MONDAY, FEBRUARY 8 SPORTS ROUNDUP BOYS BASKETBALL PIASA SOUTHWESTERN 50, BUNKER HILL 38: Southwestern jumped out to a 20-11 first quarter lead, then outscored Bunker Hill 21-8 in the second half, shutting the Minutemen out in the final quarter, in going on to the win at Hlafka Hall. The Piasa...
EDWARDSVILLE - Former Edwardsville High School cross country and track distance runner Zach Walters is making the transition from high school to college cross country and track very smoothly as a freshman at SIU-Edwardsville. In fact, Walters ran his first-ever collegiate cross country meet on...
GRANITE CITY - Anna Valencia, a 2003 graduate of Granite City High School, is currently making her mark as the City Clerk of Chicago, but hasn't forgot about her roots in Granite. In a wide-ranging interview that was recorded recently for the Granite City School District's YouTube channel, Valencia...
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 6 SPORTS ROUNDUP BOYS BASKETBALL JERSEY 68, PIASA SOUTHWESTERN 49: Andrew Kribs, who's buzzer-beating lay-in won the season opener the night before at Chatham Glenwood, led the way again for Jersey, as he scored 20 points in the Panthers' home-opening win over Southwestern...
EDWARDSVILLE - Junior forward Syd Harris scored 26 points, while sophomore Emerson Weller, and juniors Elle Evans and Macy Silvey all added nine points as Edwardsville won their long-awaited season opener in a 57-37 win over Belleville West in a Southwestern Conference girls basketball game...
BELLEVILLE - Senior forward Brennan Weller had a game-high 26 points, while Preston Weaver added 16 points as the Edwardsville boys basketball team won their season opener 59-49 at Belleville West in a Southwestern Conference game played Saturday afternoon at the West gym. The Tigers got off to a...
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 5 SPORTS ROUNDUP BOYS BASKETBALL JERSEY 39, CHATHAM GLENWOOD 37: Andrew Kribs' steal and lay-in at the buzzer gave Jersey a hard-fought win in their season opener at Chatham Glenwood. With five seconds left in regulation, Kribs stole the ball, drove the length of the court...
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 4 SPORTS ROUNDUP BOYS BASKETBALL HARDIN CALHOUN 54, GILLESPIE 41: Three Calhoun players hit double figures for the second game in a row as the Warriors went on the road for the first time this season to defeat Gillespie. Calhoun led all four quarters once again,...
ALTON - The announcement that Madison and St. Clair Counties, which are a part of Region Four, has gone to Tier Two mitigations in the Restore Illinois plan is very good news for area high school sports programs, as they can now start practices for low-risk sports such as boys and girls bowling,...
EDWARDSVILLE - The 2020 season for the boys swimming team was another successful one for the Tigers, as they won the IHSA sectional meet with 235 points at Springfield Sacred Heart-Griffin, sending many of their swimmers on to the state meet in suburban Chicago. After an extended period where Edwardsville,...
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