OKAWVILLE - If there ever was a sixth man in a basketball gymnasium it was the Carrollton Hawks sea of green that occupied every seat on one side of the Okawville Gym in the IHSA Class 1A Super Sectional matchup against Albion Edwards County. Carrollton High School’s basketball team is se...
OKAWVILLE – Lauren Flowers and Harper Darr, the two key seniors on the Carrollton girls basketball team, made school history on Monday night, March 3, 2025, helping to lead the Hawks back to the IHSA Class 1A state finals in the super-sectional game at the Okawville High gym. Flowers,...
OKAWVILLE – Lauren Flowers, the all-time leading scorer in Carrollton girls' basketball history, scored 35 points, most coming in the second half, leading three players in double figures as the Hawks advanced to the IHSA Class 1A state finals for the first time since 2014 with a 62-44...
OKAWVILLE - Lauren Flowers led three Carrollton girls basketball players in double figures with 35 points as the Hawks defeated Albion Edwards County 62-44 to win the IHSA Class 1A Super Sectional game at Okawville on Monday night, March 3, 2025. It is the first time Carrollton's basketball girls...
Two local girls basketball teams - Alton and Carrollton - play in the iHSA super-sectionals tonight - the state quarterfinals - with both sides looking to advance to the state finals this weekend in Bloomington-Normal. The Redbirds, 32-2, will have a rematch against Aurora Waubonsie Valley...
BLOOMINGTON - Collinsville's Taylor Dawson won the 140-pound weight class, while Chloe Skiles of Roxana won the 105-pound individual title, as the Kahoks finished fourth in the team standings at the second day of the IHSA girls wrestling state tournament, held on Saturday at Grossinger Motors...
BLOOMINGTON - Taylor Dawson of Collinsville, Holly Zugmaier of Edwardsville, August Rottmann of Highland, and Chloe Skiles of Roxana all advanced to the last four in the respective weight classes, while other area wrestlers performed well at the first day of the IHSA girls wrestling state tournament...
WESTMONT - No area swimmers were able to advance to the state finals on Saturday, March 1, 2025. Still, they performed well at the IHSA boys swimming state meet preliminaries on Friday afternoon, Feb. 28, 2025, at the FHC Natatorium in Westmont. The top eight swimmers in the preliminaries wil...
O'FALLON - It was indeed a tough 4-0 loss for a very good O’Fallon team on Thursday night, Feb. 27, 2025, in the Mississippi Valley Club Hockey Association Class 2A final to Edwardsville, but in the end, the Panthers proved to be one of the best teams all year long in the MVCHA. “I...
EDWARDSVILLE – Zach Cohn scored two goals, once on the power play, while Brody Patton stopped 36 shots, and Edwardsville scored twice on the power play and once shorthanded, to win Game Two of their best-of-three Mississippi Valley Club Hockey Association Class 2A final 4-0 over O’Fallon,...
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