Bradley Piros has been a reporter at Riverbnder.com since January 2022.
He graduated from Western Illinois University in December 2020 with a Bachelor's Degree in Journalism as well as a minor in Sports Broadcasting.
At WIU Bradley worked at the school's student-run newspaper publication The Western Courier. He began his freshman year as a writer and worked his way up to Sports Editor by the time he was a senior.
In his spare time, Bradley loves to stay active. He played soccer and ran track and field at Alton High. Now he stays busy with his favorite hobby disc golf. He also loves spending time with his family and friends, traveling to new places, and watching sports.
TROY - The Triad High School girl's soccer program raised its 13th straight IHSA Class 2A Regional title Friday night after a 3-0 win over Mississippi Valley Conference rivals Mascoutah. It was the program's 17th Regional title overall. Triad made it a season sweep over the Indians after 1-0 and...
EDWARDSVILLE – The Edwardsville High School boy’s track team is once again IHSA Class 3A Sectional Champions. The Tigers hosted 14 other schools from lower and central Illinois at Winston Brown Track and came out on top with a team score of 106 points. Their lead was comfortable with O’Fallo...
EDWARDSVILLE - The Edwardsville Tigers hosted and comfortably won their IHSA Class 3A Boys Track and Field Sectional Wednesday afternoon at Winston Brown Track. The Tigers came in with a team score of 106 points, beating out O'Fallon with 64. These photos are from the meet of Edwardsville, Alton, and...
CLASS 1A SECTIONAL SEMIFINALS AT RIVERTON SPRINGFIELD SACRED HEART GRFFIN 1, MARQUETTE CATHOLIC 0 (PENALTIES) In a rematch of last season's sectional semifinal, it was the Explorers against the Cyclones, and just like last year, this one went to overtime tied at 0-0. The game remained...
O’FALLON – The Alton High girl’s soccer team won a close postseason affair against Belleville East Tuesday night at O’Fallon Township High School. The Redbirds beat the Lancers by a score of 1-0 in an IHSA Class 3A Regional Semifinal. They will now move on to play O’Fallon...
ALTON – The short history between the Althoff Crusaders and Marquette Explorers baseball programs has been interesting, to say the least. Over the last three seasons, the teams have played six times. Althoff won both meetings in 2021 by scores of 10-0 in the regular season and 12-2 in the...
ALTON - The Marquette Explorers hosted the Althoff Crusaders in the Regional Semifinals Monday afternoon at Gordon Moore Park. Marquette won by a score of 7-4. These photos are from the game.
ALTON - Marquette Catholic senior midfielder Aela Scruggs has seen a thing or two in her high school soccer career. A thing she's become accustomed to seeing is success. A three-year varsity player, since her freshman year was cancelled due to the pandemic, Aela has seen that success personally...
ALTON – Explorers head coach Brian Hoener told his team the same thing he did a season ago, don’t take these moments lightly. It’s hard not to when winning a Regional Title becomes the expectation. As the title suggests, that expectation was met for the third time in four years...
BELLEVILLE - The Lady Redbirds finished up their regular season with a win over Southwestern Conference foe Belleville East. Alton won 3-0 thanks to sophomore Lyndsey Miller's brace and senior striker Emily Baker's shot. Miller found the back of the net in the first half from an outstanding effort...
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