EDWARDSVILLE – The Edwardsville High boys tennis team won its first important match during the Spring Break portion of the schedule with a 9-0 triumph over Marquette Catholic Wednesday afternoon at the Edwardsville Tennis Center. The match showcased two of the region's top boys tennis...
COLLEGE STATION, Texas – A pair of Illinois champion female track and field athletes from Alton recently competed against each other at The Reveille Meet Apr. 6 at E.B. Cushing Stadium on the campus of Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas. LaJarvia Brown, a junior at A&M, finished...
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 17 SPORTS ROUNDUP BASEBALL MARQUETTE CATHOLIC 11, HILLSBORO 8: Sam Cogan had four hits and three RBIs, Garrett Weiner three hits and four RBIs, Carter Hendricks three hits and Matt Lehr two hits in Marquette’s win over Hillsboro. Lucas Vowels got the win...
EDWARDSVILLE – The Edwardsville High girls softball team jumped out to an early lead, then quelled a three-run fifth inning rally to go on to an 8-3 win over Collinsville in a Southwestern Conference softball game played Wednesday at the Edwardsville Sports Complex. The game, which was...
TUESDAY, APRIL 16 SPORTS ROUNDUP ALTON 5, BELLEVILLE WEST 2: Lynna Fischer, Abby Scyoc and Abby Sullivan had the only hits for Alton, but Ashlyn Betz, Audrey Evola, Scyoc and Fischer had RBIs in the Redbirds’ win over West. Six different Maroon players had single hits, while Haley Dunn...
ALTON – Alaina Nasello scored in the fourth minute, and the Alton defense made the goal stand up as the Redbirds won a key Southwestern Conference match over O’Fallon 1-0 Tuesday afternoon at Piasa Motor Fuels Field. It was the first win of the season in three meetings with the...
EDWARDSVILLE – The Edwardsville High baseball team scored 14 runs in the bottom of the first inning in going on to a 16-0 win over East St. Louis in a Southwestern Conference game played Tuesday afternoon at Tom Pile Field. The scoring started early on, as a Blake Burris triple to...
O’FALLON – The Edwardsville girls softball team scored two runs in both the first and second innings, and got strong pitching from Kay Swanson and Ryleigh Owens as the Tigers won at O’Fallon 4-2 Tuesday afternoon in a Southwestern Conference game. The Tigers got things started...
EDWARDSVILLE – Hannah Bielicke had all three goals for Edwardsville on Tuesday as the Tigers stayed undefeated in the Southwestern Conference with a 3-1 win over Belleville East in a match played at Tiger Stadium. It’s the first hat trick for an Edwardsville player since May 3,...
GRANITE CITY – Granite City distance runner Andrew O’Keefe is considered one of the premier distance runners in the St. Louis area, and on Friday, he broke not only a personal record, but the school record for the fastest 3,200-meter run, winning the event with a time of 9:11.11 during...
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