Area Sports
Recipients of 2024 Dave Rieger Golf Scholarship Announced
by Times Tribune Staff EDWARDSVILLE — The Edwardsville Community Foundation recently announced that Paige Stoelzle of Father McGivney Catholic High School and Kolton Wright of Edwardsville High School are the 2024 recipients of the Dave Rieger Golf Scholarship. Stoelzle and Wright will each receive a $2,500 scholarship. The Dave Rieger Golf Scholarship was created in…
Read MoreRoller derby is making a comeback in Collinsville
By Devese “Dee” Ursery [email protected] The old school track sport of roller derby has made its way back into the city of Collinsville. The Confluence Crush Roller Derby is a not for profit organization that was founded in 2011. It exists to provide cis women, trans women, and/or non binary and gender expansive individuals over…
Read MoreKahok cross country begins season on Saturday
by Mark Jurgena New Collinsville High School boys and girls cross country coach Adam Blair and his harriers get their season underway on Saturday morning at the Mascoutah Invitational. Blair has 14 boys and 10 girls on this year’s squads. “I’m excited honestly,” began Blair. “We had seven girls last year and only ran with…
Read MoreKahoks ready for regular season kickoff on Friday night
by Mark Jurgena COLLINSVILLE — If you missed Friday night’s Kahok Kickoff you missed the first Collinsville High School football game of the season. Well, sort of. This past offseason the IHSA announced they would allow member schools to compete in a controlled scrimmage with another school the weekend before their season begins. The Kahoks…
Read MoreSoccer Knights scrimmage as kickoff nears
By Anthony Jones [email protected] TROY — The countdown to a new boys soccer is nearly over at Triad High School. The Knights, who are coming off a 22-2-1 campaign, hosted their annual Red-Black Scrimmage on Aug. 23 in preparation for their upcoming season. Coach Jim Jackson remarked of the intra-squad action with a number of…
Read MoreFootball Knights preparing for season
By Anthony Jones [email protected] TROY – When the IHSA announced that football teams were permitted to scrimmage another school the week before the season opened, Triad Coach Calvin Potthast was quick to find an opponent: the Edwardsville Tigers. “When they passed the rule back in February, I called Coach Pickering. I wanted to see the…
Read MoreKahok golfers off to solid start to season
by Mark Jurgena COLLINSVILLE — It was a productive week for the Collinsville High School boys golf team as they finished high up on the leaderboard in three tournaments. “The big positive for us was earlier this week on Tuesday at the Woodlands we shot pretty well and got fourth, but the three teams that…
Read MoreLady Kahok golfers tackle Madison County course
by Mark Jurgena The Collinsville High School girls golf team only had one match scheduled in the last week. They took part in the Madison County Invitational at The Legacy Golf Course in Granite City. Ella Boerm and Paige Bohnemeier had the low 18-hole scores for Collinsville with a 99. Charley Cox fired a 127,…
Read MoreCollinsville girls tennis begins season at Alton Invitational
by Mark Jurgena COLLINSVILLE — The Collinsville High School girls tennis squad got their season start on Saturday at the annual Andy Simpson Doubles Invite in the Alton Riverbend area. Due to the forecasted heat and heat indexes, the tournament ended at noon for most of the doubles teams after getting in their opening two…
Read MoreHighland Speedway season races toward season points championships
by Mark Jurgena HIGHLAND — Once again this week at the World Famous Highland Speedway local winners were plentiful as the season quickly comes to a close. There is only one weekend of points racing left in the season. That night will be on Sept. 7. Owen Steinkoenig continued his string of top two finishes…
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