Colin Feeney, Contributing Sports Writer

EDWARDSVILLE - The Mud Mountain 5K race, the biggest fund-raising event for both the Edwardsville High School cross country and track teams, returns on Saturday for the event's 25th-anniversary celebration at the famed Mud Mountain cross country course at SIU-Edwardsville. Last year's event was a...

EDWARDSVILLLE - Day two of the 10th annual Edwardsville Futures presented by The EGHM Foundation saw very close matches that were decided by third-set tiebreaks in both singles qualifying and doubles matches at the Edwardsville Tennis Center. The highlight of the singles qualifying was wild card...

BREESE - The Alton Post 126 junior American Legion baseball team continued to tune-up for the upcoming Fifth Division tournament by jumping to a 9-0 lead and going on to a 9-6 win over Breese Red in a District 22 game played Tuesday evening in Breese. The game on Tuesday, along with a doubleheader...

ALTON - The Alton River Dragons held a 5-3 lead through five innings, but the Normal CornBelters cut the lead to 5-4 with a run in the sixth, then scored twice in the top of the eighth to take a 6-5 win over the River Dragons in a Prospect League baseball game played Tuesday evening at Lloyd Hopkins...

EDWARDSVILLE - Nic Meister got the phone call on Sunday night to be ready to play in the opening round of the Edwardsville Futures tennis tournament Presented by The EGHM Foundation. By Monday night, Meister had advanced to the next round as the tournament, celebrating its 10th anniversary this year...

CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. - The Cape Catfish of Cape Girardeau, Mo. scored seven unanswered runs in four innings and held the Alton River Dragons to four hits as the Catfish won 8-2 in a Prospect League game played Sunday night at Capaha Field in Cape Girardeau. The Catfish got home runs from Andrew Stone,...

GODFREY - Triplet sisters Autumn, Savannah, and Isabella Grinter have been swimmers together for multiple Edwardsville teams for several years, and on Sunday at the Southwestern Illinois Swimming Association meet at Summers Port Swim Club in Godfrey, the sisters swam together for the final time in...

SEE PHOTO GALLERY: GODFREY - The Montclaire Swim Club Marlins of Edwardsville got big performances from swimmers in all age groups to win the 59th edition of the Southwestern Illinois Swimming Association meet Sunday at Summers Port Swim Club in Godfrey, taking the overall title with 2,507...

ALTON - Boston Merila drove home two runs while starting pitcher Justin Needles struck out eight in five-and-two-thirds innings as the Alton River Dragons shut out the O'Fallon, Mo., Hoots 6-0 in a Prospect League baseball game played Saturday evening at Lloyd Hopkins Field at Gordon Moore Park. Blak...

ALTON - The Alton Post 126 American Legion junior baseball team won its season finale on Thursday evening as Seth Slayden scattered four hits in defeating the Piasa Southwestern JV summer team 4-0 in a game played at Lloyd Hopkins Field at Gordon Moore Park. The game between the senior Legionnaires...