ST. LOUIS - A constant message from St. Louis City head coach Bradley Carnell this season has been avoiding complacency. A team nobody expected to succeed has largely done just that, succeeded, because they’ve kept pushing throughout the grueling MLS season. On Saturday night at CITY PARK,...
ALTON - With the conference sewn up, there was only one more regular season goal for the Roxana Shells football program: finish undefeated. It's a feat that hasn't happened at Roxana High School in decades. On Friday night at Public School Stadium, Roxana poured on the offense early en route...
ST. LOUIS - Saturday is “Decision Day” across Major League Soccer, 14 games played across the Eastern and Western Conferences with playoff implications on the line for many. Some teams are fighting to make their way into the postseason, some teams are fighting for home field advantage,...
ROXANA - It’s been a season to remember for the Roxana Shells on the football field as the Shells are now 8-0 overall. A perfect start, ranked in state, a very deep Shells football team has been lighting up the scoreboard so far this fall. Junior Kael Hester has been making his presence felt...
ROXANA - Roxana senior Ethan Broadfoot might not get to see his name on the scoreboard too often as a two-way lineman on the Shells football team, but all of that changed in the Shells big win over their cross-town rivals East Alton-Wood River. Broadfoot, the big 6’7” lineman, got a...
ROXANA - It's not the first matchup between the Oilers of East Alton-Wood River and the Shells of Roxana on the football field, but Friday's edition of the Riverbend rivalry game was the first with its new name: The Refinery Bowl, complete with a big new trophy that will mark each year's winner. T...
ROXANA - Terrel Graves was wearing Roxana Shells yellow and red before it was cool. Graves was a freshman at Roxana in the COVID-altered and shortened season, where the Shells went 2-4. In 2021, the Shells didn’t pick up any more wins, but Graves became a staple within the Shells offense as...
ROXANA - In as big a game as Charles Raich field has seen in recent memory, the undefeated Roxana Shells hosted perennial area power Breeze Central in what was a defacto Cahokia Conference championship game on Friday night. It was the first Friday of the season that truly felt like football weather,...
ST. LOUIS - You may think, after clinching the MLS Western Conference this past weekend, that St. Louis City SC might take their foot off the gas with two games remaining in their regular season, starting with this week’s road trip to take on the Vancouver Whitecaps Wednesday night. With...
ST. LOUIS - For the final time this year, St. Louis City SC and their neighbors to the west Sporting Kansas City squared off in MLS regular season play Saturday night. A game that was tense, a game that was edgy, a game that could have gone either way until late, went City’s way in a big...
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