Colin Feeney, Contributing Sports Writer

CASEYVILLE - Alton senior golfer Natalie Messinger continued her very good play by shooting a six-over-par 78 to tie for fifth place with Edwardsville's Grace Daech, while Riley Kenney shot an 86 to help lead Alton to a fourth-place finish in the Metro-East Shootout on Tuesday afternoon at Fair...

SEE VIDEO: ALTON - A new music shop, the Alton Music Exchange, recently opened at 556 East Broadway in Downtown Alton and it is designed to help musicians find the right equipment at a reasonable cost. On its surface, the Exchange is the kind of business that's designed to assist musicians...

EDWARDSVILLE - The Edwardsville School District Board of Education has promoted girls volleyball assistant coach Heather Ohlau to head coach, and she's ready to help the Tigers reach lofty and big goals for the 2020 season this spring. Coach Ohlau will have returning a core group of four seniors t...

ALTON - Marquette Catholic's Gracie Piar got a key birdie on the difficult par three eighth hole, and it was key in helping her shoot an even-par 72 on the Spencer T. Olin course at Gordon Moore Park to win the individual championship of the Marquette Blastoff Tournament Saturday. Piar was one...

ALTON - Alton, Roxana and Collinsville all went 1-1 in their dual matches against each other to all finish in a three-way tie for the championship of the Andy Simpson Invitational tennis tournament, which was played on Saturday at the Alton High School tennis courts. The Redbirds defeated th...

EDWARDSVILLE - An era in Downtown Edwardsville is set to conclude at the end of the year, when Daryel Buesking, the long-time owner and proprietor of Daryel's Hair Care at 205 South Main Street, retires after 50 years as a barber and 47 years as the owner of the barber shop that bears his name. Bueski...

GRANITE CITY - Edwardsville High golfer Caitlyn Dicks, a freshman who's enjoyed success in area junior tournaments, has played in her first two tournaments for the Tigers. And both times, things went very well. On Tuesday in the large school division of the Madison County tournament at The Legacy...

WOOD RIVER - Senior golfer Aiden Kesher was the best player on the course for Alton's boys golf team, as he shot a 91 as a young but promising Redbird team came in sixth in the large school division of the Madison County Tournament on Thursday afternoon at Belk Park Golf Course in Wood River. T...

WOOD RIVER - Marquette Catholic's Aiden O'Keefe finished in a first-place tie with Father McGivney Catholic's Joey Hyten with identical four-over-par 76s, while William Roderfeld finished third a stroke behind at 77 as the Explorers had all five of their golfers come in the top ten in taking the...

WOOD RIVER - Freshman Carter Crow shot a nine-over-par 81 to tie for eighth place as the Edwardsville boys golf team came in third place in the large school division of the Madison County tournament, played Thursday afternoon at the Belk Park Golf Course in Wood River. The Tigers shot a team scor...