CHARLESTON - East St. Louis swept the three relay races the team was entered in, while other local athletes performed well at the Class 2A and 3A IHSA state girls track finals, held Saturday at O'Brien Stadium, on the campus of Eastern Illinois University, in Charleston. Mt. Prospect won the Class...
ALTON - Maggie Young scored at the end of a pretty passing play in the 37th minute, and the Edwardsville defense and goalie Genny Burroughs made the goal stand up as the Tigers defeated Granite City 1-0 to win the IHSA Class 3A girls soccer final Saturday afternoon at Alton's Public School Stadium....
CHARLESTON - Elena Rybak won the 800 and 1,600 meters, while two of the school's relay teams also won individual state championships as Father McGivney Catholic won the school's long-awaited first team state championship in the IHSA Class 1A girls track finals Saturday at O'Brien Stadium on the campu...
CHARLESTON - Lilly Gilbertson and Elana Rybak qualified for the finals in two events each, Mia Range went through in the high jump, and two relay teams went through to the finals in the preliminaries of the IHSA Class 1A girls state track meet on Thursday at O'Brien Stadium at Eastern Illinois University...
OKAWVILLE - Base hits by both Kenley Hackstadt and Addi Hasheider brought in the winning runs, as host Okawville won the IHSA Class 1A softball regional semifinal over Father McGivney Catholic 5-3 Wednesday afternoon at the Okawville park. The Griffins were eliminated with a mark of 7-17, while...
EDWARDSVILLE - Jillian Lane had three hits and drove home two RBIs, while Riley Nelson allowed two hits and struck out five in six solid innings inside the circle as Edwardsville's softball team took a 12-0 win over Alton in a Southwestern Conference softball game, played Wednesday afternoon at the...
SOFTBALL IHSA PLAYOFFS CLASS 2A --- REGIONAL SEMIFINALS AT GILLESPIE STAUNTON 4, ROXANA 2: Staunton scored three runs in the first, and once in the fifth, while Roxana scored single runs in the sixth and seventh, but couldn't come any closer as the Bulldogs eliminated the Shells at...
BASEBALL IHSA PLAYOFFS CLASS 1A --- REGIONAL SEMIFINALS AT VIRDEN NORTH MAC PIASA SOUTHWESTERN 1, VIRDEN NORTH MAC 0: Southwestern scored a single run in the first, then made it stand up, as Marcus Payne scattered five hits on the mound to give the Piasa Birds the win and a berth...
DANVILLE - Edwardsville's boys track team put many of its athletes through to the state meet, as many of the competitors from all the competing schools had qualifiers in the IHSA Class 3A sectional track meet, held on Wednesday afternoon in Danville. The Tigers came out on top in the team standings,...
TUESDAY, MAY 14 SPORTS ROUND-UP BASEBALL EDWARDSVILLE 22-15, EAST ST. LOUIS 0-0: Edwardsville scored all 22 of its runs in the first game in the opening inning, then in the second game, scored 11 runs in the second inning in sweeping a doubleheader against East St. Louis, clinching...
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