BLOOMINGTON – Area athletes performed well on Saturday at the Illinois Top Times Indoor Championships at Illinois Wesleyan University in Bloomington. In the girls’ Class 2A meet, East Alton-Wood River's Jayden Ulrich won the shot put with a toss of 42-05.0. In the 3,200-meter run, Roland...
EDWARDSVILLE – A young girls’ track team at Alton High School did extremely well at the Southwestern Illinois Relays meet Friday at the Winston Brown Track and Field Center in Edwardsville, finishing third with 98.5 points. “Everybody performed great,” said Redbir...
EDWARDSVILLE – Although the Alton boys track and field team only scored 10 points in the Southwestern Illinois Relays Friday afternoon at Edwardsville’s Winston Brown Track and Field Center, the Redbirds performed very well with a team made up of mainly freshmen and sophomores wh...
ALTON – An eighth-inning error by Zach Vaughn allowed Jackson Brooks to score the winning run as Alton won a see-saw game over Civic Memorial 11-10 Saturday afternoon at Alton High’s ballpark. It was a game where the lead changed hands frequently, with the Eagles tying things...
EDWARDSVILLE – The Edwardsville girls’ track and field team started its 2019 season off on the right foot with a second place finish in the Southwestern Illinois Relays meet Friday afternoon at the Winston Brown Track and Field Center finishing second with 100.5 points, finishin...
EDWARDSVILLE – The Edwardsville boys track team performed very well in finishing second in the Southwestern Illinois Relays held Friday at the Winston Brown Track and Field Center, finishing second with 113 points, with O’Fallon taking the meet with 115 points. “I thought...
EDWARDSVILLE – The Edwardsville softball team scored six times in the second inning, all with two out, then held on as Breese Mater Dei mounted a comeback that eventually fell short as the Tigers defeated the Knights 6-4 in a game played Saturday morning at the Edwardsville Sports Complex....
EDWARDSVILLE – Alton track senior sprinter Deonte McGoy definitely knows the value of hard work and practice is becoming one of the key runners for the Redbirds as they enter the 2019 season. McGoy was a part of the Redbirds’ 4x100-meter relay team that unfortunately didn’t finish...
EDWARDSVILLE 14, DE SMET 1: Edwardsville scored six runs in the first and fourth innings en route to a big win over DeSmet Friday afternoon at Tom Pile Field. Jack Cooper, Matt Stopka, and Joe Toscano each had two RBIs for the Tigers, while Joe Copeland was two-for-three with an RBI. Daws...
THURSDAY, MARCH 21 SPORTS ROUNDUP BASEBALL MARQUETTE CATHOLIC 18, GILLESPIE 3: Garrett Weiner had a big day at the plate Marquette, going three-for-four with nine RBIs, while Kolin Morrissey was three-for-five with four RBIs in the Explorers win at Gillespie. Cameron Hailstone was...
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