Colin Feeney, Contributing Sports Writer

BELLEVILLE - Alton Post 126's American Legion baseball team opened their District 22 season on Saturday with a doubleheader loss to Belleville Post 58 10-6 and 10-2 in Belleville. The Legionnaires gave up seven runs in the fourth inning of the first game, then the Hilgards took a 6-1 lead after two...

EDWARDSVILLE - This year's Edwardsville baseball team battled through the COVID-19 Pandemic and kept intact, won a regional championship and had an excellent overall season with a 34-4 record. Edwardsville Manager Tim Funkhouser is very proud of his team for being able to overcome many obstacles,...

WOOD RIVER - Emma Anselm's hat trick was the key as Marquette Catholic went on to a 6-0 win over Roxana in the IHSA Class 1A sectional final played Friday afternoon at the Wood River Soccer Complex. Anselm's hat trick helped the Explorers advance to Monday's super-sectional game for the right to...

GLEN CARBON - Pitcher Jackson Rodgers fanned two batters with runners on second and third with one out, going on to fan 11 in the game, while A.J. Sutberry and Gabe Smith each had two hits and two RBIs as Father McGivney Catholic defeated Greenfield Northwestern 13-0 to win the IHSA Class 1A baseball...

BLOOMINGTON - Edwardsville's Brandon Battle won all three of the sprint races to qualify for state, Ryan Luitjohan and Geo Patrylak won the distance races and Alton's 4x400 relay team went through to state at the IHSA Class 3A boys sectional track meet, ran Thursday at Bloomington High School. Normal...

LINCOLN - Triad's C.J. Noble won the 100 and 200 meters, Civic Memorial's Jackson Collman took the 3,200 meters, Jersey's Ethan Mueller swept the hurdles races and the Knights, East Alton-Wood River, Eagles and Panthers all finished in the top ten of the IHSA Class 2A Lincoln boys sectional track mee...

BELLEVILLE - Kaden Chiapelli had nine kills while Jacob Geisen had eight kills, Preston Weaver had 32 assists and Evan Reid served up seven points as Edwardsville's boys volleyball team rallied from a set down to defeat Belleville Althoff Catholic 18-25, 25-15, 28-26 to win the IHSA Belleville...

EDWARDSVILLE - Ava Hamilton had two hits, including a three-run homer in the sixth, and drove home five runs, while Taylor Sparks had four hits and two RBIs as Belleville East rallied from a 3-0 deficit to score five times in the sixth and twice more in the seventh in going on to a 9-3 win over Edwardsville...

GLEN CARBON - Gabe Smith struck out eight batters and had two RBIs, while Jackson Rodgers had a pair of hits and also drove in two runs as Father McGivney Catholic defeated Carrollton 9-3 in the IHSA Class 1A baseball sectional semifinal Wednesday afternoon at Griffins Field. The win advances the...

EDWARDSVILLE - O'Fallon pitcher Mike Larson allowed only one run on three hits and struck out nine, while Xavier Deatherage drove in two runs in the fifth with a single as the Panthers defeated Edwardsville 4-1 in the IHSA Class 4A sectional semifinal Wednesday afternoon at Tom Pile Field. The loss...