EDWARDSVILLE – Alton American Legion Post 126 pitcher Adam Stilts tossed another great game, allowing Gillespie VFW Post 4547’s team only three hits while only walking one and striking out 12 as Alton shut out Gillespie 3-0 Monday night at Roy E. Lee Field at SIU-Edwardsville. The...
ALTON – Former Alton High School pitcher Sam Ballard, a recent selection in the Major League Baseball Amateur Draft, signed with the San Diego Padres June 17, and the next day, was assigned to the Padres 2 team in the Arizona Rookie League. Ballard, who graduated from Alton High in 2016, pitched...
GODFREY – Top men’s seed Carson Haskins of Ballwin, Mo., and women’s top seed Shannon Gordon-Carney of St. Louis won the men’s and women’s open singles titles on Sunday in the final day of the 37 th annual Bud Simpson Open tennis tournament at Lewis and Clark Community...
BELLEVILLE – Championships in the eight age groups in both boys and girls competition were decided in the final day of the Tiger Classic junior tennis tournament, held indoors Sunday at the Kings Point tennis club in Belleville. Play was originally scheduled for the Edwardsville Tennis Center,...
GODFREY – The top two seeds in both the men’s and women’s singles – Carson Haskins of Ballwin, Mo., and Kristopher Ortega of Homer Glen, Ill., along with Shannon Gordon-Carney and Victoria Zielinski, both of St. Louis – advanced to the men’s semifinals and women’s...
BELLEVILLE – The top seeds in all levels advanced to Sunday’s finals in day two of the Tiger Classic junior tennis tournament, played Saturday at the Edwardsville Tennis Center. Play went on as scheduled, despite rain and brief storms on in the morning and early afternoon, which cleared...
GODFREY – Play got underway on Friday evening in a pair of area tennis tournaments, despite the heavy rain and storms that passed through the St. Louis metro area during the afternoon. Matches were played as scheduled in the opening day of the 37 th annual Bud Simpson Open at Lewis and Clark...
EDWARDSVILLE – The Tiger Classic Junior Tennis Tournament, which will feature some of the best junior players in the St. Louis area, is set to take place this weekend at the Edwardsville Tennis Center, with play set to begin Friday afternoon. The majority of the finals will be held on Saturday...
ROXANA – Roxana Middle School eighth-grader Ashton Noble made history for the Vikings on May 18 at Eastside Centre in East Peoria. Noble won the Eighth Grade Class AA discus throw championship at the Illinois Elementary School Association state meet, throwing 162’ 2” to take first...
ALTON – Tim Gould, a native of Highland, will be returning to the Metro-East area this fall, as he was recently hired to be the head coach of the Marquette Catholic boys’ soccer team. Gould has been in Columbus, Miss., finishing up things in preparing to move back to the area. Gould was...
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