Area Sports

By Mark Jurgena The Highland Bulldog girls volleyball team picked up five wins in seven matches over the past week to raise their record to 8-4 on the season. The previous week Highland had no matches scheduled and coach Natalie Ott believes the team activities of that off week had a major impact on last…

By Mark Jurgena The Collinsville boys golf team traveled to the Panther Invite at Tamarack Golf Course in Shiloh on September 17th and returned home with an 8th place finish out of 17 teams. CHS shot a season-low 343 for the day. They finished only one shot behind Alton for 7th place. O’Fallon won the…

By Anthony Jones Since Triad has debuted their new turf field, there has been no fourth quarter lead less safe than against the Knight at home. In the five games they have hosted since then, they are 5-0 despite trailing entering the fourth quarter in each of their last three games. Overall, they have outscored…

By Anthony Jones Triad’s boys and girls cross country team continued this past weekend as they competed in the First to the Finish Invite in Peoria. The meet was held at Detweiller Park, home to the IHSA State Finals for cross country. In a loaded field of 42 teams, the Lady Knights finished in 16…

By Anthony Jones After a mostly quiet first half, things started to get interesting in last Friday’s matchup between the undefeated Collinsville Kahoks and Triad Knights. Following a Kahok turnover on downs at the Triad 32 yard line, the Knights had marched down field and were set up with a second and three from the…

By Anthony Jones During their spring season, Triad’s boys soccer won all but three games. Those results included losses to Collinsville and Granite City, plus a loss to O’Fallon. Now, only four games into their season, they have improved upon all of those results. After opening their season with a tie with Collinsville and a…

By Mark Jurgena They came so close…. With 2:41 left in the 4th quarter, Highland’s Travis Porter scored on a one-yard TD run, his third rushing TD of the game, to cut the deficit to eight points with 2:41 to play. However, Edwardsville got possession of the kickoff and the Class 8A Tigers escaped Highland…

By Mark Jurgena The Highland football team bounced back from a slow start to take an early 2nd half lead but couldn’t keep it as they fell in their season opener to Class 6A powerhouse Washington 30-20 on August 27th. “I think we did some good things, definitely some positives to build off of,” said…

By Mark Jurgena “Richardson zigzags up the middle, has a little bit of room…got the first down and more! He’s off to the races! Jerry Richardson… nobody’s going to be able to catch him and it’s going to be a touchdown Collinsville!” That was the description from Todd Duke for the Kahok Sports Network on…

By Anthony Jones After an absence of over twenty months, fall football made a return to Illinois last Friday. In their first game back, Triad took on a Mattoon Green Wave squad that was coming off of a 2-4 spring season. The visiting Green Wave wasted no time getting to work as they drove 75…