Area Sports
Metro East Recreational Baseball League Kicks Off Season With A Successful Opening Day With Several Locally Played Contests
After a period of uncertainty with many local events being forced to be cancelled and even forecast all week long predicted rainouts, MERBL had a successful Opening Day this past Saturday with over a half dozen games played in Collinsville. Teams from Troy, Collinsville, Maryville, and O’Fallon took part in the action. One of the…
Read MoreSwip Takes Over Kahok Baseball
By Mark Jurgena This afternoon (June 25th) Brett Swip was named the new head baseball coach at Collinsville High School at a meeting of the Collinsville Board of Education. Swip has served as the head softball coach at Collinsville for the past four seasons. The Collinsville native has been in coaching for the past 22…
Read MoreKnights Basketball Star Signs With SWIC To Continue Basketball
Photo courtesy of TCUSD Unit #2 Luke Cox recently signed with the SWIC Blue Storm to continue his basketball career. Cox starred for the Knights this past year, and is one of few Knights to score over 1,000 points in their career.
Read MorePair Of Former Knights Named As Top Area Track Stars Over Decade
By Anthony Jones Of all of the athletic events Triad found much success at over the past decade, pole vault just may be at the top of the list. Coach Eric Postma has been a key to this success, as he coaches both Triad’s boys and girls vaulters. Recently, a pair of recent Triad pole…
Read MoreTrio Of Former Triad So ball Stars Named To Local All-Decade Teams
By Anthony Jones Triad’s softball program has always been one of the school’s most consistently successful teams. The past decade has been no different and has seen many great Lady Knights step on to the softball diamond. Recently, StlToday has named three of those players to the Metro area All-Decade teams. These three former…
Read MoreFrey To Play Multiple Sports at Blackburn
By Mark Jurgena After a senior year filled with adversity, recent Collinsville graduate Camden Frey has committed to furthering his ath- letic career in multiple sports at Blackburn College in Carlinville beginning this fall. Frey will be competing in both soccer and baseball. “I chose Blackburn because I felt like their coaches understood me…
Read MoreCollinsville Fans Have Opportunity to Vote Fletcher Gym e Best in the State
By Mark Jurgena Even though Fletcher Gym isn’t getting much use these days, it is still in the spotlight battling with 383 other Illinois high schools for top billing in the #IllinoisGymShowdown being conducted via Twitter by @hslogoscom. The gyms have been split into eight brackets (labeled A-H) and each bracket has six rounds due…
Read MoreHigh School Sports Face Uncertain Future For Fall Sports
By Anthony Jones During the fall, the IHSA typically holds 9 State Cham- pionships for their fall sports. These include girls tennis, girls golf, girls cross country, boys golf, boys cross country, girls swimming, boys soccer, girls volleyball, and football. But as things stand at the moment, nobody can say for certain what the…
Read MoreLest We Forget: Kahok Alum Charles Kraak
By Mark Jurgena When you earn all-state honors in high school, an NCAA championship in basketball and get selected in the NBA Draft, most people would try to make a career out of basketball, then again most people aren’t like 1950 Collinsville alumnus Charlie Kraak. In 1955, Kraak was embarking on his commitment to Uncle…
Read MoreThe Minor League Baseball Experience
By Mark Jurgena On March 12th, the Major League Baseball season was put on hold due to the COVID-19 virus. On that day, six spring training games were played in Florida. Tanner Houck and his Boston Red Sox teammates did not have a game, but were in Ft. Myers preparing for their day in spring…
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