EDWARDSVILLE - The Edwardsville High School softball team returns a great mixture of both youth and experience as the Tigers are now underway in preseason preparations for the 2025 season, which begins March 18, 2025, at home against Freeburg. The Tigers lose graduated seniors Grace Blakemore,...
GLEN CARBON - Owen Kolesa, a junior forward for the boys' basketball team at Father McGivney Catholic High School, has played an important role for the Griffins this season, and will be a key factor in the success the team enjoys in the upcoming IHSA Class 1A playoffs. He averaged 7.5 points pe...
SPRINGFIELD – Both Nolan Keller and Tyler Thompson led Triad with 13 points each, but a spinning reverse lay-up by Jonathan Helm with 2.2 seconds left in regulation gave Chatham Glenwood a 43-41 win over the Knights in the IHSA Class 3A super-sectional state quarterfinal game Monday night,...
MONDAY, MARCH 10 PLAY IT AGAIN SPORTS ROUNDUP BOYS BASKETBALL IHSA PLAYOFFS – SUPER-SECTIONAL GAMES CLASS 2A BELLEVILLE ALTHOFF CATHOLIC 48, TEUTOPOLIS 37: Althoff Catholic received 21 points from Dierre Hill, Jr. on Monday night, March 1, 2025, to defeat Teutopolis and advance...
TRIAD 28, CENTRALIA 26 In the Class 3A sectional final at Marion, Triad rallied from a 15-8 first-quarter deficit to outscore Centralia 15-5 in the second half and take a 28-26 win over Centralia to go to the Elite Eight. The Knights are now 29-6, and meet Chatham Glenwood, the winner of...
WHITE HALL – Talon Albrecht led three Greenfield Northwestern players in double figures with 22 points, including key threes when Metro-East Lutheran fought back to tie the game at 32-32 in the third quarter, as the Tigers eliminated the Knights 59-53 to win the IHSA Class 1A White Hall North...
STAUNTON - Staunton had a tremendous boys' basketball season under Head Coach Ty Laux with 28 wins in 2024-2025. Staunton fell to Williamsville by a 57-35 margin earlier in the week in the Greenville Boys Sectional. “We had a great year,” Laux said. “There’s only one team...
EDWARDSVILLE - Ryan Suhre is known more for his golf game at Metro-East Lutheran High School, but the senior guard has also made a positive contribution to the boys basketball team this season, as a reserve off the bench for the Knights. Suhre didn't score a point in Metro-East's first two regional...
GREENVILLE – Ethan Sharp led Staunton with 14 points, but the Bulldogs couldn’t overcome a large first-quarter opening run by Williamsville, as the Bullets hit many of their three-point shots in taking a 57-35 win over the Bulldogs in the second semifinal of the IHSA Class 2A Greenville...
WHITE HALL – Brady Bishop led Metro-East Lutheran with 17 points, while Thijson Heard added 14 points, which helped the Knights advance to the IHSA Class 1A Sweet Sixteen for the first time ever, taking a 59-40 win over Mt Sterling Brown County in the second semifinal of the White Hall...
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