LAS VEGAS - Kate Martin, the former women's basketball standout for both Edwardsville High and the University of Iowa, is in contention to make the final roster of the Women's National Basketball Association's Las Vegas Aces as preseason training camp is set to conclude soon. Martin, who played...
TUESDAY, MAY 7 SPORTS ROUND-UP GIRLS SOCCER EDWARDSVILLE 5, ALTON 1: Ellie Neath had a hat trick, while Blakely Hockett and Kelley Flannery also scored at Edwardsville scored four unanswered goals in the second half in the Tigers' 5-1 win over Alton's soccer girls at Public School Stadium....
ALTON - The Father McGivney Catholic baseball team continues to gear up and fine tune for its postseason campaign, taking a 10-0 win over visiting Nokomis on Monday afternoon at Lloyd Hopkins Field in Alton's Gordon Moore Park. The win put the Griffins' season mark to 27-3, among the best in the St...
VIRDEN - Marcus Payne had two RBIs, while Parker LeMarr drove in another run, and Adam Hale struck out five on the mound as Piasa Southwestern clinched the South Central Conference baseball championship with a 3-1 win over Virden North Mac Monday afternoon at North Mac's park. The win sent the...
MONDAY, MAY 6, 2024, SPORTS ROUND-UP BASEBALL ALTON 8, CHAMINADE COLLEGE PREP CATHOLIC 6 (8 INNINGS): After Chaminade tied the game with two runs in the sixth, Alton came up with two runs in the top of the eighth to get past the Red Devils in Creve Coeur, Mo., in west St. Louis County. Brayden...
EDWARDSVILLE - Alton High senior softball pitcher Grace Presley is having a very good season with the Redbirds, despite their 8-10 record as the team gets ready to enter the stretch run of the season, including the upcoming IHSA Class 4A playoffs. Presley has been the team's main pitcher, and has...
SATURDAY, MAY 4 SPORTS ROUND-UP BASEBALL TEUTOPOLIS 5, EDWARDSVILLE 1: After the two teams traded runs in the third inning, Teutopolis scored twice in both the fifth and sixth to take the win over Edwardsville in the 16th Edwardsville Classic round-robin tournament at Tom Pile Field....
COLLINSVILLE - On a wall-to-wall sunshiny day at Collinsville's Kahok Stadium, Edwardsville was the dominant team, as the Tigers went on to win the Collinsville Invitational track meet, one of the last major meets before the IHSA sectionals, on Saturday morning and afternoon. The Tigers scored...
EDWARDSVILLE - Edwardsville softball pitcher Riley Nelson was in complete control of the game, striking out 11 and walking only one, giving up two hits, while Jillian Lane, Grace Oertle, and Madi Kolakowski all had two RBIs each as the Tigers took a 10-0 win over Alton in a Southwestern Conference...
BELLEVILLE - Belleville Althoff Catholic sprinter Dierre Hill, Jr. won two events and finished second in a third, as the host Crusaders, in their first year in the league, won the Gateway Metro Conference boys track championship in the conference meet, held Wednesday afternoon at George Martz...
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