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.
BRIGHTON – The Piasa Birds know that this is their year. A team with nine seniors who are all looking to have a record season, and it has been just that so far as Southwestern is off to a 7-1 start. “We’ve been talking about this for a while now,” Piasa head coach Brian...
ALTON – The Althoff Crusaders have kind of been the Achilles heel for the Marquette girls soccer team. The Explorers had suffered seven straight defeats dating back to 2018. It was March 21, 2014, the last time Marquette beat Althoff, a 2-0 win played at McKendree University. The streak...
JERSEYVILLE - Senior Easton Heafner is already showing promise of another solid baseball season with the Panthers. He pitched a complete seven-inning game against Roxana on Wednesday striking out seven batters along the way, only allowing two runs on six hits in a narrow 2-0 loss. He's a go-to...
ROXANA - Senior Elias Thies already had two years of varsity baseball experience and was looking forward to another good season as a junior in 2023. Unfortunately, he never took the baseball field that year. He was instead sidelined after tearing his ACL on the first day of wrestling practice....
JERSEYVILLE – Eleven days ago the Shells and Panthers combined for a 23-run thriller in Roxana. On Wednesday, the teams ran it back. The second meeting was a low-scoring affair as Roxana picked up the 2-0 win. It was also a much better day for Shells' senior pitcher Aidan Briggs. After giving...
GLEN CARBON – The Columbia Eagles came into Monday’s clash with Father McGivney undefeated. They left that way, but not after a battle with the Griffins. After the first two weeks of the season, Columbia was 5-0, only allowing two goals in that span with three shutouts. However, some...
ROXANA - The Shells are off to an unprecedented 4-0 start this season after a 4-3 win over rivals Civic Memorial Wednesday afternoon. Calista Stahlhut started in the circle for Roxana and was a difference-maker in this game. She threw a complete game allowing six hits while striking out seven an...
SATURDAY, MARCH 16 RESULTS FATHER MCGIVNEY 4, ALTON 2 The Griffins were mainly unaffected by a couple of days of thunderstorms and were one of the few area teams to get in three games in the first week of play. Father McGivney took on the Alton Redbirds in Metro Cup action at Althoff...
EDWARDSVILLE – It wasn’t the season-opening game that Edwardsville was expecting, but it was the opening result the Tigers had hoped for. When EHS girls soccer head coach Abby Federmann was asked if she liked opening the season against a tough team like Triad, she had a simple answer....
EDWARDSVILLE – The highly-anticipated season opener for the Edwardsville High School baseball team was cut short Thursday afternoon. The Tigers hosted the Brother Rice Crusaders in a rematch of last year’s IHSA Class 4A state championship game. The game was originally scheduled to star...
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