Area Sports

By Anthony Jones [email protected] Two strengths have played largely into the success of Triad’s girls basketball squad this season: defense and three-point shooting. Both of those traits were on display early as the Lady Knights traveled to Jersey for a Mississippi Valley Conference contest on Jan. 11. The visitors opened the night with an 8-1…

By Anthony Jones [email protected] This year’s Bob and Liz Schnaarr Invitational at Morton saw 21 squads from throughout the state test themselves on Jan. 11. Triad battled into fifth place as a team, finishing with 118 points. Geneseo won the team title by a healthy margin with 253 tallies. The strongest Knight finish came from…

by Mark Jurgena Collinsville stuck with Edwardsville for the opening quarter but the Tigers were able to steadily pull away to claim a 62-32 win over the Kahoks at Fletcher Gym on Jan. 9. The Kahoks were 8-8 overall and 2-3 in the SWC heading into this week. Talesha Gilmore dropped in 17 points to…

By Mark Jurgena  It was a tough week of postponements for the Collinsville boys wrestling team due to the winter weather but when the Kahoks hit the mats they were red hot. Collinsville buried SWC foe Alton 58-8 at Fletcher Gym on Jan. 8. CHS dropped only two matches on the evening to move to…

by Mark Jurgena It was another solid day of wrestling for the Collinsville girls team with three podium finishes at the annual Fred Ross Invitational at Lafayette High School in Wildwood, Mo. “All of our girls came out and wrestled very hard as they always do, but this tournament is no slouch,” said Collinsville coach…

by Mark Jurgena The St. Louis BattleHawks return for a fourth season of play this spring at The Dome at America’s Center beginning in late March. On Jan. 2 the United Football League unveiled their 2025 schedule master schedule. The league features the same eight teams from a season ago. St. Louis has six home…

by Mark Jurgena Their morning session was not good but the Collinsville boys regrouped and had a solid push up the standings to finish their qualifying in sixth place in the Baker style tournament at the Carterville Invitational at S.I. Bowl. Collinsville fell to the seventh ranked team in the state, Mascoutah, in the opening…

by Mark Jurgena It was a good day for the Collinsville girls bowling team on Jan. 4 at S.I. Bowl in Carterville. The Kahoks fell in the semifinals of the Baker style dual match tournament to eventual champion Belleville East by a count of 439-406 after beating Mt. Vernon 404-297 in the quarterfinals. East went…

by Mark Jurgena When you have a 58-team event over a Holiday break you know you are going against some of the best. The Wonder Women wrestling tournament at Columbia, Mo. (Battle) is that event. Collinsville sent three wrestlers to the event on Jan. 4 with Taylor Dawson bringing back a runner-up finish at 140…

by Mark Jurgena Collinsville carried a ten-point lead into the halftime break but homestanding Springfield (Lanphier) outscored the Kahoks 25-14 in the third period and went on to beat Collinsville 67-59. Donovan Coates had a double-double with 23 points and 11 rebounds including 10 on the defensive end. Evan Wilkinson added 10 points. Talbott added…