Area Sports

By Mark Jurgena They almost pulled it off. Six days after falling on a buzzer-beater to Columbia in the title contest of the Mascoutah Tip-Off Classic, Collinsville squared off with Belleville East, one of the top teams in the St. Louis Metro. Refusing to be intimidated, the purple and white led by four going into…

By Mark Jurgena The second week of the season for girls bowling at Collinsville was another good one as the Kahoks racked up conference wins over Belleville West and O’Fallon. From there they took their second tourney title this season with a win at the Abe Lincoln Invite in Springfield Saturday. “At Belleville, our girls…

By Mark Jurgena They’d had enough. East cut the Collinsville lead to 29-24 at the 6:14 mark of the 3rd quarter, then the Kahoks went off. CHS went on a 14-0 run to increase their lead to 19 points early in the 4th quarter to eventually subdue Belleville East 45-32 to win their SWC opener…

By Mark Jurgena The week for the Collinsville boys bowling team was up and down. They beat Belleville West before struggling against O’Fallon. Over the weekend they brought home a 5th place finish out of 16 teams at the 14th Annual Abe Lincoln Invite in Springfield. Abe Lincoln CHS had an inconsistent day hovering either…

By Mark Jurgena  Four girls from the Collinsville wrestling team competed at the Granite City girls tournament Friday night with Kahok Taylor Dawson sweeping through her weight class. Dawson went 5-0 with five pins to win at 130 pounds. In her opener, she beat Jenna Tuxhorn of Chatham (Glenwood) in 35 seconds. She followed that…

By Mark Jurgena The young Collinsville wrestling team has shown the capacity to learn from their practice and match experience and quickly applies it on the competition mat. A case in point was last week as the Kahoks showed vast improvement from Thursday to Saturday. On Dec. 1 they were only able to take two…