ALTON – Senior outfielder Jordan Watsek has emerged as a key player for the Alton High softball team in the spring of 2024. With a career marked by consistent performance both at the plate and in the field, Watsek's contributions have been integral to the Redbirds' success. Watsek, recognized...
EDWARDSVILLE - Braxton Tite had an outstanding Southwest Illinois Swimming Association Relays Meet on June 24, 2024, at Sunset Hills Country Club in Edwardsville, competing in many of the races and showing success in them as well. He is also an Edwardsville High School boys' swimmer. He very much...
EDWARDSVILLE - The Collinsville Swim Club Gators swept all three titles in the Southwest Illinois Swimming Association relays meet Monday evening at the Sunset Hills Country Club pool, taking the boys, girls, and overall championships. In the girls meet, the Gators edged out Montclaire Swim Club...
ALTON – Alton High School Athletic Director Chris Kusnerick announced on Wednesday, June 26, 2024, that Eric Wolf has been appointed as the new Head Girls Volleyball Coach at Alton High School. Wolf, who has been an educator in the ACUSD #11 district since 2015, brings a diverse athletic backgroun...
ALTON - The Alton River Dragons got back on track over the weekend, taking their two weekend games in the Prospect League, winning at the Burlington, Ia., Bees 12-7 Saturday night at Burlington Community Field, then returning home to Lloyd Hopkins Field in Gordon Moore Park and defeated the Normal...
PALOS HEIGHTS - Edwardsville's Chase Milburn and Collinsville's were named to the Class 4A All-State team by the Illinois High School Baseball Coaches Association, in an announcement made Monday afternoon, when the All-State teams were released. Bagwell, a pitcher who is headed off to the University...
EDWARDSVILLE - The Collinsville Swim Club Gators won the Southwestern Illinois Swimming Association boys relay tournament Monday evening at the Sunset Hills Country Club pool, winning the meet over Summers Port of Godfrey 111-104, with Paddlers Swim Club of Granite City third with 72 points, fourth...
ST. LOUIS - The Alton Post 126 under-16 red junior American Legion baseball team pulled off their biggest wins of the season, defeating the Adidas Athletics Gold team of suburban St. Louis 6-3, then winning over the Inevitable A's team, also of suburban St. Louis, 9-0 to win the Up and Coming World...
ALTON - The Alton Post 126 under-16 red junior American Legion team came back from a 5-1 deficit to score four runs in the bottom of the fourth to tie the game. but couldn't push across a winning run as the junior Legionnaires ended up in a 5-5 draw with the Inevitable A's under-16 Select team...
EDWARDSVILLE - Top seeds Ollie Okonkwo of Iowa City, Ia., and Kseniya Zonova of St. Louis won the open singles titles, while Timothy Flatt of West Frankfort, Ill., won the HTRP 4.0 18-and-over men's singles, and the team of Gabrielus Guzauskas of Hinsdale, Ill., and William Mroz of Bradenton,...
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