Bradley Piros has been a reporter at Riverbnder.com since January 2022.
He graduated from Western Illinois University in December 2020 with a Bachelor's Degree in Journalism as well as a minor in Sports Broadcasting.
At WIU Bradley worked at the school's student-run newspaper publication The Western Courier. He began his freshman year as a writer and worked his way up to Sports Editor by the time he was a senior.
In his spare time, Bradley loves to stay active. He played soccer and ran track and field at Alton High. Now he stays busy with his favorite hobby disc golf. He also loves spending time with his family and friends, traveling to new places, and watching sports.
PIASA – It’s been nothing short of a fantastic season so far for the Southwestern baseball team. It’s reminiscent of the Piasa Birds’ season in 2015. In 2015, Piasa won the South Central Conference title outright with a 9-0 record. The Birds did that again in 2024. In...
ALTON – Monday afternoon was the pay-off game. The third game of the best-of-three regular-season series between the Marquette Catholic Explorers and Southwestern Piasa Birds on a rainy day at Lloyd Hopkins Field. It was Piasa with an empathic 11-1 win in Brighton back on March 20 before...
ST. LOUIS - St. Louis vs. Chicago: when you hear it, you think of years of battles on the diamond and the ice. Rivalries with decades of history, rivalries both friendly and not-so-friendly. St. Louis City SC and the Chicago Fire do not have any real animosity towards one another as it stands. The...
TROY, Ill. – The Griffins went into Thursday’s regular-season finale unbeaten in their last five games, not allowing a goal since a 2-1 loss to Althoff on April 23. Unfortunately for Father McGivney, it couldn’t end the season with the desired result, suffering a narrow 1-0 loss...
GRANITE CITY – It had been five years since the last time the Edwardsville Tigers and Granite City Warriors girls soccer teams played one another. Now, they could meet again in 11 days. The meeting between the two became rarer when Granite City left the Southwestern Conference. The two were...
LOUIS – Bryce Beyers knew it wasn’t any ordinary night at the ballpark. Monday evening, Beyers and the Edwardsville Tigers took on the Parkway West Longhorns under the lights at Busch Stadium, with Edwardsville coming out the other side with a 10-0 win. Beyers drove in three RBI wit...
ST. LOUIS - The Edwardsville Tigers took on the Parkway West Longhorns of Parkway, Missouri Monday afternoon at Busch Stadium. Edwardsville improved to 15-6 on the season after a 10-0 win over Parkway West. These photos are from the game.
ST. LOUIS - The Alton Redbirds and Father McGivney Griffins played one another in their annual Busch Stadium game Sunday afternoon. The Griffins won the game by a score of 10-2, improving to 22-2 on the season. Alton slips to 14-11. It was McGivney's eighth win in a row while it continued Alton's losing...
ALTON – The IHSA recently released the girls soccer postseason brackets for all three classes on Friday, April 26. Among area teams, Father McGivney, Marquette, Triad, Columbia, and O’Fallon all earned a No. 1 seed in their respected sub-sectionals. The girls soccer postseason schedule...
ALTON – The Father McGivney Griffins set many goals each season. The first one they can check off is a conference championship, and for the fourth year running, they checked that box. McGivney clinched at least a share of the Gateway Metro Conference title with newly added Althoff Catholic...
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