ALTON - Marquette Catholic senior boys volleyball player Jake Roth has emerged as one of the most important players for the Explorers in their inaugural season, helping the team to a 8-5 record thus far in Marquette's first varsity season, which was pushed back a year after the COVID-19 pandemic cancelled...
SATURDAY SPORTS ROUNDUP: SOFTBALL EDWARDSVILLE 7, TRIAD 2: Edwardsville scored three times in the first, then added four more in the sixth as the Tigers won their Senior Day game over Triad at the Edwardsville Sports Complex. Ryleigh Owens had two hits and a RBI for Edwardsville,...
BELLEVILLE - East Alton-Wood River's Jaylen Ulrich again swept the shot put and discus throw, and Alton's Renee Raglin was also a double winner while both Edwardsville and East St. Louis finished in a dead heat for first place and Triad coming in third by only two points in a very close and exciting...
EDWARDSVILLE - The Edwardsville softball team bounced back from a loss at Collinsville very nicely on Friday afternoon, sweeping a doubleheader from East St. Louis 22-0 and 19-0 at the Edwardsville Sports Complex The Tigers scored in all six innings of the two games, scoring 10 in the second...
THURSDAY, MAY 20 SPORTS ROUNDUP BASEBALL FATHER MCGIVNEY CATHOLIC 6, MARQUETTE CATHOLIC 3: A five run second inning for McGivney was enough to give the Griffins the PSC win over Marquette at Gordon Moore Park. Matthew Gierer had a hit and two RBIs for McGivney, while Austin Callovini,...
EDWARDSVILLE - Quinn Weber scattered three hits in pitching a complete game shutout, while four different players had two RBIs each as Edwardsville won its 19th consecutive game with a 9-0 decision over Belleville West Thursday afternoon at Tom Pile Field. The win also enabled the Tigers...
WEDNESDAY, MAY 19 SPORTS ROUNDUP BASEBALL EAST ALTON-WOOD RIVER 7, CHESTER 1: A five run sixth inning was the boost that EAWR needed in going on to a win over Chester at GCS Ballpark. Lucas Moore had two hits and three RBIs for the Oilers, while Kenny Beachum had two hits and a RBI and...
EAST ALTON - Trailing 3-0 in the second period, Edwardsville's hockey team rallied to tie the score on a goal from Tommy Papa with 10 seconds left in regulation, then won a shootout 3-1 to take a 4-3 win over Granite City to win its first Mississippi Valley Club Hockey Association championship...
EDWARDSVILLE - Preston Weaver served up 14 points and had 16 assists, while Jacob Geisen had seven kills as the Edwardsville boys volleyball team swept past Alton 25-8, 25-14 in a Southwestern Conference match Tuesday evening at Lucco-Jackson Gym. The Redbirds showed great improvement from the previous...
COLLINSVILLE - The girls track team at Edwardsville High had a big day in the large school Madison County track meet on Tuesday at Collinsville's Kahok Stadium, winning the meet by a big margin and breaking a barrier in doing so. The Tigers won the meet with 208 points, with Highland coming...
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