston Brown Track Center. The Tigers scored 128.5 points to win the meet, with Belleville West a distan...
EDWARDSVILLE - The new outdoor track and field season got off to a successful start as Edwardsville won the Southern Illinois Relays meet Friday afternoon at the Winston Brown Track Center at Edwardsville High, while Alton finished in a tie for sixth place and Granite City came in ninth. The Tigers...
THURSDAY, MARCH 24 SPORTS ROUNDUP BASEBALL GILLESPIE 8, MARQUETTE CATHOLIC 6: A four-run fourth and two-run sixth were enough to give visiting Gillespie the win over Marquette at Lloyd Hopkins Field at Gordon Moore Park. Both teams traded two runs each in the opening inning, with the Explorers...
EDWARDSVILLE - Edwardsville baseball third baseman and pitcher Spencer Stearns is off to a good start with his bat, getting off to a six-for-15 start for a batting average of .400 with one home run and six RBIs. His first homer came on a cold and blustery Wednesday afternoon, hitting a ball over th...
EDWARDSVILLE - Senior striker Avery Christopher had a hat trick, scoring twice in the first half as defending IHSA Class 3A state champion O'Fallon defeated Edwardsville 5-1 in the Southwestern Conference opener for both teams Thursday night at Tiger Stadium. Although the Panthers were able to...
EDWARDSVILLE - Longtime Edwardsville Post 199 baseball manager Ken Schaake, who guided the team to the 1998 American Legion national championship, died Wednesday, at age 68. Schaake, who was a Legion baseball manager for 38 years for Post 199 and the Metro-East Bears before stepping down in 2019,...
EDWARDSVILLE - Spencer Stearns' two-run homer over the left-field fence in the bottom of the first inning set the pace as Edwardsville scored five times in the second and five more times in the fifth to defeat Granite City in a five-inning game 14-4 at the District 7 sports complex Wednesday afternoon....
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