Colin Feeney, Contributing Sports Writer

CHAMPAIGN – The girls' golf teams at Marquette Catholic and Edwardsville both qualified for their respective IHSA State tournaments this weekend by posting third-place finishes in the Sectional tournaments on Monday. In the Class 1A Sectional at Greenview Golf Course in Centralia, the Explorer...

EDWARDSVILLE – Mattie Norton, a junior forward on Edwardsville High’s field hockey team, thinks that the Tigers are starting to go on a roll at exactly the right time. Her two goals in the opening 10 minutes of the game, her eighth and ninth of the season, were key as the Tigers defeated...

EDWARDSVILLE – The Edwardsville High School boys’ golf team narrowly missed qualifying for this weekend’s IHSA Class 3A State tournament by two strokes, shooting a 332 as a team to finish tied for fourth with Normal Community in Monday’s Sectional tournament, held at Sunset...

BELLEVILLE – Edwardsville and Belleville East finished tied for first place in the Southwestern Conference girls’ tennis championships held over the weekend at the East tennis courts. Both the Tigers and Lancers finished with 58 points, but East took the crown by virtue of its 7-2...

ALTON - Alton’s tennis girls placed sixth in the final Southwestern Conference Tourney standings on Saturday at Belleville East. For the Redbirds in the singles, Hannah Macias at number one, Maddie Saenz at number two, Cali Giertz at number three and MacKenzie Giertz at number four all finished...

EDWARDSVILLE – Metro-East Lutheran's boys soccer team celebrated its Senior Night on Thursday at Knights Field, starting with a pre-game ceremony honoring the six seniors on the club – Christian Brown, Logan McDaniel, captain Brent Woolsey, Andrew Masters, Noah Landers and Nolan Gutjah...

DUPO – Senior quarterback Kaleb Ware threw for 225 yards and five touchdowns and also ran for 79 yards and two touchdowns as Marquette Catholic defeated Dupo in a Prairie State Conference game 56-30 Friday night at Dupo. The win, combined with a 2-0 forfeit win over Bunker Hill South Mac in...

BELLEVILLE – The Edwardsville High School football team had another big first-half performance as quarterback Kendall Abdur-Rahman threw for two touchdowns and ran for two more, Justin Johnson, Jr. scored three times and the defense ran an interception back for a touchdown as the...

Marquette Catholic 56, Dupo 30 Alton 49, O’Fallon 17 Edwardsville 54, Belleville East 20 Belleville West 64, Collinsville 14 Massillon Washington, Ohio 46, East St. Louis 40 Kelly, Mo. 50, Metro-East Lutheran 0 East Alton-Wood River 20, Kincaid South Fork 6 Roxana 40, Litchfield 0 Jerse...

East Alton-Wood River looks to become playoff-eligible in its Homecoming and Senior Night game against South Fork/Edinburg/Morrisonville as the feature matchup in the Week Seven football schedule. The game will also be live on Riverbender.com. In other area games, with kickoff time at 7 p.m. unless...