ALTON – The Marquette Catholic High School baseball team showed no signs of letting up Monday afternoon at Lloyd Hopkins Field. The Explorers scored in every inning on the way to a 12-2 win over the Southwestern Piasa Birds. With the win, Marquette improves to 2-1 on the season, while Southwestern... read more

EDWARDSVILLE - Andrew Hendrickson, a senior pitcher/outfielder with the Edwardsville baseball team, is off to a good start as the Tigers opened the 2023 season this past week, getting the only two hits in the team's 10-0 loss to Lockport Township Mar. 16, driving in a run in a 12-2 win over St. Joseph-Ogden... read more

EDWARDSVILLE - Edwardsville head coach Jon Wagner coached Mackenzie Pratt to the 140-pound championship at the IHSA girls' state wrestling tournament recently at Grossinger Motors Arena in Bloomington as Pratt pinned three of her four opponents to win the title. After the tournament, Wagner officially... read more

EAST ST. LOUIS - Dainen Rucker, a junior guard for the East St. Louis basketball team took control of several key games for the Flyers this season at his point position. Rucker was one of the leaders in the Flyers' excellent 26-9 overall season. The Flyers finished third place in the IHSA Class 3A Stat... read more

EDWARDSVILLE - Olivia Baca, a senior striker for the Edwardsville High School girls' soccer team who scored 25 goals in 2022, is off to a blazing start in 2023, scoring a hat trick in the Tigers' 6-0 season-opening win over Rochester in the Metro Cup showcase event on a chilly and windy Mar. 13 evening... read more

EDWARDSVILLE - Caeleb Copeland is a key returning senior to the Edwardsville High baseball team and was a major contributor to the Tigers in 2022, as he hit .422 with a home run and 24 RBIs as the Tigers went 36-4 and won the IHSA Class 4A state championship over Mundelein 4-3 in suburban Chicago. ... read more

GLEN CARBON - Father McGivney Catholic’s Adelyn Speight recently signed a letter of intent to play college soccer at the University of North Alabama. Speight describes herself as “a versatile player.” Adelyn is a Bryon, Carlson, Petri and Kalb Female Athlete of the Month. “... read more

ST. LOUIS - Prior to this MLS season, many who covered the league thought that St. Louis’s expansion team would struggle, some thought they’d only win four games all season. On Saturday, St. Louis CITY continued to prove all doubters wrong with a dominant 3-0 victory over the San Jose... read more

GLEN CARBON - Father McGivney Catholic basketball player Mary Harkins has signed a letter of intent to play for Central College in Pella, Iowa. Harkins has been a varsity player all four years for the Griffins and was part of a highly successful team in 2022-2023, one of the area's best. Harkins... read more

WOOD RIVER - The East Alton-Wood River High School baseball team is drastically improved with a very athletic team as the 2023 season unfolds under head coach Nick Dorsey. Dorsey has a deep passion for the game of baseball and he has some assistant coaches - Dylan Burris and Jason Gerner - who are... read more