Colin Feeney, Contributing Sports Writer

EDWARDSVILLE - Senior Riley Chitwood, a solid defender for the girls soccer team at Edwardsville High, signed a letter of intent to play at Illinois College in Jacksonville this fall in a ceremony held at the school on Tuesday afternoon. Chitwood will be playing for head coach Hunter Gray and...

EDWARDSVILLE - Edwardsville High striker Brynn Miracle, who will be the one of the Tigers' top players in the upcoming 2021 season, signed a letter of intent to attend Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa, in a ceremony held recently at the high school. Miracle, who in the 2019 season scored three...

EDWARDSVILLE - Senior track sprinter Brandon Battle is one of the hardest workers on the boys team at Edwardsville High School, and recently, Battle signed a letter of intent to attend Eastern Illinois University in Charleston in a ceremony at the high school. Battle, who runs the 100, 200 and...

BETHALTO - Freshman Justice Eldridge enjoyed a very good rookie season running for the boys cross country team at Civic Memorial High School. He climaxed it with a 19th-place finish at the IHSA Class 2A regional meet in Jacksonville, coming in with a time of 16:23.56 in helping the Eagles team...

SEE VIDEO: ALTON - The Alton chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) held its first-ever motorcade ceremony to honor the life and accomplishments of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. on Sunday in a procession that started at Lincoln-Douglas Square in Downtow...

BETHALTO - Junior cross country runner Katie Hallstead ran on the girls' team at Civic Memorial High School for the first time in the 2020 season, and had a most successful year, placing 15th in the Madison County meet, and climaxing the year by being one of four Eagle runners who qualified for...

BETHALTO - Twin brothers Caine and Caleb Tyus have enjoyed very successful wrestling careers at Civic Memorial High School, with both having very successful runs in the 2019-20 season, Caine finishing in third place at 138 pounds in the IHSA Class 2A finals, while Caleb was the runner-up at 132 pound...

ALTON - Senior bowler Patrick "Bucky" Wiemers enjoyed a most successful junior season for Marquette Catholic last year, finishing fifth in the IHSA regional with a score of 1,275, as the Explorers came in third in the Jersey regional, qualifying Marquette for their first-ever sectional tournament a...

BLOOMINGTON - The Illinois High School Association Board of Directors, in its regular monthly meeting on Wednesday, voted to allow contact days in non-season sports, per the approval of the Illinois Department of Public Health mitigations and local school board approval. The IHSA Board decided t...

GRANITE CITY - As the COVID-19 Pandemic continues to create havoc both in the United States and around the world, finding reliable sources of drinking water, especially with many water fountains in public places having been turned off because of the pandemic, has become almost paramount. Sales of bottle...