Area Sports
Kahok soccer completes regular season, heads for playoffs
By Mark Jurgena After wrapping up their third consecutive Southwestern Conference championship in the last three seasons, the Collinsville High School soccer team finished last week with two matches to fine-tune themselves for the postseason. They split their contests, falling 2-1 at O’Fallon on October 11th and beating Granite City 4-0 on October 13th at…
Read MoreTriad Soccer Enters Playoffs 16-3
By Anthony Jones [email protected] An 11-0 win over Jersey was an appropriate exclamation mark to Triad soccer’s 16-3 season. During the Thursday match, the Knights saw hat tricks from both TJ Suter and Ethan Kirby. Wyatt Suter added on a pair of goals, while Jake Stewart, Cory Warren and Drew Neu all tallied a goal…
Read MoreConference Title Stays With Soccer Knights
By Anthony Jones [email protected] Over the four day stretch from October 3-6, Triad soccer played three games and traveled over 250 miles. Opening the tough segment of action was an October 3 trip to Rochester. The Springfield area school entered with a 7-9-1 record. Wyatt Suter would open the scoring in the Monday night affair,…
Read MoreFootball Picks Up Two Wins In Three Days
By Anthony Jones [email protected] The morning of October 5 brought changing news to the Triad Knights: Mt. Vernon had been forced to forfeit an earlier season victory over them. With the changed result, the football Knights improved from 3-3 to 4-2. The possibility of the forfeit, stemming from an ineligible transfer, was first made known…
Read MoreKahoks Play Well At Golf Regional, Sectional
By Anthony Jones [email protected] Collinsville’s boys golf team competed at a loaded IHSA Regional hosted by Quiny on September 28. The Kahoks would finish in fourth place as a team, just missing the cutoff of third place to move their entire team to the IHSA Sectional round. Their team tally was 328, just 5 strokes…
Read MoreHill, Jensen Represent Triad At State Finals
By Anthony Jones [email protected] A highly successful season came to a close for Triad girls golf at last weekend’s IHSA State Finals. Junior Emma Hill would finish in sixteenth overall in Class 2A. She was the seventh highest finisher outside of seniors. The standout shot 149 over the two days after opening with a 76…
Read MoreKahoks beat Braves 34-7
By MARK JURGENA You’ve got to run to win. With apologies to Van Halen and their hit song “Why Can’t This Be Love,” the Collinsville football team has certainly taken this up as their mantra as their offense continues to dominate games on the ground while their defense reluctantly gives up yardage. Mt. Zion became…
Read MoreThree SWC crowns in a row for Kahoks soccer
By MARK JURGENA The three-peat. Ridiculously difficult to do in any sport at any time. To do it in boys soccer in the Southwestern Conference is quite an accomplishment. That’s what the Collinsville boys soccer team did last week as they gained a share of the SWC crown with a 4-0 home victory over Alton.…
Read MoreA historic night of basketball in Collinsville
A historic night of basketball in Collinsville By Mark Jurgena “It’s Collinsville…how can you beat an evening spent discussing Illinois high school basketball history?” With that thought, I climbed into the truck Sunday night and left behind a mountain of grading, plans for the upcoming week, and an almost completely graded film from…
Read MoreKahok legend Fred Riddle to headline IBCA event in Collinsville
By Mark Jurgena September 11th will be a celebration of Illinois high school basketball! While we will never forget the more ominous event associated with that date, fans in Collinsville and the Metro East will have the opportunity to create new memories listening to the star-studded lineup of Illinois Basketball Coaches Association Hall of Fame…
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