Colin Feeney, Contributing Sports Writer

JERSEY - The Jersey Community High softball team put together five-run innings in the bottom of the first and fourth in going on to a 14-4 win over Civic Memorial in a Mississippi Valley Conference game Monday afternoon at Jersey. The Eagles jumped to an early 4-0 lead in the top of the first,...

EDWARDSVILLE – Edwardsville pitcher Grant Schaefer had one of his best outings of the season this past Wednesday afternoon at Tom Pile Field, as he gave up only one hit and one run in five-plus innings, striking out three as the Tigers defeated Belleville East 10-1 and clinched a share of the...

EDWARDSVILLE – Sydney Lawrence delivered a clutch two-out RBI single in the bottom of the seventh to give Edwardsville a dramatic 3-2 softball win over Highland Monday afternoon at the Edwardsville Sports Complex. Kay Swanson pitched the first three innings for the Tigers, and pitched well,...

EDWARDSVILLE – Edwardsville baseball pitcher Jonathon Yancik pitched perhaps his best game of the season in the Tigers’ 7-1 win over Jersey Friday afternoon at Tom Pile Field. After giving up a run on three hits in the first inning, Yancik shut the door, striking out three and at one poin...

EDWARDSVILLE – One of the key players on the Edwardsville High School hockey team will be making his mark on a new college program when Connor Hinterser signed a letter-of-intent with Purdue Northwest of Hammond, Ind., to play for a program which will have its inaugural season in 2019-20. Hinters...

EDWARDSVILLE – Jonathon Yancik gave up three hits and one run in the first inning, then went on to retire 12 straight while Edwardsville broke the game open with a three-run fourth inning, going on to a 7-1 win over Jersey on Friday afternoon at Tom Pile Field. Yancik allowed only one...

BELLEVILLE – The Edwardsville boys tennis team won two of the three doubles flights on Friday to take the lead after the first day of the Southwestern Conference tennis tournament at Belleville West High School. The Tigers are in first place with 20 points after the opening day, with Belleville...

EDWARDSVILLE – Katherine Bobinski-Boyd, Moe Kastens and Jayna Connoyer all had RBIs in a key fifth inning, while Kay Swanson and Ryleigh Owens combined to allow only three hits and one run as Edwardsville defeated Jersey 3-1 in a softball game played Friday at the Edwardsville Sports...

EDWARDSVILLE – Calista Cox has been one of the best players on Alton’s girls soccer team this season, and although the Redbirds lost at Edwardsville 3-0 Tuesday night at Tiger Stadium, Cox and her teammates kept battling on throughout. “Yeah, it was a tough game,” Cox said...

COLLINSVILLE – Edwardsville girls soccer senior captain Emma Sitton had the first goal of the match in the Tigers’ 2-1 win in the regular season finale over Collinsville at Kahok Stadium. But the biggest goal of the match was Rileigh Kuhns’ winner right before full time. Kuhns has...