Colin Feeney, Contributing Sports Writer

ALTON - Sydney Brunaugh's penalty kick goal in the 45 minutes time frame drew Alton close, but several missed opportunities made the difference as Belleville West made a pair of first half goals stand up in as the Redbirds lost to the Maroons 2-1 in Alton's Senior Night match Thursday evening at Public...

WEDNESDAY, MAY 12 SPORTS ROUNDUP SOFTBALL ALTON 7, GRANITE CITY 0: Alton scored all of its runs in the sixth in going on to the win at George Sykes Field in Wilson Park in Granite. Lynna Fisher, Darcie Flanigan and Lauren O'Neill all had two hits and a RBI for the Redbirds, while Emma Kiger...

TUESDAY, MAY 11 SPORTS ROUNDUP BASEBALL METRO-EAST LUTHERAN 8, EAST ALTON-WOOD RIVER 4: Metro-East scored in every inning but the second in going on to a Prairie State Conference win at Norris Dorsey Field. Luke Neath had three hits and a RBI for the Knights, while Andrew Quandt had two hits...

EDWARDSVILLE - The Edwardsville High baseball team came from behind in the first game to tie things up in the top of the sixth, then scored seven runs in the top of the seventh, and climaxed the second game by scoring six runs in the bottom of the sixth to sweep Granite City in a doubleheader 8-1...

MONDAY, MAY 10 SPORTS ROUNDUP BASEBALL EDWARDSVILLE 8, COLLINSVILLE 1: Edwardsville scored eight unanswered runs after conceding the first run in the opening inning as the Tigers won their second game in three days over Collinsville at Vergil Fletcher Field. Adam Powell had two hits and two...

The Southwestern Conference named its All-Conference teams for the spring season on Monday, and many players from both Alton and Edwardsville were named to the teams in football, boys soccer and girls volleyball. Here are the teams, as selected by the league's coaches: FOOTBALL East St....

PIASA SOUTHWESTERN 15, HARDIN CALHOUN 3: Southwestern scored eight runs in the top of the fifth in taking a road win at Calhoun. Hank Bouillon had three hits and drove home two runs for the Piasa Birds, while Noah Kelly and Clayton Peuterbaugh had two hits and two RBIs each, Colin LeMarr had tw...

O'FALLON - East Alton-Wood River's Jayden Ulrich won the shot put and discus throw to be the meet's only individual double winner, while Alton's Renee Raglin took the 100 meters, Grace Carter of the Redbirds won the long jump and Edwardsville's 4x800 meter relay team won its race as Mascouah wo...

EDWARDSVILLE - Ty Berumen drove in four runs while Cade Hardy had three hits on the day and Edwardsville scored five runs in the second inning as the Tigers defeated Collinsville 12-2 in a six inning game ended by the 10-run rule Saturday morning at Tom Pile Field. After the Tigers had taken...

EDWARDSVILLE - Ryleigh Owens scattered three hits and struck out nine, while Jayna Connoyer, Lexie Griffin and Sydney Lawrence all had RBIs as Edwardsville bounced back from a pair of losses this week by defeating Alton 3-0 in a Southwestern Conference softball game Saturday morning at the Edwardsville...