Area Sports

By Anthony Jones Since 1974, Fritz Nemsky’s state championship in wrestling has sat alone in the record books at Triad high school. The heavyweight’s title from 48 years ago finally had company this past weekend, as sophomore Colby Crouch brought home the IHSA Class 2A 120 pound division crown. Before he arrived at his title…

By Mark Jurgena In two games, the Collinsville ice hockey team solved a riddle so many MVCHA teams struggled with all season: How to score goals on Columbia goalie Tim Barbee. The Kahoks opened up the series with a 7-1 win on Feb. 7 at the Granite City Ice Rink. They followed that the next…

By Anthony Jones The final home regular season games for Triad basketball came and went last week as the boys team battled both Highland and Mascoutah. A showdown with rival Highland kicked off the week on February 8. This was a rematch from an early season 55-54 loss for Triad. The first quarter pointed to…

By Anthony Jones [email protected] The Illinois High School Association announced a major change on February 7, removing the north and south split for football playoff brackets. Up until now, the 32 teams that made the playoffs in classes 1A-6A were split in half based on a geographical split of northern and southern schools until the…

By Mark Jurgena Dance team takes 3rd at state! Highland captured third place at the IHSA Class 1A Competitive Dance state finals on January 29th at Grossinger Motors Arena in Bloomington. They compiled a 91.00 to finish just 0.42 points behind runner-up Lombard (Montini). Morris won the state title with a 91.58. Triad took 5th…

By Anthony Jones [email protected] Death, taxes, and Triad wrestling winning the Mississippi Valley Conference meet have been three certainties in life for the better half of the twenty first century. Unfortunately the best of those three guarantees was crossed off the list last Saturday. The wrestling Knights entered the meet having won 14 consecutive conference…

By Mark Jurgena Eight days prior Collinsville just couldn’t shake Belleville Althoff in the semifinals of the Belleville East Tourney but escaped with a 68-61 win. On January 29th, CHS led at Althoff 19-11 after one quarter then went on a 61-29 scoring spree the rest of the contest to shake off the Crusaders for…

By Mark Jurgena Boys Bowling State Bound! The Highland boys bowling team competed at the Alton Sectional on January 22nd at Bowl Haven Lanes and climbed from 11th place all the way to fifth place in the standings. The top six teams along with the seven top bowlers from non-qualifying teams advance to the IHSA…