By now, many people are familiar with the story of how Kurt Warner rose from a stocker at a grocery store in Iowa to become an NFL Hall of Fame quarterback, leading the St. Louis Rams to the 1999 NFL championship in one of the most remarkable stories in American sports history. A new biopic on...
ALTON - The Alton Post 126 senior American Legion baseball team has been on a big roll as of late, having won the Firecracker tournament over Fourth of July weekend, winning three of their five games played, then winning a big game over Washington, Mo. on Tuesday evening. The junior team has been...
NORMAL - The Alton River Dragons and Normal CornBelters each scored twice in the opening inning of their Prospect League baseball game at the Corn Belt in Normal, then the CornBelters reeled off 10 unanswered runs in the middle innings to take a 12-2 win over the River Dragons Wednesday evening. I...
EDWARDSVILLE - Brandon Battle, the star track sprinter from Edwardsville High School who set two school records in a historic sweep of the three major sprint races at the IHSA Class 3A state track meet June 19 at Charleston, has committed to run at the University of Arkansas, one of the NCAA's premier...
EDWARDSVILLE - Metro-East Lutheran boys basketball point guard Christopher "Champ" Chipman's dream of playing in college has come true. Chipman took the next step in his playing career recently and signed a letter of intent to play for Gordon College of Wenham, Mass., in suburban Boston, and will pla...
ALTON - Cameron Hailstone had a big night at the plate with three hits and three RBIs, and Alton Post 126's senior American Legion baseball team hit Washington, Mo. with 10 runs in the opening inning as the Legionnaires won 14-9 in a game played Tuesday evening at Lloyd Hopkins Field at Gordon Moore...
FAIRVIEW HEIGHTS - Alton American Legion Post 126's senior baseball team scored six times in the top of the fourth inning, then three more times in the fifth, then held on to defeat Highland 10-7 and win the Firecracker Tournament Sunday morning at Moody Park in Fairview Heights. The two teams me...
FAIRVIEW HEIGHTS - Alton Post 126's senior American Legion baseball team got great pitching performances in both games, allowing only three runs on nine hits while striking out 12 combined in two games as the Legionnaires defeated Ballwin, Mo. 2-0 and drawing with Trenton 3-3 in their first two game...
FAIRVIEW HEIGHTS - The Alton Post 126 Senior American Legion baseball team committed six errors in a 14-5 loss to Highland on Saturday morning, but in the afternoon, bounced back and got a complete game on the mound from Ted Webb to defeat Washington, Mo. 4-2 and advance to the final of the Firecracker...
ALTON - Brady Mutz followed up on his Saturday performance, where he had two home runs, three hits and seven RBIs, with a two-hit, three-RBI game on Sunday as the Alton River Dragons swept a two-game Fourth of July weekend series with an 8-5 win over the Cape Catfish of Cape Girardeau, Mo., in a Prospect...
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