EDWARDSVILLE - Sydney Lawrence hit a first inning two-run homer to get things started, then Edwardsville took advantage of Granite City errors and good hitting to score eight runs in the third, then added six more in the fourth to take a 16-0 win over the Warriors in Edwardsville's season opener...
EDWARDSVILLE - Senior striker Brennan Weller had a brace (two goals), while seniors Andrew Smith, Connor Kelley and Andrew Mills all scored as Edwardsville's boys soccer team ended its season with a share of the Southwestern Conference championship in a 5-0 win over Belleville West Wednesday evening...
EDWARDSVILLE - Spencer Stearns had a two-run double in the fourth that put Edwardsville on top for good, and the Tigers scored twice in the fourth, four in the fifth and six in the sixth inning in going on to a 12-2 six-inning win over Chatham Glenwood in the baseball home opener Wednesday afternoon...
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 14 SPORTS ROUNDUP GIRLS VOLLEYBALL MARQUETTE CATHOLIC 25-25, GRANITE CITY 17-19: Marquette won a close match over Granite City on the road at Memorial Gym. Olivia Ellebracht came up with three kills for the Explorers, while Rachel Heinz had six points, an ace, a kill and 1...
TUESDAY, APRIL 13 SPORTS ROUNDUP BASEBALL EDWARDVILLE 6, HIGHLAND 5: Edwardsville scored four times in the top of the fifth inning, and then held off a Highland seventh inning rally, where the Bulldogs scored twice, to win their season opener on the road. Riley King had two hits and two RBIs...
EDWARDSVILLE - Olivia Baca scored the match's only goal in the 74th minutes as Edwardsville defeated Collinsville 1-0 in a Southwestern Conference girls soccer match -vthe first one played by both the Tigers and Kahoks in nearly two years - Tuesday evening at Tiger Stadium. The start of the COVID-19...
MONDAY, APRIL 12 SPORTS ROUNDUP BASEBALL FREEBURG 1, COLLINSVILLE 0: In the first baseball game played in Metro-East in nearly two years, Freeburg scored the only run of the game in the top of the sixth inning to edge Collinsville at Vergil Fletcher Field. Eli Hill hit a home run ove...
GIRLS VOLLEYBALL ALTON 25-25, GRANITE CITY 11-17: The Redbirds defeated Granite City in the first match of a triangular meet at Civic Memorial. Grace Carter had a kill and a block in the match for the Redbirds, while Olivia Ducey served up 14 points and an ace to go along with a kill and...
EAST ST. LOUIS - The O'Fallon Township High School football team had missed their past two games against both Belleville West and Alton after the Panthers were placed into quarantine after a number of players tested positive for the COVID-19 virus, and when they returned this week, only had five days...
BELLEVILLE - The Southwestern Conference football game between Edwardsville and Belleville West was suspended with 8:08 remaining in the second quarter with the score tied 7-7 because of lightning and thunderstorm concerns. The game will resume at the point it was suspended Saturday morning at 11...
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